Believe was the good fight against those who speak badly about russia. But u. S. Intelligence agencies disagree. They have concluded putins government is behind the Election Hacking and disinformation campaign. Hes trying to sort of create some plausible deniability. Reporter brett padres is a cybersecurity expert who has consulted for the cia. Was there anything that he said that really surprised you . I think he might be concerned about some evidence that will be disclosed and he sort of wants to distance himself from those that might have been involved. Reporter the Obama Administration was convinced of russian interference soon after the election and retaliated. It expelled 35 Russian Diplomats and seized russian compounds in new york and maryland. At the time director of National IntelligenceJames Clapper was surprised the russians didnt respond. No sort of reaction from them . It was very curious. Reporter the fbis counterintelligence investigation is trying to determine whether the russians were given assurances by People Associated with President Trump. Well, the allegation is that there was perhaps an agreement, a wink. Reporter for his part, putin today called President Trump a straightforward and frank person. He said the hacking allegations are a plot to create an atmosphere that makes it impossible to solve common problems. Those problems include the two compounds in new york and maryland which, of course, the russians want back. Anthony, the Trump Administration and the russian government are now discussing the possibility of their return. Jeff pegues. Thanks, jeff. Former fbi director james comey will testify in the Senate Investigation of russian meddling in the u. S. Election, and cbs news will bring that to you live next thursday morning. One of the president s campaign pledges went unfulfilled today when he signed a waiver keeping the u. S. Embassy in israel in tel aviv for another six months. Mr. Trump had vowed to move the embassy to jerusalem, which would infuriate the palestinians, who consider it their capital. While in the rose garden the president said he was monitoring an attack on a tourist resort in the philippines. Cell phone video shows people running frantically from resorts world in manila after hearing shots and seeing fire in the casino. This appears to have been a robbery, not terror. No serious injuries. Lebron james is playing the nba finals tonight, but basketball isnt the only thing on his mind in a week when hate has been on display in places like washington, portland, and los angeles. Heres jericka duncan. Racism will always be a part of the world, a part of america. Reporter when lebron james speaks, the world listens. At an nba Championship Press Conference james responded to his l. A. Home getting spraypainted with the n word. No matter how much money you have, no matter how famous you are, no matter how many people admire you, you know, being black in america is its tough. Reporter its one of many recent crimes that have become more public and brazen. Yesterday someone left a noose at the National Museum of africanamerican history and culture in the segregation exhibit. A noose is not simply something that is a symbol. It really is something for me that symbolizes loss. Reporter lonnie bunch is director of the museum. Im a historian. So the one thing i know, that as america has evolved and improved race is still a major factor in america. Reporter hate crimes like this are on the rise, up 6 in 25 of the largest cities in 2016. Africanamericans are the most common target of hate crimes, at nearly 30 . In march James Jackson got on a bus from baltimore to new york city to target black people. He ended up killing 66yearold Timothy Caughman for no other reason. Talking that [ bleep ] stupid spanish around here. Reporter and lately several videos have gone viral of people spewing hateful speech on a daily basis. My hope is that a museum like this ultimately is a place that allows america to find common ground, maybe understanding, and maybe just maybe a little bit of healing and reconciliation. Reporter the noose at this museum was the second such incident on Smithsonian Grounds in less than a week. Saturday a noose was found hanging on a tree near the hirshhorn museum. Anthony, both cases are still under investigation. Jericka duncan. Thank you, jericka. Coming up next, the latest annoyance. Robocalls that go right to voicemail. And later, the album that expanded the boundaries of pop. 50 years ago today. Would you stand up and walk out on me [hissing] uh i [sound of wrench] [intricate guitar riff] [engine starts] [guitar continues] because your carpet theres resolve carpet care. With five times more benefits than vacuuming alone. 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Reporter marketing calls usually make your cell phone ring, but if the fcc rules in the companies favor, those credit card, financing and Debt Collection calls could legally go straight to your voicemail box in unlimited numbers. Marketers like josh justice, who runs ringless voicemail firm stratics networks, says thats a good thing. Why . You go to put your baby to bed and your phone rings and youre being solicited something. A ringless voicemail drop is a nonintrusive alternative to this robocall. Reporter the companies are arguing to the fcc that since the phone never actually rings that their ringless voicemails should not be regulated by the 1991 telephone Consumer Protection act, a move supported by the Republican National committee, which said regulating the practice might affect political outreach campaigns. Thats even more invasive, more timeconsuming, and more annoying in some ways than a standard phone call. Reporter consumer advocates say not regulating would be the wrong call. Margot saunders is with the National Consumer law center. They want to be able to reach us without consent, and they want to be able to reach us without our telling them stop. Reporter the fcc does not comment on open petitions, but chairman ajit pai told us recently about robocalls in general. This is the number one source of consumer complaints to the fcc. It dwarfs anything else that we get. Reporter well, you can give the fcc your comments, but tomorrow is the last day for public comment, so you can find a link to their comment page and instructions on how to do it at cbsnews. Com. Anthony . Anna werner. Maybe you can leave a voicemail for them. Thanks. Coming up, a landslide turns a scenic highway into a road to nowhere. 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. 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Looking down here now, you can really see where the highway just hugs the edge. The single road into big sur, californias coasthugging highway 1, is blocked to the north by a collapsed bridge and to the south by an enormous landslide. What were you thinking when you came out and saw this for the first time . Oh, my god. Plain and simple. Reporter doug cook is an engineer with the state Highway Agency caltrans. When youre standing here trying to figure out how you connect this part of the road to that part of the road . Thats the easy part. We have to stabilize the mountainside before we address the road issue. Reporter a usgs animation shows a gash in the hillside a third of a mile across and more than 1,000 feet high. Highway 1 supports hundreds of tourist businesses like the restaurant nepenthe, with spectacular views, but its now almost empty, dropping from 1,000 customers a day to just a couple of dozen. Kirk gafill is general manager. Have you ever had the thought to turn off the lights, lock the doors, go home for the summer . No, everything were doing is fighting to stay open. That is our number one mission. Reporter tourists can still use parts of highway 1 both north and south of big sur, but anthony, some of the most striking scenery along this coast will remain out of reach at least for the next year. John blackstone, thanks. Next, a pop masterpiece turns 50. Guaranteed to raise a smile. Sergeant pepper taught the band to play miss hoffman gets us to mathere safe every time. Takes a lot of pe mrs. Migliaccio teaches us all about fractions and haikus and the erie canal miss reeves makes us sound amazing. And miss santoro always takes time to see how were doing. Miss simpkins keeps our school looking great. Recess wouldnt be recess without miss basile. And mrs. Mccarthy always has tons of good books to read. Which makes for a pretty good day at school. How else could we begin our final story but by saying it was 50 years ago today that the beatles buried their moptops and gave birth to sergeant pepper. So let me introduce you to the one and only jim axelrod. Reporter it was a hit right out of the gate. 15 weeks at number one. Four grammys, including album of the year. It was 20 years ago today sergeant pepper taught the band to play but a half century and 32 million albums later, Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is something much more. Rolling stone calls its number one album of all time. Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band tired of beatlemania, sick of touring, the beatles needed a break, and Paul Mccartney had an idea. We needed to get away from ourselves. How about if we just become sort of an alterego band . Reporter influenced by the beach boys pet sounds and instruments and technology that stretched what pop music could sound like, sergeant pepper used everything from a 40piece orchestra on a day in the life i read the news today oh boy to a harpsichord on fixing a hole. And there were other influences as well. And sergeant pepper owes a lot to drugs, to pot and stuff. That was us getting into that. Picture yourself in a although john lennon always said lucy in the sky with diamonds found its source in a drawing by his son, not as a reference to lsd. Lucy in the sky with diamonds even the cover became iconic. The evolved and mustachioed beatles standing next to the moptop lads as well as marilyn monroe, bob dylan, laurel hardy, and Sigmund Freud among others. A critic once said the closest western civilization has come to unity in the last 200 years was the week sergeant pepper was released. Hyperbole perhaps, but 50 years later you kind of get his point. Jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. And thats the overnight news for this thursday. For some of you your news continues, but others check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im anthony mason. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Hi, everyone, and welcome to the overnight news. Im demarco morgan. Criticism is rolling in like thunder clouds from across the world after President Trump announced hes pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord. The agreement signed by every nation on earth except two called for voluntary standards to reduce greenhouse gases. And the goal is to slow the increase and the worlds temperature. Mr. Trump called it unfair to the United States and american workers. Chip reid has the story. The United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord reporter the president s announcement was exactlywhat conservative activists in and out of his administration were hoping to hear. But the president left the door open a bit, making clear that during the four years it takes to formally withdraw from the agreement hell try to get a deal that he says would be fair to the u. S. This agreement is less about the climate and more about other countries gaining a financial advantage over the United States. Reporter the paris accord, he said, would lead to the loss of millions of american jobs and redistribute u. S. Wealth to the rest of the world. We dont want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore. And they wont be. Reporter mr. Trumps decision followed a spirited debate. Chief strategist steve bannon and epa administrator scott pruitt successfully led the argument to get out of the agreement. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson and the president s daughter ivanka tried but failed to convince mr. Trump to stay in. In a statement the leaders of italy, france, and germany said they regret the president s decision and urged other nations to speed up their action to combat Climate Change. The heads of most major u. S. Corporations also wanted mr. Trump to stay in the paris accord. Elon musk, ceo of tesla and spacex, tweeted that he is departing two president ial councils adding Climate Change is real. Ge ceo Jeffrey Immelt tweeted hes disappointed and that industry must now lead and not depend on government. President trump did not mention president obama by name, but criticized his administration for failing to put America First when it negotiated the deal. I was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. Reporter in a statement mr. Obama responded. Even as this administration joins a small handful of nations that reject the future, im confident that our states, cities, and businesses will step up and do even more to lead the way. In a dig at President Trump the democratic mayor of pittsburgh sided with mr. Obama, writing in a tweet, i can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy, and future. And anthony, the president of france said late today, on climate theres no plan b because there is no planet b. One of the architects of the Paris Agreement is former secretary of state john kerry. He discussed the news with anthony mason. Mr. Secretary, you call this an unprecedented forfeiture of american leadership. What do you mean . Ptogether working for decades ad the United States of america takes the leadership in order to join with china, the two largest emitters in the world of carbon emissions, to say we must begin to reduce, and then to have a president stand up and simply unilaterally walk away from that without scientific basis, not based on facts in terms of our economy, the truth is the president no country is required by this agreement to do anything except what that country decided to do for itself. So donald trump is not telling the truth to the American People when he says we have this huge burden thats been imposed on us by other nations. No. We agreed to what we would do. We designed it. Its voluntary. And the president of the United States could have simply changed that without walking away from the whole agreement. Do you think american businesses are going to flourish when they knock on the door of a country and they say, well, we want to give you a solar theyre going to say, you guys just walked away from the deal. Youre not committed to this. Thats why major companies, among them exxonmobil, i mean major fortune 500 companies supported staying in the Paris Agreement because we know what this means in terms of their job base, their growth and economy. The president said he was elected by the people of pittsburgh, not the people of paris. Well, indeed. Absolutely true. But theres nothing in what america has agreed to do in this that paris dictated. Theres nothing in what america agreed to do in this agreement that came from france or came from britain or any other country. We are doing what america decided we could do and should do which is appropriate. He said he would honor the timetable for withdrawal, which would in effect take it past the next election, would it not . He said as of today he will stop the implementation. So it depends on what scott pruitt and the epa and others continue to do. Tell me, where is the constituency in america to put coal sludge back into rive