that is it for us at 5 pm. we will see you back here at 6 pm. >> yuccas: tonight on the cbs weekend news, on edge-- right- wing and left-wing groups take to the streets in oregon. the massive police presence aimed at preventing an outbreak of violence. extreme weather-- flooding in the south and sweltering heat across more than a half dozen states. where the biggest threat is right now. the autopsy: jeffrey epstein's lawyers disputing their client committed suicide. what they believe will paint a clearer picture of what happened. saying goodbye. he asked, and they came, hundreds of strangers help an el paso man bury his wife. >> he has family here. he is not alone. >> remembering the easy rider. a look back at the legendary career of actor peter fonda. and straight shooter: a police officer challenges kids to a game of one on one.

>> that's what gives me the hunger to not lose. >> how it's helping his community. >> this is the cbs weekend news >> yuccas: good evening i'm jamie yuccas a massive police presence in portland, oregon in anticipation of a violent confrontation. several far-right groups held a rally, while members of antifa, a left-wing movement, opposed to fascism took to the street at the same time. president trump tweeted he was keeping a close eye on the demonstration and considered naming antifa an organization of terror. we begin with jonathan vigliotti in portland. >> go home, nazis! >> reporter: a city on edge as groups from the far right and the far left took over downtown portland. >> they come here to try and cause trouble. and we don't want that trouble here.

>> you will be subject to arrest for disorderly conduct. >> reporter: protesters marched through the city's waterfront park, mostly kept apart by heavy police presence. portland's entire police department, nearly 1,000 officers, are all on duty today as they try to maintain peace here, make something arrests. the far-right planned the event weeks in advance as a demonstration against what they called domestic terrorism with counter-protesters showing up as well. a familiar scene for this city, with protests in recent years turning violent. so far today, police say they confiscated several weapons, including bear spray, shields and metal poles. one protester was filmed spraying mace. but, by and large-- >> do not touch him! >> you can't do that! >> reporter: ...today was mostly limited to a war of words. crowds have mostly dispersed but

there are some protesters marching in the city. as police remain on alert, this community is relieved by the relative peace kept so far. jamie. >> yuccas: jonathan, thank you. congresswoman rashida tlaib is speaking out for the first time after deciding not to visit israel. she's upset she won't visit her grandmother in the west bank. president trump is also weighing in on the issue. paula reid is traveling with the president in new jersey. >> i should be on a plane to see her. >> reporter: an emotional congresswomen rashida tlaib addressed supporters in detroit friday after announcing she will not travel to israel to see her 90-year-old grandmother in the occupied west bank. >> more than anything, i'm a granddaughter. >> reporter: tlaib has called israel's policies towards palestinians oppressive and racist. she and fellow democrat ilhan omar were scheduled to visit israel this weekend. president trump has been feudint speaking to reporters thay, he called for israel to block the trip. >> i think it would be a terrible thing, frankly, for israel to let these two people, who speak so badly about israel, come in.

>> reporter: upending diplomatic norms, israel decided to bar their entry. israel reversed its decision after tlaib appealed on humanitarian grounds to be able to visit her grandmother. but tlaib ultimately canceled her visit, saying that israel had imposed restrictions meant to humiliate her. president trump tweeted, "tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down, a complete setup. the only real winner here is tlaib's grandmother. she doesn't have to see her now." tlaib's grandmother doesn't see it that way. speak outside her home in the west bank, she shot back, "may god ruin him. i was happy that she was coming." president trump has tried to brand tlaib and the so-called squad as the face of the democratic party. and by seizing on this e'blamplify atessage. but house speaker nancy pelosi wants to tamp this down. she doesn't believe it will have any impact on the long-standing relationship with israel. jamie. >> yuccas: paula reid, thank you.

tonight, much of the country is grappling with extreme weather. more than 30 million people across seven states are in the grip of a sweltering heat wave. another 30 million are at risk for severe storms. meteorologist jeff beradelli is here. and, jeff, let's starts with the heat. what can we expect. >> summer is in full effect and will be with us at least three the middle of the coming week. it's covering a big part of the country. with feels-like temperatures sunday, monday, into tuesday, 100 to 110, especially in the nation's middle. that's oklahoma, that's texas. now on the north side of this ridge, we're going to see severe weather overnight tonight. watch out in places like minneapolis. i think we'll see maybe some baseball-sized hail, wind gusts up to 70 miles an hour in the northern plains. as we head toward the south, we've had as much as a foot of rain on the gulf coast. we could see 5-10 inches with lots of tropical moisture moving onshore. there's a slight chance it could become a tropical depression but most likely it will be flooding rain. >> yuccas: you look at alaska.

we're concerned about. >> you go ahead and look at alaska. the other side of the they've had extreme heat as well. >> it's been an incredibly warm month ina. an incredibly warm summer. we have another big record- breaking ridge. so far ior we have seen 30 days at 75 degrees or above that. the oiled record was only 15 days, and that was set just back in 2015. that's whose happening. the arctic is changing rapidly because of human-caused climate change. >> yuccas: unbelievable. jeff, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> yuccas: raging floodwaters tore through parts of turkey today. at least one person was killed. many shops in istanbul's historic grand bazaar were flooded, as you see here. some of the merchandise was even seen floating away. the heavy rain also disrupted rail and ferry services. jeffrey epstein's lawyers are threatening legal action. they're not satisfied by the medical examiner's claim that their client died by suicide. here's kenneth craig. >> reporter: new york city's chief medical examiner says an autopsy on jeffrey epstein shows

he hanged himself with another force to break several bones in his neck. but late friday, epstein's lawyer said, "no one should die in jail. his safety was the responsibility of the m.c.c. it is indisputable that the authorities violated their own protocols. they're promising to conduct their own investigation into the circumstances and cause of epstein's death. epstein was taken off suicide watch about one week after an apparent attempt to hang himself on july 23. then last saturday, around 6:30 a.m., he was found unresponsive in his cell. this week, the f.b.i. and office of inspector general also launched probes, and the department of justice reassigned the warden and placed two prison staffers, or administrative leave. personnel were supposed to look in on epstein every 30 minutes. epstein was held on federal charges that he ran a sex trafficking operation and abused dozens of teenaged girls.

attorney william barr said the case remains a priority for the justice department. >> any coconspirators should not rest easy. >> reporter: this week, several alleged victims filed civil lawsuits against his estate. >> once something like this happens, it lives on with you forever. >> michelle licata was a teenager in florida when she says she was lured with an offer of money to jeffrey epstein's estate. >> a civil lawsuit then would not give me back what i lost. money would not be able to do it. >> reporter: epstein's attorneys described conditions inside the federal facility behind me as medieval. they also want to review surveillance video from inside the jail and believe that evidence could be pivotal, jamie. >> yuccas: kenneth, thank you. in afghanistan today, the man behind a bomb scare in new york

>> 1,000 people had been invited. many of them shiite muslims. so far, no one has claimed responsibility. in texas, a new extended family for the last victim of the el paso shooting to in texas, a new extended family for the last victim of the el paso shooting to be buried. hundreds of strangers turned out for the funeral of 63-year-old margie reckard. many of them waited hours in the intense heat to pay their last respects. here's mireya villarreal. >> reporter: in this moment, no one would fault antonio basco for feeling alone and helpless. his wife, margie reckard, was gunned down two weeks ago while shopping inside siello vista walmart. but today, hundreds of complete strangers waited for a chance to say goodbye to the 63-year-old who was a wife, mother, and grandmother. >> reporter: a post from the

funeral home handling reckard's services gave a bit more insight into the couple's life in this border town. >> reporter: that one post went viral, prompting people from all over the world to send flowers and gifts. last night at her memorial, several hundred people lined the streets surrounding the church. each handshake was a sign of solidarity, each lingering hug a sign of love and humanity. >> we told him that el paso loves him, and this is his home, and he has family here. >> reporter: t services this weekend were meant to honor just one of the 22 people that lost their lives on august 3, but the entire community got another chance to heal. >> i really appreciate. i do love el paso city. you guys are amazing. >> reporter: antonio basco may have thought he didn't have any

relatives left in el paso, but this weekend, he gained a family of thousands. >> reporter: grief overshadowed by the strength of the sun city. mireya villarreal, cbs news. >> yuccas: so touching. dozens of gun-control rallies took place across the country today. moms demand action for gun sense in america and other groups are demanding the republican- controlled senate pass universal background checks. they also want the senate to pass so-called red flag laws aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people. peter fonda will forever be remembered from the counterculture classic "easy rider." the actor died friday of complications from lung cancer. he was 79 years old. and as jeff glor reports, fonda's acting career endured for decades. ♪ take a load off

>> reporter: "easy rider" was to 60's cinema what woodstock was to that generation's music. the counterculture classic, about two bikers on a drug- fueled road trip through the southwest starred peter fonda, who also earned an oscar nomination for cowriting the film. >> do your own thing in your own time. you should be proud. >> reporter: before he climbed on that red, white, and blue motor bike, fonda was already well known. he was the son of a screen legend, henry fonda; and the brother of actress jane fonda. >> you want me to kiss you so you can compare. >> reporter: his first film role came in 1963 in "tammy and the doctor." like many in his generation, fonda began to reject the establishment, growing his hair long, experimenting with drugs. during an acid trip with the beatles, fonda recalled a childhood incident when he accidentally shot himself. he told john lennon, "i know what it's like to be dead." lennon would use that line in

the beatles song "she said, she said." ♪ she said i know what it's like to be dead ♪ >> reporter: fonda would earn an acting oscar nomination decade's later for "ulee's gold." he would perform wearing the same eyeglasses his father wore in his oscar-winning role in 1980 "on golden pond." in a statement, his sister jane said of her brother, "i am very sad. he was my sweet-hearted baby brother, the talker of the family. i have had a beautiful time alone with him these last days. he went out laughing." jeff glor, cbs news, new york. >> yuccas: still ahead on the cbs weekend news, the new window of opportunity for child sex abuse victims to seek justice. plus, how a frozen zoo could save the northern white rhino. and later, what a police officer hopes to gain in a game of one- on-one. one-on-one. and you need to do it all.

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live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. new at 6, a postal imposter and pleasant . neighbor saying instead of delivering the mail, he is taking it. construction on the bar tracks, this weekend is not only impacting riders on the system, but also drivers on highway 24, we will explain. >> it is not just the gig economy, this affects every aspect of our economy. it is a bill that can radically change the way some bay area companies do business. the gig worked giants looking for a workaround. that evening i am brian hackney. >> to begin with the apparent mail thief disguised as a mail carrier. >> da lin spoke with neighbors who caught him on camera. >> reporter: plus both pleasant hill police investigator say

this is a high-priority crime. they are now looking for the investigator. he looks like an everyday mailman and is carrying a mailbag for the problem is he is not delivering, he is dealing a package right in front of someone's door. the homeowner believes the man was driving in this black sedan. hard to make out the make, model or license plate. it happened early thursday at 6:37 in the morning, about 50 minutes before that another neighbor, three blocks away, at the same man trying to break into a car. >> the reason he let go of the door handle was you could see a car going by behind him so he maybe thought he was being seen. >> reporter: the man apparently went door-to-door looking for anything valuable. he walked up to this front porch. >> i came out and said well my you are out rather early this morning. >> reporter: her dog alerted her and she came out and noticed something wasn't right.? i could see there was a little bit of slur in his speech, he never made eye ntact with me, always kept his