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This Morning from CBS News, July 17, 2015

The shooter

The man who authorities say killed four Marines in an attack on a military recruiting center and another U.S. military site was a 24-year-old Kuwait-born engineer who had not been on the radar of federal authorities until the bloodshed. CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan reports Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez's high school yearbook shows his senior photo, with the quote, "My name causes national security alerts. What does yours do?"

Family questions Texas woman's death

The FBI is investigating the death of a black woman in a Texas jail cell. The family of 28-year-old Sandra Bland believes her reported hanging is suspicious. Cell phone video apparently shows her arrest last week after a routine traffic stop before she was found dead Monday. Sherry Williams of CBS affiliate KHOU-TV reports on the victim's revealing social media posts.

Big talk/Truth talk?

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump can be a divisive figure, but everyone seems to agree that the billionaire businessman speaks his mind. Whether he always speaks the truth is another question.

Restructuring student debt

College students are graduating today with more college debt than at any time in history. With the average debt for the 2015 graduating class estimated at more than $35,000, it's only natural that new grads, along with those who borrowed more than $1 trillion dollars before them, are often eager to find ways to lower that load. Here are four things you need to know about restructuring your student loans.

Lance Armstrong's intentions

The 13th stage of the Tour de France is underway, with riders making their way through more than 123 miles of mountain roads. It is a route Lance Armstrong knows well. He rode it yesterday before the race for a charity bike ride. CBSN correspondent Elaine Quijano reports on why some question his intentions.

Survival story

We've been amazed by a teenager's remarkable story -- surviving a plane crash that killed her step-grandparents, and then a three-day trek to safety through the mountains of Washington State. But it turns out, we didn't know the half of it. How did Autumn Veatch hold it together? Veatch tells CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone.

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