The situation unfolded before 2:30 p.m. local time. Social media video obtained by CBS News showed people fleeing a shopping center parking lot as multiple gunshots are heard. In the video, a person carrying what appeared to be a firearm could be seen outside the restaurant opening the doors to a parked sedan. 

In a news conference Saturday night, Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks told reporters that there were fatalities, but he could not confirm an exact number. Joshua Palmer, a Twin Falls city spokesperson, had initially told CBS News that at least three people had been killed and two more wounded. 

Hicks said there were "a number of people being treated for injuries" at St. Luke's Magic Valley Medical Center, a local hospital. 

"Due to the active shooter incident occurring in Twin Falls, please avoid going to St. Luke's Magic Valley unless it is an emergency," St. Luke's also posted to its social media account. 

The suspected gunman was dead, Hicks disclosed, but he did not detail how the person was killed. 

"The suspected shooter in this incident is deceased," Hicks said. "He was nearby on the scene there, and we are working to try to ascertain his identity and the motivations behind that."

The police chief said that investigators were attempting to interview "hundreds of people" that were in the area at the time of the shooting. 

"We have literally hundreds of people that were in some way, shape or form in the area of this restaurant at the time that are being interviewed right now," Hicks said. 

Police shut down roads and a nearby bridge during the response and asked residents to stay away from the area. An FBI spokesperson told CBS News that its agents were on scene and assisting with the investigation. 

Twin Falls is located in southern Idaho, about 120 miles southeast of Boise. 

"We have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in that the perimeters [sic] of a deal has been agreed to," Mr. Trump said in a Truth Social post. "This would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran's nuclear threat." 

He added: "I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL. The Country of Israel joins me in this commitment." 

The U.S. and Israel had planned what would be one of the harshest bombing campaigns to date against energy infrastructure targets in Iran, multiple sources told CBS News, with strikes possible as soon as this weekend. 

"We'll be hitting them very hard. At some point, they're going to say, 'We just can't take it anymore,'" Mr. Trump said on Friday at Camp David.

Earlier Saturday, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke with Mr. Trump and cautioned him against conducting a fresh round of strikes on Iran, CBS News learned. One source told CBS News that bin Salman's outreach to Mr. Trump was "all about concern over the targets."

Several U.S. embassies in the Middle East — including Amman, Jordan; Jerusalem; and Baghdad — issued security alerts on Saturday due to "heightened tensions." 

The State Department advised that "Americans currently in the Middle East should exercise caution and heightened vigilance and should be prepared for flight cancellations, periodic airspace closures, and potential travel disruptions."

On Tuesday, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia said they had struck Iran-backed militants in Iraq in a joint operation. U.S. Central Command said that strike was in response to more than 30 drone attacks from those militants over the previous 72-hour period that targeted "U.S. forces and Saudi energy infrastructure," and that had come at the direction of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. 

Earlier Tuesday, CENTCOM said Iran had launched a surprise ballistic missile attack on U.S. forces in the Middle East. CENTCOM said that all of Iran's missiles were intercepted. 

The latest round of direct U.S. strikes on Iran came Wednesday. According to CENTOM, that operation saw it hit Iran's "military command centers, missile and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and defense sites, and maritime capabilities." 

Israel itself has not engaged in direct military operations against Iran since the U.S. and Iran reached a memorandum of understanding in June to halt fighting. However, that temporary ceasefire collapsed in early July, and the U.S. and Iran resumed their conflict.

In his statement Saturday, Mr. Trump said that "The Country of Israel joins me" in the "commitment" to a peace deal. 

The U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. had charged Hearn with felony destruction of government property, accusing him of causing more than $1,000 in damage to the sealant that was recently installed at the bottom of the Reflecting Pool. The project to renovate the pool was championed by President Trump.

On Friday, prosecutors cited new information that the damage was caused by a "botched installation" by a contractor, not vandalism.

President Trump criticized the decision on Saturday afternoon, saying on Truth Social that there "may have been some contractor difficulty, but the major damage was caused by VANDALS!" 

"I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool,' Mr. Trump wrote. I don't know what she was thinking?"

Attorneys for Hearn — who strongly denied the vandalism allegations — said in a statement Friday that the government "owes Mr. Hearn an apology."

"The Trump administration's case against Davey Hearn should have never been brought," attorneys Norm Eisen, Mary Dohrmann and Steve Levin said. "Its dismissal today does not erase the abuse of government power in arresting and charging a patriotic American who did nothing wrong. The government's approach was ready, fire, aim."

The U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment. CBS News has reached out to the Justice Department, the contractor that installed the sealant and the Department of the Interior, which managed the project.

The decision to drop the case against Hearn marks a significant backtrack for federal prosecutors. Shortly after the new "American Flag Blue" sealant was installed at the bottom of the Reflecting Pool at the president's direction, passersby began to notice chunks of the material were peeling off the bottom of the pool and an algae bloom had turned the water green. 

Mr. Trump frequently insisted the peeling was caused by vandals, not problems with the more than $10 million project. "Who would do such a thing?" the president wrote in a Truth Social post on June 20 that also mentioned several arrests.

Hearn, a 67-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland, said he was arrested and held for several hours. 

U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro later unveiled an indictment against Hearn, accusing him of damaging "a national treasure." Pirro accused Hearn of "forcefully and violently pulling up and removing the bottom liner with both hands," and he was told to stop by a National Park Service employee, drawing an angry response from Hearn.

Hearn denied any wrongdoing. Shortly after his arrest, he told The Associated Press he touched a chunk of pool liner that was still attached, but let go after a worker told him to stop.

"I'm a curious citizen," Hearn said at the time. 

In Friday's court filing, prosecutors conceded the damage was actually "the result of flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings ("AIC"), and the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026."

Prosecutors said they did not become aware of those issues until two weeks ago, when they visited the site and "immediately noted extensive damage throughout the now-drained pool," leading them to request more information from the Department of the Interior. Before then, they said, the department hadn't shared information indicating the damage was "caused by anything other than the actions of the defendant and other vandals who damaged the pool's lining."

Citing internal documents provided by the Department of the Interior, the court filing describes a frenetic process to install the sealant, with frequent setbacks due to poor weather and reports of damage that emerged while the material was still being applied. 

One particularly tricky part of the process was the installation of sealant around the "expansion joints," or gaps in the pool's concrete bed to allow it to shift, according to Friday's court filing. Prosecutors said the peeling that was referenced in Hearn's case was caused by sealant that was sprayed around those joints.

A National Park Service employee noticed the sealant was peeling and sent an email to colleagues just days after the pool was refilled, more than a week before Hearn was arrested and on the same day as fencing was removed.

The pool was drained for repairs earlier this month, which Mr. Trump said was necessary "to fix the scars and damage that was done by the Vandals." Hearn's lawyers argued that move effectively spoiled the evidence that is being used to prosecute Hearn, leading a judge to warn that the government was "operating at its own peril," according to The Washington Post.

Mr. Trump took a personal interest in overhauling the Reflecting Pool, which was first built in the 1920s and has long struggled with leaks, faulty filtration systems and perennial algae blooms that prior renovation projects failed to fix. The president told reporters in April he was disturbed by the pool's "terrible" condition.

The government awarded no-bid contracts to a pair of companies: Atlantic Industrial Coatings, which was responsible for applying a sealant in the "American Flag Blue" color selected by Mr. Trump, and Green Water Solutions, a company owned by a Trump donor that makes water filtration systems.

It's one of several renovation projects in and around Washington, D.C., that have drawn Mr. Trump's interest. The president has also sought to replace the East Wing of the White House with a ballroom, build a gigantic triumphal arch across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial, overhaul the Kennedy Center and renovate Dulles International Airport.

"I had the privilege of representing Vinny for more than 30 years, long before The Sopranos made him a household name," his manager Robert Attermann said in a statement. "To the world, he will always be remembered as the unforgettable 'Big Pussy,' but to those of us who knew him, he was so much more."

Pastore was found dead inside his Bronx home Saturday afternoon, and there was no indication of criminality, according to authorities. 

Pastore played Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on all six seasons of "The Sopranos," which aired from 1999 to 2007. Although his character was killed in season two after being revealed as an FBI informant, Pastore returned for several guest appearances in later seasons.

Pastore was born in the Bronx on July 14, 1946. He fought in the Vietnam War before graduating from Pace University with a degree in drama.

His early acting career featured roles in movies such as "Goodfellas," "Carlito's Way" and "Men of Respect."  He also later appeared in "The Jerky Boys: The Movie" and "Gotti."

Pastore also appeared in numerous television shows, including "Celebrity Apprentice," "Law & Order," "Blue Bloods," "General Hospital," "The Practice," "Hawaii Five-0," and "One Life to Live." 

He most recently was a series regular on "Gravesend" in 2022 and a guest star on "Yellowjackets" in 2025.

Pastore and his fellow "The Sopranos" cast members won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2000 and earned another nomination the following year.

"He loved being an actor. He was passionate about his craft and was always encouraging, respectful, and generous with young actors, taking the time to offer guidance and support whenever he could," Attermann said. "For me, losing Vinny is deeply personal. Over more than three decades, I had the honor of watching not only his remarkable career but also the incredible person he was. I will miss his friendship, his loyalty, his humor, and his heart." 

Actor Michael Imperioli, who starred alongside Pastore in "The Sopranos," described him in a social media post as "a kind hearted brother who cared deeply about his family and friends."

"This is a hard one for us, it seems like I've known Vinny forever. We did lots of work together and traveled all over the USA as well as Italy and Australia. Lots of good times. Lots of laughs," Imperioli said. "I will miss him always."

WCCO spoke with two men who came from Haiti with their families two years ago. Using a translator, WCCO asked questions in Spanish and received answers in Creole.  

"The situation couldn't be any harder for us right now," said one Haitian husband and father of two. 

He didn't want to be named, and remembers his 10-year-old looking out their apartment window during Operation Metro Surge.

"When she saw ICE agents, she went hiding under the bed. It was shocking and very painful for me," he added.

"You cannot step outside for a moment to buy water or diapers," said another Haitian man, who is a husband and father of three.

The two men entered the country under a program called CBP One, which allowed people to schedule border appointments. It was canceled in January 2025.

They've both applied for an asylum case. Historically, asylum seekers can legally stay in the United States while waiting for the cases decision.

"The situation is really complicated," said one of the men. 

In 2025, then-Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem determined that Haiti no longer met the conditions for its designation for TPS, which was granted following the 2010 earthquake.

"The population is living in fear of being kidnapped or killed," one of the men added.

The U.S. Department of State currently has the country on its highest advisory, telling Americans not to travel there. In the last week of July, more than 300,000 Haitians lost their deportation protections and work permits under the TPS program.

WCCO asked them if they were scared in the moment of the interview.

"Yes," they both answered.

A situation, they say, leaves them at a loss of what to do.

"This is a very stressful situation. it's scary to go to work," one of the men added.

DHS told CBS News it "does not discuss ongoing or future operations."

Last month, the number of detainees booked into ICE custody hit a monthly record high for the second Trump administration.

Investigators are probing to determine whether the activity is the work of Iranian hackers, according to U.S. officials and sources familiar with the incident. Sources cautioned that since they had not definitively attributed the attack, their assessment could change as additional technical evidence is collected. They are also probing whether the actor could have attempted to appear Iran-based as a way of stirring the pot amid the ongoing U.S. conflict with Iran. 

The FBI reported incidents in "at least seven states" but didn't identify them. On Saturday, Michigan joined Minnesota in reporting cyberattacks on the state's water systems but an official said all systems were operating "safely."

Dale George, the director of communications at the state's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, told CBS News in a statement that the state received "a small number of reports from Michigan communities indicating activity consistent with what federal agencies described."

"All systems continued to operate safely, issues were addressed by local operators, and there are no known impacts that posed a public health concern," he added.

CBS News has learned more than 30 community water systems across Minnesota were affected. Minnesota and the federal government have not publicly attributed the activity to a particular actor.

Even as the investigation continues, President Trump said Friday he doesn't think Iran is to blame. Instead, he pointed the finger at Minnesota and its Democratic governor, Tim Walz, who is no stranger to criticism from the president.

"I think that Minnesota is behind it," Mr. Trump said during a televised Cabinet meeting at Camp David. "You know who's behind it? Minnesota. Because they're grossly incompetent. I think the governor's behind it. I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think that Minnesota ought to get its act together." 

"They like to say, 'Oh, it was Iran.' Iran should be so lucky. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota," the president said.

Following Mr. Trump's accusations, Walz said on social media that the Trump administration "took an axe" to the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and "left the U.S. exposed to cyber attacks."

"Trump knows exactly who is responsible for this attack, and knows that other states were hit too," Walz, who was the vice presidential candidate on the ticket facing Mr. Trump in 2024, said. "This is what modern warfare looks like, and it further illustrates there's no plan to win a war with Iran."

Iran-linked hackers have previously targeted U.S. water utilities. Federal agencies confirmed previously that actors affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used a similar playbook, accessing multiple water and wastewater facilities in 2023 by exploiting internet-connected controllers that retained their default passwords.

Officials warned of water systems being targeted

The FBI, Environmental Protection Agency and CISA all warned Thursday that attackers are targeting internet-exposed industrial controllers used by water and wastewater utilities. 

In at least some cases, federal authorities reported loss of monitoring and control functionality at critical infrastructure sites, leading to pressure loss and flooding.

Most confirmed cases in the Minnesota cyberattack involved technology used to remotely monitor and control water system equipment, including devices called programmable logic controllers, according to Minnesota IT Services.

None of Minnesota's water supply has been reported compromised as a result of the attack, Mike Ernster, a public information officer for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, told CBS News. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension's Minnesota Fusion Center was working with municipalities, as well as state and federal partners, to address the issue, he added.

Nick Anderson, acting director of CISA, confirmed that the agency "is currently observing a significant increase in cyber threat actors targeting programmable logic controllers (PLC) at water utilities." 

"We urge critical infrastructure owners and operators to remove publicly exposed PLCs and other operational technology from the internet as soon as possible," he added.

Minnesota said investigators identified some similarities in the timing of the recent incidents, in addition to the types of technology impacted, but had not yet confirmed that every incident was carried out by the same actor.

A spokesperson for the city of South St. Paul told CBS News it identified an issue early Monday and immediately implemented contingency procedures. Public works employees transitioned to manual operations, allowing water and wastewater services to continue without any interruption to service. The city added that the incident was limited to technology supporting portions of its water utility, while drinking water treatment, quality, pressure and delivery were not impacted. 

Officials in South St. Paul found no indication that resident or customer data was accessed.

In Braham, located in a more rural area north of Minneapolis, public works personnel also discovered the problem Monday after noticing the well supplying the city's water tower was malfunctioning. Workers isolated the affected system, restored a backup and restarted the plant in about 90 minutes, Mayor Nate George confirmed to CBS News. 

Residents experienced no loss of water service, George added. The city's water tower typically holds enough drinking water to last about two days, and operators discovered the problem before receiving an automated alert, leading the city to believe the pump had been offline for only a brief period. The city has since ensured the system is not connected to any public-facing internet networks and is meeting with its technology provider about remediation.

In suburban Plymouth, Minnesota, officials detected an outage Sunday evening after noticing compromised PLCs at two water towers and 14 sewer lift stations, then disconnecting them from the cellular network. 

A city official in Plymouth told CBS News that operators moved into a manual operation mode temporarily until the systems were brought back online, with normal communications restored by Tuesday afternoon. Still, officials say water quality, treatment and pressures were never affected, with delivery remaining undisrupted throughout.

Michael Thompson, the Plymouth Director of Public Works, told CBS News Minnesota his team first noticed there was a problem when communication between devices started to become interrupted on Sunday evening. By the early morning hours on Monday, just after midnight, Thompson said it was an all-hands-on-deck situation.

"I think you never expect it to happen to you," Thompson said.

CISA said Thursday that it's "currently observing a significant increase in cyber threat actors" that are targeting PLCs in the Water and Wastewater Systems sector, noting those actors are targeting "water entities of all sizes."

"CISA urges critical infrastructure owners, operators, and integrators to remove publicly exposed PLCs and other operational technology (OT) from the internet as soon as possible," said CISA, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. 

"Even water organizations with mature cybersecurity processes should validate their external connections, as this targeting activity includes cellular modems installed by operators, vendors, or system integrators that may not be documented or included in routine attack surface scans," CISA added in its advisory.

According to the Eau Claire Fire Department, Bryce Jungbluth suffered a medical emergency after coming off duty on Wednesday. According to Jungbluth's obituary, he passed away Friday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. 

A procession for Jungbluth from Minneapolis to Eau Claire is expected to take place Saturday afternoon. He will be escorted my the Eau Claire Fire Department. 

The department said on its social media page that Jungbluth "served the Eau Claire Fire Department and Carrboro Fire-Rescue with passion, dedication, courage and honor. He cared deeply about the fire service and approached every shift with a willingness to learn, serve others and support his fellow firefighters. " 

In the far southeastern corner of Minnesota and southwest Wisconsin, clouds will clear slowly, lingering through mid-morning.

Conditions will be nearly as nice on Sunday, though it will be pretty breezy in western Minnesota. There will be a little haze due to wildfire smoke at sunrise and sunset, but it will not impact air quality.

Isolated to scattered storm chances return late Monday and into Tuesday as a cold front moves from the Dakotas into Minnesota.

Temperatures next week will be closer to average, highs in the mid-80s and lows in the mid-60s, with no major heat issues.

Officials say the crash happened around 1 a.m. Saturday near Highway 61 and Aspen Lane. Officials say a Honda was traveling north on Highway 61 while a Toyota was traveling south when the crash occurred. 

According to officials, both drivers were taken to a local hospital. The driver of the Toyota was placed under arrest for suspicion of driving while intoxicated. 

Having arrived in the middle of the night, she realized she was too late once she saw Vikings teammates Cris Carter and Randy Moss sobbing on the floor.

For all that went tragically wrong at the beginning of that training camp in 2001 in Mankato, Minnesota, Kelci Stringer has since made a life mission of keeping others from such a preventable death.

"The work we're doing and the way we're doing the work is most important to me because we're giving back in a way that's very exemplary of Korey," Stringer said.

Named after the only NFL player known to have died from heat stroke, the Korey Stringer Institute opened in 2010 with three employees at the University of Connecticut and now has a 100-person staff and a satellite branch in Florida. Chief executive officer Douglas Casa, a professor of kinesiology who survived his own brush with death at age 16 when he collapsed while running a 10-kilometer race, has counted 463 laws and policies over all 50 states that have been changed or created by KSI's advocacy.

"Not too many medical situations are 100% preventable when you do the right things," Casa said.

Funding for KSI was part of the settlement of the wrongful death lawsuit filed against the NFL by Kelci Stringer, who with Korey Stringer's former agent, Jimmy Gould, was inspired to bring about lasting good from the regret and sadness.

"It wasn't about the money. We lived that life long enough. What is a couple million dollars going to do? That can't bring him back," Stringer said this week in a phone interview with The Associated Press. "My purpose was to find answers. It wasn't to find any blame. It was, 'Can I just know?' That was part of the closure and part of the peace."

The Vikings will mark the 25-year anniversary on Saturday afternoon prior to their first open-to-fans practice of training camp, with Kelci Stringer speaking at the tribute and KSI staffing a tent with a public display of the work being done on heat safety with athletes at all levels, day laborers and military members.

Despite the decade of litigation, Korey Stringer's inner circle has forged a lasting and respectful relationship with the Vikings and the NFL. Casa is on the league's general medical committee. NFL Executive Vice President Jeff Miller, who oversees health and safety, is on KSI's board of directors.

"Kelci's commitment to Korey's legacy and the good that can come from it is exceptional and probably unusual that somebody can channel tragedy into something so constructive," Miller said. "It's fair to say she and the advocacy she has pursued has saved numerous lives across all levels of sports."

This summer in the U.S. has been marked by persistent heat waves, creating particular danger for strenuous exercise — even for well-conditioned professional athletes.

As highs routinely rise past 110 degrees in Las Vegas, the Raiders with new coach Klint Kubiak have been starting practice at 7:30 a.m. at their suburban facility.

The Arizona Cardinals started camp inside State Farm Stadium, but when they move outside in a couple of weeks they'll do their on-field work in the morning.

"We don't need to mess with the heat," new coach Mike LaFleur said.

Air conditioning means artificial turf, though, which players dislike for the increased injury risk and harder overall toll on their bodies.

"The heat's good. It's a good exposure. We're trying to find different margins when we can kind of minimize that when it's not necessary, but when we do most of the bulk of football we want to be outside as much as we can," said New Orleans Saints coach Kellen Moore, who has his team stretch inside before heading out.

The ideal balance, of course, is between being overexerted and being underprepared.

"We have an advantage to go into the year knowing we've been in the heat," Saints tight end Juwan Johnson said. "We've been grinding away, and when we get into a cooler area or a dome, then we can really go and get after some teams."

Medical and technological advancements have given NFL clubs real-time data for tracking player performance and flag potential problems before they get bigger.

Hydration before, during and after practice is second nature now, thanks in no small part to Korey Stringer's death. Cold tubs are mandatory equipment near the practice fields. The need for recovery is more deeply embedded in protocols, too.

The Saints, as an antidote to their hot and humid environment, give players three hours off after practice before reconvening for meetings.

"I've never been in a place where you get that much time off to get your body back," Johnson said.

The majority of players in the league now were either not born yet in 2001 or are too young to have known about Korey Stringer's death. Those who were contemporaries of his, though, will never forget.

"That was probably one of the hottest camps I had ever been in," said Detroit Lions radio announcer Lomas Brown, who played offensive tackle like Stringer and was with the New York Giants in 2001. "When the news came out, it just stung. He was such a great dude, a big-time player, and then for that to take him out?"

Training camps these days are much more of a mental challenge than a physical grind, with mastering complex playbooks and perfecting techniques outweighing full-pad post-practice sprints after three-hour practices.

"We grew up in an era where you got after it. Workouts were designed to be very hard," said Buffalo Bills defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard, who was a freshman at Wisconsin in 2001 and played 10 seasons in the NFL. "I think it made everyone from coaches, players and medical staff to kind of step back and re-evaluate: 'Is this the right way to do things?'"

The collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Players Association has had plenty to do with this evolution, and so has Korey Stringer.

"Going through hard things as a team brings you together, right? There's a lot of good behind running a training camp or a conditioning session a certain way," Leonhard said. "But being young as a player it was one of those things, like, 'We're not invincible.' That was the biggest piece you took from it. It was like, 'Oh, man, we better take care of ourselves and take care of each other.'"

There was some discussion about trying to conclude by the time financial markets open Monday because of concern about how the bombings will affect the U.S. and global economy, but an end point wasn't locked in.

The Israelis have been notified and are coordinating with the United States, according to multiple U.S. sources. The president has yet to give the final 'go' orders for the strikes, the sources said.

A joint operation would mark Israel's return to combat operations which it had halted during the U.S.-brokered truce. Iran has not hit Israel since the memorandum of understanding fell apart and the U.S. restarted combat operations in early July.

An Israeli official told CBS News: "Israel is unaware of a decision to restart full military operations, nor has been requested of Israel to join any military actions against Iran."

The military strike plan came up during President Trump's cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday, according to sources briefed later. Some White House aides who focus on politics were strongly opposed, one of the sources said. 

While reporters were in the room, Mr. Trump said: "We'll be hitting them very hard. At some point, they're going to say, 'We just can't take it anymore.'"

"I think we just want to win," he told the press when asked about reviving diplomacy.

Energy infrastructure including power plants and refineries would likely be targeted, two of the sources said. 

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to CBS News, "As President Trump said at his cabinet meeting today, the United States will win, and Iran will not have a nuclear weapon under his watch."

Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said the Pentagon would not comment on targets before the president makes a final decision. 

"The Department of War is locked and loaded, ready to execute the President's directives at a moment's notice," Parnell said in a statement. 

On Saturday, several U.S. embassies in the Middle East — including Amman, Jordan; Jerusalem; and Baghdad — issued security alerts due to "heightened tensions" and said, "Americans currently in the Middle East should exercise caution and heightened vigilance and should be prepared for flight cancellations, periodic airspace closures, and potential travel disruptions."

A former U.S. military official told CBS that the value of hitting energy infrastructure would be to impact the Iranian military's ability to provide services and effectively govern. 

When Mr. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met earlier this week, Netanyahu briefed him on three options for the war, including military strikes focused on land resupply routes, a senior Israeli official said. Netanyahu also met with Defense Secretary Hegseth.

The U.S. has already struck bridges in this conflict that were dual-use — used by the military and civilians — a U.S. official said. 

There were high-level U.S. discussions Friday about cutting electricity across Tehran, but no decision had been made as of Friday afternoon.

Last week, Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social that he would bomb and destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant for every attack on a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. 

For more than a decade, Iranian-linked operators have repeatedly hacked accessible American targets. They scan for widespread vulnerabilities and aim to create disruption, intimidate, gain publicity and undermine trust in the American government. 

But official confirmation can take weeks or months as investigators collect technical evidence. Investigators are also looking into whether the actor could have attempted to appear Iran-based as a way of stirring the pot amid the U.S. war with Iran.

Iran has long denied any involvement in cyberattacks.

Here are some of the high-profile Iranian-linked cyberattacks in the U.S.:

2011-2013: Dozens of U.S. banks

Seven Iranians working for companies connected to the Iranian government and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were charged a decade ago with distributed denial-of-service, or DDOS, attacks against 46 financial institutions between 2011 and 2013. 

The Justice Department said that bank websites were disabled, which meant customers could not access their accounts online. Collectively, the attacks cost customers and the victim banks tens of millions of dollars in remediation costs.

2013: New York dam

In the same indictment accusing Iranian hackers of attacking banks, one defendant was charged with accessing the control system for the Bowman Avenue Dam in Rye, New York. While the cyber actor was able to view operational information, the sluice gate, which is used to control water levels, was disconnected at the time for maintenance.

2014: Las Vegas Sands

In 2014, the Las Vegas Sands casino company's hard drives were wiped, its corporate network was damaged and its hotel websites were vandalized with condemnations of CEO Sheldon Adelson's comments about using nuclear weapons on Iran. 

The casino company also said the hackers had stolen the personal information of tens of thousands of customers, including their Social Security and driver's license numbers.

Then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper publicly blamed Iran for the hack. In a congressional hearing on worldwide threats, he said it marked the first time "destructive cyberattacks [were] carried out on U.S. soil by nation-state entities." 

2016-2021: Federal agencies and defense contractors

A group of Iranian hackers allegedly targeted the U.S. State Department, Treasury Department and multiple defense contractors with access to classified information, the Justice Department said in 2024. An accounting firm and a hospitality company were also hit during the hacking campaign, which began by 2016 and ran until at least 2021, a federal indictment alleges. 

The defendants worked for a company that claimed to offer cybersecurity services, according to the Justice Department. One of them was accused of also working for the electronic warfare division of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC.

2017-2024: Ransomware and extortion

The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that from 2017 to 2024, a group of Iranian government-associated actors — known by names like Pioneer Kitten — had compromised schools, municipal governments, healthcare organizations and financial institutions.

In some cases, they maintained access to the compromised systems and transferred them to ransomware affiliates, which then extorted the victims. Federal authorities said the group's ransomware likely wasn't sanctioned by the Iranian government, but the attackers also targeted "U.S. defense sector networks" and other entities that aligned with the interests of Iran.

2019-2021: John Bolton's email

At some point between 2019 and 2021, an actor believed to be linked to Iran hacked an email account belonging to President Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton, federal prosecutors said in an indictment last year accusing Bolton of mishandling classified records.

The indictment said Bolton — a former ambassador to the United Nations and longtime Iran hawk — received a menacing email about the hack, warning: "I do not think you would be interested in the FBI being aware of the leaked content of John's email."

2020: Attempted election meddling

Shortly before the 2020 election, voters in Florida and several other states received emails claiming to be from the far-right Proud Boys, warning them to "vote for Trump or else!" Intelligence officials later said Iran appeared to be behind the emails.

The following year, federal prosecutors accused two Iranian hackers and several other co-conspirators of exploiting a "misconfigured computer system" to download "confidential" information on more than 100,000 voters in an unspecified state without authorization. They also attempted to compromise several other states' websites, the Justice Department said.

The conspirators then allegedly sent out threatening emails to tens of thousands of registered Democrats — including some of the voters whose information was successfully taken from a state website — claiming to be from the Proud Boys.

The conspirators allegedly targeted Republican officials, too, sending them a staged video that claimed to show individuals hacking into state voter websites. The hackers were also accused of intruding into an unnamed media company's website.

The U.S. intelligence community assessed shortly after the 2020 election that Iran sought to damage the Trump campaign and tried to "undermine public confidence," but did not try to "manipulate or attack any election infrastructure."

Separately, the FBI blamed Iranian actors for setting up a website called "Enemies of the People" that displayed death threats against U.S. election officials in late 2020.

2021: Boston Children's Hospital

The FBI helped thwart an Iranian-linked 2021 attack on Boston Children's Hospital, former FBI Director Christopher Wray said the following year, calling it "one of the most despicable cyberattacks I've seen."

CISA said in 2021 that Iranian-sponsored actors targeted an unnamed "U.S.-based hospital specializing in healthcare for children" and a municipal government. 

2023-2024: CyberAv3ngers' targeting of water systems

Calling itself the CyberAv3ngers, a group affiliated with the IRGC exploited devices called programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, which are commonly used to remotely monitor and control machinery, CISA said in 2023 and 2024. The same types of devices were targeted in this week's apparent cyberattacks on Minnesota water systems.

The targets included water and wastewater systems in the U.S. and Israel, and users of PLCs in some other sectors. In some cases, the targeted devices were made by the Israeli company Unitronics and either had no password or a default password. After a PLC was compromised, according to CISA, it would display the message: "You have been hacked, down with Israel."

The hackers succeeded in shutting down water pumping equipment in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, in 2023.

2024: Presidential campaign hack-and-leak operation

Three Iranian nationals and IRGC employees were accused by the Justice Department of hacking into the accounts of current and former U.S. officials, members of the media and political campaigns. 

Prosecutors said they aimed to stoke discord and erode confidence in the electoral process, as well as obtain information about U.S. officials that could be used to advance IRGC efforts to avenge the 2020 killing of their commander, Qasem Soleimani.

The Iranians successfully gained access to personal accounts belonging to people associated with a presidential campaign. While the Justice Department didn't identify the candidate, it was reported by CBS News and others to be the Trump campaign. 

The Trump campaign said publicly it was hacked by potential Iranian attackers who stole and distributed its sensitive internal documents. The FBI also investigated possible Iranian targeting of the Biden-Harris campaign's emails.

2026: Medical tech company

The Justice Department seized four websites it says were used by Iranian state-linked groups to post hacked information and take credit for cyberattacks. One of those groups, Handala, appeared to take credit for a March attack on medical technology company Stryker.

2026: Kash Patel's email

Iranian-linked cybercriminals accessed FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email account, CBS News has previously reported, in a hack the Handala group took responsibility for.

Now, researchers are studying whether they could help veterans living with alcohol use disorder.

The Minneapolis VA Health Care System is one of 18 VA sites across the United States participating in the new clinical trial testing semaglutide as a potential treatment for AUD.

Experts say there are approximately 400,000 veterans in the U.S. who have an alcohol use disorder but a limited collection of medications for treatment. 

Leading the study at the Minneapolis VA is Dr. Eric Dieperink, a psychiatrist who has spent more than two decades studying alcoholism. 

"We're laying the groundwork for a potentially exciting breakthrough in treatment," Dieperink said.

He said the goal is to find out whether a GLP-1 could become another tool to help veterans living with AUD.

Veterans who join the 24-week study will be randomly placed into two groups. Participants will be randomly assigned to receive either semaglutide or a placebo.

"There are eight visits, clinical visits where we would talk about the medication, and there are some study procedures," Dieperink said. 

Researchers say the trial is not intended to replace existing treatments veterans are on, but to determine whether semaglutide could offer another option.

"This is really something that is a way to help the community of people who struggle with alcohol use," Dieperink said.  

The clinical trial is open to eligible veterans. Participants do not have to live in the metro or receive care at the Minneapolis VA to participate.

For more information about participation, veterans can contact the Minneapolis VA at 612-467-1580 or visit ClinicalTrials.gov and search for the CRAVE trial.

Kremer, 30, has a 6.50 ERA in seven starts this season. The seventh-year right-hander has gone 42-44 with a career 4.37 ERA in 133 games, all with the Orioles.

To clear room for Kremer on the 40-man roster, the Twins transferred right-handed pitcher Mike Paredes to the 60-day injured list. A corresponding 26-man roster move will be announced at a later date.

Kremer opened the 2026 season in the minors, one year after he led the Orioles in wins, innings and strikeouts. Kremer went 11-10 with a 4.19 ERA while striking out 142 batters over 171 2/3 innings last season. He also dealt with a quad injury that sidelined him from mid-April until July.

Reyes, 18, is hitting .275 with seven home runs, 46 RBIs and 17 stolen bases in 216 plate appearances between the Twins' Rookie League affiliate and Single-A Fort Myers. The Dominican Republic native spent all of the 2025 season in the Dominican Summer League and was originally signed by the Twins in January 2025.

Kendall Qualls, who is endorsed by the Minnesota GOP, faced My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, who has the endorsement all the candidates wanted: President Trump's. 

House Speaker Lisa Demuth's campaign spokesperson says Demuth had previously scheduled a campaign and district meeting in Stearns County, Minnesota, on Friday night.

TPT's Almanac Show hosted the debate.

Both Qualls and Lindell want the state's new paid leave program to go away.

"The biggest issue facing business owners right now in the metro, as well as Greater Minnesota, is the paid family leave act. It is the biggest issue. The straw that is breaking the camel's back," Qualls said.

Lindell wants the state's income tax to go away. 

"I am looking to eliminate income tax in Minnesota, being the 10th state to do that. Budget will be published this week. And so people can say, 'Everybody wants to cut taxes. I'll cut taxes if you vote for me.' No, I'm actually going to put it out there. Maybe we can have six months. So, I want Minnesota to be [a] no-income-tax state," Lindell said.

Both said they would be a pro-business governor.

"Where Mike and I have violent agreement is that we need someone in this state leading that is outside of politics. It's going to be business-oriented solutions. I just happen to think my business-oriented solutions are better than Mike's," Qualls said.

On immigration, Lindell backed off a program he had proposed for six-month work visas for those who are undocumented.

"Minnesota at least needs to cooperate with the federal government," Lindell said.

He later added, "The employers that are stealing money from it, they're not paying taxes, they are hiring these illegals. It's almost like human trafficking."

Qualls took aim at the Biden administration.

"You bring in 10 million people in the country in that short period of time; they don't come with a budget. The Democrat Party did not give them a budget cause they're eating into the budgets for the people in our state from healthcare, school, social services," Qualls said.

Both laid into the Walz administration for the fraud scandals. When asked if Gov. Tim Walz, the Minnesota Legislature and law enforcement had done enough, Lindell said, "Weren't they in on it? I think Walz has done enough. He needs to go to jail. That's my answer. They haven't done enough."

"They've failed Minnesotans. The fraud that we've had in our state, Medicaid fraud, a litany of it, it's a national embarrassment. And this is an embarrassment of poor leadership and not having accountability," Qualls said.

In a preview of the GOP strategy against leading DFL candidate, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, both said she should also be held responsible for the state's fraud crisis. Polls have shown Klobuchar with a double-digit lead over Demuth, Lindell and Qualls 

"Having listened carefully to all the views, it has become clear that the project has created divisions of a nature that, regardless of the level of support, are no longer in the interest of the objective set out in the first place," FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in a statement Friday evening.

Earlier this week, the British newspaper The Times first revealed Infantino's secret plan, called FIFA Forward Enterprise, or FFE, under which FIFA would have created a commercial rights and event operations company, 20% of which was to be sold to private investors with FIFA retaining ownership of 80%. 

FIFA had said that FFE would be given an initial evaluation of $20 billion, with $4.2 billion going to "carefully selecting long-term investors."

FIFA confirmed in an earlier statement that Thrive Eternal, a venture spearheaded by Joshua Kushner, the brother of President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, was "expected to lead the proposed investor group." Thrive Eternal is a subsidiary of Thrive Capital, an investment firm owned by Joshua Kushner.  

FIFA had estimated that under the deal, the 211 member associations of FIFA would see their so-called FIFA Forward Funding rise from $8 million per four-year cycle to approximately $20 million.

On Tuesday, a source close to Thrive Capital told CBS News that criticism of the firm's involvement was unjustified. 

"I think the first assumption is that Trump was involved in FFE in any capacity, which is just not accurate," the source told CBS News. "Josh himself does not have any links with the administration, he does not have any political roles, he has not donated to them, he is not involved in any capacity. If you look at his donation record, all of the causes he has donated to are Democrat ... it's kind of unfair to assume a lot about somebody just because of what their brother does."

Asked by reporters during a Cabinet meeting Friday if FIFA officials or Infantino had spoken to him about Infantino's plan, Mr. Trump responded, "No, I never spoke to him."

The blowback from Infantino's proposal was swift. UEFA, Europe's powerful soccer federation, announced Thursday that its 55 members had agreed to boycott competitions organized by FIFA, including the World Cup, if Infantino pushed forward with his project, calling it "irresponsible and indefensible." 

"The World Cup cannot be treated as an investment product," UEFA said. "It is one of football's greatest sporting legacies," adding that "the World Cup is not for sale."

North America's soccer governing body, the 41-member Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football, followed suit, rejecting the plan and questioning "the need for private equity investment to fund new and existing FIFA Forward programs following the most profitable FIFA World Cup in history." 

CONCACAF, however, stopped short of making a boycott threat.

On Friday, the Asian Football Confederation released a statement in which it didn't outright reject the plan, but said that it stood "in solidarity with UEFA and CONCACAF in expressing serious concerns over FIFA's proposal to introduce private investment into FIFA's flagship competitions and the decision-making process around FFE."

Also Friday, Carlos Cordeiro, one of Infantino's senior advisers, resigned from his post, saying in a statement that he could not "stand by while FIFA considers selling a stake in the World Cup." 

"The FIFA Forward Enterprise project was intended to provide a basis for further strengthening our FIFA Member Associations and our sport worldwide, especially in those countries where support is most needed," Infantino said Friday. "And more so, as we said from the outset, to do this only if a majority of the FIFA Member Associations were in support and always subject to a consultation process with them, the FIFA Council, the Confederations and wider stakeholders."

Infantino has received mounting criticism in recent months over his close relationship with Mr. Trump leading up to the 2026 World Cup, which the U.S. hosted with Mexico and Canada. Last year, Infantino awarded Mr. Trump the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize.

Earlier this month, during the World Cup tournament, Mr. Trump said he personally asked Infantino to review a red card that was given to U.S. striker Folarin Balogun during a knockout game against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Under FIFA rules, the red card required that Balogun be suspended for the team's next match against Belgium.

"All I did, I asked for a review because I didn't think it was a foul," Mr. Trump said at the time. "... If they wouldn't allow, you know, a top player, maybe the best, maybe among the best players on the team, I think it would have had a big stain. And I related, just that, I didn't tell him what to do, I can't tell him what to do."

In an unprecedented move, FIFA overturned Balogun's suspension just one day before the Belgium match, and without a detailed explanation.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the Superior Court of Delaware, claims that the teens suffered years of harm from using the platforms, including social media addiction, severe sleep deprivation, depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation.

The Social Media Victims Law Center, a legal advocacy firm, filed the complaint on behalf of the four families, who are from Minnesota, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. The children, who died between July 2024 and September 2025, were ages 13, 14, 17 and 18 at the time of their deaths, according to the firm.

"Despite living hundreds of miles apart, their parents describe nearly identical patterns: once‑vibrant children who became anxious, withdrawn or depressed as their use of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube intensified," the Social Media Victims Law Center said in a statement shared with CBS News.

Social media companies' "actions have eroded public trust, misled policymakers, and created a national youth mental health crisis that has already cost us a generation and will take years to repair," Matthew Bergman, founding attorney of the Social Media Victims Law Center, added in a statement.

Meta, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube parent company Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Thursday's complaint represents the latest in a series of suits filed against social media companies alleging that they are addictive and dangerous. In a landmark decision in May, a jury held Meta and YouTube liable for creating products that led to harmful and addictive behavior by young users.

If you or someone you know is in emotional distress or a suicidal crisis, you can reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988. You can also chat with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline here.

For more information about mental health care resources and support, The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) HelpLine can be reached Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.–10 p.m. ET, at 1-800-950-NAMI (6264) or email info@nami.org.

The National Weather Service says 1.53 inches of precipitation had accumulated by 7:54 p.m. Friday — marking the highest single-day total since March 29, 2025, and the longest stretch of continuous rain since March 14–15, 2026.

In Duluth, a record-breaking 2.41 inches of rain fell, shattering the previous July 31 record of 1.55 inches set in 1879, according to the federal agency.

Federal officials said 2.27 inches of accumulation was recorded at the Rochester International Airport on Friday, shattering an 88-year-old July 31 record of 1.68 inches set in 1938.

The Le Sueur area saw more than 7 inches of rain, soaking farm fields and sidelining heavy equipment.

"We picked this morning and the picker was sinking in so far it was pushing," said Bradley Sasse, a farmer from the area who also runs a corn stand at the corner of Bridge Street and North Second Street. "Tomorrow we've got 14 kids that help us sort and told them to bring their mud boots because we might be picking by hand tomorrow."

The heavy rain triggered flash flood warnings and even a mud slide in St. Peter. Part of Highway 169 had to close as crews cleaned up the mess. 

Raymond, in central Minnesota, received 6.5 inches, while Brownton received more than 5 inches as of Friday morning. 

In southern Minnesota, Pennock has gotten around 4 inches, as of Friday morning, while 3.8 inches have fallen in Owatonna.

But further north on the Otter Tail River, businesses that rely on the rain didn't get any relief from the drought.

Roger Klemm, who owns K and K Tubing, already closed up shop for the season. He says some spots in the river are down to just a few inches, forcing him and other tubing businesses to make some tough decisions.

"Without Mother Nature getting the rain, we can't play in it. So we sit there and we say now we wait," Klemm said.

Saturday will be a #Top10WxDay with plenty of sunshine and highs leaping back to the 80s.

The Fauci Pharmacy is long-gone. But beneath the calm façade Dr. Anthony Fauci has shown the world for more than 50 years, he is still – as he says – "Brooklyn tough."

Did he get into fights every now and then? "How could you not?" he said.

"How'd you do?" LaPook asked.

"Well, I'm not the biggest guy in the world."

"But at 5'7", you were the captain of the basketball team. How did you do that?"

"I was very fast and I had a really good shot," Fauci said.

"What killed your NBA career?"

"I found out that a very fast, good shooting point guard who's 5'7" will always get destroyed by a point guard who's 6'3". That became very clear!" Fauci laughed. "So, I said, 'Oh, let me just settle for science, whatever.'"

There are millions today who owe their lives to the work of the man who "settled" for science. And as he chronicles in his new memoir, "On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service," Dr. Fauci's career treating infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health has been bookended by the two great pandemics of our time: AIDS and COVID-19.

When it first widely appeared in the early 1980s, a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS was a death sentence.

Dr. LaPook asked, "Looking at your background, you were brought up in Brooklyn in the '40s, kind of a conservative family. You might not necessarily predict that you would then go on to treat a group of people who were kind of shunned by society. What went into that?"

"What it was that, one of the predominant themes in my home, which was fortified with the Jesuit education, was empathy," Dr. Fauci replied. "My father was quite conservative, you know, an Eisenhower-type Republican, as was my mother. But my father was very, very much guided by empathy for anybody."

Although empathy for AIDS patients was in short supply, and he was criticized early on, Dr. Fauci used his position at the NIH to lobby the White House for funding – and for national attention.

He worked with seven presidents on AIDS, bird flu, swine flu, Ebola, Zika, and COVID. An AIDS program started with George W. Bush has saved an estimated 25 million lives worldwide. 

With Bill Clinton, Dr. Fauci established the NIH's Vaccine Research Center, which laid the groundwork for the record-breaking development of COVID vaccines during the Trump administration.

But that last collaboration hit a wall on April 3, 2020, the day President Trump held a press briefing in which he said the CDC was now recommending that people wear masks, and then he added, "This is voluntary. I don't think I'm going to be doing it."

Dr. Fauci said, "I was deeply disturbed by that, because he had the opportunity as the leader of the country with a very strong, devoted following to say, 'The CDC has recommended masks, and I'm gonna wear a mask, because masks are gonna protect me and protect others.' That really was a missed opportunity, because that was a signal to his devoted followers that you don't really have to listen to the CDC, you don't have to listen to the public health messages."

As the country's willingness to follow public health advice largely split along party lines, Dr. Fauci came under attack, and he received death threats.

Had that ever happened before? "No, not credible death threats where a person is arrested who was clearly intending to kill you," Dr. Fauci said. "And that's happened at least twice. We're acting like, we have a virus that's the common enemy and we're fighting with each other."

Earlier this month, Dr. Fauci was called before a Republican-led congressional committee to discuss pandemic origins and preparedness. But things quickly spun out of control, as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), said, "What this committee should be doing … we should be recommending you to be prosecuted."

Dr. LaPook asked, "How did we go, as a country, from absolutely adoring Jonas Salk, who helped develop the polio vaccine, he was a national hero, to Dr. Anthony Fauci having to have security details to stop people from killing him?"

"It's a reflection of the psyche of the country," Dr. Fauci replied. "If the purpose of the hearing is to figure out how we can do better to prevent and respond to and prepare for the next pandemic, well, that [attack] doesn't even begin to contribute to that."

One of the deepest points of controversy is the still-unknown origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 outbreak. Because the NIH has funded research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, there are accusations that American tax dollars could have paid to create SARS-CoV-2 through genetic manipulation, what's called "gain of function."

Dr. LaPook asked if this was biochemically and genetically possible. "No," Dr. Fauci replied. "When you have a virus, if you're gonna manipulate it in a way to make it a 'dangerous' virus, you have to start off with a precursor virus that's close enough to the virus that you ultimately make, that it is molecularly possible to do that. What is absolutely 100% certain is that the viruses that were studied under the NIH grant, for the kinds of experiments that were done, molecularly were so far removed from SARS-CoV-2 that they could not have turned it into SARS-CoV-2 even if they tried, which they obviously didn't do.

"But it was just so, what we call, phylogenetically distant ... what it means is that, evolutionarily it's so far, it would take 20 years of evolution to get it there. And that's something that just slips between the cracks when people talk about it," Dr. Fauci said. "What we're talking about is what the NIH funded, was viruses that could not possibly have done that."

COVID origins aside, Dr. Fauci has been subjected to other accusations, such as getting money from pharmaceutical companies. Dr. LaPook asked, "You have been offered money to leave the NIH, right, and join, say, pharma, right?"

"Right, or private equity," Dr. Fauci replied.

"How many times your current salary have you been offered, about?"

"So, at the time that I was getting offered it, I was making $125,000, $200,000. Then I would get offered a job that would get me $5, $6, $7 million a year."

"So, why didn't you take it?"

"Because I really felt what I was doing was having an impact on what I cared about, which was the health of the country and, indirectly, the health of the world," Dr. Fauci said. "And to me, that is priceless."

"There've been ups, there've been downs. It's been a lot of friction recently. Any regrets?"

"No. No," Dr. Fauci replied. "I mean, when you say regrets, any regrets of what I did? My choices? No. Could we have done things better on multiple points, inflection points along the way? Of course. 'Cause we're not perfect. You try your best and you realize with humility that you're not perfect. And you don't pretend to be perfect. But you go with what your best is, and then if you make a mistake, you try to correct it."

      
For more info:

• "On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service" by Anthony Fauci M.D. (Viking), in Hardcover, Large Print, eBook and Audio formats, available June 18 via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org

     
Story produced by Ed Forgotson. Editor: George Pozderec.