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all right. the countdown is on. the corpse flower is expected to bloom over the next few days, releasing its famously pungent smell, which many compare to a corpse, hence the name, corpse flower. when it blooms it can reach up to 10 feet tall. have you ever smelled that? >> no. but i will steer ear of tonight, showdown in south carolina. another primary victory for donald trump. a win for him in nikki haley's home state. the former south carolina governor says she'll soldier on even after her fourth straight loss. >> we're headed to michigan
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tomorrow morning. we'll be campaigned there, then headed to the super tuesday state. also tonight a grim milestone in ukraine. >> reporter: i'm charlie d'agata in kyiv. russian forces on the attack two years after launching their brutal invasion. plus, the body of russian opposition leader alexei navalny is handed over to his mother as his widow accuses vladimir putin of torturing him even in death. migrant crisis after a bipartisan deal in congress gets blocked. what's next? i'm camilo montoya galvez at the arizona border where hundreds of migrants are crossing into the u.s. each day undeterred by border walls and a treacherous terrain. later, after six decades of collecting art, a couple shares their historic finds with the world. >> the things in this exhibit belong to everybody. ♪ this is the "cbs weekend news." from washington with adriana
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diaz. >> good evening. i'm nancy cordes in for adriana. we begin with breaking political news from south carolina. cbs news projects donald trump will win the state's republican primary. this marks the fourth win for the former president, having already swept contests in iowa, new hampshire, and nevada in the republican race for president. trump's victory is a particularly painful loss for opposing candidate nikki haley because this is her home turf having previously served as governor of the palmetto state. she voted with her family today. chief election and campaign correspondent robert costa is at the haley campaign watch party in charleston. bob, former president trump has already declared victory there. what else did he have to say? >> reporter: former president trump, nancy, is already looking to the general election. former ambassador nikki haley said today she's staying in the race win or lose south carolina. but trump already talking about taking over the republican
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national committee and installing his allies as he looks toward november. >> bob, you spoke to nikki haley today, and you asked her what her plans are now that she's lost four races in a row. let's take a listen. >> reporter: where does your campaign go from here, both strategically and in terms of travel across the country? >> to michigan. we're headed to michigan tomorrow morning. we'll be campaigning there, and then we're headed to the super tuesday state. >> bob, she says she's staying in the race. realistically, though, what is the future for her campaign if she can't win her home state? >> reporter: her donors and officials tell me she has a real uphill climb ahead but still believes there's a coalition in michigan this week with the primary on tuesday and then in early march a coalition of suburban traditional republicans who want an alternative, who don't believe that former president trump can win, so she wants to stay in this race even though she keeps losing because she also knows trump has so many legal challenges on the horizon
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and anything could happen. >> robert, exit polls just reinforce how strong the support is there for donald trump. look at this -- 72% of the primary voters said donald trump has the physical and mental health to be president. compare that to 60% who said that about nikki haley even though she's about 20 years younger. talk to us about his dominance both in south carolina and among republicans more broadly. >> reporter: nancy, i've spent recent days talking to voter after voter in south carolina, and it's so evident the connection between trump and his core voter base is visceral. it's emotional, not a political calculation. they share his grievances. they're standing with him here in south carolina. and the trump campaign believes they are going to stand with him in state after state. they're ready to take on president biden. >> robert costa in south carolina tonight. thank you. now to the middle east where
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the u.s. and british forces just launched new air strikes on at least 18 houthi targets inside yemen. this is the fourth round of coalition strikes in retaliation for attacks by the iranian-backed militants on international cargo ships and u.s. warships in the red sea and the gulf of aden. today marks two years since russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine. here in washington hundreds rallied in support of ukraine at the steps of the lincoln memorial. cbs' charlie d'agata is in kyiv tonight. charlie? >> reporter: when we were here in central kyiv two years ago, many ukrainians refused to believe or at least hoped against the idea that a full-scale russian invasion was about to begin. now with so many dead, nobody can predict how or when it may end. two years on from the full-scale invasion, ukraine is still under
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attack. into a residential area in the - black sea city of odesa. local officialsmall child is among the dead. at an airfield outside of kyiv today, ukrainian president volodymer zelenskyy issued a rallying cry reminiscent of that defiant selfie on the streets of the capital in the first days of the invasion. there in solidarity, western leaders from canada, italy, belgium, and a scene of an early ceo victory when outgunned ukrainian reservists robbed russian paratroopers from establishing a critical toehold. the world witnessed the most important thing, he said, it saw the evil can be defeated. today defeating russia is anything but certain. in the worst loss in months, ukrainian troops were forced to retreat under fire from the
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eastern city of avdiivka. ukraine says the kremlin is exploiting a chronic lack of ammunition made worse by a $60 billion security package stalled by political infighting in congress. u.s. senate majority leader chuck schumer led a congressional delegation to ukraine pledging u.s. support to zelenskyy and his generals. >> they said it in no uncertain terms, that if ukraine gets the package, they will win the war. if they don't get the package, they will lose. >> reporter: exhausted ukrainian troops face a formidable enemy, outgunned and outnumbered from day one. there's a reason president zelenskyy marked the occasion with world leaders at that airbase today, nancy. if russian forces took that base in the early days of the war, history might be telling a different story. >> wow. charlie d'agata in kyiv tonight. thank you. today in russia the body of
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opposition leader alexei navalny was released to his mother, ending a fight for his body. in a social media post a spokesperson says navalny's funeral is yet to take place. [ speaking in a global language ] also in this video released today, navalny's widow accused president vladimir putin of torturing her husband even in death. navalny died last week at a remote arctic prison. tonight president biden is debating whether to invoke sweeping executive actions to deal with the migrant crisis at the southern border. this as the department of homeland security is said to be running out of money to fund key immigration enforcement operations after a bipartisan border deal in congress was blocked. camilo montoya galvez traveled to a rugged section of the arizona border that is now a hot spot for illegal crossings. >> reporter: we met maria hours after she said she had been shot
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by mexican cartels on her way it the u.s. were you bleeding? yes. [ speaking in a global language ] a lot. maria said she was so scared she did not feel any pain. undeterred by border walls, violent mexican cartels and a treacherous terrain, hundreds of migrants like maria are crossing the arizona desert each day. over the past four months, the tucson sector has recorded a quarter of a million migrant apprehensions, the most of any region. for migrants undertaking this often deadly journey, the work of american volunteers is a lifeline. >> they come across, and they fall into your arms and cry and hug you. and they go, thank god we're in america, we're safe now. >> reporter: this is a makeshift encampment for migrants who have walked for hours and even days to get to the u.s. volunteers have brought beans here, sausages, peanut butter, and lots and lots of water. they have also brought blankets for the migrants because it gets really cold here at night.
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the last group of migrants here was just picked up by border patrol, but volunteers here tell us that hundreds of migrants have been here on some days. maria's main objective is finding a way to wisconsin to reunite with her husband and children. [ speaking in a global language ] how long have you been away from your family? five years. that's a long time. but there's no guarantee maria will be allowed to stay. camilo montoya galvez, cbs news, sasabe, arizona. a controversial court decision in alabama has injected doubt into an increasingly common procedure. in vitro fertilization is conducted more than 400,000 times a year in the u.s. but nearly 170,000 embryos do not get used, and owners have the legal right to destroy, store, or donate them.
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as barry petersen reports from denver, the decision to donate can be life changing. >> reporter: 5-year-old joshua was born from an embryo donated by james and aislyn estes. >> when we visited joshua needed help with something and his mom was busy. he was running around the house like, "genetic mom, genetic mom, can you help me tie my shoe?" i was like, aw, that's cute. >> reporter: they used the snowflake's embryo adoption program where donors choose who gets their eggs. kimberly tyson is snowflake's vice president. >> the donor kind of drives the bus, if you will, on the matching process. >> reporter: some programs like snowflake's call the process an adoption because they believe life begins at conception. but courts have generally said life begins when it is sustainable outside the womb. now the alabama supreme court in a landmark ruling says an embryo is a child, and its destruction
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is a wrongful death. the american society for reproductive medicine warned that modern fertility care will now be unavailable in alabama, and some alabama doctors and hospitals have paused their work with embryos for fear of potential criminal prosecution. for now, the process remains unchanged in other states, including colorado, where levi carpenter is here thanks to a donated embryo after melissa and aaron say they exhausted all the other options. and levi now has a baby sister, elaina, from the same donor family. >> even if they're not genetically related to us, at least there's that genetic relation to each other. >> reporter: putting aside the political and legal debate, it's about the happiness of being a parent and basking in the smile of a child. barry petersen, cbs news, denver. >> a beautiful baby. tonight many citizens of new york city are mourning the death
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of a high-flying celebrity. flaco, a rare eurasian owl, became a sensation after escaping from the central park zoo after someone vandalized his enclosure last year. the owl foiled attempts to capture him, so he was allowed to live in the wild after proving that he could survive. last night flaco flew into a building on manhattan's upper west side and died. he was 13 years old, and he'll be missed. straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news," a new snag following america's return to the moon. first, the latest on the war in gaza and conflict in another israeli-occupied territory. >> reporter: i'm holly williams in tel aviv. we were given exclusive access to a group of u.s. lawmakers when they visited the west bank. .
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cabinet getting briefed by negotiators. this as prime minister benjamin netanyahu's post-war plans for the territory including open-ended control over military and civilian affairs come under harsh scrutiny. now netanyahu's facing fresh criticism from the u.s. over new plans for the west bank. cbs' holly williams has the latest from tel aviv. >> reporter: khirbet zanuta is a small palestinian village in the west bank now lying in ruins. >> they demolished the school. they demolished most of the houses. >> reporter: it was bulldoed last year after israeli settlers harassed the residents until they fled. a delegation of american lawmakers was given a tour of what's left of khirbet zanuta this past week by israeli activists who campaign against the occupation of palestinian territory. >> basically coming here, taking sheep, feeding off shepherds and
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kicking palestinians off their land. >> they're protected -- >> by the military. >> by the military. >> full protection. everything, of course. >> reporter: around half a million israeli settlers live in the west bank on occupied territory. the settlements are widely regarded as illegal under international law, but there are now several prominent settlers in israel's cabinet. there's been an uptick in violent clashes in the west bank since the october 7th attack on israel. some of them deadly. the palestinian community leader asked the american representatives for their help, including congressman rosa delauro of connecticut. >> people just cannot be uprooted from their life, from their families, and no one cares about them. >> reporter: the u.s. has long supported a two-state solution giving the palestinians their own state in the west bank and the gaza strip. but after decades of thwarted negotiations, there are reports the biden administration is
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considering a radical change. simply recognizing a palestinian state after the war is over. >> the only way this conflict is ever going to stop is with outside help, and the united states can be the adult in the room. >> reporter: the tour was organized by jay street, a jewish american lobbying group urging president biden to recognize a palestinian state. >> we need a bolder american policy. we need a bolder set of moves from president biden. >> reporter: do you think he's going to do it? >> i hope so. we may know within a matter of days or weeks. >> reporter: but u.s. officials have downplayed the possibility, announcing israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says his country rejects any international attempts to impose a palestinian state. >> so complicated. holly williams, thank you so much. and be sure to watch "face the nations" first thing tomorrow. it includes margaret brennan's exclusive interview with israeli
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at florida and -- >> reporter: bernard and shirley kinszy's love affair is more than 60 years strong. you can't just say shirley got arrested. what's the back story? >> 1963, tallahassee was terribly segregated. anybody that demonstrated was arrested. ♪ >> it was two weeks after the march on washington, so i immediately had to get involved. >> reporter: the couple married in 1967. the co-eds went from changing history to conserving it. >> we made two commitments to each other. we love art and travel. >> reporter: they lived off his pay as a xerox executive and invested her teacher's salary. in the early '70s a print from the latest artist ernie barnes started their collection. it now numbers more than 700 pieces and counting. the kinsey collection of african american art and history is recognized as one of the largest, most encompassing collections chronicling the
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black american experience. >> all this is from my collective ancestry. >> reporter: it's here occupying 150,000 square feet of space at sofi stadium. it's traveled the world in nearly two decades, seen by more than 16 million people. >> it gives me chills because i just think that black history is so rich. >> reporter: gallery owner jac forbes advises institutions on the curation of black art. she believes this is needed now more than ever. >> it's undeniable when you actually see the paper, you know this is real. we're in a culture where things are being denied, but you can't deny what's tangible in front of you. >> reporter: the so few exhibit features works by elizabeth catlett, this buffalo soldier flag and a handwritten muhammad ali letter. just one-tenth of their treasures, but the curator is on a mission to make the precious collection even more accessible. >> the conversation around a physical location is going to be critical to preserve the
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collection. >> reporter: preserving a legacy built on love, framed in their commitment to each other and their culture. elise preston, cbs news, los angeles. >> a remarkable collection. that's the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. i'm nancy cordes in washington. good night. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. >> it is one of the biggest days on san francisco's calendar, a look at this year's chinese new years parade and some of the local students putting on a show during the celebration. custard remains a very
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popular treat, there is one bakery in particular that people seem to flock to, the problem is, nobody seems to know when it is open. neighbors helping neighbors, the story behind one man's plan to bring power to a neighborhood. and later, you know it is tough being an oakland a's fan, how some sports fans took matters into their own hands. good evening, i'm andrea nakano. tonight is the culmination of lunar new year celebrations, that began two weeks ago when asian culture marked the year of the dragon. da lin joins us from the chinese new year parade, how is it going out there? >> reporter: it is popping, very loud and hopefully you can hear me with all the noise and folks behind me, the year of the dragon, the largest chinese new year's parade outside asia. it started about one hour ago, we are a block away from the starting point at third and maor

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