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more to hatch. two of the chicks made their way out of their eggs on earth day, what timing. the third arrived this morning. this is video of the chicks getting fed in the last hour. mama doing her job, there. since before eggs were first laid last month, parents annie and archie have been working hard to take care of them. here is a live look, now, at the nest camera atop the campanelli tower. you can see the chicks, you can't see them now because annie is keeping them warm. tomorrow, the university will be hosting a hatch party as they were to welcome the first check. there is a giant screen to watch t. >> i'm not sure that anybody has ever seen anything like this be >> i'm not sure that anybody has ever seen anything like this before. >> maurice: tonight, trump on trial. ex-tabloid publisher david pecker telling jurors about a secret deal between him and donald trump to bury negative stories during the 2016 presidential campaign. and the former president blasts
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the judge and gag order. >> the unconstitutional gag order by a highly conflicted judge. >> maurice: president biden. >> we have the worst president in the history of our country. >> maurice: and the courtroom. >> it's freezing, by the way. >> maurice: the "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪ good evening, and thank you for being with us. i'm maurice dubois. norah is on assignment. we begin tonight with day 2 of testimony in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. former "national enquirer" publisher david pecker was back on the stand where he said he worked with trump and his longtime fixer michael cohen to hide negative stories about him during the 2016 campaign. the prosecution claims it was all a part of a conspiracy to influence the election. before today's testimony, there was a tense hearing over whether trump repeatedly violated a gag order by attacking witnesses and jurors on social media. prosecutors urged the judge to fine trump thousands of dollars and hold him in contempt, while the former president complained that his right to free speech
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was being taken away. cbs's robert costa was inside the courthouse and starts us off tonight. >> reporter: former president trump aired his frustration with being in court today. >> that's a very unfair situation. >> reporter: after listening to former "national enquirer" publisher david pecker, a man he has known for over three decades, explain the strategy he testified they agreed upon ahead of the 2016 election. the paper would bury any negative news about trump, while promoting fake stories about his political opponents, including senators ted cruz and marco rubio. pecker testified the plan was concocted at trump tower in 2015. trump and former fixer michael cohen allegedly asked him how he could help the campaign. he told them, i would be your eyes and ears, explaining the practice of catch and kill. the "enquirer" would buy the rights to any damaging story about trump and never publish it. prosecutors say that plan was
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the origin of cohen's $130,000 payment to former adult film star stormy daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with trump, who denies it all. one example of catch and kill discussed in court today involved a trump building doorman, who was selling what turned out to be a fake story about trump fathering a son. pecker told the jury today he bought the story because of the potential embarrassment it would have to the campaign and mr. trump. >> david pecker is a very strong witness for the prosecution. he seems very solid on the stand. he certainly seems like he doesn't have any axe to grind with donald trump and seems almost apologetic for having to tell this story. >> reporter: on the stand, pecker said trump called him about another story he wanted kept quiet. that of former "playboy" model karen mcdougal, who claimed to have had a ten-month-long affair with trump in 2006, which he denies. >> after we had been intimate, he tried to pay me, and i actually didn't know how to take
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that. >> reporter: four days before the 2016 election, "the wall street journal" reported that american media, which owned the "enquirer" at the time, had paid mcdougal $150,000 for the rights to her story, which was never published. in the gag order hearing, the prosecution argued that trump should be held in contempt for all of his scathing commentary about this case. trump's lawyer todd blanche said his client has been careful with his words. to that, the judge said, that's just not credible. maurice? >> maurice: robert costa once agai again at the criminal courthouse in lower manhattan tonight, thank you. now to those escalating clashes and threats of violence on college campuses. protests are growing as more students across the country are staging demonstrations against israel's war in gaza. cbs's nancy chen tonight on what protesters are demanding. >> we are not afraid of you! >> reporter: pro-palestinian demonstrators clashed with police at cal poly humboldt in northern california after a group of students used chairs and other furniture to barricade themselves inside one of the
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school's main buildings. at nyu, nypd officers in riot gear cleared out a pro-palestinian encampment last night after students defied the university's order to leave. >> we want to see an acknowledgment from our university that there is a genocide happening. >> leave the plaza now or you will be arrested for trespassing. >> reporter: 120 people were arrested. >> free palestine! free palestine! >> if you are going to host a protest, you should host it in a spot that is not so busy and dependent upon students' classes. >> reporter: today, new york city mayor eric adams said students who protest peacefully are not the problem. >> we can't have outside agitators come in and be destructive to our city. there was, someone wanted something to happen at that protest at nyu, that police officers didn't respond to. >> reporter: from coast-to-coast, campus-to-campus, protests are growing louder in solidarity. students are also joining in at uc berkeley.
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>> quite frankly, i think it's important that people start to align themselves with the palestinian resistance. >> reporter: here at columbia university, the seventh day of protests, demonstrators want the school to divest from all business that supports israel. >> i think that it's time to divest from those weapons manufacturing and redivest them into other important things. >> reporter: they are also demanding amnesty for all students who have been punished. is the goal to stay here until those demands are met? >> yes. >> reporter: and as you can see behind me, demonstrators both on and off campus are still demanding to be heard. meanwhile, there are growing calls for the university's president to resign. maurice? >> maurice: and no real end in sight tonight. nancy chen at columbia university in new york, thank you. it is being called a monumental settlement for the survivors of sexual abuse by the disgraced former u.s. gymnastics dr. larry nassar. the justice department announcing today that it will pay more than $138 million for the fbi's mishandling of the
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investigation. olympic stars simone biles, mckayla maroney, and aly raisman, among the more than 100 people who sued the fbi for failing to respond to their complaints with urgency. the combined payouts to nassar's victims now top $1 billion. at a campaign event today in florida, president biden blamed his opponent, former president trump, for a growing wave of restrictive abortion laws across the country. cbs's nancy cordes has more on what is shaping up to be a key issue in the polls in november. >> this isn't about states' rights, it's women's rights. >> reporter: president biden traveled to tampa today, just eight days before florida's abortion crackdown is set to go into effect. the nation's third-most-populous state will ban abortions at six weeks, a point at which many women still don't realize they are pregnant. >> there's one person responsible for this nightmare, and he has acknowledged and he brags about it: donald trump. >> reporter: when it comes to abortion, there is one thing biden and trump agree on: that
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it was trump's appointment of three deeply conservative supreme court justices that changed the balance of the court and brought about an end to roe v. wade. >> we broke roe v. wade, and we did something that nobody thought was possible. >> reporter: since then, about half of all u.s. states have rolled back reproductive rights, and yet polling by cbs news shows only a third of americans say trump deserves the blame. >> he described the dobbs decision as a miracle. maybe it's coming from that bible he's trying to sell. >> reporter: today, biden highlighted the recent spike in pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms. kaitlyn joshua was turned away by two hospitals in baton rouge, louisiana, when she was having a miscarriage. >> i was told that i would be sent home with prayers but would not get a diagnosis of miscarriage on paper or verbally. >> reporter: five months after florida's abortion ban goes into effect, voters in that state will have a chance to reverse
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it. there is a referendum on november's ballot in florida that the biden team hopes will drive democratic voters to the polls there. though florida hasn't gone for a democratic presidential candidate since 2012. maurice? >> maurice: okay, nancy cordes at the white house tonight, thank you. now a story that should serve as a warning for gun owners traveling to the caribbean islands of turks and caicos. an american tourist is behind bars tonight, facing up to 12 years in prison, after officials found ammunition in his luggage. cbs's kris van cleave reports on a state department travel alert. >> reporter: a tearful reunion at the oklahoma city airport this morning was not the way valerie watson thought her turks and caicos vacation would end. >> just getting to hold them again, it just fills my mama heart. >> reporter: she is home, but her husband and father of two ryan is in jail on the islands facing a mandatory minimum sentence of 12 years behind bars, over four rounds of hunting ammo airport security found in his carry-on bag as the
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couple was set to leave turks and caicos earlier this month. >> we were trying to pack board shorts and flip-flops. you know, packing ammunition was not at all our intent. >> reporter: we spoke with the watsons sunday, before they learned valerie would not be charged and be allowed to return home. >> this went from what was supposed to be a dream vacation to a nightmare. >> reporter: bryan hagerich from pennsylvania is awaiting trial after ammo was found in his checked bag in february. >> subsequent spent eight nights in their local jail. some of the darkest, hardest times of my life, quite frankly. >> reporter: possessing a gun or ammunition is prohibited in turks and caicos. however, tourists were often able to pay fine, until the february court order mandating even tourists in the process of leaving the country be subject to prison time. last september, the u.s. embassy posted this travel alert online, warning people to check your luggage for stray ammunition. >> i can't even begin to think that this very innocent or credible mistake would prevent
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me from being able to, you know, watch my son graduate or teach him to shave or take my daughter to, um, you know, dances. >> reporter: a mistake that could land american tourists visiting an island paradise in a prison hell. kris van cleave, cbs news. >> maurice: now to breaking news tonight, cbs news is confirming that the fda has found evidence of the bird flu virus in grocery store milk, but expressed confidence that there is no threat to human health. the government agency said tests are being conducted to determine how well pasteurization works to reduce the risk of infectious bird flu in the milk supply. tonight, we continue our cbs news investigation into the growing wave of online romance scams. cbs's jim axelrod reports on a sinister new twist, when the victims themselves become accomplices.
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>> my mom was actually very specific about wanting to do online dating, and it felt safer. >> reporter: online dating felt safer? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: if it wasn't painful enough that kelly gowe's mother, laura kowal, was scammed out of $1.5 million, then found dead in the mississippi river, when kelly started investigating what happened, she discovered her mom's role... in something criminal. >> she got so deep into this scam, and when she tried getting out of it, she became what is known in a scam as a money mule, got her hooked into it. >> reporter: laura wasn't alone. >> my name is glenda. >> reporter: it is the latest scammer tactic, now so widespread that federal agents are broadcast warnings. >> police officers told me that my love was a scam. >> reporter: this feels like it moves to a whole 'nother level of sinister. >> they use victims 'til the end. >> reporter: retired postal inspector natalie reda investigated cases where victims
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fell so hard for their scammers, they'd do anything they were told, like depositing other victims' money into their accounts to launder it and stay one step ahead of the authorities. at first, the victims might not have realized they were committing a crime. >> they check their reasoning at the door. >> reporter: kelly says her mom opened bank accounts, created fake corporations, and even set up phony dating profiles for the scammers. could your mom have been compromised and actually been working for these guys? >> i believe so. >> reporter: at the time of her death, police said kelly's mom, laura, was actually under investigation for money laundering. federal agents had traced some of the money laura unwittingly sent to scammers to chicago and arrested this woman, jennifer gosha, along with two nigerian nationals, for alleged involvement in romance fraud. while prosecutors say gosha was
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an active participant, she has pleaded not guilty and told us she too was a money mule, duped by one of the nigerians, and says she never made a nickel. >> it wasn't like a ding, ding, ding, something's wrong. >> reporter: gosha says she dated one of the nigerians in real life, but he operated behind her back. >> i served in the iraqi war. i raised my children. i am not someone who decides, after all i've accomplished in my life, now i'm going to become a criminal mastermind. if i'm going to come up with the scheme, it's not going to be this dumbass scheme. >> reporter: if convicted, gosha could face up to 30 years in prison. do you ever think to yourself, i played a part in someone's life being ruined? >> i have thought that. many, many times. and... i didn't play a part in it knowingly. >> reporter: you're saying you're a victim of the scammers,
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as well. >> i'm absolutely a victim. but i -- >> reporter: and you are a victim who may end up doing time. >> and only because they feel like i should have known. >> reporter: as for kelly gowe, her thought is simple. someone has to pay. >> i have so much anger. towards them. they took everything away from her. and i and my family will never get that time back. >> maurice: wow. eye-opening, disturbing. jim, where does your investigation go now? >> reporter: well, maurice, law enforcement tells us that is tied directly to the increased popularity of online dating apps. they are, after all, a target-rich environment for scammers. so, tomorrow, we will dive much more deeply into that on "cbs mornings." >> maurice: that's must-see.
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if you're over 50, talk to your doctor or pharmacist about shingles prevention. >> maurice: tonight, the >> maurice: tonight, the popular security screening service clear is facing some possible turbulence in california. the company could be banned from the state's airports after lawmakers say it's created a system of haves and have-nots when it comes to skipping the long lines. here is cbs's carter evans. >> reporter: in long airport security lines, one thing is perfectly clear. those who pay extra get rewarded. >> and what the current system does is it allows a clear customer to cut the line. >> reporter: california state senator josh newman introduced a first-in-the-nation law that would stop customers who pay the $189 annual fee from leapfrogging the security line at the state's airports. >> all clear really does is it
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moves me in front of you, and we get to the same place in front of the conveyor belt. only, by then, you are mad, the tsa agent is all stressed out, and i paid $189 because i think i'm better than you. >> reporter: how is this different than any other service that we pay to jump the line? >> people pay to jump the line at theme parks. they pay to jump the line going into music concerts, sports stadiums. >> reporter: the company says it has nearly 1 million california customers and pays airports there $13 million. several airlines have taken a stake in clear and say the lost revenue could mean higher fares. but clear, which uses fingerprinting and eye-scanning in its screenings, has had issues in recent years with security lapses. that's the main reason the union representing flight attendants supports the bill, and lawmakers don't want to ban clear entirely -- just separate the lines. >> if you pay for clear, go do your line somewhere else. >> that's financially and
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logistically impractical. tsa doesn't have the funding it needs now to adequately staff all of the security lines that exist. >> reporter: and clear is also facing another business challenge. the tsa and airlines are alread% investing in similar technology at checkpoints around the country, including right here at lax. the goal is to move everyone through security faster, whether you've got clear or not. maurice? >> maurice: okay, carter, we'll keep an eye on that one. carter evans in los angeles tonight, thank you. "heart of america" is next, with a nasa accomplishment that is truly out of this world. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: this portion of the "cbs evening news" is sponsored by aleve. 12 hours of uninterrupted pain relief. ...and for fast topical
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♪ ♪ >> maurice: finally here, tonight's "heart of america." and we meet the nasa scientists who repaired a spacecraft from 15 billion miles away. the voyager 1 is known for being the first spacecraft to go beyond our solar system, so when it stopped sending data back to earth last november, the team faced a daunting task. they traced the problem to a single malfunctioning computer chip and announced yesterday that they finally made contact again.
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suzanne dodd, the voyager project manager, said this was all about teamwork. >> it's just incredible to be a part of this mission that continues to this day and that has inspired so many generations of people to go into space exploration or science. >> maurice: suzanne dodd and the voyager 1 team at nasa, tonight's "heart of america." all about teamwork. and that is tonight's . good evening, a bittersweet victory of a mother of a home depot security guard who was shot and killed during a shoplifting in pleasanton last year. >> there is that moment that happens when you got it. you got it. and you can breathe. >> there has been a plea deal but the road to get here is not easy. her mission to help other
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crime victim families in alameda county. more push back on safety upgrades in the san francisco neighborhood where a young family was killed by a speeding driver. business owners are asking the city to slow down. >> we feel that this proposal was basically introduced to us after it was decided that it was going to happen. >> and good-bye to the burger pit. we will take you to the institution serving up their final bites today after more than seven decades. then, see vern take on a member of the u.s. olympic table tennis team. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich >> good evening. a sense of closure tonight for a mother on a mission for justice. her son, 26-year-old blake mose was shot and killed last year while trying to stop a shoplifting at a home depot. just yesterday we learned of a plea deal in
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