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>> glor: tonight a passenger plane goes down in western 0frica. jet than 150 people are dead after the jet crashes into a residential neighborhood in rggeria's largest city. tony guida has the latest. bail was revoked. now george zimmerman is back in iail. randal pinkston on what is next for the man who shot trayvon martin. it's the final weekend of campaigning before tuesday's recall election in wisconsin. we'll hear from dean reynolds and john dickerson. and floating holiday, mark phillips shows us the thousand ship flotilla that honored queen elizabeth today on her diamond jubilee. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor.
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we begin tonight with a still developing air disaster overseas. adana air passenger plane crashed in nigeria today, and this evening officials confirm more than 150 people are dead. with more details here's tony guida. >> reporter: the twin engine jet appeared to belly flop into an apartment building into a densely populated suburb of lagos close to the airport. several charred bodies could be seen in the rubble of the building, as firefighters pulled a dead body from the wreckage. thousands of residence swarmed the smoking ruins taking cell phone pictures. the crowd was so large that ambulances, sirens wailing, could to the get through. this woman was nearby with her children as the plane approached.
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>> reporter: dozens of residents pitched in to drag a fire hose to the rubble. officials said it was likely casualties were on the ground but had no idea how many. lagos international airport is a major hub for west africa, handling more than two million passengers a year. in the wake of the crash, nigeria's president has declared three days of national mourning. tony guida, cbs news, new york. >> glor: george zimmerman, the man accused of murdering trayvon martin back on february 26th is back behind bars in florida tonight. from sanford just outside orlando, here's randall pinkston. >> reporter: shortly before 2 p.m. george zimmerman walked back into police custody ordered by a judge to turn himself in. zimmerman accused in the shooting death of 17-year-old trayvon martin earlier this year had been if hiding with his family since april after posting
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bail for 150,000 dollars. zimmerman attorney mark o'mara. >> he's worried about himself. he's worried about his wife. he's worried about his family. he's worried about everybody who has to be in hiding because of the enormous anger and frustration and hatred that has spurred from this case. >> reporter: the judge ordered the neighborhood watch volunteer to surrender on friday believing he and his wife shelly lied about their finances to get a lower bail. >> he can't sit back and obtain the benefit of a lower bond for circumstances based on material falsehoods. >> reporter: at his bond hearing in april shelly zimmerman told the judge they had limited finances, despite having raised thousands on-line for a legal defense fund. o'mara says the judge may not even agree to a new bail hearing. >> it a credibility question with mr. zimmerman and now that credibility has been attacked or tarnished. and now he's going to have to
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rehabilitate it, and that's up to him. >> reporter: it's uncertain when zimmerman will be back in court. his lawyer says he plans to file for a new bond hearing tomorrow. jeff? >> glor: randall, thank you. election officials in wisconsin are predicting a near record turnout for tuesday's recall election which could remove republican governor scott walker from office mid term. the race pits walker against democratic milwaukee mayor tom barrett. the man walker beat less than two years ago. dean reynolds has more on that. >> reporter: democrats snicker that governor scott walker is a poster boy for the tea party. ♪ exercise your vote but it's a charge the republican does little to discourage. after all, he needs all the help can get to keep his job. howard kaloogian is a tea party leader. >> the reforms that we need in this country occurred here in wisconsin. >> reporter: those reforms included diminishing the power, pay and benefits of public sector unions and closing the
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budget gap. wisconsin voter gerald harris says those changes saved him money. >> the first time in a lodge time that the actual taxes went down. not for everybody, but they did go down. >> reporter: walker notes the state has gained 30,000 jobs since he took office 18 months ago and unemployment is down to 6.7%. a point and a half below the national average. >> we want our children to have a better future than the one we inherited. that is what this election is all about. >> reporter: his opponents argue the election is about stopping a governor who is gutting education funding. who seems bent on doing the same to medicate. whose tax cuts favor the well off and who is beholden to out of state donors to keep him in office. >> please vote. we need every ones voice to be heard. >> reporter: nursing assistant
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ceara shands wants walker to exit early. >> in two years it could be worse if he's cutting school funding, my son starts school next year. the class sizes are already too big. and if you start cutting from schools even more, it could be horrible. >> reporter: jim garrity is a truck driving union leader who gathered signatures to force the recall election. >> it was about pitting public workers against taxpayers, private unions. it was divide and conquer. >> reporter: walker's democratic opponent milwaukee mayor tom barrett says the divide is between rich and poor. >> we have a governor who has done a wonderful job making the wealthiest people the happiest people. >> reporter: both sides are extremely energized. 2.1 million people voted in the governor's race which walker won in 2010. but it's expected that 2.8 million will participate in the recall election on tuesday. it's possible that the outcome will settle this long-running dispute, but don't bet on it. dean reynolds, cbs news, mill walky. >> glor: for more on this recall election we're joined in washington by our cbs news political reporter john
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dickerson. the latest poll seems to indicate that scott walker does survive. if that happen was does that mean moving forward? >> well, it would be a sign to any republican contemplating similar action to limit unions that you could survive. and walker will become the poster-child and hero of that effort. in part you would survive because you got outside help. walker outspent his opponent three-to-one. anyone raising money for conservative causes could point to walker's survivor and say we can defeat the haunted machine of organized labor if we just have the money. unions if they lost it would be a big blow and there would be a lot of in-fighting in democratic circles with unions saying the national democratic parties and their president didn't do enough. on the other hand though it might galvanize union supporters for the presidential election on the theory that they are under threat and they need a president who son their side. >> glor: john, wisconsin is a
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battleground state why is the president not been campaigning there? >> well, it's a battleground state in which the president is a head at the moment of mitt romney in the polls, and his approval rating is above 51% which is above where he is nationally. that means he's healthier politically in wisconsin. but it doesn't mean he has enough power to sway the recall election. so if he did insert himself the recall might have become a referendum on him. dealing him a blow in a contest over which he really doesn't have much control. >> couric: john dickerson from washington, thank you. >> thanks jeff. >> glor: one day after the verdict in the trial of egyptian president hosni mubarak thousands of protestors turned out in cairo's tahrir square, the demonstrators contending
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think the dictator should also be convicted on corruption. he was convicted in being an accessory to the killing of hundreds of protestors. syrian president bashar al-assad defended his government's crackdown on political opponents which activists say killed as many as 13,000 people across the country in his first public speech since january, assad denounced the bombing last month's massacre ever a 100 people in the city of houla. he again blamed the attack on outsiders. wall street suffered its worst losses of the year on friday following the dismal may jobs report with unemployment rising to 8.2%. it is even worse in europe right now with the jobless rate is 11 percent. for perspective we're joined by mark zandi. chief economist for moody's analytics. we're talking about a global slowdown that is especially bad in europe. how bad is it in the u.s.? >> well, it's tough. the u.s. economy's growth rate has slowed sharply you can see in the recent jobs data. but we're still growing and i think we will continue to grow as long as the eurozone hangs together. >> glor: speaking about that eurozone, the unemployment rate
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in spain 24%. the possibility of greece leaving the euro. what is the worst-case scenario? >> well, the worst case is greece does leave the eurozone. that spain has trouble with its banking system and that the entire eurozone unravels. if that were the case, then i think it would be very, very difficult for the global economy including our own to avoid going back into recession. >> glor: on the flip side, mark, what is the best-case scenario? >> the best case, i think the most likely is that european policymakers will get it together. that the greeks and the rest of europe will find a common ground. the greeks will stay in the eurozone. the spanish banks will get a bailout and the eurozone will hang together. if that happens, then i think our economy will be just fine. >> glor: mark zandi, thank you. >> thank you. >> glor: one result of what is happening in europe, it helped send oil prices down sharply. oil prices declined nearly $20 in three weeks. pushing the price of gas down 19 cents a gallon in the past month. later a diamond jubilee cruise for the queen.
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saying good-bye to family feud host richard dawson. and the mistaken credit report that cost this iraq war veteran a job. those stories when the "cbs evening news" continues. my first thoughts were about my wife, and my family. i have the most common type of atrial fibrillation, or afib. it's not caused by a heart valve problem. i was taking warfarin, but my doctor put me on pradaxa instead to reduce my risk of stroke. in a clinical trial, pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate mesylate) reduced stroke risk 35% better than warfarin. and unlike warfarin, with pradaxa, there's no need for regular blood tests. that's really important to me. pradaxa can cause serious, sometimes fatal, bleeding. don't take pradaxa if you have abnormal bleeding and seek immediate medical care for unexpected signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. pradaxa may increase your bleeding risk if you're 75 or older, have a bleeding condition like stomach ulcers, or take aspirin, nsaids, or blood thinners,
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erroneous charge of $8,000 that turned up on a credit check. he is one of at least 22 million americans with an error on their report, according to data from the credit industry and fixing the problem. >> it's been described as tough. >> reporter: amy talk is a senior analyst at a public policy think tank. >> it can take months of calling and writing letters to the credit reporting agencies, to these companies that are persisting in billing you for something that you never owed in the first place. >> one survey shows 60% of employers used the reports to evaluate some job applicants. the idea being a person's financial health reveals their character. stuart pratt represents the credit industry. >> a person who is living beyond their means, think about f.b.i. agents, for example, who sold secrets. a person who has financial stress can sometimes be more prone to external risks. >> reporter: but analysts disagree. as one industry executive admitted before the oregon state legislature. >> at this point we don't have any research to show any statistical correlation between what's in somebody's credit
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report and their job performance. or their likelihood to commit fraud. >> reporter: and in a bad economy a credit report can be a poor gauge. >> if you don't have a job you fall behind on your bills, perhaps. well then you can't get a job because you are behind on your bills. >> it's not the on/off switch as to whether i get the job. quite often is just an evaluation part of the process. >> reporter: but it has meant all the difference to emmett pinkston. he got the report changed but not but too late to get the job. >> reporter: how badly dow want this job. >> i want this job every day. i'm looking for job security. i'm looking for a place to retire from i'm looking for an opportunity to serve my country. >> reporter: and he's still hopeful. more than two years after he first applied to the t.s.a., he's back on the wait list terrell brown, cbs news, new york. >> glor: just seven states currently have laws on the books regulating employer use of credit reports. still ahead here, remembering family freud host richard dawson.
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only san sneed has more p.g.a tour victories. we got word today that actor and game show host richard dawson has died after a long battle with cancer. as lee cowan reports tonight, the fan who hosted family feud had a charm that never wavered. on camera or off. >> the star of "family feud" richard dawson! there are those who joke about a life as a tv game show host but not richard dawson. he loved it. >> survey says? >> reporter: for most of the late '70s and early '80s he watched families feud for fun. a role that earned him an emmy. but that was actually his second act. the first had him in a war of a different sort.
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as the cocky corporal, peter newkirk in hoggan's heroes. >> he's not a bad sort for a done. ( laughter ) >> reporter: born in england many thought his accent would stand in the way of success. it did just the opposite. and his off-the-cuff sense of humor made him a regular panelist on another game show, "match game." >> i swear on my life, eight was my answer. now please... ( buzzer ) ( laughter ) >> reporter: it was his real life role but it became a motion picture role as well. when dawson appeared opposite arnold schwarzenegger as a sadistic game show host, in "the running man." >> i'll be back. >> only in a rerun. >> reporter: as a host, he seemed to love the contestants more than the game. his signature kisses for good luck, left their mark on tens of thousands of cheeks. something the abc network wasn't too sure of at first. but dawson said in an interview two years ago, that was just him. >> if we only were a little
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nicer to each other, i just think it would make the world a better place. >> reporter: on that count, richard dawson was always a winner. lee cowan, cbs news, new york. >> glor: still ahead, the queen who launched a thousand ships. that story is next. just sta and on a budget. like a ramen noodle- every-night budget. she thought allstate car insurance was out of her reach. until she heard about the value plan. see how much you could save with allstate. are you in good hands? see how much you could save with allstate. put me at 5 timesd out my greater risk of a stroke, my first thoughts were about my wife, and my family.
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>> glor: not all of today's celebration for queen elizabeth's 60 year reign were on the other side of the atlantic. a small fleet of british yachts sailed into new york harbor this morning flying the union jack in what was billed as a parade of sail. the big bash though was in london on the river thames, backdrop for day two of the queen's four day diamond jubilee. mark phillips is at tower bridge this evening, mark? >> reporter: in a country famed for grand royal events celebrating the 60th anniversary of queen's reign, was always
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going to pose a problem, how to make it memorable. it turned out this was the celebration of endurance in several ways. is it was as british a celebration as you could possibly have, about royalty, nostalgia, tradition and terrible weather. the big event of the queen's diamond jubilee weekend was a river pageant. organizers said about a thousand boats would assemble and think filled the river through london. nothing harks back to the days of jubilee when britannia ruled the waves like a river full of boats. and with the queen on a royal barge at the head of them. this being the 21st century, the royal barge is a converted river cruiser made fit for a queen but it's the thought that counts. and the thought was how to sell now more popular than everything. >> she's such an awesome and the thought was how to celebrate 60 years on the thrown for a monarch who is only the second one to reach that milestone and who the opinion polls say is now more popular than everything.
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>> she's such an awesome person. so a really good experience. amazing. >> reporter: the idea derived from an old painting of a previous royalty pageant three centuries ago. the weather was different today, but not only did the boats come, rowing boats, historic boats, musical boats, a crowd estimated at more than a million lined the riverbanks and bridges to see a once in several lifetimes event. >> we don't mind. we've got capes, water-proof trousers, food. and we've got good company. >> the question the organizers face was what do you give perhaps the richest woman in the world that's different and that she and her people will remember. the answer is this pageant, they'll remember it for a long time even if they try to forget the weather. the point of these occasions is not just to celebrate now but to provide images for future nostalgia. and there were plenty of those today. this is a british queen who leads by example. she may be 86 years old but she stood for hours with her family as the flotilla went slowly by.
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and the weather got even worse. >> this was the day to celebrate a woman who like the country has endured and both have proved again that no matter what they can still throw quite a party. this pageant has already hit the record books for the largest number of boats in a parade ever and this for a queen who is already the oldest living monarch in british history and who seems set to continue to make records for some time to come. >> glor: mark phillips, thank you. that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm jeff glor. cbs news in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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