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>> glor: tonight, victory for the muslim brotherhood in egypt. crowds in cairo's tahrir square cheers the first free presidential election. charlie d'agata is there. tropical storm debby threatens enormous amounts of rain on the gulf coast. we'll look at the storm's path. as the supreme court gets set to rule on healthcare reform, massachusetts tackles the cost of its program. we'll break down the numbers. and freedom team: war veterans who suffered devastating injuries not just recovering, they are racing. >> don't feel sorry for us because we are doing fine and great, and we are going to prosper. captioning sponsored by cbs
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this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: and good evening, everyone. i'm jeff glor. it is an election result heard around the world: mohammed morsi, the candidate of the muslim brotherhood, today was declared the winner of egypt's presidential election. the white house quickly congratulated the president- elect and pledged to work with him "on the basis of mutual respect." charlie d'agata is in cairo tonight. >> reporter: it took a moment for word of the victory to sink in. then, the crowd roared. they weren't all supporters of the muslim brotherhood or its candidate, mohammed morsi. they came to tahrir square to protest against military rule. and they were hoping to celebrate a turning point in egypt's history. the country's first truly democratically elected president. having been there right from the beginning, what does this day mean to you? >> i tried to... i tried... i
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thank god, i can't express anything. and this is just a step. we still have a long road ahead. >> reporter: it was a close election. officials said mohammed morsi beat his rival, former military general ahmed shafik, with only 51% of the vote. the crowd in tahrir square see this victory as justice for fellow egyptians who lost their lives fighting for freedom in this very square. 16 months ago, the square became a frontline in the revolution to overthrow president hosni mubarek and the scene of deadly clashes between pro-democracy demonstrators and forces loyal to the regime. more than 900 people were killed. in his victory speech, mohammed morsi said their deaths would not be in vain. the u.s.-trained engineer said that he would be a president for all egyptians.
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across town, supporters of ahmed shafik appeared to be in a state of shock to hear the news that their candidate's defeat. they accused egypt's generals of lacking the courage to stand up to the muslim brotherhood. for morsi's supporters, the celebration picked up when the sun went down. there is no doubt these celebrations will go on all night, but tomorrow tahrir square goes back to being a protest camp when the muslim brotherhood resumes its campaign to get egypt's parliament back in session and try to restore some presidential powers. jeff? >> glor: charlie d'agata, thank you. we are joined now by robert baer, a former c.i.a. case officer with 21 years experience in the middle east. bob, the power struggle that is now taking place between the muslim brotherhood and the generals, how do you see that playing out? >> jeff, i think we are just seeing the beginning of this. yes, the muslim brotherhood has taken the presidency. the military so far has
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deferred, but the power struggle is by no means over. as the president starts to exert power, i think there is going to be a military pushback. the chances of this turning to violence very quickly are very high. we can see the military put tanks in the street and could even see them simply just overthrow the government. i think the possibilities of that are very good. >> glor: so, bob, as you know, the u.s. spent billions funding egypt's military. what does that mean for the u.s. moving forward? >> jeff, that is exactly the problem is, for all of these years since camp david, we have been supporting the military, we have been funding it, and it looks like the military is acting on behalf of the united states. this sort of perception on the street cannot play well for the united states, especially if it turns violent. >> glor: bob baer, thank you. tropical storm debby is a force to be reckoned with. tonight, parts of two states are
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under a tropical storm warning as debbie swirls slowly off the gulf coast. the storm is expected to get stronger and is already making a mess in florida. we are joined now by a meteorologist jeff berardelli at our miami station wfor. you know, debbie is a very unusual storm. what do we know about where it is definitely going in the next day or so? >> what seems certain over the next couple of days is this system is going to stall out or move very, very slowly towards the north. and what that means is, what you see is what you get. central and northern florida have three major concerns: fast- moving rain wrapped tornadoes, also the possibility of a few feet of coastal flooding along florida's gulf coast. and the biggest threat: heavy flooding, rain over the next couple of days. it's likely we will see one to two feet of flooding rainfall. >> glor: after tuesday, highly uncertain. what are you expecting? >> well, some of our computer models are still going west. the majority of them now showing
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a track slowly towards the northeast. the official forecast track is basically somewhere in the middle of that, pushing the storm maybe 100 or 200 miles north into the florida panhandle. after that, it remains very uncertain. >> glor: jeff berardelli, thank you. water is also a problem in the west-- there is not enough of it. extremely dry conditions, heat and wind are fueling wildfires in seven states. firefighters in colorado are battling eight blazes, including a new, uncontrolled fire near colorado springs. andrea lopez of our cbs station kcnc is there. >> reporter: bone dry winds and high temperatures soaring into the 90s are driving the waldo canyon fire. it has blackened over 2,000 acres since it erupted around noon on saturday and tonight remains uncontained. colorado governor john hickenlooper was on the scene this morning. >> make sure it is safe and people are evacuated and we protect our firefighters.
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>> >> reporter: over 1,050 homes have been evacuated in colorado springs as worried residents moved their possessions to safety. >> it is really scary. in the moment you really evaluate what is the most important thing. and i looked at my kids and as long as i have you guys, i have them, our cat and some pictures, the rest we can do without. >> reporter: multiple agencies are battling this fire, with more help on the way. the governor says that almost half the nation's airborne firefighting equipment is now in colorado. elsewhere, firefighters have made progress; the hyde park fire burning west of west collins is 45% contained. that blaze, now second largest in colorado's history, has burned more than 82,000 acres over the course of 16 days. for cbs news, i'm andrea lopez reporting in colorado springs, colorado. onian tollhouse the house and senate have until sunday to fund
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transportation projects for another year and for new student loan rates. how t to pay for those two rates and keeping the two sides apart. congressional correspondent nancy cordes. >> like one-third of all college students, sam nelson, a junior at george washington university uses federal stafford loans to help pay his tuition. >> my greatest concern is it will expire, because congress is just sitting around and then, you know, keep going up and keep going up. >> if congress isn't back by july 1st the current low rate of 3.4 percent will double to 6.8 percent for 7 million new borrowers costing them an average of $1,000 extra over the life of the loan. >> it didn't come out of nowhere, it has been looming for months but we have been stuck watching congress play chicken with another deadline. >> democrats and republicans have been feuding how to find $6 billion needed to keep the rates low for one more year.
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>> the implication is that republicans are the ones dragging their feet. as for the president, well this is just another sad example of the election year strategy of deflection and distraction. >> a republican proposal to take the money from a preventative healthcare fund got shot down by democrats, but a democrat proposal to get the funds by close ago corporate tax loophole also went nowhere. still, congressional scholars sarah bender predicts the two sides will work with this out. >> both parties agree that they don't want to see the increase in rates, loan rates, particularly right before an election season, where students are going to be votes up for grabs for both parties. >> the election year pressure may be taking hold, negotiators have been working through the weekend and tonight at least are projecting more confidence that they can reach a deal. >> nancy cordes, cbs news, capitol hill. >> glor: >> glor: one of the jurors at jerry sandusky's sex abuse trial says the former penn state assistant coach showed little emotion after being found guilty
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on 45 counts on friday. ann van kuren, a penn state dance instructor, says that only confirmed the jury's verdict. >> we watched him to see how he would react, and there was very little reaction. and i think that we felt that that he knew what he had done. >> glor: you can see the full interview with ann van kuren on cbs "this morning." later here wounded war veterans in the race of their lives. how to invoke stand your ground. and the cost of the health insurance mandate in massachusetts. those stories when cbs evening news continues. presenting androgel 1.62%.
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mandate while a majority support many specific provisions of the law. another poll in massachusetts, which has had a mandate for six years, finds two-thirds say they support the state's healthcare law. however, funding that plan remains a challenge. >> massachusetts once again is taking a giant leap forward. ( applause ) >> glor: mitt romney's mandate in massachusetts-- that everyone acquire health insurance-- was signed only nine months before he left office, so its fallen to his successor, democrat deval patrick, to implement the law. >> i was skeptical of it when i first heard about it. but the basic insurance idea that you get everybody in and you spread the risk widely so you keep the costs down for everybody-- very, very smart. >> glor: yet since the reform, overall healthcare has risen from 36% to 43% of the state budget, and massachusetts spends more per person on healthcare than any other state.
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the notion that this is a budget- buster, you think, is a mistaken one. >> what it a budget buster is increasing healthcare costs, and that it is not about access; that is about a phenomenon in our economy. >> glor: insurance premiums in massachusetts have increased from an average of $331 a month in 2006 to $401 in 2010. employers foot the bill for more than three-quarters of massachusetts residents, but most of the new coverage has come through publicly-funded programs. the state subsidizes some residents to buy insurance from one of eight providers. mary flynn needed the help. after leaving her corporate job to start her own public relations business, she lost her health insurance. >> i was totally scared. i didn't know what i was going to do. >> glor: flynn, who has chronic asthma, found that her lower income made her eligible for a plan that now costs her nothing. >> the mandate wasn't even a consideration for me. what was a consideration for me is, i was 61 years old and
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needed health insurance. >> and we are getting back to patients faster. >> glor: with more people insured, this doctor has seen a surge of new patients and paid bills. she helps oversee primary care for the cambridge health alliance. >> the days to scrounge around to find medicines for someone who can't afford them or find a fancy way to get somebody to a specialist by begging and pleading, those days are gone. >> glor: she believes health costs will come down as the newly insured seek preventative care. already, more people are getting cancer screenings; women, prenatal care. >> yoo have people who before they would get their diabetic care in the emergency room, instead are coming in to primary care, not ending up hospitalized every three or every four months. >> when we did healthcare reform, they put the question of cost control off to another day, and we are tackling that right now. >> glor: to fight rising costs, deval patrick has empowered the state's insurance commissioner to reject excessive insurance
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>> glor: george zimmerman charged in the shooting death of trayvon martin will be back in court for a new bond hearing this friday. he already has pleaded not guilty to killing martin, claiming florida's controversial stand your ground law supports his action. he is not alone. >> i said stop right now or i will shoot you. >> it was may of 2010, when raul rodriguez found himself in a heated confrontation with his neighbor over a loud party. >> it is about to get out of hand please help me now. i am standing my ground here. >> armed with a gun, rodriguez shot this video while he was on the phone with a police dispatcher and as you heard, he was using the now well-known stand your ground defense. >> they are drunk. >> rodriguez shot three unarmed people, killing elementary teacher kelly danaher. he claimed that the texas stand your ground law justified his actions because he felt that his
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life was threatened. >> but the jury did not buy his self defense claim. >> 27 states have a version of stand your ground laws. the laws say a person has no obligation to retreat from a confrontation, and they only have to feel their life is in dang tore respond with deadly force. >> florida first such law in 2005, representative dennis baxley was the sponsor. >> we wanted to make sure that the presumption was with the law-abiding citizen, that if they were under attack or in a situation that they could defend themselves without fear of prosecution -- >> since 2005 there have been 192 claims of self defense under florida's stand your ground law. >> in two-thirds of those case it is person who was killed or wounded was unarmed. 157 cases have gone through the courts, only 27 people were found guilty of a crime. last march, brandon baker was shot dead bizet brown ago
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23-year-old security guard. their argument in palm harbor florida started over a traffic incident. browning says after baker threw a punch he shot him in self defense. >> bonnie lindsey is furious her son's killer wasn't arrested. >> nothing can bring him back. but i want to see justice. i want to see the inside of a courtroom. >> after the shooting of trayvon martin, florida's governor appoint add task force to study whether to change the statute, if the state does, it would be a first, no state has repealed or significantly modified an existing stand your ground law. >> mark strassmann, cbs news, orlando. >> glor: ahead, war veterans who have sacrificed so much, still giving everything they have. their story is next.
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hand-cycling is a matter of pride and determination for the double amputee shawn hayes. this marine bomb disposal technician served two tours in iraq before being deployed to afghanistan in 2010. >> i had been a few months into that deployment and just made a wrong step. >> glor: an explosion cost hayes, a husband and father of three daughters, both of his legs. he endured 60 surgeries, yet, only ten months later, hayes finished the 26-mile marine corps marathon in washington, then, this april, the boston marathon. >> this is something i have to do. i am not going to be running again. i... i won't do that again. i know that. >> glor: hayes sometimes rides with marine infantryman tyler southern. >> i did an iraq deployment from '08 to '09 and went to afghanistan and hit a minor speed bump. >> glor: southern lost three limbs to an enemy bomb. his wife ashley helps him train. >> my goal was to get out of the
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hospital. once i got out of the hospital, walk. i am walking. run. i started running. and like, i wanted a new goal. >> glor: the new goal was completing the disney half marathon in florida, which he did on a hand cycle in january. the men who helped southern and hayes pursue their goals is dick tromb through his track club, achilles. >> what we are doing is planting a seed. >> glor: tromb, who lost a leg in a car accident, was the first amputee to complete a marathon in 1976. he began recruiting wounded veterans to the achilles freedom team in 2004. >> all of these people are athletes, you know, so you are going in and taking people who have tremendous talent and you are reintroducing them to an opportunity to use that talent. >> glor: and your job you think so to tell them, "yes you can." >> is to give them an opportunity to achieve. >> go! >> glor: in new york today, hayes and southern were among 53
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team members in the achilles five-miler in central park. >> we want to get on with our lives and move on. and it doesn't stop just because we're injured. ( cheers and applause ) >> glor: southern gave himself an extra challenge by competing on his prosthetic legs. his goal now is to inspire. >> the people who think her down on their luck and, you know, try to tell people they still have rounds in the chamber. ( applause ) none of us are sympathy seekers. we mostly just go out of our way and to let us do it. >> glor: that is the cbs evening news tonight. later on cbs 60 minutes, i am 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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