>> axelrod: tonight, a mother's plea. >> please help us do something before our tragedy becomes your tragedy. >> axelrod: the president asked the parent of a newtown shooting victim to deliver the weekly white house address. we have the latest on the gun control debate. splashdown in bali. a passenger plane crash landses in indonesia. we'll have the amazing survival story. >> arrests in the case of a california teenager who killed herself after her sexual assault was posted online. carter evans has the latest. and the youngest master. they've never seen anything like this 14-year-old in augusta, but terrell brown tells us how slow play almost derailed him from his fast track. captioning sponsored by cbs

this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod with the west coast edition of the broadcast. the campaign for tougher gun control laws moved ahead on multiple fronts today, both inside and outside the white house. with a week of crucial senate debate just ahead, those pushing for new laws made their appeals on the most personal of terms. senior white house correspondent bill plante begins our coverage. ( applause ). >> reporter: supporters of tighter gun control demonstrated across the country today, part of a strategy to keep up the pressure on congress as debate dpins in the senate. linda brundage was in lansing, michigan. >> listen, listen to the 90% of people who want common gun sense. >> reporter: the demonstrations came after a week of lobbying on capitol hill by parents of some of the children who died in newtown, connecticut, last december. francine wheeler, whose six-year-old son, ben, was killed in newtown, was invited by the white house to give the

president's weekly address. wheeler made an emotional plea. >> we have to convince the senate to come together and pass commonsense gun responsibility reforms that will make our communities safer and prevent more tragedies like the one we never thought would happen to us. >> reporter: mayors ast illegal guns, financed by billionaire new york mayor, michael bloomberg, is also targeting lawmakers with a new ad. >> grief wasggering, and now more than 100 days after the massacre at newtown. >> reporter: the bill to be debated next week would require background checks for almost all gun buyers. increased prison time for those who buy guns legally but pass them on to criminals. and new safety measures in schools. a large number of amendments will be offered, some to strengthen the bill, such as a ban on assault weapons, considered unlikely to pass, and some to weaken it, such as allowing those with concealed weapon permits to carry weapons in anytate.if the senate does na

bill-- which is by no means assured-- passage will be far more difficult in the house where shaming members into voting yes isn't likely to work as well. jim. >> axelrod: thank you, bill. if there is one area of possible agreement in the senate it's the need for improvements in the treatment of the mentally ill with a focus on identifying troubled youths before they take a deadly turn. cbs news correspondent dawn dailier has that part of the story. >> reporter: that adam lanza had serious issues before he massre26 adultes and children was obvious to many, including, apparently, his own mother. aurora movie theater shooter james holmes' psychiatrist was so concerned she report him to campus police. yet, near lanza nor holmes would have been flagged nay background check, not lanza because it was his mother who bought the weapons, and not holmes, because he had never been

institutionalized for mental illness. criminalinologist james fox of northeastern university says mass killers are impossible to spot until after the fact. >> the irony is that these mass killings are the very kind of crimes that are least preventable bilet kind of gun legislation we're seeing today. >> the odds are that one in four of us will experience a common mental disorder in our lifetime. we can't all be put on a list so we have to build mental health that's accessible deeply in our communities. >> reporter: psychiatrist gary bell kin of new york university, want families, and teaches to be empowered as early warning system. a lot of cases of mass killings they didn't take the extra step to prevent something. >> there's a movement affront to really also put forward an idea of psychological first aid as a

skill set that people can have. >> reporter: access to treatment is crucial for the mentally ill, psychiatrists say, but so is limiting their access to guns. that would prevent many of the 30,000 suicides and murders committed with firearms every year. jim. >> axelrod: don dahler, thank you. we have some extraordinary pictures to show you from indonesia. a lion air boeing 737 came up short of the runway in bali, splashed down in the water and cracked in two. rescuers used rubber boats to evacuate the 101 passengers and seven crewmembers aboard. passengers stood on the wings, an image that recalled the miracle on the hudson landing in new york. 45 were taken to nearby hospitals and treat the for head wounds and broken bones, hard to believe, perhaps, looking at these pictures, there were nope deaths. an investigation into what caused the crash is under way. lion air is one of indonesia's s biggest commercial carriers.

now to the niewfl missile threats coming from north korea. china is north korea's biggest ally, and secretary of state john kerry was in beijing today urging china to get tougher with the regime of kim jong-un. charlie d'agata has details. >> reporter: as north korea's main supporter and provider of food and oil, china is america's best hope in breaking the stalemate over the country's nuclear ambitions. >> we both call on north korea to refrain from any provocative steps, and, that obviously, refers to any future missile shoot. >> reporter: kerry has warned that would be a huge mistake. but dictator kim jong-un continues to threat tone attack targets in south korea, japan, and the united states. >> we really want to focus people t br alternative alterne,e d'tan to get into a threat-for-threat, or, you know, some kind of confrontational elect here. there's been enough of that.te

and to encourage resolution of the conflict, kerry even said the u.s. would be willing to draw down military assets in asia if china succeeds in reining in north korea. although beijing didn't offer any specifics, chinese leaders pledged to help find a peaceful solution to the standoff through dialogue. the only way to achieve that is to get north korea back to negotiations that collapsed in 2008. but north korean leaders have said repeatedly they have no intention of abandoning the nuclear weapons they now call their treasured guarantee of security. charlie da d'agata, cbs news, london. >> axelrod: in california, three teenaged boys have been charged with sexually assaulting a classmate while she was passed out then posting photos of the alleged attack on the internet. a week liter, the 15-year-old girl committed suicide. as carter evans reports, it's just one in a series of >> reporter: audrey pot was

just 15 years old when she took her own life. authorities say it was after photos of her incapacitated and raped were circulated on line. santa clara county sheriff laurie smith. >> it's unconscionable for someone to distribute images like this when you've actually taken advantage of someone. and why are you filming and distributing a crime? >> reporter: a family attorney says it was only after her death that audrey's parents learned she had seen those images. >> we, obviously, can't bring audrey back, but the family's goal is that what happened to audrey never happens again and that the boys are held accountable. >> reporter: the district attorney must decide whether to try the three teens as adults. last month in stiewbinville, ohio, two high school football players were convicted in juvenile court of attacking a girl while she was passed out drunk, and then posting images of the assault. what is does this public display do to the victim? >> it is the most traumatic

thing. >> reporter: david swanson is a clinical psychologist. he says most teens simply don't think about the consequences of posting those photos online. >> they're thinking it's a limited number of people who are going to see it, but when word gets out, the victim feels as if the entire world can see it, and that's why you see them turn to suicide. >> reporter: 17-year-old canadian student died last week. her mother, leia, says she committed suicide after photos of her being raped went viral. >> she wanted to be heard and she wanted someone to believe her. y and nobody did. >> reporter: another grieving family, dealing with the loss of a daughter. audrey pott's parents plan to tell their story publicly on monday. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> axelrod: later, medicare patients have their chemoaffected by the sequester. the 14-year-old golfer who is the talk of the masters. and in texas, a high-profile arrest of a formerti

oshen the cbs evening news continues.

in nearly a year, former egyptian president hosni mubarak appeared in public today. mubarak sat up in the prisoner cage inside a cairo courtroom. he faces charges related to the killing of pro-democracy demonstrators two years another but today, the judge in the case recused himself with no explanation, halting the trial. now to texas where investigators in kaufman, 30 miles south of dallas, have been looking into the murders of a district attorney and his wife as well as another top prosecutor. this morning, eric williams, a former justice of the peace, was arrested after his home was searched, but he's not being called a suspect in the murders.

senior correspondent john miller is here to help us sort this all out. john what, is going on here? >> reporter: so what is going on is they've shifted their view in this case away from the original theory that was it might have been part of the aryan brotherhood prison gang because that prosecutor's office was involved in a case there, more to individual people prosecute bide both of the district attorneys whoere murder. and that brought them to eric williams, who was aned justice of the peace who was then prosecuted, both by by mark hassee, and by mike mclelland, and looked looking into him they found out he was somebody who made threats to other people, who had a large collection of guns, and possibly had a grudge. of course, he denies all this. >> axelrod: you've spoken to him a couple of times. what's he saying to you? >> reporter: what he says is he understands why they're looking at him, that they have to do their jones, that he has nothing to do with that case and that he's been cooperative. he says his case was about the political undertoes in the county but he ustands what'

going's charged now with min threats to. the details of who those threats were made to or when that happened have not been released yet. >> axelrod: all right, we'll keep following the story. pope francis has named cardinal shawn o'malley was boston to a new nine-man group aimed at reforming the catholic church. father shawn, as he's known, is credited with steadying the church in boston airfare sexual abuse there involving pedophile priests. chemotherapy patients feel the pain of the sequester. >>

>> axelrod: it may have appeared at first that the federal spending cuts known as the sequester might not cut too deeply, but as some medicare patients who need chemotherapy araro t

there's some real pain in the process. >> how are you? >> axelrod: 72-year-old george rois is in the fight of his li, battling lung cancer. he and his wife, linda, are very happy with the care he's receiving at this clinic near their long island home. that may soon change, and linda may have to start taking time off from work to drive george to a hospital for chemotherapy. >> i am upset because to think if this is what's going to happen, you know, my concern is for george, too, and i want nothing but the best for him. >> axelrod: most medications for veernz covered by medicare part d, which is exempt from the automatic budget cuts. but cancer drugs must be given by a doctor, so chemotherapy falls under medicare part b, which is being cut by 2%. >> it'st strikes me as being insane. >> reporter: dr. jeff vacirca is the chief exclusive of north

shore hematology/oncology associates. >> we can't get to the point where we're losing money giving chemotherapy drugs. that will not do any favor to our patients because we wouldn't be able to stay in business. >> axelrod: here's why cancer clinics say thrice problem. medicare reimburses oncolses for the cost of chemotherapy drugs and as an additional 6% for the cost of storing and administering them. cancer centers say their profits come from that 6%. judith stein of the center for medicare advocacy says these clinics are profit centers and should be able to absorb these cuts. >> it's hard for me to believe that a 2% cut is so significant that they cannot treat the people they are in business and ethically bound to serve. >> axelrod: but consider how much money is involved with an expensive cancer drug like avastin, which costs between $80,000 and $100,000 a year.

do you have a dollar and cents figure what this could actually cost you? >> what we looked at initially is somewhere north of $800,000. in the red. >> axelrod: patients will still be treated, but many, like george rossis, will have to go to hospitals for chemo. in one recent survey, 72% of community oncology clinics said they'll require secondary insurance for medicare patients or have to send them elsewhere. up next, they almost lost their home to super storm sandy. now, will they lose it to foreclosure? >> every year we pick a new city to explore. >> but, thanks to hotwire, this year we got to take an extra trip, because they get us ridiculously low prices on really nice hotels and car rentals. bostohe

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>> franklin romeo is an attorney working with 100 other sandy victims at risk oforlosures. >> thousands of homeowners are facing problems. >> reporter: problems or foreclosure? >> i would say who are at risk eclore. it is not going t realistic for homeowners who have been both paying for repatriation paying for other houses expenses while they were dislocated to save up all of their missed mortgage payments during that time. >> reporter: naheed akhter mortgage representative to her reertu h calls. >> bank of america running from me. >> reporter: bank of america says it has offered a three-month forbaerns, or grace period for many sandy victims but acknowledges it did not place appropriate protections on akhter's account. bank of america deferred her paymen until june, when she'll owe $20,000. without a job, she worries she will not catch up on the missed payments, so she still fears she'll lose her home.

york. miller, cbs new wok axelrod: coming up, he's the youngest player ever to make the cut at the masters. turns out he's also stealing the show.

>> axelrod: we got a rare glimpse into the mind of know, let's athlete. kobe bryant tore his achilles tendon last night, ending his season and threatening his career. six hours later on facebook, he wrote, "the frustration is unbearable. theang ser rage. maybe father time has defeated me." but he went on, "after all the venting, aeal perspve in. there are far greater issues/challenges in the world than a torn achilles. forgive my long post, but i'm facebook venting, l.o.l.." now to golf and the masters tumor where officials have been making almost as much news as the players. twoogtiger woods was penalized o

strokes after a violation during friday's second round. after hitting the ball in the water on 15 here, dropped a new ball from the wrong spod spot. the violation was called in by a viewer at home. there is a new crowd favorite at augusta this, we the youngest golfer in the field. the youngest golfer ever in the field at the masters. as terrell browb reports, he's come a long way to make history. >> tianlang guan made history today, the youngest golf tore make the masters and play on the weekend. he is just 14 years old. kate pinkerton made sure to see him play. >> and i can't say his name so i just calling him "the kid." the kid's coming. >> reporter: he played with two-time masters champion ben crenshaw and beat him by eight strokes. cren saw said he played like a veteran. >> oh, yes! >> reporter: jeffrey lewis admires in what he sees in the

120-pound phenom. >> i put myself in his shoes. i wish i could have been that age doing that. >> he has been playing golf since he was four. his ticket to the masters was winning the asia pacific amateur championship last november. the mast sers a high-pressure learning experience for any first-time player, much less an eighth grader. yesterday, after a warning, he was penalize for slow play on the 17th hole. >> the winds switch a lot so i had to change my clubs so this like over 50 seconds. >> reporter: he took the one-stroke penalty in a way many pros years older never would-- in stride. >> respect the decision. >> the real unfair part would have been if he had misthe the cut because of it. >> reporter: he didn't. he shiite 77 today to be 9 over par in his first masters. but if this week is any indication, it surely won't be his last. terrell brown, cbs news, agusta, georgia. >> axelrod: and the cbs evening news for tonight.

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it's good to be a democratic thousands of people are in h ancisco this wee and good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. thousands of people are in south san francisco this weekend for one of the biggest gun shows around. interest on both sides of