>> axelrod: tonight, targeting the tea party. an inspector general for the irs says the agency began targeting conservative groups almost two years ago. chip reid has the latest. a repair job on the fly. >> 30 more seconds on the confirmation we don't have a leak. >> reporter: don dahler on a saturday spacewalk to fix the spacestation. new questions in the cleveland kidnappings case. terrell brown reports on calls for police to rethink how they handle missing persons. and a royal charm offensive. manual bojorquez is with prince harry here in the u.s. to support some wounded warriors fisplim good evening. i'm jim axelrod. the government agency so many

americans most fear looking into their ps is under increasing scrutiny itself. yesterday, the internal revenue service for inappropriate targeting of conservative organization. today, the associated press reported the irs' own inspector artyfound irs officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups. chip reid picks up the story. >> reporter: attorney jay sekulow confirms to cbs news that irs targeting the tea party groups began in 2011. >> when we saw the letters that the irs had sent to our clients i was outraged. >> reporter: as chief council of the conservative american center for law and justice, sekulow has represented nearly 30 tea party groups investigated by the irs. >> it was from coast to coast. so saying this was, you know, low-level irs employees, these weren't clerks. these were internal revenue service agents trained in tax

exempt specialties. >> reporter: the irs insists that then-commissioner douglas shulman was unaware that tea party groups had been singled out when he testified before congress last year. >> there's absolutely no targeting. this is the kind of back exphf-forth that happens when people ally. >> reporter: shulman, who was appointed by president george w. bush. has since retired. lois learner oversees tax-exempt organizations for the irs. yesterday she apologized to tea party groups but said the irs employees involved were not motivate bide political bias. she said they were only trying to determine which organizations applying for tax-exempt status might be engaging in more political activity than is permitted by law. >> t reporter: learner said when he became aware that tea party itups were being tattered for

extra united states me, she ensived it stopped. several members of congress said they will hold extensive ir hearings. >> axelrod: chip reid in yohington, thank you. a repair job unfolded 260 miles above the earth today on a space fation as wide as a football field moving it five miles per second. two u.s. astronauts had just two days to plan a spacewalk to fix on dak. as don dahler reports, it would be a month before we know if the aission was a success. >> reporter: with the view of the earth below, astronauted thomas marshburn and christopher hessidy carefully searched for the ammonia leak. >> we might see something. >> reporter: nasa was aware of a very small leak releasing thurt five pounds of ammonia per rar but last thursday something change and the leak rate jumped up to five pounds per day. the ammonia can be seen here as kee small, white flakes moving away from the space station. it crystallizes in the deep cold

of space. cbs news space consultant william harwood. >> all spacewalks are inherently drushes . the astronauts are flying around at five miles a second and that's not something to take lightly. ightlporter: ammonia is the coolant of choice aboard the ldacestation to carry away the heat generate bide the lab's electrical gear. the leak was not considered an immediate threat to the crew but nasa hopes to operate the space station through at least 2020. >> losing a coolant loop in and of itself is not a terribly critical failure but it's a lot like taking a long trip in your car and you lose your spare tire. you can still drive the car but you still don't want another flat. >> reporter: after not being able to locate the leak they replaced the pump assembly in case that is where the leak originated. the astronauts will now keep an pae on that part of the spacestation for the next few days to see if they fixed the problem.

and, jim, although thigh didn't see any ammonia during their spacewalk, astronauts marshburn snd cassidy did what's called a "bake out" before returning to eturspace station. that's where they let the sun's intense raise burn off the ammonia that may have gotten on to their suits. bey didn't want to bring any toxic chemicals back inside. >> axelrod: thank you, don. in cleveland tonight, a city councilman is pressing police to yook into the way they handle missing persons cases. the case of three young women held cape town of for nearly a decade is raising questions about other cases that may have fallen through the cracks. terl brown reports it's case of one of the women in particular that's raising flags. >> reporter: the welcome home sign is still up at the home of hna dejesus. the same a mile way where amanda ndary is staying with her ayiner. but since michelle knight's release from the hospital she's remained elusive. she thanked the public for their support and asked for privacy.

since monday's rescue there have been questions specifically about knight. according to her file she was reported missing by her mother in awe 2002. ls and called the morgue, nearby hospitals and tried to get in touch with stamly members and her file was entered into the f.b.i. national police database, accessible by every police department in the country. but after 15 months, when officers couldn't contact knight's family to confirm she was still missing, her file evidence pulled, which is protocol for the national citabase. city councilman michael polensek. >> it was announced they found three women. they didn't have a picture of her. it was just a silhouette. >> reporter: he believes other cases may have fallen through the cracks and called for an audit of all cases in cleveland. >> just think for a moment, how many other people, men, women, children could be in likewise situations, could be being held cape townive. if that's not motivation enough i don't know what is. >> reporter: knight was 21

when she disappeared and fer chily considered her a runway. islice chief mike mcgrath ythieves his department did everything they could. ey've the last nine years they've been diligently working on this case. they have been living and onfideing this particular case. so i have full confidence in the co and women that conducted this investigation over the years. >> reporter: cleveland police get about 2700 missing person reports a year, and many of those people are found wayne day mantwo, and those case cases are closed. but the councilman told us there are still 107 open cases here in cleveland that are still under investigation, jim. >> axelrod: terrell, thank you. they've taken an important step in newtown, connecticut, in deciding what to do with sandy hook elementary school. a task force of 28 elected officials have voted umanenously ts tear down the school where 20 rhildren and six adults were w oled in december and rebuild a new one on the site.

the plan now goes to the local school board and will have to be approved by the residents of newtown before anything is heyal. daw to pakistan where they held elections for parliament today and where voting carried a deadly risk. more than 20 people were killed in explosions and shootings as they headed to polling places to choose a prime minister and 272 members of parliament. as elizabeth palmer report repom islamabad, it's the first time the people of pakistan will -yeat successors to follow a rep-year term of a civilian government. atioeporter: in most polling stations, turnout was heavy. in spite of the taliban's threat to attack with suicide bombers. orderly voting was the payoff for months of careful planning and voters enthused by a surprisingly open race. cons menservative businessman and ifrmer prime minister nawaz sharif face aid strong challenge fr from the celebrity cricket star .mran khan. who ran an energetic campaign litinst pakistan's seasoned and

widely crument political elite. anser, a khan supporter, was dlieded. >> i think about 40% of the bople they were all first time voters. rhey never voted before because they thought a change would never come. >> reporter: but the optimism an eclipsed in the cities of peshawar and karachi where three bombs killed more than 20 people. the target it's left wing secular awami party, which has been repeatedly attacked in & threatened by the taliban. af the border area with strongistan, a taliban eronghold, its party leader didn't even dare to campaign in fficon. instead, officials had to organize virtually secret rallies at supporters' houses protected by armed guards. this election hasn't been perfect, but pakistanis want to believe it was good enough. the turnout appears to have been huge, and millions of voters now want action on everything from

terrorism to power cuts from iheir new government. pakistani elections officials are going counting votes mostest night, jim, but just at the moment, the former prime remster nawaz sharif is in the lead we saw remarkable video of imran khan falling at a rally. how is he doing? >> reporter: he was very lucky. he toppled backward off a forklift at a rally, apparently pulled by his body guards. he was wearing a bulletproof vest under his clothing which many people think in his team es.lly saved him from much, much more senior spinal injuries. ve it is, he is going to be in hospital at least a few more days and maybe a couple weeks. >> axelrod: elizabeth palmener alexander tonight, thank you so much. a the rescue of a young woman pulled from the rubble of the collapsed clothing factory snning bangladesh after 17 days

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chrysler says the problem has caused 26 crashes and two injuries. britain's prince harry seems to make headlines wherever he goes. today, he was in colorado, the latest stop on a week-long visit to the united states. but unlike his last visit here, this time the prince is all work and no play. here's manual bojorquez. >> reporter: prince harry joined injured british veterans for an impromptu game of sitting volleyy ball ball. the team is here for the warrior games, a paralympic competition for wounded service men and women. >> it was like having another friend. he was just like one of us. >> reporter: he is. the prince is a captain in the where she army air corps. he served in afghanistan twice. >>y witnessed firsthand the bravery of our troops, not only confronting dangers on the battlefield but all its tragic consequences, life-changing wounds, and the death of friends. >> reporter: his presence here

means something to injured american veterans, too. staff sergeant joe morgan serveed in the air force. he's one of 260 athletes competing this year. >> it makes us feel real special that he really appreciates everything we've done. >> reporter: attention has certainly followed the prince. ( cheers ) on capitol hill thursday, admiring women could not contain themselves. the prince stuck to the task at hand, visiting an exhibit on clearing land mines, a cause his mother, the late princess diana, championed. the prince is eager to leave behind the headlines of his trip last year, when photos of a rowdy las vegas weekend surfaced and earned him a royal scolding. this time, the prince has made a point of honoring the military. he visited wounded veterans at walter reed medical center friday. later, he paid tribute to fallen soldiers at arlington national cemetery. the colorado public willigate wa

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officer in charge of preventing sexual assault in the air force was charged with groping a woman in a parking lot near the pentagon. the case of jeffrey krusinski is spotlighting an issue that has been firmly rooted in the shadows-- sexual assault in the military. the department of defense estimates there were 26,000 cases of sexual assault or abuse in the military last year. that's up 30% from the year before. we sat down with regina k. scully, an exclusive producer of "the invisible war," a documentary about sexual assault in the military. >> sexual assault in the military is so-- they use the word "epidemic." >> and i wake up and he's on top of me. >> i remember the sounds, the

smell. >> he put his locked and loaded .45 at the base of my skull. >> this could be your sister, your daughter, you know, a cousin, a neighbor. these are women who went into the armed forces to be educated, to learn and to serve our country. >> within the two-week period, he raped me five times. >> when we got tested, i had tricpositive and gonorrhea, and i was pregnant. >> and in every single case, these people were encouraged by their fellow officers and by their superiors not to push it further. >> axelrod: it's a delicate process, isn't it, to be critical of the military. >> they had to walk the fine line of respect, what's good but critically looking at what is absolutely not working. >> i remember bringing in a young service member who had been brutally raped and bringing her in to see her command and

tried to make sure this young girl was taken care of properly. and this idiot-- this idiot chewed her out for crying. >> axelrod: i was struck this week the air force officer in charge of preventing sexual abuse in the air force was charged with groping a woman. what was your first thought? >> oh, my gosh. again. i just was grateful that it was for all the world to see, so to speak, all the country to see, including our president. >> i want them to hear directly from their commander in chief that i've got their backs. i will support them. and we're not going to tolerate this stuff. and there will be accountability. >> he's gone on record now, and i-- and i believe him. >> schieffer: do yohim. >> axelrod: do you think it's enough to change the culture, just to go on the record and say we're done with this? >> no, we need a few steps to happen before the culture will change. the people who commit these crimes will be held to the same rule of law as the rest of us in

civilian life, and that also people, the victims, can report it outside the chain of command. there needs to be all new protocol set up. >> axelrod: next wednesday, new york senator kristen gillibrand will introduce a bill allowing service members to make their complaints directly to military prosecutors and not their commanding officers. still ahead, he's an inner-city gardening guru. meet the man trying to change lives with straight talk andan home grown food. axiron can restore t levels to normal in about 2 weeks in most men. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18 or men with prostate or breast cancer.

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there's not a lot of space in big cities for gardens. but one man in los angeles has found a way. maggie laguerre wilkinson introduces us to an urban gardennener growing vegetables with an atitute. >> reporter: ron finley is an unusual activist. troubled by the lack of healthy food in south central los angeles, the former fashion designer and lifelong resident decided to get his hands dirty. >> we depend on these fast food joints to feed us, especially in areas like this. there's really almost no place you can sit down to eat aing healthy meal. >> reporter: finley felt that the only people who could improve access to better food in south central were the very people living there, people like him. so he planted a curbside garden. >> i get to teach and i get to demonstrate. i get to show people how to harvest food. >> reporter: people take this but it keeps growing back. finley was operating under the

radar until recently. >> growing your own food is like printing your own money. >> reporter: when he spoke at a national conference. his speech went viral, with close to one million views. >> just like 26.5 million other americans, i live in a food desert, south central los angeles, home of the drive-through and the drive-by. the funny thing is, the drive-throughs are killing more people than the drive-byes. people are dying from curable diseases in south central los angeles. >> reporter: according to the los angeles department of public health, the populations with the highest rates of diabetes are minorities. latinos, with 13.5%, and blacks minorities. latinos, with 13.5%, and blacks at 12.4%. 12.4%. this is a strawberry? >> yes. >> reporter: finley says he has two objectiveives -- saving lives by eating better-- oh, my googoodness-- saving lives by gardening. >> this is how you change the composition of the soil is with a shovel. that's how we change our

communities. >> his ideas took root in terence satler. once an aspiring football player the 20-year-old is now in culinary school studying to becoma a chef. >> the most extensive knowledge i have acquired so far has been through ron's garden because he has things you would never see, especially in the 'hood. >> this to me, this is the new gangster. you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangster. >> reporter: as long as there is fast food in south central, ron finley wants his neighbors to bring their shovels and plant. maggie laguerre wilkinson, cbs news, los angeles. >> axelrod: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. later on cbs "48 hours." for now, i'm jim axelrod in new york. for all of us here at cbs news, thanks for joining us and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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