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>> glor: tonight, the whistle blower speaks. >> glor: tonight, the whistle blower speaks. >> even if you are not doing anything wrong you are being watched and recorded. >> glor: the man who leaked details of the national security agency's massive cellphone surveillance program has gone public and jan crawford reports. firsthand account, as the sixth person dies today, a woman who survived the santa monica shooter speaks with carter evans. >> i knew that i wasn't a human being to him in any way. >> glor: extreme heat. the southwest again bakes under temperatures over 100 degrees, don dahler has the story. and empty seats-- after a fourth grade who spent most of his life in america is deported john blackstone says his classmates are asking why? captioning sponsored by cbs
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this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: good evening, everyone, i am jeff glor, we now know his name, age and reason. he is 29-year-old edward snowden, the man behind what has been called the biggest intelligence leak in the history of the national security agency. showden says he did it in his word because the u.s. government is, "destroying privacy and basic liberties around the world." jan crawford in washington has more. >> my name is ed snowden, i am 29 years old, i work for booz allen hamilton as an infrastructure analyst for n.s.a. in hawaii. >> reporter: "the guardian" released the interview sunday afternoon revealing snowden's identity at his request. a former c.i.a. technician who grew up in north carolina and maryland, snowden says he decided to leak classified information because of concerns about the n.s.a.s top secret surveillance programs. >> i sit at my desk, certainly have the authority to wiretap
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anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president, if i had a personal e-mail. >> reporter: in the interview snowden told "the guardian" glenn greenwald and laura poitrias he believes the nsa's once targeted data program is too broad. >> you don't have to have done anything wrong. you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from anybody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use the system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you have ever made. >> reporter: also today the washington post released its own interview with snowden revealing him as the paper's main source for its stories detailing n.s.a. surveillance. according to "the guardian", snowden was working in hawaii for government contractor booz allen hamilton as an n.s.a. systems administrator. three weeks ago, after copying one last set of documents, he told his supervisors he needed to leave work for a couple of weeks to recover from epilepsy, a condition he said he was diagnosed with last year. he said good-bye to his
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girlfriend and flew to hong kong where he has remained and where "the guardian" interviewed him on camera. he said he came forward so the public could assess his motives. >> i am just another guy who sits there day-to-day in the office and watches what is happening, and goes, this is something that is not our place to decide. the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong and i am willing to go on the record to defend the authenticity. >> reporter: snowden says he knows his disclosures have put him at risk. >> you can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk because they are such powerful adversaries no one can meaningfully oppose them, if they want to get you they will get you in time. >> reporter: now snowden told "the guardian" he is hoping to get asylum in a country he says that actually values privacy rights, perhaps somewhere like firm he was working release 5d statement saying he had been
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there less than three months. >> jeff, they said they were shocked and will work closely with authorities in the investigation of the leaks. >> glor: all right, jan crawford, thank you. we are joined now by senior national security analyst, juan zarate, who is also in washington. juan, snowden says and i quote "if i wanted to see your e-mails or your wife's phone all i have to use is intercepts, i can get your e-mails, passwords, phone records, and credit cards." first of all, is that possible? and second of all, if it is, how does an outside contractor get that kind of inside information? >> jeff, it strikes me that he may be overstating his access and what he was doing or could do. but there is no question that the n.s.a. and the government has access to lots of information and these leaks have revealed the big data that it has access to. but it also has checks on what can be done with that information, and the n.s.a. and other agencies make sure that analysts and others who have access to it are not doing things that are illegal or
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improper. >> glor: one more quote from snowden, "if i just wanted to harm the u.s. you could shut down the surveillance system in an afternoon." your reaction when you hear that? >> again i think he is aggrandizing himself a bit but i think it is true if you have access to this kind of information and they decide to go rogue they could put lots of people at risk and certainly expose very important programs to the united states. >> glor: "the guardian" says these leaks are comparable to daniel elsberg and the pentagon papers and julian assange and wikileaks. put it in context for us what we know right now, how significant is the breach? >> well, we know the breach is significant because these are important counter-terrorism programs to the intelligence community but that in comparison i think would more apt if we found out the rams were being used for illegal purposes or for some grand scheme outside the bounds of the law, but i think this looks much more like the
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revelation in 2006 when the terrorist tracking program which was found to be legal and effective. >> glor: juan zarate, thank you. >> thank you, jeff. >> glor: earlier today a woman shot by the santa monica gunman on friday died, she is identified at 26-year-old marcela franco she was a passenger in an suv driven by her father carlos franco who died when his car crashed. the death toll risen to six including the gunman who was shot and killed by police. cbs news has confirmed the gunman's identity tonight as former santa monica college student john zawahri. today a survivor of the attacks talked to cbs news and here is carter evans. >> reporter: with this santa monica home burst into flames on friday, 23-year-old john zawahri had already killed two of his family members inside, he was dressed in the black fatigues, armed with multiple weapons and 1,300 rounds of ammunition. is that a bullet hole right there? >> yes, it is. >> reporter: debra fine was his third shooting victim, she was driving home from a singing
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lesson and took a different route to avoid traffic from the president's visit. >> it was like the perfect storm. i saw a man with a kevlar vest looking very much like a swat team member. >> reporter: and you thought it could be a police officer? >> i absolutely thought it had something to do with the fact that obama was in town. >> reporter: then she saw the gunman near the intersection of yorkshire and kansas pull over a woman in a car. >> when he absolutely aimed at her and the rifle came up, i knew that that wasn't anything, somebody from the police would do. >> reporter: fine was just 20 feet away from zawahri and saw cold determination in his eyes. >> he was absolutely on a mission. everything had been planned out. he was then just in execute mode. >> reporter: you could tell by looking at him? >> absolutely. it was execute mode. >> reporter: and then you realized he was turning his attention to you? >> yes, i did, very fast. then i saw his eyes, i saw him point and i-- then i knew, then i knew he was really going to
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shoot and when i heard the explosion and the glass flying and i felt something throw me to the side i knew it was a bullet. >> reporter: fine was shot four times, a witness took video as a neighbor rushed to her side. >> her voice was shaky but very strong. she just took charge, and asked for people to get her towels. she held me very close. >> reporter: did you think you might die? >> i never thought i was going to die. and now, knowing that he was on a rampage and knowing who he is, now i am terrified. >> reporter: debra fine still has bullet fragments inside her body, she is expected to make a full physical recovery, but, jeff, she told me today she is just beginning to deal with the emotional impact of this shooting. >> glor: carter evans, thank you very much. a bipartisan senate bill to overhaul the u.s. immigration
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system now has the support of a key republican, senator kelley ayotte of new hampshire announced her support for the bill on face the nation, she told bob schieffer the bill is tough and fair. >> our immigration system is completely broken. we have got 11 million people living in this country illegally in the shadows, we have illegal immigration system that isn't meeting our needs to grow our economy, and so i looked at this carefully, this is a thoughtful, bipartisan solution to a tough problem, and so that is why i am going to support it. >> glor: they are also looking at how the u.s. military handles sexual assaults. the pentagon says there are 26,000 sexual assaults in the military each year. more than half of the victims are men. britain and israel use prosecutors not commanders to handel their cases and
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others says well that model could work here. >> that decision will be made in a more objective way which we hope will instill more confidence by the victim in the system that he or she has a chance to receive justice. just to be clear, this is not just a woman's issue, more than half of the victims are men, this is a problem that is corrosive and undermined the expect of the whole military and undermining our military readiness. >> glor: overseas turkey's prime minister says today his country's financial markets are under attack, he blamed speculators when there was a tenth day of protests against his government. holly williams is in istanbul. >> reporter: in the turkish capital of ankara today protesters again clashed with the police. the authorities have used tactics that many here criticize as heavy-handed. at other times the demonstrations have looked like a carnival. they began in istanbul over the planned destruction of a city
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park to build a shopping mall. the crowds have occupied the park and are in a victorious mood. ( cheers ) many here now say they have taken to the streets to safeguard turkey's democracy. they believe the country's prime minister, erdogan is behaving like a dictator trying to impose his more i see, conservative islamic views on the country. those fears were flamed when erdogan's government recently moved to restrict the sale of alcohol, the freedom to drink has become a theme of the protests. and the prime minister has unified turks who normally can't see eye to eye, including the soccer fans from rival teams, they are called for erdogan to resign. >> this is about our country, our freedom, somehow we have to stay together.
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>> reporter: democratically elected three times the prime minister is still popular with many turks and has vowed to teach the protesters a lesson in elections next year. speaking to a crowd of thousands of supporters today, erdogan said he would be patient with those demonstrating against him but husband patience has limits holly williams, cbs news, istanbul. >> glor: it is an anxious weekend in south africa, where former president nelson mandela remains hospitalized for a lung infection, mark phillips is standing by in pretoria this evening. mark what are the further indications we are getting his condition is more serious this time? >> reporter: well, the first indication, of course, is that this is the third night he will be in this hospital. the other is that the wording that the government is using to describe his condition, calling it serious but stable. we know that he is here for a lung infection, we know he has had this problem before and has been hospitalized several times for that as well but this time there does seem to be a sense that people here, and really
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around the world are prepared at least for the possibility of the inevitable. >> glor: we hear serious but stable, mark, have we gotten any sort of encouraging words beyond that from the government? >> reporter: not encouraging words. in fact, the absence of them is what has some people concerned, and in the previous hospital visits here the government would put out statements that at least had some hope in them. they would talk about him responding to the treatment that he is getting and that kind of thing. his wife, michelle, who came here with him the early hours of saturday morning stays with him in the hospital and we know other members of his family have come to see him as well, grandchildren, previously on these sorts of hospitalizations they waited a few days for him to respond to treatment before showing up. now they are coming earlier in the stay which is a worrying sign as well. >> glor: mark phillips in pretoria, thank you. later, fourth graders fighting to win the return of a deported
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>> glor: extreme heat is >> glor: extreme heat is baking much of the southwest this weekend. a 69-year-old hiker died yesterday near hoover damn, other people have been hospitalized and wildfire fears are on the rise. don dahler has more. >> reporter: it was 100 degrees in fresno, california, friday evening, the parents of a 15- month-old boy accidentally left him in a car when they took in the groceries. >> they began frantically searching all over the house for, i thought you had him, one of those things, i thought you, no, and they went out to the vehicle and checked and that's where they found the baby. >> reporter: the child was dead. 16 people attending outdoor ceremony on saturday were treated for heat related illnesses. many had fainted, as temperatures reached triple
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digits for the third straight day. >> a lot of them were feeling faint, a lot of them were dizzy, and felt overwhelmed from being out in the sun to watch the graduation. >> reporter: much of the u.s. is experiencing an early summer. >> it is very early in the season to see such tremendous heat in the deep southwest. typically, we see this more during the month of july. we are about 15 degrees above normal for this time of year. >> reporter: the interior department says this will be an above normal wildfire season, they have already cropped up in new mexico and california, where 1,200 fires have charred 40,000 acres. that is twice as many fires as usual this time of year and 30 times as many burned acres. >> reporter: the u.s. isn't alone, in great britain the temperatures reached nearly 90 degrees while in india, last week over 500 people died of heatstroke because of a heat wave there. jeff. >> glor: don dahler, thank you. next up, a protester with a flare for the dramatic.
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from hungary. the volunteers and soldiers stacked sandbags for the flood walls today, at least 21 deaths are blamed on the floods. in paris, rafael nadal slammed his way into the history books today. nadal defeated david ferrer to win the men's final at the french open. the victory makes nadal the first man to win eight titles in the same grand slam tournament. the match was interrupted in the second set when a masked man wearing waving a flare jumped on the court. as you can see, before he was captured by security guards. 11 other protesters were also detained during the match. something a little stronger than flares to bring down 11 story new york city apartment building. look at this.
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a very controlled explosion of the former coast guard housing complex on governor's island, into a pile of rubble. the site is being turned into a park. still ahead here tonight, inside the immigration debate, a group of fourth graders speak up to bring a deported classmate back. my doctor. my gynecologist. my pharmacist. citracal. citracal. [ female announcer ] you trust your doctor. doctors trust citracal. [ female announcer ] you trust your doctor.
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graders who are rallying not for a cause, but for a friend. >> reporter: there has been an empty seat for months now in the fourth grade classroom at jefferson elementary in berkeley, california. ten-year-old rodrigo guzman isn't there. how long have you known rodrigo? >> since kindergarten. >> reporter: his classmates, aminah diaby and kaiya daniels miss him. >> he is really smart and he has a lot of friends. >> reporter: rodrigo was just 16 months old when family came to the u.s. on a tourist visa, to him this has always been home. >> he came into the fourth grade already reading at a fifth grade level. >> reporter: the teacher barbara wenger was the first to learned he and his family had been deported, their visas had expired and barred from the u.s. for at least five years. >> sharing news with a ten-year- old that their classmate couldn't be here because of where he was born. it doesn't make sense.
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>> reporter: did you understand what was happening? >> no. >> reporter: did you understand why? >> no. >> reporter: rodrigo's absence was just as baffling for twins kyle and scott kuwahara. >> i wasn't really familiar with immigration law and congress people and stuff like that. >> it shouldn't take five years to apply for a new visa because that is a long time to be away from your friends and family. >> reporter: you decided something should be done about this? >> yes. >> reporter: what they did was take the case of their friend to the berkeley city council to the streets, and to the white house. >> dear president obama, please let rodrigo home. >> reporter: the student activism shouldn't be surprising, programs, in a class where they have been studying civil rights leaders. >> the message is, you don't just stand back, you try to do something about it. they all stood up for their rights and for what they believed so now we are trying to stand up for rodrigo's rights. >> this summer several of the fourth graders hope to visit
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washington to personally lobby for rodrigo's return, scott has a message for his classmates still in mexico. >> you shouldn't give up hope, because your friends are here to support you. >> reporter: as america debates immigration reform, there is a class full of fourth graders ready to testify that no matter how rodrigo guzman got here, he belongs here. john blackstone, cbs news, berkeley, california. >> 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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