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>> axelrod: tonight, turning up the heat. the day after edward snowden is sharged with espionage, the united states pressures hong kong to turn him over. dan raviv is tracking the case. tens of thousands forced to flee their homes in western canada after record rains. we'll have the latest. >> i've made plenty of mistakes along the way. >> axelrod: celebrity chef paula deen tries to cook up a little damage control after losing her tv show. elaine quijano examines a recipe for trouble. and look who's making them laugh on comedy night in cairo. charlie d'agata on jon stewart turning his sharp wit on fresh targets. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod.
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we begin tonight with the case of edward snowden, the former national security agency contractor charged yesterday with espionage for leaking secrets about u.s. surveillance programs. the obama administration is now turning up the pressure on authorities in hong kong, where snowden is believed to be. as dan raviv reports, the u.s. and hong kong have an extradition treaty, and the white house expects hong kong to honor it. >> reporter: the white house says if hong kong doesn't extradite edward snowden soon, that would complicate relations with the u.s. and in a radio interview with cbs' mark knoller, president obama's national security adviser, tom donilon, pressed the point. >> reporter: the criminal complaint has three charges, two of them under the espionage act:
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but it's complicated. in 1997, hong kong, a british colony, was transferred to china. it remains semi-independent with its own legal system, but the chinese government has significant influence. snowden's fate may really be up to beijing. international law professor stephen vladeck: >> the problem with extradition law is that it is so much political rather than legal that there's always the possibility that someone is whispering in someone's ear in a back room, and that that more than any of the legal formalities is going to be what ultimately drives the outcome. >> reporter: will u.s. prosecutors get their man in court, and how long might that take? >> i think, at the end of the day, it's probably better than even that snowden ends up in a u.s. courtroom. but, in terms of timeline, we're talking about months if not years at this point, and not days or weeks. >> reporter: snowden recently vowed to fight extradition in the hong kong courts. and even if the u.s. arrests or
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kills him, he says, the truth will come out, which could signal more leaks to come. there may be two goals to getting snowden in custody, on trial and in prison: stopping more leaks from him and also demonstrating to others with access to secrets that the punishment, jim, will be harsh. >> axelrod: dan raviv in washington, thank you. now to the southwest, where at least 18 large wildfires are burning more than 100,000 acres across four states. in colorado, huge flames are forcing people from a popular vacation area. carter evans reports. >> reporter: thick smoke filled the sky as three separate fires combined to form a massive blaze that has scorched nearly 83 square miles in southwest colorado. several mountain communities are threatened. more than 400 people were evacuated from the tourist town of south fork on friday. firefighter laura mcconnell described the fast-moving flames. >> the fire had made roughly a
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12,000-acre run. that's about 18.75 square miles. that's a pretty big run. >> reporter: 16 fires are burning across colorado. the east peak fire burned 13 structures and forced donna taylor from her home in the town of walsenburg. >> you don't know what you're going to go back to and are too old to start over again? >> reporter: some of the fires were sparked by lightning. the flames were driven by hot, windy weather and fueled by dried trees killed in a beetle infestation. dan dallas is incident commander on the line gulf fire. >> we continue under red flag warning, so we have the potential for extreme fire growth. >> reporter: the hot, dry conditions are expected to continue through the middle of next week with no rain in the forecast. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> axelrod: a series of powerful storms has been hammering the northern plains and upper midwest. today, the severe weather blew through wisconsin and into the great lakes. last night, powerful winds uprooted trees and knocked out
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power to more than a quarter million people in minnesota. one death is being blamed on the storms, a woman killed in south dakota. severe weather in western canada has triggered some fast-rising floodwaters that have chased nearly 200,000 people from their homes. tonight, the province of alberta is in the crosshairs. the city of calgary has been hit hard. here's andrea lucia. >> reporter: calgary, canada's third largest city, is underwater. the unprecedented flooding in the province of alberta has killed three people and driven 175,000 others from their homes. alberta's premiere alison redford: >> these are flood levels and volumes like we've never seen. the speed at which they're coming is entirely different, and the impact on communities has been really tremendously tragic. >> reporter: it began thursday when record rainfall and melting snow funneled down the canadian rockies. >> it's really high right now,
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and there's a lot of people who are going to be hurting. >> reporter: the rushing water shot out over the town of canmore like a tsunami, taking entire trees with it and washing out the transcanada highway. >> our cul-de-sac had a little bit of water in it, but not too bad. and then i went for a cigarette, came back out of the garage, and we had a river going down our road in, like, a matter of ten minutes. >> reporter: caught between two overflowing rivers, calgary's city center suffered some of the worst damage. at saddledome arena, home to n.h.l.'s calgary flames, water reached the tenth row. 30,000 residents remain without power. >> standing on a bridge in the dark when the power is out listening to the roar of the river is terrifying. >> reporter: in calgary, the oil capital of canada, business as usual is not likely to resume for weeks or even months. andrea lucia, cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: for the second time, state police in massachusetts searched the home of new england
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patriots' tight end aaron hernandez today. they're investigating hernandez for a possible connection to the killing of a semipro football player whose bullet-ridden body was found nearby. the two men were apparently friends. the trial of george zimmerman starts monday, the florida neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed teenager trayvon martin 16 months ago. a jury of six women has been selected, and today a judged issued a ruling that could significantly shape the proceedings. here's terrell brown. >> reporter: george zimmerman maintains he shot trayvon martin, an unarmed black teen, in self defense. critical evidence is a series of 911 calls made by residents of the suburban orlando gated community where the fatal encounter occurred. neighbors called 911 while zimmerman and martin were struggling outside in the dark. a recording of the first call captured screams in the background. a few seconds later, there was another scream.
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( gunshot ) >> reporter: one gunshot by zimmerman, and martin was killed. prosecutors said in a pretrial hearing those screams were from martin, and audio experts could prove it. the defense disputed that; zimmerman's father said it was his son screaming. today, judge debra nelson ruled a jury may hear the 911 calls but no expert testimony identifying the voices. the judge found their techniques not reliable and said comparing screams to normal speech is not possible. >> so, they're going to leave it to the jury to basically make the determination as to who was crying for help. >> reporter: luis calderone is a florida criminal defense lawyer. se in this situation, you know, you have two experts for the state saying that they can exclude zimmerman as the voice on the recording and another one saying that it's definitely trayvon martin, and he can hear zimmerman making other statements.
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that would have seriously favored the state had those excerpts been allowed. >> reporter: calderone says much of the prosecution's case is built on circumstantial evidence. there were no eyewitnesses to the shooting, and the jury will have to decide if zimmerman's actions were valid or not. the trial is expected to last two to four weeks, jim. >> axelrod: terrell, thank you. two brothers, both border patrol agents, are going to prison for smuggling more than 500 people into the country illegal. raul villareal, pictured here, and his brother fidel, were sentenced to at least 30 years by a federal judge in san diego. the judge called their crimes "a threat to national security." the actions of some other border patrol agents are also coming under close scrutiny. here's bill whitaker. >> reporter: the witness video is murky, but there-- those flashes-- a taser. u.s. customs and border protection agents used the taser and batons to subdue a man, his screams captured by another witness.
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deported for shoplifting, anastasio hernandez-rojas, a 42- year-old father of five, was caught reentering the u.s. illegally. agents say he was violently resisting arrest. ashley young witnessed the arrest and shot this video. >> he wasn't moving. he wasn't resisting. he was just saying, "help me." >> reporter: hernandez-rojas died two days later. the coroner said it was from the beating. a federal grand jury has been investigating. the agents say he was resisting. he was crossing this border illegally. meth was found in his system. but critics say the agents used excessive force and that rojas is not an isolated case. >> he asked me to place my hands against the wall. >> reporter: chilean businessman hernan cuevas was crossing the border in 2011 as he had many times. he had a valid visa and passport, yet an agent stopped him and searched his car. when he complained, he was strip searched, held for three hours with no charges, no explanation.
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>> i was appalled. i mean, these guys were definitely acting with impunity. they believed they were above the law. >> reporter: from 2004 through 2010, there were 315 complaints of abusive treatment, profiling and other violations by border agents. 19 people have been killed by agents in the last three years. the agency declined an on-camera interview but issued a statement, saying: it is reviewing its use of force procedures. patrolling the border is dangerous. 25 agents have died in the line of duty since 2004. hernan cuevas says that's no excuse for the treatment he received. >> those things happen in banana republics. in a country that is governed by laws, that should not happen. >> reporter: the family of hernandez-rojas is suing the agents involved in his arrest for wrongful death. bill whitaker, cbs news, san
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diego. >> reporter: we have an update tonight on the condition of sarah murnaghan. she's that ten-year-old girl from pennsylvania who had a double lung transplant. her case stirred up a debate about when the age for children to be considered for organ transplants from adult donors. she came out of a medically- induced coma yesterday and is now reportedly nodding "yes" or "no" as answers to questions. later, jon stewart shares a stage in cairo with his embattled egyptian counterpart. an airshow crash in ohio kills a wing walker and a pilot. and will paula deen's apology be enough to salvage her career? those stories when the "cbs evening news" continues. what are you guys doing? to help support regularity! i want some...
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the revelation ignited a firestorm and prompted the food network to drop her. mike paul say public relations executive. she is not accuse of doing anything illegal here. why is this so damaging, in your view? >> the court of law is important, but the court of public opinion is as important as & many times more important. >> reporter: the celebrity chef has scrambled in the wake of the controversy, serving up three online apologizes late friday. >> i want to apologize to everybody for the wrong that
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doctors trust citracal. some role reversal in cairo. one of american tv's late night hosts played the guest on a popular and controversial comedy show in egypt. here's charlie d'agata. >> reporter: the segment began with a little dark humor for a political show in the middle east, a hooded guest manhandled by minders and introduced as a foreign spy. then the big reveal. >> ladies and gentlemen, jon stewart! ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: the surprise guest of the man they call egypt's jon stewart bassem youssef. stewart told the audience in broken arabic, "please sit down. i'm a simple monwhat does not like to be fussed over." it's youseff who has raise aid
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fuss, poking fun at morsey and his sometimes silly hats crossed a line. >> the satire gets you into trouble. the love we get from the people. >> it doesn't get me in the kind of trouble it gets you into. >> reporter: last april, youseff was charged with defaming the president, insulting islam, and disturbing public order. it didn't have to be this way. youseff was actually a heart surgeon until a few years ago. but when egyptians took to the streets and overthrough the government he did his part by posting little clips of social commentary on youtube. now his friday night show reaches 30 million people. he calls stewart his inspiration. and in a recent "cbs sunday morning" profile the admiration was mutual. >> you've got to give credit to a guy who is actually, through his comedy, i think, doing more important work than what he was doing as a heart surgeon. i mean, that's an incredible
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thing to say about somebody. >> reporter: which made stewart's cameo in cairo a show of support for the thorn in the side he helped create. >> if your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime. ( applause ) because -- >> reporter: after all, freedom of expression is a cornerstone of democracy, stewart says, and that is serious business. >> my name is jon stewart! i am the new host! >> reporter: charlie d'agata, cbs news, london. >> axelrod: and that is the cbs evening news for tonight. later on cbs, "brooklyn d.a." and "48 hours." for now, i'm jim axelrod in new york. fo us and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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the desperate efforts to get that person out. two homes burned... after a stolen car chase. how a joyride ended with this cha mess. and developing news in san jose... smoky skies... as firefighters tackle a brush fire. kpix 5 news is next. good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. ,,,,,,,,,,
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in san jose ri good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. developing news in san jose right now. firefighters are getting a handle on a two alarm grass fire burning on east capital expressway near tours. eight to ten acres have ad

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