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>> axelrod: tonight, storm over surveillance. more fallout at home and overseas after revelations the n.s.a. eaves dropped on u.s. allies' phone conversations. kelly cobiella has the latest. police kill a 13-year-old holding a toy gun after two other students are accused of killing teachers. carter evans takes a closer look at a worrisome week with kids and weapons. jay-z's in a tight spot, don dahler on how charges of racial profiling at one upscale store may upend a big business deal for the rapper and entrepreneur. and one good turn. nearly a year after sandy, one of the storm's first responders gets just the kind of help he's given to others. >> wow!
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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod with a western edition of the broadcast. some of the strongest allies of the united states are among its most vocal critics tonight amid revelations that the n.s.a. eaves dropped on world leaders. several hundred demonstrators rallied near the u.s. capitol this afternoon, criticizing the practice of electronic surveillance. but as kelly cobiella tells us, it is the anger far from washington that's top priority. >> reporter: by all accounts, the leaders of germany and france had no idea a key ally, the united states, was spying on them and their citizens. the u.s. seemed just as surprised to find another secret was out, thanks once again to leaker edward snowden. now senior white house officials tell cbs news they're warning their allies about what snowden might release next. there is a better understanding of what snowden has. but there is no way of knowing
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the next shoe to drop. german leader angela merkel said her trust in the u.s. has been severely shaken after allegations this week that the n.s.a. tapped her private cell phone. snowden's latest batch of leaked documents delivered to a newspaper also allege that the n.s.a. accessed tens of thousands of french phone records and tapped the phones of 35 world leaders. state department spokeswoman jan psaki said spying tactics were under review. >> we want to make sure we're collecting information because we need it and not just because we can. >> reporter: germany and france are demanding to know why the national security agency threw such a wide spying net they were caught up in it. they want the u.s. to sign up to the code of conduct, like the no spying deal the u.s. has with canada, britain, australia, and new zealand. and there's talk of military million dollar finds for u.s. companies who don't protect the privacy their european
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customers. there's a lot at stake including a massive free trade deal with europe. as one former french foreign minister put it, let's be honest, we eavesdrop, too. we just don't have the same means as the united states. jim. >> axelrod: kelly cobiella in our london newsroom tonight, thank you. let's bring in our senior national security analyst juan zarate. juan, would you expect there to be any chilling effect on u.s. intelligence gathering as a result of all this? >> reporter: i think that's one of the dangers, jim. you certainly have the reality that the revelations of how the n.s.a. is collecting data can now be countered. you have the fact that these are now front-page and political stories, and so questions from our allies, like the french and germans and even the brazilians, as to whether or not they're gone going to constrain information sharing. and ultimately, the administration having to review these kinds of intelligence-gathering programs and commit perhaps to limiting
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them. it could have a long-term chilling effect. >> axelrod: in terms of these diplomatic ruffled feathers, are the same people who are complaining about it also engaging in their own version of it? >> absolutely. they don't do it as well or as broadly as the united states, but the french, the germans, the rest of the world spy. that's what spy agencies do. and one of the dangers here is that all the attention on what the united states is doing is not only going to put in jeopardy perhaps some of the information sharing and collection that we do with our allies-- which is beneficial to them-- but also distract from the fact that the chinese and russians are doing this in spades, and with respect to the united states, stealing billions of dollars have a cyber ems naj. >> axelrod: juan zarate with some important perspective, thank you. a little more than a month renains now until the administration's new deadline of november 30 for fixing its health care web site. today, the president tried once again to tamp down the growing
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public frustration. here's jeff pegues. >> reporter: in his weekly radio address today, president obama said he is confident healthcare.gov will be fixed. >> we will not rest until the work is done. >> reporter: for three weeks, the site has been the source of negative publicity for the white house. the administration is now working hard to change the message while pushing back at critics. >> it's also interesting to see republicans in congress expressing so much concern that people are having trouble buying health insurance through the new web site, especially considering they've spent the last few years so obsessed with denying those same people access to health insurance. >> reporter: but white house officials acknowledge is wound is self-inflicted. a senior administration official tells cbs news, we own it, and it's all ours. we can't escape it, and we will have to face all the criticism until we get it right." the deadline to get it right is now set for the end of november with dozens of complex web site problems under repair.
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houston-area resident jennie johnson has been trying for weeks to sign up for her insurance. >> your account cannot be created. >> reporter: but republican lawmakers believe the web site is just the beginning of the problems with the affordable care act. congressman fred upton. >> we're also concerned about what happens next? will enrollment glitches become provider payment glitches. will patients show up at a doctor's office or hospital only to be told they are not in the system? >> reporter: health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is expected to testify before upton's committee on wednesday. some lawmakers have called for her to be fired, but, jim, she's still on the job, and in a blog post today she wrote, "we won't stop work 24/7 until the doors to healthcare.gov are wide open. >> axelrod: jeff pegues in washington, thank you. dozens of women staged the biggest demonstration of its kind today on the streets of saudi arabia, claiming a basic right in the rest of the world.
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the trite drive a car. holly williams has more. >> reporter: in one of the most conservative nations in the world, this is an act of defiance. ♪ ♪ today, dozens of saudi arabian women posted online videos of themselves behind the wheel, rebelgrade against an unwritten rule. there's no law against them driving, but saudi authorities have warned they'll arrest anyone exw woman they catch and use force if necessary. manal al sharif was arrested by saudsaudi arabia's religious poe for driving in 2011. >> it's a symbol of defiance. >> reporter: she told us she also lost her job as a result and has received abuse and threats. >> you always have to be prepared when you speak up against the odds or the status quo to pay a price. profanity, lies, rumors. you could lose your job. you could lose everything. >> reporter: saudi arabia is heavily segregated and women
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have few legal rights. they're not allowed to work or travel overseas without the permission of a male relative. though some saudis want their society to modernize, many powerful islamic cleric clericse against it. one of them recently appeared on tv and claimed that driving would harm women's ovaries. we hear the king and other members of the royal family support women's rights. why don't they change the rules on drive? >> it's very clear there is a divide in the government pup find those people who are push, towards more empowering to women. and you find those people who are like, no, that will open hell's doors for us. >> reporter: and on the street, opinion is also divide. this man said he's against women drivers. "what if they get a flat tire?" he asked "what would they do?"
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but other saudi men are showing their support, giving the thumbs-up to women who dare to take to the open road. holly williams, cbs news, strbl. >> axelrod: later, allegations of racial profiling at two famous stores. and a second look at the remarkable week of headlines about kids and violence when the cbs evening news continues.
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all of them african american, charged this week that they were treated like criminals while making legitimate purchases of expensive goods at two high-end stores in new york city. the accusations of racial profiling are putting pressure not just on the stores but on one of hip-hop's biggest stars as well. don dahler reports.
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>> reporter: robert brown is an accomplished actor most notably on the hbo series "treme." while shopping for a present for his mother at macy's he said he was slapped in handcuffs and told she was a thief. >> they just knew your card is fake and you're going to jail. we do this all the time. your card is fake, you're going to jail. >> reporter: brown's accusations came two days after two other african americans described a similar experience at barney's. >> very embarrassing. >> reporter: in april, 19-year-old trayon christian was confront after buying an expensive belt. >> undercover cops on side, with regular clothes on, and acted like a cot the the got a call from barney's saying it was not real. >> reporter: but it was valid as was kayla phillips' last february, after police stopped her after buying a capitol hill $2500 hand'd bag. >> it made me feel so low. >> reporter: jay-z has business deals with barney's and
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macy's. macy's carries his clothing line and barney's will debut a limited collection of his designs, ranging from a $6700 coat to a $33,000 watch. he pledged some of the profits to charity. he has boycotted some companies who he says were racist in the past, including cristal champagne. thousand of his fans have signed an online petition asking him to severitize to barney's. it was started by lifelong jay-z fan derick bowers. >> you can't deny what's happening here. he's the face of hip-hop culture, and when we regular folks who don't have the money or clout to walk in and can't get serviced, what's the point. >> reporter: you want it to be more than just business and money? >> it has to be more than business and money. it has to be. >> reporter: barney's says sade it is reviewing its policies. macy's says they're
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investigating the incident. all three shoppers say they plan to sue. >> axelrod: in a written statement jay-z says he's waiting until a meeting between community leaders and barney's before commenting but the collaboration with the store benefits his charitable found expaigz he doesn't benefit. marcia wallace died today. she was edna edna krabapple on tv's long-running "the sympt sons." in a statement from the show, the producer said they are retiring her "irreplaceable character." >> my ex-husband was a drunch. >> reporter: tv viewers who predate the "sympt son" may remember her as the wise-crack receptionist on the "the bob newhart show." marcia wallace was 70. up next, did the headlines about kids killing teachers put some california cops on edge?
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young students were accused of killing their teachers in nevada and massachusetts, and a third was killed by police in california who thought he had ray weapon. the f.b.i. is looking into that death, and carter evans reports some experts are wondering if this week's headlines played a role. >> reporter: this is the toy ak-47 that 13-year-old andy lopez was carrying when he was killed by sheriff's deputies last tuesday in santa rose acalifornia. he was shot seven times. lopez's father, rodrigo. >> they need to stop shooting like that, you know, especially at 8:30 p.m. they can see. >> reporter: at a news conference, investigators displayed the toy rifle on the left, compared with a real ak-47 on the right. santa rosa police lieutenant paul henry says the boy ignored a directive to drop the gun. >> a witness in the area reported that he heard the
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deputy shout shouttwo times, "put the gun down." >> shooting happened on the same day a 14-year-old massachusetts boifs accused of stabbing his math teacher to death, and one day after a 12-year-old boy opened fire at sparks middle school in nevada, killing a teacher and wounding two students. retired army lieutenant colonel craig geis trains police officers. he says the attack in nevada may have put authorities on edge. >> i think maybe if the sparks shooting hadn't occurred, maybe the officers driving around wouldn't have even seen an individual walking with what appeared to be a weapon. >> reporter: many in this small community call it a needless tragedy. gabriel rogue is a friend of lopez. >> he's no harm to anybody. he's not a grown man walking down the street with a gun. he's a 13-year-old boy. >> reporter: the only thing linking these three cases is the age of the boys involved and the extraordinary loss. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> axelrod: still ahead, girls in numbers. the high school scaebs of
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technology are filled by men, you may be surprised by the size of the majority, 75%. to get more women breaking through the silicon chip ceiling, a female scientist created a tech contest limited to teenaged girls, no boys allowed. here's edward lawrence. >> how can you change the world? >> reporter: it's called the technoivation challenge. 100 teens looking at real-world problems and developing innovative, high-tech solutions. it's girls only by design. tara chklovski helped create the contest based in part on her own real-world experience. >> i am an arrow space engineer
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and i was always the only girl in class. >> reporter: in most schools today she might still be. a recent survey found only 13% of high school girls, compared to 40% of boys, wanted years in science, technology, engineering, or math, s.t.e.m. for short. >> the problem kind of deep so a girl doesn't think computer science or programming is something cool. >> reporter: the tech noivation challenge, she says is designed to make it school. >> this kind of experience should be given to girls much earlier so before they jump into the workforce they have an experience that says i can do this. >> reporter: smart teenaged girls are aware of rampant headlines about rampant sexism in the tech worlded. here's what claire huang feels she will have to deal with. >> not being intimidated by men in the workforce. not being put down by them. >> reporter: but she heard about the technology challenge and she decided to give it a try. her team from palo alto's
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castilleja high school, reached the final, developing an app with students for places to volunteer. mayuka sarukkai is thinking about being an engineer. >> just making a difference in people's lives. >> reporter: the finals were held in california's silicon valley and when that many girls get together in a place where boys get most of the job. >> self-confidence dramatically increases. you have a lot of people cheering for you. it's a life-changing experience. >> reporter: claire's team didn't win, and it didn't seem to matter. >> i am not intimidated anymore. i'm ready to go out there, build our app, and just pursue a career in this. >> reporter: when she gets there, perhaps she'll no longer have to feel like a pioneer. edward lawrence, cbs news, los angeles. >> axelrod: we want to show you a trick and treed trooet, in fact the sweetest treat a little girl could imagine. sergeant david wirtz who has been deployed in afghanistan dressed up as spider man to
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visit a classroom in iowa yesterday. his 10-year-old daughter, jesse, had no idea who was finning that cape on her. >> daddy! >> axelrod: surprise. this was sergeant wirtz' fifth and final tour of duty. he had been gone since may. coming up, he helped others during super storm sandy and now they're helping him.
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the anniversary of super storm sandy's assault on the northeast. but in addition to heartbreak, every catastrophe also produces an opportunity. a chance for real heroes to emerge. we end tonight in new jersey with one of those who gave help getting some a year later. john gelalia and a few other volunteer firefighterses stayed behind to defend this firehouse when hurricane sandy record ashore. >> between 12 and 1:00, the
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water broke through, the ocean came through the firehouse and took out the fencing and all that. >> reporter: the 46-year-old lives just blocks away, but getting to his home to check on it proved to be quite a challenge. >> i went from angle deep, knee deep, chest deep, until i got to my street. when i got to my street, there was only one way down there, and i just swam all the way down. >> axelrod: initially fema paid for a hotel room but the funding ran out in march. john gelalia had no choice but to sleep on a cot at his home with no walls, no running warrant, and no electricity. >> i shower at the firehouse, go to the bathroom at the firehouse, watch tv. that's the only existence i have is that. >> reporter: without flood insurance john gelalia said he could not afford on the necessary repairs on the home he bought with his mother in 1991. >> swee wee have been calling our problem help the helpers. >> reporter: john rose's nonprofit, waves for water, heard about john gelalia's situation and stepped up with a
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grant to rebuild john gelalia's home. >> you're talk a year later to a guy who has probably been going out there continuously and helping other people and probably hasn't said, "hey, i need help." >> axelrod: six weeks ago they started to demolish what sandy had destroyed in his home and begin to rebuild it. >> he will be sleeping in a brand new home. >> axelrod: yesterday, volunteers added the finishing touches. and after staying away during the six weeks of construction-- ( applause ). >> thank you. >> axelrod: he finally returned home. >> wow! >> axelrod: the helper overwhelmed by being on the other end of the help. >> amazing! >> axelrod: and thinking of his mom two died in 2001. >> she'd be, like impressed. definitely. >> axelrod: one good turn deserves another. and that's the cbs evening news. i'm jim axelrod in new york. i good night.
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to sadness. a community mourns a teenagert and killed by a deputy. the steady stream of people payg their respects. a man suspected of shooting several northern california officers is behind bars. tot what we're learning about h past... and the actions he's said to have taken... t put so many people in dange a bay area police chief cred with helping stop violent crime... gets ready to step down. how he'll take his lol experience to the national level. kpix 5 news is next. good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. ,,,,
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