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a statement on the court. the los angeles clippers player state is a silent protest after more racially charged comments from the owner are leaked. john blackstone is there. >> as two living popes look onto former ones, two become saints. >> next. a high-profile high-tech ceo has been fired after his conviction for domestic abuse. the uproar in silicon valley. >> and dinosaurs disappear. a famed exhibit in dc is shutting down so the creatures can be reconstructed all over again. >> why did you bring them here today? >> it is my day to see the dinosaurs.
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good evening everyone. a western edition of the broadcast. for the first time since a racial controversy erupted, the los angeles clippers for back in uniform today. but not completely. this is what happened before today's playoff game in oakland between the clippers and the golden state warriors. players dropped warm-up jerseys it to reveal shirts turned inside out. protesting against the owner, donald sterling, who is alleged to have made stunning racial comment on a recording released this weekend. sterling was not at the game today. late this afternoon, his former girlfriend said the recording is real but says she did not leak it. more of that tape emerged this morning. john blackstone is with the team. >> reporter: in the first half of today's playoff game, the los angeles clippers fell far behind the golden state warriors. the races comments from donald sterling were distracting the
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players apparently. >> they have been pulled in a million different directions in the last 24 hours. >> how are you confronting this now? >> the messages to play. our message is that -- we will do what we have to do. >> this is a photo that launched of the racist tirade. sterling former girlfriend with magic johnson. dmv says the voice on the audiotape is sterling. >> today, the los angeles chapter of the naacp canceled plans to honor sterling for his contributions to minority youth. he has faced accusations of racism in the past. with his real estate empire. >> he has a lot of money. people look the other way because of that? >> people did look the other way. everybody looked the other way.
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because we tolerate things with rich people sometimes. that we would not tolerate otherwise. >> except for michael jordan, the owners of nba teams are whites. while 70% of the players and coaches are black. the golden warriors coach, mark jackson, does not blame the nba. >> i will not believe that this is just one person. not just in basketball. but in this world. >> this was more of a nuclear firestorm then anything else. that has touched sports and a racial way. just because it hits every awful hot button you can hit. >> today, have a world away in malaysia, president obama said much of the same. >> nd t at happened here. >> reporter: the clippers were badly beaten here today, 118-97. now the nba says it will
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>> more storms developing here. the area to watch for monday, nashville reaching back to birmsham, jackson, the highest risk area for potentially more tornadoes, certainly heavy rain and you notice not a lot of movement as we head into tuesday, the deep south still will be under the gun. >> eric fisher, chief
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meteorologist at wbz in boston, thank you. >> an historic day at the vatican today, the first ever joint elevation of two former points to sainthood with two living popes there. hundreds of thousands filled st. peter's square to watch a service that honored two beloved popes with enduring legacies. allen pizzey was there as well. >> reporter: to the chants of the litany of saints cardinals led pope francis out of st. peter's ba basilica and sent a press tent for a ceremony steeped in centuries of tradition. ceremony steeped in centuries of tradition. two popes have never been cannonized at the same time. the ritual is rigidly formal. a cardinal read three petitions. the response took less time than the requests. we declare and define blessed john xxiii and john paul ii to beqçñsaints, pope francis intoned in latin. and we enroll them among the saints decreeing that they are to be ven rated as such
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by the whole church. rel ikts of the two new saints, a piece of skin from john xxiii and a small sample of john paul 2dz's blood were placed near the altar. in his how many illy francis said they had lived through the tragic events of the 20th century but were not overwhelmed by them. the first pope of the 21st century, benedict xvi sat with some of the 150 cardinals present. that too was unprecedented, and francis made a point of greeting him twice. hundreds of priests gave communion to the nearly half a million people faithful who jammed the square and the roads leading to it. >> it was held on what john paul ii decreed on the day of divine mercy, which pretty much summed up the reasons many of the pilgrims gave for having lined up for as long as 12 hours to secure a place there. to keep progress orderly and insurance as many people as possible got as close as possible took thousands of police, even more volunteers,
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and a lot of patience to say nothing of fortitude. but mary jayne jurofcik and pat polachek of pittsburgh said it was worth it. >> because we know the blessings are going to be here and we wanted to be here. >> reporter: and when it was over, francis gave the crowd his now trademark blessing. and they cheered as loudly as they did for the saints he had just proclaimed. allen pizzey, cbs news, rome. >> jeff: on the eve of new western sanctions against russia, pro russian forces publicly displayed the eight european military observers they had been holding prisoner for three days. the staged event unfolded in the eastern ukrainian city of slavyansk, holly williams is there. >> reporter: the european military observant were paraded in front of the international media today by the self-appointed separatist mayor of slavyansk, the town where they are being held. german colonel axle
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schneider and his team appeared tense and unhappy. >> we have no indication when we will be sent home. >> reporter: they said they were being treated well and showed no sign of injury. it was impossible to tell if they were under duress, though at times they sounded scripted. >> it breaks our hearts to see the poverty of the people here. >> reporter: there was no need to guess how these men were being treated. they're captured ukrainian soldiers also being held in slavyansk. the town's new mayor vyacheslav ponomaryov told us that the european observers are spies. and he wants to swap them for militants held by ukraine's government. >> it looks a bit as though you're using those military observers as hostages, as bargaining chips. >> they appeared on our land where there is martial law, he told us. so as foreign military
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officers, they're prisoners of war and they can be traded. that was news to the observers who stressed that they have diplomatic status and hadn't undertaken any covert activity. >> reporter: the mayor told us today that you are prisoners of war. is that also your understanding? >> we are not prisoners of war. we are the guests of mayor ponomaryov and he treated us as such. >> reporter: late today one of the europeans was released on medical grounds. the others will continue on as the mayor's guests. holly williams, cbs news, slavyansk, ukraine. >> jeff: the prime minister of south korea resigned today over his handling of the ferry boat disaster.
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minister has little power. the president has not resigned. >> palestinian president mahmoud abbas today called the holocaust, quote, the most heinous crime of modern times. his written statement came on israel's holocaust remembrance day. and included words of sympathy for the families of the victims. responding this morning on "face the nation", israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu pointed to the palestinian leaders reconciliation last week with the holocaust denying group hamas, saying quote he cannot speak out of both sides of his mouth. later here the domestic violence that forced a tech c.e.o. from his job. and bollywood meets hollywood in tampa. >> those stories when the "cbs evening news" continues. jake and i have been best friends for years.
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line outrage after pleading guilty to charges of domestic violence. here's don dahler. >> we're in the penthouse of the 27-- 37 floor. >> gur barks chahal was once portrayed by oprah. according to police there is another individual yof his home that shows chaal in a much less flattering light allegedly kicking and hitting his girlfriend 117 times. chahal was charged with 45 counts of felony a saunlted domestic violence but the video tape the incident was thrown out on the grounds it was illegally seeds. the girlfriend also refused to testify forcing san francisco's district attorney to accept a deal. chahal plead guilty and received three years probation and 25 hours of community service. >> we were left with no whitness. it is disappointing. it is disappointing in many levels because we know this is the kind of case where you know, you have significant levels of
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domestic violence. >> reporter: but when word of the plea deal got out social media lit up with outrage demanding the internet advertising company raddium one fire its c.e.o.. two weeks later, it did. >> in is only the most recent incident to ignite accusations that the tech industry is an all-boys club. rachel sklar is a media blogger and founder of the list. >> the problem is with the homogeneity of the leadership and the fact that the people without get funded at the board level, the investor level, we see those being disproportionately white and male. >> a recent study found almost half of the companies in silicon valley have no female executives. >> if raddium one had had a woman on their board, they might just have moved a little quicker rather than waiting until they were following a media firestorm. >> chahal has deny beating his girlfriend but nay blog posting said de lose his temper last august when he found out she was having sex with other men for money. the girlfriend is still not
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talk. don dahler, cbs news, new york. >> jeff: hur a for bollywood was the cry last night in tampa, florida. tamm what hosted the international indian film academy awards, the bolleewood oscars, john travolta was there the show was broadcast worldwide, expected to have an estimated 800 million viewers that is nearly 8 times the audience for the super bowl. >> up next what is behind the squeeze on the middle class? [ male announcer ] this is kevin. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i've got to take more pills. ♪
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>> where is the middle class going, that question is part of the reason why the surprise best-seller of the season is not a teen novel or a thriller but an economic textbook of all things. the author of french scholar, it is called capital in the 2 1st sen ree by thomas pickety and looks at growing inequality. cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger. it is impossible to avoid this book y is it creating such a buzz. >> we heard about income inequality in the past 5 or 6 years but what pickety is talking about is wealth
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inequality. he's saying that we are in a situation that could be setting up for dynastic wealth, meaning family to family. if you are not born rich, you aren't going to be rich it this is bad news for the middle class. >> jeff: the realities today of being in that middle class are what sm. >> not so great right now. median household incomes since the end of the recession is down 4% to about 53,000. college tuition at public universities has skyrocketed. tuition rising at about twice the rate of inflation. that means if you went to school say in 1976, you might say oh, no big deal, college stud cost about 10 or 11 grand, today it's 26,000 today. we are 19th in retirement preparedness on a national and glogg all retirement index. and finally, on housing? there's an alarming study out of ucla that says baby bombers are being forced to move in with their parents. 50 to 64-year-olds seeing a jump of 67% from 2006 to
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2012. >> reporter: in 2008, 53% of americans identified themselves as middle class n 2014 it's only 44%. pickety recommends something fairly radical. this is global tax on wealth. assuming that's not going to happen, what is next for the middle class? >> well, there are some good near-term trends. in the first quarter we saw wage growth increase at the fastest pace since 2008. so that's good. and as the economy progresses, economists are hopeful that we will see more robust wage increases that will make your life a lot easier to live, paying for education, paying for housing. but it is a long slog since that great recession. >> jeff: jill, thank you very much. >> great to be with you. >> jeff: one of the nation's largest concentrations of wealth held a party today. beverly hills turns 100 this year. the cake was not subtle. it cost over $200,000, used over 260 pounds of flour, and 460 pounds of granulateding is ar. the total of 150,000 slices.
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>> jeff: we get our first pictures evidence to a very rare animal born overseas. this is the world's newest jfa mouse deer. one of the world's smallest hooved animals t will grow to roughly the size of a rabbit. here it is with its mother. it is just the 43rd known member of that species. >> and from new animals to old ones, finally tonight dinosaurs are disappearing once again. in this case, it's planned and man-made. the smithsonian national museum of natural history will close down a hugely popular dinosaur haul for an ambitious set of repairs. here's mark albert. >> eight-year-old brice poole calls it the dinosaur bone museum, his favorite. his mom amy and the rest of the family knew they to come. >> it's the last day of the dinosaurs t won't reopen until he's 13. so we thought we would get one last advice knit.o: >> reporter: even a
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tyrannosaurus rex can't outmuscle museum maintenance. starting on monday the second most visited museum in the world will undergo a 48 million dollar overhaul. the century old dinosaur hall will close and nearly 8 million visitors a year won't get to see the museum's most popular attraction. director. >> there is really no eas easy-- cosmetic fix for the hall. what you are seeing is band dade after band-aid. >> physical repairs which include walls and floor being removed, the hall opened up and the story of more than 2,000 dinosaurs retold after the fossils have been restored. >> the place where the bone was filled in, more plaster paris and paint. we will remove the skeleton from the plaster paris, like we have to excavate it all over again. >> reporter: the museum is also making room for its newest jurassic star, a 56 million year ol t-rex discovered by montana ranchers 25 years ago. until then, visitors can see a smaller collection of dinosaurs and still view the iconic hope diamond.
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but brice poole and the rest of us will have to wait until at least 2019 before these creatures can roam our imagination once more. mark albert, cbs news, washington. >> that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm jeff glor, cbs news in new york. scott pelley will xïq)e tomorrow. did good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org on-- for the pilot of the p
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that went down in the bay. a show of protest by the clippers against their owne over racial comments caugh a live picture after two planes collided over the bay. a show of protest from the clippers against their owner. the father of the teen who stowed away on a flight to hawaii gave us insight on why his son did it, can kpix news is next ,, ,,,, ,,
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