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>> jeff: tonight new details and new questions. police investigate ten different crime scenes after that mass shooting in santa barbara. but what about the visit they paid to see elliot rodger's apartment. the president lands in afghanistan for a surprise visit. >> al qaeda is on its heels in this part of the world, and that's because of you. >> jeff: major garrett will have details. pope francis in jerusalem, tonight, bethlehem earlier, extending an invite to israeli and palestinian leaders to meet at the vatican. allen pizzey on what's next. and they'll feed your parking meter just to make a point. >> we're all working towards having a freer society, i would say. less government, more personal freedom. >> jeff: don dahler says not everyone is happy. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news."
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>> jeff: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor. this is our western edition of the broadcast. police were painfully close to catching him. they didn't know it, he did. this came a month ago after deputies visited the apartment of elliot rodger. rodger wrote in a manifesto "that would have ended everything. for a few horrible seconds i thought it was all over." rodger had guns in his apartment but police bought his story and left. more on that in a moment, but first, investigators late this afternoon served a search warrant at the homes of rodger's parents. they have an enormous amount of evidence so far including that manifesto and 12 crime scenes. seven people died friday night, more than a dozen were hurt. we begin with danielle nottingham in santa barbara. >> reporter: elliot rodger's rampage through a small town packed with college kids started in his apartment where santa barbara county sheriff bill brown said he stabbed three
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people to death. >> in his manifesto he actually did make mention of stabbing while they were sleeping. >> reporter: according to sheriff, rodger sent his 140 page manifesto to some of his college professors one of whom alerted police. authorities say it came too late to stop what he vowed would happen next, an attack on a sorority house. i will sneak into their house around 9:00 p.m. on the day of retribution and slaughter every one of them with my guns and knives. he made the same threat in a chilling youtube video posted, police believe, minutes before carrying out his plan. >> i will take to the streets of isla vista and slay every single person i see there. >> reporter: rodger pounded on the door of the sorority and when no one answered at 9:27 p.m. he shot and killed two students standing across the street. katie cooper and veronica weiss.
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then according to his manifesto, i will then make my way to dell playa slaughtering as many of my enemies as i can, shooting anyone i don't splatter. and that's exactly what happened. on his way there he stopped and went into the isla vista deli, a place he had regularly frequented. the surveillance video shows customers hitting the floor for cover, when the gunfire ended 20-year-old christopher martinez lay dead. his father richard lost his only son. >> chris was a really great kid. ask anyone who knew him. his death has left our family lost and broken. >> reporter: rodger sped off and began firing on a crowded street filled with students including mitch brewe. >> there was a guy next to me who was just in shock. he was shaking and crying and you know trying to comfort him and everyone is calling their parents and texting their friends, stay inside. >> reporter: before his final gun battle with police, he kept driving and firing and struck two bicyclists. the sheriff says he then took
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his own life. police found three semiautomatic weapons in his car and 400 rounds of unused ammunition. and jeff, it only took about ten minutes from the time rodger fired shots outside the sorority house until he crashed his car at the end of the police chase. >> jeff: danielle, thank you very much. rodger's family says he was under the care of several mental health professionals. and his parents' concern even reached out to police last month. that lead though that visit. but that wasn't all. amy johnson of kcbs has more. >> reporter: sheriff bill brown of the santa barbara county sheriff's department says his officers interacted with elliot rodger on three separate occasions before friday's shooting. in july of last year rodger came into contact with authorities at a local hospital where he claimed to have been the victim of an attack. officers suspected he might have been the aggressor and the case was suspended. then in january, rodger contacted authorities claiming that his roommate had stolen
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three candles valued at $22. finally, in april, less than a month before the shooting, sheriff deputies interviewed elliot rodger outside of his apartment at the request of a family member who was concerned after he posted rambling videos on-line. >> you never accepted me. now you'll all pay for it. >> reporter: they found him to be at that time rather quiet and timid. he was polite and courteous. he was able to convince the deputies that this was all a misunderstanding. >> reporter: rodger says in his manifesto that there were about seven police officers. and goes on to vividly describe the visit. but rodger says the deputies just asked him if he was
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suicidal and they never entered or searched the apartment. rodger told them it was all a misunderstanding, he says, and they left. alan shifman attorney for the rodger family says the system failed. >> this country, this world needs to address mental illness and the ramifications from not recognizing these illnesses. >> reporter: amy johnson, cbs news, los angeles. >> jeff: president obama paid a surprise visit to bagram air field today. he promised the troops a responsible end, he says, to the conflict in afghanistan by the end of this year. a senior white house correspondent major garrett joins us with more on this, major? >> reporter: jeff, president obama paid tribute to u.s. forces in afghanistan and shook the hand of every member of the united states military in attendance at bagram airbase but the president also made an important announcement. mr. obama said he would leave some u.s. forces in afghanistan after 2014.
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some of the white house had been advising the president to pull out all 32,000 u.s. military personnel from afghanistan by the end of this year. that is the so-called zero option. top white house officials tell us that is now effectively off the table. mr. obama must now decide how many forces he wants to keep in afghanistan to help train the afghan army and police and assist in counter-terrorism operations. estimates range from 5,000 to 10,000 and projected cost of between $5 billion and $10 billion a year. jeff, mr. obama is expected to explain more about his thoughts on afghanistan at a commencement speech wednesday at the place where he announced his troop surge in afghanistan in 2009, the u.s. military academy at west point. >> glor: major garrett at the white house, thank you very much. pope francis today invited palestinian president mahmoud abbas and israeli president shimon peres to the vatican next month to pray for peace. both accepted, it happened during the second day of the pope's middle east trip spent largely in the palestinian territories. allen pizzey has more. >> reporter: the papal visit was a massive boost for the
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palestinian's claim to statehood. the israeli-palestinian conflict the pope said was increasingly unacceptable. but he wasn't taking sides in it. the time has come, francis went on, for everyone to find the courage to be generous and creative in the service of the common good. >> reporter: in an unscheduled stop he left his pope mobile to utter a prayer at the massive wall for security which palestinians complain cuts up their land. then the mass in bethlehem's manager square the pope sprang another surprise, an invitation to president mahmoud abbas and shimon peres to come to my house in the vatican to pray together for peace. both accepted. francis later visited with children from a nearby refugee camp and heard their tales of hardship. the camp where they come from
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sums up why the peace process seems endless. this mural lists 56 villages from where the refugees were expelled. 74-year-old spinach seller yusra ismael came here as a child. her dream going back to her village is one instilled in every generation here. the israeli leaders who welcomed francis insist it's never going to come true. but they too got a diplomatic shout. the two state solution must become a reality, the pope said, and not remain merely a dream. in the spirit of reconciliation was at the heart of francis's visit to jerusalem. when he prayed with the orthodox patriarch at the tomb where christ was buried. tomorrow, the pope will visit the holocaust memorial, hold meetings with israeli's top leaders and mass at the rule of the last supper and then head home, mission accomplished for now. jeff? >> jeff: allen pizzey, thank you. candy tycoon petro poroshenko won today's presidential election in ukraine today,
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avoiding a runoff according to exit polls. election day unfolded very differently depending on what part of the country you were in. here's charlie d'agata. >> reporter: by the millions ukrainians voted in an election that could prove crucial in pulling the country back from the brink of civil war. claiming victory tonight, billionaire petro poroshenko said his first priority is to put an end to the war and chaos caused by pro-russian separatists in the east. in the capitol kiev and in western ukraine a high voter turnout exceeded expectations. it's an entirely different picture here in eastern ukraine, at the few polling stations that are open, election officials had told us, the turnout has been disappointingly low. >> reporter: but not as low as the separatist held city that matters most. in donetsk, a city of more than a million people ballot boxes
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were turned into trash cans. not a single vote was cast. and here's the reason. the guns that pro russian separatists fired into the air today in a show of force in donetsk were the same guns that stopped anyone from voting. i.t. businessman miraslov called the roaming gunmen terrorists. did you even try to vote today? did you go to your polling station. >> reporter: it's not open. >> it's not open. >> reporter: in fact, we had to drive more than an hour outside the city past pro russian check points to find a polling station that was open. railway worker alexander petro vick said he hoped the election could be a new beginning for ukraine. you have reason to hope? hope, he told us, is the last thing to die. that sense of hope is not shared here in donetsk.
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most people we spoke to said they were frustrated they weren't able to take part in these elections. many were too frightened to even speak with us on camera, and jeff, those gunmen still own ot streets tonight. >> glor: charlie d'agata, thank you. elections begin tomorrow in egypt. clarissa ward is in cairo tonight, clarissa? >> reporter: good evening, jeff, well, what a difference a year makes. this time last may egypt's president was the muslim brotherhood's mohammed morsi. today, morsi is in a prison cell after being deposed in a coup last summer. and the man who orchestrated that coup field marshal fatah cece is almost certain to become egypt's next president. since seizing power he has overseen a massive crackdown on the muslim brotherhood, more than 1300 people have been killed, tens of thousands have been arrested, including liberal activist and western journalists. but many egyptians here simply don't care. all they want to see after three
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chaotic years is a return to stability and an improvement in the economy. and they believe that cece is the only man who can do that, jeff. >> jeff: clarissa ward, thank you. the first no-hitter of the baseball season today. happened this afternoon it longs to josh beckett of the l.a. dodgers. he struck out chase utley of the phillies to clinch this one in bucket's first no-hitter in a 14 year career. 128 pitches. a dramatic finish at the indianapolis 500 today. the second closest finish ever. ryan hunter-reay just edged out helio castroneves by .06 seconds. hunter-reay is the first american to win since 2006. it was a dramatic series in the final few laps. later here, a second chance at a youthful life for a long-gone satellite when the "cbs evening news" continues. jake and i have been best friends for years.
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>> jeff: a drama is playing out high above us tonight, a first of its kind mission to wake up a sleeping satellite. nasa had when it off physical a small group of science fans raised money and convinced the space agency to let them borrow the spacecraft. here's mark albert. >> reporter: 36-years-ago nasa launched this disco era satellite to study solar weather. it discovered how solar flares can disrupt communication on earth and also became the first satellite to chase down a comet flying by hailey's comet in 1986 and confirming it's essentially a giant ball of ice. but as newer more sophisticated satellites went into orbit nasa eventually put the aging bird out to planetary pasture. so it's a smart satellite? >> it's a cleverly designed satellite that doesn't really have a computer. >> reporter: so how smart is it? >> your toaster is smarter. >> reporter: it may lack smarts but it's still capable of running experiments. so keith cowing and a group of
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20 convinced nasa for the first time to turn the weakened satellite over to their group of space enthusiasts. >> we have, sort of, taken command of an abandoned spacecraft and giving it back to the people who paid for it. >> reporter: $150,000 raised by crowd funding on-line will pay for programming, hardware and use of radio telescopes. all the new data will be open to anyone so they can make their own discoveries about solar weather patterns or how a spacecraft ages. >> this is a satellite that nasa had no intention of using again. jeff yoder at nasa helped broker the deal. >> with this unique arrangement it really will stimulate the next generation of scientists. >> reporter: but the reboot team hunkered down at the observatory in puerto rico now faces a more urgent mission. the spacecraft is off course and maybe headed for a collision with the moon. even if it doesn't crash, it won't be this close to earth again any time soon. when is your next chance? >> there is no next chance, it will be decades from now. >> reporter: this is it. >> this is it.
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>> reporter: a race to recover a relic. mark albert, cbs news, washington. >> jeff: next up, google, apple, amazon, and the battle for brands. good job! still running in the morning? yeah. getting your vegetables every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. i'm j-e-f-f and i have copd. es i'm l-i-s-a and i have copd, but i don't want my breathing problems to get in the way of hosting my book club. that's why i asked my doctor about b-r-e-o. once-daily breo ellipta helps increase airflow from the lungs for a full 24 hours. and breo helps reduce symptom flare-ups that last several days and require oral steroids, antibiotics, or hospital stay. breo is not for asthma. breo contains a type of medicine
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we're joined by oscar yuan vice president at millward brown, thank you for being here. why this change and why is it significant? >> you know, brand is a perception in consumer's minds and this is really a story about innovation. and apple has always been perceived in consumer's minds as the most innovative company in the world coming with new categories, new products but in reality their last huge innovation was in 2010 with the ipad. and google has continued this cadence of innovation they have continued in the last year, google glass, they talked about the driver-less cars and all of this feeds into the perception in consumer's minds that google is a forward looking innovative company. >> jeff: speak of forward looking, so the top ten brands, google, then apple, then ibm, microsoft, mcdonalds, coca-cola, visa, at&t, marlboro and then amazon. three of these brands are up more than 40% in your estimation over the past year, a couple others have dipped. what is the key for them moving forward? >> the key for brands is really to think about themselves outside the category they play in. so what we say is these brands are boundary-less. meaning they don't think of themselves in the category they play in.
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>> jeff: finally tonight, new hampshire's state motto is live free or die. in one town a group of self- described anarchists are putting those words to the test. here's don dahler. >> reporter: in keene, new hampshire, garrett ean is robin hood. >> i keep the meters filled. >> reporter: trying to stay one step and one coin ahead of the town's parking enforcement officers. >> i think it's great. i really do. >> i'm glad i could help you out. >> ean is part of the free keene movement which purports to free its citizens from $5 parking tickets. they also want the right to drink alcohol and smoke marijuana in public places. james cleaveland is the group's
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lead ever. >> we're all working towards having a freer society, i would say. less government, more personal freedom. >> reporter: but not all keene residents are keen on their tactics. the robin hooders follow and video tape parking officers. >> just because you have a right to be out here doesn't men it's the right thing to do. >> maybe we could help you find another career. where you would be more respected by your community. >> reporter: such comments lead to one officer's resignation. gary lamoureax oversees the city's parking. >> we had one gentleman who just could not handle the issues. he was more afraid of what he might do because he was being intimidated. he was being harassed. so he resigned. >> reporter: lamoureax says the meters keep people from just leaving their cars on the streets which would hurt business. >> it hasn't been an issue as far as them taking funds away from us. it's more of the harassment and intimidation factor that they were doing.
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>> reporter: last may, keene filed suit to establish a ten foot buffer between their officers and the robin hooders but a judge dismissed it citing free speech protections. a counter-protest by the name of stop free keene has been started by residents who just want life in their picturesque new england town to go back to normal. don dahler, cbs news, new york. >> jeff: that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs, "60 minutes." and first thing tomorrow, cbs this morning. i'm jeff glor, cbs news in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh
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