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>> axelrod: the death toll rises in the chattanooga shootings. the fifth victim, a u.s. navy petty officer died from his wounds this morning. donald trump ignites outrage in iowa, mocking former republican candidate john mccain. >> he's a war hero because he was captured, i like people that weren't captured, i hate to say. >> axelrod: terrifying moments for drivers in southern california when a fire jumps the highway. images surface of queen elizabeth as a little girl performing a nazi salute. >> it was taken away from me. >> axelrod: and translating nemo... in navajo. can a popular children's movie help save a dying language? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news."
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>> axelrod: good evening, i'm jim axelrod. and this is the western edition of the broadcast. he loved his family, baseball and the navy. that's how his family described randall smith, a petty officer in the united states navy and the fifth service member to die from an attack on the armed forces recruitment center in chattanooga, tennessee two days ago. smith and his wife had three daughters under the age of seven he called his little princesses. he managed to flash thumbs up after surgery and died at 2:17 this morning. we're learning about the shooter, muhammad youssef abdulazeez spent more than half of last year in the middle east and recently in shooting ranges here at home. jericka duncan begins our coverage. >> reporter: a fifth cross was put in the ground today at this growing memorial site to mark the death of randall smith
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shot three times during thursday's rampage. hundreds came to visit including the family of one of the victims, staff sergeant, david wyatt. his father allen told me his son died after helping others escape. >> i'm told that my son and others were escorting the other people in the building, trying to get them out. that they were boosting them over a fence. that they were able to get 18 people away over the fence and they counted and there were two missing. and my son, sergeant wyatt and gunnery sergeant sullivan went trying to look for the other two. whereupon they ran into the shooter and were fired upon and killed. >> reporter: beyond the flowers and flags, you could see the fbi gathering evidence. 26 year old daly simmons paused to pray for peace.
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>> you could just feel so angry and it's just amazing to see all of chattanooga getting together. >> reporter: while others like cassandra daniels grieved for a nation in pain. >> what happened in charleston and what happened here. hate. a lack of understanding. >> reporter: but what united everyone here today was gratitude to the men who gave their lives. >> i'm extremely proud of my son. of all of the men who died there. they went to work that morning expecting to be reasonably secure and not expecting anything like this to happen. but then when things did start to happen, they stepped up and did their job like they were trained to do. >> reporter: fbi specialists have been meeting with the
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victim's families. jim, the wyatt family tells us they will be meeting with officials this evening to get an update on the investigation. >> axelrod: jericka, thank you. the governor of florida has put in new security measures in place for national guard recruiters in his state. rick scott has now ordered recruiters at six storefront locations in florida to relocate to armories until security procedures can be reexamined. also today, the governor of indiana joined those from florida, texas, louisiana and arkansas calling for all guard facilities to be armed. at the top of investigators list of questions: was the shooting in chattanooga isis-directed or even isis-inspired. the report that youssef abdulazeez was taking target practice recently. >> reporter: investigators were focusing on several trips muhammad abdulazeez took
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overseas especially seven months last year in jordan and whether that led to his radicalization. officials caution it's too early to say if he was inspired by isis or other terror group. they have warned of the growing left of so-called lone wolf attacks. bassam issa is the president of the islamic society of greater chattanooga, saying he recently spoke to abdulazeez's father. >> he was in the dark on what his son has done. he's very devastated. >> reporter: the picture emerging of abdulazeez is complicated. his father was investigated for possible ties to terrorism and put on a watch list but he was cleared. in his yearbook the high school wrestler noted that his name causes national security alerts. abdulazeez's mother alleged she was beaten by his father in 2009 divorce papers, but they reconciled. in 2013, abdulazeez lost his job at an ohio nuclear plant after just ten days. this past april, he was pulled
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over for driving under the influence. and in a blog post attributed to abdulazeez in just three days before the shooting, the author encourages readers to submit to allah. cbs news national security analyst juan zarate. >> that's the potential of these lone wolf cases. the actions of the individuals don't trigger any of the warning signs or safety valves that we have to be able to identify suspicious individuals. >> reporter: investigators are looking into abdulazeez's digital footprint looking for any social media communications. co-workers have also told investigators that abdulazeez claims he had been frequently a local shooting range with friends as recently as last month. >> axelrod: juliana goldman in our news room. thank you. donald trump is in the news in presidential politics although maybe not in the way he likes to be. trump's smash mouth political
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style has helped him set the conversational agenda and climb in the polls. today it may have inflicted some real damage on his own campaign. here's meg oliver. >> reporter: at a conference of religious conservatives today, donald trump sparred with frank luntz over senator john mccain. >> a war hero. >> he's not a war hero. he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured, i hate to say it. >> reporter: trump didn't stop there. he also questioned mccain's intelligence. >> he graduated last in his class in annapolis. you're not supposed to say somebody graduated last or second to the last because you're supposed to be like frank says very nice. >> reporter: reaction exploded on social media. out of the 14 g.o.p. hopefuls, 13 jumped to mccain's defense. jeb bush tweeted: enough with the slanderous attacks. senator john mccain and all of our veterans, particularly pows have earned our respect and admiration.
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lindsey graham tweeted if there was ever any doubt that he should not be g.o.p. standard bearer, his growing mountain of stupid statements should end all doubt. g.o.p. candidate scott walker didn't hesitate to call out trump. >> donald trump today needs to apologize to senator mccain and all of the other men and women who wear the uniform. >> reporter: at a press conference later in the day trump went on the defensive over his deferment during the vietnam war. >> because i was going to college i had student deferments. it was a long time ago-had student deferments and ultimately had a medical deferment because of my feet, i had a bone spur. >> reporter: after leaving the stage trump tweeted, captured or not all our soldiers are heroes. just before that, mccain's daughter megan tweeted, i can't believe what i am reading this morning. horrified. disgusted. there are no words. jim. >> axelrod: meg, thanks. steve, there are a lot of feelings about mr. trump's comments in republican circles
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but i don't detect that surprise is among them. >> yes. it's more a matter of when and not if, according to the republicans i've talked to, been waiting for a moment like this from trump for a while now. not only not a surprise, but they fully expect more of these moments from him. >> axelrod: rick perry, lindsey graham among others wasted no time saying this shows disrespect to all those who served and makes donald trump unfit to be president. what kind of damage, if any, does this do to the trump candidacy? >> coming from all corners of the republican party including those reluctant to slam him from the controversial immigration remarks. remarks by the way jim which helped his poll numbers. their three polls last week showed approval ratings jumping among republicans. what's obvious here, there's some in the g.o.p. that loves this edgy blunt talk from trump after losing two presidential elections and being frustrated with president obama. but an attack on pows and war hero. they tell me that crosses a line and they expect some backlash
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among voters. >> axelrod: given the record on predictions of donald trump, no one's saying this is the end of his campaign in your view. >> no, not yet. and he's already said he's going to stick this out as long as he can. it's one of these things where we all thought he was going to be in trouble after the immigration comments. those polls last week showing his approval going up. there's no predicting what's going to happen moving forward. >> axelrod: okay, steve chaggaris, thank you. a stretch of interstate 15 closed overnight after a wild fire crossed the freeway and set dozens of cars on fire. carter evans is there. >> the car that fought fire burning there in the middle of your screen. >> reporter: to see home cars and trucks on fire, people fleeing from the flames and the aftermath. it's amazing no one was hurt but there were plenty of close calls. >> you can feel it on my neck. >> reporter: igor says he and others grabbed what they could
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and ran. do you think you might not be able to get away. >> yes. when i saw the flame 40 feet all you do is just run like hell and hopefully it doesn't catch up. >> reporter: once he was out of harm's way he shot this video as others make their escape. he was hauling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of new cars. this is what's left. the fire broke out friday afternoon in california's cajom pass. he was driving from california to houston. his car was badly damaged. >> it was chaos. all we could do is run up the mountain and get away from it. >> reporter: the fast moving flames then spread to nearby rural neighborhoods. at least three homes were destroyed. strong winds fanned another rugged fire in a mountain area three miles to the west. 300 campers had to be evacuated. they warned of a long fire season.
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it has certainly has arrived. >> it was something you see out of a magazine and never think you are going to be in it. >> reporter: there's still no cause on this fire but investigators may have determined where it started. all day they've been focusing on an area right behind me, alongside the interstate. jim. >> axelrod: carter evans in california, thank you. film footage, more than eight decades old is center stage in great britain tonight. the newspaper "the sun" published queen elizabeth as a little girl performing a nazi salute. and as jonathan vigliotti tells us, buckingham palace is firing back. >> reporter: the home video obtained by british tabloid "the sun" shows the young queen and her sister waving to the camera in her garden 82 years ago. the queen's mother raises her hand in what appears to be the nazi salute. queen elizabeth mimics the gesture followed by her uncle.
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it was taken in 1933, long before the atrocities of world war ii came into focus. >> it was about six months queen elizabeth. >> reporter: dickie arbiter is the former press secretary to the queen. >> they didn't know until very much later in the '30's. >> reporter: that's when public opinion toward hitler evolved. the soccer team came under fire for performing the salute in berlin. the opinion didn't stop prince edward from flirting with fascism. he became a known nazi sympathizer. after abdicating to marry, he met hitler and spent time with his troops. stig abell called it one of the earliest records of edward's nazi support. >> led by a man from the british royal family nazi salute to a video.
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>> reporter: the release was three weeks after the queen made her visit. in a written statement today buckingham palace said: "it's disappointing that film shot eight decades ago apparently from her majesty's personal family archive has been obtained and, exploited in this manner. buckingham palace investigating how they got ahold on the video. the paper is not naming their source. >> axelrod: covering for us tonight in london, thank you. find out what actually caused the big security scare in new york city, and a superstar, when "cbs evening news" continues. cbs evening news continues.
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>> axelrod: a photograph of four people carrying what looked like assault rifles sent people scrambling. they were paintball guns. here's contessa brewer.
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>> reporter: it looks like carrying some serious weaponry. a retired police officer snapped the pics yesterday. the response was massive with check points and searched cars. friday evening rush came to a standstill. fort wadsworth locked down for a couple hours on the lookout for individuals armed with what appear to be assault rifles. investigators acknowledged they might be paintball guns. >> if they turn out to be a terrorist act at least people will cause some tremendous damage. we want to try to stop them. >> reporter: staten island private investigator mike gaynor spent years as an nypd homicide detective. >> from a ralph you're not able to tell for sure. >> reporter: an m-16 on top, a paintball marker as it's officially known on the bottom. bb guns, water guns, toy guns. even iphone cases.
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the look-alikes sometimes sparks deadly consequences. november 2014-- cleveland ohio. 12-year-old tamir rice toys with a pellet gun in the park. an officer shoots and kills the boy. 2014, beavercreek, ohio. a shopper handles a bb gun for sale at wal-mart. someone calls police and the officers shoot and kill him. >> it puts them in a position to think twice, three times before taking action sometimes. >> reporter: federal law bans manufacturers from making realistic looking toy guns unless they include that orange barrel plug. and the paintball industry urges its players to disassemble their devices and carry them in bag because of the potential for confusion with a real weapon here. >> axelrod: contessa, thank you. up next, saturday in the park. first family style. park. first family style.
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war ii when the famed navajo wind talkers relayed messages to allied forces in code japanese were never able to break. now some 70 years later a movie is part of an effort to keep the navajo language alive and enlist the help of a friendly little fish. >> go for it. >> reporter: 11 year old quinton kien is one of the navajo speakers. the language which he learned from his grandmother is giving a new voice to one of disney/pixar's most popular films. >> i just wanted to make this movie to get my native language out. >> reporter: the navajo edition of "finding nemo" is more than entertainment, it's part of an ongoing effort to preserve the traditional language of the nation's largest native american tribe. >> it's got a little staccato pace to it, there's a lot of little breaks in the language. so that make it difficult for
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lip sync. >> axelrod: rick dempsey, senior vice president for character voices at disney is working in collaboration with the navajo nation museum. the studio held auditions on the reservation but had a hard time casting the title role. >> there's not a lot of opportunities in terms of how many kids to pull from because there aren't that many kids that are fluent in the language. >> the majority of the fluent speakers are 40 and above. >> reporter: manny wheeler is the museum director in window rock, new mexico. >> the oral tradition really is very dynamic, very descriptive and they are great stories. and so here now, this is the new age and these are the new stories. >> reporter: three years ago lucasfilm had a navajo translation of the original star wars. the film was a huge success.
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13-year-old adrian hardy went to the premier with his grandmother. >> it's more interesting in navajo. >> reporter: he said the film is a good way to keep young people interested in the language. >> we're helping save a language. we're giving a booster to navajo language. we're trying to make a difference for our navajo people and trying to help the culture survive. and it will. i'm really optimistic about that. >> reporter: with help from the next generation. and a little orange fish. translating nemo. >> axelrod: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. later on cbs, "48 hours." for now i'm jim axelrod in new york. for all of us here at cbs news thanks for joining us. and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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first, a freeway, then a crowded campground. the wild fires that kept crews scrambling overnight in southern california. >> a south bay park reopens after an overnight man hunt. how visitors are reacting to news about the criminal activity so close. >> and tiny pioneers. how these small turtles are the hope of some bay area for over 60,000 california foster children, having necessary school supplies can mean the difference between success and failure. the day i start, i'm already behind. i never know what i'm gonna need. new school new classes, new kids. it's hard starting over. to help, sleep train is collecting school supplies
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for local foster children. bring your gift to any sleep train and help a foster child start the school year right. not everyone can be a foster parent but anyone can help a foster child. live from the cbs bay area studios. this is kpix5 news. good evening, i'm brian. >> and i'm juliette goodrich. we begin with breaking news. police in modesto at a home there found five bodies. they were called for a welfare check about 3:30 this afternoon to a house in the 2600 block of

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