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it was a wring ruling. has no basis in the constitution. >> reporter: he is unfazed by corporate threats to pull out of states in protest against his work. >> reporter: money talks, right? >> they're not going to follow through. >> reporter: it is a bluff? >> it is a bluff. they're not leaving. >> but now comes word that ringo star its the latest entertain r to cancel a concert in north carolina in protest. scott, the beatles' old drummer said he is sorry to disappoint his fans, but, we need to take a stand against this hatred. >> dean reynolds on the story for us tonight.
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dean, thank you. now in the presidential campaign today, republican front-runner donald trump hired veteran g.o.p. strategist rick wily to be his new national political director. trump is adding professionals to his team because he is being outmaneuvered for delegates. trump complained last night that the system is rigged. gop chairman, reince priebus responded the rules are the rules. six days before the primary in new york, hillary clinton picked up the endorsement of "the new york daily news." the latest poll today has her leading bernie sanders by ten points. sanders got his first endorsement from a senate colleague, jeff merkley of oregon. >> to tonight we are continuing our investigation into the epidemic of prescription painkiller addiction. ground zero is west virginia, where doctors write 138 prescriptions for every 100
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people. seven doctors have lost their licenses since january. 15 more are being investigated. one of them sat down to explain his practice to jim axelrod. meet dr. michael kostenko. he has written 40,000 prescription for oxycodone in the last two years. how many patients do you have? >> at any given time, 800 to 1,000 active patients. >> reporter: what percentage of your patients get prescriptions for oxycodone? >> nearly 100%. >> reporter: according to court documents. dr. kostenko is one of west virginia's top ten prescribers of painkillers. did you write 325 prescriptions the first week of january for more than 19,000 oxycodone pills? >> possibly. >> reporter: you don't know how many prescriptions you wrote? >> it may well be. >> reporter: operating at the
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end of this their roerks unpaved, pot-hole filled two-mile logging road. >> some times it is hard to keep your eyes open. >> reporter: the doctor hosts group sessions at his coal country clinic seen here in videos he posts on you tube he explains his approach to treating disease and pain through changes indict and behavior. then bacteria and fungi particle are going to get through into the lymph areas. after filling out a medical self assessment, each patient pays $120 cash. as the the video shows the at the end of each class. they're then handed their prescription for pain meds. there are hardly ever private exams. >> there is very little we need to do in private in our office. >> reporter: you don't need to conduct a conversation, confidential about my use of pain medication? that wouldn't occur in private? >> everyone is on the same pain medication. >> reporter: in the last two
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years, three of doctor's patients have died after overdosing on a kick tail of pills. including oxycodone prescribed by kostenko with pills prescribed by other physicians. are you in contact with their primary care physicians to coordinate care? >> no. >> reporter: don't you have an obligation to talk to the other doctors? to make sure that cocktail isn't fatal? >> if the conversation would be productive, absolutely. >> reporter: well the patient is dead. how could the conversation be any less productive than what happened? >> there should be better communication between all physicians dealing with these drugs. there just its not. >> reporter: the state has suspended dr. kostenko's license while they investigate the deaths and decide whether to revoke his license. the board of medicine's executive director. >> is it hard to got a doctor's license revoked or suspended in
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west virginia? >> it is some what difficult, yes. with prescription drugs, physicians can prescribe them. they're legal. it's not like cocaine or heroin. >> did she get eight prescriptions? dr. kostenko didn't help his case when discussing a death with us, a woman being medicated by another physician, a doctor kostenko never consulted with. do you bear any responsibility for that death? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: as he explains it, dr. kostenko wishes the hospital where his patient was being treated reached out to him. he tells us he didn't know how bad her condition was. how to investigations have been opened into the overdose deaths of two other patients of dr. kostenko. >> remarkable interview. jim axelrod with the story tonight. jim, thank you. higher speed limits are killing thousand. and a chip in the brain gives a paralyzed man the use of his hands.
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killing thousand of americans according to a new study this week. we asked transportation correspondent kris van cleave to fill us in. montgomery county maryland police captain, thomas didone sees the danger of speed daily. >> speed is determining whether a crash is an injury or property damage. the faster someone is going the more likely that someone is going to get hurt. >> reporter: for didone it is personal. his 15-year-old son ryan died in a crash where the driver was going at least 20 miles over the limit. >> reporter: if he had been going the speed limit there is not a doubt in my mind every kid would have been home safe. >> reporter: speed limits across the country have been going up since the federal government repealed mandatory maximum of 55 in 1995. the insurance institute for highway safety found those increases have caused at least 33,000 deaths over a 20-year period. with every five miles the speed limit rose, deaths grew by 4%. on freeways, it jumped 8%.
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charles farmer, authored the study. >> for this few minutes that you are saving by going faster, you are increasing your risk quite a bit. there are people dying out there. >> reporter: but the national motorist association says speed limits work best when approximating the natural flow of traffic which hey be higher than posted limit. gary biller. >> fatality rates overall have dropped dramatically to the point in the last couple years they're the lowest on record. as states have continually been raising speed limits their safety statistics have actually gotten better. >> reporter: researchers estimate 1900 people lost their lives in 2013 because of the higher speed limits. that is all most as many lives as were saved by frontal airbags that year. scott, seven states have speed limits of 80 miles an hour or higher, in parts of texas the limit is 85. >> kris van cleave. thank you, kris. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪
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president obama met budding inventers at the white house science fair. he marvelled at a robotic vacuum built to pick up subway trash. works like a charm with ping-pong balls. he blew bubbles using a wand made by a 3-d printer. the operator, 9-year-old jacob leggette got a fist bump from the fan in chief. and a break through in treating paralysis. ian burkehart paralyzed below his shoulders is now able to play video games, swipe a credit card, and play the guitar. researchers at ohio state implanted a chip in his brain that transmitts his thoughts directly to his hand muscles.
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we end with the voice of heaven. vin scully, the longest serving broadcaster for a single team in history. last night he began his final season with the dodgers and carter evans was there. >> it's time for dodger baseball! >> reporter: over nearly seven decade, vin scully called some of baseball's most famous moments, including hank air run's historic home run. it broke babe ruth's record. and sandy koufax's pitching gem. >> a perfect game. >> reporter: now 88 years old, scully called every dodger
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season since 1950 when the team was still dodging trolleys in brooklyn. jackie robinson was hinz prime. and harry truman was in the white house. he has called more than 9,000 games. >> he's hit another one. sportscaster al michaels. >> he is remarkable in so many ways. how many people can you say in their late 80s are at the top of their game? >> reporter: earlier this week the road leading to dodger stadium was renamed. vin scully avenue. >> some one asked me the other day what would you miss the most when you leave the job? and i thought a moment, and i said "the roar of the crowd." that's what i'm going to miss the most. >> reporter: these days those cheers are more scully. >> maybe on the final day of my final broadcast, i will somehow come up with the magic words that you deserve. as for now, i have only two
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magic word. thank you. >> reporter: no, say scully's fans, thank you. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. and that's the "cbs overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley.
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this is the "overnight news" welcome to the "overnight news" i'm michelle miller. a federal assault on the zika virus will likely have to wait until the fall. house republicans say they will not vote on president obama's request for $2 billion to fight the virus until they return from their summer recess. instead, congress forced the administration to divert $600 million in unspent ebola fund. zika is usually transmitted by mosquitoes. it is especially dangerous for pregnant women often infecting the unborn child. dr. jon lapook has the latest.
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>> reporter: working on zika for the last year has meant playing catchup. >> it was thought it was benign virus that wouldn't cause any significant harm to human disease. and it turns out it causes all kinds of problems that we never imagined. >> reporter: the problems in newborns include microcephaly, abnormally small brain at birth, and damage to nerve tissue in the eye. but there is emerging evidence of neurological problems in adults too. including inflammation of the brain and guillain-barre syndrome, a form of paralysis. and a week ago, a case of a 15-year-old girl with inflammation of the spinal cord. these new reports of rare complications are surprising researchers. after a study of zika infected patients in brazil, the author concluded there is strong evidence that this epidemic has different neurological manifestations than those referred to in the existing literature.
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cdc deputy director says researchers are just starting to learn why the virus may be so dangerous. >> in animal studies of the zika virus it seems that the virus its attracted to nerve tissue or brain tissue. and so we worry that in humans that this -- this virus may destroy nerve tissue or attack brain cells. >> reporter: to keep this inner speck ti perspective most who get zika recover after a mild illness. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. on the presidential campaign tra trail, the candidates are counting the days until tuesday's new york primary. hillary clinton and bernie sanders will hold a debate tonight in brooklyn. polls show clinton with a double digit lead in the empire state. for the republicans, donald trump continues to blast the gop establishment calling the delegate process corrupt.
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major garrett reports. >> reporter: rules matter to donald trump. he often tells voters if he is elected president he will bring an intensity and shrewdness about rules to cut better deals for the country. suddenly rules have become mysterious to trump, a source of frustration. so for the second day in a row he are ggued about delegate rul with the chairman of the party he hopes to some day lead. >> this was a dirty trick. >> reporter: donald trump continued unloading on the republican establishment tuesday. this time taking direct aim at the rnc chairman. reince p rich. ebus should be ashamed of himself in an interview. he should be ashamed of himself he knows what is going on. >> reporter: priebus stayed above the fray, but fired back last night on twitter. nomination process known for a year. complaints now. give us all a break. trump is hoping come of plants about party rules will fire up his loyal supporters. >> the party is playing dirty. and we got to show our republican party you have been
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disenfran choose itted, everybody has. >> you are saying you don't think the rnc wants you to get the nomination? >> no, i don't think so. i really don't. >> ted cruz's campaign outorganized trump for stray delegates. perhaps representative of trump's ground game his children eric and ivanka missed the dead lo . >> new york has one of the most onerous rules. >> it was our first for ray into politics. >> house speaker paul ryan tried to inject some clarity into the imagined chaos of a contested convention. saying he will not accept the nomination. >> i simply believe that if you want to be the nominee for our party, to be the president, you should actually run for it. i chose the not to do this. therefore, i should not be considered period end of story. >> reporter: cruz won the lukewarm semiendorsement of
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former rival, senate colleague marco rubio. rubio said he hopes the convention in july nominates a conservative. he said cruz is the only conservative left. the summer travel season is fast approaching. there are growing concerns about the long lines at airport security check points. at some itairports it can take longer to get through security. the people who runt air ports are blaming the tsa. kris van cleave has the story from reagan national. major concern from airlines, airports and fly ears but what the summer travel season will look like based on what they saw during the spring break rush. it cause made your backups from airports from carolina to california. and now mounting calls for the tsa to fix the problem now. extremely strong tsa lines and wait times hitting up to 90 minutes caused spring break chaos. american airlines says in just one week last month, nearly 6,800 passengers missed their
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flights because of those long lines. at seattle tacoma international airport, setac, the waits stretched over an hour. the director announced hiring of private contractors to help with administrative duties freeing up tsa to focus solely on screening as the airport explorz dropping the agency altogether. >> we are going to investigate what it would take to privatize, looking at other air ports that have been, that have privatized. 22 u.s. airports including san francisco and kansas city international use private firms for security screening. nationally the number of transportation security administration screeners is down 15% since 2011. and the agency has been taking fire from congress. >> we have a problem. >> major airports tell cbs news they have seen their security wait times swell. lines at phoenix sky are bar can be 45 minutes or longer. in atlanta, minneapolis, st. pa paul, clock an hour before tsa inspects your carry-on.
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>> we have very high passenger volumes. >> tsa administrator -- >> i do have consaernz but long wait times. it gathers people up. inconvenience for the traveler no small problem it pose a potential problem with respects to large crowd of people. >> earlier this year the nation's busiest, atlanta hartfield jackson fed up with the tsa woefully understaffed said it is considering privatizing the security screening process. >> we are working very hard to dramatically improve our ability to move people through, shifting resources to, to the highest volume airports. front loading our, our hiring to those airports. train more people than we have ever trained before. >> reporter: so how did we get here? one the number of fliers has grown substantially over the last couple years. the tsa has shifted its focus to enhanced screening at checkpoint instead of efficiency of moving people through the lines. also the number of screeners is capped by congress. administrator neffinger says the
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the obama administration has come in fire for its handling of the investigations into the 2008 financial crisis. the big banks who helped fuel the mortgage meltdown and pay billions in fines. only one bank official has ever seen the inside of a jail cell. contrast that to iceland, the great recession forced its three biggest banks out of business. and more than two dozen bankers ended up in prison. martha tichner reports. >> reporter: in iceland, a volcanic eruption of the political kind. angry protesters demanded the resignation of their prime minister when last week's
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sensational data leak revealed his millions of dollars of undisclosed holdings in iceland's three biggest banks which collapsed during the world financial meltdown in 2008. prime minister stepped aside. iceland is known for its volcanic eruptions. among its many exotic natural wonders. and now for something else, after the crash, it let its banks fail and put its bankers in jail. >> when the big three iceland banks collapsed, all three among the biggest bankruptcies in u.s. histories had they been u.s. companies. this man conducts walking tours explaining what went wrong when iceland's bankers and businessmen set out to turn a country of only 330,000 people into a world financial capital.
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>> these guys they styled themselves as corporate vikings. sort of laying claim to the mantel of the original vikings that settled iceland. the banks borrowed massive sums of money then loaned it out again at much higher rates of interest to entrepreneurs who like the ancient vikings plundered, buying up companies worldwide. money rolled in. and a nation of fishermen began believing in the so-called icelandic miracle. >> a lot of people seemed to be getting very rich, very fast. and ape lot of people wanted to join in on that. she is one of the members of parliament who decided on iceland's hard line response when this whole house of cards built on debt came tumbling down. >> even though the banks were also responsible as a whole, i think it was the convict, that
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also the individuals within the banks had done this. >> reporter: there were huge daily protests then too. it was called the pots and pans revolution. the entire economy was in free fall. inflation skyrocketed. unemployment more than quadrupled. and the big three banks were not too big to fail. they were too big to save. valued at 10 1/2 times iceland's gdp. >> why are the 99%. >> at the same time americans were angry too. in the united states more than 8 million jobs were lost. more than 5 million people lost their homes. but congress spent $700 billion in taxpayer monies to bail out the banks. and their executives kept right on collecting their high salaries and bonuses. exactly one u.s. bank went to
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jail. trader kareem saragelden. not so in iceland. oliver houksen was special prosecutor, a hefty budget and a mandate. >> the question here in iceland was, was criminality involved? and if there was criminality involved, there would be a, there should be a prosecution. outside his office, something not seen elsewhere. the country's top bankers facing charges of market manipulation and fraud. ambushed by media. how many bankers are in jail? >> between 20 and 30 have been -- gotten sentence thousands of jail. >> reporter: the former ceo of the bank will begin serving a five year prison sentence in the fall. >> reporter: his lawyer
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dismisses the prosecution's as political theater. >> kind of a witch-hunt. >> witch-hunt? >> yeah. >> people were angry. so you had to convert it to some sort of political solution. >> reporter: the bankers are sent to prison. no bars, but hours from anywhere. an icelandic journalist allowed in for an interview was told -- >> translator: we never did anything that wasn't in the interest of the bank or its clients. >> the worst thing was the broken trust. >> reporter: information security consultant was one of thousand of property owners who lost homes. >> and that's -- that's why nobody feels pity for the ba bankers in the jail. because they -- they cheated on us. you know they told us lies. they, they -- covered up.
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to use restrooms corresponding to their biological sex. a similar law in north carolina has sparked some businesses and musicians to boycott that state. the transformation in attitudes is also playing out in college sports. the harvard swim team is now the first division i men's team in the nation to include an openly transgender young man. lesley stahl has the story for "60 minutes." how different are you? if i met you a couple years ago and then saw you today? >> physically you would say, yeah, you may not recognize me. >> reporter: you look that different? >> i'd say, so, yeah. >> reporter: we'd say so too. this is what skylar baylar looked like in high school. from the outside, skylar appeared to be a young woman who had it all. outstanding grades in school. plus all-american times in the pool. an attractive combination to swim coaches from topnotch colleges. >> she was a very strong
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breaststroker. and those times were fast. >> reporter: harvard's women's coach traveled to d.c. to recruit skylar. >> reporter: first impressions? >> engaging. energetic. somebody i really thought would do well at harvard. >> reporter: harvard was skylar first choice. but this fairy tale had a little wrinkle. one that may have started before skylar even learned to swim. when you were a little girl were you a typical little girl? >> definitely not. >> reporter: 3, 4, 5. >> reporter: my parents dressed me in pink dresses, bow ties, i had a doll. i don't think i was typical. i would look to rip them off didn't want to wear the dresses. >> i'm not wearing a dress. >> reporter: gregor and terry baylar are skyla's parents. >> did people think skylar was a boy? >> they thought skylar preferred
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short hair. that their daughter may be transgendered never occurred to them. though there were clues. in middle school, skylar's class had to make self portraits in the present and the future. she came home with this. it made no sense at the time. why the future meant becoming an old man with a mustache. and the confusion only worsened when puberty hit. and things like breasts began to appear. >> i was like that's not something i don't want. i don't know why. i know i don't want that. >> reporter: though it felt wrong, skylar saw no choice but to try to make it work as a girl with long hair and dresses. but, it backfired. she developed major eating disorders. >> bulimia, anorexia. >> both. >> reporter: both. >> it was serious. >> we fear ford his life. >> reporter: they postponed skylar's going to harvard and got her help at an eating disorders program. when she want to hear some
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transgender men speak at a local church, wham, everything started to make sense. awe thought was like, holy crap this is me. this is 100%, everything that they're saying that's me. i just melted down i started crying. sobbing. my dad was picking me up. he was coming to visit me. >> reporter: that very day. >> yeah, i walked out to him. sobbing. and he just hugged me. >> he came out -- you know in tears. and -- >> eventually. he said what is wrong, skylar. i said dad, i think i am transgender. >> reporter: how did you handle it? >> i hugged him. and he cried. and cried. >> it made me realize i wanted that so badly but i knew how hard it was going to be. and, it was look what about swimming? what about my body? what about surgery? what about the money? what about people? what are we going to say? my grandparents? my brother. everything at once? but i want this.
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i know i want this. >> reporter: skylar's mental health improved quickly. there was still the matter of telling coach marosky her new women's swimmer would be coming to college as a man. >> reporter: so what was your reaction? >> i was surprised. but the real big question skylar had was can i still swim on your team? >> what did you think? did you think some one who identified as main could swim on the women's team. >> i thought logistically we might have some issues that we would have to work out. >> reporter: like ncaa rules. turns out ncaa has a policy that allows for athletes who identify as male, but were born female to compete on a women's team as long as they don't take male hormones. so, stephanie marosky said yes. skylar started making plans to live something of a double life. to be a man on harvard's campus the next fall, but a woman on
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harvard's swim team. meanwhile, skylar came out as transgender on facebook. and posted on instagram that he had so-called top surgery. a double mastectomy to remove the breasts he hadn't wanted. the whole situation started to worry coach marosky. i think stephanie was the first to realize that skylar's plan of being a woman in the water but a man outside was going to be totally detrimental to her psyche. >> when you enroll in college it is an opportunity to start over again. >> reporter: reinvent yourself. >> you can reinvent yourself. and i was -- struggling watching skylar, because he wanted to reinvent himself as skylar as a male, but was being held back by the athletic piece of it. >> reporter: she discuss herd concerns with her friend and colleague, harvard men's swim coach kevin turrell. >> kevin kind of looked at me and said, i don't, i agree with
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there is a new high tech doorbell that allows you to see who is on your front stoop even if you are at work. chris martinez has a look. >> yes, fire department. >> reporter: false alarms. >> we're not home. we're down in florida. >> reporter: deliveries. >> should i place it on the hook? >> we are going to be out. >> reporter: stolen packages. attempted burglaries. and romantic serenades. ♪ ♪ all captured by rings video doorbell. >> what kind of damn doorbell is this. >> reporter: when visitors press the doorbell or set off the motion detector it send an alert to the homeowner smart phone. last year ring partnered with lapd as part of pilot to reduce
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burglaries. >> when some one rings the doorbell, it tells me someone is at the door. there we are. robbie o'donnell is one of the program's participants. she and her husband are survivors of a violent 1980 home invasion. >> you can adjust the sensitivity to have a smaller radius or a narrower focus. >> reporter: how far is yours going out? >> going out to the sidewalk. 30 feet. and i can pull it back to as much as five feet. >> reporter: this is what robbie o'donnell sees when i ring her doorbell. a clear view of her front porch from her home. we can talk back and forth. los angeles police since the ring neighborhood program began they have seen an estimated 55% drop in crime. >> reporter: brings you into the home no matter where you are. since starting the company in 2012, jamie siminof received $100 million in funding, from investors like richard branson. devices powered by traditional electric wiring or battery but
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do require an internet connection. >> the biggest problem is if you have substandard internet it is hard to set up. >> you are seeing a lot of concerns about the internet of things. >> reporter: cnn anchorman, like all systems dependent on wi-fichlt there is room for error. >> biggest vulnerability, all of this technology, not everything is fully baked yet. you have to test all the hardware, software configurations. >> ring says abut half of all home robberies occur during the day when no one is there. >> i am a criminal coming to the house, the idea i am hearing a voice. >> motion detection goes off. why is there some one at my front door at 3:00. i can say to the person can i help you? they have noied where tie am. they leaf. hoping the mysterious voice that answers the door is enough. get lost or i'm calling the cops. to deter unwanted visitors home or away. chris mar teens, los angeles. >> that's the "cbs overnight news" for this thursday.
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