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university should atone for its slavery past. >> in this moment in america we're living with the fact that we never amillierated the original evil of slavery. >> reporter: it will give preferential ad mission for the slaves it sold. there are 10 to 15,000 of those descendants who now get the same special look as those of alumniand donors. >> our country is really torn apart by ralths strife and they're perfectly positioned to lead the charge with us. >> reporter: they're also creating an institute to study slavery's legacy, building a memorial and building two buildings. one for a run away slave named
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isaac. they still have a $30 reward notice for his capture. for descendants living in louisiana, georgetown's push for answers have solved a mystery for her. >> not having your history is something that we lived with. but in reality, it stays with you. who were you when you were a thought? >> reporter: racial tensions here on campus and across the country triggered georgetown's intro spection and others hope more institutions will similar histories follow suit. coming up next, facebook didn't like this. its latest project went up in flames. and later, mind
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today a spectacular spacex rocket explosion marked a huge failure for the private space industry and a setback for facebook's latest project. >> reporter: you saw it before you heard it. the explosion ripped through the upper part of the rocket before it collapsed in flames on the launch pad at cape canaveral.
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it was being fuelled at the time and due to launch in two days. it was to carry a $200 million satellite that would have provided access to large parts of africa. there were no injuries. more soon, tweeted elon musk, the billionaire owner of spacex who also helped create tesla motors. despite 25 successful launches from this site in 2010, spacex has suffered numerous setbacks. they have lost rockets trying to land them upright in the atlantic ocean. and another one in 2015, this time after lifted off. next month they're expected to talk about a mission to mars. but an explosion of this size brings more scrutiny of space travel by private companies. they have $2 billion in launch
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orders. it's unclear how bad their launch pad was damaged or what caused the blast. colin kaepernick takes his national anthem protest to a military town. ♪
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sitting down during the national anthem. he says he considers it an assimble of oppression. >> when i feel that flag is what it's supposed to represent and it's supporting people the way it should, then i will stand. >> absolutely disgraceful. >> reporter: boomer asison. >> when you see people disrespecting the flag or national anthem, it really rubs you the wrong way. >> reporter: tonight when it's billed as military appreciation night, his stance struck a nerve. jennifer will be at the game. >> reporter: when he steps on the flag, he is stepping on a lot of people who died for our country. >> reporter: but kaepernick is getting some support under the #veterans for kaepernick. army veteran jeremiah thompson
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is conflicted. you fought for his right to sit down when the national anthem is being played? >> yes, sir. as much as i don't agree with it, that is his right. >> reporter: out spoken miami dolphins running back,arian foster supports him and has talked to him. >> you're entitled to say or feel whatever you want but there are people in this country that are hurting, whether you want to believe it or not. >> reporter: it's still not clear if kaepernick will be on the field when the national anthem is sung by a naval officer and s.e.a.l.s are sky diving into the stadium. military appreciation night is a big deal here. john lewis, an icon of the civil rights movement is one of the most revered and distinguished members of congress. but last night on "the late show" he accepted steven
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colbert's invitation to go crowd
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finally tonight, for some older folks, travel can be difficult. but now there's a device that can take them anywhere, even back in time. here's michelle miller. >> reporter: the men and women here at the brookdale senior living community don't need to leave the building to take a trip to the french country side. they've got the power of virtual reality. they can sore through yosemite national park. and explore the depths of the ocean. >> oh, my goodness. >> we're in the water. >> reporter: mit grad students are pioneering the use of the technology for seniors. >> i feel for the people living
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inside these communities they don't have stimulation. they need to be curious, exploring and when you're physically not able to do that by yourself, then virtual reality is a wonderful aid. >> reporter: the experience is even more meaningful for seniors like keith. >> wait a minute. don't say that. who did this? >> reporter: you touched off her emotion. she felt something. >> absolot l laulutelyabsolutel. other people in the room felt. >> that's julia child. >> reporter: a chef says he's still got many traveling days ahead of him.
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but he was over joyed to virtually visit a restaurant he opened in berlin nearly two decades ago. >> that's seriously addictive. come on. >> reporter: this? >> yeah. i could just. i can go wherever i want. >> reporter: a trip of a lifetime from the comfort of your chair. michelle miller, cbs news. quincy, massachusetts. that is the overnight news for this friday. for some the news continues, for others, check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm maurice dubois.
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♪ >> announcer: this is "the cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm michelle miller. a day after focusing on his immigration plan and two high profile speeches, he's reportedly lost half of his campaign's hispanic advisory board. lesley sanchez tells us advisors are angry and ready to resign after hearing trump's hard line immigration message in arizona. he had struck a much softer tone after meeting with the president of mexico. major garrett is following the trump campaign. >> reporter: the polite diplomat in mexico city and in phoenix,
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the uncompromising advocate of mass deportation that trump supporters have come to love and in this context demand. he ended a brief public fleuritation of a softer policy. >> anyone who has entered the united states illegally is subject to deportation. >> reporter: in phoenix, he promised mass deportations but did not explain how he would do it. >> people will know that you can't just smuggle in, hunker down, and wait to be legalized. >> reporter: undocumented immigrants must return to their home country and apply for reentry, vowing to subject new immigrants to ideological tests. >> it's our right as a sovereign nation to choose those immigrants we think are most likely to thrive, and flourish
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and love us. >> reporter: tripling the number of agents, with holding tax dollars from sanctuary cities. and over haul on visa over stays. trump's number one point was his most rehearsed. >> we will build a great wall along the southern border. and mexico will pay for the wall. they don't know it yet but they're going to pay for the wall. >> reporter: this time a new diplomatic wrinkle. >> mexico will wurk with us. i absolutely believe it and especially after meeting with their wonderful, wonderful president. >> reporter: in mexico city, trump met with president pe pena nieto. >> we all share a common interest in keeping our hemisphere safe. >> reporter: trump misled reporters by saying mexican
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financing of a wall did not come up. >> we discussed the wall, not payment of the wall. that will be at a later date. >> reporter: he said he told trump directly that mexico would never pay for the wall. trump aids mentioned differences of opinion, something he didn't want to recognize in front of the mexican president. hillary clinton saying he failed his first foreign test. >> reporter: trump choked. that was the verdict from clinton's campaign chairman after trump said he and mexican president pena nieto didn't get into a key topic. when the mexican president contradicted trump, the clinton campaign amended its statement. "he didn't just choke, he got beat in the room and lied about it." >> you don't build a coalition
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by insulting our friends. >> reporter: she knows diplomats and that's not one of them. >> dropping in on one of our neighbors for a few hours and flying home again. that's not how it works. >> mexicans are beyond reproach. >> reporter: doesn't match up with his own past pronouncements, like i want nothing to do with mexico. don't do business with mexico and mexico is totally ripping off the u.s. both clinton and trump were invited by pena and only trump jumped. >> she didn't go to mexico. she was invited. she doesn't have the strength or the stamina to make america great again. believe me. >> reporter: the clinton camp is firing back this morning calling trump's arizona speech
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disastrous and putting their money where their mouth is. they're investing six figures to buy ad time in that soledly red state. though it's unclear whether they really think they have a shot there or just trying to goad trump into spending more money. many americans are looking forward to flying to cuba after seeing the first commercial flight in more than 50 years. and here to the cuban city of santa clara. >> reporter: silver airways is expected to begin its service to santa clara today. that's the second scheduled u.s. airline. american will roll out service here and several other cities in cuba next week. that means a lot more americans are going to be coming to this town, which for many of us back home isn't anything we know anything about.
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10-month-year-old olivia gonzales probably doesn't know whautsds rr going on what's going on around her. olivia's family is about to make history of their own. later today, maris are getting married and their kids are being baptized in their long-time church. >> for her to say that she will actually -- meant everything to me. i really want to make this happen. >> reporter: it was an emotional moment when yeta arrived in a place her mother grew up but fled in the 1960s. this is the moment she finally met her uncle. >> it's like the first time a child sees santa clause and gets the christmas tree full of gifts. >> reporter: nearly 250,000
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people. it's a bit of a cross roads in the center of the island. famed revolutionary is buried in this monument, one that will soon be visited by many more americans. testing the limited tourist infrastructu infrastructure. anthony fox, who took the first flight, expects that to change. >> getting the infrastructure in a place to take this responsibility is going to require effort on the part of the cubans. >> reporter: she wanted to see cuba as it is now before the rest of america arrives. >> we wanted to get there while it was still raw. >> reporter: and when we talk about tourist infrastructure, there aren't a lot of hotels in santa clara. not a lot of mass transit and take the runway at the airport. there's about 500 feet that we're told is out of service. our pilots said there was a
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truck to mark where that area ended. they had to fly over the truck
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a community of neighbors in, indiana are being forced to leave their homes. the epa has placed signs at a housing complex warning not to play in the dirt. >> reporter: this housing complex was built in the 1970s on top of what used to be a led refinery. well, now more than four decades later, at least 1,000 people are being forced to vacate. >> i'm angry because my family just got poisoned on someone else being negligent. >> reporter: each of charles and chantal allen's children have higher than normal led levels.
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their toddler tested at six times higher than normal. >> everyone's test is inaccurate. >> reporter: the mayor notified low income housing residents in july that the epa recently informed him that soil sampling detected led and arsenic in the complex. saying he learned at the end of may. >> they were the eye of the storm of a perfect led storm of contamination. and nobody bothered to tell them. >> reporter: attorney ruth represents more than al80 residents. he says documents dating back to 2011 shows the city knew there was a serious problem. >> we're going to find out where the break down occurred and go after that problem and compensate the victims. >> reporter: at the end of the day, is it too late?
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>> unfortunately, in some ways it was. >> reporter: epa officials continue to go door to door, testing each property's land for led. mother of four, sandra smith has been living here for five years. her children's led levels are low. >> was this a project that you were trying to see how long it takes to kill off a bunch of people? you know that's not safe. >> reporter: the attorney for east chicago said all of the residents here will be given housing vouchers to help them relocate. meanwhile, this complex will be demolished and the soil will be treated once again. the virtual reality industry is still in its infancy. but the company called rendevor is working towards a future are
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where physical limitation many seniors face won't prevent them attending. say a granddaughter's wedding. they'll be able to travel in virtual and real time. >> reporter: the men and women here at the brookdale senior community don't need to take a trip to visit the french country side. they've got the power of virtual reality. they can sore through yosemite national park. and explore the depths of the ocean. >> oh, look at that fish. >> reporter: mit grad students are pioneering the use of this technology with seniors. >> i feel for the people living inside these communities, that they don't have enough stimulation. they need to have a sense of wonder about the world again. they need to be curious, exploring and when you're physically not able to do that by yourself, then virtual
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reality's a wonderful aid to provide that. >> reporter: much of the footage is done through google maps footage like this. and 360 degree films. >> i'll go shopping. >> reporter: vanessa has been living her for two years. you talked through the whole event. >> well, my tour -- >> reporter: so you're like this in real life? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: the experience is even more meaningful for seniors like marion keith. she got the opportunity to return home. >> you recognize the house? >> wait a minute. oh, don't say that. most beautiful area in the world. >> reporter: you touched off her
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emotion. she felt something. >> absolutely. other people in the room felt it and those are powerful moments that picture will provide. >> who did this? >> reporter: in a follow-up interview, we asked keith about her experience, but she strug tooled take us back to that precise moment. what does that tell you is happening? >> without us being there, she wouldn't remember that her husband worked on the back of her house. virtual reality allows us to spark that new memory. >> thank you. >> nothing can ever replace human touch and interaction. >> reporter: neurologist says the brain is a complex organ that benefits from real connection. >> it needs to be able to feel
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the texture of the place, smell the place. it needs to be a able to taste the place. >> reporter: abdut usays he was joyed to virtually visit a restaurant he started in berlin over two decades ago. >> that's super addictive. >> reporter: this? >> yeah. i could see it and go wherever i want without going anywhere. >> reporter: lolly and haze plan to s i used to blame the weather for my frizz. turns out my curls needed to be stronger to fight back. pantene's pro-v formula makes my curls so strong* they can dry practically frizz free.*á because strong is beautiful.
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♪ there is no way we're going to get the weirdo in there without anyone noticing. i mean, look at her. ♪ >> wow. she looks -- >> pretty. good. you look pretty good. >> that's a scene from the new sci-fi hit, strangering t inthi.
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netflix has confirmed it will be back next year for a second season. here how twin brothers were inspired to create the show. >> reporter: since its july debut, the buzz surrounding "stranger things" has only grown, in part because of the 1980s nostalgia. they've created their own buzz and curiosity as well. and we met up with them in an '80s themed bar in los angeles. from the outset, "stranger things" has the look, sound and feel of an '80s classic. >> stop it. you're freaking her out. >> reporter: set in 1983, the show follows a group of junior high mitt if tsfits to save the
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friend and along the way meet a girl and inter another dimension. the twin brothers behind the series who actually came of age in the '90s were inspired by the movies they loved growing up. >> our thing was could we go back to the style of blockbusters we do in this new format? >> a lot of our favorite blockbusters, "jaws" and "indiana jones" and these were all original ideas. now it's hard to get something like that made. >> reporter: for one of the main cast members, what's old is new again. >> beatle juice? >> reporter: winoenwynona rider the mother of the frantic boy. >> at that point we only had one
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script written. she really loved the script but it was a leap of faith on her part and without her, i don't think the show would have broken through the way it did. >> will, are you here? >> reporter: to find the right mix of younger stars. >> this isn't some lord of the rings book. >> the hobbit. >> reporter: they screened roughly 1,000 odditiaudition ta. >> just one bad child performance would -- i think it would destroy it. >> reporter: in a video posted by actress milly brown on twitter, the brothers witnessed her transform into the supernatural role of 11. >> 11, who is played by milly, because this is a character that doesn't have a lot of lines. but we were in a close up and went, oh, my god. >> reporter: judging from the online buzz and artwork created by fans, it already has a cult
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following. >> did you have any clue it would be as successful? >> we thought it would appeal to the people who, like us grew up loving these movies from the '80s. and that it would also work for a newer, younger generation. >> reporter: do you have personal favorite moments in the series where you look at it and you're right back in 1983? >> maybe someone -- people will see that trapper keeper and be instantly brought back to another time. >> toys are important. >> that falcon was not easy to get. you notice it's hidden under the blanket for the whole show because it was too costly to keep it in there the whole time. >> reporter: but the throwback hit almost wasn't. they were rejected more than a dozen times by mainstream hollywood before finally
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connecting with their mainstream world. >> it wasn't something that had been done on television before. there was a line that dustin says in episode six, talking about 11. i feel that way about netflix. netflix is our friend and she's crazy. i think that's why they're so successful. >> reporter: now the brothers are busy plotting how to make season two even stranger. >> there's a lot of unresolved issues. a portal to another dimension that's wide open. the goal is that tension is going to be rezausolved. very much then way you do a movie sequel. >> reporter: wednesday netflix released this cryptic trailer of what's to come and video games may somehow be involved in season two. we'll have more on our streaming network all weekend starting tomorrow. the cbs overnight news will be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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a powerful photo of a moment of kindness show as college football star joining a young student in the cafeteria. after seeing him eating alone at lunch. here's mark straussman. sfwlrks >> reporter: he was sitting alone on tuesday. you looked up and there he was? >> yeah. >> and what did he say? >> what's up, dude? >> reporter: he was travis rudolph, a star wide receiver with the florida state football team. five players were visiting the school as part of a community service program. >> he asked me am i going to play in the nba and i said yes.
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i said are you in the nfl and he said no. >> reporter: rudolph told us he noticed a young kid sitting by himself and headed his way. >> i got two thrislices of pizzd i saw him by himself and something snapped. >> reporter: someone spotted bo and his new friend having lunch sitting with no one else and sent it to the sixth grader's mother. he's autistic and many days no one sits with him at lunch. >> reporter: the thought of him eating alone gets to you. >> reporter: leah will always remember the college football player's kindness to her son. could have sat with anybody and yet he picked bo who was sitting by himself. >> yes. i'm just moved at emotion with his generosity and kindness.
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i don't know what made him pick bo but i'm so grateful he did. that was so kind. >> reporter: she'd thank rudolph in a facebook post. this is one day i didn't have to worry if my sweet boy ate lunch alone because he sat next to someone who was a hero in many eyes. that post has been shared thousands of times since. >> i hope kids welcome him in because he's a generous person and he can be around me anytime. >> reporter: when bo walked into lunch on wednesday, every kid wanted to sit with him. >> i'm a super star. everybody recognizes me. >> reporter: tal has a e, florida. >> for some of you the news will continue, for others, check back with us a little later for cbs this morning.
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