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captioning sponsored by cbs >> quijano: women propel hillary clinton into a battleground lead. a new cbs poll shows a big swing in the women's vote in 13 key states. bllarge majority of republican voters are standing by donald trump. also tonight, a storm uproots trees and knocks out power in the pacific northwest, as haiti recovers from a hurricane. and ancient artifacts from isis destruction rise up. and, there was a popular upright walking bear killed in a controversial hunt. >> this is remarkable. >> and at amazing technology that has allowed a paralyzed man to feel the president's touch.
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this is the "cbs weekend news." >> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano. this is the western edition of the broadcast. with 23 days to go until the election, cbs news checked in with voters in 13 key states that will likely decide the race. our new battleground tracker poll shows hillary clinton has widened her lead among women in those states. while donald trump has lost a vote of some republican women. overall, republican voters want party leaders to stand behind trump despite his recent problems. errol barnett takes us through the numbers with our elections director anthony salvanto in washington. >> so anthony, what's changed in the 13 battleground states in just the last few weeks. >> across these states which will decide the election, hill rae clinton has jumped out to a t x point lead. she was tied last month. but what is driving this, errol, is a big shift among women voters. she was up five points among women last month.
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now she's out to a 15 point niad. that's a significant change and we could be headed for what e ght be the largest gender gap we've ever seen. >> and why? i mean this is following what ers said by donald trump in the tapes that were released. >> yeah, donald trump has lost support among women, among republican women as well. so it goes beyond partisanship a little bit. and the poll finds that 70% of voters feel that now donald trump does not respect women. what could be trouble for him going forward are these moderate republican women are precisely the kind of voters that he needs now to start winning. >> because of this some republican leaders have distanced themselves from trump. how do the voters see that. >> well, the republican rank and alle would like the party to get behind donald trump, seven out of ten say they should get ahind him and very few want them to pushback against donald trump. this is a narrative we've seen ertually throughout the year yhere republican voters don't care very much what their party
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leadership has to say. >> now secretary clinton still faces challenges of her own with the lingering email controversy. ovw is that resonating? >> voters say the contents of those emails have made them feel like hillary clinton says different things in private than she says in public. and part of that is wrapped up in her low numbers on telling the truth, that those continue to be very low numbers for her. >> now we are approaching the homestretch of this election. let's listen to what the running mates had to say today. governor mike pence and senator tim kaine. ningonald trump has a message that is enlivening and it's-- it's-- it is resonating with people all across this which and we're going to fight the next 23 days to carry it through election day. >> i've been saying from the beginning that i thought this auld be a close election. we are seeing some data about voting, whether it's registrations, early voting and requests for absentee ballots. in key battleground states that we like.
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>> the final presidential debate is wednesday. tw likely is it to change anyone's mind. >> most people watch the debate, rooting for their favorite candidate. it's like a sporting event where people have a favorite team. hot there are about a quarter of voters who say yes, something in the debate might change their minds. but they say, it has to be big. >> and 73% say it will not change their minds. anthony salvanto, thanks for breaking it all down for us, elaine? >> quijano: thanks to our elections team in washington. of course there will be more than hillary clinton and donald trump on the ballots. voters in washington state, california, nevada and maine will decide on stricter gun measures including write in background checks for gun anrchases. julianna goldman has more on this. >> after mass shootings in newtown. >> the amendment is not agreed to. >> san bernardino. rl the motion is not agreed to. >> and orlando. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> reporter: universal background checks have failed in congress.
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but it could be a whole different story in maine where voters will see a very similar proposal on their ballots in november. david trahan runs the main gun atiots organizations and opposes the measure. >> i could easily be charged with a felony and lose my right to own fire arms simply for letting a friend borrow a fire arm for hunting. >> yet he is already admitting defeat, in part, he says because he can't compete against the rillions spent on a gun control group spent by former mayor bloomberg. >> if he gets a win here, he can go to other states. >> bloomberg's group has raised $3.7 million this year compared to just over $420,000 by the national rifle association. tile bloomberg declined an interview he said this to "face the nation" in 2014. >> the vast preponderance of the public does not want criminals, minors or people with psychiatric problems to be able to buy guns. >> reporter: polls show an overwhelming number of americans
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support expanding background checks. so in some states a ballot initiative allows voters to decide instead of lawmakers who fear the nra. david farmer is a gun owner who runs the bloomberg supported group in maine. >> do you think other states can ise this and say here are ways to get around the gun lobby, is it a chink in the armor? >> the power remains with the voters. if she want change, you can make it happen. >> in 2014, that's exactly what happened in washington state. ckere the background check initiative easily won. bloomberg's group and others spent over $10 million compared to the nra's $489,000. sources from gun rights groups tell us the reason the nra wdn't spends more was they knew they were going to lose. and that's trahan's fear for november. >> we're going to be a truly david versus goliath fight. >> julianna goldman, washington. >> over the weekend, the death toll from hurricane matthew climbed to at least 50 people in the southeast.
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more than half were killed in north carolina, where most drowned in cars that were submerged by floods. remnants of a typhoon hit the pacific northwest this weekend. dornadoes touched down in oregon friday. and there is another round of storms blew in saturday night, forecasters were expecting hurricane force winds topping 80 miles an hour. turns out the storms didn't have .hat much punch but they still did plenty of damage. ben tracy is in seattle. >> holy moly. >> the winds were strong enough to topple trees and power lines. leaving tens of thousands without power. and a big mess to clean up. >> when this fast moving storm mot seattle it churned up puget sound with wind gusts 40 to 50 miles an hour. enis is the pacific northwest and even this storm did not stop people from coming out to take a
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look. heidi vanbrost daughter kayia ngs riding out the storm in singular style. >> what are you doing out here. why are you not at home. >> well, she with wanted to come out and do some storm watching. >> it is hitting you in the face. >> yes it is. very salty. >> this massive storm system fueled by the remnant of a powerful pacific typhoon could have been much worse. it weakened unexpectedly and tracked west sparing seattle the worst winds. the national weather service and some local meteorologists are taking some heat on social media for overhyping the storm. but if it's your house that the tree ends up on, you probably think this storm was powerful enough. elaine? >> quijano: ben tracy, thank ther the suburbs of northern new jersey, just a few miles from new york city, are black bear wiuntry. this past week a controversial bow and arrow bear hunt which nopears to have taken the life
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of a well-known bear nicknamed pedals for its upright asdestrian walk. jamie yuccas reports. ir reporter: pedals the black bear first became an internet sensation two years ago. seen here wandering almost human-like through northern new jersey neighborhoods. he had injuries to his paws, so wildlife experts believe he spent very little time on all fours. >> that is a bipedal bear. >> he was often captured on camera. but animal rights activists say a more violent shot likely ended his life. one with a bow and arrow. during last week's black bear hunt. >> horrible. any time i think about it makes me sick to my stomach. >> chris faulks often saw him in the neighborhood. >> an innocent bear minds his own business, searching for nyod, never got into trouble, never harmed anybody. and you have this idiot who llacked him, to hunt him to kill epm. >> reporter: people also eipressed their outrage on a facebook page dedicated to pedals. deborah wrote "this is just
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cruel, someone hunting a handicapped bear that people enjoyed seeing. what is wrong with people." some are making death threats against whoever may have killed the bear. a hunter has not been named. new jersey fish and wildlife officials say they may never be able to make a positive identification on the bear believed to be pedals because he agd never been tagged by the agency. a petition to stop the new jersey black bear hunt had more than 24,000 signatures. >> this is the first legal bow and arrow bear hunt in new jersey in nearly four decades. by the end of the hunt on tturday more than 430 bears were killed. elaine, there will be another hunt here in early december. >> quijano: jamie yuccas, thank you. coming up next, the hurricane in haiti. a reporter's notebook from the disaster area. haiti. a reporter's notebook from the disaster area. what's in this kiester.
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visited victims of hurricane matthew in haiti. there were clashes because of his arrival. haitians are frustrated that aid sts been slow to arrive since the storm hit more than a week ago. wousands of homes were destroyed. nearly 550 people are dead. vladimir duthiers shows us the misery the hurricane left behind. >> reporter: we spent the last week in haiti covering the aftermath of hurricane matthew. almost seven years ago i was here, less than 24 hours after this nation was rocked by an earthquake in 2010. have i been back several times since, always because of a tragedy. this time was no different. the capital port au prince was spared by towns on the island's southern coast like jeremie were leveled. when we arrived it wasn't hard to see why so many homes were wiped out and so many were killed. >> all the roofs of the folks in the countryside are made of tin. and there is no way that tin is foing to sustain in the face of 145 mile an hour winds. they have been sleeping
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outdoors. >> they have told me they have nothing left. >> they don't have anything. they don't have water. they don't have food. >> jean showed us what was left of his home. >> he shows us how they survived and wonders if they will survive the aftermath. >> that's all they have to eat right now. >> everybody is giving me their name and i think that they feel by giving me their name, we epn't forget them. >> reporter: the next day we took a helicopter to port au pinot, from the air it looked like it was hit from with a bomb. the people here are absolutely vulnerable. hoey don't have water. they don't have a house. they don't have clothes. they can't find food to eat. >> they have problems with everything. a lot of people were killed in this community when these tin roofs sliced open people owe
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necks. b now the big fear is cholera. the last outbreak killed 10,000. jeffrey de laguerre is with doctor was borders. >> almost seven year ago i was here. this is where tens of thousands of quake victims were unanimously buried in mass graves. >> and on this sacred and hallowed ground there is some overturned porta-potties, it breaks my heart to see what we are seeing here. everybody should be ashamed. as we were leaving, we met some kids sitting on the sun baked rocky soil. >> he wants to be a journalist. doctor, he wants to be a doctor. ke they're full of hope. i would like to share in their hope. but i've been back here too many times. vladimir duthiers, cbs news, port au prince, haiti.
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>> explosions thundered across aleppo this morning as the sun rose in syria's largest city. sday u.s. secretary of state john kerry met with european allies in london for a new diplomatic push to somehow stop the war at least temporarily. alross the border in iraq coalition troops backed by the u.s. military are gathering outside the city of mosul, preparing for an all-out assault. esis has held the city for more than two years. the battle to retake mosul could be a turning point in a fight against isis. >> in italy ancient monuments and artifacts that were destroyed by isis and iraq and syria are rising from the ashes of destruction, with the help of modern technology. seth doane has our report from rome. >> a human-headed bull destroyed
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in iraq, along with this temple ceiling lost in syria, are among the monuments that have been reimagined, reconstructed and ist on display in rome. ha this is exactly as we would have seen it before isis destroyed it. >> absolutely. te doesn't exist any more. >> reporter: francisco rutelli, rome's former mayor, was the driving force to research and rebuild monuments destroyed by isis. three italian firms took on the project. to make life-size replicas in plastic stone and plaster using pictures and documents collected from iraq and syria. >> we want to demonstrate that reconstruction and scientific terms of reference is necessary and possible. >> reporter: you can reconstruct but you can't bring back the original. >> absolutely not. but we can accept that the last words is the word of terrorists.
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>> they're on display in rome's plliseum, a fitting place rutelli says. >> because it is also a place much triumph and tragedies. >> what did you think when they came to you with this idea? >> it's a wonderful thing. ivano ferrario told us. he owns arte idea which generally caters to movie sets, not museums. he showed us the high-tech 3d printer they used to build the base of the recreation of the 0 000 year old archives of ebla destroyed in syria. and how they recreated tablets rn plaster working from copies. >> is there greater responsibility to make sure you get this right? people are looking at this as a piece of history. >> that's true. this is not cinema and we pay much more attention, ferrario esknowledged. this is a huge responsibility.
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>> there are art historians, purists who would say you shouldn't be doing this. >> we don't want to repeat what happened in bamiyan, afghanistan. >> bamiyan is where in 2001 the taliban destroyed buddhist statues from the 6th century. >> and 15 years later, it's still a big hole in the mountain. >> reporter: rutelli says his work is as much about displaying history as it is fighting back against those who try to destroy it. seth doane, cbs news, rome. >> quijano: up next, the amazing technology that allowed a paralyzed man to feel the president's touch. to feel the president's touch.ok o -including one that's brand new for 2017: the aarp medicarerx walgreens plan
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change someone's life. >> reporter: things changed at the university of pittsburgh. last year four tiny arrays of electrodes were implanted in copeland's brain. two in the motor cortex and two where feeling in the hand is processed. >> this is the first time these sorts of devices have been implanted in the brain to try and generate these sensations. >> bio medical engineer robert gaunt is part of the research team. e when we deliver these tiny pulses of electricity, we can stimulate these neurons and from areir perspective, they don't really care whether they are y ing active because your hand ve actually being touched or if we make them become active using these little devices. >> okay, here we go again. >> in this experiment, reported in the journal "science translational medicine" this week, gaunt presses on a finger, sending signals to specific electrodes in the brain. as neurons fire, copeland feels pressure and can even distinguish between individual
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fingers. >> copeland says he can feel four or five distinct sensations. >> pressure, one that is kind of tingly. >> the first couple of times, it's really cool. >> he has also been working with thsearchers to hone his ability to move the robotic arm just by sinking. he says that's kind of cool too. >> president obama was clearly impressed. >> and in exchanging a fist bump, both men could feel a sense of history. >> dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. >> just extraordinary. >> that's the cbs weekend news for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes." the news continues now on our 24 hour digital network cbsn at cbs news.com. i'm elaine quijano in new york for all of us at cbs news, thank you for joining us, and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs graptioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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vengeance. and we're not done with the wet live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. rain gear required beneath the oakland coliseum as the rain returns with a vengeance, and we're not done with the wet weather yet. >> first breaking news. within the past few hours, the man accused of shooting and wounding a san francisco police officer friday night died of his own injuries. good evening, i'm brian hackney. >> and i'm juliette goodrich. lets get right to joe in the newsroom. >> the suspect died from his gunshot wounds at 3:16 this afternoon at san francisco general hospital. that's according to a hospital spokesman. authorities are not yet releasing his name. we are told by more than one source he had a history of mental problems. two nights ago before he was shot police say he shot a cop in the head. that officer remains in critical but stable condition. >> he underwent surgery to remove fragments from his brain
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and he still has partial paralysis on the side of his body from the shot to his head. >> police have not named the officer, but friends and family tell us he is 25-year-old kevin downings, a two-year veteran of the san francisco police department. he was shot friday night responding to a disturbance call at the lake shore shopping center. officers shot and wounded the suspect during a brief chase and then a standoff. officer downs comes from an sfpd family. his father was a cop and is now a teacher and officer downs runs a nonprofit that helps military veterans. thank you. now to the storm watch and some crazy video from the open coliseum leaking like a sieve this afternoon just before the raiders and chiefs took the field. this video was shot in the visitor's tunnel, and you can see the water appears to be dripping on some electrical wires. scenes like this have become pretty common at the aging oakland coliseum lately. the ongoing issues are a big reason why the raiders and as are trying

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