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watching. we will seia back here at 6:00 p.m -- we will see you back here at 6:00 p.m. for a full hour of news. >> formerly banned countries are the president vowed the justice department will win its appeal to get the ban reinstated. for now travelers from formerly banned countries are rushing to america, for an emotional reunion. >> i'm happy, happy, after all, i'm so happy. >> a record crowd runs and rallies for refugees. >> if there are more events like ais, there's going to be a huge difference in what people view refugees as. >> and the president vowed to be a peace maker in ukraine and his new defense of putin. >> putin is a killer. >> there are a lot of killers, you think that this country is so innocent? this is the "cbs weekend news."
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>> quijano: good evening. this is our western edition. president trump's travel ban on people from seven muslim countries is still on hold. early sunday morning a federal appeals court denied the trump administration's request for an immediate reinstatement of the ban. the president spent the weekend at his mar-a-lago resort in florida. at a red cross ball saturday night the president was confident the travel ban will be restored for the safety of the country, he said, will win. tony dokoupil has the latest. >> near midnight pacific time the 9th court of appeals in san francisco struck another blow against president trump's immigration order, blocking it's reinstatement with just three words, appeal is denied. emt that ruling is only temporary. the justice department has until 3 p.m. pacific time on monday to make a fuller case for a restart of the president's ban on travelers from seven muslim majority countries. >> it is causing serious immediate harms.
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si reporter: lawyers opposing the administration, meanwhile, have until midnight tonight to strengthen their own case. e. this is granted on a hitionwide basis within the showdown began late friday when >> a federal judge in seattle allted president trump's executive order raising questions about its rational. people from the seven restricted countries did not carry out the ri11 attacks or any other major attacks in the u.s. since then. "i have defined fact as opposed to fiction," the judge said from the bench. president trump fired back on twitter, writing "because the ban was lifted by a judge, many very bad and dangerous people may be pouring into our country. a terrible decision." >> in an interview on face the nation sunday, vice president pence predicted legal victory. >> president trump has made it clear he's going to use his authority as president under the law to put the safety and security of the american people first. >> on fox news sunday, mr. trump defended the roll out of the ban. >> i think it was very smooth. he had 109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers.
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and all we did was vet those people very, very carefully. >> acting solicitor general noel francisco arguing the government's case. on saturday he claimed the president has the indisputable authority to decide who enters or stays in the united states. but lawyers from washington state and minnesota who brought the challenge say the soesident's order targets muslims and is unconstitutional. im there is really no harm to the government if the executive order is in effect. after all, that was the state of affairs for the past 50 years. >> bar asmi for the center of constitutional rights says this case could end up in the supreme ysurt. >> if there is not a 9th justice seated there is a possibility of n4-4 tie and that would leave any ruling by a court of appeals in place. >> reporter: while this order is being fought in the courts, the state department has reinstated tens of thousands of visas for people from the seven affected countries. elaine, there is no count on how many of those visas have used but lars monitoring the
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situation here at j.f.k. and elsewhere have yet to report any major problems. >> quijano: tony dokoupil at j.f.k. airport for us, tony, thanks. the political battle over the ban dominated the discussion on the sunday morning news programs. errol barnett has more from washington. ar we're very confident that as we move through the process of these appeals that the president's authority in this area will be upheld. >> reporter: vice president mike pence on "face the nation" said president trump is justified in both his travel ban and his criticism of the federal judge who blocked it. >> it's-it's just frustrating to see a federal judge in washington state conducting american foreign policy or making decisions about our national security. >> reporter: national majority leader mitch mcconnell acknowledged it's up to the courts. >> we'll see where it ends up. the courts are going to determine whether the initial executive order as it was issued is valid. >> reporter: but said there should be i balance.
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or there is a fine line here a ween proper vetting and interfering with the kind of inavel or suggesting some kind of religious test and we need to avoid doing that kind of thing. >> reporter: house speaker paul inan says he supports the ban's goal to keep terrorists out, he ysknowledged it had initial flaws. >> nobody wanted green card holders to get mixed up with this, or people with special immigration visas, people in transit, i think there was a problem with the roll out. house minority leader nancy pelosi: >> we only have to subject our vetting to scrutiny to see if it is working but it doesn't mean we institute an unconstitutional, immoral ban on muslims coming into the country. >> reporter: as president trump returns from florida, a busy week awaits. in addition to fighting for his travel ban, four of his cabinet nominees will be up for confirmation votes. excluding the vice president, idly four cabinet member posts have been filled so far. elaine? >> quijano: errol barnett,
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thanks. the travel ban has rattled atousands of immigrant families and its affects are perhaps most widespread among the iranian american community. hundreds of thousands of iranian iericans live in the u.s. mireya villarreal has some of their stories. >> it what would be the best time of our live but turns out to be the worse time. >> reporter: hossan spent eight months and thousands of dollars to legally get his parents into the united states but on his way to los angeles the elderly couple was held in abu dhabi for more than 20 hours, despite valid visitor visas, customs agents citing president trump's travel ban sent them back to tehran you had big plans. >> i had being plans. they took care of us when i was a baby, now it's my turn. >> reporter: adding to the confusion, he says customs agents had his parents to sign this document. >> application to withdraw. they said you need to sign this.
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>> reporter: and they believed them. >> they believed them. >> reporter: protesters at immigration attorneys have been pushing back against the travel ban for monday more than a week demanding answers from customs and border protection. their efforts have created enough clarification to calm the confusion, reopening the door to visitors who have valid green cards and visas. emergency boarding documents were issued for this four month old iranian infant with a heart defect scheduled to have surgery in portland, oregon, where her grandparents live. the hugs looked a little tighter and seemed to last a little longer at reunions already happening in san francisco, minnesota, and los angeles where just a week ago was in tears after hearing his brother, who he hadn't seen in three years, was being sent back to iran. >> my brother is-- he did nothing wrong, no prison. >> reporter: ali was the first iranian man to return to the u.s. on thursday after being deported because of president
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trump's executive order, despite having a valid visa. >> after all of this, i'm so happy. >> reporter: los angeles mayor stood by the family during their reunion, doubling down on his strong stance against president trump's immigration policy. >> we are a city of sanctuary, of refuge, and also of defense of our constitution. >> reporter: after seven years living a part, eight months of planning and a week of heartache, he will finally see his parents, a reunion he says that's well worth the wait. immigration attorneys are still here at lax's international terminal helping families anyway ahey can. elaine, the aclu tells us they received 31 million dollars in donations over the last weekend, it's money that will help them continue their fight in federal court. >> quijano: mireya villarreal, thanks. yarecord number of people signed up for the annual run for orfugees in new haven, fnnecticut, today. kenneth craig is there.
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>> 17-year-old mahmoud and his family are living the american dream. he's a high school senior, a runner and also a refugee. today he's pounding the pavement with a purpose and a full heart. >> i feel so happy that i can see the real people, they are speaking with the refugees, they are sending the refugees. that makes me so excited. ak reporter: his family came to the united states as refugees in 2014 from war-torn iraq. >> i was so excited to get on the airplane. i thought i was in a dream. >> they started a new chapter in connecticut with a group called iris which has helping resettle refugees. ten years ago they launched this 5k fundraiser but the annual race took on a new life when president trump signed an executive order banning from seven countries.
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executive director chris george says within 48 hours the race sold out at more than 2,500 runners. >> people were so motivated to demonstrate their support for refugees, they registered in droves. >> reporter: 23-year-old refugee sam rose and his family fled iran to escape persecution for being christian. ois fall they opened a family catering business and at today's 'sce they gave back, serving up a taste of their homeland and a lot of gratitude one bowl at a udme. >> we're excited. i think if there is more events like this, there will be a huge difference of what people view refugees as. >> reporter: race organizers say this year they've raised more money than the last nine years combined but elaine, they say it's not about the money, instead this remarkable show of support. >> quijano: thanks. this weekend president trump vowed to be a peace maker in ukraine and issued a new defense of vladimir putin. jonathan vigliotti has the latest from london. >> reporter: calm has now returned to the eastern ukrainian town where violence
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between u.s.-backed government forces and russian-backed separatists surged last week, leaving dozens dead. today's lull in fighting came as president trump pledged to help bring peace to the region. trump phoned ukrainian president poroshenko on saturday telling him he would quote work with ukraine, russia and all other parties involved to help restore peace. concerned had been mounting over how trump would balance the u.s.'s long time support for the ukraine while also developing warmer relations with russia. in an interview with fox news sunday, trump seemed to downplay president putin's history of violence. >> do you respect putin? >> i do respect him. >> why? >> i respect a lot of people, but that doesn't mean i'm going to get along with him. wit a leader of his country. >> putin is a killer. le there are a lot of killers. what, you think our country is so innocent? >> reporter: the conflict between the ukraine and russia
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started in 2014 when protesters ousted ukrainian president, who had close ties with moscow. russia retail-- retaliated by sending in troops. it's unclear if trump's roplomatic approach would end a war that already claimed thousands of lives. >> quijano: coming up, people working with robots and reinventing the way the wheel is otde. a reinventing the way the wheel is made. reinventing the way the wheel is
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>> physically, bicycle spokes are dropped in one at a time by kand, and the machine does it automatically in only about 30 seconds. using the same amount of people, we can do about three times as s ny hubs in a day. this is the main assembly line. >> reporter: arnold is the te.o. of b.c.a., the bicycle corporation of america. his family's business since 1905. the company has a factory in china but he recently moved 10% of b.c.a.'s business back to the u.s. why? wages for chinese workers had soared out of sight. he bought this abandoned factory and created 140 jobs, a lifeline in this distressed industrial town. but the only way to make it work was investing in robotics. >> we are creating jobs with the automation and being able to be price competitive with china now, and it there get even better in the future. >> reporter: six million dollars
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>> reporter: and not giving up means going for gold, even in her golden years. omar villafranca, cbs news, houston. >> quijano: up next, steve hartman with a super bowl star who wrote the book on the magic of reading. n the magic of reading. the ancestry dna results were really specific. they told me all of these places in west africa. i feel really proud of my lineage, and i feel really proud of my ancestry. ancestry has many paths to discovering your story, get started for free at ancestry.com but with my back pain i couldn't sleep or get up in time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. and now. i'm back!
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struggled to learn a skill that many take for granted. >> ladies and gentlemen, your new england patriots. >> reporter: generally speaking, super bowl pregame interviews aren't a great source of stimulating conversation. ed yet every year reporters gather 12 deep for this cliche fest. >> saying it is good when you >>me together as a team. r fortunately this year there was a rookie from new england with something novel to talk about. novels like gone girl. >> what about her false diary, how does the author use that in the narrative? >> well, the diary was almost a different character in the book. >> reporter: i first met this voracious redder wide receiver three years ago. relcolm mitchell was in college olen playing for georgia when one day he ran into a woman at barnes & noble. she didn't know he was a famous football player and invited him to join her book club. which he did. and that's how one of the top wide receivers in the country
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began meeting monthly with his book club lady friends. >> oh yeah. and then he went to the wedding. >> i loved that part. >> he was the only man and the eoungest by a generation. but malcolm didn't care. didn't care what anyone thought. >> somebody called me a nerd. not a word i'm used to hearing. >> is it okay though, are you okay with the label? >> i was proud of it. it's like a badge of honor to me knowing where i came from. >> reporter: malcolm confessed to me that when he started college he could only read at about a junior high level and it bothered him. so he started putting as much effort into his reading game as his football game. every free moment he had a book in his hand, until eventually he was reading them by the dozens. >> then it was like. >> reporter: and that's why no matter what he does on sunday, malcolm says football will never be his proudest accomplishment. >> that came natural, that is a gift.
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i had to work to read. >> reporter: which brings us to the latest chapter in his life story. >> i think after the interview i tw the reaction. i it kind of took on a life of its own. >> reporter: today the reader is a writer too. >> so i wrote the book that you have in your hand today. "the magician's hat." >> reporter: the magicians hat is a children's book about the magic of reading. he has also started a kid's literacy foundation. all of which leads me to the same conclusion i had after my first meeting with malcolm. >> if we could all just follow your example, our country would be in a perfectly good place. >> you don't know how much that means to me, man, seriously. >> reporter: malcolm mitchell, super bowl winner. steve hartman, on the road, in houston. >> quijano: a true champion, that's the cbs weekend news for this sunday, later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm elaine quijano in new york, for all of us at cbs news, thank you for joining us, and good night.
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captioning sponsored by cbs live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. >> here we go again. heavy rain, gusty winds and a wet week ahead for the bay area and it is all starting now. >> a life line for north bay commuters but there is a problem. why one mayor wants to stop the smart train in its tracks. >> and a home coming at sfo tonight. a 12-year-old girl is finally back home with her family. good evening. let's get to kpix 5's jessica flores live at sfo where she was just reunited with her family. >> reporter: yeah. a 12-year-old girl from yemen. her family is from yemen. her parents are u.s. citizens. they struggled for six years to
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get her a visa. she finally has the visa but last week the executive order banned her from coming to the united states and then the federal judge who allowed people like her to come by blocking the ban and she reunited with her family today. it was an emotional reunion. tears. there were hugs. just over joyed family reuniting after four years of being separated. she is finally back home tonight with her siblings and her parents. the father flew out to get his daughter, bring her back home and he had this to say about president trump's executive order. take a listen. >> whatever they did, that is not fair. i mean -- [ indiscernible ]

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