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news updates always on www.cbssf.com. captioning sponsored by cbs ng a suspected mass murderer's chilling interview. >> i ain't fit to live. not after what i done. in quijano: eight are dead in mississippi including a deputy sheriff. >> my intent was to have y'all kill me. i ran out of bullets. >> quijano: also tonight new details about the victims of a possible hate crime in oregon. our chief washington correspondent on the president's overseas trip and the turmoil he comes home to. >> what did president trump accomplish on his overseas trip. >> quijano: we're on the front lines of the battle to run isis out of iraq second largest city. and diver down in the heart of time square. this is the "cbs weekend news." >> quijano: good evening, i'm
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elaine quijano. this is our western edition. it apparently started as a family dispute and ended with eight people dead including two boys and a deputy sheriff. the killing spree took place at three separate locations in rural lincoln county, mississippi. the suspect who has a criminal record is 35 year old willie corey godbolt. he was arrested this morning and gave a chilling interview to a local newspaper. tony dokoupil has the story. >> i just wanted to live. i just wanted to love my family. i just wanted to love my wife. >> reporter: willie corey godbolt's alleged rampage ended here handcuffed and bandaged on a country road outside a superjack truck stop near his home in bogue chitto, miss mission. ng calmly described the shooting icree that left eight dead according to police.
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te reporter: police were called va remove godbolt from private property when an altercation developed saturday night. a> i was having a conversation >> reporter: godbolt allegedly shot and killed a sheriff's deputy and three women at the first home about 70 miles south of jackson, the state capitol. the deputy was identified as 36 year old william durr. >> we reporter: four more people including two juveniles were shot and killed at two homes nearby before godbolt was a rested at 7 a.m. on sunday. he spoke to a clarion ledger reporter on the scene. db reporter: mississippi plans to charge godbolt with one count
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co capitol murder and seven counts of first degree murder. governor phil bryant thanked law enforcement for their sacrifice and asked residents to pray for those killed. >> quijano: tony dokoupil, thank you. the fbi is looking into possible hate crime charges against a man accused of stabbing two men to death on a train friday in portland, oregon. police say the victims confronted the suspect while he was yelling anti-muslim slurs. mireya villarreal is in portland. >> reporter: mourners embrace she expressed remember gratitude to the men defending her lost their lives about to to the men defenders ing her live. #r 53 year old ricky best was an army veteran who served three tours in iraq. his family says standing up for people was in his character. best leaves behind three sons
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and a daughter. the second victim 23 year old taliesin myrddin namkai-meche recently graduated from reed college in portland. his mother says her son was a hero and will remain a hero on the other side of the veil. 21 year old micah fletcher survived the attack, a student once wrote a poem about prejudice against muslims following 9/11. >> we let it leave an ugly. >> reporter: the three men were stabbed on a commuter train while trying to end an anti- muslim tirade against a young woman wearing a hijab and her friend. police say the alleged attacker jeremy christian is known for his extremist views. he was taken into custody shortly after friday's fatal confrontation. muslims and other supporters are rallying together online, a fundraiser for the victims has already raised over $200,000. oregon governor cate brown. >> to the muslim communities of portland and oregon, please know do everything i can to ensure that you safely thrive in this epeat state.
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>> reporter: people continue to iome by and leave tributes of love and support here at the station. the head of the security transit o partment says that all of the trains do have security cameras on board but elaine it's unclear right now whether this incident was captured on tape. >> quijano: mireya villarreal thank you. there's breaking news tonight from the korean peninsula. north korea test fired yet another missile monday morning local time. japan says the missile landed in the sea just beyond its territorial waters, posing a risk to ships and planes in the area. the north has been test firing missiles in defiance of the u.s. and other world powers. president trump is back in washington following his nine day 15,000 mile trip to the middle east and europe. today errol barnett discussed ade trip and what is ahead for the president with our chief washington correspondent john dickerson. >> what did president trump accomplish on his overseas trip. >> he pretty much got the stagecraft right, some bumpy parts on his trip to nato but
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i'm not sure the white house thinks of it and the president thinks of it a little friction with nato leaders is okay. but in saudi arabia i think they frunched what they saw as the most important part of this trip which was to basically reorient the united states in concert with sunni leaders to put pressure on iran, and to end on extremists across the world. >> the president very well may pull out of the paris climate agreement. how significant would that be. ris f the president pulls out of the paris climate agreement it is obviously a signal to esropean leaders that this is a different kind of president. he listens to allies but only so far. >> reporter: president trump is deck to tweeting his unedited opinions this morning, telling people among other things, inote, many of the leaks coming from the white house are fabricated lies, coming from the fake news media. are his supporters still buying neat same excuse? >> his supporters by that line is a shrinking group. a lot of the things he is
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calling and has called fake news are now things that have either es been supported by officials and by members of both parties. ofe things he said were fake and made up are now the subject of a special counsel investigation. hard to make the case that this is a fake set of inquiries. >> reporter: the president's son in law and advisor jared kushner is now under not just a media spotlight but his contacts with russian officials are under scrutiny. >> kushner said he is willing to talk to federal and congressional investigators so going back and changing that would be a problem. but if he becomes someone that investigator, the federal investigators talk to about what d e president may or may not have said about influencing or trying to slow down the fbi investigation, jared kushner has to worry about what he said to those investigators. staffers who work for a president can get in jeopardy if they are defending the president the way you might in a public kind of pr campaign versus the
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scrutiny and rigor that you have to maintain when you are talking to federal investigators. fa john dickerson, host of "face the nation," always great to get .our insight. >> quijano: british airways is recovering from a computer meltdown that forced a grounding of the fleet in london. the airlines said hundreds of cancellations were caused by a power supply problem. demarco morgan has the latest. >> british airways flights slowly resumed sunday afternoon but not without a weekend of ground turbulence for its passengers in london. the airline's global it systems failure grounded hundreds of flights causing a traffic nightmare on the tarmac. lines of stranded passengers stretched from one end of the terminal to the next inside both heathrow, europe's busiest airport and gatwick. >> we've been in line about five llurs, five, and we have no idea how long it will be in line, the rest of the day i'm sure. and we probably won't fly out today either.
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>> reporter: the computer glitch quickly disrupted the airline's website, airline check in, contact centers an baggage tracing. many passengers were left with no choice but to leave their bags behind and sleep in the airport not long before incoming and outgoing flights had been canceled. >> reporter: the airline c.e.o. say there is no evidence of a k.berattack. elaine, passengers now have the option to rebook their flight or receive a full refund. flights back in the u.s. at jfk things are running smoothly. >> quijano: demarco, thanks. this weekend iraqi forces backed an the u.s. military began what they hope will be the final push to drive isis out of the city the mosul. charlie d'agata reports tonight from the front lines. >> we're in an area of western mosul, a region taken over by iraqi forces not long ago. and this is what it cost to get rid of isis. the destruction is everywhere, it's staggering and stretches for miles. that is an isis car, you can still see the decal there.
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the combination of air strikes, artillery, mortars and isis suicide car bombs that have leveled buildings and cost the lives of hundreds of civilians. aer the past couple of days there's been an uptick in the hostilities between both sides after the iraqi forces announced a launch of a new offensive to take over the old city. now we have three iraqi forces coming from the south, the north and west, on isis fighters that remain. they are pinned up against the tigris river. the old city itself is densely populated and tightly packed with narrow roads and alleyways that make it difficult if not impossible for iraqi armored vehicles or heavy equipment to get into. utat means iraqi forces have got to get out and fight this battle s foot. that gives isis something of an advantage. it also makes it much more difficult for u.s. air strikes to pinpoint the great accuracy any of these suspected isis positions who are hiding among the residents in their civilian
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population here. iraqi commanders here told us they know they're running out of time with an estimated 200,000 s vilians still trapped inside the old city. their safety is of paramount importance. elaine? >> quijano: charlie d'agata, thank you. this weekend the pentagon identified the american soldier who was killed in an accident in olria on friday. 22 year old etian murphy was an recall army ranger on his first deployment. the cause of the vehicle rollover is under investigation. >> a member of the u.s. navy seal skydiving group was killed today in a parachuting accident. it happened during a fleet week performance in jersey city, new s rsey, just across new york igrbor from manhattan. investigators are looking into the cause. >> about 3700 u.s. service members are in new york for fleet week. on saturday u.s. navy divers showed off their skills in the middle of time square. take a look. >> this is just to show kind of what the divers are doing down
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in the water. we go to 190 feet, sometimes even deeper than that. so a lot of people can't see dat we do down there or see the types of diving rigs that we use in the navy. and this shows all of it. >> the people you are seeing out here are actual sailors, divers, people that do these jobs every single day, you're seeing them come here, take a break and come interact with the public. so it's really neat. i love seeing the excitement. >> it was really good and it was cool. >> oh, really awesome. it feels like i'm at boot camp. >> well, i was hobbling down the stairs he got out and splashed water all over me. >> we bring this so they can see o at it feels like and what it looks like to be under the n ter. it's been great, the hospitality of the new york city citizens and everybody else from out of
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state has been absolutely eenderful. this is my first fleet week. my first time in new york city. janot's been very eye-opening. and very humbling. >> quijano: we're honored to have them with us. coming up next, how ipads are revolutionizing the way blind students interact with the acgital world. lyze ice the way blind students interact with the digital world. ask
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>> quijano: according to www.livewire.com apple has sold 360 million ipads since the original was launched in 2010. seven years later people are still finding new ways to use them. thachers at the new york school str the blind tell kenneth craig ipads are revolutionizing the way their students learn and interact. >> at one of the oldest schools inr the blind in the u.s. nearly 300 students are learning to see the world in a whole new way. each one has their own ipad even though almost all of them are visually impaired and some like
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jessica corrine. en use it for lots of different n ings. >> have no vision at all. >> technology is changing all around us. thd it's kind of great to be a hart of that. >> reporter: she is an 11th grader at the new york institute for special education. >> and you have here in the 30s and 40s. r. where dr. bernadette capan shows how students played traded in old braille writers for ipads that can do more. >> an opportunity to be more teterate and have material at the same time as their sighted peers. e you can have screen enlargement, a voice over for the totally blind. >> reporter: jessica navigates hers with easy, using a bluetooth enabled braille writing. >> probably the best thing, as far as teenagers go, is you get to do your homework on the bus. >> and that's a good thing. >> oh yeah. >> 10th grader kevin figureroa is legally blind in one eye and ligonly see shadows and light with the other.
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m t his life long dream is to make movies and with his tablet, it's quickly coming into focus. >> i love it. i try and get every opportunity i can to go outside and like shoot something. >> reporter: teachers and students here say thanks to the small gadget. n very good. >> the possibilities are now endless. >> one more time. >> kenneth craig, cbs news, bronx, new york. >> quijano: still ahead, on the cbs weekend news, 48 hours investigates the cases that haunt the ncis. news, 48 hours investigates the cases thatth haunt the ncis.
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>> quijano: this week 48 ho >> quijano: this week 48 hours rntinues its special series "the real ncis," the cases they can't forget. tuesday night's show examined the critical role the naval criminal investigative service plays in addressing national security threats including cybercrimes. >> in june 2012, a group posted and claimed that they had hacked into a navy database called the smart web move. >> the smart web move database used to relocate military personnel around the world contains the personal and private records of every member of the united states arms forces and their families. this was quite alarming to us. st didn't know at this point if this was a terrorist group. re didn't know if these were foreign adversaries.
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we just didn't know. >> ncis investigators scoured the internet and found their answer in of all places twitter. discovering that a hacking group team digital had executed the break in as well as 50 other intrusions into corporate and government data sites. >> that was really the break in the case. >> social media revealed a stunning fact. ofe perpetrator of one of the u.st damaging cyberattacks on the u.s. navy as was one of their own. >> nick knight was a 27 year old navy enlisted member. he was a system administrator on a nuclear aircraft carrier. >> ncis agents suspected knight wasn't working alone and when asked did hesitate to give up his partner. is his response was daniel krueger. this other individual that we identified as thor. >> this type of case, thinking a
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couple kids just hacking in for fun. really had much greater ramifications. in fact the navy spent more than a half million dollars to recover from the cyberbreak-in. >> quijano: you can see the full report 48 hours ncis, the terrorist, the spies, the hackers, tuesday night on cbs. we'll be right back. t on cbs. >> we'll be right back.
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>> quijano: we end tonight with steve hartman and an old friend odny of us grew up with.
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>> oh my god. >> whenever evil claims a victory as it did in manchester, people search for words of hope. and this week that search lead many back deep into their childhood to mr. rogers neighborhood of all places. .> it's a beautiful day in the .eighborhood. ♪ a beautiful day for a neighbor. ♪. >> it was mr. fred rogers who once said, when i was a boy and i would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me reok for the helpers, you will always find people who are helping. soousands shared that quote on social media this week. including a senior writer from entertainment weekly named anthony breznican. >> that quote seems almost too heod to be true. whenever you see these quoteds it will be abraham lincoln saying something. >> and you find out he never said it. >> he never said it, mr. rogers said that. and i knew from experience that mr. rogers was like that in real life. >> which is why when anthony sared the helper quote, he
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added a personal story from when he was in college that made it all the more poignant. ly twitter he began, i was struggling, lonely, dealing with a lot of broken pieces and not adjusting well. then one day he said he walked into an empty commons with the tv on. >> it was mr. rogers. i just stood there mesmerized. >> he watched the entire episode and felt a little better. da but says the real fix came a few days later. >> yeah, i'm going downstairs to the lobby of the student union hed the elevator opens and mr. rogers is standing there. and i just got in the elevator sid he said were you one of my television neighbors. i was like, yes. i was one of your neighbors. >> anthony told him how he had just watched the show and how it made him feel better. yo he sat down and he said would you like to tell me what was upsetting you. i didn't have anybody that i could talk to like that. i felt like his trolley car. i fell off the tracks.
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he put me back on. and that was all i needed. and at one point i said i'm really sorry. i hope i'm not tying you up, and n u have somewhere else to go. he said sometimes you're in just the right place. >> i look for the people who are trying to help. >> mr. rogers was in just the right place again this week. reminding us to look for the helpers, the first responders, the global leaders and caring neighbors across the world who still outnumber evil. a million to one. >> steve hartman, on the road. in los angeles. >> quijano: that's the cbs teekend 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 a special thanks to u.s. service members as we honor our fallen heroes on this memorial day weekend. good night.
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. ive from the cbs b ay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. now at 6:00 p.m. a third of the six slides in the east bay are closed after a boy went flying off of one. >> and the board of regents voted to raise student tuition. they threw themselves a party at a very expensive hotel. >> that pricy bash happened in january in san francisco. new at 6:00 p.m. kpix 5's melissa culross -- melissa caen tells us where the money is coming from. >> reporter: have h voting to raise tuition some board of regents said they were sad but it is necessary. >> i will be supporting the
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tuition increase and i think that every single one of us in this room doesn't want to raise tuition for our students. it is very painful for all of us. >> the night before voting to hike tuition the board of regents spent $18,000 at a party. only 65 people attended which worksitute $300 per -- works out to $300 per person. a report shows financial mismanagement that office of the president president run by university of california president janet napolitano. when the board of regents met and discussed the audit no one seemed upset with the president. >> there aren't many people of her quality that are willing to put themselves forward to come and run a public institution. >> reporter: several said it was just a communication

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