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an hour of news. >> cbs weekend news is next, as we look at the flag prior to the 4th. we'll see you at 6:00. >> quijano: president trump's latest attack on the media. a mock video of him beating up cnn, as the battle over health care continues. also tonight, an arrest in the case of a high school graduate gunned down in a road rage incident. >> this appears to be a savage, senseless, and brutal act. >> quijano: parks and beaches are shut down just before july 4th as budget deadlines pass in several states. >> keep going, keep going, keep going! >> quijano: and holly williams is on the front lines of the battle to re-take the isis capital of raqqa. this is the "cbs evening news." >> quijano: good evening.
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i'm elaine quijano. this is our western edition. president trump took another jab at the media today by tweeting a fake wrestling video that cnn described as "below the dignity of his office." a white house homeland security advisor insists no one would consider the video a threat. but reporters' rights groups are outraged. meanwhile, a real battle is taking place behind the scenes as republicans plot strategy to salvage their healthcare overhaul. paula reid reports. >> oh my god, what's going to happen? >> reporter: president trump continued his attacks on the media sunday morning, tweeting a video of himself wrestling cnn, wwe-style with the hashtag fraud news cnn. >> but i'm president, and they're not. >> reporter: but last night, at an event honoring veterans, the president was focused on highlighting his accomplishments. >> i am delivering on trade, on the economy, on the supreme court, on the second amendment, on our military, for our veterans and on our borders
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where we are doing record, record stoppage. ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: but his promise to repeal and replace obamacare is proving difficult to fulfill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has not been able to get enough support for the bill, and constituents are giving members an earful back home. >> to step on their necks by kicking them off their health care at this point, that's cruel, sir. >> reporter: so, on friday, the president tweeted support for a plan to repeal obamacare, and then replace it at a later date. >> i don't think we're getting anywhere with the bill we have. we're at an impasse. >> reporter: senator rand paul is one of five republicans who has refused to vote for the senate bill in it's current form. >> i want repeal to work, and the way you do it is you separate it into two bills. >> reporter: on "face the nation," senator mike lee was asked if republicans can't agree option now, how would they agree to one in the future? >> i think it's easier. sometimes when you lump too many things into one piece of legislation you doom to it's
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likelihood of success. and i fear that's where we'll be here today. >> reporter: tomorrow the president heads back to washington, d.c. for the 4th of july holiday. he and his wife will be hosting a picnic for military families and say they plan to watch the fireworks from the white house. elaine? >> quijano: paula reed, thank you. earlier today we spoke with chief washington correspondent and the moderator of "face the nation," john dickerson. a lot of the conversation this week in washington was centered around the president's rhetoric, and specifically his tweets. and just this morning he tweeted out a video that was edited to show him kicking and punching a cnn logo. and i wonder do you think john that there is an actual political consequence you as a result of this kind of social media behavior? >> well, i think the political consequence is that it rallies his supporters and that he is basically from the inauguration, onward, been quite consistent with his campaign message, which
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is that basically he is going to run the presidency in a different way than we've seen from other presidents which is basically to stick with the affections of those who supported him, keep those affections tight and, and roiled up and there's no better way to do that than in the competition with the media. because a lot of his supporters see the competition not based on what the merits of the moment might be but a fight between their champion and a press trying to get on his way. >> quijano: back on health care. we know mitch mcconnell was forced to delay health care vote. how will this play out when congress returns from recess? >> there is more tinkering on what mcconnell is trying to put together, essentially buying off different factions, they are all things the so-called moderates want, and the more you give to moderates the more you give to conservatives.
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and vice-versa. this has been the bedevilment in both the house and the senate, then there is the repeal only plan is unlikely to get much traction. and the ted cruz plan has that big problem of those high-risk pools that it creates or those obamacare vestigial plans that that creates, that sounds quite politically risky, that the senate leadership is not overly enthusiastic about it. i don't know how they get to yes. i guess the best possible way would be mitch mcconnell using his considerable talents, but he has a very, very tiny margin there. he can only lose two republican votes and six say they're not for it. >> quijano: john dickerson, thanks. millions of americans are already on the move ahead of the 4th of july holiday. nearly 45 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home. one reason for the surge in
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travelers: gas prices. aaa expects the national average to be $2.21 a gallon by tuesday. that's the lowest july 4th average in a dozen years. some americans will have to find a new place to spend the holiday. parks and beaches in several states will be closed this year because lawmakers have been unable to pass their state budgets. tony dokoupil has the story. >> reporter: instead of relaxing at liberty state park or island beach, residents of new jersey are protesting this weekend, because those parks and more than 50 other state recreation areas are closed. >> i'm-- i'm pissed off. it's a holiday weekend. what about all the kids that have birthday parties and paid to have barbecues here? it's not fair. >> reporter: forty-six states needed to pass a budget by july 1st. nine failed, putting services at risk. illinois hasn't had a budget in three years. maine and new jersey began partial shutdowns over the weekend. >> and here we are, at an impasse, government is closed
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over a transparency and accountability fight, i'm at a loss. >> reporter: new jersey governor chris christie ordered the shutdown, but in hundreds of signs on state buildings he put the blame on general assembly speaker vincent prieto. >> that has not been a line in the sand. that is cement in the sand for me. >> reporter: prieto is refusing a plan to expand treatment for drug addiction, fearing it would raise people's health insurance premiums. so far, the shutdown in new jersey has mainly been felt at state parks, like this one, now closed, but by monday the pain could shift to job sites, as thousands of state workers are furloughed. >> we want to work! we want to work! >> reporter: maine's state employees are already out of work, following a tax impasse between governor paul lepage and democrats in the legislature. house speaker sara gideon addressed protestors on saturday. >> and i'm so sorry that you have been put in this position by any of us who work here in this building. >> reporter: and in illinois, the state comptroller says everything is at risk.
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>> it just makes you think that the whole system is a joke. >> reporter: in new jersey, trust in government is something money can't buy. tony dokoupil, cbs news liberty park state park. >> quijano: the manhunt is over in pennsylvania. a suspect in last week's deadly road rage incident turned himself in to police. demarco morgan has the story. >> reporter: police have charged 28-year-old david desper, of trainer, pennsylvania, with 1st and 3rd degree murder charges. >> this is a story of a savage and senseless murder. >> reporter: chester county district attorney tom hogan said, desper shot 18-year-old bianca roberson in the left side of her head, killing her instantly. witnesses say the two were jockeying for position in a lane on route 100 shortly before roberson's car careened off the road. >> because somebody didn't want to give way, somebody didn't want her to merge into a lane of traffic. >> reporter: hogan says hundreds of tips began pouring in about the incident and the red chevy pickup truck, caught on traffic
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cameras speeding away from the scene. >> that red pickup truck takes off like a bat out of hell. >> reporter: the red pickup was discovered this morning about nine miles from where the shooting happened. investigators searched desper's residence and located a .40 caliber handgun possibly used in the shooting. desper waited three days to turn himself into west goshen police early this morning... >> they shot my baby. >> reporter: but not before roberson's parents, michelle and rodney, made a desperate plea for the person responsible. >> just turn yourself in, please. you took my life, you devastated this family! >> reporter: roberson had recently graduated from high school and was scheduled to attend jacksonville university. >> she was a good girl, loved by many, never bothered anybody. she was just a sweet girl. >> reporter: desper is also charged with possession of instrument of crime and reckless endangerment. he has been arraigned and is being held tonight in the chester county prison without bail. elaine? >> quijano: disturbing story. demarco, thank you.
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some frightening moments on the runway in colorado. a skywest flight from aspen to denver suffered an engine fire. the crew and all 59 passengers were evacuated without injuries. denver fire crews responded, no word on what caused the fire. in syria, u.s. backed forces are closing the noose around the islamic state's self-proclaimed capital of raqqa. much of the city is destroyed and most of the residents have fled. but some isis gunmen are determined to fight to the end. holly williams has been giving us a rare look inside syria and filed this reporter's notebook. >> reporter: we've been covering isis and the rise of its so- called caliphate, or islamic state, for more than three years now, but this was our first look inside raqqa, the extremists' self-proclaimed capital. we walked into the city, a neighborhood emptied of civilians where american-backed fighters known as the syrian democratic forces are clawing
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back ground from isis one block at a time. ( gunfire ) isis is now surrounded in raqqa, an estimated 2500 fighters are being pummeled by u.s. air strikes. but as they did in mosul, they are choosing to wreak more death, rather than surrendering. when part of our team went forward they were spotted by an isis sniper. our producer, omar abdulkader, had to run for cover. >> keep going, keep going! >> well done. >> that was close. >> reporter: as american's syrian allies close in from the north, they're already planning for a future without the extremists. appointing local councils to govern towns retaken from isis just north of raqqa we watched them releasing 81 men and boys accused of being isis fighters.
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they've been rehabilitated they told us after detecting or being captured and this was a public show of forgiveness in full view of television cameras. with a handshake, and a free cookie, the prisoners were reunited with their families. siham al dandan told us her 15- year-old son khamri ran off to join isis four months ago. "i advise every mother to stop their kids from joining isis," she said. "i wasn't sure i'd ever see him again." but even now the islamic state is rapidly losing territory, nobody here thinks that retaking raqqa will spell the end of isis. at this u.s. military logistics hub in northern syria they rolled out a dirt airstrip. building for a long stay. there are officially around 500 u.s. troops now in syria, but
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the real number is thought to be much higher. lieutenant general stephen townsend is the commander of the u.s.-led coalition fight isis. >> i think u.s. troops will start leaving syria when isis is defeated. >> reporter: but isis will surely turn into an insurgency once they've lost all their territory? >> um, yeah, i think that's the next stage of isis, we call that isis 2.0. insurgency rule, so we'll still be here dealing with that. >> reporter: the caliphate is crumbling but that won't kill crumbling but that won't kill isis or it's ideology. holly williams, cbs news, northern syria. >> quijano: we'll be right back. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections
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farmers is working to save the reef and re-grow the coral. manuel bojorquez went to take a look. >> reporter: the beauty of south florida's coastline isn't just skin deep. below the water lies a crucial habitat of coral, home to hundreds of species of marine plants and animals. stephanie schopmeyer, a university of miami marine biologist, is working to save them. >> over the past 30 to 40 years, we've seen a drastic declines in coral cover, and it's mostly been due to climate change. >> reporter: we set out with schopmeyer to see the "rescue a reef" program in action. scientists, who are certified divers, are replanting parts of the reef with the help of "citizen scientists." >> citizen scientists are members of our local community that are interested in participating and contributing to any type of science program, and in our case it's coral restoration. >> reporter: and you have a waiting list? >> we have a waiting list.
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>> reporter: the first task is to collect recently grown coral from these so-called trees the group has installed just off key biscayne. once they bring them up, the divers are taught how to secure the harvested coral onto the ocean floor. pull that zip tie as tight as you can. >> reporter: then, it's time to find a spot to re-plant them. and doing that is like underwater gardening. putting down stakes and securing the new coral, all while trying not to drift into other re- planted coral that's already growing. how many did you get planted? >> i think about six. >> reporter: this is jessica glenn's ninth dive. >> i live here. i'm a floridian, so i want to save it. >> reporter: and natalie mertel's first. >> i've been wanting to do this for over a year, and it finally worked out today, and without the ocean, well, there's no life. >> reporter: rescue a reef is not the only program working to re-plant the coral reef. stephanie schopmeyer told us there's a network of scientists and divers who have already replanted tens of thousands of
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doctor jon lapook has the story. >> reporter: as georgia tech engineer mark prausnitz watched his three children get flu shots, he asked himself a question. >> why do we need a needle that's an inch long, to cross a barrier that is incredibly thin? so the thought was, let's make very small needles, micro- needles that can cross that barrier. >> traditional flu vaccine injections require a needle long enough to reach muscle. but prausnitz and his colleagues at emory university tried something new: delivering vaccine to just inside the skin, using a small patch covered with microscopic needles that dissolve within minutes. the patch can be self- administered. >> if you zoom in and look at each of those individual micro- needles, the height of those needles is about equal to the width of a piece of paper. >> reporter: their study of 100 volunteers found the patch was safe, causing mild itching and redness at the application site. and it was as good as a traditional flu shot in stimulating an immune response
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measured by a blood test. the researchers still have to prove the vaccine actually protects people from getting the flu. >> the next step, of course, is to study more people and make sure that these initial findings are still correct in a larger population. >> reporter: 29-year-old daisy bourassa participated in the trial. >> i really foresee that this should be something that could be like amazon prime, and you could, you know, get it at your doorstep and then do it while you're watching tv. if all goes well, prausnitz hopes the patch will be commercially available within five years. the vaccine holds up for about a year, without refrigeration. a huge plus in the developing world. i'm jon la pook. >> quijano: still head. yellowstone grizzlies put to work testing bear-resistant coolers and garbage bins.
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exactly what a bear wants. >> and we have some fish. >> reporter: whew, that's smelly. it's his job to tempt bears to break into coolers and garbage cans at the non-profit grizzly and wolf discovery center in yellowstone national park so manufacturers can make them even stronger and save bears' lives. >> there is a saying out there, a fed bear is a dead bear. >> reporter: and once they get a taste for it they just keep coming back? >> they will. >> reporter: and that's bad news for the bears. because when they get too close to people, they're either euthanized or relocated. this is 350-pound grizzly is named spirit. she's one of eight resident grizzlies relocated to the discovery center. for about $500 companies can find out if their containers are truly, "bear resistant" to the delight of park visitors like vickey sumner. he just kept managing to keep moving that around until he just cracked it open. >> reporter: now you know which cooler you might bring with you? >> yeah, the white one. ( laughs ) >> reporter: she and others
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watched an 600-pound bear named coram use the tried and true "cpr" method to pop the top on this trash bin. the containers that survive a 60 minute mauling can be sold as "bear resistant" but not all are successful. this one doesn't look so good. >> no, no. you can see the styrofoam, so they were literally able to tear that apart. >> reporter: even this steel trash locker was no match for the bears. they ripped the hinges right off? >> they ripped the hinges right off. >> reporter: when you first started only 10% of the containers were passing the test? >> and now it's around 65. >> reporter: saving bears one cooler at a time. carter evans, cbs news, yellowstone. >> quijano: pretty tough testers. 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. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by
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media access g the big bay area city launching a new campaign that's part- educatio new at 6:00, it's a new approach to fighting illegal fireworks. the big bay area city launches a campaign that's part education, and part public shaming. good evening, i'm brian hackney. >> san jose is handing out thousands of lawn signs to remind people fireworks are illegal there. the hope is that a little peer pressure could work where enforcement has fallen short. >> reporter: illegal fireworks are as bad as they've ever been in san jose, now the city is fighting fire with words. >> i think it's something that our society needs more than ever, is really thinking about how what you do affects another person. >> the city is handing out 3,000 free signs that say all fireworks are illegal.
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what's more, the top line reads, respect your neighbors, veterans, and pets. >> this comes down to an issue of respect. with neighbors saying to neighbors please respect us, we need some quiet, this is not a small town with vast amounts of open space. we're in the middle of a big city, and you have to think about what you're doing. >> the illegal fireworks were incredibly bad. we thought we were in a war zone. >> reporter: the problem is, especially bad in downtown san jose, where the fireworks are heard year round for days at a time. >> do you think this will nudge it in the right direction? >> it's a push, but we've got to start somewhere. >> reporter: it seems neighbors are increasingly getting fed up, last year, the city got more than 600 complats
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