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6:00. >> opt cbs weekend news -- the cbs weekend news will be next. ioning sponsored by cbs >> ninan: another busy day of diplomacy. president trump wraps up the wrapsummit in germany with a whirlwind of meetings. daughter ivanka trump raises eyebrows sitting in for the president. also tonight, extreme heat fuels a growing wave of wildfires in the west. ttshowdown in charlottesville, virginia over plans to remove a confederate statue. >> people are angry and people are mobilizing. >> ninan: and, new details about high tech prison break. did this convict use a drone to escape? >> this is the first time that this has ever happened. this is the "cbs weekend news." >> ninan: good eveni reena ninan.
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this is our western edition. president trump wrapped up a four-day visit to europe today. his final day at the g-20 summit included a face-to-face meeting with china's president xi jinping. also today, 19 g20 leaders agreed to implement the paris climate accord. the u.s. is now the only g20 nation to pull out. first daughter and presidential adviser, ivanka trump, raised eyebrows, briefly sitting in for her father at a table of world leaders, while he stepped away for one-on-one meetings. major garrett now, with more on this busy demonstrations, in hamburg, germany. >> reporter: more than 20,000 protesters converged on hamburg for the g20 summit's final day. oe largely-peaceful assembly contrasted sharply with the scuffles, looting and fires that flared the night before. more than 200 german police were injured, and nearly 100 ht besters were arrested or detained, in three days of disturbances. president trump complimented
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german chancellor angela merkel's handling of the protests, which have become something of a ritual at these summits. >> it's been really incredible the way things have been handled-- and nothing is easy-- but so professionally and without much interruption. >> reporter: the last day of the summit, a whirlwind of presidential meetings with the leaders of britain, japan, itngapore and indonesia. the biggest came last. >> we are developing and have apanloped a wonderful relationship. >> reporter: as mr. trump met chinese president xi jinping, and urged more pressure to deter north korea's nuclear pursuits. re success may take longer than s'd like, may take longer than you'd like, but there will be success in the end, one way or the other. >> reporter: mr. trump departed brmany without holding an end- of-summit press conference, while leaders like russian rsesident vladimir putin did. putin denied meddling in the u.s. election, an issue mr. trump raised in their meeting
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yesterday, but later set aside. a ( translated ): the opposition is very well-known. i repeated it. there are no grounds at all to say that russia intervened in the u.s. election. >> reporter: putin said he was optimistic about relations with mr. trump. >> ( translated ): tv trump is so very, very different from the real trump, from the trump that i had before me. >> reporter: historically, the u.s. has led the drafting of the final summit statement. not so under president trump. he other 19 nations here agree that the paris climate accord which mr. trump withdrew the sited states from is irreversible and will not be renegotiated. they also pledged to fight what they called trade protectionism, a not-so-subtle reference to mr. trump's hostility to multinational trade deals and his threats of future tariffs. reena? >> ninan: major garrett, thank you. well, now that president trump has addressed with president putin the issue of russia's
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interference in the election, what are the consequences? in an interview airing sunday on "face the nation," john dickerson poses that question to nikki haley, the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. >> reporter: let me ask, outside of the room, where do things stand on this question of .sssian meddling? when you and i last talked, you said at the end of the day, the russians need to know there are d nsequences when they get involved in our elections. what are those consequences? >> not just russia. any country needs to know that there are consequences when they get involved in our elections. and i think that's why it's good that the investigations are going on and we're analyzing and we're looking into all that, and i think we need to manage it iccordingly. the one thing we don't want is for our political process to ever be influenced or tainted in any way, and i think that we have to make sure we're always strong on that point and let everyone know we're not going to put up with it. >> reporter: but given that the president, as you said, knows that the russians meddled, what tonsequences will they face as a result of that action? >> i think you're going to have to ask the president. i think that's one of the things-- is first, is confronting them.
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letting them know we know it happened, letting them know it can't happen again. i know that they had quite a bit of cyber conversation, in terms of cyber meddling, or cyber ouse, during, not just political situations but also from a security situation, and they talked quite a bit on the cyber attack risk. ad so i think we'll see what happens there. you know, keep in mind, yesterday's meeting was all about talk, but at the end of the day, this is all going to be about actions. we now have to see where we go from there. o> ninan: you can see john's full interview with ambassador haley tomorrow on "face the w tion." john's guests also include republican senators john mccain and ted cruz. on the korean peninsula today, two u.s. bombers joined fighter jets from japan and south korea. it was a practice bombing run in response to north korea's ballistic and nuclear programs. u.s. military officials called the mission "a defensive show of force and unity." record-breaking heat is fueling a growing wave of wildfires in the west. dore than three dozen large fires are raging across 11
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croses this weekend. chris martinez has the latest. >> reporter: in less than a day, this fire near santa barbara arploded in size from 150 acres to more than 6,000. massive plumes of smoke descended towards rural towns, scrcing hundreds to evacuate, including gretchen lieff. >> it was kind of heading in our direction, so we got the dogs, jumped in the car. >> reporter: further north, hundreds of firefighters are struggling to contain this fast- moving blaze near sacramento. residents like sharon albertson are preparing to flee. >> i've put my trailer on the rog. we're loaded up. we're ready to go. >> reporter: on top of the wildfire danger, brutally hot temperatures with records toppling across the southwest. phoenix hit a high of 118 degrees friday, breaking a 112- year record for the date. palm springs reached 122 degrees, one of its hottest days ever. and in death valley, the mercury
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soared to 127. >> we are going to see an increase in calls during this peak heat. >> reporter: los angeles fire captain erik scott says many people ignore the very real risks of spending too much time outdoors. skd, even for the most seasoned veterans: oo firefighters are not exempt from this heat themselves. firefighters going to a fire takes with them, approximately 100 extra pounds. you have temperatures up to 112 degrees right now. it's very challenging. 's reporter: forecasters say there is some relief in sight. slightly cooler weather is expected sunday, before a real cooling trend begins monday. tena, that could help with the effort to get some of those wildfires under control. >> ninan: certainly welcome news. chris martinez, thank you. c charlottesville, virginia today, a large crowd turned out for a counter-protest against the klu klux klan. the community is divided over plans to remove a statute of robert e. lee. as paula reid reports, the debate, whether confederate monuments are symbols of
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heritage, or hate, has been playing out across the south. >> reporter: charlottesville police were out in full force, keeping the peace between the eeu klux klan and those who anowed up to oppose them. >> it is a great sign for charlottesville that we are ready to confront white supremacy, that we are ready to commit to ending oppression and making reparations. >> reporter: the klan is protesting the city's decision earlier this year to remove this statue of confederate general robert e. lee from a public park that used to bear his name. on the eve of the klan's planned protest, the statue was vandalized with red paint. cities across the country are deciding whether or not to remove, and in some cases replace, confederate symbols. last month in st. louis, a confederate memorial was removed from forest park, after an agreement was reached between eae city and the missouri civil war museum. this spring, four confederate statues were taken down in new orleans after two years of court battles and a heated public debate. this man says taking down these
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statues is an effort to rewrite history. >> these statutes are history. they should be left alone. you can't erase history. >> reporter: charlottesville pastor mark mills says this is not about rewriting history, it's about unity. >> people are seeing the importance and value in each other, that we all matter. >> reporter: only a few dozen klan members showed up to today's protest, even though edeir permit was for as many as 100. the anti-defamation league says dee group has been diminished by bfighting and high turnover. reena? >> ninan: paula reid, thanks. a south carolina prison employee is out of a job today, after an utmate escaped and took authorities on a 1,200 mile chase. jim causey was serving a life mentence at the lieber correctional institute, before mking a high-tech prison break on independence day. tony dokoupil has the story. >> reporter: convicted- ildnapper-turned-fugitive jimmy causey checked into this motel 6 eyar austin, texas, last thursday, falling asleep three
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long days after he broke out of a maximum security prison in south carolina. >> we believe his cell phone was used to facilitate and give this .nmate the resources to escape. otenlso potentially believe that a drone was used to help him get the contraband in to escape. >> reporter: brian stirling, the director of the south carolina tepartment of corrections, believes the drone delivered wire cutters which causey used to slice through four fences on the evening of july 4. he left a dummy in his cell to confuse authorities. >> it's been a long couple days at the department. >> reporter: but at about 3:00 am on friday, as causey snoozed, texas rangers and federal authorities moved in, including tputy u.s. marshall brandon filla. >> the motel 6 left the light on, you know, and helped us out. >> reporter: authorities found ausey with a shotgun, a handgun, four cell phones, a south carolina i.d. and $47,000 in cash.
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, usey escaped once before in 2005 after hiding in a garage truck. but it's newer technology like drones and cell phones that have authorities worried. causey's on his way back to south carolina to face new goarges. the governor of south carolina, leanwhile, is demanding permission to jam cell signals at all prisons. >> ninan: and is the federal communications commission granting it? >> reporter: not so far. d's a decades-old law. they say only federal agencies have that permission, and cell companies themselves say they don't want to change, because it will weaken their networks. l> ninan: wow, tony dokoupil, thank you. coming up, how president trump's hpport for charter schools and vouchers will hurt some of the rural voters who put him in office. office.
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the top of their education agenda. their proposed budget calls for hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for vouchers and charter schools. but, some educators in rural areas are concerned about proposed cuts in funding to public schools. jim axelrod reports. >> reporter: how stretched are school resources in letcher county, kentucky? school bus driver freddie terry is a good place to start. tutually, he does double duty at arlie boggs elementary school-- terry is also the principal at this school. >> have a great day, love you, bye, mean it. >> reporter: terry has just six teachers for nine grades, but the school still performs in the op 5% of the state. >> we do have challenges. >> reporter: and you're still doing it. >> we're doing our absolute best. we attempt to make a difference es every child's life. >> reporter: the school is chrtainly making a difference in nick sturgill's life, a 14-year- old eighth-grader.
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what's the best part? >> the teachers. yeah, they really reach out to you. eake, if you're feeling down, they come and say, hey, are you feeling all right? >> reporter: have you ever had conversations like that? >> oh, i have them every day, here. s reporter: nick is one of the 130 students at the school, where 60% live below the poverty line. okay, so which one of you is a better student? >> reporter: sisters kristen and meyenne adams eat two meals each day at arlie boggs, and get ennt home with extra food on weekends. do you think there's a connection between doing well in nchool and what you're going to be able to do in life? >> yes. >> reporter: with its federal and state funding figured on enrollment, freddie terry can't afford to lose a single student. he fears where the trump white tuse support for charter fohools and vouchers could lead. >> i understand the need for increasing performance in schools, but just making a
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blanket statement and saying all schools in the nation can have this option to receive this rucher to go somewhere else, it would be detrimental to a school that's already performing well. >> reporter: if you lost ten kids, would you lose a teacher? >> if i lost ten kids, i would definitely lose a teacher. >> reporter: nine million idudents attend public schools in rural america. shawna rodenberg was one of them. a former student in letcher county, she is now a community college teacher and a writer. heryou want to have a school voucher debate, fine. >> but it's not for here. it's not for this place. >> reporter: rodenberg believes president trump's "school choice" agenda would siphon money away from the schools doing the most. >> even the people that i know who are conservative, know that these public schools serve so many roles. they know that public school here is a necessity. >> reporter: just ask nick sturgill. if you had a choice to go to another school, would you? >> no, not for a million bucks. they say that home is where the heart is, and it's right here.
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>> ninan: tonight on "48 hours:" ldyoung soldier is charged with murdering his wife in cold blood. he says it was an accident, and can explain exactly how it happened. will the jury believe him? erin moriarty is on the case. >> when skylar and danielle met, it was something you that you read in the fairy books. >> reporter: danette heller watched as her son skylar, a 20-year-old soldier, fell in love with a buoyant high school cheerleader, danielle. >> there was like, nothing that could keep them apart. >> reporter: in fact, danielle dropped out of her northern california high school to marry skylar, and live with him close to the ft. lewis army base in isshington. on october 16, 2014, skylar
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nemetz was returning from yet another training mission. wt within hours of his return, hnielle was dead, shot in the back of the head with an a.r.-15 rifle. >> i didn't mean to hurt tybody. id reporter: did you intentionally kill your wife, kyylar? >> no, i did not. >> reporter: but why didn't he try to revive his wife, or even call 911? >> he is seeing this as an accident. we believe he murdered his wife. h reporter: prosecutors say skylar nemetz shot and killed his 19-year-old wife in a jealous rage, and then charged him with first degree murder. >> they're wrong. they found him guilty before they investigated. >> i can live with, i am the reason danielle died, but i can't live with being called a murderer. >> ninan: you can see erin's full report, "the soldier's wife," tonight on "48 hours," right here on cbs.
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you can find wild monkeys. jonathan vigliotti shows us how conservationists there are trying to keep the peace between gibraltar's endangered monkeys-- and their neighbors. >> reporter: the jagged peninsula of gibraltar, along spain's southern coast, has been controlled by the british since the 1700s. but high above the city, where brck meets cloud. the monkeys rule. the endangered barbary macaque is the only wild monkey in europe, and they're facing off with another set of primates-- their human neighbors. we're headed to the top of the rock, where the barbary macaque lives, and where breakfast is about to be served. - ! every day like clockwork, fresh fruit and vegetables arrive at this remote peak. dr. eric shaw leads this macaque frnagement team, who spreads the spoils. this royal treatment is a peace acfering for this cheeky bunch. >> they know how to open your fer door. they know, when they wander down
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into town and you've left the kitchen window open, they know what a refrigerator is. the know how to pull the handle open and help themselves. >> reporter: so, to keep them out of people's refrigerators, you bring food up here? but just like children, monkeys prefer sweets. >> he's trying to get into your backpack. shoo! shoo! off! believe it or not, he was trying to unzip your backpack. this is how clever they are, they know that in backpacks, people carry food. >> he likes you. >> reporter: barbary macaques are professional pickpockets. police turn a blind eye because they are gibraltar's number one tourist attraction. lid while most macaques are friendly, some can be vicious, ndich is why shaw's management program is funded by the government and supported by the locals. how many macaques are here on the rock? >> how many? oh, 225 on the rock altogether. >> reporter: to help protect his troop-- and people-- shaw gives each monkey a tracking chip and tattoo, along with annual
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checkups. the irony of man feeding animal to keep them wild is not lost on law, who says as the human population grows, conservation must get creative. >> they are the last free- ranging primates in the whole of europe, and they are on the endangered species list. and if we're not careful, they will disappear off the face of the earth. >> reporter: how important are these monkeys here? >> well, as long as the monkeys are here, it's going to be a british rock. that's how important it is, according to legend. >> reporter: it's a win/win, he says, for both folklore and conservation. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, gibraltar. >> ninan: and that's the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. the news continues on our 24- hour streaming channel, cbsn, at cbsnews.com. i'm reena ninan in new york. thank you for joining us. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs
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rights lawsuit -- after a deadly police shooting. >> they should have brought ambulance and help for him, not guns. >> now at 6:00, the city of san jose facing a civil rights lawsuit after a deadly police shooting. plus, hundreds of people are waiting to go home after this inferno in oakland, and we just learned they have to wait another night. the fire danger rising with the temperatures. this 100-acre blaze, the latest in a series of brush fires erupting across the east bay. and good evening. we have a look outside at what has been another warm saturday, temperatures in excess of 100, and this is a place where it got as warm as 104. it is going to be a warm weekend. santa rosa hit 86, even in the south bay, in san jose, 97
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degrees, but they're some clouds on the way, as you can see at the golden gate bridge. temperatures will cool further as high pressure has been giving us the warm weather. finally begins to subside a bit, so little bit cooler for everything tomorrow, but there are still heat advisories and red flag warnings in the diablo range. the summer heat isn't doing bay area firefighters any favors. in fact, right now, they're battling a 250-acre grass fire in rodeo, burning near interstate 80. you can see flames getting close to the road. here's what it looks like for people driving by. the fire broke out around 3:00 p.m., and you can see it's sending thick plumes of smoke into the air. the fire is 25% contained at this hour. no structures are threatened, but a portion of cummings skyway is closed. avoid that area if you can. 40 miles to
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