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be eaten but the tiger wanted a friend more than dinner. more on the fire at 6:00 p.m. oo
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>> reporter: shortly after midnight a wal-mart employee called 911 after someone approached him in the parking lot and asked for water. fire chief charles hood said inside a semitruck parked behind the store san antonio paramedics found several dozen overheated people in crisis.onio paramedics >> we have eight patients that hre deceased. we had another 20 patients that were either in extremely critical condition or very
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've ous condition. and they've been transported to a number of hospitals. imbeemperatures had climbed well above 100 degrees. no air conditioning, no water. everyone alive inside had a heart rate above 130 beats per tnute. >> they were very hot to the touch. so these people were in that trailer without any signs of water. so you are looking at a lot of heat stroke, a lot of dehydration. >> reporter: in a statement u.s. attorney richard durbin called it "an alien smuggling situation gone horribly wrong. all were victims of ruthless sman smugglers indifferent to the well-being of their human cargo." homeland security investigated at least 2,000 smuggling incidents in 2016 resulting in more than 1500 criminal convictions. the truck driver has been arrested and will face federal charges. police chief william mcmanus says cars picked up some people inside the trailer before authorities arrived.
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others escaped into a forested area nearby. >> anybody who sees anything like this, people being transferred out of the back of a trailer or being transferred from some vehicle to another vehicle, then they need to call 911. >> reporter: 17 dehydrated people went to local hospitals in a life-threatening condition. elaine, police are looking for more suspects by studying wal- mart surveillance tapes. they show cars picking up people at the truck before paramedics arrived. >> quijano: mark strassmann, thanks. a high stakes showdown is under way in kentucky. a christian fundamentalist group is trying to close the state's last abortion clinic. anna werner is there. >> reporter: elaine, this spot in downtown kentucky has become re center of the abortion tibate in the united states e cause if this clinic closes, that would mean that kentucky would be the first state in the country without an abortion provider in a nation where abortion is legal.
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kentucky's governor is openly antiabortion and state law requires abortion clinics to be licensed and have a relationship with a hospital for emergencies. e 's a standard the clinic says it has met for years but in march, the state said there were deficiencies and threatened the yank the clinic's license. with no license, it would close. the a.c.l.u. sued on the edinic's behalf. a trial is scheduled on that arestion for september. but abortion protesters aren't e iting. stis week they're beginning a campaign against the clinic, its doctors and others and plan to picket the clinic and other locations including the doctors' homes. new back in may some 19 people were arrested for trying to block access preventing patients from getting too this clinic. so now a federal judge has ordered that there be a buffer peop around the entrance to the clinic, and that's where a lot er the tension might take place here. it's basically that black and .ellow tape going around the entrance to the clinic. there's going to be a hearing tomorrow on how long that buffer
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zone will remain here, elaine? ja quijano: anna werner, thanks. severe downpours triggered flash floods in northern kentucky saturday night. the rushing water left a pile of vehicles in the town of maysville. no one was hurt. more than a dozen people had to be rescued from flooded homes and cars. >> firefighters from across boston battled an eight alarm fire early today in waltham, massachusetts. w apartment complex under construction went up in flames. officials say there were several explosions. five buildings collapsed. there were no injuries. the cause is under investigation. it's been an extremely busy wildfire season in the west. more than four and a half million acres have burned in the u.s. so far this year. that is up nearly 60% from last year when 2.8 million acres were destroyed by late july. more fires broke out this weekend. here's mireya villarreal. >> reporter: firefighters pulled water lines into backyards and launched an aerial assault to
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protect homes from fast moving flames in highland, california. >> it started. >> reporter: homeowners hosed down their property as the blaze rolled down the foothills of the san bernardino mountains. >> there he goes making that drop. >> reporter: it's at least the third fire to target this area east of los angeles in the last month. acveral wildfires erupted across the west on saturday. including one in washington and another in colorado. rnck in california we hiked along with chief ken kremensky and his firefighters on the front lines of the detweiler fire which devoured at least 76,000 acres. this is still an important part , fighting the fire, even though you don't see flames around. >> right, exactly, it's a real important part. big gust of wind and it ignites on the other side in the green and it can start up and continue to race on. >> reporter: evacuation orders were recently lifted in the town of mariposa allowing some people to return home. >> i mean i am at a loss for
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words for the firefighters, i can't express enough gratitude. >> reporter: but the detweiler fire destroyed 60 homes close to yosemite park. >> it certainly is an unpredictable season. and it's hard to say exactly what will happen. this is the start of our first big one. and we in past years have always had something near yosemite, in yosemite, around yosemite, and it's just a very unpredictable thing. p reporter: picturesque parts of the park have been blurred by heavy smoke. a lingering reminder of how devastating these fires can be. mireya villarreal, cbs news, mariposa, california. >> quijano: an icon of the political crisis in venezuela ins injured this weekend during a violent protest in caracas. willy arteaga has become famous for flaying the violin as thousands take to the street against president nicolas iduro.
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arteagas was hit in the face by shrapnel yesterday. he vows to return to the protest. about 100 people have been killed in the unrest since april. protesters have accused maduro of turning the country into a dictatorship and ruining the economy. coming up, american boots back on the ground in one of the most dangerous parts of afghanistan. most dangerous parts of afghanistan.
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>> quijano: the u.s. military is investigating an air strike that accidentally killed at least a half dozen afghan police friday in helmand province. the area in southern afghanistan is now controlled by the taliban. u.s. marines recently returned there after several years to help drive them out. charlie d'agata visited the troops. >> reporter: the last time u.s. marines were here, a force of 20,000 all but drove the taliban out of their stronghold in helmand province. back then brigadier general roger turner was a colonel.
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did you think you would be back here? yo no, i didn't. i didn't really. i left here, as we discussed, i left here in 2012 and we knew that the mission was going to end in 2014. so i didn't think i would be back here. >> reporter: this time his mission is dramatically different, in command of just 300 marines training afghans to fight for themselves. we joined them as they flew over what is once again taliban-held territory. >> because not long after the marines pulled out, the taliban swept through helmand recapturing territory, u.s. forces fought and died for. with 349 american lives lost. >> this was one of my positions. >> reporter: we can't give the location but this used to be a u.s. marine base. how hard of a fight do you think this is going to be. >> that fight will now be lead by afghan brigadier general wali mohammed ahmedzai who stressed
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the urgent need for increased american support to defeat the taliban. "this war is not just ours," he said. "it's a war against international terrorism. we need america's advanced technology and more forces to fight." but general turner said the marines role is simply to train, rivise and assist, with priority to get afghans to do the fighting. >> i don't know that having marines moving right behind them is something we really need to n. >> reporter: recapturing and holding on to taliban-held territory is a task afghan forces must take on themselves. eventually on their own. the afghans are making progress. mis week they captured a turategic town near the provincial capitol with the help pf u.s. forces. the question now is whether they can hold on to it and for how long. charlie d'agata, cbs news, kabul, afghanistan.
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>> quijano: still ahead, prison food redefined. we'll visit a high-end restaurant inside an italian lockup. restaurant inside an italian lockup. ♪ ♪ we danced in a german dance group. i wore lederhosen.man. when i first got on ancestry i was really surprised that i wasn't finding all of these germans in my tree. i decided to have my dna tested through ancestry dna. the big surprise was we're not german at all. 52% of my dna comes from scotland and ireland.
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seth doane checked it out. >> reporter: in a 13th century fortress on the hill top of a tuscan town, preparations were under way for a rather unlikely dinner. armed guards kept watch above. as the apertivo was laid out in the courtyard. and as rosario campagna served prosecco, he is also serving a 21 year sentence for murder. >> how was it to have all of these folks here tonight. >> libero. >> freedom? >> yep, the fortezza medicea is a prison in volterra, italy. it's home to some of the country's most hardened timinals. and on eight nights a year it is host to a dinner where the prisoners do all the work. it is designed to raise money for charity, build skills and give inmates the chance to interact with those on the
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outside. in the kitchen, these criminals who admit they've made bad choices in the past are more focused on the future, or at least the next few hours. the pasta was thrown into the utt at about 20 minutes to 10. this is italy, after all. >> a desoun pocaldo, pocaldo, no. and then it is mixed way delicate parsley sauce. buono, buono. >> life for fran she is coin for in for aggravated murder. >> this is where we are so this is where we must grow, he said it is like a plant, it grows where it's planted. >> come il cibo. >> the food got good reviews but the real draw was the novelty. >> how is it to be having dinner inside a prison? >> very strange. we don't know, we come and we come back.
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>> joking aside, by the end of dinner curiosity had given way to a connection. ♪ ♪ >> and for a moment inside this prison, the walls seemed to disappear. seth doane, cbs news, volterra, italy. >> quijano: up next, a whale of a comeback. humpbacks are now a common sight in the waters off new york city. common sight in the waters off new york city whrang keeping me from the people, places, and things i love. the people i love have always been there for me. and now, i'm there for them, too. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424 to learn more. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient
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>> quijano: we end tonight in t e waters off new york city where humpback whales have made a remarkable comeback. omff glor has the story. threporter: in rockaway, queens, steering with manhattan's sky line to the side the american princess set sail on a whale watching expedition. >> friends of mine said do you know there is a whale watch out of razor point and my question to her was, are you high. catherine granton say naturalist who studies whale. >> what i am looking for is the next blow. >> and she is seeing more humpbacks swimming through new york harbor. >> what do you think about new rkrk city, we think empire state building, statue of liberty, we don't think humpback whales. >> and we should. >> new york city say water city.
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john kronin is a renowned environmentalist and professor at n.y.u. >> a humpback whale does not know it is swimming through a city. that is what makes this such an amazing thing. >> reporter: a whale sighting may look like an acrobatic display, but this is lunge feeding, taking fish called menhaden. paul sieswerda the president of the nonprofit gotham whale say menhaden are thriving because the water is cleaner. >> one of the things that brings everything together is this food anain. >> reporter: quite a change from the '70s and '80s when kronin knows the waters were a wasteland. >> as the first hudson river keeper, cronin patrolled this erterway for polluters. >> now 30 some odd years later, it is how much better. >> we are seeing some biological onjuvenation. >> rejuvenation spawned by decades of cleanup which began with the passing of the clean water act in 1972. >> we shouldn't be cutting back n'e e.p.a. which provides the funding and the technical expertise to clean up the nation's waterways. >> reporter: still the cleaner water has lured back the fish that whales feast on. >> this whale is very
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distinctive because it has a patch on the left side of its cheek. >> reporter: sieswerda says patchy also has a distinct injured dorsal fin. it was probably knocked off by a boat in this busy shipping area. >> as human activity and whales come together there are some concerns. >> reporter: there are still obstacles to navigate but given that humpbacks were on the endangered species list just a year ago, the recent sightings are a sign. >> let's hope this is an indication not just of water quality of new york, but that we're making that progress nationally. >> reporter: jeff glor, cbs news, new york. >> quijano: quite the sight that is the cbs weekend news for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm elaine quijano in washington d.c., for all of us at cbs, thanks for joining us and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh acss.wgbh.org in washington d.c., for all of us at cb
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as a santa clara ive from the cbs b ay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. breaking news, flames sending up smoke as a brush fire is spreading. i am brian hackney. >> i am juliette goodrich. in gilroy near castro valley road. chopper 5 is over the scene and here is what we know so far. it broke out after 4:00 p.m. and right now 100 acres have burned but there is no containment. there are structures threatened. more video from chopper 5. we can see flames there. going through dry grass very quickly. we have seen aerial drops as well in the area. not a lot of activity from ground crews. they may be letting it burned right now. 100 acres and it is growing. some structures are threatened.
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we will bring you updates as we get them. >> behind the college. the winds are light. and -- sorry, the temperatures there, 84 degrees. humidity 40%. and the winds out of the south 12. that part of it is not bad. we will monitor the fire. we will have the full forecast coming up. a missing boater. a body has been found in tomales bay. it was recovered yesterday in tomales bay. kpix 5's wilson walker on what went wrong. . >> reporter: as with any warm sunday there was a steady stream of customers that tomales bay oyster company but today brought the sad news many feared all week. 70-year-old charles todd friend disappeared on tuesday when he

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