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>> they swirl a bit and hang around mom, then go to the water. >> cbs evening news is next. captioning sponsored by cbs >> quijano: was it domestic terrorism? a federal civil rights investigation is be way after deadly violence rocked charlottesville, virginia. we're learning more about the young man accused of plowing into a crowd of protestors and the woman who was killed. president trump is being criticized for what he didn't say following the clashes. and organizer of the white nationalists rally is shouted down. also tonight one year after riots he rupted in milwaukee following a fatal police shooting we check in with the city's newest officer. >> do we want to fight with people. >> no. >> and a lesson in dog parenting. if you want your pup to be good guide dogs, don't baby them.
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>> good boy. this is the "cbs weekend news." >> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano with a western edition of the broadcast. a federal civil rights investigation is under way after police say a young man rammed his car into a crowd of protestors in charlottesville, virginia. the deadly violence broke out at a white nationalist rally on saturday. ku klux klansmen and neo nazis were among those fighting counterprotestors in the streets. the white supremacists came from across the country to rally against plans to remove a con federal-- confederate statue from a park. a 32 year old woman was killed in the apparent car attack. two state troopers died when their helicopter crashed while patrolling the rally. president trump is being criticized by members of his own party for not specifically denouncing white supremacists in the aftermath of the deadly clashes. today an organizer of the rally was jeered by a crowd. we have a team of reporters
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covering the chaos in charlottesville, beginning with david begnaud. >> reporter: with police lined up as a barricade there was a sniper on the roof lining up for his shot just in case. as jason kesler walked out from behind that tree and walked up to a podium that was here and looked out at 50 or so cameras and people started shouting him down almost immediately and it went south quickly. >> my name is jason kesler, i was the organizer of the unite the right rally. >> reporter: it was like adding fuel to a fire. jason kessler chose to hold this press conference in front of city hall one day after the violence. >> what happened yesterday was the result of the charlottesville, police officers, refusing to do their jobs. >> reporter: immediately following his speech he started backing away from the microphone. a mob of people surrounded him. police moved in, grabbed him. and hauled him off for his own safety. new video from saturday shows
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the driver racing down a side street and on to the crowded downtown mall plowing into a crowd of people. 32 year old heather hayer of charlottesville was killed. seconds after that impact the driver reverses, you see a red shoe fly out from underneath his car. police say 20 year old james alex fields, jr. of ohio was the man behind the wheel. this all follows tense protests that started friday night on the university of virginia campus. >> blood and soil. >> there white national siss marched with tiki torches. saturday things got violent.esth counterprotestors. police eventually declared the demonstration unlawful and told everyone to leave. >> this protest is declared unlawful. >> the virginia governor said today police acted appropriately. >> not one single shot was fired. not one bit of property damage and i'm proud of law enforcement. >> back at city hall things have calmed down quite a bit.
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police are still on guard. you still have a group of protestors here but everyone is being peaceful. i want to update you on the victim, 19 were transported to a local hospital, nine of them have been discharged. ten are now listed in good condition. >> quijano: david begnaud, thank you. alex james fields, jr., the 20 year old accused of plowing into the protesters is being held without bail. kris van cleave has been looking into the suspect's background. >> video from a drone overhead shows one of the vehicles police say 20 year old james alex fields, jr. smashed into as it pushed into a crowd of counterprotestors in the heart of historic charlottesville. at least 19 were hurt, so many more could have been. investigators believe fields was behind the wheel of his dodge when he slammed into the crowd and two cars before backing up and fleeing the scene. he was arrested a short time later. >> running his car into a crowd of people? did it hurt anybody? >> yeah.
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>> his mother samantha bloom learned of his arrest from a reporter. >> i just knew he was going to a rally. i mean, you know, i tried to stay out of his political views. we don't-- you know, i don't really get too involved. i am watching his cat. >> fields grew up in kentucky but moved to ohio with his mother about a year ago. his facebook page carried white supremacist and racist messages. shortly before the attack that killed 32 year old heather hayer this was fields dressed in the unofficial uniform of a white spremmist group and carrying a shield with racist symbols. >> you just looked at a thousand yards there, just kind of grabbed me. >> kyle petrozza took the picture. a photographer he went to the alt-right rally to capture faces of hate. >> knowing what he did it is kind of haunting now, you know. at the time i thought i was photographing someone who might just be a follower or just along for the march but obviously not.
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>> reporter: fields is facing a number of charges including second degree murder. he is expected to be in court on monday, elaine? >> kris van cleave, thank you. >> paula reid now with more on those who were killed and injured in charlottesville. >> across the country people rallied for peace in honor of the victims of the violence in charlottesville. they carried signs and lit candles. >> i'm shocked and appalled that someone lost their life today, when they came out to protest hate and lost their lives protesting hate, it is just a real shame. >> this morning charlottesville resident mai shurtleff laid a balloon and flowers at a make shift memorial. >> my heart bleeds for this community right now. this isn't normal. this isn't right. this happened a long time ago. so why bring it up now. >> reporter: 32 year old heather hayer was killed when this dodge challenger rammed into a crowd of counterprotestors saturday afternoon. a virginia native, she was a para legal at miller law group in charlottesville, in 2016
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hayer posted this on her facebook page. if are you not outraged, are you not paying attention. just hours after hayer was killed, smoke bill owed from a nearby helicopter crash. police flew surveillance over protests all day, but around 5 p.m. a virginia state police helicopter went down just miles from charlottesville. 48 year old lieutenant h jay cullen and trooper pilot berke mm baits were killed in the crash. >> i was close to both of those state trooperses. >> governor mcauliffe remembered the fallen officers at a service this morning. >> but for the hatred and bigotry that occurred here yesterday, berke and jay would have been home with their families. heather would be getting up today enjoying life. >> reporter: the ntsb is investigating why the troopers' helicopter crashed in those woods. >> today would have been pilot trooper baits 41st birthday. >> paula reid, thank you. the mayor of charlottesville says the heated rhetoric of
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donald trump's presidential campaign emboldened the white supremacists who rampaged in the city this weekend. meanwhile mr. trump is being criticized by democrats and republicans for what he didn't say in the immediate aftermath of saturday's violence. here is errol barnett president trump is being criticized by fellow republicans for being too vague in his initial response to the violence in charlottesville, virginia, on saturday. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides. >> he also refused an opportunity to call out white nationalists. >> mr. president, do you want the support of these white nationals who say they support you, mr. president. >> i think the president can be clear when he wants to be. he needs to be clear here. >> today south carolina senator lindsay graham called neo nazi domestic terrorists. >> i would urge the president to disswayed them of the fact that
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he is sim pathetic to their cause because their cause is hate t is unamerican. >> reporter: colorado senator cory gardner agrees. >> he should use this opportunity today to say this is terrorism, this is domestic terrorism, this is white nationalism and it has to stop. >> responding to pressure this morning, a white house spokesman offered a more reb ngess sficpe conmn nation, of course, includes white supremacists, kkk, neo-nazi and all extremist groups but it is clear leaders of right wing ideology support the president. former kkk grant wizard david duke in charlottesville yesterday. >> we're going to fulfill the promises of donald trump. that's what we believed in, that is why we voted for donald trump. >> the president denies he has anything to do with the rising confidence of white nationalists or racial division. >> not donald trump, not bar ak obama, this has been going on for a long long time.
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>> reporter: now to date president trump has not forcefully refused right wing extremist support on camera. and just a day after he called for national unity, president trump's re-election campaign released an ad claiming his enemies do not want him to succeed. elaine? >> quijano: errol barnett, thanks. coming up next, another nfl star takes a stand by taking a seat.
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>> quijano: two u.s. solliers were killed today in northern iraq. military officials say they were conducted combat operations but their deaths were not the result of enemy contact. five other soldiers were injured. seven members of syria's white helmets rescue team were killed this weekend. the volunteer medics were shot in the head during the raid on their base near the sid city ofidlib. no one claimed responsibility for the attack. among the head is the hero white helmet who famously repped as he
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rescued a baby girl from the bombed out building in september. the white helmets were nominated for the 2016 nobel peace prize. marshawn lynch sat out the national anthem last night before a preseason game between the oakland raiders and arizona cardinals. the former seattle runningback came out of retirement to sign with his hometown raiders remained seated while his teammates stood. lynch has voiced support for quarterback kol inkaepernick's decision to take a knee dogger the anthem last year to protest police violence against minorities. one week before the solar eclipse amazon has issued i recall for some eclipse glasses. the glasses are needed to safely watch the eclipse. but amazon says some of the glasses it sold may not have come from a recommended manufacturer. if customers did not get a recall email, there is no need to worry. >> we turn from a recall to a
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doover there were no powerball winner again saturday night. that means a jackpot will roll over to the drawing on wednesday night. follow powerball officials estimate the next jackpot will be $430 million before taxes. the jackpot has been growing for more than two months. up next, one year after a riots broke out in milwaukee following the fatal police shooting, we check in with the city's newest recruits.
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milwaukee's police force is now awaiting the result of a volume tear federal review of its policies, practices and training. dean reynolds spent time with some of the city's newest recruits. >> on my honor, i will never betray fai badge, my integrity, my character, or the public trust. >> the 42 new recruits to the milwaukee police department were sworn in last august. cleared for 27 weeks of training to see if they're really cut out to be copped. >> good morning, recruit gonzalez. >> we followed daniel gone gone, 31 year old angela kluenker. lorenzo mahold ams and ryan sharp. we wanted to know why in this highly charged environment between the police and vos they have sworn to protect anyone with want such a demanding job. >> i like the idea of being able to help people when they are in a crisis situation. >> whether it's protecting
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individuals or helping individuals, i think it all kind of melts together and it's the same objective. >> if you are fully trained, correctly trained the fear factor is di minute shalled. >> just a little bit. >> that and it's also confidence in yourself, you know, confidence in your training. >> training like this. >> you fell confident you can deliberate an effective baton strike, i hope so your face better show it. >> whether learning routine traffic stops. >> good afternoon, can you roll your winnow down for me. >> or entering empty rooms, the possibility of a dangerous encounter is always present. >> looking for dangerous people and dangerous places, are you never going to be able to get rid of danger. you can mitigate it through training. >> we do our very, very best not to fight with people. we don't want to go hands on. >> staci steen has been instructing recruits here for five years. >> ideally, we want as police
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officers to gain your cooperate-- cooperation through words. >> this is the recommendington 870 bump action shot gun. >> these recruits have to pass state tests covering more than a thousand hours of training. >> i've got four rounds in it, what does that make it? >> squad ready. >> part of our job is to push the button. >> come on, why are you walking back there. >> and to see hey, what is your limit here. >> no, you have got to finish the stroke. >> are you going to be able to represent us as an organization and serve the city in a professional manner in i would rather find out here. >> taser taser taser. >> while the idea is to prepare them for what lies beyond the doors of the academy, fate is fate. >> let go of my gun. >> ultimately i believe that god is one in control and whatever is being to happen will happen f it is my time to go, then that is what it is.
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>> cauliflower is one of the hottest veg tables we sell today. >> jordan greenberg is vice president of green giant. >> you could use as a main dish, as a side dish. >> it can be barbecued, baked, stir fried. now green giant is shredding cauliflower into tiny bits creating a popular substitute for rice with less than 15% of the carbs. >> at the end of the day consumers want to eat healthier. >> but call i flawr is now the center of a controversy in the tail of rice and many. >> do we need to call it rice. >> rice farmer matthew sligar. >> riced calliflower. you could call it bits of kcauli flower crumbles, when did riced become a verb. >> convinced americans should know more about where their food comes from. >> these rice plants will be harvested today. >> sligar launched rice farming tv. >> we're about to plie the rice field on this field right about
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now. sliegar worries riced call i flower is confusing consumers. >> do you think somebody calling cauliflower rice will have an impact on your sales. >> i think it will. >> but even a rice farmer admits he can't live by rice alone. >> there is cauliflower in our refrigerator t is just a head. >> you will eat it. >> i'm not too excited about t. >> who he want do is call it rice. >> for this farmer that simply goes against the grain. >> john blackstone, cbs news, gridley, california. >> quijano: when we return, why experts say tough love is sometimes better than puppy love.
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raised with tough love. cue the adorable pups. >> at just over seven weeks old, these golden retrievers and these chocolate black and yellow labs are already in training as future guide dogs for the blind here they learn to interact with others. adapt to new surroundings and remain calm while under stress. skills that researchers have linked to how these puppies were raised. the new study finds more intense mothering was associated with program failure and mothers whose nursing style required greater effort were more likely to produce successful offspring. >> one of the findings that pups who were perhaps overly mothered, moms were overly attentive to them, spending a lot of time with them, licking them copiously, that those pups were not as likely to be selected as guides. >> for example, here the more attentive mom is lying down alongside her sleeping pup.
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while in this one the mom taking a more tough love approach gives her puppies space to move around. the ability to overcome obstacles whether it is to find food or navigate a street curb is a key factor in the success of a seeing eye dog. instructor joan marky says dogs who exhibit a fear of the unknown don't make the cut. >> if they're afraid of the world, they're not going to be a good guide. if they get worried by loud traffic, people making loud noises, anything that makes them afraid to the point where they want it bolt and run, that would get them out of the program. >> around 70% of dogs who enter guide dog training programs are successful and that number could go up should less attentive parenting styles be encouraged by the trainers and the dogs themselves. that the cbs evening news for this sunday, later "60 minutes." for all of us at cbs news, thank you for
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. live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. >> they went over there and to that wall right there. >> they were watching tv when a horror scene unfolded in their living room. a car in their house. >> demonstrations across the bay area in reaction to the deadly violence in charlottesville, virginia. we've learned a bay area man who may have marched in the alt right rally that started it all, just lost his job. >> i'm juliette goodrich. in berkeley was where the man worked up until yesterday. katie? >> reporter: brian, employees tell me that coal white worked at this location here on durant avenue here in berkeley. you can see the statement taped
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to the door that says effective friday, he no longer works here. we believe in individual freedom and voluntary association for everyone. it all started yesterday when a twitter account posted a picture of white nationalist participants in charlottesville. one was identified as cole white. they said it was the same cole white who was an employee of top dog in berkeley. melissa kaine weighed in on the legality of this for attending the rally. >> it's not a first amendment issue. that only protects you from actions by the government, based on your speech. it doesn't protect you from actions by your private employer. it's also probably not a discrimination issue. going to a rally like this, participating like this, doesn't make you a member of a protected class. >> reporter: no one here
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