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we'll see you back at 6:00 for a full hour of news. updates always on www.cbssf.com. we'll see you at 6:00. captioning sponsored by cbs >> quijano: the false alarm and lessons learned. the day after an accidental missile alert triggered panic across hawaii, there are calls for accountability, a congresswoman from hawaii warns. >> there are these kind of mistakes that bring us to this brink of nuclear war. >> quijano: also tonight, one year into donald trump's presidency, a new cbs news poll weighs the mood of the nation. a passenger jet skids off the runway, and ends up on a seaside cliff. how did everyone escape? a high-flying snowboarder lands a perfect score, and a fourth trip to the winter olympics. and the music teacher students call "mr. d". who is fine-tuning their lives and making a difference.
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>> i just wanted to make better human beings. that's it. this is the "cbs weekend news." good evening, i am elaine quijano. the false alarm that shook the 50th state is being called an unacceptable mistake, the volcanic island of hawaii erupted into panic after the warning of an incoming ballistic missile a congresswoman from hawaii is warning, errors like this can bring nations to the brink of war. david begnaud is in honolulu. >> reporter: 24 hours after the panic in paradise, federal communications officials say hawaii did not have the reasonable processes and safeguards in place to prevent a false alarm warning that a missile was headed for the islands. people ran for their lives saturday as the text alert lit up cellphones. the warning read, about ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii, seek immediate shelter, this is not a drill. panicked people looked to police officers for answers.
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>> we are getting flagged down by a lot of people for that asking where the nearest shelter is. >> reporter: this was the radio alert. >> a missile may impact on land or sea within minutes. this is not a drill. >> reporter: frightened families hid out in closets. tourists packed the lobby of this hotel. >> i sent a message to my grandkids at home and it just made me realize, my god, i could have never seen them again. >> in an act of desperation a child was lowered into a manhole. it took 13 minutes for hawaii's emergency management agency to tweet no missile threat to hawaii. but it took 38 minutes to get out a cellphone alert telling people it was a false alarm. >> it is just unacceptable and mind boggling how it could take so long. >> reporter: congresswoman tulsi gabbard sent her own tweet telling people it was a false alarm. the explanation for the errant message? someone hit the wrong button, not once, but twice. vern miyagi is administrator for the state's emergency management agency.
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>> i accept responsibility for this. this is my team. we made a mistake. >> they took responsibility but there has to be action. >> reporter: hawaii's governor says the employee who claims to have pushed the wrong button feels terrible about what happened. the governor doesn't want anymore practicing of the emergency alert system until a full investigation is done and when it is complete, the governor wants two people to now be involved in pressing that button. elaine. >> quijano: david begnaud, david, thank you. next saturday marks one year since president trump took office. a new cbs news poll out today shows 35 percent of americans think the country overall is better off now than it was a year ago. 43 percent say things are worse. 21 percent say things are about the same. the president is spending the holiday weekend at his resort in florida. errol barnett is there. >> reporter: cbs/yougov polling also found 70 percent of americans say they support allowing the children of
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undocumented immigrants, also known as dreamers to stay in the country. >> i have a lot of confidence in the people in this room you are going to come up with something really good. >> reporter: despite confidence on tuesday from president trump that he would sign a daca deal, protecting the legal status of dreamers, today on twitter he is blaming democrats. yet his own tough language on immigration is threatening any bipartisan agreement to fund the government and address dreamers. >> i, for one, will not vote for government funding until we get a deal on daca. >> reporter: civil rights leader and congressman john lewis was blunt in his view of the president. >> i think he is a racist. >> reporter: republican mia love, the only haitian american in congress said the president's alleged oval office comments were racist. >> i think that there are people that are looking for an apology and i think that would show real leadership. >> reporter: 76 percent of americans found president trump's comments about haiti, el salvador and african nations
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as inappropriate. but department of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen disputes reports mr. trump used an expletive. >> i think what the president is saying is he would like to move to merit based which is based on an individual. >> reporter: republican senator rand paul. >> you can't have an immigration compromise if everybody is out there calling the president a racist. >> reporter: federal court last week temporarily reversed president trump's move to end daca. and on saturday, the government's immigration agency said based on that court order it would accept new applications. but a temporary solution for the children of undocumented immigrants remains elusive. elaine. >> quijano: errol barnett, errol, thank you. now let's bring in "face the nation" host john dickerson. so, john, congress has until friday to pass a spending bill, will congress be able to work together to avoid a government shutdown? >> well, there has been difficulty with congress working together and now it has been interrupted by this latest debate over the president's remarks in the oval office, now
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you have senators on the republican side who were in that meeting saying dick durbin the democratic senator that described its details is not telling the truth, so that is not likely to create a good atmosphere. plus there are plenty of policy disagreements, not only on the question of what happens with the dreamers but funding for the children's health insurance, for the military, for domestic spending, so it is a long list already, and it is a tough situation it has gotten tougher. >> quijano: john, the president tweeted this morning daca is probably dead. last week it looked like they were close to a deal that would protect people that were brought to this country illegally as children. what happened? >> well, we don't know whether the president's sentiment is the way he feels or he's trying to work the system and engage in some tough negotiation. we also know that the president in his meeting with the bipartisan group of members of congress said he would sign anything that was brought to him. well there is a bipartisan agreement that can be reached, between the democrats and republicans we talked to cory
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gardner a republican today and joe manchin, they say a bipartisan agreement can be reached so that may just be up to the president and whether he will make good on that idea that he will sign whatever congress brings to him. >> quijano: all right, john dickerson in washington, john, thank you. >> thanks, elaine. >> quijano: the death toll from last tuesday's mud slides in southern california has climbed to 20. officials say four people are still missing in the coastal community of montecito. john blackstone is there. >> reporter: aerial drone footage of the thick sludge and debris on highway 101 helps explain why part of california's busiest freeway is still shut down, days after the mud slide that now covers 30 square miles of santa barbara county. crews are working around the clock to clear roads and restore power, but 7,000 people are still under a mandatory evacuation order. through damaged cars, trees on the ground and debris from people's homes, search teams continue to look for victims. >> you never give up hope. why give up hope? i mean, there's people down
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there that are hoping. i mean, what right do i have to give up hope? >> we can't get in the car. it is being swept away by a five, six-foot wall of mud and debris. >> reporter: david grokenberger described what he saw on tuesday as apocalyptic. >> and then i looked over and said where is the three car garage? it was gone. i don't mean just a stick or a roof. it wasn't there. >> reporter: cellphone video shows the mud filling up the family home. quickly rising stair by stair. but the house remained intact. and the family was able to escape. some of their neighbors did not. >> we lost family friends, what they have gone through, we are lucky but it is just hard to think about how lucky we are when they are not so lucky. >> reporter: debris from boats to surfboards to cars still clogs this river of mud that has buried highway 101 at least five feet deep.
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there is still no prediction when this major california freeway will be reopened. elaine. >> quijano: john blackstone, john, thank you. in northern turkey, a passenger jet skidded off the runway and ended up on a seaside cliff, with its nose pointed toward the water. incredibly, everyone on board survived. jonathan vigliotti has more on this from our london bureau. >> reporter: everyone escaped the boeing 737 jet but a few yards more and this could have been a different story. officials say the plane would have crashed into the water had it not gotten stuck in the mud. 168 passengers and crew were on board the pegasus airlines flight from ankara as it touched down last night at trabson airport, but instead of landing the aircraft skid off the runway and plummeted down a cliff headed straight for the black sea. passengers described a scene of panic as they evacuated the precarious plane.
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and amazingly, each and everyone made it off uninjured n a statement pegasus airlines said the plane experienced a "runway excursion incident." the cause of that excursion is still under investigation. reports in turkey say a bird strike or ice may have been responsible. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, london. >> quijano: in central florida, three people are under arrest in an alleged murder-for-hire plot. tony dokoupil has the story. >> i get emotional because it just touches me so deeply that one of our citizens was killed in such a manner. >> reporter: sheriff russell gibson has dealt with murder in a 30-year career in florida's osceola county, but never quite like this before. >> this was a murder for hire. >> reporter: last week alexis ramos rivera and his girlfriend glorianne marie quinones
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allegedly kidnapped their victim outside a mall just south of or orlando. >> tied the victim with zip ties and then her head with duct tape and garbage bags. >> reporter: the sheriff says they were after a romantic rival of this woman, ishnar lopez ramos, who supposedly hired the hit. but according to authorities, they picked up the wrong woman, discovered their error and killed her anyway. >> do you have anything to say to her family? >> i am sorry. >> reporter: now janice marie zengotita torress, a wife and mother is dead, her body found beaten, and suffocated three others are charged with her murder and this veteran lawman is left wondering what is next. >> and in the end it appears to be a lovers triangle, wow. >> reporter: police moved in after lopez allegedly used the victim's bankcard. now all three suspects have reportedly confessed and, elaine, on facebook earlier the
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victim's husband wrote to his late wife, waiting for you at home. >> quijano: tony, thank you. now some other stories we are following in the cbs weekend newsfeed. an iranian oil tanker that had been burning for more than a week off the coast of china exploded and sank today. 32 crew members were killed last week when the tanker collided with a cargo ship. the tanker was carrying nearly a million barrels of oil. a driver who was speeding through the streets of santa ana california last night hit a median and literally flew into the second story of a dentist's office. remarkably there were no serious injuries. police say the driver admitted to being high. and high-flying snowboarder shaun white earned a ticket this weekend to next month's winter olympics in south korea. the two-time olympic gold winner scored a perfect 100 at the u.s. grand prix in colorado. three months ago a terrible crash sent white to the hospital for almost a week. the 31-year-old is now headed to his fourth winter olympics. >> 100! >> wow!
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>> oh, my goodness. i have never seen anything like this. >> quijano: coming up next, oprah winfrey's discussion with the organizers of the time's up movement. and later, the music teacher known as "mr. d." what a difference he is making. ( ♪ ) i'm 65 and healthy. i'm not at risk. even healthy adults 65 and older are at increased risk of pneumococcal pneumonia.
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feet where women and men are feeling like we can no longer not say the truth, and when the truth is said, there is maybe a ripple in our culture right now that is going to allow for there to be a change. >> i feel like there is a constructive theory that has resulted in a resolute pursuit of equity, like there is like this, as you said, that tectonic shift and then like something has galvanized that we are all like, this is not just my hurt, this is more than my hurt. this is not just my anger. this is our anger. and instead of it just being a feeling, it is becoming an action. >> i heard of the confusion about the difference between -- people are afraid to even say there is a difference between inappropriate behavior, inappropriate comments and sexual assault, and sexual predators and rape. there is a difference.
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>> there is a difference but there is a culture -- one part of it supports the other. there is an understanding of consent and respect that i think has gotten very confused in our culture that has set up a space that can make all of that happen. >> you know, in my business, in my law firm, several people have come to me and said, i just don't know what to say. i just don't know what to do. and i said, you know the difference between right and wrong. is it a conversation that you would be comfortable going home at night and telling your wife or your mother that you had? if you are uncomfortable in telling them about this conversation, then -- >> you shouldn't have it. >> -- you shouldn't it have. >> quijano: critically important discussion. the full segment for "cbs sunday morning" is posted on our website at cbsnews.com. still ahead, they're tired of traffic apps guiding cars into their neighbors and now they are saying no waze. >> 1,000 feet, stay to the
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leonia, new jersey is a low-tech solution to a high-tech problem. >> there are approximately 60 streets that are going to be closed. >> reporter: a way to control the out of control traffic, the, for residents like melissa was man, how long does it take to get out of your driveway. >> it depends, ten, 15 minutes, it depends if someone is nice. >> reporter: leonia is a one square mile town in the shadow of george washington bridge, for years whenever traffic would back up at the bridge savvy commuters would get off the highway and take a shortcut through leonia. if you knew the secrets, there was a way to beat the jam. >> stay to the right to exit 78, leonia. >> reporter: but now everyone has waze or other traffic apps that routes them through leonia and once the main streets get clogged start sending commuters through residential side streets. mayor judith. >> because they have an app that says a rights and left and right to shave three minutes do you off their commute now they are on every side street in the municipality. >> reporter: this is what it can
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look like in the once quiet streets of leonia. their plan? restrict the streets during rush hour just for leonia residents. have a hang tag in your car or get a ticket. >> we are not talking about 20 bucks, we are talking about $200. >> 200 bucks has some teeth. >> reporter: from medford mass to fremont california communities have become victims of the traffic apps, as leona police chief discovered if you pass a law, the app will remove side streets from its menu of shortcuts. >> people will do whatever the app tells them to do, and it is scary sometimes. >> reporter: it is what the app stops telling them to do that should make life less scary here. >> in 1,000 feet, stay to the right. >> reporter: jim axelrod, cbs news, leonia, new jersey. >> quijano: up next, meet "mr. d", a high school music teacher making a difference for kids in one of the nation's most troubled cities. >>
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students see in these streets? >> i mean, they see the struggle, real struggle, like their friends in trouble, their friends selling drugs, friends dying. he is a real genius, you have to work hard and you will be rewarded. >> reporter: he has found a way to keep them safe at camden creative arts high school. >> i just know, you know, that keeping kids off the street is just simple. you keep them busy. >> don't pressure yourself. don't try to read fast. >> reporter: but "mr. d" as the students call him says the band is just an instrument to transform their lives. >> i just wanted to make better human beings. that's it. >> reporter: kids like senior isaiah rivera. >> through this music, it's really shown me that hard work does pay off. >> reporter: and sophomore jmeer kordy. >> he never gives me a chance to kind of slip off and do the wrong thing either. he is basically like a father figure, i would say. currently my mom and dad is like
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incarcerated. >> reporter: how long have your parents been incarcerated? >> since my fifth grade year. >> reporter: how many of you plan to go to college? all of you. how involved do you get in these students lives? >> yeah. i don't know if i have a life without them. ( laughs ) my life is lived with figuring out how to make theirs better every day. >> reporter: fine-tuning lives one note at a time. ( music ) roxanna saberi, cbs news, camden, new jersey. >> quijano: a final note about "mr. d". he not only grew up in camden, he married his high school sweetheart. that's the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm elaine quijano. for all of us at cbs news, thank you for joining us. and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs
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