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that is it for us it 5:00, we'll see you back here at 6:00.>> we'll see you then. captioning sponsored by cbs >> quijano: the shutdown, day two. congress has a rare sunday session trying to end the dead lock. president trump suggests the so called nuclear option. also tonight the national women's march moves to las vegas with a rallying call to shake up november's mid term election. the deadliest attack on a luxury hotel in afghanistan, dozens escape as the building burned. vice president mike pence arrives in the holy land for a visit prompting very different reactions from israelis and palestinians. hundreds of sea turtles that were rescued off florida are released back into the wild. and we embrace national hugging day with a world famous hugging dog.
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this is the "cbs weekend news." >> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano. it is a weekend of dysfunctional drama in washington. it started friday night when the senate failed to pass a temporary spending bill. first saturday the federal government ran out of money for the fiscal year and grinded to a partial shutdown. since then there's been a lot of talk from president trump and key players in congress but no deal to end the dead lock. errol barnett has the latest. >> reporter: pressure is mounting in the hauls of congress today for a bipartisan solution toned the government shutdown. >> the president must take yes for a answer. >> reporter: democratic leader chuck schumer who negotiated for an agreement with president trump on friday implored him to revisit those terms. >> president trump walked away from not one but two bipartisan deals. if he had been willing to accept any one of these deals, we wouldn't be where we are today.
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>> reporter: but majority leader mitch mcconnell says it is democrats who need to budget. >> on a recent survey a majority said keeping the government open is a higher priority than shutting down the government over the issue of illegal immigration. >> reporter: the shutdown began early saturday when senate republicans were left without enough votes from democrats to pass a bill that would fund the government for four weeks. senator schumer lead his party's charge to block government funding until republicans compromise on daca, the soon-to- expire program which protects young people brought to this country illegally as children. republican house speaker paul ryan announced today he is backing senator mcconnell's latest proposal. >> is he going to bring up a bill keeping things funded to february 8. we agreed we would accept that in the house. >> reporter: but democratic whip dick durbin says what he wants say firm commitment from the top. >> president donald trump has to step up and lead us at this point. he can do it. >> reporter: despite the public blame game, private bipartisan discussions are ongoing. democrats might agree to a three
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week funding bill if republicans agree to end immigration concerns in that time. the fact that tomorrow is a weekday provides motivation for a compromise as well since the shutdown impact will be heightened for everyone. elaine? >> quijano: errol, thank you. >> the shutdown forced president trump to cancel a trip to florida this weekend to celebrate his one year anniversary in office. on twitter today the president suggested that senate republicans resort to the so-called nuclear option, changing senate rules to pass their own budget. margaret brennan is at the white house. >> we do not want the shutdown >> reporter: budget director mick mulvaney accused democrats of deliberately staging a shutdown to hurt the president. >> i think the left wing of the democrat party is extraordinarily disappointed with how the first year has gone because the president had a good many successes. >> reporter: president trump tweeted that dems just want illegal immigrants to pour into our nation unchecked. a reference to democrat's demand that protections for daca
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recipients, undocumented immigrants who entered the u.s. as children be included in any funding deal. >> we're going to demand that they reopen the government. >> reporter: vice president mike pence blasted democrats during a visit to u.s. troops nearby the syrian border. >> we're not going to reopen negotiations on illegal immigration until they reopen the government and give you, our soldiers and your families, the benefits and wages you have earned. >> reporter: he said u.s. troops are paying the price for the shutdown since 1.3 million military men and women will not receive paychecks until a if you funding bill is passed. the white house is trying to minimize the impact. to show that national parks remain open, interior secretary ryan zinke visited the national mall. and the pentagon turned tv and radio broadcasts back on at military bases after declaring them essential activities. the troops will now be able to watch sunday football. but a political resolution remains out of reach.
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legislative affairs director marc short. >> let's find a deal to make sure that again our troops and border patrol agents are not denied payments, democrats are unwilling to accept that offer. >> reporter: the white house press secretary released a statement accusing minority leader chuck schumer of having a hazy memory of his meeting on friday with the president. schumer claimed that the two men had reached a deal to fund the military and fulfill mr. trump's border security request, but said that the president walked away just hours before the shutdown. elaine? >> quijano: margaret brennan, thank you. the national women's march held its main event today in las vegas with the goal of getting women to march to the polls in november's mid-term elections. in a cbs news poll out this weekend, 54% of women and 39% of men say it is very important to them that more women are elected to office. 48% say the country would be better off. 42% say it wouldn't change much. here's mireya villarreal.
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>> reporter: from football stadium to swing state battleground, thousands filled the stands of sam boyd stadium in las vegas sunday morning. >> equality for all. >> reporter: exactly one year ago, millions marched around the country for women's rights marking the largest single day demonstration in u.s. history. today's rally is about pushing people to the polls. activist janaye engram. >> we want to take all of the momentum from all the things we have done over the course of the last year and really turn that into the electoral power. >> reporter: organizers chose nevada for the anniversary event with the hope of reshaping congress in 2018. >> our goal for voter registration is one million voters. and so what happens in nevada will launch a national initiative that will focus on many of the battleground states. >> all around the world. >> reporter: major crowds turned out this weekend for marches around the world with support in london, d.c. and chicago.
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los angeles estimates 600,000 men and women in attendance, with #me too and time's up movement taking center stage. >> when i raise my hand, i am aware of all the women who are still in silence. >> reporter: there were tense moments at a march in portland but most focused on president trump's time in office. >> i object to the issues and changes that he's made. but mostly, i object to the way he talks about people. it actually, it hurts me. >> reporter: events were held in all 50 states this weekend but this year the women's march truly became a global movement landing on six continents and popping up in countries like columbia, nigeria, china and iraq. elaine? >> quijano: mireya, thank you. pennsylvania republican patrick meehan was removed from the house ethics committee over allegations of misconduct. the "new york times" reports
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meehan used thousands of dollars of taxpayer money to settle a complaint by a former aide. the woman reportedly claimed meehan became hostile after she rejected his romantic advances. meehan has denied the allegations. the ethics committee is investigating. missouri governor eric greitens has kept a low profile since the cbs affiliate in st. louis earlier this month reported that he had an extramarital affair. greitens spoke to reporters this weekend. meg oliver has details. >> there was no violence. >> reporter: in his first interview since admitting to an extramarital affair, missouri governor eric greitens denied allegations of blackmail. >> there was no threat of blackmail. there was no threat of a photographing blackmail, those things are absolutely false. >> reporter: greitens admits he had an affair with his hairdresser before he became governor in 2017. but he says was consensual. >> there was no hush money, there was no violence. >> reporter: the news broke last
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week, audio recordings obtained by cbs affiliate kmov, which has not been independently verified by cbs news, appear to show an unnamed woman, the governor's alleged mistress, admitting to the affair to her then husband. >> reporter: she went on to describe the alleged blackmail. the second youngest governor in the country. the democrat turned republican proudly painted himself as a family man during his campaign. >> i'm a navy seal, i'm a businessman, i'm a native
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missourian, but most importantly i'm a very proud husband and father. >> reporter: once considered a rising star in the republican party, the governor now faces an investigation by the st. louis prosecutor and mounting pressure to resign, elaine. >> quijano: meg oliver, thank you. vice president mike pensce visited egypt and jordan this vice president mike pence visited egypt and jordan this weekend, before arriving today in israel. the trump administration's controversial decision to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem is dominating pence's mideast trip. seth doane is in jerusalem. >> reporter: good evening, vice president mike pence's visit here is prompting very different reactions from israelis and palestinians following the trump administration's announcement that the u.s. would recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. posters are up around town welcoming mr. pence as a true friend of israel and he will be meeting with israel's top leadership. but there will be no meeting with the palestinian president who is furious with the u.s. for, in his view, taking sides.
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in neighboring jordan today king abdullah told mr. pence he worries that moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and thus recognizing as the capital of israel could destabilize the region. jordan supports east jerusalem as the capital of an independent palestinian state. the u.s. would support a two- state solution if both israelis and palestinians agreed to that. palestinians are also concerned and worried about reports that the u.s. is accelerating its time line to move that embassy here to jerusalem. and the announcement that it is withholding $65 million in aid to a u.n. agency that provides humanitarian relief to palestinian refugees. elaine? >> quijano: seth doane, seth, thank you. now some other stories we're following in the cbs weekend news feed. at least 19 people were killed saturday when taliban gunman attacked the intercontinental hotel in afghanistan's capitol. nearly a dozen victims work for
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an afghan airline, more than 150 people escaped as part of the hotel burned. the last of the militants was killed after a 13 hour standoff an gun battle. the death toll from a mud slide in montecito, california, climbed to 21 this weekend. search dogs located the body of 28 year old fabiola bonitas calderon, her son was also killed. two victims are still missing. torrential rain nearly two weeks ago caused the hillsides to collapse destroying 130 homes, a key stretch of the 101 freeway reopened today. near port st. joe in the florida panhandle hundreds of rescued sea turtles were released back into water this weekend, more than 850 turtles went into shock earlier this month when a cold snap forced water temperatures to plunge. most were released saturday. a small number are still being treated at the gulf world marine institute. coming up next, drastic measures
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three years of successive draughts devastated the city's water supplies, the local government has brought in severe restrictions forcing people to look for alternative supplies like this natural spring tapped for public use. there have already been scuffles here, security guards now monitor the site to prevent violence from breaking out. >> so, imagine no water. how will it be? chaos. it's going to be terrible. and we're not looking forward to that time. >> reporter: residents are only allowed 23 gallons of water per person a day. next month that goes down to 13 gallons, enough for a 90-second shower, a quick toilet flush and one large bottle of drinking water. americans use around 100 gallons daily. outside the city center, the effects of the water crises are more obvious. farmer has only been able to plant a quarter of his corn crop this year, if the taps are switched off, he is facing financial ruin. >> it is a desperate situation.
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it is a difficult situation for us. >> is water for brushing your teeth. >> reporter: scientist peter johnston says that even if there is a good rainfall this year, the crisis will not be over. capetown is getting hotter. >> we are very, very confident the temperatures are going to increase. they have been doing so and they are still going to do. so the increased temperature will increase evaporation, that will mean there is less water that is available for our use. >> reporter: day zero may be fast approaching. debora patta, cbs news, capetown, south africa. >> quijano: still ahead, families are starting to move into what is being called america's first solar powered town.
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from the sun just like the street lamps, the buildings and lights we used for this interview. >> we want to be the most sustainable new town in the united states. >> reporter: kitson, a developer, wouldn't want it any other way. babcock ranch has been his passion project since 2005. >> we had the advantage of a green field, a blank sheet of paper, when you have a blank sheet of paper like this you really can do it right from the beginning. >> reporter: is it more expensive to build this way, is it more expensive for the consumers? >> you know, it's not more expensive. the people here pay the exact same amount that everybody else pays in the florida power and light network. >> reporter: the town doesn't run on solar power all the time. at night when the sun is down it has to draw from the traditional electric grid. kitson says the technology for storing all that surplus energy that they generate during the day is still too costly. another problem, too many overcast days. >> clearly if you have a number of cloudy days in a row, it will impact the efficiency and the
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available electricity that comes from the solar field. >> reporter: this month richard and robin kinley became the first residents to move in the lake next to their house is named after them, lake kinley. >> i thought, you know, the air is nice and is nice and clean here and i think these type of communities are the future. >> i felt very much like when i bought a tesla back in-- bought a tesla in 2013 and i said this is definitely going to make it. and i felt the say same way about babcock ranch. >> reporter: about 80% of the land that kitson originally purchased will not be developed. he sold it back to florida which turned it into a wilderness preserve. manuel bojorquez, cbs news, babcock ranch, florida. >> quijano: up next, it's a day to hug it out with the world famous hugging dog. touch is how we communicate with those we love,
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>> reporter: not everyone is comfortable getting a hug from a stranger, but even hardened new yorkers were willing to embrace national hugging day. >> tough times right now, it's always nice to get a hug from somebody, even a stranger. >> we have another visitor for national hug day. >> reporter: and at this nursing home in savannah, georgia, residents reached out to celebrate with seniors. >> happen national hug day. >> reporter: the only thing better than being embraced with two big arms is being embraced by two little paws. six-year-old louboutina is known around the worlds is the hugging dog, with nearly 200,000 followers on instagram, she has become a social media sensation. one of her biggest fans is barbara malmet. >> when she is hugging me i feel her heart and my heart are one heart. >> reporter: to fully wrap our arms around this assignment we
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invited louboutina and her human, cesar, to our newsroom for a little pet therapy. you're getting a hug from a dog? >> i'm all there, you see her but then she makes you feel at peace, you know. >> reporter: absolutely. >> and think, you know, just feeling this with her. >> reporter: psychiatrist ravi shah is a professor at columbia university. >> people who hug afterwards have lower heart rates and even lower blood pressure than people who don't. that kind of contact with another being, even a pet can be profound in someone's life. >> reporter: luckily for new yorkers, loubi thinks every day is national hugging day. paula reid, cbs news, new york. >> quijano: 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.
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moving into the now at 6:00, your morning commute could be a soggy one. we are tracking a new round of rain moving into the bay area. plus, there could be a lot of cash hidden right in your own backyard. new at 6:00, the latest trend in bay area real estate. first, the great outdoors off limits. how the government shutdown is impacting some of the bay area's top tourist attractions tonight. good evening. i'm juliette goodrich. >> katie nielsen is live in san francisco where the frustration is mounting along with the trash in the barrels. katie. >> reporter: it really, brian. so we've seen it all day today, people just trying to get out and enjoy the day and they're finding a lot of this, locked
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gates and closed signs and that's across the national parks in the bay area. >> muir woods closed due to the government shutdown. >> reporter: every few minutes, another car. >> we're closed today due to the government shutdown. they didn't pass the budget so we're forced to close. >> reporter: it's always the same story from the park's police. >> due to the government shutdown, there's a lapse in funding. all parks are officially closed. >> we drove all this way to see the redwoods, it's a pretty big deal. now we can't see it because of a stupid bill. that's stupid. >> reporter: people are still allowed into muir woods. >> if you choose to walk in, you're doing so accepting that risk that there's no legal parking along the road and no services provided by the national park service today. there's no phones, water, toilets, no ranger programs anything like that. >> reporter: parks police are still on duty today because they're considered essential for
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