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captioning sponsored by cbs >> morgan: after the march. what's next for the never again movement following this weekend's historic rally. the nra bashes the march for our lives as a march for their lies. and takes aim at the stoneman douglas student act viseses. >> the classmate was still be alive and no one would know your names. >> morgan: also tonight stormy daniels about her alleged relationship with the president, everything you needs to know when the adult film actress talks to anderson cooper for "60 minutes." >> he was the last male of a dying breed of rhinos, can his species be saved? >> that's it! >> morgan: and sister jean's miracle ramblers roll to the
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final four. >> the whole nation must be sort of sitting on the edge of their this is the "cbs weekend news." >> morgan: good evening, i'm demarco morgan. never again was the rallying cry at this weekend's march for our lives but the thunderous chants of vote them out may have the most immediate impact. at least 4,000 young americans reportedly registered to vote saturday at gun control rallies across the country. about 4 million americans will turn 18 this year. what's next for the movement? here's adriana diaz. >> the nation's capitol echoed with the warning to lawmakers. vote them out. >> reporter: activists of all ages turned out. >> the purpose of the next generation, to make our united states. >> including teens who feel targeted. >> we decided to come because we're sick and tired of waking up every day scared to go to school. >> reporter: the cloud displayed their own messages of
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support with people rolling out activist artwork and thousands of signs. washington was one of more than 800 marchs worldwide. but d.c.'s was the largest. an official crowd count that analyzed these photos estimated more than 200,000 people, they he are youd for 11 year old naomi wadler. >> i'm here today to acknowledge and represent the african-american girls whose stories don't make the front page of every national newspaper >> most people came from the stoneman douglas students without started the movement. >> in a little over six minutes 17 of our friends were taken from us. >> reporter: including emma gonzalez who stood in silence for an emotional six minutes. >> my son, he got denied-- denied to speak at the march. >> reporter: on facebook andrew pollack, the father of parkland individual owe meadow pollack said his son hunter was
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not included. >> i guess he has a different agenda. >> they they left these parkland students reiterated their primary goals. >> we need to vote out the politicians who are refusing to pass common sense gun legislation. >> the student activists told us that hunter pollack didn't speak because he's over 18 and that was air cut off. they also said they are continuing their activism. and have a walkout scheduled for next month. demarco? >> adriana diaz, thanks. the national rifle association feared back at the march for our lives on social media. the host of the nra youtube channel called it a march for their lies and told the stoneman douglas student activists if their school mates hadn't died, no one would know your names. dean reynolds has more on the nra's hard-line stance against were posed new gun laws. >> it was only a few short days after the parkland mass shooting that the nra was saying what it so often has. >> the truth is, that they want to ban every gun in america.
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>> for the nra they are the critics, naive, misguided or disingenuous. >> there is an honst propostal, either you admit t you want to ban all guns or you stop endangering good people by limiting their option to protect themselves. >> the nra whose membership usually spikes after a mass shooting spent at least 175 million dollars to 3urb its a-- to push its agenda in 2016 often on its own online tv channel. the pattern of presentation after each of these disasters seldom varies. a few days of self-imposed silence followed by a full throated defense that links guns to freedom and critics to treason. >> we can help defend freedom with your passion. >> in january before the parkland massacre, the nra's youtube page had 430,000 views. last month though the number rose to 1.4 million. >> this fire arm gives average
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people the advantage they so desperately need. >> roanoke college professor harry wilson who owns 50 fire arms and we longs to the nra says fear works wonders. >> i think they play a role in stoking fear in general because fear for any interest group, in fact, is a major motivator. fear gets people motivated to go vote. >> the nra youtube video views dropped to levels that existed before the parkland shooting which could be a sign that gun owners are less anxious that gun control legislation may be enactedment dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. >> morgan: president trump will have to find another lawyer to represent him in the russia investigation. day afters john dowd resigned it was announced today that joseph digenova will not be taking overdue to conflicts. >> meanwhile the president's personal lawyer may be turning his attention tonight to an interview on television. here's errol barnett. >> this 2006 image president
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trump smiles with stephanie clifford, the adult film actress known as stormy daniels who alleged they had an affair at the time. on tuesday she wrote technically i didn't sleep with potus 12 years ago, there was no sleeping. people do care that he lied about it, had me bullied, broke laws to cover it up. for the first time daniels is detailing her relationship with trump in an interview with "60 minutes." the president denies the allegation but his personal attorney michael cohen acknowledges paying daniels $130,000 before the 2016 election. from what he says were his own personal funlds for which he was not reimbursed by the trump organization or campaign. >> she is prepared to return the 130,000. >> michael avanetti who represents daniels is traying it void the nondisclosure agreement. >> the only reason why he would not accept it is if he wants to continue to attempt to silence her. >> reporter: in court documents cohen alleges daniels broke their nda and is liable for at least $20 million in
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damages. earlier this month white house press secretary sarah sanders refused to weigh in. >> i have addressed this extensively. i don't have anything to add. >> today mr. trump's friend chris ruddy shares a conversation he had with the president. >> he said he thought that much of the stormy daniels stuff was a political hoax, again those were hid his words, this is politically motivated to hurt and embarrass him in some way. >> now at the time of the "60 minuteses" broadcast on the east coast president trump had returned to washington. the white house says first lady melania trump will remain here in florida as part of what they say is a family tradition for spring break. demarco? >> morgan: errol barnett with the president, thank you. as she fights the nondisclosure agreement, she is telling her story to anderson cooper. >> not 100% sure where you are doing this. >> you will hear her response tonight on "60 minutes." officials in mexico have ruled that an iowa family choked to death on a poisonous gas inside
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thrair vacation home but there are still unanswered quis. mireya villarreal has the update. >> reporter: less than 48 hours after their bodies were found in a rented condo near tulum, mexico, mexican authorities confirmed 41 year old kefer insharp, his wife amy and their two young children sterling and adriana died by asphyxiation. in other words they suffer fate-- sufficient kateed by inhaling toxic gases. officials leave this was an isolatedded incident. investigators dressed in anti-contamination suits quickly to find any clues. fair fighters took a close look at the ventlation system and gas investigations to a stove inside the bahia principle sipe resort room it is unclear what specific gas may have actually killed the family but oaskszs do not believe this was an act of suicide or violence. it's estimated 20 million american tourists went to mexico last year. around 8.5 million visited the coastal state of quintana rao where the sharp family was
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vacationing. >> relatives tell cbs news this was the sharp's second time vacationing in mexico. and some family members were worried about their safety, relatives first reported the four missing when they failed to show up to a a basketball game on thursday. >> saturday night the southwestern spar tans-- took a moment to honor them. >> we're all hurting, it say huge, huge blow. >> the family rented the condo through an online website called home away, the company has sent their con doll angs and tells cbs news they removed the property from their website. demarco. >> morgan: mireya villarreal reporting, thank you. a tcial fire broke out today at a mall in russia. it happened in the siberian coal mining town. 24r is word the fire may have started in a children's play area. people were seen jumping from windows. at least 37 are dead, dozens are missing. our next story comes with a caution, do not try this at home. this is mad mike hughs, a 61
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year old limo driver from apple valley, california. he made a steam powered rocket in his garage. yesterday in the desert he blasted off. he flew more than a third of a mile at 350 miles an hour. his parachutes opened but he still landed hard. the amateur rocket scientist who believes the earth is flat says his back hurts but he's okay. coming up next, an a recall laking report about furniture safety. and later, her pregame prayers keep getting answered. sa is .
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>> consumer reports sounded the alarm last week with a new study on furniture safety. they focused on dressers that can tip over, hurting or even killing a childment anna werner has the story. >> just in this little sliffer of time, our lives had changed forever. >> for janet mcgee that change came on a sunday afternoon in 2016. as she checked to see if her 22
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month old son ted had woken up from his afternoon nap. >> i opened the door and right in front of me, his dresser, i saw on the floor t had fallen forward in that split second i knew he was under there. >> the toddler was buried under the dresser drawer. he had sufficient kateed. >> his face was purple, his eyes were half open. it was a horrible vision that, unfortunately, i'm still haunted by every single day. >> government data shows from 2014 to 2016 more than 15,000 children under 18 were injured in tipovers, in 2 thousand to 2016, more than 150 children died from tipovers of dressers, bureaus or with a tv on top. >> so consumer reports conducted tipover testing on 24 different dressers, subjecting each to progressively tougher tests. some were stringent than the current volume tear standards. >> the results, the group says the volume tear standard is
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inadequate because it still lead leave toos many children at risk. >> across-the-board for parents who are trying to figure out which dressers are safer than others, how easy is that? >> it's extremely difficult. you cannot judge a dresser whether it's going to be tippy or not, just by looking at it. >> consumer reports is now calling for a mandatory standard to protect children in a statement the plaryn home furnishings alliance told cbs this morning it is not opposed to mandatory product safety standards. but said they cannot be easily revised or updated once passed. consumer reports says by the number, however, most dressers actually pass their toughest test. >> some of 24e78 are already doing a fantastic job. >> so what are you saying is they all can do that. >> it is possible, it is achievable, and it doesn't require extra cost. >> now if you want to see the results for specific manufacturers you can check consumer reports, see also how those manufacturers responded.
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but in the mean time if you are a parent of young children, you want to go by anchor kits for any furniture that ka:fall on a child. the consumer product safety commission says those kits cost as little as $5 a piece. >> morgan: up next, a tragic accident raises new questions about the safety of self-driving cars. blank blank.
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>> morgan: uber suspended all road tests on its self-driving cars last week after a woman in tempe, arizona, was hit and killed. here's transportation correspondent kris van cleave. >> reporter: the accident happened in about a second when its on-board cameras rolling uber's suv was going approximately 38 miles an hour in autonomous mode, a safety driver in case of emergency is seen here appearing to occasionally look away from the road before the accident. 49 year old elaine herzberg jay walking with her bicycle is only visible to the human eye for a moment before sme is struck and killed.
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tempe, arizona, police tell cbs news the early indication is the accident may not have been avoidable because she appeared to walk directly into the suv's path. >> they want to know if the sensors and other technology on the self-driving vehicle should have detected herzberg sooner than a human and they plan to speak to the safety driver about the moments leading up to the crash. >> i moap it brings new jobs, i hope it brings convenience and safety. >> starting in 2016 arizona governor doug ducey declared the state open for self-driving business with little regulation. >> what they need to do is prove that this technology works f kus mrs can't trust their cars are safe, then they are not going to want to get in those cars. >> tim stevens is editor in chief of cns road show. >> if we get our driver's license we have to pass an eye exam and show basic understanding of the rules of the road. there are no tests for autonomous cars in existence right now and maybe that is something that should come out of an incident like this. >> federal legislation be
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self-driving cars is stalled in congress leaving the rules up to the state. currently at least 32 cities are testing or plan to start, stevens says the industry worries about the impact of additional regulation an yefer sight. >> more requirements for testing for these vehicles that could slow this testing down quit a bit and that could ultimately push this technology back by years. >> uber has expressed its condolences to the victim's family and says they will cooperate with all of the ongoing investigations. the company has also halted its self-driving car testing in the four cities where it was operating. safety experts do believe self-driving cars will cut deaths on the road 94% of accidents are blamed on human error. last year an estimated 40,100 people died in didn'ts involving human drivers. kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. >> still ahead, the last days of a one of a kind rhino.
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>> the last male of his kind, a white rhino named sudan, he died this past week and his breed didn't bring itself to the brink of extinction by failing to a da. white rhinos thrived in large numbers for centuries before they were overhunted by humans. jonathan vigliotti covered sudan's story for cbs sunday morning. >> sudan's final days were spent in nature's hospital, theol pejeta concervancy in kenya, although known as the last male standing, he was not alone. zachariah mufai and a team of caretakers dedicated their lives to the aging beast. >> he is a great friend of mine, more like my family, that is why i take care of him. and for what we do now, i know him very well. >> we joined mufai as he prepared breakfast, a buffet of hey, carrots and bananas. >> we hide the pills inside there. >> so these bananas contain pain relieves. >> yes. >> sudan was 45, well passed the average life expectancy of a
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rhino. >> this is a lot like hospice care for an animal whose human family never leaves his side. >> he suffered from arthritis and bed sores and died essentially of old age. the park decided to euthanize him overnight when he was in too much pain and unable to stand. sudan spent most of his life in a zoo as northern white rhinos in the wild were poached to extinction. big conserve vacationist richard vig ne created this. >> the reason the rhinos are threatened pi poaching is because of demand for their horn, pure and simple. >> in his final years sudan was with the two remaining northern white rynea females. najin and fatu. >> the hope was they would reproduce. >> it never worked. >> there is already an international effort under way to extract eggs from najin and fatu and fertilize them with the supreme previously collected from sudan and other northern
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year old nun who is stealing the show. >> that's it. >> as the celebration for loyola chicago exploded with confetti, cheers and players cutting pieces of net, their secret weapon soaked it in with that angelic smile on the sidelines. >> for a nice little school like ours, we are just so proud of them. >> 98 year old sister jean has reached celebrity status. she sports customized niekes and even has her own bobble head, known for her prayers before the game, and infamous hugs after. >> from loyola chicago. >> the team chaplain has guided loyola chicago in a impressive turn of events. >> and a chance and a four point play. >> the ramblers won for the final four came out of know where. the last time the team made the tournament was 1985. >> here is custer, the catch, the shoot, it's good.
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>> on the attack from the start saturday, loyola chicago came out strong. sinking shot after shot. >> custer looking for help, gets itment williamson. >> the ramblers dominated against 9th seeded kansas state. they are the last double digit seeded team left in the tournament. >> you have to have guys, high character guys that believe. >> to support one that has some believing in di vine intervention. >> i have loyola going to the sweet 16 but i have a second bracket which i call the cinderella dream bracket where i have them going to the final game. >> and the block. >> loyola chicago will try to become the lowest seeded team to win a national championship. >> meg oliver, cbs news, new york. >> the final four teams face off next saturday in san antonio. that is the cbs weekend news for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm demarco por began in neca fn
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live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. >> if we don't do something the american people should be furious. >> a day after millions marched across america for tougher gun control we're asking will the movement be enough to move political mountains. >> that story in a moment. but first we're following some breaking news. police are investigating a deadly stabbing at a san francisco church. police were called to the chinese christian church on chester avenue just after 2:00 this afternoon. we're told a woman is dead and the male suspect is in the hospital with what appear to be self-inflicted stab wounds. at this point there is no word on the relationship between the victim and the suspects. >> back to our other top story now the call to action was loud and it was clear as thousands of
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bay area students spilled into the streets during yesterday's march for our lives. but tonight one bay area lawmaker tells kpix5 political reporter those demands may have fallen on deaf ears in the current congress. >> we had millions of people in the street. 800,000 in d.c. the largest protest in the history of this country more than went to martin luther king's speech. so if we don't do something the american people should be furious. >> marches around the world yesterday calling for an end to gun violence. but will anything actually change? not while the republicans are still in charge said the congressman. >> i don't think this republican leadership will introduce one bill. they won't put one of the 300 bills that have been introduced in the three years i've been there. >> he says if democrats sweep the midterms and win a majority of the house of representatives they will debate and vote on gun control bills. >> those politicians are going to wait these protesters out and they
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