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florida. after the march. >> what's next for the never again movement following this weekend's historic rallies. >> the nra passes the march of our lives as march for their lies and takes aim. >> the classmates would be alive and no one would know your names. >> also tonight, stormy daniels first television interview bought her alleged relationship with the president. everything you need how to know before the adult film actress talks to andersen cooper for 60 minutes. >> it was the last male of a dying breed of rhinos. can his species be saved? >> that's it! >> sister jean's miracle
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ramblers roll to the final four. >> the whole nation must think sort of sitting on the edge of their chairs. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." hi, everyone. welcome to the "overnight news." i'm demarco morgan. never again was the rallying cry at this weekend's march for our lives. with the thunderous chants of vote them out, had imed me impact. about four million americans will turn 1 this year. what's next for the movement. the nation's capital echoed with the warning to lawmakers. throw them out. >> activists turned out. >> the purpose of the next generation to make our lives safe. >> including teens who feel targeted. >> we decided to come because we are sec aick and tired of wakin
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every day scared to go to school. >> the crowd displayed messages of support, rolling out activist art work and thousands of signs. washington one of #00 marches worldwide. but d.c.'s was the largest. and official crowd countlies analyzed photos estimated more than 200,000. they erupted for this 11-year-old. >> i am here to acknowledge and represent african-american girls whose stories don't make the front page of every national newspaper. >> most speeches came from the stoneman douglas students who started the movement. >> in a little over 6 minutes. 17 friend were taken from us. >> including emma gonzalez who stood in silence for an emotional six minutes. >> my son -- he got denied. and denied to speak at the march. >> on facebook. andrew pollack, the father of meadow pollack said hunter was
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excluded. >> i guess he has a different agenda than their agenda. >> the pollack family wants school safety legislation before gun control. before nay left, the parkland students reiterated their goal. >> vote out politicians refusing to pass common sense gun legislation. >> student activists told us hunter pollack didn't speak. he is over 18. that was their cutoff. they're continuing their activism and have a walkout scheduled for next month. demarco. adriana diaz, thanks. the national rifle association fired back at march for our lives. a host on the you tube channel. dean reynolds has more on the nra hard line stance against pro posed 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 -- they've want
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to ban every ban in america. >> for the nra they are the critics. naive, misguide, or disingenuous. >> here is an honest proposal. either you admit it that 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 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 kricritics to trea. >> we can defend freedom with your passion. >> in january, before the parkland massacre, the nra youtube page had 430,000 views. last month though, the number
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rose to 1.4 million. >> this firearm gives average people the advantage they so desperately need. >> roanoke college professor, harry wilson who owns 50 firearms and belongs 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 vote. >> the you tube video zruz have dropped to levels that existed before the parkland shooting. which could be a sign that gun owners are lels anxioss anxious control legislation may be enact the. >> president trump will have to find another lawyer to representative him in the russia investigation. days after john dowd resigned it was announced that joseph digenova will not be taking over due to conconflicts. the president's personal lawyer may turn attention to the interview on television. here is errol barnett.
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>> reporter: this image, president trump smiles with stormy daniels who alleged they had an affair at the time. tuesday she wrote, technically i didn't sleep with potus 12 years ago. there was no sleeping. people do care he lied about it, had me bullied. broke laws to covered 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 funds, for which he was not reimbursed by the trump organization, or campaign. >> ms. daniels is prepared to return the $130,000. >> the representative of daniels is trying to void it the nondisclosure agreement. >> the only reason why he would not accept it is if he wants to continue to attempt to silence her. >> in court documents. cohen alleges daniels broke their nda and is liable for at
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least $20 million in 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, shared 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 his words. this is politically motivated to hurt and embarrass him in some way. >> reporter: at the time of the 60 minutes broadcast on the east coast, president trump had returned to washington. the white house says first lady melania trump will remain in florida as part of what they say is family tradition for spring break. demarco. >> errol baernt wirnett, thank . >> do not try this at home. this is matt hughes, a limo driver from apple valley, california. he made a steam powered rocket in his garage. yesterday he blasted off. threw more than a third of a mile up.
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officials in mexico have ruled that an iowa family choked to death on a poisonous gas inside their vacation home. but they are still unanswered questions. mireya villarreal has the the update. less than 4 hours after their bodies were found in a rented condo near tulum, mexico. authorities confirmed that kevin sharp, wife army and two young children, sterling and adrianna died by asphyxiation, suffocated by inhaling toxic gasses. officials believe this was an isolated incident. investigators dressed in anti-contamination suits worked quickly to find clues in the condo. fire fighters took a look at the
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ventilation system and gas connections to a stove inside the resort rooms. it is still unclear what specific gas may have actually killed the family. but officials do not believe this was an act of suicide or violence. it is estimated 20 million american tourists went to mexico last year. around 8.5 million visited quintano roo where the family was vacationing. >> amy reassured us that they would be okay. >> relatives, jenna and ashley tell cbs news this was the sharp's second time vacationing in mexico. family members were worried about their safety. relatives first reported the four missing when they failed to show up to a basketball game thursday. >> the sharps were planning to be here tonight. >> saturday night the southwestern spartans took a moment to honor them. >> we are all hurting. a huge, huge blow. >> the family rented the condo through online website, home away. the company sent their condolences and tells cbs news
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they removed the property from their website. demarco. >> mireya villarreal, reporting. mireya, thank you. >> consumer reports sounded the alarm last week with a study on furniture safety. focused on dressers that can tip over hurting or killing a child. anna werner has the story. >> just in this little sliver 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 they're 22-month-old son ted had woken up from his afternoon nap. >> i opened the door. right in front of me, his dresser, i saw, on the floor, it had fallen forward. in that split second i knew he was under there. >> the todd tiller was buried under the dresser drawers. he had suffocated. >> his face was purple. his eyes were half open. it was a, a horrible vision that unfortunately i'm still haunted by every single day. >> government data shows from 2014 to 2016, more than 15,000
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children under 1 were injured in tipovers. from 2,000 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, more stringent than the current voluntary standard. the result, the group says the voluntary standard is inadequate. because the it still leaves too 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? >> extremely difficult. you cannot judge a dresser, whether it is going to be tippy or not, just by looking at it. >> consumer reports is calling for a mandatory standard to protect children. in a statement the american home furnishings alliance told cbs this morning, it is not owe posed to mandatory product safety standards. but said, they cannot be easily
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revised or updated once passed. consumer reports says, by the numbers, however, most dressers actually passioned their toughest test. >> some of them are already doing a fantastic job. >> so what you are saying is look, they all can do that? >> it is possible. it is achief abvable. doesn't require cost. >> if you want to see the results for manufacturers, you can check consumer reports. to see also how the manufacturers responded. but in the meantime, if you are a parent of young children, you want to go by anchor kits for any furniture that could fall on a child. consumer product safety commission says the kits kau as little as $5 apiece. anna werner, cbs news, new york. up next, a tragic accident, raises new question as but the safety of self driving cars. many sleep-aids have pain medicine
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>> all. ber suspended all self driving tests after a woman in tempe arizona was hit and killed. the accident happened in about a second. with the on board cameras rolling, uber's suv was going 38 miles an hour in autonomous mode. safety driver in case of emergency is seen to look away from the road before the accident. 49-year-old, elaine, jaywalking with her bicycle is visible to the human eye for a moment before she is struck and killed. tempe, arizona police tell cbs news the early indication from its investigation is the accident may not have been avoidable. because herzberg appears to have walked directly into the suv path. national transportation safety board investigators are in tempe. they want to know if the sensors and technology on the self-driving vehicle should have detected her sooner than human and plan to speak to the safety driver about the moments leading up to the crash. >> hope it brings new jobs, convenience, safety. >> starting in 2016, arizona
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governor doug ducey declared the car open for self driving business with little regulation. >> they need to prove the technology works. if customers can't trust the cars are safe they're not going to want to get in the cars. >> reporter: if you or i go to get a driver's license we pass an eye exam for example and show basing understanding of the rules of the road. there are no tests for that for cars in existence right now. maybe that should come out of this. >> federal regulation is stalled in congress leaving the rules up to the states. currently 32 cities are testing or plan to start. seechbz sa steven says the industry worries about the industry and oversight. >> requirements for testing that could slow the testing down quite a bit. could push the technology back by years. >> uber expressed condolences to the victim's family and says it will cooperate with all the ongoing investigations. the company has also halted the
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self-driving car testing in the four cities where it was operating. safety experts believe self driving cars will cut deaths on the road. 94% of accidents are blamed on human error. last year an estimated 40,000 people died in accidents 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 the breed didn't bring itself off to the brink of extinction by failing to adapt. white rhinos thrived for centuries before they were overhunted. >> sudan's final days were spent in nature's hospital in kenya. although known as the the last male standing he was not alone. a team of caretakers dedicated their lives off to the aging
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beast. >> he is a great friend of mine. more like my family. that's why i take great care of him. worked with him for eight years. >> we joined him as he prepared breakfast, a buffet of hay, carrots and bananas. >> we use bananas to -- >> so these bananas contain pain relievers. >> yes. >> sudan was 45, well past the life expectancy of a 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 life in the zoo as northern white rhinos in the wild were poached to extinction. conservationist, richard vine created this wildlife sanctuary. >> the reason the rhinos are threatened by poaching, is because of demand for their
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horn. pure and simple. >> in his final years, sudan lived with the two remaining northern white rhino females. the hope was they would reproduce. >> we were expecting to it, but it never worked. >> reporter: there is an international effort under way to extract eggs from the two and fertilize them with the sperm previously collected from sudan and northern white rhinos. that process is both complex and untested. and is now the only hope for the future of the species. when we come back, the college basketball cinderella story, starring a 98-year-old nun.
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>> that's it! >> as the celebration for loyola exploded with confetti, cheers, cutting pieces of net. their secret weapon soaked it in with the angelic smile on the side line. >> for a nice little school like ours, we are just so proud of them. >> 98-year-old sister jean reached celebrity status. she sports customized nikes. and even has her own bobblehead. >> known for her prayers before the game. and infamous hugs after. >> from loyola chicago. >> the team chaplain guided loyola chicago in a blessed turn of events. >> richardson. hits it! and a chance at a four-point play. >> the ramblers run to the final four came out of nowhere. the last time the team made the tournament was 1985. >> here is custer. the catch. the shoot. it's good! >> reporter: on the attack from the start saturday, loyola chicago came out strong sinking
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shot after shot. >> custer looking for help. gets it. williamson. down. >> the ramblers dominated against ninth seeded kansas state. they are the last double digit seeded team left in the tournament. >> you have to have, guys that believe. >> an historic run that have some believing in divine intervention. >> i have loyola going to the sweet 16. but i have a second bracket i call the cinderella dream bracket where i have them going to the final game. >> on the take. towns goes. and the block. >> loyola chicago will try to become the lowest seeded team to win a national championship. meg oliver, cbs news, new york. that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you've the news continues. and for others you can check back with us a little later for the morning news and of course, cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm demarco more gachblt -- demarco morgan.
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hi, welcome to the "overnight news." i'm demarco morgan. never again the rallying cry at the weekend march for our lives. with the thund rs chants of vote them out may have the most immediate impact. 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. >> reporter: the nation's capital echoed with a warning to lawmakers. vote them out. activists of all ages turned out. >> the purpose of the next generation to make our lives safe. >> including teens who feel targeted. >> we desired to come because we
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are sick and tiefrd waking up every day, scared to go to school. >> the crowd displayed their own messages of support with people rolling out activist art work. and thousands of signs. >> washington's was one of more than 800 marches worldwide. but d.c.'s was the largest. and official crowd count an liesed the photos estimated more than 200,000 people. they erupted for 11-year-old naomi waddler. >> i'm here to acknowledge and representative the african-american girls whose stories don't make the page of every newspaper. most speeches came from the students who started the movement. >> a little over six minutes. 17 of our friend were taken from us. >> including emma gonzalez who stood in silence for emotional six minutes. >> my son, he got denied, denied to speak at the march. >> on facebook.
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andrew pollack, father of meadow pollack said his son was excluded. >> guess he has a different agenda. >> the family wants school safety legislation before gun control. but as they left the parkland students reiterated their primary goal. >> well need to vote out the poll tirgss who are refusing to pass common sense gun legislation. >> student activists told us, hunter pollack didn't speak. he is over 18. that was their cutoff. they're continuing their activism and have a walkout schedule ford next month. demarco. >> adrianna diaz. >> the nra fired back at march for their lives. a host 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 proposed new gun laws.
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>> reporter: only a few short days and the nra was saying what it has. >> they want to ban every gun in america. >> for the nra they are the critics. naive. misguided or disingenuous. >> reporter: the nra whose membership spikes after a mass shooting spent at least $175 million to push its agenda in 2016. >> the nra whose membership usually spikes after a mass shooting, spent at least $175 million 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 defend freedom with your passion. >> in january, before the
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parkland massacre, the nra youtube page had 430,000 views. last month though, the number rose to 1.4 million. >> this firearm gives average people the advantage they so desperately need. >> roanoke college professor, harry wilson who owns 50 firearms and belongs 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 vote. the nra video youtube views have dropped to levels that existed before the parkland shooting. which could be a sign that gun owners are less anxious gun control legislation may be enacted. dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. control legislation may be enact the. the organizers of the march say their next goal its to get out the vote and change the mind of their elected representatives. in at least one case, it seems to be working.
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you were one of 16 democrats who voted against an assault weapons ban in 2013. in 2014 you voted against a cap on high capacity magazines. they're asking now, to restrict those things. have you changed your position? >> i think it is time to change our positions re-examine. i had been in favor of universal background checks, after sandy hook. time for us to have a legitimate debate about -- restrictions on gun magazines, and, and assault weapons. you get into definitions. but the basic notion of -- these weaponized militarized weapons need how to be off our streets. even the trump administration took small step this weekend on bump stocks. so, i think it is time. and i hope these kids continue to press. >> what would you recommend to them in terms of where they focus their energy now? >> i think the fact that they're going to call for a walkout in april. is appropriate. and i think, the most important thing they can do register, and
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vote. end of the day. that's the way you change democracy. >> officials in mexico ruled that an iowa family choked to death on a poisonous gas inside their vacation home. they're still unanswered questions. mireya villarreal has the the update. less than 48 hours after their bodies were found in a rented condo near tulum, mexico. authorities confirmed, 41-year-old kevin sharp, wife amy and two young children, sterling and adrianna died by asphyxiation. they suffocated inhaling gasses. officials believe this was an isolated incident. investigators dressed in anti-contamination suits, worked quickly to find any clues in the condo. firefighters took a close look at the ventilation system, and gas connections to a stove inside the bahia principale resort rooms. still unclear what specific gas may have killed the family. but officials do not believe this was an act of suicide or violence. it is estimated 20 million
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american tourists went to mexico last year. around 8.5 million visited quintana roo. >> relatives jenna and ashley peterson 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 basketball game on thursday. >> the sharps were planning to be here tonight. >> saturday night the southwestern spartans took a moment to honor them. the family rented the condo through an online website. home away. the company has sent their condolences and tells cbs news they removed the property from their website. demarco. >> mireya villarreal reporting. mireya, thank you. our next story comes with a caution. do not try this at home. this is mike hughes, a 61-year-old.
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it has been six months now since hurricane maria devastated puerto rico. thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed. and all of the island lost power. david begnaud paid auerto rico and what hasn't. >> locals are starting to don e reflective vests and direct traffic. most lights are not working. this guys an example. just helping out. >> his name is william coto, directing traffic here since november. even the police officers, stop and follow his directions. and the drivers tip him. from here, we headed to las
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pietres. >> a woman reached out. you have to see what condition is my bedridden father has been living in six months. >> hello, i am david. >> nice to meet you. >> we met the sisters who introduced us to their 90-year-old father, in this bed for three years, with no electricity for six months. >> he feels warm to the touch. on this day there wasn't much breeze. mr. santana felt damp. his breathing was labored. >> the day before we arrived. some one brought a solar panel system that allows them to have the light we have in the room. allows them to operate the respiratory machine. you must have, been really happy when they brought this. >> of course. of course we are. yeah. >> yeah. yeah. >> so grateful. for the response. >> more or less we are surviving. but it is not easy. >> 95% of the electrical customers in puerto rico have power. but 93,000 people still do not.
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>> david. welcome back to puerto rico. >> we met the colonel in the capital of san juan. leading the u.s. army corps of engineers helping the puerto rican power authority restore electricity. >> you are here at the request of fema, operating under the authority of the stafford act. what does the stafford act prevent you from doing? >> the stafford act is for emergency response. >> you can't do what? >> aluminum transmission towers. i cannot put galvanized steel. >> under the act you can repair and replace, but you can't upgrade. >> that's almost, always the case. >> the next day we traveled to the region where the hurricane made landfall with 155 mile per hour winds. more than half of the 38,000 people who live here, still do not have electricity. and desperation has a hold on them. >> the mayor told us a few days ago. a local man took his life.
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a man in his 60s. he lived at the blue house here. apparently the same day he was found hanging from a tree. the same day. power was restored to his house. >> a suicide prevention hot line center near san juan, reports that the number of suf side related calls to the hot line more than doubled from august to january. from the region we headed west to mountains where thousands of people like this woman still do not have power or water. >> did you ever think about leaving? >> puerto rico. >> no. >> no. this is my island. i can't leave it. >> after maria, the bridge in the region was wiped out. some locals were stuck for nearly six months. but a week ago, a new bridge opened. our last stop was the region, by the light of day looks like paradise. but a living hell if you ask the people who live here. driving through the region, we saw elisa and her husband on the side of the road with buckets.
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they've come to the faus title get water because the nay dent hatch it where they live haven't had it for six months. >> from there we went to meet luis orlando here, wanted us to know about problem people on the island are having getting insurance come pans to pay them ape fair amount. or pay them at all. the water was up to here. he lives in a $98,000 home. insurance adjuster estimated that $38 t,000 in damage. you know what the insurance company offered him? $8,000. >> i had to make a quick decision. i had my family over in new jersey. i needed to bring them down here. i needed the money. >> you accepted $8,000. >> i did. forced to accept it. >> wow. >> at least 40,000 people have left the island since the storm. and it is unclear how many have returned. jamie and lisa amos are two of the evacuees who came back to give back. >> water filters. so solar lights and their time.
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an era in radio history coming to a close. don imus stepping away from the microphone. anthony mason has his story. >> itch am imus in the morning. >> for 50 years, don imus has been the flame thrower of morning drive. >> he is a punk. >> provocateur as outrageous. >> the lone person in america who is still supporting the -- >> are we on tv? >> as we has been influential. >> i'm not crazy. just not willing to put up with any nonsense. >> i wasn't trying to be outrageous. just the way i thought. my feeling was then, and is now, that if they didn't like it, get somebody else to do it. >> reporter: and they did. he has the been fired at least four times. >> do you have any regrets? >> a few. the rutgers thing i regret. >> what do you regret about it? >> because i knew better.
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>> that's some rough girls from rutgers. >> the rutgers thing in 2007. imus tossed of a flip, bigoted remark about the women's basketball team. >> nappy headed -- >> that lost him his syndicated radio show on cbs and tv show on msnbc. >> changed my feeling of making fun of some people who didn't deserve off to be made fun of and didn't have a mechanism to defend themselves. >> by the end of 2007 he was back on the radio. >> dick cheney is still a war criminal. >> another comeback in a career full of resurrections. >> i'm back on the radio. >> this week after five decades of rising before dawn to talk to america, imus will go off the air. >> when you didn't have to go upstairs to the studio anymore. >> yeah. >> what's don imus going to do. >> have you've seen this operation here? a huge deal.
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>> he showed it to us. >> how much of this is yours? >> far as you can see. >> the sprawling texas ranch halfway between houston and austin. and drove us in his bentley, down to the arena he built for his 19-year-old son, wyatt. who has become a champion rodeo rider and calf roper. >> you going to spend more time at the rodeos now? >> he went to every one. in junior high, high school, first year of college. >> is he a big critic? >> not at all. cool, calm, collected all the time. tau a retirement will be here at the ranch they bought four years ago. >> is he ready for this? >> it is about time don't you think. frankly i will miss it. listened all these years, listened every show. i met him on the air. >> they married in 1994, and set up the first imus ranch. a summer camp for kids suffering from cancer.
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imus was raised on a ranch in arizona with his brother fred. he aspired to be a singer. and even made records with fred. to get them radio play here, aplid plied to be a dj. >> you are listening to don imus. >> that led to his his first jobs in california. >> look to get 1200 ham birgz. >> pardon me, sir. >> where he posed as national guard sergeant on air. >> on 300, hold the mustard. put on mayo. >> order takeout from mcdonald's. in less than three years, he made it to the number one market. >> 66 wnbc. >> i listened to what was on in new york. i thought man this is going to be easy. >> yes, sir, ma'am. >> i would look to tell a joke. it its not dirty. >> it's not dirty. sorry, you can not tell ate clean joke.
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>> he was an overnight sensation. in the 80s. imus in the morning evolved into a talk show. attracting the high and mighty. more than 100 stations sinned kated his braup ed syndicated his broadcast. by 1997, time magazine named him one of the most influential people in america. >> he takes credit for getting me elected in 1992. he may have didn't. >> did you look that kind of power? >> power to do what? >> shape opinion. >> i never had any agenda like that at all. >> then came the rutgers remark. >> there wasn't anything i could do to take it back. >> in a late night meeting he apologized in person to the team. >> one of the greatest things i ever did in my life. >> going to talk to the players. >> yesch they've were there. their parents were there. i sat andlessened for four, five hours. and there was nothing i could say, other than i'm sorry. and promise them that i would never give them a reason in
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their lifetime to be sorry that they forgave me. and i haven't. >> with that gesture, he hoped he redeemed himself. >> do you think of yourself as a dj, radio guy, as a broadcaster? >> radio guy. one of the best ever. one of the best five ever. >> who else would you put up there? >> godfried. >> arthur godfried. >> wolfman jack. >> put stern in there. awe all imus worked with howard stern in the 80s. but not always happily. >> some people would be surprised you would put him in there. >> he had a big problem with me. i didn't have one with him. >> means a lots to be in the group. >> no one has ever done what high have done. done this 50 years. the only one with more marconies, paul harvey. on three minutes a day. stop it. >> he is 77 now. fighting emphysema.
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if don imus its sentimental about giving the all up. he doesn't show it until he talks about his audience. >> i always had in my head that i was talking to one person. i felt when i walked in there, sat down and turned the mike on i was talking to you. you know, i'm going to miss that. >> what is it you will miss exactly? >> will i can get emotional about that. so. >> it's okay. >> i deon't want to. i may -- i mean, hear a new song, or a new book, or i remember -- when john lennon was shot. >> uh-huh. >> stuff like that. tell them my brother died. or, just somebody to talk to. it's not the same as talking to my wife or -- >> why is it different? >> i'm not sure.
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at what they do is indispensable, and i couldn't ask for a better partner. the big cinderella story basketball not in the ncaa tournament. steve hartman found it on the road. >> every week he set himself up for disappointment. every week, 14-year-old, jamarian styles came to the community center in florida hoping to play basketball with the other kids. and every week he was rejected. >> start picking teams. i would be the only one left out. tell me just go home, and stuff. you can break someone's heart like that. >> reporter: as we first reported last year the problem was obvious. to everyone but jamarian. he lost his hand and most arms as an infant due to a rare
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bacterial infection. he insisted that was no reason to give up his hoop dreams. >> what about soccer, heard about that sport? >> you would think i am good at soccer. i'm really not. i am horrible. >> first day of 8th grade at eagles landing school, he took his case to coach darian williams. said he wanted to be on the team. >> i said great, make sure you try out. >> you say great, what are you thinking? >> this man has no arms how is he going to play basketball. man, he told me, mr. winters, i never been on a team before. even itch i don't play, i want to be on the team. how could i say no to that. >> that's how the eagles got their first armless basketball player. jamarian, 2 there. earned reputation as the the hardest worker on the squad. >> he was usually the first one in the gi usually the last one to leave. >> still he sat on the bench most of the season. >> try one more. >> until one day the coach put him in the game with 6 minutes left. when he eventually got the ball
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on the far side of the court. everyone yelled, shoot it. >> come on. >> so he did. and sank it! a three pointer! >> if you didn't quite see that. don't worry. shortly haf lly after. got the ball again. near side. for another three pointer. at the buzzer. jamarian styles, the kid no one would pick, was now everyone's hero. since that story first aired, jamarian went on to play freshman basketball. still number 2 there. has every intention of making varsity one day. but here's the best part. after hitting those threes, he can now play all he wants at the community center. he is picked all the time. really, the only thing he won't play, is the victim. >> if i could wave a magic want right now and give you your arms back would you want them. >> i don't need them. >> you don't need them. >> nope.
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>> who needs hands when you have this kind of touch. captioning funded by cbs it's monday, march 26th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." well, you put yourself in a bad situation and bad things happen, so you deserve this. stormy daniels talks about her alleged relationship with donald trump and the coverup. details from her "60 minutes" interview. we decided to come because we're sick and tired of being scared to come to school. >> thousands march in the rally
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