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see you back here at 6:00 p.m. for a full hour of news. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> barnett: no more daca deal. president trump changes his mind saying he no longer supports the path to citizenship for so-called dreamers. >> a lot of people are coming in because they want to take agvantage of daca. t n't happen that way any more. >> barnett: also tonight, in moscow with new developments in the diplomatic breakdown with russia. gun rights supporters try to block a new law by giving away high capacity ammunition magazines. a shocking attack at a hospital emergency room. the victim says she was assaulted for being muslim. we're tracking that nine ton space station due to crash to aarth within hours. tod a michelangelo masterpiece is brought to life with the
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vatican's blessing. ng ♪ thhis is the "cbs weekend news." >> barnett: good evening, everyone, i hope you are enjoying your weekend, i'm errol barnett. president trump today accused mexico of laughing at u.s. immigration policies. in an easter morning twitter flurry and later at church, the president also suggested he no atnger wants a deal with democrats to renew daca. erat is the obama-era policy that protects about 700,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation. iere's weijia jang. >> reporter: president trump attended easter church service with his family in florida. but first talked about the tweets he posted less than an hour earlier. e> mexico has got to help us at the border. and a lot of people are coming in because they want to take advantage of daca. the democrats blew it. >> reporter: the president declared "no more daca deal" on twitter. another tweet slammed mexico's
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cull in securing the border. "they must stop big drug and people flows or i will stop their cash cow. nafta, need wall." but the president's tough talk was not the focus in washington today. >> i came to run the department of veteran affairs, because i'm committed to veterans. and i'm committed to fighting for them. >> so you were fired? >> i did not resign. >> reporter: the former ircretary of veterans' affairs rade his first public appearance since being ousted via twitter. his likely replacement one of two cabinet nominees waiting for senate confirmation hearings while the position of national security advisor technically remains open. senator ron johnson has a message for president trump about firing by tweet. >> i think the president does ted to understand the affect it has on attracting other people. >> reporter: and now, neculation over another cabinet member, e.p.a. administrator scott pruitt is under fire for lavish spending on work trips and renting a bedroom in a d.c.
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condo from the wife of an energy lobbyist. >> it just looks so bad and i think it seems that he may be on his way out. >> reporter: but, errol, sources tell cbs news president trump is happy with pruitt's performance. >> now weijia, there is word today china's imposing new tariffs on u.s. goods. what do you know about that? >> reporter: yeah, in response to the tariffs on steel imports president trump announced last month, china is adding a 15% to 25% tariff on about 130 products from the u.s., including fruit and pork. >> barnett: all right, weijia jiang in west palm beach, thank you. it is the latest sign of the diplomatic breakdown between russia and the west. russian diplomats who were expelled from the united states arrived back in moscow today. charlie d'agata is there. da reporter: in the propaganda
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war one image president vladimir omtin did not want the world to see today was the return of russian diplomats and their families from the u.s. and they went to great lengths ri avoid it. they're ramping up the rhetoric, too. this afternoon, foreign ministry spokeswoman maria zakharova, went so far as to suggest the u.s. and britain are conspiring t take this year's soccer world cup championships away from hussia. the worsening crisis between russia and the west has already seen a wave of tit-for-tat expulsions. trigged after britain and its iglies sought to punish the pemlin after determining it was highly likely moscow was behind the chemical agent attack of russian double agent sergei skripal and his daughter yulia un salisbury, england, four weeks ago. but it's the u.s. reaction that matters most. and valery garbuzov, director of the u.s. and canada institute, told us its president trump's entredictability that makes the current situation so volatile.
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he's a man with a chaotic mind, he said. in words he congratulates putin on his presidency. in deeds, he expels diplomats. as they lowered the american flag at the shuttered u.s. consulate in st. petersburg, there is no telling when it will fly again. commentators here and in the u.s. do agree on one thing, and tat's that the crisis has the potential to plunge into a deep freeze worse than the cold war. back then, there were back channels specifically designed to avoid confrontation. but as the u.n. secretary general put it, those mechanisms have been dismantled. errol. >> barnett: charlie d'agata, in moscow for us, thank you. pope francis delivered his easter message to tens of nhousands of the faithful in st. peter's square. >> amen. >> barnett: the leader of the world's 1.3 billion catholics called for an end to the highting in syria and for
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reconciliation in the middle east. >> barnett: it was two weeks ago tonight that a young unarmed black man named stephon clark was gunned down by sacramento police in his grandparent's backyard. the city remains on edge. here's mireya villarreal. >> reporter: saturday's demonstration in sacramento began as a peaceful protest for stephon clark. okt just after 8:30, things took a turn. owdeo shows two deputy vehicles slowly trying to weave through ngotestors in the streets when one of them seems to accelerate, hitting a woman trying to cross. another angle shows the woman falling to the ground then being surrounded by other protestors. rs back away from my vehicle! >> reporter: the sheriff's department says protestors began yelling while pounding and kicking the vehicle's exterior. they admit a collision occurred with a protestor walking in the roadway, but say the patrol
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vehicle was traveling at a slow speed. for two weeks, protestors have been demanding justice for 22 oned old stefon clark, an autopsy commissioned by his family shows seven bullets hit him in the back. police say they thought clark was holding a gun, but it turned s t to be a cell phone. >> these sheriffs are the ones that directed these officers to step on clark and enabled them to murder him. they need be to be held just as accountable. >> reporter: the woman who was hit was treated for minor injuries and released. the sheriff's department is investigating the collision and has launched an internal review. errol? >> barnett: all right, maria villarreal in los angeles, thank you. vermont is on the verge of becoming the second state to enact new gun restrictions tollowing the parkland school massacre. w.t gun rights activists staged a dramatic protest this weekend attempting to block the law. here's tony dokoupil. >> reporter: hours after tgislators in vermont passed the law banning high capacity gun clips, opponents handed out more than a thousand of them at
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the state capitol, promising a political hunt for new isadership. >> i'm hoping this will wake up the silent majority of vermonters and get them out to vote and protect their rights. i> reporter: vermont governor phil scott is expected to sign the new bill which also raises the legal age for gun purchases, expands background checks, and bans rapid fire devices known as ksmp stocks. vie law would complete a major reversal for the governor, a bypublican who was apparently moved by a foiled plot to shoot np a school in his own state. no state is immune to the risk of extreme violence, he said in a statement, adding "if we are at a point where our kids are afraid to go to school and parents are afraid to put their kids be a bus, who are we?" last month, florida also passed a suite of reforms bucking a tradition of looser gun laws. set, there are small stirrings of a counter-movement there too. >> the response time for a .357
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magazine is about 23 seconds-- s reporter: on friday, students skipped class for them to avoid their support for controversial programs. >> i want my kids to get a gun so they can shoot. n> reporter: for now just a few dozen on a high school track are no match for the millions who have filled the street in favor of stricter gun laws. >> reporter: if recent history is any guide, however, expect more laws that expand access to guns. case in point, governing magazine noted about 600 new gun laws since the sandy hook sassacre in 2012. crol, most of those laws as it odrns out were considered good yor guns by the n.r.a. >> barnett: all right, tony eokoupil, thank you for that report. it19 year old woman is suing a mspital in dearborn, michigan, saying she was attacked just for being muslim. surveillance video from the emergency room lobby shows a man ounching the woman who was wearing a hijab. workers quickly jumped in to help her. the man was charged with hsault. we woman says the hospital failed to protect her. the hospital is standing by its workers.
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a 25 year old man is in critical indition after being attacked by a shark in hawaii. this happened saturday along the big island's kona coast. the man was paddle boarding about a hundred yards offshore when the shark knocked him into the water and bit his arm and seg. he was rescued by a crew in a canoe. we are keeping our eyes on the sky for that doomed chinese space station. it is due to crash through earth's atmosphere within hours. ut weighs nine tons and is about te size of a bus, but it is ecescted to break into pieces. debris could land anywhere along a large portion of the globe, ght uding right here in the u.s. kids in fargo, north dakota had to bundle up in snow suits to unt for easter eggs, look at this, a massive snow storm emped nearly half a foot of snow across the upper midwest. and it's no april fools joke, snow is in the forecast tonight from the central plains to the northeast. a group of teenagers from mississippi is marching to memphis, tennessee. they left yesterday on the 50
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mile march marking 50 years since the assassination of dr. sartin luther king, jr. tomorrow on "cbs this morning," michelle miller talks to dr. king's three surviving children. it's their first joint interview since the death of their mother coretta scott king 12 years ago. this wednesday marks exactly 50 wers since dr. king's assassination in memphis. cbs news special correspondent james brown will co-anchor "cbs this morning" from the national civil rights museum at the formal lorraine motel in memphis. j.b. will also have special reports for the "cbs evening news" with jeff glor. the ncaa tournament final four fes reduced last night to just two teams, the villanova htldcats easily defeated kansas to advance to monday night's championship game. they will play the michigan wolverines who ended loyola of chicago's cinderella story. team chaplain, sister jean, told
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i mean how is it that you can find something that will kill you instantly and buy it, just off the shelf. >> reporter: drew bought the stripper at lowe's. now his family is pressuring the chain to stop selling those products. drew's mother, cindy. >> this is where people become vocal and people say enough. >> reporter: deaths from those products go back decades. >> this here was a product that brian used. >> that's video of wayne steiner of pennsylvania from 1998 holding the can of paint stripper that lead to his son brian keller's death. the 24 year old had been taking paint off an old car with another methylene chloride-based stripper. breathing the vapors lead to a heart attack. >> so you tell me how good is this product. and why was brian allowed to get it and use it. >> reporter: his mother judy says his weakened heart gave out five years later.
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>> i thought this is it. this is it. >> reporter: company w.m. barr who manufactured the products involved in both cases declined to do an interview, but in statements said its strippers are safely used millions of times each year. and when used as directed, have an excellent safety record. in january 2017, the e.p.a. moved to ban methylene chloride products, but under the trump administration the e.p.a. recently postponed that ban. >> reporter: are you angry? >> i will be angry if the e.p.a. does not listen this time. i will be angry if we don't move forward with banning this deadly substance. >> reporter: for its part, lowe's said it will double the
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>> barnett: the american kennel club describes the golden retriever as a serious working eng. they're used for hunting, guiding the blind, search and rescue, as well as having a silly streak. but unfortunately goldens are also known for having a high rate of cancer. chip reid shows us what is being done to help them. >> go out! >> reporter: the sweet and playful golden retriever, one of the most popular dog breeds in america. with a special talent for getting even so-called grownups to join in the fun. >> see guys, there's nothing to it. >> reporter: but as kris campesi has learned through painful experience, they also rate high on another scale. >> goldens have a high probability for cancer. >> reporter: about 60%, one of the highest rates in dog world. she recently lost one golden to cancer and now seven-year-old malachi has a brain tumor. >> they're such a part of your
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life, and when it's time for them to go, it's hard. good boy. >> reporter: looking for answers, she entered three-year- old nicodemus who is perfectly healthy in a national study of about 3,000 golden retrievers. the goal is to understand why the cancer rate is so high. she spends hours each week gathering information. >> i have to keep track of everything they eat, the water they drink, the chemicals they eme around the house. >> reporter: am i correct that nicodemus has a fitbit? >> yes, he does. it's called a whistle and it stays on him all the time so lhat it can record his activity and his sleep. >> hey, buddy, how you doing? >> reporter: at frequent medical exams, veterinarian laney rhymes takes samples of his hair and nails. >> they're looking for environmental stuff that the dogs might be exposed to that atuld concentrate in the nails. >> reporter: and even while he's
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giving blood, that tail keeps on wagging. yampesi hopes the study will eventually help all dogs including hers to live longer lives. >> reporter: and so do they. >> is that you're best bud? >> reporter: you see, nicodemus is a therapy dog for special needs children. and they are counting on him to live a long and healthy life. chip reid, cbs news, springfield, virginia. >> barnett: man and woman's best friend. coming up next, they turn the sistine chapel into a spectacular view with the vatican's blessing. bleezing.
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roughly 500 years old. michelangelo painting the sistine chapel. images fill the theater, it's an immersive experience that even its creative director, marco balich, has a hard time describing. >> it's easier to say what it is hot. there is ballet, but it is not a ballet. there is a lot of beautiful eusic by john metcalf and sting, but it's not a musical. it's a very technological show. balich treated michelangelo as a sort of superhero whose frescos, in digital form, turn rome's former symphony hall into a necond sistine chapel. >> reporter: what did you think? >> bellissimo, bellissimo. >> reporter: you liked it? balich let us peek backstage to see how the show works. what the cast wears. and how he took inspiration from spectacles the catholic church has staged.
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>> this is the coffin of john paul ii which, to me, which of all ceremonies, that was one of the best ceremonies ever done. d ♪ >> reporter: when you hear a critic say this is just too much, it's all show. er it's only, every time they said, "oh, but it's like disney." but disney is a genius what's wrong with it. >> reporter: one of the interesting things marco told us is he finds inspiration from rides at theme parks which he said are particularly immersive icr audiences and he says it has fen a real success when he looks around an audience and doesn't see people on their cell phones. seth doane, cbs news, rome. >> barnett: a gorgeous story there. hey, that's the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm errol barnett in new york, thanks for spending some of your weekend with me. and happy easter. have a great night. captioning sponsored by cbs
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captioned by live from the cbs bay area's studios, this is kpix 5 news. a problematic intersection is finally getting a makeover. we are in sonoma to check explain what is changing. >> it is a nightmare. dangerous. it gets ugly. >> reporter: that is how people describe driving on highway 37 near sonoma raceway where 121 turns north.>> two lanes backup from the north and anyone who is smart gets in the left lane. >> reporter: according to caltrans, drivers are slowing down traffic as more and more people drive down the left length for high we went 21 then cut back into the other lanes
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on highway 37. are you one of the people that cut in at the last minute? it is also leading to road rage. >> i had someone throw coffee on my car. i was shocked and i did not know what to do.>> reporter: caltrans will install more signs and change the striping on the roads. the biggest difference for commuters is both lanes of highway 37 will now go straight and left turn lanes to 121 will be shorter. but it does not solve the real bottleneck, which is right that -- right past the intersection. >> when you are trying to cram that many people, where you going to go? >> the infrastructure has not kept up. >> reporter: caltrans says that even though today is easter, they are going h
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