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this is the cbs "overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm errol barnett. thank you for joining us. as christians around the world celebrated easter, president trump poured more fuel on the fiery debate over immigration. shortly after tweeting happy easter on sunday morning, the president followed up with a flurry of tough talk. mr. trump took aim at border security with mexico. and the daca deal to protect young immigrants from deportation. those are not the only developments surrounding the trump administration. >> 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. >> mexico has got to help us at
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the border. and a lot of people are coming in because they want to take advantage of daca, the democrats blew it. >> the president declared no more daca deal on twitter a nother tweet slammed mexico's role 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 to day. >> i came to run the department of veteran affairs because i am committed to veterans. i'm committed to fighting for them. >> you were fired? >> i did not resign. >> former sec stare of veterans affair made his first public appearance since being ousted via twitter. likely replacement one of two of cabinet nominees waiting for senate confirmation hearings. while the position of national security adviser, technically remains open. >> senator ron johnson has a message for president trump about firing by tweet. >> i think the president does
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need to understand the ee fikt has on attracting other people. >> now, speculation over another cabinet member. epa administrator scott pruett under fire for lavish spending on work trips. and renting a bedroom in a d.c. condo from the wife of an energy lobbyist. >> it looks so bad. i think it seems he may be on his way out. >> but errol sources tell cbs news president trump is happy with pruett's performance. >> there is word today china is imposing new tariffs on u.s. goods. what do we know about that? >> yeah, in response to the tariffs on steel imports. president trump announced last month. china is adding a 15% to 25% tariff on 130 products from the u.s. including, fruit and pork. >> all right. in west palm beach. thank you. it its the latest sign of the diplomatic breakdown between russia and the west. russian dip low matt dip low m
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diplomats arrived in russia. >> one image vladamir put spin did not want the world to see was the return of russian diplomats and families from the u.s. they went to great lengths to avoid it. they're ramping up the rhetoric too. this afternoon foreign ministry spokeswoman went so far as to suggest the u.s. and britain are conspiring to take this year's soccer world cup championships away from russia. the worsening crisis ills between russia and the west is already seen a wave of tit for tat expulsions, triggered after britain and al lies sought to punish the kremlin after determining it was highly likely moscow is behind the attack of russian double a jenlt and his daughter, in england four week ago. it is the u.s. reaction that matters most. and valerie garbasov director of
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u.s. canada institute told us it is president trump's unpredictability that makes the current situation so volatile. he is 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 saint petersberg, there is no telling when it will fly again. >> commentators here and in the u.s., do agree on one thing. and that's that the crisis has the the potential to plunge into a deep freeze, worse than the cold war. back then, there were back channels specifically designed to avoid confrontation. as the the u.n. secretary-general put it, those mechanisms have been dismantled. >> two weeks ago tonight that a young unarmed black man, stephon clark gunned down by police in his grandparents backyard.
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city remains on edge. here is mireya villarreal. >> sougthe demonstration began peaceful protest for stephon clark. but just after 8:30 things took a turn. video shows the two deputy vehicles slowly trying to weave through protesters in the streets when one seems to accelerate. hitting a woman trying to cross. another angle shows the the woman falling to the ground, then being surrounded by other protesters. >> back away from my vehicle. >> the sheriff's department says protestors began yelling while pounding and kicking the vehicle's exterior. a collision occurred with a protester walking in the roadway but say the patrol vehicle was traveling at a slow speed. for two weeks, protesters have been demanding justice for 22-year-old clark. and an autopsy commissioned by his family shows seven bullets him him in the back. police say they thought clark
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was holding a gun but it turned out to be a cell phone. >> sheriffs are the one that directed the officers to clark and enabled them to murder him. they need to be held accountable all. up avermont on the verge of becoming the second strait to enact gun restrictions following parkland school massacre. gun rights activists staged a dramatic protest this weekend attempting to block the law. here is tony dokoupil. >> reporter: hours after legislators in vermont pass aid law banning high capacity gun clips, opponents handed out more than 1,000 of them at the state capitol promising a political hunt for new leadership. >> hoping this will wake up the silent majority of vermonters and get them out to vote. >> vermont governor phil scott 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 bump stocks. the law would complete a major reversal for the governor, a republican, who was apparently moved by a foiled plot to shoot
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up a school in his own state. no state is immune to the risk of extreme violence he said in a statement. if we are at a point where when our kids are afraid to go to school and parents are afraid to put their kids on a bus, who are we? last month. florida also pass aid suite of reforms, bucking tradition of looser gun laws. there are small stirrings of a counter movement there too. >> there is time for a 357 magnum. >> students in florida skipped class to voice their support for controversial programs, like arming teachers. >> i want my kids to get a gun you, know. so they can shoot. >> but now their numbers, just a few dozen on a high school track are no match for the millions who have filled the streets in favor of stricter gun laws. the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.
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>> announcer: this its the cbs "overnight news." pope francis delivered his easter message to tens of thousand of the faithful in saint peters square. >> the leader of the world's 1.3 billion catholics called for an end to fighting in syria. and for reconciliation in the middle east. a 19-year-old woman is suing a hospital in michigan saying she was attacked gust just for being muslim. surveillance video from the emergency room lobby shows a man punching the woman wearing a hijab. workers jumped in to help her. the man charged with assault. the woman says the hospital failed to protect her. but the hospital is standing by
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its workers. 25-year-old man is in critical condition after being attacked bay a shark in hawaii. this happened saturday along the big island's kona coast. the man was paddle boarding, 100 yards offshore when the shark knocked him into the water and bit his arm and leg. rescued by a crew in a canoe. we are keeping our eyes on the sky for the doomed chinese space station. it is due to crash through earth's atmosphere within hours. it weighs nine tons about the size of a bus. but it is expected to break into pieces. debris could land anywhere along a large portion of the globe including right here in the u.s. kids in fargo, north dakota had to bundle up in snowsuits to hunt for easter eggs. a massive snowstorm dumped a half a foot of snow across the upper midwest. no april fool's joke. snow is in the forecast from the plains to the northeast. a groufnagers from mississippi is marching to
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memphis, tennessee. they left yesterday on the 50 mile march marking 50 years since assassination of dr. martin luther king jr. tomorrow on "cbs this morning" michelle miller talks to dr. king's three surviving children. their first joint interview since the death of their mother co coretta scott king. this wednesday marks 50 years since dr. king's assassination in memphis. james brown will co-anchor cbs this morning from the national civil rights museum at the former lorain motel in memphis. j.b. will have special reports for the cbs evening news with jeff glor. the ncaa tournament's final four reduced last night to just two teams. villanova wildcats defeated kansas to advance to monday night's championship game. they'll play the michigan wolverines. who ended loyolar chicago's cinderella story. team chaplain sister jean told players she is proud of them.
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welcome back. a south carolina family and consumer groups are trying to stop the sale of a common paint stripper containing a toxic chemical that has been linked to dozens of deaths. but now an epa ban proposed in the last days of the obama administration is being postponed indefinitely. here is anna werner. >> reporter: his brother ran a cold brew business. using a paint stripper to resurface the walk in fridge, he collapsed. the culprit, methylene chloride,
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deadly but found in products nationwide. >> i was shocked. how is it that you can find something that will kill you instantly and, buy it. just, just, off the shelf. >> drew bought the stripper at lowes. now his family is pressuring the chain to stop selling those products. drew any mother cindy. >> this is where people become vocal and people say, enough. >> deaths from the products go back decades. >> this here was the product that brian used. >> that's video of wayne steiner of pennsylvania from 1998. holding the can of paint stripper that led 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 led to a heart attack. >> so you tell me how good is this product? and why -- why was brian allowed to get it and use it? >> his mother judy says his
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weakened heart gave out five years later. >> i thought this is it. this is it. the come the company that manufactured the product declined to do an interview. in statements said its strippers are safely used millions of times each year. when used as directed have an excellent save team record. in january 2017, the epa moved to ban methylene chloride products. but under the trump administration, the epa recently postponed that ban. >> are you angry? >> i will be angry if -- if -- if the epa does not listen this time. i'll be angry if -- if we don't move forward with, with banning this deadly substance.
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>> for its part, lowes said it will double the number of methylene chloride alternatives in stores by the end of the year. anna werner, cbs news, new york. we have posted wm bar's statement on our website. cbsnews.com. still to come, how golden retrievers are helping researchers find a cure for cancer. i'm so frustrated. i just want to find a used car without getting ripped off. you could start your search at the all-new carfax.com that might help.
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>> the american kennel club describes the golden retriever as a serious working dog. 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. >> 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. >> you guys, nothing to it. >> as chris campesie learned through painful experience they also rate high on another scale. >> goldens have high probability for cancer. >> about 60%. one of the highest rates in dog
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world. >> she recently lost one golden to cancer, and now, 7-year-old malakai has the a brain tumor. >> such a part of your life. and, when it is time for them to go it is hard. >> good boy. >> looking for answers she entered 3-year-old, whose perfectly healthy in a national study of 3,000 golden retrievers. the goal its 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 i use around the house. >> am i correct that he has a fitbit. >> yes, he does. called a whistle. it stays on him all the time. so it can record his activity and his sleep. >> hey, buddy. >> at frequent medical exams, the veterinarian takes samples of his hair and nails. >> they're looking for
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environmental stuff. that the dogs might be exposed to that would concentrate in the nails. >> even while he is giving blood, the tail keeps on wagging. campesie hopes the study will help all dogs including hers to live longer lives. >> very nice. >> and so, do they. >> is that your best bud. >> you see, he is a therapy dog for special needs children. >> and they are counting on him to live a long, healthy life. >> chip reid, cbs news, springfield, virginia. >> man and woman any best friend. coming up next, they turn the sistine chapel into the spectacular view with the vatican's blessing. should i be making motorcycles?
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we end tonight in rome. audiences are lining up to see one of the all time greatest works of art, michaelangelo's sistine chapel brought to life. seth doane and the spectacle taking the eternal city by storm. lasers, lights, and a thunderous sound system. add distinctly modern dimension to ast steory that is roughly 5 years old. michaelangelo painting the sistine chapel. images filled the theater. it is an is myrexperience that creative director has a hard time describing. >> it is easier to say what it not. there is ballet.
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not a ballet. a lot of beautiful music, but not a musical. it is a very technological show. >> he treated him as the a sort of super hero. whose frescos in digital form turned rome's former symphony hall into a second sistine chapel. >> what did you think? >> bellisimo. >> he let us peek back stage to see how the show works. >> i don't know that i need to wear it. >> what the cast wears. >> and how he took inspiration from spekt comes that katrina lecturech has staged. >> this is the, copy of john paul ii for me, which i love ceremonies, that was -- one of best ceremonies i ever done. >> when you hear critics say this is just too much. it is all show. >> they told me every time they
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said, oh, but it is like disney. i said, but disney, well disney is a jogenius. >> what's wrong with it? >> one interesting thing marco told us he finds inr inspiration from rides at theme parks which he says are particularly is myrrh siefor audiences and when he looks around audiences and doesn't see people on their cell phones. >> that's the "overnight news" for monday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later in the morning for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm errol barnett.
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>> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm errol barnett. thanks for joining me. as christians around the world celebrated easter, president trump poured more fuel on the fiery debate over immigration. shortly after tweeting happy easter on sunday morning, the president followed up with a flurry of tough talk. mr. trump took aim at border security with mexico. and the daca deal to protect young immigrants from deportation. those are not the only developments surrounding the trump administration. >> reporter: president trump attended easter church service
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with his family in florida. but first, talked about the tweets he posted. less than an hour earlier. >> 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. >> the president declared no more daca deal on twitter a nother tweet slammed mexico's role 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 to day. >> i came to run the department of veteran affairs because i am committed to veterans. i'm committed to fighting for them. >> you were fired? >> i did not resign. >> former sec stare of veterans
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affair made his first public appearance since being ousted via twitter. likely replacement one of two of cabinet nominees waiting for senate confirmation hearings. while the position of national security adviser, technically remains open. >> senator ron johnson has a message for president trump about firing by tweet. >> i think the president does need to understand the ee fikt has on attracting other people. >> now, speculation over another cabinet member. epa administrator scott pruett under fire for lavish spending on work trips. and renting a bedroom in a d.c. condo from the wife of an energy lobbyist. >> it looks so bad. i think it seems he may be on his way out. >> but errol sources tell cbs news president trump is happy with pruett's performance. >> there is word today china is imposing new tariffs on u.s. goods. what do we know about that? >> yeah, in response to the tariffs on steel imports. president trump announced last month. china is adding a 15% to 25% tariff on 130 products from the u.s. including, fruit and pork. >> all right. in west palm beach. thank you. it its the latest sign of
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the diplomatic breakdown between russia and the west. russian dip low matt -- diplomats arrived in russia. >> one image vladamir put spin did not want the world to see was the return of russian diplomats and families from the u.s. they went to great lengths to avoid it. they're ramping up the rhetoric too. this afternoon foreign ministry spokeswoman went so far as to suggest the u.s. and britain are conspiring to take this year's soccer world cup championships away from russia. the worsening crisis ills between russia and the west is already seen a wave of tit for tat expulsions, triggered after britain and al lies sought to punish the kremlin after determining it was highly likely moscow is behind the attack of russian double a jenlt and his daughter, in england four week ago. it is the u.s. reaction that matters most.
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and valerie garbasov director of u.s. canada institute told us it is president trump's unpredictability that makes the current situation so volatile. he is 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 saint petersberg, there is no telling when it will fly again. >> commentators here and in the u.s., do agree on one thing. and that's that the crisis has the the potential to plunge into a deep freeze, worse than the cold war. back then, there were back channels specifically designed to avoid confrontation. as the the u.n. secretary-general put it, those mechanisms have been dismantled. >> two weeks ago tonight that a young unarmed black man, stephon
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clark gunned down by police in his grandparents backyard. city remains on edge. here is mireya villarreal. >> the demonstration began as peaceful protest for stephon clark. but just after 8:30 things took a turn. video shows the two deputy vehicles slowly trying to weave through protesters in the streets when one seems to accelerate. hitting a woman trying to cross. another angle shows the the woman falling to the ground, then being surrounded by other protesters. >> back away from my vehicle. >> the sheriff's department says protestors began yelling while pounding and kicking the vehicle's exterior. a collision occurred with a protester walking in the roadway but say the patrol vehicle was traveling at a slow speed. for two weeks, protesters have been demanding justice for
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22-year-old clark. and an autopsy commissioned by his family shows seven bullets him him in the back. police say they thought clark was holding a gun but it turned out to be a cell phone. >> sheriffs are the one that directed the officers to clark and enabled them to murder him. they need to be held accountable all. up avermont on the verge of becoming the second strait to enact gun restrictions following parkland school massacre. gun rights activists staged a dramatic protest this weekend attempting to block the law. here is tony dokoupil. >> reporter: hours after legislators in vermont pass aid law banning high capacity gun clips, opponents handed out more than 1,000 of them at the state capitol promising a political hunt for new leadership. >> hoping this will wake up the silent majority of vermonters and get them out to vote. >> vermont governor phil scott 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 bump
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stocks. the law would complete a major reversal for the governor, a republican, who was apparently moved by a foiled plot to shoot up a school in his own state. no state is immune to the risk of extreme violence he said in a statement. if we are at a point where when our kids are afraid to go to school and parents are afraid to put their kids on a bus, who are we? last month. florida also pass aid suite of reforms, bucking tradition of looser gun laws. there are small stirrings of a counter movement there too. >> there is time for a 357 magnum. >> students in florida skipped class to voice their support for controversial programs, like arming teachers. >> i want my kids to get a gun you, know. so they can shoot. >> but now their numbers, just a few dozen on a high school track are no match for the millions who have filled the streets in favor of stricter gun laws. the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.
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facebook's data privacy scandal has some people reconsidering use of social media and impact of smart phones and devices. having a wealth of information at our fingertips transformed the way we live. its that change moving in the right direction. ted koppel takes a look in a story for sunday morning. 50, 60 years ago, television was the threat. it was we feared rot our children's minds. our minds. diminishing our attention span. addicting millions to mindless drivel. >> huh? >> what? >> i think there are those who would say, and they were right.
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so what's different about, today and the internet. >> i think every technology that changes the way people, people live, inspires, exaggerated hopes and fears. >> technology critic nicholas carr spent most of the past decade. worrying, warning about the dangers of social media and the internet. posing the famous question, is google making our stupid. >> we have never had a technology like a smart phone. where it is with us all the time. so i think this is something new, in human history. and i think, we are starting to see the science, behavioral science, sociological science that is pointing to how deeply this technology is affecting us because we are using it so intensely. >> that's the focus of byron reeves research. professor, media psychologist at
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stanford university. the professor developed a way to accurately track our digital lives. out of the two to three hours a day, break down. >> to view the three hours of content, on average, i am turning that phone on and off, 300 times a day. and that's just the average. there are a lot of people that are turning it on and off, 5, 6, 7, 800 times a day. it is going on. going off. for an average of ten seconds. >> make might brain hurt. what are you talking about? >> take a news story. in a -- in sunday morning, television program. >> what a brilliant idea. >> i don't know, how long does one last. two minutes. ten minutes. >> this one will probably last, nine, ten minutes. >> last ten minutes. talk about stanford students. if you put software on laptop computers and smart phones to measure how long they spent with
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any given segment of life that they attended to. how long they wrote their paper, how long they watch the news story. 10, 20 second. >> wait. i have a nine minute piece. i want them to watch the whole thing? >> not going to do it. most likely. it's, it's going to be -- atommized. fragmented. >> that sound, like a foreign minister la for confusion. >> it could be. but oftentimes we find it is done with a progression of screens that at least kind of makes sense to me. you the my have said something that's important to me in minute two. i want to get right to that. >> what becomes important to us is the next new thing that comes along in seconds. that's what grabs our attention. we begin to not only do we begin to, to, ignore the need to think deeply and quietly and contemplatively about things. we begin to see that as a waste
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of type. it stops you from grabbing the next new bit of information. >> facebook was the first among the social media companies to turn those short and shall low attention bites into a hugely profitable business model. they realized that advertisers could just be given what amounts to, a one click road map to our brains. showing them as we flitted from one sec tuned another. what we liked and didn't like. meet justin rosenstein. >> fair to describe you as the the, crete yea tore of the like button? >> co-inventer. yeah. >> co-inventer. tell me what you were thinking of when you, first, first co-invented. >> the idea was can we make it one click really easy for people to be able to share little bits of positivity and affirmation in the world. >> and when did you first come to realize that there were, i don't know if you want to
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describe them as problems, complications? >> yeah, it's been interesting to see how it played out as this kind of double edged sword. it is very dangerous to have a business model in which the way companies make money is by selling people's attention to advertisers. >> regardless of whether, they have good, bad intentions. incentives lean you more and more to get people to stare at their phones. we see that influencing the level of depth we are able to thing at. we see that influencing our politics. >> a buzz feed analysis of top election stories, on facebook during the final three months of the 2016 presidential campaign. confirms rosenstein's fears. fake election news stories from phony sites, significantly outperformed stories, from major news outlets. like the "the new york times." cbs news. and the huffington post. the notion that major news outlets see themselves as
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professional gate keepers carries less and less weight. >> the gate keepers. editorial gate keepers have been overthrown. a general sense that was liberating in the web and internet. we can do this ourselves. it will democratize media. we know the enemies. the people we thought were our enemi enemies. the gate keepers played a valuable role. >> i wish i could tell you we will be able to stop all interfeerns. that wouldn't be realistic. >> while face book and twitter are undertake efforts to limit the spread of misinformation on line. the fact remains that all of these internet companies, see themselves as, as distribution vehicles. without any clear editorial responsibility. and, in 1996, congress, actually passed legislation to that effect. sect 2gs 30 of the communications decency act. awe they were simply a platform
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which information flowed on. so there was no responsibility to curate, police, or in any way, review the information that appeared on your platform. >> senator mark warner is one of the tech industry's best informed and sternest critics. >> your companies, no more about americans in many ways than the united states government does. >> what would happen if they, began exercising, real discipline, over what goes out. >> we are talking what? billions of items a day. >> billions of items a day. and, and, these companies would fight against that regulation. tooth and nail. >> the internet senator warner remind us has been weaponized. interference in our elections. threats to our infrastructure. undermining confidence in our institutions. >> my fear is, that we may be investing in the best 20th century plains, tanks, guns when
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much of the conflict in the 21st century will be in the realm of misinformation, disinformation and cyberwarfare. not sure we are ready. >> i think ultimately. that's, that's the question. is whether, whether -- as a public, we have, the, the kind of -- sense of our democratic future to make hard choice as but, about what we pay attention to. how we think about things or whether we let the devices and the social media determine that for us. >> you don't seriously think that we have that kind of discipline do you? >> i don't see any evidence of it. >> justin rosenstein left face book some years ago. today he is the co-founder of asana, a software company that enhances work place productivity. >> a lot of concerns that i have about the technology will continue to, erode our attention span. make it harder for us to focus on important social issues.
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make it harder for us to think clearly which is critical of having a functioning democracy. at the same time. i think there is a huge opportunity for us to, to, reimagine the tools. redesign them in order to be a huge boon to civilization. the opportunity there its for us to become the most informed. populous of all times. and to be, to be the most functioning democracy of all times. but a real fork in the road. i worry that if we continue with business as usual. run the risk of kind of walking off the cliff of civilization staring at our phones.
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♪ ♪ carefully made to be broken. new, from magnum. the roll it wedding a month and a half away. new details emerging about the highly coveted guest list whuchlt g who got left out. more from kensington palace.
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>> some feelings are hurt.% the royal come finalizes details ahead of the may 19 nuptials. >> prince harry and megan merkel invited 2600 people from all walks of life to be part of their big day. one lucky guest has been revealed. a high schooler from ironland. her grammar school announced on twitter the student was invite ford her extensive charity work. she will be one of the 600 guests attending the wedding service before making their way to a lunchtime reception given by the queen at saint george's hall. more than 250 members of the armed forces will carry out ceremony yal duties in the wedding procession. prince harry served in the army for ten years including two tours in afghanistan and is the captain general of the royal marines. the invitations allow for military uniforms to be worn. it is still unclear if prince harry will don a similar ruin orm to
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the one he wore, or less formal morning suit. a subtle detail on the invite has been catching some attention. meghan markle is referred to as ms. instead of miss. a modern move for the royal household. we do know of one person that has the not been invited. this may be a little surprise. sir elton john. he was friend with princess diana. he speck oke to bbc radio. he lived so close to the chapel he could roll down the hill. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.
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we end tonight in rome. audiences are lining up to see one of the all time greatest works of art, michaelangelo's sistine chapel brought to life. seth doane and the spectacle taking the eternal city by storm. lasers, lights, and a thunderous sound system. add distinctly modern dimension to a story that is roughly 500 years old. michaelangelo painting the sistine chapel. images filled the theater. it is an experience that creative director has a hard
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time describing. >> it is easier to say what it not. there is ballet. not a ballet. a lot of beautiful music, but not a musical. it is a very technological show. >> he treated him as the a sort of super hero. whose frescos in digital form turned rome's former symphony hall into a second sistine chapel. >> what did you think? >> bellisimo. >> bellisimo. >> he let us peek back stage to see how the show works. >> i don't know that i need to wear it. >> what the cast wears. >> and how he took inspiration from spectacles that the catholic church has staged. >> this is the coffin of john paul ii which for me, which i love ceremonies, that was -- one of best ceremonies i ever done. >> when you hear critics say this is just too much. it is all show. >> they told me every time they
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said, oh, but it is like disney. i said, but disney, well disney is a genius. >> what's wrong with it? >> one interesting thing marco told us he finds inr inspiration from rides at theme parks which he says are particularly is for audiences and when he looks around audiences and doesn't see people on their cell phones. >> that's the "overnight news" >> that's the "overnight news" for monday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later in the morning for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm errol barnett.
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