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>> oklahoma teachers ranked 49th in pay and haven't received a raise in more than a decade. for weeks, teachers threatened to walk out, unless lawmakers raised their pay by $10,000. last week, the legislature pass aid tax hike to increase teacher pay by average of $6,100. under the new law, new oklahoma teachers will have to work eight years to reach a $40,000 a year salary. it currently takes 20 years to reach the $40,000 a year level. >> we have had teachers leaving, for years. and now it is get sowing bad the kids want to leave too. off awe brian davis is a teacher who earns extra cash as a pitching coach, and driving an uber. he earns under $42,000. so, a raise will help. but he says, the raise may not beep enough to help starting teachers make a living. >> i have two daughters. i think one would look to be a
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teacher. but, i told her, if you do go into education, be ready to not be in oklahoma. >> another rally is planned for tomorrow morning here at the capitol. and teachers from oklahoma city and tulsa, the state's new largest districts say they will be here. jeff. >> all right, omar, thank you. >> south africa's winnie mandela died today. married to nelson mandela 38 years, powerful anti-apartheid voice while he was in prison. she spoke to the late bob simon about her own treatment under apartheid. >> i ask myself. in that atmosphere i left, i was taken. >> solitary confinement for 18 months. that is a long time. >> yeah. >> interrogations? that was really brutal. >> but they didn't break her?
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>> in fact, they helped create her. the woman eventually released from prison was no longer just the wife of nelson mandela, it was winnie, mother of the movement, mother of the nation. >> winnie and nelson mandela divorced. while her life was later embroiled in scandal. she is remembered as a champion for her people. winnie mandela was 81 years old. >> it was 50 years ago this week, martin luther king jr. was assassinated in memphis. king's three surviving children haven't spoken together about their father's legacy in a dozen yearsment they did with michelle miller in an interview you will see only here on cbs. martin luther king iii was 10 when his father died, dexter was 7, bernice, 5. >> it is hard to forget the images and -- and sometimes i have to catch myself because i get emotional.
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martin and i were watching television. and even to this day when i see a breaking news flash, i, i have ptsd. so even though it has been 50 years, it doesn't seem like it for me. it seems like it was yesterday. >> bernice, what do you remember? >> what i do vividly remember is -- the day of the funeral. i am sitting right on the corner here. at ebeneezer. in my mother's lap. and so mom said he couldn't speak to me. but a child kind of knows the dad's voice. >> i think about my own death and i think about my own funeral. >> if you look at the film. i am looking around. like, where is he? so i remember that to this day. in this sanctuary. >> this was to be a peaceful march to city hall. >> 68 was a time when your father's popularity was waning.
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>> mom used to say something like, because, his, his voice is silenced now he is loved. >> what does that mean? >> we sort of dumb down dad to some degree. he was a doer, not just a dreamer. he talked about what could become. but he left us a blueprint for how that could be manifested. >> leading the march, reverend martin luther king. >> dad was really radical and revolutionary. and, america doesn't understand that yet. >> i have to ask this question of you. did you have to lose your father for the nation and the world to appreciate him the way they do today? >> you look at the greater good in terms of the sacrifice. if he had lived he may not have have been, certain, he would not have been as effective. because he gave his life, he was mart er martyred, and then you remember all the positive things he left beef hind. michelle miller with the
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this is world autism awareness. adults with autism can be a great source of talent. here is lee cowen. christopher pauly knew finding a job after college would be hard. he feared his autism would get in the way. and he was right. despite a degree in computer science he sent out resumes with bare low a neighborhood. >> did you want to tell some body i know my social skills and what you expect but i can do a good job if you give me a chance. >> yes. >> you never said that? tau awe i wasn'tmfortable. makes me come across as desperate. >> reporter: while precise numbers are hard to come by. 80% of adults with autism are
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unemployed. though their iqs are often well above average. >> a talent pool that hasn't been tapped. the chief accessibility officer at tech giant microsoft. >> there is and was a lot of data on the table that said we are missing out, on an opportunity to wreng talent in with autism. >> in a way sound like a business imperative. >> heck yeah. >> in 2015, microsoft replaced traditional one day job interview with a vetting process that lasts for weeks. and team building exercises. like this one. >> christopher stood out. was hired right away as software engineer. >> i like it. well done. >> it is an idea that is catching on. german software maker, sap started its autism at work project five years ago. since then. it hired 128 people on the spectrum. gloria mendoza looked for a job for a year before landing her
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job at sap. >> probably the best part about working here is that, i can use the skills which i have studied while being among people that understand who i am. how i am different from everybody else. >> sap put her through five weeks of training which included working on her social skills. >> hey, george. >> her first full time job. and she couldn't be happier. what's the one dleem you want to come true. >> probably that i can be at my department earning a lot of money and still keeping the friends that i have. >> good job, guys. >> itch other kids or young adults or adults, with autism are watching this, what do you, what is your message to them? >> don't give up. always aim high. don't aim in the middle. shoot for the stars every time. you never know what might happen. that they the "overnight news" for tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and cbs this
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morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor. welcome to the "overnight news." i'm jericka duncan. the stock market already shaky on edge this year started the month with another deep dive. the dow sank by as much as 700 points monday before regaining some ground late in the day. at the closing bell, the dow shed almost 460 points. or nearly 2%. the s & p lost more than 2%. nasdaq dropped nearly 3%. and investors were partly rattled by growing fears of a trade war and turbulence. >> the drop in the market was driven by a selloff of the tech industry giants. president trump stepped up his
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attacks on amazon via twitter repeating his view the company's business practices hurts the u.s. post office. amazon into the day, losing 5% of its value. facebook which started the tech downturn last month amid criticism how it handled users data lost 2.7% today. collectively shares in the five tech giants known as fang. face book, amazon. apple. netflix and alphabet, apple, netflix and alphabet parent company of google lost $324 billion of their value in the last two weeks. cbs money watch.com editor at large jill schlessinger. >> anything that impede forward progress is a sales signal to big investor. they don't want the risk of sitting on top of multiyear prof tights see some of the profits evaporate. >> the market felt the effects of china's decision to slap $3 billion of tariffs on american pork, fruit and 120 types of commodities. >> just a fraction of what we send into china, the fear is an escalation.
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whether this brkz a trade tit for tat conflict which escalates into a trade war would be a terrible thing for each of those economies. >> so, how much concern is there now about an escalation in these trade offers back and forth? teachers in kentucky rallied at the state capitol protesting changes to their pensions. in oklahoma, thousands of educators left their classrooms to reject a recently proved pay raise they say is too small. whose house is this? >> our house! >> whose house? >> our house. >> an estimated 36,000 oklahoma teachers walked out of class today, and marched to the state capitol. vowing to fight for better wages and more funding for their classrooms. >> funding education should not be historical.
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>> 15-year-old hope davis brought a textbook for show-and-tell. a tattered, 12-year-old history book held together by masking tape. >> do you want to stay here if you had your choice would you go elsewhere? >> if i had a choice i would go back to texas. >> oklahoma teachers ranked 49th in pay and haven't received a raise in more than a decade. for weeks, teachers threatened to walk out, unless lawmakers raised their pay by $10,000. last week, the legislature pass aid tax hike to increase teacher pay by average of $6,100. under the new law, new oklahoma teachers will have to work eight years to reach a $40,000 a year salary. it currently takes 20 years to reach the $40,000 a year level. >> we have had teachers leaving, for years. and now it is get sowing bad the kids want to leave too.
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off awe brian davis is a teacher who earns extra cash as a pitching coach, and driving an uber. he earns under $42,000. so, a raise will help. but he says, the raise may not beep enough to help starting teachers make a living. >> i have two daughters. i think one would look to be a teacher. but, i told her, if you do go into education, be ready to not be in oklahoma. they have a list of demands. the sit in started five days ago after a blog post alleged $1 million in financial aid money was misused. now, students are calling for a wide range of changes. jan crawford is there. >> organizers say they're going to allow student and maintenance workers into the building. last night, student leaders spent more than five hours negotiating with board members. among their demand. adequate housing. disarming campus police. and the resignation of the university's president. >> through chants, songs, and
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speaking circles, hundreds of students have held the administration building hostage. living there since thursday to get the university to listen to their demands. they received support through ses social media, donations. the sit ins started after reports the president, dr. wayne frederick knew about embezzlement of $1 million in fight noon shall aid employees to employees through launched a and fired six employees. students say they should have been transparent. the university student association backed their demand. >> we are going to be calling for the resignation of wayne frederick. >> one of the organizers with hu resist. >> the university needs change. >> the board of trustees agreed to one of the group's demand about adequate housing for students under 21.
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it won't stop until all nine are met. >> we are prepared to occupy the administration building until we are more than saltsified that our demand have been met. >> 50 years ago a sit-in was held to challenge administration. after four days their grievances were heard. >> we are the tradition of howard, activism. resistance to oppression. the university should recognize that. >> a family's deadly car plunge off a cliff in california may have been intentional. vladamir duthier is following the investigation. >> the california highway patrol says the data pulled from the suv is helping piece together the family's final tragic moments. preliminary information showed the suv pulled off highway 1, stopping on a dirt turn around 70 feet from the cliff edge. police say the vehicle accelerated plunging straight into the pacific ocean. there were no skid marks on the scene or signs the driver tried to brake. authorities describe the suv
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speedometer pinned at 90 mild an hour. investigators say that number could have been caused by the impact of the crash. late last week, investigators searched sarah and jennifer hart's home in woodland, washington where they recently moved with their six adopted children. authorities say, no suicide note was found. >> they portray this happy little family. >> neighbors like dana say there were signs of trouble. prompting her to called child protective services. >> their daughter is telling us, begging her not to go back they're abusing her. >> in 2011 when the family lived in minnesota, sarah hart pleaded guilt yae to domestic assault. according to documents. she admitted she bent her 6-year-old over a path tub and hit her on the back side. >> there was no question as to how completely loved and adored those children were. >> zippy lomax met the family and is sthok edshocked by allegf
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tomorrow marks 50 years since the assassination of dr. martin luther king jr. a new cbs news poll shows that 53% of americans believe only some of the civil rights leaders goals have been achieved. well this week we are examining dr. king's legacy and enduring impact. only on cbs news, michelle miller spoke with dr. king's children for their first joint interview in 12 years. michelle went to birmingham, alabama, where king led some of his most successful nonviolent protests against racial inequality in 1963. >> well, dr. martin luther king jr. was a pastor and father of
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four young children during the protests. to liberate birmingham. martin iii, dexter and bernice were 10, 7, 5 years old when their father died five years later. but the trauma of april 4, 1968 still haunts them. >> martin and i were watching television. and even to this day when i see a breaking news flash, i, i have ptsd. so even though it has been 50 years, it doesn't seem like it for me. it seems like it was yesterday. >> dr. martin luther king. apostle of nonviolence in the civil rights movement has been shot to death in memphis, tennessee. >> i remember us going back to mother and dad's room. to get an explanation from her. i don't know that she said your daddy has been shot. what i remember her saying was,
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your dad is gone home to live with god. >> have you grieved in the way that we grieve the loss of a loved one. >> all of us have not had the chance to grieve. i modeled our mom. our mom was so stoic. she held everything together for all of us to be strong. but as the a child, when you emulate that, in a real sense, you are holding in your emotions. >> have you let go? >> i'll still working on it. >> almost a life longs plong pr. my first real moment was on a retreat with our youth. i was 16. laid out over a bed for two hours. i kept staying why? why did, why did you leave me? why, why did you take him? >> did you blame any one? >> i was angry with god. i felt he could have stopped it.
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angry at my father for leaving me. i was angry at white people. i've felt they were responsible. i didn't know at the time whether i was angry at my mother. me. eventually i realized i had anger at everybody. >> i want to show you something. mike wallace sitting down with, your family the christmas after the assassination of your father. >> do you ever have any difficulties because you are martin luther. >> some times i have difficulties. one time not long ago, a boy was teasing me about my name. he said something that wasn't too good. >> now this little girl, her name is bunny, what do you want for christmas, bunny? >> i bicycle. >> what did that bring whack to you watching that interview? >> every time i see something out of our childhood, i kind of long for that, that time period where we dent have to have so much responsibility.
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>> you were very close? >> as kids we were. >> are you in a good place now? was there a rift? >> i don't think that i can recall that we got to the place where we never spoke to each other. >> i think publicly, you have to be, allowed to work through and navigate through your challenges. >> did you have to lose your father for the nation and world to appreciate him the way they do today? tau awe if i had to do it all over again. would i want my dad here? i would say, no. >> no. >> our world is in a better place because our father gave his life. yes, i walk through, dad here, dad there t having him to ask the tough questi
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even if you don't follow basketball, i do. it's hard to not be impressed by the man known as the greek freak. a rising star playing with the milwaukee bucks. his name is nearly impossible to pronounce, but some feel he will be known as one of the best nba players of all time. steve croft introduced us in a story for "60 minutes." >> even casual sports fans know
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the names of the superstars in pro basketball. there is lebron, steph curry, kevin durant, russell westbrook, james harden, but there is one name you may not have heard. main leap because it takes courage and concentration to pronounce it. i'm talking about, the nba's milwaukee bucks player. he is 23 years old. hair under 7 feet tall. and there are 13 letters in his last name most consonants. he is usually referred to as, the greek freak. called that because he is greek. and doing things on a basketball court that people have never seen before. and even itch you aren't a basketball fan, you have to admire his athleticism and personal story that is one of the most interesting in all of sports. if that sound like hype, we offer into evidence, exhibit one. >> last month. madison square garden. bucks versus the knicks. the stolen pass.
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fast break. watch janis on the right. >> the lob. so quick. the greek freak leapt over a flabber casted 6'6" defender while catching the ball and stuffing it through the hoop. >> janis. >> the unpronounceable has become the unstoppable. >> how many steps does it take-up to gtak take-up to got down the court? >> six. >> from the foul line. >> one. maybe none. i can just jump from the foul line i think. >> you are watching highlights that have gone viral on six continents. already, a two-time all-star, he is listed in the program as a forward. but plays every position from point guard to center. and leads the bucks in points. rebounds. and assists. this one surprised even skrchlt
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janis. >> the pass through my legs. i was like, wow, wow did that. >> had you didn't before? >> no. >> just came to you? >> just came. >> pretty good pass. >> really good pass. >> but it is his size and coordination that in tim date. he has a wing span of 7'3 ygs. >> i heard a lot bought your hands. >> his hands which are a foot long. are thought to be the largest in the league. >> huge. >> wow. >> they allow him to palm or cradle the basketball as if it were an orange. john hanson, janis' teammate watched it all. >> he can jump over you. gove around you. or go through you. >> he is 23. off awe only 23. >> itch you go back five years, he was on the bucks when janis joined as a rookie. playing in milwaukee was a different experience then. the team was lousy. half the seats were empty. >> feels like a scrimmage out there. you know what i mean. few people in the stand.
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hear our family. mom could give you advice. you know what i mean. one of those things. loud, rowdy. >> on most nights now. >> yes! >> the bradley center is hopping. ja janis' presence put them in the national conversation. the breweries that made it famous are mostly gone. now it is him. >> icon in a small city with a global appeal. >> peter feagan is president of the bucks. milwaukee may be a small city, but janis put it on the world map. giving it a marketing foothold in the global basketball business. one of the great. five, ten players in the nba. an international icon. >> how big is the market outside of the united states and milwauk milwaukee. >> 50% of our digital traffic from out of the u.s. more of our video views are outside of the u.s. and it is growing.
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>> and janis has a following like no other player in the nba. often after road games, he meets with large contingents of greek americans. >> no way you are all greek. no way. >> on this night after of a game in cleveland, an hour after a tough loss, 200 were waiting for it. he joined them in singing the greek national anthem. and hung around to take a selfie with his people. it brings back memories. he was born in athens in 1994, into poverty on the lowest rung of society. his parents had come from nigeria, raised their family. they had no papers, lived in tiny, two room apartments sleeping, four to a bed. there was rarely enough food. >> it was tough. didn't have a lot of money. we had a lot of happiness.
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wasn't broke, happiness wise. you know what we were struggling. in the day we were all together. one room. same room. we were smiling. there was tough time. >> think it made you stronger? >> definitely. >> they subsisted in the shadows of the economy. peddling goods on the streets like african might ranlts hoping to make $25, $30. all ways one step ahead of the law. >> what were you selling? >> glasses. watches. used to sell cds, dvds. >> must be a good salesman. >> i was the best. >> really good at it. >> your secret? >> didn't give up. kept asking them questions. i was cute too. young. >> pestered them. >> yeah. >> are you still like that? >> persistent in life? i think, yes, i am. like i am going to do something till a get it right >> his father encouraged him and his older brother to pursue
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basketball as a possible career. he had given them greek first names to assimilate. basketball helped them fit in. the brothers began playing on this neighborhood court. we met his older brother in athens where he is a mem burr of the greek national team and plays in a top european league. >> this is the gym? >> he took us to the tiny gym which was their home court until five years age. >> this is where you and janis were playing when you got drafted? >> yes. this is our gym. >> them res are still here. so are the leaky showers and stale air in a locker room barely large enough off to acomb date the starting five. a up at >> almost every year. >> to watch steve's full report, go to cbsnews.com. click on "60 minutes." we'll ale be right back. scalpel
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a man in new york is filling his home with trash. and inviting everyone to come see it. anthony mason shows us why. >> this is all your work? >> all. >> john norwood wanted his art to be out in the world. >> how many square feet in all? >> 16,000 square feet. >> 16,000. >> he turned his house into a museum. the norwood museum. >> quite a body of work. >> you haven't seechb seen half of it. >> john and ruby live on a quiet
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road in college point, queens. overlooking the landing path la guardia airport. the norwood museum is not in guide books. >> on trip adviser. that helps. >> you got very good reviews on trip adviser. five stars. >> i wrote them all. >> norwood has been making things all his life. for 25 years, he worked for renowned architect im pay. >> i made architecture models and ran a shop of 15 people. >> working on the east wing of the national gallery in washington, the jabot center in new york, the kennedy line braer in boston. >> the pyramid at the louver. >> in retirement he returned to his art. these self portraits are from the 1960s. >> what you got going up here? >> that's my old shoes. i had to go up and down a lot of, ladder 20 times to get those shoes on the roof. >> now 81 he works mostly with
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garbage. >> hoping that you didn't smoke all the cigarettes in the boxes? >> unfortunately i did. >> we will not talk about it. >> at 81, ruby is still a practicing pediatrician. >> she was trying to throw out a perfectly good shopping bag the other day. >> can you believe that. >> you didn't see the potential in it. artistic potential. >> poe ten sthasome times i thi genius. some times an idiot. >> you are going to keep making stuff aren >> until i drop. >> which means the museum may soon need a new wing. knock on wood. >> do we have any wood anywhere? >> me, norwood. >> that's the "overnight news" for tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us later for the morning news and of course, cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan.
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