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members of nathan carmen's family claim he killed his grandfather and mother off to collect a multimillion dollar inheritance. carmen has not been charged but
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appeared in court today. don dahmer is follu dahler is f case. >> reporter: nathan carmen turned accusations of murder on to his aunts in a court hearing scheduled to stop him from gaining a family inheritance by digging up information into two unsolved family deaths. >> what happened to your mother? >> in 2016, linda carmen, nathan's mother went missing during a boating trip. nathan carmen was found rescued eight days later. >> i want to thank the public for their prayers and continuing prayers for my mother. >> three years earlier, carmen's grandfather. millionaire, real estate developer john chakalos was found shot to death. carmen allegedly owned the same caliber rifle used in his grandmother's murder and is a suspect in the cold case investigation. carmen's aunts believe the nef
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few of is responsible for both deaths and he was fueled by a potential $7 million inheritance. carmen chose to invoke the fifth amendment during today's hearing. when questioned about his gun, and other financial documents that could provide clues about his role in his family members deaths. attorney dan small is representing the family. >> he refused to answer questions. refused to take a polygraph exam. that's not the conduct of someone who cares deeply about his grandfather and wants to find his grandfather's murderer. >> reporter: carmen fired his attorneys and is currently representing himself against the advice of the judge. jeff, judge david king says that the family attorneys may be allowed to depose carmen at a future date. >> all right, don dahmer, thank you. there is a ground breaking development in africa tonight. take day look at this video of the ground breaking open here. the rift is several miles long. some believe a sign the continent is splitting in two. ever so slowly. here is chip reid with more on
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this. >> this giant crack in the earth opened up almost overnight. 50 feet deep and at its widest, 65 feet across. slicing through a highway and terrifying many who live in this area. just west of nairobi, kenya. what caused it? well it depends on what scientist you ask. >> we are seeing a crack that in all likelihood formed over many thousand of years or hundreds of thousands of years. >>some scientists including, ben andrews, geologist with the smithsonian believe the crack was exposed by a rain form. but he says created by movement of the earth's tectonic plates. sections of the earth's crust that move about 1 inch a year. in 50 million years it is believed africa will look like this. >> in your view it is probably evidence that africa is splitting in two? >> yes. >> other scientists like earthquake geologist, while agreeing that africa is splitting in two, think that gash was created in a flash. >> i think it is an earth
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fissure, same thing in arizona after heavy rain storms. >> like this fissure which is in arizona. >> they can happen sudden leap? >> yes, the result of heavy or torrential rains that come and wash away, large portions of the, the dirt and the ground. to me, it looks pretty cut and dry. it wasn't the result of the tick tonics. it was the result of the weather. >> a mysterious gash in earth at the very spot where africa is being slowly torn apart. chip reid, cbs new, washington. coming up next here on the
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the cdc got our attention with a warning what it calls nightmare bacteria. chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapooker eer with more. what are nightmare bacteria. >> resistant to most if not all antibiotics because we overuse antibiotics. cdc is using term nightmare to refer to bacteria, cre, because the death rate from infection as high as 50%. >> that is high. how and where do they find this bacteria? >> for the first time in 2017, a nationwide survey. they found infections from the bacteria were more common than expected. 221 cases with infections the
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blood stream, lung and urinary tract. >> what is the cdc saying should be done? >> lots of idea. one interesting idea. what amounts to infectious diseases swat teams. if there is an infection they bring everybody together. doctor, patient. nurses, lab personnel, public health people, isolating patient. making sure people wash their hands properly. simple and important. something not intuitive. testing contacts of people who seem to be fine. there are contact of somebody infected. maybe they themselves are harboring the infection yet not showing signs yet. all have been shown to be effective. >> interesting note, you think antibiotics are way overused. >> overused. for example patients come in, have a cold. caused by a virus. they're not treatable by antibiotics, don't ask for your doctor for it. doctor shouldn't prescribe it. >> thank you. >> tractor tramer one of the biggest thing rolling on the road. trouble when stuck on the tracks. that story is coming up next.
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spot ify picked up fans on wall street. went public, shares as high as $169. settling shy of 150. that gave spotify a market value of $30 billion.
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the company has yet to show a profit. tractor-trailer truck is the king of the road, but when it gets stuck crossing train tracks it is a big problem. as you see. fortunately in this case the driver did make it out second before the big rig was destroyed by a locomotive. this happened in atworth, georgia. similar truck train crash happened saturday in temple, georgia. no one was seriously injured in either accident. up next here, folks you know well with stories you never heard about the impact of dr. martin luther king jr.
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and i have seen the promised land. i may not get there with you. but i want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. >> martin luther king jr., 50 years ago tonight, delivering his final speech. we asked prominent african-americans to reflect on the men who helped pave the way to the promised land. general colin powell, first black secretary of state, loretta lynch, first black woman as attorney general, cream jab, kamala harris, and new orleans singer songwriter horn blower, trombone shorty.
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was able to rise to the top. and, the way that, that, was made for me was built a large extent by what dr. king by his great sacrifice. unthinkable for me to become joint chiefs of staff or secretary of state. but the trend i see that america is becoming a more mosaic nation. >> dr. king inspired my music because my music has no color barrier. you know? it is just love. when you come to my shows, it is very diverse. a beautiful thing to be on stage. and be able to watch that happening everybody getting along. even if it is for an hour 30 minutes. you can see what dr. king was trying to do throughout the world. >> let freedom ring from every hill. >> my dream is that we live to
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achieve dr. king's purpose. and that includes equality that is both about racial justice and it is about economic justice. >> i think americans can honor dr. king's legacy by, just, just having an honest look in the mirror and what we can all do to not give racism and bigotry the opportunity to get a foothold on our public psyche and on -- on our institutions. >> whether the me too movement. black lives matter. parkland students. these youth led movements are really legacy of the sieve rights movement also. king's legacy lives on. >> but i want you to know tonight -- that we as a people will get to the promised land. ♪ that is the "overnight news" for this wednesday.
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welcome to the "overnight news." i'm vladamir duthier. schools will be closed for a third day in oak t oklahoma as teachers in several states demand pay and funding for education. hon drepds of teachers skipped class yesterday and packed into oklahoma state capitol for a second day. they're rejecting a recently approved pay hike they say is too small. teachers are rallying in kentucky protesting legislation they say cults their pension benefits. now, there is talk of a possible teacher strike in arizona. where educators have been calling for higher wages for weeks.
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>> reporter: today, the oklahoma governor mary fallon, signed a bill giving teacher aides and janitors a $1,250 raise. last week signed a measure that gave teachers a $6,000 pay raise. but only added an additional $50 million to school funding. teachers were asking for $200 million more. >> teachers want more. like having a teenage kid that wants a better car. >> true their car has been taken away over ten year. >> it has been a difficult time. i am proud that this year, we were able to get something done for teachers. >> this is drawing in a line in the sand for the future. >> teachers turned into lobbyists crowding the hall ways waiting in line to meet with almost every stay lawmaker. >> do we need to go back to the other hallway to the end. >> liz and fellow teachers from norman public schools went office to office. leaving notes and letters for legislators. asking for more school funding. >> is he going to be able to see us?
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>> they waited more than an hour how to meet with the state senator. >> hi, senator. >> i'm one of your constituents. i really wanted to talk to you today. we have an appointment. >> we are going to have to reschedule. >> had to leave for a role call. third generation teacher is frustrated but doesn't plan to give up. >> what do you want him to hear? >> i want him to hear that, that, we are not going anywhere. we're doing this for our kids. >> we're learning more about a takedown in fort worth, texas. two officers on top of forest curry saturday. one officer appears to punch him repeatedly. curry's lawyer says the man was n not resisting but disoriented because of a seizure. >> reporter: the suspect bailed out of jail yesterday. his attorney wants to have him medically evaluated.
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the atoern sa the attorney insists the seizure may explain the suspect's behavior. watch the video. >> cell phone video shows fort worth police officers struggling with forest curry as they try to arrest him. >> why? >> one officer appears to repeatedly punch curry. a second officer is seen kneeing him twice. >> he can't move! >> fort worth police say they were dispatched saturday when curry attempted to assault the fire department. >> he did suffer from a seizure. why ems was there in the first place. >> one of curry's attorneys. >> seems as if he suffered from the seep sure. work up poe ten shame disoriented with what was going on. >> police department sells the video does not depict it took three officers and one supervisor to effectively place the resisting subject into handcuffs. what if your client at some point, wasn't seen on video, was
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in fact resisting and pushing back with his hands? that is a possibility? >> that is absolutely a pos possibility. not denying, my stance. >> the latest in string of incidents involving forgt worth police department caused tension in the black community. >> get on the ground! >> in 2016, a police officer wrestled down jacqueline craig and her daughter. after the two got into a verbal disagreement with an officer. that officer was suspended for ten days. the craig family is also represented by attorney jasmine crockett. >> there is a culture in this department. point-blank, period. violent culture. law enforcement officers not held accountable. >> now for the record, ms. crock elt does not have any medical paperwork to back up her claim that her client may have history of seizures. we did speak with the cbs news medical contributor told us after a seizure some one can be
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disoriented for 30 seconds up to 30 minutes. now, look the police chief here in fort worth says videos will prompt questions from the public. he wants to know people know that videos did not tell the whole story. >> a boy spent more than 12 hours in a maze of sewer tunnels under los angeles is talking about his scary experience. mireya villarreal shows us how the 13-year-old got lost and his remarkable rescue. >> reporter: jesse hernandez recalls what was going through his mind sunday when he plunged 25 feet into a 4 foot wide sewer pipe from at ban donned concrete building. hernandez traveled through the dark tunnel, filled with rushing water, sewage and toxic gas. more than 100 first responders, launched a frantic search. using cameras placed on flotation devices to comb through over 2400 feet of pipe. a break through came when one camera captured hand prints
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along the walls of the tunnel. >> right away our guys were saying looks like it is closed. some where close by. >> male, conscious and breathing. 13 years old. >> reporter: after 12 hours underground rescuers finally found jesse nearly a mile east where he first fell in. officials tell cbs news if he had gone any further, jesse may have been lost in the maze of drainage tunnels that snake below the city. >> i knew they were going to come in or something, for, track me down so they know where i'm at. after sanitation crews pulled him to safety. jesse immediately asked for a cell phone so he could personally deliver the good news to his mother with some humor. >> mom, i am alive. come pick me up. >> mireya villarreal, los angeles. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job
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a fertility clinic in the cleveland area that accidentally destroyed thousand of embryos and eggs faces legal trouble. three cancer survivors are suing the clinic. the latest in a series of lawsuits. these legal fights could shake up the fertility industry. roughly 950 families are believed off to be impacted by last month's storage tank fame year. now there are calls to strengthen regulations on an industry that many americans depend on to protect their eggs. >> losing my fertility was not an option for me. >> in a press con frerngs the cancer survivors told similar and painful stories.risingedris
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>> when she learned her eggs were gone. it was a punch to the gut. >> because of the carelessness of university hospital, i have now lost all hopes of ever having by logical children. >> the lawsuit alleges university hospitals did not notify clients or double check monitoring systems were functional. in a letter to patients last week, university hospital's admitted the tank in question needed preventative maintenance prior to the march 3 incident. the tanks that protect embryos are often except from government oversight. but there are proposals in the works for new regulations. ohio state senator joe schivone is in the early stages of crafting regulatory legislation
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with fellow lawmakers. >> if something goes wrong with the chemical makeup of the tank there should bea trigger, should be alarm, there needs to be somebody there that can remedy the situation immediately. >> reporter: for some, the suggested regulations have come too late. >> uh must be held accountable for shattering our dreams and forever altering the courses of each of our lives. >> reporter: university hospitals responded to yesterday's press conference in a statement saying. we watched three women share their stories of the loss they suffered. we are profoundly sorry for their loss and are committed to helping make sure this never hap paenz again anywhere. one of the big tech stocks driving down wall street recent leap is tesla, the electric car maker struggling to catch of with demand for tesla model 3. production numbers show a shift in the right direction. but the company faces potential road blocks. here is jamie yuccas. >> reporter: tesla model 3 designed to bring luxury to the
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malss. named popular mechanics car of year. more than 500,000 preorders. meeting that demand has been an uphill battle. >> we are building the cars fast as we can. >> at a special model 3 presentation last july. tesla's founder displayed a chart projecting production at 5,000 cars a week by end of 2017. this morning, tesla reports they produced 2,020 model three vehicles in seven days. total of 34,494 vehicles in the first quarter of this year. that is a 40% increase from quarter 4 of 2017. delivery delays have hurt sales and cash flow. contributing to downturn in stock prices. tesla shares are down 19% since beginning of the year. >> 40,000 for this one. >> yeah. little over. >> auto analyst jessica coldwell says for tesla model 3 is more than just another car. >> this is their money maker? >> their moneymaker.
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what is going to fund the rest of the company moving forward. supposed to sell millions. and, and, you know there its definitely, some roadblocks there now. >> musk apparently overseeing production firsthand. tweeting, i am back to sleeping at factory. car business is hell. >> production problems as they're facing corporate challenges. federal investigators are looking into the deadly crash in california involving a model x driving in auto pie lot mode. tesla says the driver received several visual audible warnings but their hands were not detected on the wheel 6 second prior. the company is recalling 123,000 model s sedans to fix a steering problem. not a good time for the company right now. i think they need how to instill confidence in people to stay that weem can actually do this. and production is, imtz the one breathe freely fast with vicks sinex. my congestion's gone. i can breathe again!
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today marks 50 years since dr. martin luther king jr. was assassinated in memphis. this week we are examining dr. king's life and legacy. we asked prominent voices to reflect on the progress made towards realizing king's dream of justice and equality for all. they include general colin powell, first black secretary of state, loretta lynch, first black woman attorney general, six time, champion and mvp, cre kareem abdul-jabbar, and trombone shorty. ♪ we shall overcome one day >> people threw me out of a hamburger joint after i came back from my first tour in vietnam and had been injured. all i wanted was a hamburger.
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they wouldn't serve me. the nation was carrying the burden of discrimination and jim crowism. it was holding blacks down. also holding whites down the they knew better they knew this was wrong. >> free at last, free at last, thank god al mighty we are free at last. >> i went back to the same hamburger joint, july 4th. 1964, right after the civil rights accommodation act had been signed. and i asked my hamburger, yes, sir. and they handed me my hamburger. >> martin luther king was shot and killed tonight in memphis, tennessee. >> people were fundamentally afraid of king's message what it might mean for losses in their own lives. the way that people will cling to theirs as opposed to opening to possibility fees never can be discounted. >> when i met dr. king i was involved in a summer mentoring program. there was a debate going on as to, was his approach better or,
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or, were other more militant approaches better. really the answer was that all -- all people who were concerned about the issues needed to come together and, and, deal with the issues. >> he brought together, preachers, rabbis. he brought together, people of, every walk of life. from every age and race. and every geographic region of the country. >> his legacy is always about love. and that's what i fry to do through my music. around the world. bring love, unity. through harmony without dr. king. not sure where we would be to day. >> i have a dream. my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin. but by the content of their character. i have a dream today. >> seeing that in black and white, seeing all those people together. i felt the spirit hit me in, as i got older started to really
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understand what he meant to us. >> i have seen the promised land. i may not get there with you. >> heap achieved so much. the goals he identified. we didn't get there. >> well are divided by class. we are divided economically. still divided racially in some deep, fundamental ways. >> what was tragic is that his work, was just on the verge of really pushing for the economic justice piece before he was killed. >> there are literally two americas. >> remember, sanitation worker. he was there to stand for their right to collective bargain. for their right to have a work place that would be safe. their right to have dignified wages. that's what his fight was before, before he was killed. that is a fight that remains true today. ♪ what's going on
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>> sitting down with my grandmother. watching tv. happening in the world. not as the bad as the it used to be. the same thing. for me to sit there and say that, it is a hard thing. >> i was proud as attorney general to work with law enforcement and community members, who were facing that problem head on. when that communication and trust breaks down, and you see that happening, in the case of so many instances, of law enforcement violence, perpetrated on the minority community. and there being no way to handle that. no way off to talk about the computing agendas there that can in fact be similar. >> we have a lot more to do. i am sit hearing as son of an immigrant family. black kid. public school education. was able to rise to the top. and the way that -- that was made for me -- was built large extent by what dr. king by his
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great sacrifice. it was unthinkable for me to become chairman of the skrint chie joint chiefs of staff or secretary of state. the trend i seep is america is becoming a more mosaic nation. >> dr. king inspired my music. my music has no color barriers. it is just love. when you come to my shows. it is diverse. beautiful on stage to be able to watch that happening. everybody getting along. even for an hour and 30 minutes. see what dr. king was trying to do throughout the world. ♪ >> let freedom from every hill. >> my dream is that, we, we live to achieve dr. king's purpose. and that includes equality. that its both about, racial justice, it is about economic justice. >> i think americans can honor dr. king's legacy by, by, just -- having an honest look in the mirror as to, what we can
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all do. to, to -- not give racism and bigotry the opportunity to get a foothold on, on our public psyche, on, on, our institutions. ♪ one day >> i help that 50 years from now, we will all be again one, one people. one nation. ♪ it will be ours >> whether the me too move, black lives matter. the parkland of students. these youth-led movements are really a legacy of the civil rights movement. also. king's legacy lives on. >> i want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ whoa glory ♪ the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.
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>> dr. stanley: remember this: cannot change the laws of god. when he has visited you in some form of adversity and he brings you through that, that's like he has increased the strength of the foundation of your life and your faith in him. [music]
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♪ music fades villanova is celebrating its men's ncaa basketball championship after beating michigan monday night. but sports fans are buzzing from a game winning buzzer feeter in the women's final. here is adriana diaz. >> with a tenth of a second on the clock. fighting irish became victorious irish. a look of pure joy and shock. >> i was like it can't be like. i was like, i must have traveled like, they must have called it off, like something must have happened like, i know this shot did not count. turned my body. shoot it. >> reporter: you are thinking what? >> i hope this goes in. >> reporter: notre dame junior guard hit the three pointer that won the tournament sunday.
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but her team planned to pass the ball to another player. >> a lot of people were crowding her. give it to me. gift to me. she gave it to me. then i shot it. >> head coach mcgraw. >> i am so speechless at this point to see the team come back from a huge deficit, to see, her make an incredible shot. to see the resilience of a team that never gave up. >> this is a katrina lech universi -- catholic university. did easter play a role? >> possibly. god is always on your side. >> not the buzzer beater captured the nation. she had two in a row. this its how she finished uconn in the semifinal two days earlier. >> i mean how does this even happen? >> i can't belief that either. on the biggest stage of women's basketball, college, that, that, two buzzer beertaters. kobe bryant saw it from the stands. big time shot, arike. we like seeing great players make great plays. >> this was her reaction.
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>> i can't breathe. >> i have been looking up to him. the reason i wear 24. to have your idol recognize you. that's crazy. >> she tweeted back to bryant. wow, my life is complete. to which he replied, it's complete by finishing the job. >> and she did. it's been 17 years since notre dame won it all. monday they brought home their new trophy off to the tune of from pelts. from pe trumpets. how does that what you did, help the game? >> media attention. people are going to tune in. women's basketball is exciting, they have great players there. >> buzzer beaters. >> buzzer beaters. people love buzzer beaters in march madness. >> the 21 year catapulted into college basketball stardom. >> it hasn't hit you? >> it hasn't. lay down. go to sleep. wow, that just actually happened. >> that's the "overnight news" for wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us
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later for the morning news and cbcbs this morning. captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, april 4th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." i saw somebody down on his back with a red spot on his stomach. witnesses watch in horror as people are gunned down at youtube headquarters. the suspected shooter is dead. what we're learning about her this morning. special counsel robert mueller tells president trump's team the commander in chief is under investigation but he's not currently a criminal target, this as the first sentence is handed down in the russian probe. and 50

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