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when the truck slammed into the broncos buck friday killing 15 injuring doz dozen others. it ripped family apart and broke the collective hearts of of a nation and hockey fans everywhere. national hockey league players showed their grief wearing uniforms, with the humbolt team's name on them. a survivor of the crash is now paralyzed from the chest down. his parents tom and michelle. >> his main thought when he was lying on, on the road, looking at everybody. he couldn't move. he just, just, he said he wanted to help. and he couldn't move. >> i just want you to know that we hurt with you. >> it is pastor sean brando's job to ease the pain of the 6,000 residents. >> the town is so small. how do they move past this? can they move past this? >> yeah, yeah, they can.
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there has to be healing. >> the parents say their son is a fighter and determined to remain optimistic. >> when they told us, ryan looked at us, and goes, dad, going to get us the gold. >> are you kidding me? >> no. >> almost, i couldn't fall apart there. i had to be strong for him. that kid is amazing. and those other kids are, amazing also. >> ryan its one of 14 who have been hospitalized. his family says, they have been overwhelmed by support. but jeff, it's more than just an outpouring of grief. a gofundme campaign for victims families has raised more than $5.6 million. >> don dahler, thank you very much. a remarkable memorial opens later this month in alabama dedicated to victims of lynching. oprah winfrey given an exclusive tour for "60 minutes." >> this is over 4 t that have been documented. of course there are more. >> thousand more.
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thousand more. >> the national memorial for peace and justice honors thousand of victims including one man who was murdered in 1936. jim axelrod has his story tonight with a warning that some of the images are disturbing. >> his name was went shaw, accused of harassing a white woman, lynched at 42 in 1936. this chilling gruesome image, haunlted shaw's great grandson, evan lewis nearly his entire life. >> what did you grow up knowing about your great grandfather? >> i knew he was lynched in georgia. i knew it was a pretty horrific incident. there wasn't a lot said about the history. because folks were frankly afraid to speak to it. >> you were able to recover both the name. >> reporter: that changed when the civil rights and restorative justice project at boston any northeastern university law school, started digging into the case. in 2016. >> what the documents do is put this photograph into context.
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>> mit melissa noble and northeastern margaret burnham run the project. >> we are now beginning to change the narrative such that fame le families had the violence, talk about it and be understood. >> reporter: what they discovered in shaw any case was that the official story wasn't the whole story. >> he was perhaps targeted because he was accomplished. fa because he accumulated property and was hard working. >> here was a guy in the jim crow deep south who was actually making it happen. >> right. >> cut down. >> exactly. >> it takes months to gather the facts. documents, death certificates, photographs.iewsith survivors o victims and perpetrators. so far, students have investigated more than 500 cases. >> what are you restoring? >> we restore a measure of justice. restoring justice includes
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restoring information about what happened. ♪ black body swinging in the southern breeze ♪ >> by the time billy holiday sang her lynching protest strong "strange fruit" in 1939, racially motivated murders were at their peak. the equal justice initiative reports 4300 african-americans would be lynched by 1950. ♪ strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees ♪ >> this is not just my family history. this is american history. through the work of this project. it's become abundantly clear to me that heap is more than this photo. lent's life and legacy is greater than the lynching. >> when history demand to be rewritten the whole story must be discovered before it can be told. jim axelrod, cbs news.
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cosby accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004. a cbs news legal analyst joins us here tonight. ricki, the first trial ended in a hung jury last june. what changed since then? >> lots. particularly the metoo movement. trial one, no metoo movement. difficult to believe one person with an old accusation without corroboration. now the presumption has changed. we do believe women without corroboration even for an old accusation. second thing, we now have five accusers. other accusers. so that with the metoo movement really makes it seem more probable than not. and third, it is a new theory of the case for the defense. the defense believes that the motive was to frame him and get money, not a romantic consensual affair. >> one of the jurors allegedly told another one that cosby is guilty. the judge dealt with that today. that juror is allowed to stay on but you thing that is significant. >> it is significant not only about this juror but about the
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pool of jurors. does that juror's opinion, was it communicated to other jurors. does it taint the group of 12 fl plus the six. are they poisoned? do they hold fast to their idea or do they go overboard the other way? it's problematic. >> ricki, thanks. >> up next, tony robbins changes his mind why he is now apologizing to the metoo movement.
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self help guru tony robbins continues to face a backlash after his apology for criticizing the metoo movement. in a individual yoerks viral, a woman told robbins he didn't understand the movement. he said he took issue with victim hood. >> if you use the metoo movement to try to get significance. >> robbins who is 6'7", began pushing the woman backward as part of an exercise to make his point. he posted his apology on face book saying i agree with the goals of the metoo movement and founding message of empowerment through empathy. senator tammy duckworth made history. the democrat became the first member of the senate to give birth while in office. duckworth's newest constituent
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we end in china with a man on a decade's long mission to find the sunshine of his life. here is ben tracy. >> reporter: for the past 24 years, wong ming ching has been searching for some one he lost at his roadside fruit stand. we were selling bananas here he said, we turned around to ask for change. when we turned back our little girl was missing. his little girl, chi fong was 3. over the decade wong never stopped looking for her. he became a cab driver so he could spread the word. handing out her picture to more than 10,000 strangers. the odds of finding one person in this country of 1.4 billion people were not good. but then a sketch was made of what the missing girl would look like as an adult. and a woman living in northern china saw it and thought, it looked a lot like her. a dna test showed that this
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woman, now 2 years old, and known as khan ying was his child. adopted by another family who found her alone on a roadside in 1994. she grew up just 12 miles from home. she arrived last week with a bouquet of flowers and a crush of cameras. when she was reunited with her biological parents. nobody else seemed to exist. finally, holding his daughter again, he simply said through tears, mommy and daddy love you. a sudden moment, 24 years in the making. thanks to a father who never gave up on his little girl. ben tracy, cbs news, shanghai. that is the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning.
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from the broadcast center in new york city i'm jeff glor. ♪ ♪ welcome to the "overnight news." the powder keg the syrian civil war seems poised for an explosion. president trump says he will decide within hours how to respond to the assad regime's poison gas attack that left dozens dead. russia insists it has shown no evidence of chemicals at the bombing site. the kremlin is blaming israel for an air strike on ape syrian air base. holly williams has the the latest from the war zone. >> it was an atrocious attack. it was horrible. you don't see things like that as bad as the news is around the world, you just don't see those
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images. >> the russian regime whose hand are all covered in the blood of syrian children, cannot be ashamed by pictures of its victims. >> reporter: survivors in duma smelled strongly of chlorine according to medics, a chemical thad that could be deadly in confined spaces and especially toxic for children. we cannot independently verify these videos, but many of the dead seem to have collapsed with no obvious signs of injury. we spoke with one medic by phone, who told us he treated around 70 of the victims. but for his own safety, asked that we not identify him. >> everyone who had a cough, a bloody cough, after that died. one of them was my patient, about 55. i tried to save him. [ explosion ] >> reporter: the syrian regime accused of using chlorine as a weapon many time before. this alleged chemical bombardment comes as the the
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regime attacks the rebel stronghold of eastern ghouta. but the regime as always denies it has used chemical weapons. its ally russia was more categorical and called the allegations, fake news. overnight, air strikes targeted a syrian regime air base near the city of homs. according to russia, they were fired by two israeli fighters jets. the air base is used by the regime's other backer, iran. we don't know if the strikes were connected with alleged
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chemical attack. but the carnage of the last 4 hours, lays bare the proxy war being fought in syria. iran and russia backed the regime, regardless of its atrocities. and now, the u.s. must again decide how to respond. a year ago the u.s. responded to a sarin nerve agent attack in syria launching nearly 60 tomahawk cruise missiles targeting syrianregime air base to. day russia warned of grave repercussions if the u.s. again takes military action. the fbi raided the office of president trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen, and seized record including those, related to the $130,000 payment to stormy daniel. >> michael cohen's lawyer says the search warrants were part of a referral by the office of the special counsel robert mueller. he called the warrants completely inappropriate and unnecessary. during a search of locations linked to cohen, investigators seized documents and materials. but it is unclear whether investigators are specifically interested in some aspect of cohen's role in a 2016 election, or specifically his payment of $130,000 to porn star stormy daniels. who talked about her alleged
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affair with the president in a "60 minutes" interview with andersen cooper. >> i guess i am not 100% sure on why you are doing this? >> because it was very important to me to defend myself. >> last week the president brushed off questions about at fair and the payment choosing instead to refer reporters to cohen. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> why did michael cohen make it? you have to ask michael cohen. michael is my attorney and you'll have to ask michael. >> do you know where he got the money to make that payment. >> no, i don't know. >> i look forward to give all the information they're looking for. >> over the year, mr. cohen has been one of the president's most trusted legal and business advisers. he doesn't shy away from being called a fixer. >> in dozens of conversations with cohen, he has emphasized to me repeatedly that he is a loyal friend to president trump and proud of it. the signature line in his e-mail
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says he is personal attorney to president donald j. trump and just last month the two had dinner together on the eve of stormy daniels' 60 miutes interview. awe second criminal investigation >> this signals there is a second criminal investigation into the president's inner circle. it was approved at the highest levels of the justice department. so this decision to take evidence that was uncovered by special counsel and hand it over to u.s. attorney's office in new york that would have to be approved by deputy attorney general rod rosen stein, a frequent target of the president's criticism. he is the one who oversees the special counsel. makes sure they stay within their mandate. and more bad news, news for the president, mr. cohen's attorney has objected to the fact that investigators seized some information that included communications between mr. cohen and the president. now mr. cohen's attorney says
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that should be covered by attorney/client privilege. former justice department officials tell me that not all of the communication would be privileged, if the president wasn't directly seeking legal advice that is something that could be fair game which signals mr. cohen could potentially cooperate with investigators and provide, information on the former or current client, the president. it feels like all canada is in mourning after the crash of a bus carrying a junior hockey team. 15 people were killed. mostly players. many more hurtai go fund me page dedicated to the victims has already raised nearly $6 million. but that is a small consolation for a heartbroken nation. don dahler reports. >> reporter: today, a flower vigil grows in the arena that brought so much joy over the years. when the truck slammed into the broncos buck friday killing 15 injuring doz dozen others.
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it ripped family apart and broke the collective hearts of of a nation and hockey fans everywhere. national hockey league players showed their grief wearing uniforms, with the humbolt team's name on them. 18-year-old ryan stryniski survived the crash, but he is now paralyzed from the chest down. his parents tom and michelle. >> his main thought when he was lying on, on the road, looking at everybody. he couldn't move. he just, just, he said he wanted to help. and he couldn't move. >> i just want you to know that we hurt with you. >> it is pastor sean brando's job to ease the pain of the 6,000 residents. >> the town is so small. how do they move past this? can they move past this? >> yeah, yeah, they can. there has to be healing. >> the parents say their son is a fighter and determined to remain optimistic. >> when they told us, ryan looked at us, and goes, dad, olympic sledge hockey, going to get us the gold. >> are you kidding me? >> no. >> almost, i couldn't fall apart
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>> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." self help guru tony robbins apologize ford critical comments he made about the metoo movement. but critics point out his mea culpa only came after video of his remarks went viral on the internet. jamie yuccas reports. >> reporter: tony robbins now says metoo is a beautiful force for good. here in california last month he said the movement now has some powerful men afraid to hire attractive women. critics also believe that he is physically intimidated a female audience member who stood up to him. tony robbins who claims to have helped tens of millions of
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people from 100 countries said some were misusing the metoo hash tag. a fan from the audience challenged his views. the towering, 6'7", robbins invited mccool to take part in an exercise to make his point. >> put out your fist. why are you pushing back. i didn't tell you to push back. why are you pushing back the why are you pushing so hard. you are telling me the harder i push the more you are going to comply. when you push some one else it doesn't make you any more safe. it makes them angry. robbins shared a story suggesting the metoo movement was hurting women.
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me too founder, tarana, said if you talk to more survivors and less sexist business men, maybe you will understand what we want. during the event, robbins stood by his comments. but after widespread condemnation on social media, the self help guru said sunday he agreed with the goals of metoo and asked for forgiveness. some times the teacher has to become the student. and it is clear that i still have much to learn. >> i think it's a good start. >> mccool who identifies as a childhood sex abuse survivor is encouraged by robbins' change of heart. >> he may cometic kegging and screaming into the light. as long as he headed in the
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direction i'm good with it. >> the best kept secret in camaro. how does the auto world keep its new vehicles under wraps. kris van cleave found out. >> for a car maker you can spend hundred of millions developing a vehicle. secrecy is key. engineers have been driving the camaro, technology and camo wrap on the car to hide it in plain sight. >> people take pictures when you are driving? >> might see it out driving today. >> why? that is the future driving by hidden in plain sight. >> this is considered high security vehicle. >> high security vehicle? >> has to be covered when stopped. >> even hdisguysed the 2018 chevrolet camaro attracts attention. >> normally the same day. >> something you have never seen
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before in a driving machine. >> the camaro erupted on to the auto scene in 1967 to take on ford's mustang. through years and multiple destein chad design changes an icon for general motors. secrecy is key. pictures not only ruin the surprise for customers and tip off come pepetitors, they can h business. people are though enthusiastic, passionate, they want the latest, greatest thing. when nay recognize we're going to evolve the design they may hold off buying. >> car makers have developed an array of trickery from heavy vinyl to disguise the shape and lack to brand new pieces transforming the front and rear of a vehicle to hide the new design underneath. the body is wrapped in dizzying camo to fool the eye. even the engine gets covered. >> not just what you see outside. when you get inside the car, everything in here is camouflaged too. the dashboard, steering wheel, even the seats. >> the work is done apt this
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secret gm facility where prototypes are built. a team of three will spend hours, disguising a vehicle before it leaves the plant. >> here is the fender feature line. camouflage engineers take this foam and create a fake feature line. >> al openheiser lead the team. >> put a competitor's brand on the front. >> he took us for a ride at gm's proving grounds. usually off-limits to cameras. we're fryitrying out the transmission. >> it's fast. every gm vehicle gets tested here. here comes one. >> so that's nothing. that's the brand new, 2019, chevy silverado, 1500. that debuted. >> brian williams is an auto spy photographer who sells pictures of vehicles to web sites and magazines. from the new presidential limo and camo to chevy's malibu or this jeep pickup, dubbed the scrambler. >> what's the greatest length you have gone to get a photo of
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>> he is still standing, yeah, yeah, yeah. sir elton john performing his hilt i'm still standing. grammy salute concert. the music icon has nine number one hits. five grammys, an oscar, tony, too. he toured the world for nearly five decade. performed more than 4,000 shows. but the 71-year-old rocket man decided home really is where his heart is. he recently announced he will stop touring after a three year, right, three year farewell tour. we spoke with him hours before the grammy concert that honored him. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: i have seen you in concert at least six times. the thing that gives me pleasure is watching how much pleasure you get out of performing for us. ♪ oh oh ♪ i don't know how to describe it. but when you go home after the show, you don't go straight to sleep. because it is so exciting. it is the contact you have with an audience. and the joy you get back from
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them. >> reporter: for nearly 50 years elton john has been giving and getting that joy. ♪ saturday night's all right >> the only thing louder than elton john's rocking piano his outfits. >> sitting at the piano. i wanted to be flam boy yanlt. i wasn't mick jagger, i wasn't rod stewart, freddy mercury, or any of the guys. i was having so much fun. >> really your way of standing out? >> yeah, like i just, it was me. i was trying to be funny. trying to be the real me. this was the real me, flamboyant me. ♪ i'm not the man they think i am at all ♪ >> reporter: what was it like in the 70s. you had hit after hit after hit and you were larger than life. ♪ rocket man burning out fumes >> were you happy during that time? >> i was very happy during the first five, six years, because we were doing what we loved.
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i mean we put out an enormous amount of product. two albums a year. separate singles. different b side. we toured. >> reporter: the we he is referring to is long time lyricist and writing partner, bernie tautman. >> if there is an elton john song you love, it is a sure bet -- bernie wrote the words you know. elton wrote the tune you hum. ♪ hold me closer tiny dancer the way we write is random. we, we don't write in the same room. we have never dlab rated over a song. >> never in the same room? >> no. he gives me a lyric. i go away. write the song in a room. and come back and play tight him. in that way it kept everything fresh. i think it is the secret of our success has been just we trust each other. and it's -- you know we have never had an argument in 50 years. >> how is that possible? to do what you do, close as you do never have an argument?
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>> that's premarkablen the business for people who are creative partners not to have an disagreement. >> elton most marriages don't have that. >> no marriages. ♪ and you can tell everybody ♪ this is your song >> is there a back story behind your song? >> not really. i just sat down and read it through. thought this is so great. i can't mess it up. beautiful lyric. for an 18-year-old to write. when i played it to him. at that time we may have a good future. this is a good song. ♪ how wonderful life is while you're in the world ♪ >> i have sung that probably, sure every performance that i ever made. and it's never gotten old. >> are there some elton john songs, god, i don't want to play that again. >> crocodile rock. >> i agree with you on that. >> such a crowd pleaser. ♪ and it seems to me you've
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lived your life like a candle in the wind ♪ >> his biggest song, candle in the wind 1997, a song originally about marilyn monroe, but rewritten about his friend princess diana. ♪ and your footsteps will always fall here ♪ >> elton has performed it only one at diana's funeral. ♪ your candle's burned out long before ♪ >> the song is the best selling nonholiday single of all time. ♪ your legend ever will >> that legacy inspired the gram yaez to present him with a concert salute. ♪ you lived your life like a candle in the wind ♪ >> with artists like ed sheeran. ♪ when the rain set in ♪ i get >> miley cyrus. >> and lady gaga. ♪ my gift is my song >> all paying tribute and this one's for you. >> there is something about you that sees other young artists you reach out to them.
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why. >> because when i was becoming successful. people reached out to me. george harris. neil diamond introduced me the first night. people were kind to me. told me. validation of my work. i've think when young people have talent. i look to phone them up. come on, well done. ♪ ♪ there is an elton john song called don't go breaking my heart. you're breaking my heart, you announced you are retiring. >> yeah, i am doing a three year farewell tour around the world. ♪ good-bye yellow brick road >> earlier this year john announced his next tour, farewell yellow brick road would be his last. he wants to spend more time at home with husband david and two sons, zachary and elijah. >> not a contest. love to be with my boys. >> i love that you are a father. did you ever think this would happen to you? >> ten years ago if you told me this is what would be happening
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steve hartman now with a story of compassion that he found behind the bar on the road. generally speaking bars are not bastions of grace and kindness. here at jimmy's wrightsville beach, north carolina, the owner jimmy, believes there is a lot more to serving customers than a good pour. just wait till you hear what he did for one pay tron. a total stranger lost her wallet here last month. with her wedding ring inside. >> and she was frantic. really upset about it. so, it just became my mission. >> his mission to find her ring began with a thorough screening of the security footage. he had to watch three hours before finally finding her wallet on a bench outside the bar. the one at the far left.
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with the shady character approaching. >> eventually, jimmy figured out who that was. and got him to confess to taking the cash, and dumping the wallet in this ocean channel. it was long gone. >> but you still won't let this go? >> after i invested all that time. i am going to find the ring. i hired divers to come out. >> you hired divers? >> yeah, divers. >> two divers who scoured the sea bed and eventually surfaced with a soggy wallet. and an irreplaceable treasure. jimmy went so far beyond what most of us would do for a stranger. yet even after solving the mystery he felt the need to do more. not for the woman who lost the wallet, but for the thief who took it. >> he was living in the woods. and this was one of his 30 degrees outside. he hadn't eaten in two days. i could tell he wasn't a criminal. just somebody needed a little help. >> 17-year-old rivers prather is
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estranged from his mother. trying to make it on his own but was homeless the day he stumbled into jimmy's life. >> i couldn't have been luckier. most other people would have just, you know, gave the footage to police. he chose to help me. he's, he's made me part of his family. >> literally. part of his family. rivers is now staying in jimmy's house with jimmy's fiance and kids. he has got two jobs. and a bright future. >> how do you say thank you to a guy like that? >> i say thank you to him every day. i would do anything for him. >> when that wallet got stolen by a homeless kid, jimmy gillise could have called on courts, social services. instead he called on the best problem solver of all, the compassion within. steve hartman, on the road, in wrightsville beach, north carolina.
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>> that's the "overnight news" for tuesday. for some of you theew continues. for others check back with captioning funded by cbs it's tuesday, april 10th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." >> it's a disgraceful situation, a total witch hunt. i've been saying it for a long time. >> president trump firing back after his personal lawyer's office is raided by the fbi. now he's blasting special counsel robert mueller. mr. trump says he's exploring his options, like a military strike, after the suspected chemical attack on civilians in syria. also breaking overnight, young girls jump for their lives as a dance studio burst into
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