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>> i can appreciate in light of the starbuck's policy, and how well known it is, to many. why these two men were appalled when they were asked to leave. for this reason, me, i apologize to them. >> the two men, were sean nelson and dante robinson told theirster to abc. >> we're at the table. sit down. just talking amongst each other. at the time wasn't read any rights. nothing. just, just double lock handcuffs. behind her back. else courted out. put into the squad car. >> starbuck's has apologized to the men and will be training all employees, on how to avoid discriminating against customers. a trainer of police on the subject. >> i think after they get the training a person will be able to stop and ask themselves. would i be responding this way to this person in starbuck's.
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>> nelson and robinson say they want real change after what they went through. jeff, they believe that starbuck's plan to move forward with this training next month its a good start. >> michelle miller, thank you very much. in missouri today maintenance worker killed when a massive tv tower clamsed leaving a tangle of metal and wires. five workers were hurt. the men were placing cross beams on the tower, which was nearly 2,000 feet call. used by public tv and radio stations. >> cuba got a new president today. miguel diaz bermudez. took over. first noncastro to serve as the president of cuba since 1959. manuel bojorquez reports from havana. >> reporter: rafael hernandez was 11 when fidel castro seized power in a bloody revolt. >> bullets. explosions. >> you have vivid memories of these. >> exact low. >> for most of his life.
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a castro has ruled the island. hernandez believes the one party system. fidel built will endure. >> it is different. but it is not -- a break. >> but for 24-year-old, musician, wendy galvez, that's the problem. >> that's fine because we have been like this for 50 years. >> reporter: she has seen what life is like outside cuba. in 2015, she visited chicago as part of a cultural exchange. since then, the trump administration, clamped down on alug tourists from the u.s. to the island. wendy says bookings for her band went from once a week to once a month. >> we are worse. >> the relations seems worse. >> yeah, seems worse. >> reporter: much is still in short supply. reforms have largely stalled. a slumping economy is squeezing the average cuban salary of
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lovely $40 a month. >> we are strong people. but there is long time, doing the things, the same, wishing the same. things. >> many in the young and increasingly restless generation, feel stuck between two presidents. the new one here, who has vowed to defend socialism. and president trump who made it clear that will only further isolate the island. jeff. manuel bojorquez, thank you very much. from havana. coming up next, new protests on campus over any object. any surface. if you've got a life you gotta swiffer
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protests at syracuse university over a racist video featuring frat members. the fralt has been suspended. to date university chancellor said the school has worked hard at diversity and inclusion added there is much work to do. tony dokoupil has the video, a warning it is offensive to many. >> do you know the oath? this video obtained by syracuse university student newspaper, the daily orange, is sending shock waves through the school's campus. it was reportedly posted on a
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secret facebook page by theta-tau co-ed engineering fraternity with 40,000 members nationwide. syracuse chancellor suspended the group wednesday and called the fraternity's behavior extremely racist, anti-semitic, homophobic, sexist and hostile to people with disabilities. >> they do not represent this community. >> reporter: as students protest, a national official for the fraternity called their members actions disgraceful, but described the video as a skit or roast of the active brother buys a pledge class. they say this still does not excuse the behavior. this is at least the sixth race related suspension at fraternity since 2015. including suspensions at the university of oklahoma, cornell, and just last week, at a state school in california. but it is not just racism that has fraternities in trouble. four people died in hazing incidents at fraternities in 2017 alone. including high profile case of timothy piazza at penn state
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university. >> of course allegations of rape and sexual assault have resulted in recent fraternity suspensions. as school officials crack down. at syracuse, school investigators are working to identify the individuals in these videos, jeff, the facebook page where they were posted has been taken down. >> appreciate that. stay on the story. up next, an infant makes history in the senate.
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sprays in the bathroom can be ineffective. try mr. clean magic eraser with durafoam. simply add water, to remove soap scum. try mr. clean magic eraser with durafoam. tammy duckworth lost both legs in comb battle, the first disabled woman elected to congress and first senator to give birth in office to. day helped make history when her daughter was the first infant allowed on the senate floor. here is nancy cordes. >> reporter: a little blustery weather did not stop illinois senator tammy duckworth and ten day old daughter testing out a new found freedom. >> she is pretty young to be making history. >> she is, not set expectations too high for her. >> duckworth iraq war veteran cast hundred of votes in her career. but until today, she would not have been allowed to bring her newborn with her.
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>> ms. duckworth. >> an obstacle no one thought much about. until duckworth became the first pregnant sitting senator. >> what are you going to do when you have to vote at 3:00. >> the women senators began working to change the rules. >> number of our colleagues had questions. will she change the diaper on the floor? she will not do that. >> last night the senate voted unanimously to allow senators to carry their infants on to the floor. >> part of our history is recognizing change. >> clearing the way for little miley pearls, made an appearance. >> how did she hold up? >> she slept through the whole thing. it's a nonevent. >> with that mother and daughter returned to maternity leave. nancy cordes, cbs news, capitol hill. still ahead here tonight when ape young girl freezes yo stage. it is mom to the rescue.
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farrell began singing rise up at her school talent show. her mom shay washington sat nervously in the audience. >> we practiced a little bit before in the bathroom. i just was hoping that she would, you know, get the words right. bought but a minute in, mykella's voice faded. >> i just forgot because i was, nervous to even sing any word. >> then i was like, uh-oh. it looks like she is about to you know, have a breakdown. i was like, i don't want her to feel like she is defeated or, that she feels, so when i just stepped in. ♪ i rise up ♪ i rise up ♪ i rise up ♪ i rise up ♪ come on, baby, you got it
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♪ i rise up >> there you go, come on! ♪ for you >> she does everything for me. i want to be more thankful. and thank you for things. >> it means a lot to me, to say that. >> mother and daughter, rising up, together. elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. >> that is the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news. and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city. i'm jeff glor.
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welcome to the "overnight news." i'm tony dokoupil. southwest airlines has some explaining to do about this week's deadly midair accident. investigators say, metal fatigue the likely cause of the catastrophic engine explosion. it turns out the airline had been warned about that very danger. and the warning came after a similar engine explosion on another southwest jet. kris van cleave reports.
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kris van cleave reports there are questions whether the faa and airline acted quickly enough after a prior failure in 2016. investigators continue working on the southwest 737 had an engine blowout in flight tuesday killing 43-year-old jennifer reardan, the ntsb says mother of two was wearing her seatbelt when partially sucked out of the plane. >> my heart is broken for them. >> fire fighter andrew needham rushed to help pull reardan back inside. >> i'm trained for emergency situations. that's just exactly what it was. >> after an eerily similar engine fame year two years ago on a southwest jet when a fan blade broke due to metal fatigue, the manufacturer recommended, periodic tests to spot fatigue. in august, the faa began work to make the inspections mandatory. wednesday the agency said that directive will be issued within two weeks. former ntsb chair. >> i think, yeah, there should have been a more urgent order. >> airlines will have six to 18 months to do inspections. many have started. >> i am disappointed. they have been looking at this since august. it would seem to me after we have a fatal accident, you would
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think they would be ready to say something, maybe modify it from six months to perhaps, 90 days. now, several lawmakers have written to the department of transportation or faa asking for more information about faa oversight and aviation safety. at least one member of congress, emnor holmes norton from d.c. is calling for hearings on the hill. police chief of philadelphia is apologize rg for his response to the arrest two of black men in a local starbuck's. michelle miller reports. >> messaging is important. i've failed miserably in this regard. >> reporter: despite that admission, richard ross defended the actions of his officers when they arrested two black men at the starbuck's last week. it was captured on video. >> what did they do? what did they do? what did they do? >> they didn't do anything. >> ross said this on facebook over the weekend. >> it is important to emphasize and underscore, that these officers had legal standing to make this arrest. these officers did absolutely nothing wrong. >> but today he took the blame for making what he said was a bad situation worse.
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>> i can appreciate in light of the starbuck's policy, and how well known it is, to many. why these two men were appalled when they were asked to leave. for this reason, me, i apologize to them. >> the two men, were sean nelson and dante robinson told their story to abc. >> we're at the table. sit down. just talking amongst each other. at the time wasn't read any rights. nothing. just, just double lock handcuffs. behind her back. else courted out. put into the squad car. >> starbuck's has apologized to the men and will be training all employees, on how to avoid discriminating against customers. a trainer of police on the subject. >> i think after they get the training a person will be able to stop and ask themselves. would i be responding this way to this person in starbuck's. >> nelson and robinson say they want real change after what they
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went through. jeff, they believe that starbuck's plan to move forward with this training next month its a good start. sworn in ooze the new president of cuba. the first time in nearly 60 years the country has a leader not named castro. don't expect big changes. diaz canal says he is dedicated to defending the revolution. manuel bojorquez is in havana. >> reporter: rafael hernandez was 11 when fidel castro seized power in a bloody revolt. >> bullets. explosions. >> you have vivid memories of these. >> exact low. >> for most of his life. a castro has ruled the island. hernandez believes the one party
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system. fidel built will endure. >> it is different. but it is not -- a break. >> but for 24-year-old, musician, wendy galvez, that's the problem. >> that's fine because we have been like this for 50 years. >> reporter: she has seen what life is like outside cuba. in 2015, she visited chicago as part of a cultural exchange. since then, the trump administration, clamped down on alug tourists from the u.s. to the island. wendy says bookings for her band went from once a week to once a month. >> we are worse. >> the relations seems worse. >> yeah, seems worse. >> reporter: much is still in short supply. reforms have largely stalled. a slumping economy is squeezing the average cuban salary of
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lovely $40 a month. >> we are strong people. but there is long time, doing the things, the same, wishing the same. breathing a sigh of relief. two years after he died of an geoff do overdose. no criminal charges will be filed against those who helped prince get his drugs. as jamie yuccas reports the images can be disturbing. ♪ how can you just leave me standing ♪ >> two years after the mysterious death of the musical legend, new individually released shows what investigators found at prince's paisley park mansion. the singer's lifeless body sprawled in front of an elevator. prescription pill bodles in his recording studio. some were counterfeit painkillers, laced with fentanyl. >> in all likelihood, prince had no idea he was taking a counterfeit pill. >> prosecutors are no closer to discovering how the superstar got the tainted pills. >> the bottom line is that we
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simply do not have sufficient evidence to charge any one with a crime related to prince's death. >> this announcement hours after it was revealed. minnesota doctor michael agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a federal civil case. prosecutors say that he put prince on the opioid oxycodone, a week before his death. to protect prince's privacy, he wrote out the prescription to prince's friend, kirk johnson. >> i have been here 30 years. we spoke with johnson last year. >> anything you wish you had done personally to stop his drug use? >> oh, my goodness. next. >> you don't feel like people enabled him? >> next. >> i spoke to prince's cousin, charles smith who says the family is very disappointed there were no criminal charges filed. and, jeff he also believes that prince's inner circle enabled the addiction that led to the singer's death. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.
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we are entering an era in which our enemies can make it look like any one is saying anything at any point in time. they could have me say things like, i don't know, or ben carson is in the sunken place. i would never say these things. but, someone else would. someone like jordan peele. this is a dangerous time. >> that video shows oscar winning filmmaker, jordan peele putting word in the mouth of former president barack obama. part of a public service campaign to warn americans about
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the throwing threat posed by digital misinformation. the federal government is trying to fight back. carter evans reports. >> reporter: this video is real. but image of parkland shooting survivor, emma gonzalez is not. went viral anyway. that deception could be harder to spot when the future of fact news is manipulated video. it starts with a selfie. >> just take a picture of you now. >> using that simple image. the ceo of pin screen can manipulate my face. >> it may look like i am talking but i am not. >> literally putting word in my mouth. >> my digital face is mimicking his. >> it generates the wrinkles. >> they can control facial movements. >> this is cup pewter generated image. when i move my eyebrows, open my mouth, turn my head it tracks everything. >> lee says all part of building a new virtual chat room world. >> how are you doing my friend? >> with this advanced artificial intelligence technology is raising real eyebrows.
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>> i was kind of concerned in the beginning because, you know, you can imagine right. you can do all kind of like, evil things with it. >> see a situation where people might take image of donald trump and make him say something he didn't say. >> itch you think about it, these kind of things are already possible. >> for example. we are entering an era in which our enemies can make it lack like any one is saying anything at any point in time. >> comedian jordan peele released this psa using lip-sync technology warning agen the dangers of fact news. >> moving forward we need to be more vigilant with what we trust from the internet. concerned with the impact fake news had on the 2016 elections, the u.s. government is trying how to get ahead of the new technology. dave doorman is project manager at darpa, secret defense department agency trying to keep the country a step ahead of cyberthreats. >> is ability to manipulate video a threat to national security? >> i think absolutely.
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very important national, national security concern. >> it can cause unrest. riots. nation states. could even act on some of this stuff. >> at darpa, doorman put us in a conference room, confiscated our phones for security. we then took a look at software he is devil offing to identify the new jen ration of fact news. >> fairly hard to tell what was manipulated in this image. if i've go to the next slide here it will half a transition it is showing you the process. bright red means the car is not really there. >> let me go on to something more complex here. >> in the course of human events. >> the blue line is audio of the first speaker. and then a text there was a second speaker. >> connected them with another. among the powers of the earth. >> detecting the changes there. >> detecting the changes. my vision ties have a pre grogr every image. video posted to social media site go through the process. >> what it tries to do.
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>> meanwhile at pin screen. howe lee says it won't take long before the line between what is real and not is erased all. up ayear actually. >> that's it. >> facebook is hiring human fact checkers. google tells me it is working on digital detect s tools and publishers to allow them to embed digital walter mark in images video easier to identify. where everything is coming from. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. lawmakers in south carolina are kidding a ban on the sale of energy drinks to kid. after a deadly incident linked to high amounts of caffeine. last year, 16-year-old davis kripe died after dosing on caffeine drinks. mark straussman spoke to his family. >> reporter: he was an entertarn. loved to put on a show. he was like that. every day. >> you are proud of him? >> very proud. >> reporter: last april, davis
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kripe, 16-year-old sophomore suddenly collapsed at his south carolina high school. in the two hours prior, he drank a large soda, a latte and energy drink. medical examiner told his parents, hide dwree and sean their son died from a caffeine induced cardiac event. >> the me says energy drink. what went through your mind? >> i was shocked. so hurt. something innocent. not something that can take your kids. >> energy drinks can contain 300 milligrams of caffeine. u.s. food and drug administration, recommend adults consume no more than 400 milligrams a day. five cups of coffee. by one estimate, 68% of adolescents consume energy drinks. >> most of the cans they put a label on there says, not recommended for children. so i've don't understand why we are selling them to children. >> the american academy of pediatrics and american medical association urge adolescents to
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drink limited high caffeine beverages or none at all. food toxicologist, dr. james coughlin. >> once you are a young child you will ma tab lies caffeine for the rest of your life. >> in south carolina, lawmakers introduced a bill that would ban the sale of energy drinks to anyone under 18. state representative leon howard authored the bill. >> we treat it look you do alcohol. in the state of south carolina. a kid can't walk into a store and buy a beer. buy cigarettes. >> the south carolina beverage association opposes the bill. and says, a sales ban on anyone product would be arbitrary and discriminatory. she says her son's death speaks volumes. >> wish we would have had the facts. wish we would have heard the stories. and weep just want to help save people's kids. >> the kripes
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so i feel lighter. try metamucil, and begin to feel what lighter feels like. ak strethese days, she is w notice for her role on behalf of charities. john blackstone has her story. >> reporter: in los angeles, unicef, united nations children's fund honored salma hayak with the danny kay humanitarian award. >> and it takes so little to
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make big, big changes. >> reporter: it is recognition for all she has done for more than a decade on behalf of women and children around the world. it is hard to decide who should get money. >> so many people need it. how should we spend. it is the best, it is the best question. it is, finding who can you help the most. who can you help the best. and through who can you be the most effective. >> how did you become an activist? >> it is a very strange question. my head thinks, why don't you? >> she helped raise more than $700,000 for relief efforts after the earthquake in mexico last september. in 2015, she visited syrian refugees in lebanon. and in 2008, here she is in sierra leon where tetanus was a leading cause of death among mothers and babies. during the trip, a 15-year-old
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mother approached her with a hungry baby just a few days old. >> i have no money. i have no food to give him. i have nothing. she was sobbing. and i said, i have got milk. because, i was, i was, i had left my child for the first time. i was weaning her from breast-feeding. and i had milk. and there was a lot of people that were upset i did that. >> but there were many, as well, who said. >> you may have saved a life. >> right. >> she was born in mexico in 1966. her father, of lebanese descent was an oil company executive. her mother, mexican and spanish, was an opera singer. at the age of five. salma would sit in front of the pink window in her home. >> some timz i would play. some times i would just look out this window, and come up with stories. and come up with scenarios of
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what my life would. i make myself cry on my own. it was my place where i, i would play with my imagination. >> reporter: when did acting enter your mind? >> acting, entered my mind and then i was embarrassed to say i want to be an actress. >> but she says, she some how found the courage. and after appearing in popular mexican soap operas, telenovellas came to los angeles at age 24 and studied acting. but after being a big star at home, she got work only as an extra. >> at the time it seemed like there was no chance to succeed. but in more than 50 movies she became one of those actresses as they say the camera loves. coleman, stop the train.
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miss escobar is getting off. who the hell is escobar? >> it may be her portrayal of the mexican painter, frieda kahlo created the most attention. >> itch you think i am going to sleep with you buzz you have taken me under your wing, you're wrong. >> she produced the movie and earned academy award nomination for best actress. >> i just, something inside of me, just knew i had to do that one. it was an obsession. it was an obsession. >> so you had to work for eight years. >> eight years. >> to get it off the ground? >> yes. she made headlines in december with "the new york times" op-ed piece about the price she paid to work on frieda with producer harvey weinstein. which she wrote, involved many
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inappropriate sexual demand. charges weinstein denied. but that essay, helps propel a movement. >> and, the most exciting part for me, is that when the world saw all of these women that are so visible, because it is hollywood, coming together, say, guys, this is not okay. we take the power in our hand. to say, this stops now. >> in 2009, she married france wa henri pinot, billionaire, company include. gucci, stella mccartney. >> today, salma hayak pinot, her p production company named after the rose window she sat in front of. its preparing five new movies.
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>> for the past 24 years, long 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 z for change. when we turned back, our little girl was missing. his little girl, chfong was 3. over the decade. wong never stopped looking for her. he even became a cab driver in chendu so he could pred 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. a woman living in northern china saw it and that up it looked a lot like her. a dna test showed that this woman, now 28 years old, and known as kanying was his long lost child. adopted by another fame plea who
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found her alone on a roadside in 1994. she grew up just 12 mimes from home. she arrived in chengdu last week with a bouquet of flowers and crush of cameras. but 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. the sunshine indeed. that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others check back a little built later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm tony dokoupil.
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captioning funded by cbs 20 it's friday, april 20th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." the comey memos are out. now president trump claims the documents prove there was no collusion and no obstruction in the russia investigation. a fugitive grandmother wanted for murder in two states is caught in texas, just 27 miles from the mexico border. >> miss duckworth, miss duckworth. and a baby makes history on the senate floor.
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