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mass shooting at a wafflehouse. a half naked gunman opens fire with an assault-style rifle. at least four are dead. the customer being hailed as a hero. >> i saw my opportunity, my window. so i took it. >> also tonight, a suicide bombing in afghanistan. dozens are dead. isis claims responsibility. president trump's busy weekend on twitter. james comey, and weighing in on north korea's nuclear surprise. >> the latest greek life campus controversies. two fraternities suspended for expelled in recent days. and he cooled off the hottest
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team in baseball, pulling a no hitter. >> he has no-hit the boston red sox. >> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. a manhunt is under way across the south. for a gunman who opened fire sunday morning inside a wafflehouse restaurant near nashville. it happened in the town of antioch in the hours before sunrise. at least four people are dead. two others are critically wounded. the gunman was half naked and armed with a semiautomatic assault-style rifle. and investigators say he was arrested just last year near the white house. this is also the story about a hero who've took action and may have saved many lives. mark strassmann reports. >> reporter: around 3:30 this morning a gunman wearing only a jacket, naked from the waist down, began firing at customers
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at this waffle house. >> at the waffle house. it looks like there is a female at the location saying there is a male white hue has no clothing on, that's shoot act location. we're getting multiple calls on this. >> reporter: police say the gunman identified as 29-year-old travis ryneking killed two people in the parking lot before heading inside where he killed two more. >> he got out of his truck armed with an ar-15 rifle. and started shooting. he clearly came armed with a lot of fire power intending to devastate the south nashville area.rderatchim thu>> c parkingck lot. >> naked except for a jacket and gun. and started shooting people. he shot someone at the door. then shot my friend. then i hit the ground and tried to keep an eye on him from underneath my car. he shot couple of windows out. then stepped inside the restaurant, started shooting. >> his gun either got jammed or, he was trying to reload.
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not exactly sure. but i saw my opportunity. and my window. so i took it. >> customer james shaw wrestled the gun away from the killer. >> we started wrestling for it. scuffling. and fighting for it. and -- after he, he let it go with one hand. then when he just had, had it in his other hand. i take it. and i tauossed it over the counter. >> yeah, they're in our yard now. >> police used dogs to search through dense brush for the suspect. a neighbor named jeremy searcy posted this video on twitter, said watching it unfold in my backyard. crazy. >> i saw them all on the news live from the helicopter over the hill realized that was behind our house. >> three victims were killed at the restaurant. fourth died later at the hospital. elaine they never stood a chance against a gunman who pulled into the parking lot and right away started shooting. >> mark strassmann, thank you. president trump spent the
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weekend at his mar a lago resort in palm beach, florida. he also had a busy weekend on twitter, weighing in on a variety of subjects from the russia investigation to north korea. errol barnett has the the latest. >> reporter: a weekend of presidential contrasts. while the country's four most recent presidents and four first lady paid their respects at the funeral for barbara bush, current president donald trump sent a flurry of frustrated tweets. about fired fbi director james comey, embattled personal attorney, michael cohen. as well as attorney general jeff sessions and his deputy rod rosenstein. >> he stand up for people in his inner circle. >> adviser to the president, kellyanne conway explained why mr. trump sent tweets about cohen currently under criminal investigation. >> he is defending someone he has worked with and known for a dozen plus years, dana, he thinks is being treated unfairly. >> special counsel robert mueller's probe is on the president's mind.
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mr. trump accusing comey on a book tour of illegally sharing classified memos to trigger the doj investigation. which comey denies. and attorney general sessions, who reap kukutzerecused himself would resign if rosenstein was fired. >> we believe the scope has gone well beyond what was intended. >> despite the president's anger, adviser mark short says no one is losing their job. >> an hourglass, when is he going to fire, rosenstein and mueller. the president has no intention of firing these individuals. >> reporter: late friday, another legal claim was made against those close to president trump. the dnc is seeking financial damages stemming from the 2016 hacking of its e-mail servers, naming donald trump jr., jared kushner, trump campaign and the russian government as defendants. president trump in response said, democrats are just suing republicans for winning the
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election. elaine. errol, thank you. for more on the president's weekend, let's bring in "face the nation" moderator margaret brennan. the north koreans announced they're going to suspend ballistic missile and nuclear testing and shut down a testing site. how significant is that ahead of a potential summit between president trump and north korean leader? >> well this was what the white house already expected north korea to do. ahead of that summit. the addition of that nuclear site in the north was news. but as senator tom cotton said to us on this program, and he is a close ally of the white house, to stop testing is better than the alternative, but it's not much better than that. that's because north korea did not pledge to give up its nuclear program, negotiate them away, perhaps, at that upcoming trump, kim jong-un summit. they also did not say they wouldn't continue to develop nuclear weapons. just because you are not firing
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off missiles or testing doesn't mean you are not running computer models or enriching different kind of weapons grade material that could be used on them in the future. it also doesn't mean you are not selling that knowledge elsewhere. >> the president tweeted that this was actually an accomplishment and that the u.s. hasn't given anything up. he says that north korea has agreed to full denuclearization. the problem is what the word means, depend on where you stand. in the past, when north korea has said that, used that term, denuclearization, they have also meant the removal of u.s. forces and, and the removal of south korea, our ally from underneath america's nuclear umbrella. basically giving up our protection of them. it is not clear what kim jong-un means this time. or if the white house has anything more that they know that they haven't shared publicly at this point. but to declare victory before these direct talks have happened, is, is a bit too quick
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mitt romney yesterday failed to secure the utah republican party nomination to run unopposed for orrin hatch's senate seat. hatch is retiring. romney, the 2012 republican presidential nominee now has to square off against 11 other contenders in a june primary. >> nearly 60 people were killed and more than 100 wounded today in afghanistan. a suicide bomber blew himself up at a voter registration center in kabul. children are among the victims. isis claimed responsibility for the attack. it is the deadliest attack so far in the leadup to october's parliamentary elections.
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anti-government protests ragefordd for a fifth day. more than two dozen people have been killed in violent clashes with police. the protests started wednesday over a long time president daniel ortega's plan to increase workers contributions to social security and cut pensions. closer to home, two college fraternities have been suspended or expelled in recent days. meg oliver has more on the latest greek life campus controversies. we caution you, some of the video is disturbing. >> do you know the oath? >> reporter: syracuse university permanently expelled the fraternity after a racist fueled video surfaced last week. the scandal intensified when a second video was released. this time, they mocked the sexual assault of a person with disabiliti disabilities. the school chancellor called their behavior disgusting. >> it is a challenging day on our campus. we are dealing with the aftermath of an incident in our
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university life that challenges what we stand for as a university. >> in the first video the members of the fraternity acted out racist, homophobic, anti-semitic oath. the students said it was a joke. expulsion one day after temple university in philadelphia, suspended a fraternity. police are investigating two allegations of sexual assault inside their house. they detailed one woman's account. >> she was given several drinks by members of the fraternity. she said she became dizzy and disoriented. that's the last thij she remembered until we woke up in bed with, one of the members of the fraternity. >> syracuse and temple university are the latest in a long list of schools dealing with fraternity hazing, heavy drinking, and sexual assaults. in 2017 alone at least five fraternity pledges died across the country. at syracuse university, some students stay these videos highlight larger issues of
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racism, and sexism on scam pus. >> i think it is disgusting. what they did. and i don't want to be associated with them at all. >> reporter: syracuse's chancellor said there are more disturbing videos that have not been released yet. the students face expulsion, and a possible criminal investigation. the university has also started a review of the entire greek system. elaine. >> meg oliver, thank you. today is earth day. and people around the world are staging events to help the environment. volunteers in vietnam cleaned up trash from roadside in hanoi. activists in california, cleared debris from a los angeles river this weekend. the big push for this year's earth day is, reducing pollution from plastics. and, oakland a's pitch hears thrown the first no hitter of the 2018 season. he shut out the red hot boston red sox, who won 17 of 1 games. scored a total of 34 runs in
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their previous four games. the no hitter was the seventh in oakland a's history. boston had not been on the losing end of a no hitter since 1993. coming up next -- she was diagnosed with alzheimers a decade ago. dr. jon lapook checked in on her every year since. >> later, he donates dresses to girls in need. they get something more. self-esteem.
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an estimated 5.5 million americans, 65 and older living with alzheimers. tonight, chief medical correspondent, dr. jon lapook has the story of a patient named carol diagnosed a decade ago. >> reporter: when you heard the word alzheimers, what did that do to you? >> i was devastated. >> reporter: what makes this story so unusual is that almost
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every year for the past ten years, we have interviewed mike and carol, as the alzheimers took over her brain. even though this is intensely personal, they wanted all of us to see the devastating impact of alzheimers on each of them over a decade. >> what is your husband's name? >> my husband's? >> yes, his name? the guy sitting to your left? >> yeah. >> so, john, carol's husband mike became her sole care giver. what kind of toll has this taken on him? >> tremendous toll, elaine. here is a guy who was a staten island cop, retired, tough as nails, he said i can take care of this. but he couldn't take care of this. over the years he developed high blood pressure anxiety, chest pains, panic attacks. a gift from mike and carol to all of us. you may not want to watch this, too tough. you can't not watch it. teaching an important lesson. you cannot do it alone. you have to reach out to other people, alzheimers association
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can refer you for care services and for other types of support. >> you know there is no cure for alzheimers, yet researchers suggest getting early diagnosis, why is that? >> well, for one thing, you know to get your life in order to try to make plans. about what is going to happen in the future while you are with it. there is another reason which is that we realize now the changes in the brain, that, that happen with alzheimers, hatch pen, 10, 20, 30 years with the symptoms. what has been happening over the decade. trying medicines they have been working. we're trying them too late. if you give some body, heart medicine after fifth heart attack in heart failure. it's too late. the idea is get into a clinical trial. get diagnosed early. get into a clinical trial. maybe there is something if given earlier in the disease will in fact be helpful. >> dr. jon lapook. thank you. off awe still off. >> still ahead to build a home just press print. we'll show you how it is done.
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we end with a fashion entrepreneur, who is using fr fabric to foster the goals. the story of a man giving the gift of mentorship, one dress at a time. >> remember you from last time. you were fast. this timy got you smaller ones. >> for just a few hours. the boys and girls club in washington, d.c. has been
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transformed into a personal shop sk shopping experience. dozens of dresses for a select group of girls to choose from. all free of charge. >> online retailer, the ben factor. the dresses, the fulfillment of a promise he made to them. in return, for a promise of their own. >> i ask all the girls what their dream is. i toll them to achieve a long term goal you need short term goals. if they achieve it. i mail them dresses. >> this sound like more than just a dress all. tau >> i want to give them a belief system. >> his own support system helped hill launch his company. us trendy, one of the leading online retamers for young women tleechlt yea three years ago his company was taking off. had too many dresses. he donated them. went in. dropped off a box of dresses. appreciation was incredible. >> how do you go from the idea i want to provide dresses, positive reinforcement to being able to do it? >> initially.
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did the samples. ran out quickly. so -- >> people stopped sending you dresses. >> initially going to retail stores in the women's department. what is the guy doing. buying dresses. >> how much money did you spend last year? >> tens of thousand. >> worth it? >> absolutely. >> the investment turned into dresses for 4,000 girls in cities across the country. sam decided that with every dress, there was one additional come po component. mentorship. so important your to to know who you are. what you like. >> they discuss body image. bullying. and self love. >> i think that you are fantastic person. >> i think that you are a fantastic person. >> sam hopes together it will help them achieve their dreams. >> how many of you guys know what you want to do when you grow up? >> i want to be a lawyer and the president. >> what do you get from this? when you hear what their goals and dreams. everything from the first woman president, to surgeon. professional basketball player. remind me of myself.
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dream that you have, like so many times along the way people let go of it. and, so how do i foster that and nourish it. >> the girls in washington, d.c. are on to they second and third goals. tau haw >> my goal its to stand tall when somebody brings home. >> my goal is to finish. >> rihanna robinson, who wants to be president one day is working on love. >> to make choices. independent. be strong. she'll thing of sam and his encouragement when she wears her dress. >> i remember a strong feeling that sam gave me of like, when he let me get this dress. >> i could be the pinker girl ever. >> the pink feels silly. i don't feel silly. i feel happy. >> m powered a little bit too. >> i feel fearless now. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.
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the average cost of building a home in the united states is about $237,000. it typically takes more than three months. but crews in austin, texas say they can do the job in less than two days. for a fraction of the cost using 3 d printing. >> reporter: this isn't a technology that is going to help a little niche of the way we think of shelter. this is a paradigm shift in the way we build houses. >> reporter: this technology starts with a one ton 3 d printer which squeezed out enough concrete to build a small, two bedroom one bathroom single family home.
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>> jason ballar dichltz co-founder of ikon. >> this house was printed 47 hours at quarter speed. at full speed, could have printed this house in 11, 12 hours. >> a home in 11, 12 hours. >> on version one of the technology. >> designed to take families that have been living in tents or shacks. and to bring them into, what we believe is a beautiful home that they can build their lives on for the next few decades. >> runs the nonprofit. hoping to bring the technology to poor communities in el salvador by the end of next year. >> when you see a home like that, do you get excite add but the future? >> i do. i do the i am excite add but everything concrete. >> you are going to add. >> university of texas engineering professor, is an adviser on the project. while she sees the potential for 3 d printed homes she questions how the concrete mix will stand up over time. >> is there enough data out there saying, these kind of
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homes can be safe? >> no. there is not. there its not. >> reporter: does the building of the homes wait until there is data or do homes need to be built and study data? >> you have how to do both at the same time. if we wait until there is data to build it. you are never going to build it. >> ikon will use this model home as an office for the next few years while third party labs test long term durability. >> we will make ourselves of a guinea pig. this design has limitations. utilities like electric and plumbing, still need to be installed outside the walls. >> right now, just going to be, a novelty. it is just going to be, eye candy. >> even if all getz as planned it will likely be years before 3 d printing becomes a main stain of u.s. residential construction. that's the "overnight news" for monday. check back later for the morning
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news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city. i'm elaine quijano. > > welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. a manhunt is under way across the south for a gunman who opened fire sunday morning inside a waffle house restaurant near nashville. in the town of antioch in the hours before sunrise. at least four people are dead. two others are critically wounded. the gunman was half naked and with a semiautomatic assault style rifle. investigators say he was arrested last year near the white house. this is also the story of a hero who've took action and may have saved many lives. mark strassmann reports.
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>> reporter: the gunman killed two people in the parking lot before heading inside. where he killed two more. >> ryneking got out of his truck, armed with an ar 15 rifle. started shooting. he clearly came armed with a lot of fire power intending to devastate the south nashville area. >> chuck cordero watched him pull up in the parking lot. he shot some one at the door. my friend. i hit the ground. tried to keep an eye on him from under the car. heave shot a couple windows out.
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stepped inside and started shooting. >> his gun either got jammed, or he was freeing to reload. not exactly sure, but i saw my opportunity, my window. so i took it. >> reporter: customer, james shaw wrestled the gun away from the killer. and -- after he, he let it go with one hand. then when he just had, had it in his other hand. i take it. and i tossed it over the counter. >> yeah, they're in our yard now. >> police used dogs to search through dense brush for the suspect. a neighbor named jeremy searcy posted this video on twitter, said watching it unfold in my backyard. crazy. >> i saw them all on the news live from the helicopter over the hill realized that was behind our house. >> three victims were killed at the restaurant. fourth died later at the hospital. elaine they never stood a chance against a gunman who pulled into the parking lot and right away started shooting. >> mark strassmann, thank you.
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president trump spent the weekend at his mar a lago resort in palm beach, florida. he also had a busy weekend on twitter, weighing in on a variety of subjects from the russia investigation to north korea. errol barnett has the the latest. >> reporter: a weekend of presidential contrasts. while the country's four most recent presidents and four first lady paid their respects at the funeral for barbara bush, current president donald trump sent a flurry of frustrated tweets. about fired fbi director james comey, embattled personal attorney, michael cohen. as well as attorney general jeff sessions and his deputy rod rosenstein. >> he stand up for people in his inner circle. >> adviser to the president, kellyanne conway explained why mr. trump sent tweets about cohen currently under criminal investigation. >> he is defending someone he has worked with and known for a dozen plus years, dana, he thinks is being treated unfairly. >> special counsel robert
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mueller's probe is on the president's mind. mr. trump accusing comey on a book tour of illegally sharing classified memos to trigger the doj investigation. which comey denies. and attorney general sessions, who recused himself, said he would resign if rosenstein was fired. >> i think we all have frustrations. >> we believe the scope has gone well beyond what was intended. >> despite the president's anger, adviser mark short says no one is losing their job. >> an hourglass, when is he going to fire, rosenstein and mueller. we have the same conversation. as far as i know, the president has no intention of firing these individuals. >> reporter: late friday, another legal claim was made against those close to president trump. the dnc is seeking financial damages stemming from the 2016 hacking of its e-mail servers, naming donald trump jr., jared kushner, trump campaign and the russian government as defendants. president trump in response
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said, democrats are just suing republicans for winning the election. elaine. errol, thank you. french president macron arrives in the united states today for a three day visit it and state dinner at the white house. at the top of the agenda, convincing president trump the u.s. should abide by the nuclear agreement with iran. macron has no plan b. margaret brennan discussed the nuclear deal with the iranian foreign minister on face the nation. >> you said if the u.s. pulls out the outcome would be unpleasant. what did you mean by that? >> it will lead to u.s. isolation in the international community. everybody has the as vised this is not a bilateral agreement with iran and the united states. and withdrawing from it would be seen by the international community as indication that the united states its not a reliable
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partner. iran has many options. and those options are not pletz saipletz -- not pleasant. if the u.s. pulls out with iran abide by its term. >> if the benefits of the deal for iran start to diminish, then there is no reason for iran to remain in the deal. because it's -- not acceptable for us. to have a one-sided agreement. >> if the u.s. and its allies come to their own agreement, on the sidelines, to address some of the things that president trump is concerned about. will you accept that no? off awe wh >> what is important for the united states to bring the united states into compliance. because, iran has been in compliance with the deal. >> as you have said the president in your view is unpredictable and unreliable. are you saying no power, north korea, or anyone else will come to an agreement with america if
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they've break this? >> of the countries will make their own decisions. obviously this would be a bad precedent itch the united states send this message off to the international community that the length or duration of any agreement would depend on the duration of the presidency, that would, that would mean, people will, will at least think twice before they start negotiating with the united states. because negotiations involve give and take. and people will not be prepared to give if the take is only temporary. >> mitt romney failed to secure the utah republican party nomination to run unoppose ford orrin hatch's senate seat. hatch is retiring. romney, the 2012 republican nominee now has to square off against 11 other contenders in a june primary. >> nearly 60 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in
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congress is kidding a bill that would help enlisted families make ends meet. it is called the military spouse employment act. right now, 38% of military spouses are underemployed, compared to 8.1% for the rest of the nation. about 12% are unemployed. three times the national average. jan crawford has a look at the problem and what is being done to address it. >> reporter: you know a lot of demands on service members. frequent moves. long assignments away from home. we don't always think how hard it is on the military families. and it shouldn't be that difficult. so now, some lawmakers here on capitol hill, are trying to do
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something about it. >> is that good? >> laquisha cole its mother and small business owner whose husband served all over the world in the marines. >> we relocated. six times. 14 adresses in six moves. >> erin ward, a real estate agent spent two decades on the move as army wife. >> 19 moves later. >> 19 moves. in 24 years. >> while their husband served our country the women made sacrifices of their own. especially, in their careers. where freak went moves meant frequent job changes. >> i waited tables at red lobster. i worked at day-care centers. i have worked in government contracting. >> i have done everything from sell insurance to, to, worked in radio. so if you were to look at my resume and see that i have had, you know, 25 different jobs. that doesn't look very good, right. who want to hire that person that is not going to stick around.
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>> have you heard that personally from an employer. are you a military spouse? >> for professionals who require state licenses uprooting your career can be difficult if not impossible. >> i have to put my business on hold it will take six months to get my license, moving texas to florida. florida may not recognize texas licenses. same thing happens. we know attorneys, teachers. >> all contributes to this reality. in a recent survey, 77% said being a military spouse had negatively affected their careers. more than half of the spouses in the survey said they bring in no income. and nearly half of families had less than $5,000 saved. after years of frustration, cole and ward took matters into their own hands. starting their own businesses. >> i dent know whon't know what have done if i had not chosen entrepreneurship as career path. probably stressed out. rolled up in a ball in the corner some where.
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>> when you start hearing the stories what was your reaction? >> virginia senator tim kaine reps more military families. >> there was a patriotic desire. these people sacrifice. we have to create the patriotic mentality about these military spouses. >> there are signs that change is coming. >> with my signature. >> at the state level, nebraska governor, pete rickets made it easier for teachers, military spouses to find employment. >> outside groups like u.s. chamber of commerce, host career fairs, targeted at military spouses. kaine is pushing legislation at the national level. arguing that addressing the problem will benefit the military in the long run. >> i have a kid in the military. you know the brass always tells you, that you know, it's the soldier or marine makes the decision to come in. usually the reenlistment is made
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by a family. >> we are the backbone of military. i think if we had more people standing up behind us and saying, we believe in you. we are going to put -- the money. behind you. >> behind it. >> reporter: why is this an important issue to fix it? >> i think we should try to fix it. it is the right thing to do. we are the heroes on the home front. we are home keeping the kids together. we are the accountant, house cooper, we are all of these professions on a daily basis. just so that our spouses can go to work and serve the country. >> bye! >> now, erin and laquisha told us the problem has gotten so bad. more couples are living apart so the spouse can stay behind and work. senator kaine and
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that will help empower me. to which ben insincerely responded. how can i help? you didn't mean that? >> i wanted to see how does it work. >> you were curious. >> want to go down the rabbit hole. tee what the tricks were. >> no way you could have guessed where the rabbit hole was going to go. >> no way i could have guessed. >> the journey began when joel in africa pro pose aid business partnersh partnership. he asked ben to mail used electronics to new jersey. the electronics would be resold and profits split. >> i looked it up on google earth. in a sketch gee part of town. broken down cars all over the place. >> street view had a cop checking out the joint. still, joe insisted he would never take advantage. bible saysen proverbs 22, a good name is better than silver and gold. joel wrote. >> of course, ben didn't buy a word of it. so he pro posed a different
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partnership. he lied to joel. told him he owned a photography business and could use pretty pictures. >> how about a sunset? a nice liberian sunset? >> what you were going to pay him? >> yeah, good if i like it. sure. >> you are frying to keep him busy so he doesn't rip off somebody else. >> more time of theirs i could waste, less time they have ripping me or other people off. >> joel sent two sunset photos, we thing. >> i think there is a sun in there. >> turns out scenic photography wasn't exactly joel's strong suit. >> could be a pupil. >> not that it mattered. >> i told him this is great. >> great. good job. but i think you need belter camera. >> ben actually spent $60 to buy and mail him the shiny red one. >> this has gone beyond wasting his time. >> yeah. >> now you are wasting your time? >> investing money. my family thinkize am crazy. i am interaction with this guy in liberia. >> joel didn't think it was crazy at all. he wrote.
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i have decided to really commit and devote myself off to this business. what other pictures you want knee to take. >> ben replied. we have got to work on your photography. and eventually. joel did get belter. >> yeah, these are actually pretty good. >> which pose aid big problem. off awe when he put in the work, i thought, oh, no. now i have to fig krerfigure a compensate for the pictures. >> ben took to youtube to sell a booklet he made using the pictures. heave called it. by the grace of god. a phrase borrowed from messages. plan was to sell a few dozen copies to friends and families. until sales exploded. >> people around the world in places i never heard of were buying joel's book. soon they raised $1,000. ben told joel he could half. the rest, joel would get that too. but with a catch. ben told him he had to donate that $500 to charity. and so, with that intention in mind. ben wired the money.
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>> at this point. you need to know. $500 is like a year's salary in line beer yeah. so, it's kind of ridiculous to expect abunemployed, impoverished, hustler to give all the money away. the fact is ben never thought he would. until -- another batch of pictures arrived. there were book bags. notebooks. he cleaned out the market. rent the a cab to haul the loot. blessed five schools with abundance. joel, seen here with a crown inadvertently overhead, turned out to be more savior than scammer. >> he, came through. >> reporter: you were wrong about him? >> he showed me there was a different side to him. >> for ben, such a revelation. >> so here we are. >> he did something he never could have imagined a few months earlier. he traveled to monrovia, liberia. set aside his doubt and distrust. and opened his mind to the very
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real possibility fee that someone he thought was a builter enemy. >> hey, i know you. >> might actually be a friend. in disguise. >> joel. >> how you doing, man. >> yeah. >> good to see you. >> good new see you. >> first thing ben learned, joel never saw himself as the a scammer. joel saw his trolling more like a friend search. >> were you looking for a friend or somebody to give you money? >> my friend. before. >> beaver he will give you money. >> before they can give me money. >> some how you found ben on this phone? >> on that old dinosaur. >> face? book on there. >> joel used to send facebook messages to strangers hoping to find some way, someone to help him out of poverty. >> how, how desperate were you? >> more than desperate, steve. because, i'm the family. father of seven. to feed the kids. a lot of things that run into your mind. >> look what? >> go and do this t the wrong thing. >> there it is. >> unfortunately by de grace of god it never came to that.
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>> here is the book. >> they sold 6,000 copies. which means, this unlikely pair must now come up with a plan for their publishing enterprise. some of the profits will go towards joel basic need. like keeping rain out. >> brand new roof. off awe it looks good, man. >> they decided most money should be reinvested in the community. liberia is one of the poorest nations in the world. half the country survives on less than $2 a day. and because need is everywhere. >> good morning. >> ben and joel want to continue helping the most vulnerable. these are the children that got the school supplies. they would look to do more for them. >> we appreciate that so much. thank you. >> joel had to do a lot of work to make it happen. >> they're granting micro loans to entrepreneurs in the neighborhood. >> you are going to help them. right. >> and hope to do a lot more. >> i want to come back. >> because ben is no longer the sink who started all this. >> that's just not me. i have changed.
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i set out to embarrass a guy. i ended up helping a game. i would much rather continue to help people. you feel good when you help others. >> as for joel, he says he has changed too. >> bedroom. >> he still has the to support his wife and seven kids on what most of us spend at starbuck's. >> they share this area. >> joel is okay using much of the money to help others. in fact he says the opportunity to be charitable may be the best thing how to come from this. >> i received. >> now you are the giver. >> yeah. >> at one point, he sent you $500. >> yeah. >> he told you to spend the money not on yourself. >> uh-huh. >> but on others. >> why didn't you keep the money? >> it avenue stealing. and that would be dishonest. when you are truthful, when you are honest, you can be somebody. from zero to be a hero. i have gone from zero to hero. >> just because a person is poor
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fans of electronic dance music stunned by the news that ground breaking dj avici died in the nation of oman. avici one of the biggest names in the genre, edm. cause of his death is not known. local police found no evidence of criminal activity. vladamir duthier has the story unfortunate this young musical
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pioneer. >> avici one of the biggest stars of electronic dance music. died just days after being nominated for a billboard music award for his dance electronic album titled avici. he quickly became the hottest producer in the music industry. collaborating with beyonce and cold play. ♪ shoot across the sky along with country music artist, zach brown. tributes on social media began immediately upon the news of his passing. edm sensation calvin harris called avici a beautiful soul, passion that and extremely talented with so much more to do. diplo added you set the precedent for the rest of us producers. opened doors and set the trends. >> the dj had been plagued by health problems including acute pancreatitis, often associated with excessive drinking. he had surgery to remove gall bladder, appendix and canceled shows in an attempt to recover.
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>> i honestly feel great. i've never felt this good before. so many trips to the hospital, back and forth. there was so much going on at the same time. i was getting skinny. i was getting, everything, you know, i needed a break. just to be, home. >> in 2016 he announced his retirement from touring in a letter to fans on his website. saying i know i am blessed to be able to travel all around the world and perform. but i have too little left for the life of a real person behind the artist. ♪ st ♪ so wake me up >> the superstar dj continued to record. last fall was the subject of a documentary included his health str struggles. >> days before his death, the swedish performer posed with fans in oman, vacation destination on the arabian sea where he died. no cause of death was given. vladamir duthier, new york. >> that's the "overnight news" for monday. for some of you the news
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