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> president trump threatens to shut down the government at a raucou saturday night rally. >> if we don't get border security, we will have no choice. we will close down the country. >> scathing review of the white house correspondents dinner. >> tonight, showdown at the border. a caravan of migrants seeking asylum test the trump. >> a caravan does not give you additional legal rights. >> bill cosby on his sexual assault conviction and how a meeting with nelson mandela is preparing him for prison. >> we remember larry harvey the man behind burning man. >> the one-handed linebacker who made history this weekend at the nfl draft.
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>> i think i am in the best spot ever now. ♪ ♪ hi, welcome to the "overnight news." i'm demarco morgan. president trump threat tuned shut down the federal government inceptive congress does not approve more funding to build the wall on the mexico border. that was one of the topics the president used to fire up supporters at a raucous campaign style rally in michigan. the second year in a row the president found a reason to dodge the annual white house correspondents dinner. errol barnett has more from the white house. >> we must secure our borders. >> reporter: in a free wheeling speech last night in michigan, president trump let loose. threatening to close the country. >> wife don't get border security we have no choice. we will close down the country. >> skewering former fbi director, james comey. >> comby's a liar and a leaker. i did you a great favor when i fired this guy.
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>> suggesting for the first time, that russia directed lawyer natalya vitalyskia to admit she is an informant to sew chaos. >> putin and the group said trump is killing us, say you are involved with government. >> comey responded this morning. >> it doesn't give me any hope he is seeing or thinking clearly. >> the speech comes as the president trump premares to meet with north korean leader kim jong-un. >> they were saying, what do you think president trump had to do with it? i'll tell you what. like how about everything. today, secretary of state mike pompeo said easter weekend meeting with kim set the stage for trump's upcoming summit. >> my goal was to try to identify if there was a real opportunity there. i believe there is. >> pompeo in the middle east warning allies the president is likely to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal unless changes are made. he was asked if exiting that
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agreement jeopardizes talks with north korea. >> i don't think kim jong-un is staring at the iran deal and saying oh goodness if they get out of that deal i won't talk to americans any more. >> adam schiff disagrees. >> it is dangerously naive to think this is not going to influence whether the north koreans think we can be trusted. >> now president trump delivered his michigan speech at the same time as the white house correspondents dinner. which he chose not to attend. press secretary sarah sanders did so in his place, and became the target of host and comedienne michelle wolf's routine. president trump said the event was a big boring bust and wolf bombed. demarco. >> errol barnett at the white house. thank you. >> north korean leered, kim jong-un says he is willing to give up his nuclear weapons if the u.s. commits to a formal end to the korean war and voups not to attack the north. according to officials in south korea revealing more details of the historic meeting that took place friday on the korean
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peninsula. ben tracy has more from beijing. >> reporter: good evening, we are now starting to hear more about the conversations and the promises that were made during the summit between kim jong-un and south korean president moon. and some of it is pretty significant. now north korea had already promised to close down its nuclear testing site, which is very deep in the mountains. but according to south koreans, kim jong-un will now allow experts and journalists from the united states and south korea, into north korea next month to show them that it is indeed shut down. now despite reports that the site was heavily damaged and unusable. kim jong-un said the north still had two viable tunnels at the site, but that they will now officially close them. the south koreans quote kim jong-un as saying that president trump will realize that i am not some one who fires nuclears towards the south or the pacific or aim at the u.s. he apparently went on to say there will not be another korean war. stating, i affirm that there will be no use of force.
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now north korea is also changing its time zone to match south korea's. back in 2015, north korea set its clocks back a half-hour. known as pyongyang time. apparently kim jong-un says the first thing the two koreas should unify is their clocks. >> ben tracy reporting in beijing. >> a showdown at mexico border. hundreds of asylum seeking migrants are testing the trump administration tough stance against illegal immigration. mireya villarreal has the the latest. >> in tijuana, mexico, hundreds of migrants gathered, families with young children have very little with them. after nearly a month of traveling their journey's end is blocked by a fence that some have defiantly climbed to draw attention to their ultimate goal off sigh lum. >> maria galvez, mother from honduras is nervous what may happen to her family if she tries to cross into the u.s. >> she is part of a caravan of
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refugees that are now meeting with attorneys, preparing to ask the u.s. for asylum. >> refugees are welcome here. >> supporters who marched from los angeles to san diego are pro testing on the u.s. side of the fence. >> watch the caravan. watch how sad and, and terrible it is. >> at a rally outside detroit saturday night, president trump blamed democrats in office for the country's weak immigration policies. >> i call them the dumbest immigration laws anywhere on earth. if a person puts their foot over the line, we have to take them into our country. we have to register them. we then have to ask them a couple of questions. lawyers are telling them what to say. how unsafe they are. and once they say that, we have to let them go. >> the group will now test the trump administration's rhetoric criticizing their plans to seek asylum. >> immigration attorneys like evelyn weiss from san francisco, denies trump's accusation approaching the 400 migrants on
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how to cross the border. she says these people are not doing anything illegal. and neither are they. >> reporter: border patrol agents working near san diego say several groups associated with the caravan crossed into the united states illegally by climbing over a scrap metal fence. children as young as 4 and a pregnant woman were involved in several incidents. right now people seeking asylum are told the processing could take a while. and they might be separated from their families. during the detention process. demarco. >> mireya villarreal, reporting. thank you. they may have won their battle for 20% raise. teachers in arizona are expected to continue their walkout tomorrow, demanding increased school fundingai similar walkout under way in colorado. it follows a recent wave of teachers strikes in west virginia, oklahoma, and kentucky. the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.
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bill cosby talked to a new york news payer about his conviction. he said a meeting years ago with south african icon, nelson mandela is preparing him for prison. meg oliver has the story. days after bill cosby was guilty of drugging and salting a school league. page six and an intimate look to his reaction to the decision. this is what they wanted, cosby said. the comedian talked to the paper throughout both trials. they agreed nothing would be printed until the verdict. during the first trial, cosby was offered a deal to serve under house arrest, register as
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a sex offender and probation. cosby told page six why take a deal not when they want me to say i am a sex offender. i've didn't do what they said i did. over the years, more than 60 women accused cosby of sexual assaults. in addition to he testimony. five others testified against the actor during the second trial. they were in a fleiss say justice was done. cosby is under house arrest with gps ankle brussels let until sentencing. as he mentally prepares, cosby recounted his viz it with nelson mandela to his former prison cell. i sat in the cell where he lived and saw how he lived. what he had to eat to live and what he went through. so if they send me to that place, that's what they will do. >> bill cosby faces up to 30 years in prison. he plans to appeal the verdict which could delay imprisonment for months or even years.
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demarco. >> meg oliver reporting. thank you. the court is ruling that the woman must turn over her cell phone for forensic investigation. charged with invasion of privacy for allegedly taking a picture of the woman in a compromising position without her consent and threatening to release the photo if she revealed at fair. the woman's phone will be examined by a court appointed expert. triple a says a record number of americans are being killed in hit-and-run crashes. more than 2,000 died in 2016. and that's up 60% from 2009. kris van cleave has the the latest. cindy cooper's father john was riding his motorcycle and struck and killed by a car that ran a stop sign and took off in june 2007. >> we have gone through. we fried how to figure what happened how this could have been prevented. >> the driver who killed her father was a 17-year-old using her cell phone.
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in 2016, nearly 2,000 deadly hit-and-run accidents claimed 2,049 lives. pedestrians and cyclists make up 65% killed by a hilt and run driver. this dash-cam caught most common type of hit-and-run crash. one that results in property damage. watch as the driver of this dark colored suv sideswipes a vehicle and just keeps on going. >> obvious potential contributing factors, distraction for pedestrians, psych mists and cyclists. as more more people are out walking and biking there are not infrastructure measures. >> research on hit-and-run drivers is limited those at fault often get away. >> often times we don't know who the hit-and-run drivers are. we know the victims. >> when the crashes are deadly research shows the driver is more likely to be a young male with prior history of driving under the influence and license
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suspension and tends to drive an older model car. studies found drivers who leave the scene between two and nine times to have been in toks kated at the time of the crash. but cindy cooper hopes her story can help change this trend. >> raising awareness is how i feel like we can combat this. it is just going to make that, hopefully number to go down. >> reporter: it is illegal in every state to flee the scene of an accident. colorado and some cities in california have implemented something similar to an amber alert for hilt and run drivers. that sends out a description of the vehicle. the text, e-mail over tv and radio. kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. larry harvey, the man behind burning man has died. harvey suffered a stroke this month. and passed away yesterday in san francisco. he co-founded annual burning man music festival in 1986. it attracts 70,000 people a year to nevada the desert. it was harvey's idea to set fire to a towering wooden figure and
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burn it to the ground at the end of the counterculture festival. larry harvey was 70 years old. coming up. bill and melinda gates put 20,000 low income students through college. the lessons learned from their generous program. >> later, the feel good story of the nfl draft. shaquim's dream comes true. you ok there, kurt? we're about to move. karate helps... relieve some of the house-buying...
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well, we couldn't have said it better ourselves. try new dove men+ care stain defense for anti stain and anti mark protection bill gates is one of the richest and most famous entrepreneurs in the world. nearly 20 years ago he and his wife pledged $1 billion to send 20,000 low income minorities students to college. scott pelley find out what bill and melinda gates have learned from their scholarship program. >> i'm bill. >> hi. >> how are you? >> imagine having a couple billionaires walk into your life and make the seemingly impossible possible. >> hi. nice to meet you. >> that's what bill and melinda gates did for the students at university of central florida. they're among 20,000 nationwide whose tuition and expenses were paid in full. >> when you were notified you
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received the scholarship was that a letter an e-mail, phone call, how did that come to you? >> a letter. >> snail mail? >> yeah. >> really? >> it was priority. >> the founder of microsoft and you got a snail mail acceptance letter. when you got that letter, what did you think? >> my mom, she opened my mail. and then that's when she broke the news to me that i got the scholarship. >> i'm sorry. >> nearly 70% of americans don't have a degree. and kyra kelly was destined to be one of them. she grew up in poverty and today she wastes nothing. because as a child, she often had only one meal a day. the free lunch at school. >> i guess i never really dreamed of going to college. i just knew i just had to do
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what i could bu to make sure my family and i could survive. >> when you started the scholarship what were the big questions you wanted to answer? >> well one was whether, group of minority students could have very high achievement, go off to the toughest universities if, if there was no financial constraint. >> you assumed that minority students would do as well in higher education, but what you were looking for was data. hard facts. >> you bet. what's proven itself out now with the scholarship program, you remove that barrier, they don't only do as well as white peers no matter what zip code they're from, they often do better. >> what's behind the hiv epidemic, ravaging african-american communities and the deep south. olay regenerist shatters the competition.
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hiv rates are declining in the united states due to prevention efforts and awareness. in the deep south the epidemic continues to ravage african-american communities. the stigma of hiv maz many suffering in silence. jackson, mississippi, seeing some of the highest rates of new cases. >> a lot of the people that i are hiv positive are afraid. they're afraid to speak out. because they're afraid of the
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rejection. >> for 12 years, jacqueline wilson has been living with hiv in a region of deep south that is in the throes of an epidemic some would rather ignore. >> some of my family members didn't want me around them because i was hiv positive. >> centers for disease control and prevention says the epicenter of the nation's hiv crisis ills shifted to the south which has the highest rates of new hiv infections nationwide. of the nearly 40,000 cases diagnosed each year. more than 50% are in the southern states. at open arms, an lgbtq health care center in jackson, mississippi, deja abdul haq and her team ns wed the alarming trend firsthand. african-americans are most severely affected. >> we have a high poverty rate. our education systems are inadequate. our health care systems are inadequate. >> health officials say, southern states are behind in adopting new hiv prevention methods, and people are not
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seeking out testing, care and prevention, because of stigma. one of the biggest challenges in the deep south is simply getting to a place that offers treatment. and many areas, the nearest clinic is easily dozens of miles away and some patients have no way to get there. open arms top priority is giving patients like wilson access to the care they need. even taking them to their appointments. >> if i've don't have a ride. i don't get to see my doctor. >> people on the front lines say the rest of the nation needs to open its eyes. >> we collectively have to figure out how to got to zero here i we can get to zero in jackson, i believe the united states of america can say firmly that we have eradicated hiv. >> she hopes with compassion and much more attention, they can get there. >> bye, beautiful. >> kenneth craig, cbs news, jackson, mississippi. up next, the remarkable story of the one handed linebacker, and the dream that just became reality.
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together, we're building a better california. we end with one of the coolest stories of the nfl draft. shaquem griffin, one handed linebacker joining his twin brother on the seattle seahawks. he said it was a dream come true. when the general manager of the seattle seahawks called.
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shaquiem griffin answered. >> shaquiem griffin. >> after choosing him in the fifth round of the nfl draft, the team now expects the 22-year-old linebacker to deliver big plays this season. >> i wasn't too kur read about where i was going or when i was going. but, just, wanting to go some where. and i think i am in the best spot ever now. >> he gets him down. >> but the college football career including scholarships to the university of central florida behind them, shaquiem's move to seattle means he will be team mates with twin brother, shaquiel griffin who joined the seahawks squad last year. >> for me, having my brother beside me. being able to have competition with him. i knew what my, what my ability was the i knew what i can do. >> earlier this year, his ajilly impressed recruiting teams at the nfl combine. >> there you go. >> lack it out. >> bench pressing 225 times, 20 times with a prosthetic hand.
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he is an amputee since age 4. congenital birth defect left him with one functioning hand. >> ate young age i had the mentality, never let nobody tell me what i couldn't do. make sure when somebody did, i got it done no matter how long, or how hard, i made sure i got a job done. >> hi, shaquim. >> his elevation to the nfl celebrated by 12-year-old, born with amniotic band syndrome. >> good luck. >> hi. >> shaquiem explained what his golden opportunity means. >> what it means is to be able to set a standard. and get away from people saying, setting limitations on others because. i want to start helping people and inspiring people to be the best they can be. even without football. football doesn't define me it's who he can help that defines him. >> that's the "overnight news" for monday. for some the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and of course, cbs this morning.
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from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm demarco morgan. hi, welcome to the "overnight news." i'm demarco morgan. president trump threat tuned shut down the federal government inceptive congress does not approve more funding to build a wall on the mexico border. that was one of the topics the president used to fire up his supporters at a raucous campaign style rally in michigan. for the second year in a row the president found a reason to dodge the annual white house correspondents' dinner. errol barnett has more from the white house. >> we must secure our borders. >> reporter: in a free wheeling speech last night in michigan, president trump let loose. threatening to close the
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country. >> if we don't get border security we have no choice. we will close down the country. >> skewering former fbi director, james comey. >> comey's a liar and a liker. i did you a great favor when i fired this guy. >> suggesting for the first time, that russia directed lawyer natalya vitalyskia to admit she is an informant to sew quay yos -- chaos in the u.s. >> putin and the group said trump is killing us, say you are involved with government. >> comey responded this morning. >> it doesn't give me any hope he is seeing or thinking clearly. >> the speech comes as the president trump prepares to meet with north korean leader kim jong-un. >> they were saying, what do you think president trump had to do with it? i'll tell you what. like how about everything. today, secretary of state mike pompeo said easter weekend meeting with kim set the stage for trump's upcoming summit. >> my goal was to try to identify if there was a real
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opportunity there. i believe there is. >> pompeo in the middle east warning allies the president is likely to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal unless changes are made. he was asked if exiting that agreement jeopardizes talks with north korea. >> i don't think kim jong-un is staring at the iran deal and saying oh goodness if they get out of that deal i won't talk to americans any more. >> adam schiff disagrees. >> it is dangerously naive to think this is not going to influence whether the north koreans think we can be trusted. >> now president trump delivered his michigan speech at the same time as the white house correspondents dinner. which he chose not to attend. press secretary sarah sanders did so in his place, and became the target of host and comedienne michelle wolf's
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routine. president trump said the event was a big boring bust and wolf bombed. demarco. >> errol barnett at the white house. thank you. >> north korean leered, kim jong-un says he is willing to give up his nuclear weapons if the u.s. commits to a formal end to the korean war and vows not to attack the north. according to officials in south korea revealing more details of the historic meeting that took place friday on the korean peninsula. ben tracy has more from beijing. >> reporter: good evening, we are now starting to hear more about the conversations and the promises that were made during the summit between kim jong-un and south korean president moon. and some of it is pretty significant. now north korea had already promised to close down its nuclear testing site, which is very deep in the mountains. but according to south koreans, kim jong-un will now allow experts and journalists from the united states and south korea,
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into north korea next month to show them that it is indeed shut down. now despite reports that the site was heavily damaged and unusable. kim jong-un said the north still had two viable tunnels at the site, but that they will now officially close them. the south koreans quote kim jong-un as saying that president trump will realize that i am not some one who fires nuclears towards the south or the pacific or aim at the u.s. he apparently went on to say there will not be another korean war. stating, i affirm that there will be no use of force. now north korea is also changing its time zone to match south korea's. back in 2015, north korea set its clocks back a half-hour. known as pyongyang time. apparently kim jong-un says the first thing the two koreas should unify is their clocks. >> ben tracy reporting in beijing. margaret brennan discussed the summit with john bolton on "face the nation." >> do you believe kim jong-un is ready to negotiate away his weapons or trying to soften his if a image? >> i don't think we know if he made a determination, north korea would be better off without nuclear weapons. then i think we have something to talk about. the president would be eager to capitalize on the opportunity. but i think it is clear we are
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here where we are today because of the pressure that the trump administration has put on north kor korea economic, political, pressure. widely recognized. president moon of south korea himself repeatedly said the opportunities for the olympics, opportunity for the north-south summit would not have occurred without this pressure campaign, the prime ministers of japan, and australia, the president of france, the chancellor of germany have all said the same thing. so that's why we are here now. and i think it is, up to the north koreans to show us that they do intend to give up nuclear weapon. >> a showdown at the mexican border. hundreds of asylum seeking migrants are testing the trump administration tough stance against illegal immigration. mireya villarreal has the the latest. >> in tijuana, mexico, hundreds of migrants gathered, families with young children have very little with them. after nearly a month of traveling their journey's end is blocked by a fence that some have defiantly climbed to draw attention to their ultimate goal
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of asylum. >> maria galvez, mother from honduras is nervous what may happen to her family if she tries to cross into the u.s. >> she is part of a caravan of refugees that are now meeting with attorneys, preparing to ask the u.s. for asylum. >> refugees are welcome here. >> supporters who marched from los angeles to san diego are pro froesing -- protesting on the u.s. side of the fence. >> watch the caravan. watch how sad and, and terrible it is. >> at a rally outside detroit saturday night, president trump blamed democrats in office for the country's weak immigration policies. >> i call them the dumbest immigration laws anywhere on earth. if a person puts their foot over the line, we have to take them into our country. we have to register them. we then have to ask them a couple of questions. lawyers are telling them what to say. how unsafe they are. and once they say that, we have to let them go.
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>> the group will now test the trump administration's rhetoric criticizing their plans to seek asylum. >> immigration attorneys like evelyn weiss from san francisco, denies trump's accusation approaching the 400 migrants on how to cross the border. she says these people are not doing anything illegal. and neither are they. >> reporter: border patrol agents working near san diego say several groups associated with the caravan crossed into the united states illegally by climbing over a scrap metal fence. children as young as 4 and a pregnant woman were involved in several incidents. right now people seeking asylum are told the processing could take a while. and they might be separated from their families. during the detention process. demarco. >> mireya villarreal, reporting. thank you. they may have won their battle for 20% raise. teachers in arizona are expected to continue their walkout tomorrow, demanding increased school funding. a similar walkout is
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if you are planning a summer rental on lake tahoe. you may want to check the fine print. locals are so fed up with air bnb crowds. how about $1,000 caught in your own hot tub after 10:00 p.m.? carter evans has the story. >> reporter: when you visit a resort community like this, you are looking forward to spending time in great outdoors and probably not expecting pamphlets from the city explaining rules, visitors have to follow, to
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avoid getting $1,000 fine on their vacation. surrounded by the sierra nevada, lake tahoe, an alpine paradise. that attracts nearly 3 million visitors each year. but in the small community of south lake tahoe, long time resident peggy borland says tourists are taking over. >> what has changed game up here? >> the internet. vacation platforms. >> there are 1800 rental properties in this small city. >> this one right here is a vacation rental. two large ones are vacation rentals. >> borland said it is changing the community and would look to ban rentals in residential areas. >> when ape tourist comes here they anticipate they can do what they want to do, want to be in a hot tub late at night. have friends over and all these things. it is not compatible with residential neighborhoods. >> the city changed the ordinance after neighbors raised concerns. it fines both the vacation
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homeowner and the renter $1,000 each your things like, parking on the street at any time, having too many houseguests, or getting into the hot tub after 10:00 p.m. >> the new ordinance doesn't make any sense. punitive. unfair. >> silicon valley entrepreneur, jonathan miller says his tahoe rental home its parted of his retirement plan. >> come to tahoe. suddenly some one parks on the street. they get $1,000 fine. how are they going to feel about that? they're going to hate tahoe, california. never coming back here again. here is our beautiful hot tub. >> he received two fines. under the updated rules if he gets one more ticket he will be banned from renting his home for life. >> i don't want to feel like i am unwelcome. that doesn't make any sense at all. i am contributing to the economy. why am i punished for that. >> why that large number? >> they need to have strong fines so that we can ensure peace and tranquility of neighbors. >> the mayor says he is trying
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to strike a balance within the tourism community. the city relies on vacation rentals for $3 million in taxes. it is a struggle facing an increasing number of cities. >> there is 2700 cities, north america now, that has more than 100 short term rentals. so this is not just a big city, or coastal or like, like, ski resort issue. this is a national issue. >> orlich benzer, a company that helps track and tax vacation rentals. the number of listings increased about 800% in the last eight years. to 2.3 million. cities look new orleans, nashville, palm springs engaged in similar fights over whether rentals should be allowed. >> you don't think the fines are the solution? >> no. it's, a big band-aid on problem that has to be solved in a different way. >> reporter: some community members want to take this directly to the voters. if they get enough signatures on
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>> we didn't see them at first. but out of the mist, there they were. like giant moss covered icebe icebergs. the westman island out of the atlantic off the southern coast of island. none are inhabited save one. the island of heme, and even it almost wasn't. a volcano erupted back in 1973 forcing the evacuation of everyone here. there are now about 4,500 hardy souls who live in the fishing village. but they weren't who we came to visit. we came to see the residents perched high in those cliffs. the islands' atlantic puffins. they're impossibly cute. even if birding isn't your thing. they're colorful beak inspired their nickname, clowns of the sea. and every spring, they make these islands their big top.
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they couldn't be more celebrated here. a six-foot puffin statue greets tourists in the harbor. street signs bear their beak and benches. there puffin paraphernalia for purchase. >> they have been a big attaatt for tourism now one of our biggest industries. >> but by ol jithis by ol jils puffins are not as plentiful as they once were. numbers declining. down by a third or more he says. just since 2002. >> the species is still very abundant in, in the atlantic. but, when you have this long term declines, then you start getting worried. and if this continues it is not going to send very well. >> it is not all puffin hunting to blame. yes, that does happen. it's been going on since the vikings settled the place. in fact we found puffin as appetizer at one of the island's restaurants. while the hunting certainly
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doesn't help. hanson says the puffins have breeding problems for one. we followed him to the top of the sea cliffs where he inspected puffins boroughs. >> you can see underneath the wing here. outside. it is hiding something on the wing. a chick underneath here. >> only 55% of the boroughs had an egg inside. normally he says, about 75% of them do. >> there is a food shortage too he thinks. baby puffins, pufflings eat sand eels, the silver fish in their parents' mouths. but they have been in short supplies he says because of rising ocean temperatures. >> this one has, is incubating a small chick. very late. and i'm sure that chick is going to make it. >> just getting out of the boroughs to begin their lives could be risky. it happens after the sun dips into the atlantic. and the moon rises high above. instinct tells baby puffins to follow the moonlight out to sea.
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but the lights from the heme are bar have given the moon competition. many puffins get confused and fly towards town instead. where they starve or end up in the clutches of a hungry cat. and that's when something called the puffling patrol armed with head lamps and flash lights scrambles into the inky black. >> a puffin? >> yes, two. >> two. >> this is a rescue effort that has been generations in the making. one that led, by the children of heme. >> like 7-year-old aaron sinderson. it was like christmas morning when his dad sindry woke him up before midnight. aaron didn't want to miss a moment of the annual puffin ritual. >> do i get anything special i've spot one. a puffin award. >> you got to catch it. >> i get to catch it. >> to catch one though you have to find one. >> is that one right there?
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>> black birds on black streets. no easy task. >> a piece of trash. >> but, before long, a little luck. >> there's one up there. there's one. >> aaron and his mom, hilder raced out of the car. in search of the puff spin prize. >> some times the catch doesn't stay a catch. >> it can go on like this for hours. >> there's another one there. there. there. there. at one point, aaron started making what i assumed was a puffin mating call of sorts. and it worked. he even rescued one right in his grandmother's backyard.
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pufflings were everywhere. and so were their pint-sized rescuers, which explained this charming sight the following morning. a parade of kids, bundled against the cold, some barely old enough to walk. bringing their catch to the shore. and setting their pufflings free. aaron and his little sister sarah among them. >> this is something we did when we were younger the i am very glad to be able to do it with my kids. >> what's so sweet about it, it really is a tradition. handed down from one generation to another. right? >> right. it is. it's -- it's quality family time. sometimes there is, there is a little bit of sadness and some tears if, we go home and we didn't find any. but there is quality time that you have with your family. >> looking up from the tablets and stuff like that. >> oh.
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go. >> this is only part of the puffin patrol's mission. all those kids with all those boxes, first, bring their puffins here to the local aquari aquarium all. where did you find him? >> close to the harbor? >> close to the harbor? >> this is where kindness and science meet. each puffling is weighed, wing span measured, and all puffin particulars are entered into a handwritten journal. they're tagged too. each given their own number. >> i just love it. it's -- it's good energy here. yeah. >> good energy. good research. as the it turns out. biologist, herbert hanson is happy for all the pint-sized help. >> how much does that add to the data you have? >> that's the key. this is already over 2,000. i think it will end in probably some where 5,000 or so. >> all fairy tale kind of stuff except for the puffins themselves. and no one is more aware of the
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stress it puts on the birds than their rescuers. >>some times they make a little weird noise. >> weird noise? >> maybe they're saying thank you? >> no. >> they might be. >> how do they say thank you by biting? >> good point. >> there's an understanding it seems between bird and child. an unspoken promise that its kept as soon as they're both back at that wind swept cove. where friendship is trade ford freedom. a technique to it, sort of a two handed softball pitch. >> one, two, three! >> go, go, go. nearly 5,000 pufflings were scooped up, tagged and put back on course this season. one of the largest rescue missions in over a decade. if all goes well they will return from the open ocean to
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raise their own chicks here where aaron and his young friends will be waiting.
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some parts of the country spring is in full bloom. but for the rest of us, especially baseball fans, this is the coldest start to a season ever recorded. dean reynolds has the chilly details from wrigley field in chicago. >> this is what baseball calls inclement weather. what the rest of us call a lousy spring. >> numbing my face and my toes and my fingers. >> reporter: snowfall and wind chills part of the big league lexicon, runs, hits, errors. a record 28 mlb postponements
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from rain and snow so far. who wants to play in this? >> i think it is still winter. >> no, it's spring though fans are fit for polar expa digss. >> go, tigers! >> minneapolis could have had a winter carnival for the last month. if you have to lay blame, try the jet stream. which plummeted much lower and stayed longer than usual across the region. but the wintry grip may be loosening. >> this is a beautiful day. >> it is. actually some sun. >> we spoke with the national weather service alongside the facility's still standing snow fence. ⌞> so does it look like we are finally done? he asked with anxiety in his voice? >> it looks like for the next seven days we don't have any snow here in chicago. >> warm weather welcome on the farm. corn planting hasn't begun in eight states. where it was already under way a year ago. >> how long have you been farming? >> about, 50-some years.
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>> in illinois, bob blewer and his son jeff are two weeks late getting to his frigid 1800 acres. >> soil temperature is not warm enough. >> the ground is too cold. >> too cold. >> ground thermometer stuck in the 30s last week. 20 degrees below what a seed needs. >> i raise tomatoes, peppers, anything in a farmer's market. >> reporter: over the years we have been with bob and his family through droughts and floods like the one five years ago. >> did you ever think you would see fish in your field? >> no, not especially here. >> reporter: now it is the cold. >> we just got to deal with mother nature on a day fish do-day basis. the cubs playing this weekend. should be cold with a chance of rain. snow. no forecast of snow. next week it will be may. surely it won't snow in may, right? >> that's the "overnight news" for monday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and of course,
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