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>> a new york judge called his misconduct in super storm sandy case remorseless saying neilson's failure to exercise reasonable diligence, harmed flood victims. court documents show neilson's firm demanded depositions to verify receipts that would have cost far more than the bill themselves. >> can you imagine lose everything that you, that you have, ever had in your life. and you paid for insurance? >> the brown's attorney. his law firm also represented victims of super storm sandy. in court against neilson's firm. >> there was no effort to mitigate the cost. in many cases we were asked to have experts reinspect for a third time homes that were totally destroyed. >> a public information request revealed, fema paid neilson's firm at least $29 million for sandy cases alone. neilson declined our request for an on-camera interview. and hadn't acknowledged
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receiving our questions. so, our producer went to his office. >> he is here. but he's not available. >> mr. neilson. we're with cbs news. >> we caught up with him in the parking garage to ask about his legal fees. >> some of what you have asked clearly is privileged. later neilson wrote cbs a letter he was acting at direction of his clients. all his bills were reviewed by the clients and fema. >> we just want to put the house back together. we are still like this right now. >> what is your message to the people who could do something about this? >> just think about what we are going through. we are not asking for much. we just want our house back together. so we can just be happy again. that's all. >> still ahead here tonight. officers shoot and kill a man on his own property. why does the department's explanation keep changing? >> later, state of emergency declared as residents escape a large wildfire.
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georgia. ricky boyd was killed outside his house. official explanation changed several times. here is mark strassmann. >> and then, boom. >> boom. >> he is, he is shot, he is fall in to the ground. >> she has seen the body camera video of police shooting her son 20-year-old ricky boyd. right outside the family's front door back in january. >> so horrible. to have to watch my child get gunned down. police wanted to question boyd about a homicide. minutes later he was dead. interim police chief, mark revenue the day of the shooting. >> the suspect initiated gunfire towards officers. the officers returned gunfire. >> hours later they said boyd had a gun, but never mentioned he fired it. state investigators later said, it was only a bb gun. >> did you ever see a gun that
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he held in that video? >> no, sir. >> family lawyer william clayburn says this photo shows a bb pistol lying in a neighbor's yard. the body is here. how far is it from where the body is fund to where the gun is found? >> 43 feet. >> what explains that? >> there is no explanation. >> we want to savannah police for answers to their shifting account. they declined to talk about any aspect of the case. smiley demanded answers before savannah city council last week. >> i am prepared to stand here until i get an answer. >> ma'am, the city cannot release the video. the district attorney has asked that it not be released. >> they didn't have to kill my son. they didn't have to kill him. i'm so sorry. they didn't have to kill him. >> the local district attorney's office is investigating the case. jeff, they told us their final report and a decision whether to
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>> arizona's governor declared state of emergency. the fire, 13 1/2 square miles. started friday. the cause unknown. flames have destroyed a number of homes. 500 others are threatened now. the jury that convicted bill cosby of sexual assault last week speaking out for the first time. in a statement today, jurors said they were not swayed by celebrity, race or me too movement. one juror told abc that cosby's deposition in which he admitted giving women drugs to have sex with them did seal his fate. cosby who is 80 faces 30 years in prison. they're the former boy band that catapulted justin timb timberlake to stardom. nsync to receive their walk of fame. up next, shaquiem griffin.
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griffin got the call. headed to the nfl and inspiring countless young athletes. here is jim ak elrod. >> when we met him a few weeks ago, the feel good story of the nfl draft, he was just hoping to get picked. >> the opportunity. because they're going to, going to fear for who i am. >> the story of a linebacker whose birth defect left him without a left hand. >> seattle seahawks, fifth round selection. shah ke griffin. >> not only got better when he was drafted but landed on the same team as twin brother shaquiel. >> in the best spot ever now. >> feel good became something else entirely to younger fans across the country.
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>> i love watching you play football in college. can't wait to cheer you on in the nfl. >> just as julianna linton, 12 year old cheerleader who can double as president of the shaquiem griffin fan club. >> i do competitive cheer with one hand. he does professional football with one hand. >> does it feel that way. if he can do it. you can diet. >> i can do it. >> or a soccer player in florida. both girls were born with the same condition, amniotic band syndrome as shaquiem. >> this is just really amazing. and he pushed so hard to be where he is now. it inspires me to never, ever, stop. no matter how many times i am told to. >> and beth now share something else. a new favorite football player. >> jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. that is the "overnight news" for tuesday. for some of you the news
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continues. welcome to the "overnight news." i'm tony dokoupil. hundred of central american migrants remain penned up on the mexico side of the u.s. border. stuck in a no-man's land between teen juan na and san diego. the so-called might ranlt care strain made a 2,000 mile trek up the spine of central america. and despite warnings, that they went be allowed into the united states, none seemed ready to turn around and go home. mireya villarreal its there. >> this is where the standoff is happening. standing right in the middle of it. a group of immigrant that have actually set up a tent city. are pinned against the border.
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just over that fence. after a month long trek through central america, 200 migrants have set up the encampment in tee juan narks mexico. this woman, and her 1-year-old son and several children are recovering from a fever and the flu. from a fever and the flu. after traveling through mexico on a train called the beast. she is seeking asylum after two of her family members were killed by gang violence in honduras, is part of an annual caravan started, traveled to mexico city through sinaloa to tijuana. you can't live there anymore. >> no. >> less than a two hour drive away, vice president mike pence talked immigration enforcement today. >> we have been watching, with great interest.
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the advance of the so-called caravan. >> asylum seekers are following u.s. law. they have to prove a credible fear of persecution in their home country. if they pass that initial interview they will likely have to make their case to a judge who decides whether to grant asylum. last year only four applications from this caravan were granted. the group was largely ignored until president trump used them to highlight the immigration debate. >> our immigration laws in this country are a total disaster. they're laughed at all over the world. >> it became public after donald trump kind of look got angry with the caravan. >> this man is the director of the group that started these caravans back in 2008. he says most people here, have little choice but to wait. >> this is a separation, temporary separation. if they go back the separation will be final. a lot of them will die. a mexican immigration official tells me this standoff is causing bigger problems for the u.s. and mexico. this group, far as he know is planning to stay for weeks,
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months if they have to. jeff, this group isn't asking for special treatment they just want to be seen. benjamin netanyahu is pulling out all the stops, trying to convince president trump to pull the united states out of the nuclear treaty. netanyahu face is a criminal investigation at home. went on national television to press his case against tehran. major garrett has the view from the white house. >> i am here to till yell you o thing. iran lied. big time. >> unveiling bookshelves full of binders, israeli prime minister, netanyahu said today his government captured tens of thousands of documents. thousands of documents proving iran pursued nuclear weapons while it told the world it only sought civilian nuclear power. >> incriminating charts. incriminating presentations. incriminating blue prints. incriminating photos. incriminating videos. and more.
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>> netanyahu said the material was taken from a secret government facility he called iran's atomic archive. even after the deal, iran continued to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons knowhow for future use. why would a terrorist regime hide and meticulously catalog secret nuclear files if not to use them at later date. >> netanyahu's speech ahead of a may 12 deadline for president trump to decide whether the u.s. will stay in the obama era nuclear deal. that agreement lifted economic sanctions on iran in exchange for international inspections of nuclear fa sill teetz. at the white house, mr. trump said he was keeping his options open. >> i'm not telling you what i am doing. a lot of people think they know. on or before the 12th we'll make decision. >> israelis shared their intelligence with the u.s. before today's press conference. mr. trump said it proved the agreement was a bad deal. >> i have been saying that is happening.
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they're not sitting back, idly, they're setting off missiles they say are for television purposes.thk so. >> the president's new secretary of state, mike pompeo said this at confirmation hearing earlier this month. >> with information i have been provide i'd have no, i have seen no evidence that they're not in compliance today. privacy advocates are sounding the law after police used a dna database to track the golden state killer. they used ged match.com to name joseph james diangelo a suspect in a dozen murders and scores of rapes in the 70s and 80s. some people will profiles on ged match complain they have become unwitting participants in a de facto police database. >> the cutting edge tools used to crack the case of the golden state killer can be found inside this yellow house in lakeworth, florida.
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ged match.com reportedly has one million dna profiles. including distant relatives of joseph james diangelo, 72-year-old ex-police officer arraigned last friday. for two decades. investigator paul holes has been tracking the golden state killer. >> we were striking out. using traditional dna databases. >> four months ago he uploaded dna from the crime scene to ged match. the site identified some one who had the same great, great, great, great grandfather a killer. from there, investigators built an elaborate family tree, with roughly 1,000 people. and then used a process of elimination to zero in on suspects. >> individuals within that pool of people, that fit the criteria that we know about the offender, roughly his age. geographic locations. >> police didn't need a subpoena or search warrants because ged match is open source manying any one can use it. its terms and policy statement says if you require absolute
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privacy and security, we must ask that you do not upload your data to ged match. if you already have it here, please delete it. >> i dent think the police should be able to collect innocent people's dna and put it in a database. >> nyu law professor erin murphy says when people use genealogy web sites they're sharing information about themselves, ancestors and descendants. >> if you didn't want any one looking aat your dna, you shouldn't have put it on the website. fair enough. what about the child of the person? what about their children's children. >> while law enforcement use of criminal dna databases is tightly controlled. the same can't be said about public dna web sites. >> reality its searches are going on. dna is collected. and i think we need an accounting of how much. how intrusive. its that okay with us? >> and, in order to use ged match investigators clicked on a box saying that dna was theirs,
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this-- whatever you want, a pair of whatever you want. this was a roast, and you're the ones who hired michelle wolf. being mad at her for doing her job is like accusing the valet of briefly stealing your car. ( laughter ) for years now, cities have been trying to convince people to leave the car at home and take mass transit or a bicycle instead. more than 50 cities are operating bike share programs or electric scooter rentals. gotten so popular the big problem has become, where to park the bikes and scooters. kris van cleave has the the stories from the streets and sidewalks of washington, d.c. >> good morning. these scooters and bikes are likely a case of technology out, outpacing the laws, but they are zipping across cities, coast to coast, and, you know they're inexpensive. aimed at last mile or so of your
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commute. however they're bringing out the worst in some people. you can see why the electric scooters and dockless bikes earned the name litter bikes. people can and are leaving them just about anywhere. in the middle of a busy walk way on national mall. up a tree in seattle. on the shoulder of a highway in virginia. or, in the water. this man, was arrested after throwing one on to the tracks in front of a d.c. metro train. what's the biggest challenge to operating in a dense city. >> educating the public on appropriate parking. parking, parking. parking. we need to remind people that they need to park the bikes as they would with any other responsible use product. maggie from line bike which operates in 50 cities says riders tend to learn the proper it quit quickly and technology is changing how people get around. >> it is making, movement, for short distances, more convenient and alug people to not have to rely on a car.
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40% of rides started and ended. >> riders find them with an app and can ride for a dollar. scooters can hit speed 15 miles an hour. riders are encouraged to wear health melts. use bike lanes and avoid sidewalks. >> i like the dockless ones. drop off wherever. coachfully find one. >> most established bike share programs use docking stations can cost cities mill ynz to install. the dockless bikes are privately owned, require no taxpayer dollars and can be left anywhere. >> i hate when they're scattered all over the sidewalks. in san francisco that's a problem. whiefl t while the city rolls out. cease and desist letters sent to three companies to submit plans to satisfy local requirements. come pans will work with the city. people are picking them up. riding them on the streets and sidewalks. impeding pedestrian traffic. sort of, and then parking them. in the middle of, of, of the
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street. on the sidewalk. in door ways. really impeding people's progress and, walking on the sidewalk or getting in and out of buildings. just creating a public nuisance. >> coronado near san diego deemed them public nuisance c s chls. >> throw them on the ground. green. orange. basically litter. >> after impounding 55 of the scooters, austin texas passioned an ordinance friday fining companies without proper permits $200 per bike or scooter. with riders they are popular. in the nation's capital. seven companies are offering dockless bikes or scooters. zipping around town with increasing freak when see. the city says its test period sparked feedback. most positive. john ruiz its a fan. >> my walk is 16, 17 minutes on the scooter i think it is 6 to 8 minutes. a lot faster. >> the companies say they have technology in the app to identify people who are parking like jerks. and actually they say can
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penalize the folks if fines become a reality. companies are pledging to grow responsibly so they don't flood cities with the devices. pick them up every night. in some cases they're sharing revenue with cities to, increase infrastructure, like bike lights. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.
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donald trump, jr. was meeting with an informant for the russian government about russia releasing dirt on hillary denzel washington headlines, playing hicky in eugene o'neal's iceman cometh. limited run. july 12st. the actor stepped offstage to chat with michelle miller. >> denzel hayes washington jr. >> but two legions of movie-goers he is simply denzel. >> i too -- am aka. he played a staggering variety of characters. >> we can not launch missiles unless you and i agree. in some, 50 films. in 40 years. >> you are an african who happens to be an american. malcolm x. we didn't land on plymouth rock. plymouth rock landed on us. >> a homophobic lawyer. >> what happened to your face? >> i have aids.
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>> oh. >> a jazz trumpeter. >> and a boxer. >> i just do what i do. i don't analyze it. don't overanalyze it. try not to read what people think i am doing. not that precious to me. i am just doing what i, what i know huh to do. what i love to do. >> and his work has been awarded, with two oscars. west supporting actor for his role in glory. as a defiant soldier in unt yun army. >> a training day. show you around. give you a take to the business. you know. >> the other best actor for training day. >> keep your mouth shut. and your eyes open. where he played a decorated, deeply corrupt narcotics officer. >> you got to decide. whether you are a wolf.
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or a sheep. >> denzel. >> in 2016. he received the golden globe, cecilb. demill award for lifetime achievement. >> how much more is there left for denzel washington. >> man gives the award. god gives the reward. my mother raised me on. so, i like awards. as we all want to be loved. you know you work hard. you want, you want, people to appreciate what you do. but that's not what i live for. >> his long successful career has made him a role model to actors. especially. african-americans. and his reach extends to the stage too. he starred on broadway. in julius caesar. checkmates, a raisin in the sun. and fences. for that, play he won a tony for best actor. >> sleepy. tired. other than that. i feel great. >> now he is starring in eugene
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o'neal's the iceman cometh. >> saving you from pipe dreams. i know not from my own experience. they're the things that can poison and ruin a guy's life. keep him from finding any peace. >> set in 1912. written in 1939. it's about. unrealized dreams. betrayal. addiction. comedy. >> joking. joking. >> it's heavy. >> washington plays hicky. a wealthy, larger than life salesman who visits a group of drunken, down on their luck bar flies. >> bring on the rat poison. >> george c wolf is the director. >> he is incredibly skilled actor uses all his skill set to disappear inside of the characters. i think there are a number of actors we see, enjoyable. compelling. seeing them play this role. this role. this role.
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they don't disappear. i think he surrenders to his characters in an extraordinary way. >> den gel washington group in mt. vernon, new york. with his mother who managed her own beauty shop. and his father. denzel sr. a minister who worked two jobs. >> used to sit in the driveway with his foot out. of the car. and the door open. listening to the radio. and, i used to wonder why he would do that. i think it was, he just left one boss. another boss waiting for him in the house. the only time he had to be. to be, to be. to -- be the boss. >> washington says, when he was young, his parents, especially his mother. helped prepare him for the challenges he would face. >> i remember when i was a kid. we were in florida. and some one, some one called us -- like 9 years old.
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me and my brother. spitting all this anger. it wasn't what they said. way they felt. i went inside. asked my mother. why are they talking like that? that is just somebody worried about you taking their place. i said, okay. oh, okay. >> washington took his place in hollywood, in the early 1980s. shortly after graduating as a star of fordham university theater program in new york. >> you are going to be a heavyweight. you have the chin, the guts. most of all, bobby. most of all. my blue idea friend. you are white. >> even the he had talent. he says he found few mentors and fewer opportunities. compared to white actors. nearly. 20 years ago. he expressed his frustration, to ed bradley. >> i see how the playing field is laid out. it's not level. you know, not fair. >> you can still bump your head. go so far. >> you think that's because of race? >> ignorance.
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don't just say race. race is the obvious. you know, because as a black man we can't hide. you know, there are other, other, races. that can hide. you can't change this. >> is it any better? >> i sat and watched -- black panther. up to a billion something. >> over. >> yeah. >> so that answers that question. >> is that the seminole moment? >> no. that's where we are now. i mean. i am proud as a father might be. you know, not finished, i might finish the race. but passed the baton. you win a relay race. hand the baton. you run, 20, 30 yards behind the next person the i am still running. but i am enjoying. watching, watching. this, this generation take off. take the ball and run with it. >> and he is in a position to help. >> you are a producer. a director. you hire people.
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>> yes. >> that's power. >> that's opportunity. and, you know. the opportunity to, to give others the opportunities. i am happy about that. >> carrying all those books around. figured you for a teacher. >> i am a high level -- >> at 63, washington is about to be seen in the action thriller. the equalizer two. >> got wise to me. they all said that. >> until then. each night. he will stay in the glow of the spotlight. >> honesty is the best policy. >> that happy where denzel hayes washington jr. says the work really pays off. how do you know when you have done your job? >> at the end of the night you. know, you come out. nobody applauded you. >> running out the door. >> stanning and leaving ovation. >> yeah. >> but, you grateful. and, and, and humble.
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baseball season is in full swing. kids are following their favorite pitchers and hitters and umpires. steve hartman found a big fan of the umps on the road to the ballpark. in the world of minor league baseball. where most young fans want nothing more than to meet a real player. this kid, 10-year-old vincent steel stand alone. vincent, idolizes umpires. >> something we are not used to, you know. so every fan we can get is a plus. last night. there was a time, somebody said put the kid in.
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>> vincent is such a fan of umpires. every game, he becomes one. he stands in the front row, here at the carolina mud cat stadium near raleigh. copying their calls and mimicking their moves. he gets so into character, it's hard not to play along. for example, on this day. the manager even came over to him. to report a lineup change. >> we thought it was a phase type of thing. >> these are his parents. >> two year phase at this point. >> they say it is not just on game days. it's virtually every day. >> at hem he stands in front of the dv. does the same routine. he sleeps next to baseballs, autographed by umpires. he even visited an umpire school. where he learned the proper way to call a strike. which apparently, isn't to say strike. >> the umpires saying. >> why do they say that?
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>> that's what we do. >> what is out. >> out. >> ball is. >> ball. >> strike is. awe i think he wanted to throw me out of this interview. >> hoyt. it's a deal. >> he is a great kid. which may be part uh the reason he is a tracted to the profession. >> it is leadership. rule following. fairness. >> all of the qualities who he is. >> obviously. vincent would look to grow up to be an umpire some day. even if he doesn't. hoy he will retain the values, cherished by referees off all stripes. hopefully keep his room just as clean as his imaginary home plate. steve hartman on the road. near raleigh, north carolina. >> that's the "overnight news" for tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and of course, cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city. i'm tony dokoupil.
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captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs it's tuesday, may 1st, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." nuclear program cover-up? israel accuses iran of operating a secret government facility. >> i'm here to tell you one thing -- iran lied big time. [ chants ] celebrating the eight. a small group of women and children, part of the migrant caravan, are the first allowed to enter the u.s. to apply for asylum. and dry nd
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