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killing 43-year-old jennifer reardan. unlike the incident. the flight did not lose cabin pressure and oxygen masks were not deployed. kris, wanted to ask you about a plane story. getting our first look at a very close call in san francisco last year. what does this video show you? >> well, jeff the ntsb released the video couple hours age we see air canada, a-320 to land on a taxi way. not the runway. the taxi way. on the taxi way. four wide body airliners waiting to takeoff. you see just how close that plane got before it, aborted the takeoff. started to climb. it was within feet of disaster. >> all right, kris van cleave. thank you very much. we have troubling new details tonight from the october ambush in niger. four american soldiers were killed by islamic militants. david martin reports tonight on new question as but their mission. >> cbs news has learned, captain michael perozini, commander of the ill-fated patrol objected to
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change in mission that sent his team looking for a wanted terrorist. we have also learned the team had been in niger for barely a month and had not done traditional in-person turnover with the unit they were replacing and had not conducted sufficient training with the soldiers they were operating with. that according to a family member of one of those killed, who was briefed on a seven month investigation into the ambush. the family member said, perozini was ordered to pre seed by bradley moses commander of special forces in niger. second family member. the father of sergeant brian black told national public radio he doesn't blame any one for the decisions made. >> i would not personally characterize them -- as mistakes. they were just decisions based on what they knew. and, and -- i believe that those decisions were sound decisions. >> the patrol had visited a village to meet with local elders, and was returning to its
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base when it was directed to search the last known location of the local leader of isis. colonel moses considered it low risk because of surveillance aircraft watching the site for six hours and detected no activity. perozini's team searched the site. destroyed the equipment they found. then set out again to return to base. by then, the surveillance aircraft had run low on fuel. leaving the team without any one watching over them when they were ambushed by a force estimated to be three times their size. in addition to the four americans killed, two were wounded. one of those wounded was, captain perozini. jeff. >> david martin with new there was an idea. to bring together a group of remarkable people.
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neighborhood in central florida suddenly looks like the cratered lunar landscape. sink holes are opening up forces families from their homes. manuel bojorquez says the problem is underground. >> at least a dozen sink holes have opened up in the central florida subdivision over the past week. enough to drain an entire retention pond. and force the evacuation of eight nearby homes as a precaution. >> we have been dealing with so much scared to death to lose our home right now. >> crews are using underground radar going 80 to 100 feet deep to figure out a fix.
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christina carter moved here from vermont last summer. >> gets bigger every day. what, how far is this going to get? how big is it going to get? nobody is telling us anything. >> people who live here say they started to notice something strange last week. what one resident described as water explosions coming from this now empty pond. it was these sink holes opening up. ocala sits in florida known as sinkhole alley. it all has to do with what lies beneath. a porous later of limestone that ground walter can break down over time. causing the clay and dirt to give way. and anything above, to collapse. in 2013, near tampa, a man was killed when a sinkhole opened under his bedroom. geologist dave willshaw. >> the rocks have been there for millions of years. just that the development is coming into the area. what was previously just open pasture land is now, obviously, heavily developed dub si vision. >> a worst case scenario is that
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after he killed 58 people and wounded more than 500. the gunman killed himself before police entered. seven months later the motive is still a mystery. >> the african-american man arrested for sitting in a philadelphia starbuck's without ordering have settled. they get a symbolic $1 each and a promise that the city will set up a $200,000 program for young entrepreneurs, starbuck's will pay the men an undisclosed amount and their college costs. folks sprang into action in indianapolis after the door of a brinks truck flew open. money scattered all over i-70. some hopped fences to scoop up the cash. up to $600,000 may have been lost. finders keepers, no. it is illegal to keep that cash.
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we end here with a rare upclose look at one of the most powerful forces of nature. the tornado. mark strassmann takes us aboard a research plane designed to hunt down and document dangerous weather. on this mission, they struck scientific gold. 2700 feet above northeastern louisiana, we spot our target. a super cell thunderstorm. it could spawn a tornado at any time. >> things are changing so quickly. that we really have to make sure that we are doing what we need to do to keep the airplane safe.
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>> meteorologist ian sears talks to us aboard the research plane nicknamed kermit. it usually hunts hurricanes over the atlantic. >> we are a flying laboratory. we have -- the most sophisticated, instrumentation in the world flying on the airplane. >> the plane carries three radars, two on the tail, scan vertically. one underneath the fuselage, scans horizontally. by flying with the developing storm. researchers can paint a 3-d picture of how a tornado forms. >> here is the cell we are targeting now. >> dr. conrad ziegler studies tornados at the storms laboratory in oklahoma. >> we want to get as close but not too close. we want to get close enough that the radar can measure finer details. such as the circulations that produce tornados. >> he tries to stay six miles ahead of the storm's front edge. within minutes this storm starts to spin.
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>> our cell its now tornado ward. we watch a funnel drop to the ground near the town. kermit comes alive. its radars sweep the storm. the crew photographs it. cameras on the ground also catch the twister. >> that is a tornado. luckily the tornado spared lives and left behind data that will help forecasters better predict where and when the next one will strike. >> thought's the "overnight news" for thursday. for some the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center, in new york city, i'm jeff glor.
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hi, welcome to the "overnight news." i'm demarco morgan. a 17-year-old from plano, texas behind bars charged with plotting a slaughter at a local mall. police say the man was inspired by the islamic state and vowed to explain and what he called a message to america. michelle miller has the story. >> reporter: the 17-year-old alleged wannabe terrorist was arrested at his high school tuesday morning. charged with plotting an isis-inspired mass shooting. the neighbor of the teen for a year says the teen mother was clearly upset when the fbi arrived. >> she was sitting crying.
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and, and just, weeping. we are not exactly at the time we didn't know why. >> reporter: the fbi says the teen was indoctrinated by isis propaganda online and hoped to join the fight in afghanistan before deciding to focus closer to home. texting an undercover agent, he thought was a fellow supporter, the teen wrote in january, "i read article from isis, they say it's better to attack them here." he even discussed targets. school is a perfect place for an attack. and, there is a hindu temple i want to shoot up. by late march, he settled on this mall. and scouted the location multiple times. he wrote the attack would be during the muslim holy month of ramadan to avoid muslim casualties. his weapon of choice would be an ar-15. but federal law bans any one younger than 18 from big it on their own.
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over two months he wired more than 1400 dollars to undercover agents pretending to be in on the job. he said, my rifle needs to be pretty and cool looking. put an i love america sticky on the side. >> the teen is being held on $3 million bail. according to an anti-defamation league report released yesterday. more than half of the individuals involved in islamic extremist plots in the u.s., were born right here, jeff. fi pentagon officials don't know what caused the crash of a cargo plane near savannah, georgia. five people on board were killed in the wreck. mark strassmann reports. the security camera video shows the wc 130 cargo plane bank left and nose-dive bendd t. first the crash. and then even louder, an explosion. they said the earth shook. >> holy [ bleep ].
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>> roger best got to the wreckage ahead of first responders. >> looked like a war zen to be honest with you, just scattered debris everywhere and trees on fire and the wreckage was still burning and smoldering. i've never smelled or seen anything look that. it was horrible. the way that plane was smashed on to the ground, it's going to be kind of hard for them to recover anything. >> of the crash, its cause unknown. happened at 11:30 in the morning. about a quarter mile away from a busy intersection. >> as far as we know there were no cars in the crash. an absolute miracle. that time of day and the intersection. >> best believes the pilot saved lives on the ground. >> first of all that guy should be recognized as a hero. i think he knew that that plane was in trouble. and he glided it, guided it out of the way the best he could. >> but all the crew. members of the puerto rico air national guard, are believed dead. they were en route to arizona on
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a training mission. the plane had just finished routine maintenance in savannah. air force senior master sergeant roger parson. >> that there were -- airmen on the plane that were deceased. and that were not giving out any numbers at this time. the investigation could be soon headed to a constitutional crossroads if president trump refuses to answer the special counsel threatened to seek a grand jury subpoena. meanwhile there are more comings and goings of the president's legal team. >> ty cobb's departure and arrival of emmett flood, signals battling with robber mueller. to underscore the point the official white house statement said flood would represent the president in the russia witch-hunt. cobb counseled cooperation with mueller and by january had arranged document transfers and
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interviews with top white house officials. ever since negotiations have focused on a potential interview with mr. trump. in the background was the threat mueller could subpoena the president if talks broke down. floods' arrival adds a lawyer experienced with high stakes showdowns with special prosecutors. during a january chat with reporters, the president said he was willing to be interviewed under oath. >> i'm looking forward to it actually. there's been no collusion whatsoever. >> former new york city mayor, rudy giuliani also on the president's legal team, told "the washington post," any interview would be "two to three hours" around a narrow set of questions. a list of more than 40 questions drafted by trump's legal team surfaced this week. they focussed on potential obstruction of justice tied to mueller's russia investigation. on twitter this morning the president said, there is no obstruction of justice that is a setup and trap. >> you know, giuliani can, can, poke this lion as much as he wants.
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but you have to be careful about what you ask for. >> of george washington university law professor and impeachment expert jonathan turley. >> there are questions on the list that -- that are sleepers. that look like -- innocuous house keeping questions. but they could be the most lethal of all of the questions. the government of mexico told central americans camped out to find shelter some where else. migrants part of a caravan are seeking asylum in the united states. so far a trickle have been allowed to apply. mireya villarreal reports. >> reporter: a mine of two dozen migrants from the caravan made their ways to the doors of the border crossing facilities to day where they will plead their case for asylum. once inside, they wait in a holding area before an initial screening with customs officers in this building. next they will be taken to detention center where they will undergo indepth interview to assess credibility of their claims. they're being persecuted back
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home. is there a time frame for that? how long do they have to research that information? >> usually swiftly give them the interview in the first week or two. after they present. some times release them immediately on parole. other cases, individual adults, the u.s. unfortunately adopted a, a pretty policy of default, keeping people in detention. >> the interview will determine if their cases should advance to immigration court which can drag the process for several years. we were with maria pillar and her 1-year-old daughter as they entered tuesday. we asked what she thought her chances of entry were? >> if we go over there i think there is a chance. >> the majority asylum claims by central americans are unsuccessful. between 2012 and 2017, denial rate forsalvad was 79%. hondurans at 78%. despite the odds. dozens are still waiting to take their chances.
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hurricane season doesn't begin until next month. so the government's hurricane hunters have been using high tech aircraft to learn more about tornados. mark strassmann went along for a ride. >> this is one of noaa's hurricane hunters. built to fly into the eye of monster storms. and for scientists aboard who study severe weather its advantage is this. the closer they can get to a storm, the better the data they can collect. that's true with hurricanes. and as we found out on a recent flight, also true with tornados. fasten your seatbelts. this research plane about the
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size of a 737 is taking us straight toward what most pilots do anything to avoid. dangerous, even deadly weather. >> we are, a flying laboratory. >> things are changing so quickly. that we really have to make sure that we are doing what we need to do to keep the airplane safe. >> meteorologist ian sears talks to us aboard the research plane nicknamed kermit. it usually hunts hurricanes over the atlantic. >> we are a flying laboratory. we have -- the most sophisticated, instrumentation in the world flying on the airplane. >> the plane carries three radars, two on the tail, scan vertically. one underneath the fuselage, scans horizontally. by flying with the developing storm. researchers can paint a 3-d picture of how a tornado forms. >> here is the cell we are targeting now.
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>> dr. conrad ziegler studies tornados at the storms laboratory in oklahoma. >> we want to get as close but not too close. we want to get close enough that the radar can measure finer details. such as the circulations that produce tornados. >> he tries to stay six miles ahead of the storm's front edge. within minutes this storm starts to spin. we spot a super krechlt it could spot a tornado at any time. kermit tries to stay six miles ahead of the storm's front edge. close, but not too close. >> let me know when you want to turn. >> flight director jess williams and a half gates the team into position. >> this mission is very dangerous. keep an eye on the radar. during the flight. watching rate dar right now. as i'm talking to you. things can develop within a matter seconds on the cells that we are targeting. they do. >> our cell is tornado. >> we sigh it on the ground. >> i see it too, jess.
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>> from the cockpit we watch as a funnel drops to the ground near the town of cal hoon. kermit comes alive. along with a crew of 16. >> could some one get a picture. i would look to have that recorded. >> anybody that didn't have their hands on it, had their cell phones and cameras out taking picture. myself included for sure. >> tornado touched down. right here in calhoon. >> cameras on the ground caught the twister too. >> that its a tornado. >> just issued a new tornado warning. >> tornado reported. by air craft. the noaa, 3-3. >> transformer just went. seat transform blow up. >> from a research perspective. they hit the jackpot. not only were cameras rolling. >> oh. wow. >> wow. wow. >> look at that. home run. that is a home run. beautiful. >> the plane hae radars capped chur tcapped
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-- captured the whole thing. people will be studying this event. the amount of data we were able off to collect from it. >> best of all this tornado killed nobody on the ground. and it left behind a trail of data that will help forecasters better predict where and when the next one will strike. >> that's where we are making a difference here. >> because minutes count. seconds count. minutes. seconds count count. the difference between shelter and safety and not. >> scientists aboard toll us this was one of their most successful tornado data collect, flights ever. what they learned will now go into a computer model to help forecasters identify which storms could produce a tornado. and as for kermit here,
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>> this is where i had my memories of being a performer wanting to sing and wantsing to entertain. it's been a while since janelle monet was a singer in a living room choir. her family in kansas city, never doubted she was headed to a larger stage. ♪ what you want though her movies, might have surprised them. >> i plan on being an engineer at nasa. but i can't do that without making them classes at that all white high school. and i can't change the color of my skin. >> monet co-star in 2016, best picture nominee, hidden figures. and best picture winner, moonlight. >> stop putting your head downen my house. you know my rule. miss all love and all pride in this house. ♪ because baby snoets. >> music is where she has made her mark. the six-time grammy nominee infuses it with a heady blend of genres. a retrogroove. ♪ whether you're hollow
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♪ i am america's nightmare >> with a vibe. an ride which he takes in a new collection on "dirty computer." >> i am a dirty computer. >> i am ready to be cleaned. >> reporter: the title reflects monet's fascination with science fiction. latest example. her emotion picture, a minimovie about dirty computers. ♪ iemt'm not the kind of girl y take home to your mama now ♪ >> the album deals with what it means to reckon with how you are viewed in society. dirtd dirty computers are taught who they love, their race where they come from their class all those things are bugs and are viruses and you should be cleansed of those. >> have you felt like in your life or in your career you are a nonconformist, a dirty computer. >> i am absolutely a dirty computer. absolutely. >> remember when they said i
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look too mannish. >> part protest and part celebration she says. with a nd to her own journey from kansas city and the working class block where janelle monet robinson grew up. >> when drugs came, crack in particular came it ruined a lot of families. >> monet's own father, mike cam now sober was lost for most of monet's childhood. >> if i am the perfect father she might just be regular. but, since i was who i was, since i had, the, downfall that i had, it caused her to move forward. say i am never going to be look that. so it worked out for the positive. >> you think that's true? >> i think that my parents were examples, some times, good examples, some times bad examples. >> her ma teternal grandmother mate tr the matriarch. >> when you say good is love. my grandmother, remted that every day. >> she says her grandmother
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taught her at value. >> came from share cropping. >> she made something out of nothing. >> that's why, janelle monet decide early on to honor her roots through her style. >> i wanted black and white to be my uniform. i wanted people when they saw me in a tux or black and white to remember that this is where i come from. i come from a mother and father who, were custodian workers. >> monet's mother, janice first saw in her daughter echos of greatness from james brown to elvis. >> people say, oh, your daughter's music is really, really different. and i say, you know why it is different. she got them all wrapped in one ball. you guys don't understand. >> i'm from the future. i'm futuristic. >> some of her armiest performances were right here. >> the announcer would call out.
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run right up here. >> run up here. loud. kids running up on stage. >> monet cleaned up at local talent contests. >> a picture of janelle 14. first year she had won. >> i have never seen that. >> what's going on with the hair? >> i don't know. you get a close-up. all right, that's enough. >> with 11 aunts, uncles, she all way had plenty of fans. >> auntie. auntie. >> i love you so much. >> oh. with a lot of love behind her if not a lot of money. monet won a scholarship to study musical theater in new york city. but didn't see a future in it. >> you dropped out of school? >> i left. yep. i left. my family was so upset with me. >> having met them. >> my goodness. you wasted our prayers. all you talked about was new york, new york, new york. you mean to tell me you will leave. >> rather than face her family back home, mon techlt. crashed with friends in atlanta. for the first time started writing and performing her own
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songs. >> i had to make it work. >> as hard as it was going to be. easier than going back home and feeling look what? failure? >> feeling like i failed. i did not want to go home for people to say, man, you really let us down. ♪ tell you are you bold enough for reach for love ♪ >> but she was soon signed by hip-hop mogul sean combs and mentored by none other than prince. whose death she says left her at a loss and delayed her work on dirty computer. >> i could always call prince. he was always there. really was a believer in what we were doing. i couldn't call. my mentor. been around since my first album. if this was star wars, it was look yoda. to my, hand solo. yes. i could talk to him about anything. ♪ pink like the secrets >> her provocative video for her song pink would no doubt have won purple approval. baby, pink. >> prince was a straight black
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man. but throughout his career he revelled in playing a fluid role. he never really settled the question. is it fair to say him being your mentor and you dugt kind of work you are doing with this latest video, that you are not going to set the question either? >> i think that is important for people to, to, to be proud of their identity. you know, i am very proud of to be a queer young black woman. in america. i'm proud of who i am. i love myself. and i want for all the dirty computers around the world, to feel seen and to be heard. and to feel celebrated. and to know i am right there with you. ♪ ♪ i don't want to hide my love for frz i just want to hold your hand and be the one that you thing of ♪ >> with her new album, janelle monet, the cool kid from the future with all that style from the past, is finally feeling at home in the present. ♪ when i'm with you >> i wanted to give janelle
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we know springtime is wedding season. david begnaud got invited to holy nuptials and came back with the photos and story about love at any age. >> reporter: a colorful sunday in harmony, north carolina as we drove past fields of flowers on the way to meet a 98-year-old lady about to walk down the aisle. >> look at you all dressed up
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already. >> all of these people out here in the country. >> all these new yorkers came to the country to see you. >> naomi wooten has been down the aisle once before. she was 28 when she married, claude. >> he was in the panama canal. he wrote me a letter asked me would i marry him. he sent me a diamond ring through the mail. >> she sent you a ring through the mail? >> yes, he did. >> their marriage lasted 64 years. >> i loved him. i loved that man. she never dreamed sunny would walk down the aisle again. out of nowhere came a proposal. one day she came up to me, naomi, i want you to be matron of honor. >> she met bethenny at church. her father is the pastor. naomi says she and bethenny became the best of friends. she has even known the fiance since he was a buy. despite all that, naomi said no. >> oh, no.
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i'm not going to be matron of honor. i'm too old. >> after a while she came around. >> so pink is the color. >> rose is the color. >> okay, sorry. naomi invited guests of her own who didn't know the bride and groom. >> somebody asked me if i would sit on the bride's side or groom's side. i was going to say, neither. i am on miss naomi's side. >> with a flower on her walker and smile on her face, naomi wooten walked down the aisle again. and shared nearly a century worth of wisdom. >> if you't have love, forget it. and this couple has the got it. >> maybe it is love that is the ageless in greed ygredient to l harmony. guess what, i am done with my questions? david begnaud, krks newcbs news harmony, north carolina. >> that's the "overnight news" for thursday. 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. captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, may 3rd, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." hush money contradiction. president trump's lawyer rudy giuliani says the president reimbursed the $130,000 payment to daniels. strong storms are battering the central united states with rain, wind, hail, and tornadoes, leaving behind widespread damage and knocking out power to thousands. and the boy scouts get a
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