each other so i guess it ended up okay. the weekend news is next, we will see you at 6 o'clock. jo >> ninan: defending john mccain. the ailing senator gets bipartisan support from bill clinton and lindsey graham after he was mocked by a white house aide. also tonight, north korea announces the date that it will dismantle its nuclear test site, setting the stage for next month's historic summit. lynsion in israel-- another deadly conflict days before the opening of the us embassy in jerusalem. cae controversial arrest of an nfrican american man at a waffle house. the mayor defends the police. we young man speaks out. and she's whipping up the royal wedding cake, and she has a california connection to the royal bride.

>> my first love was baking. >> reporter: how did that happen? this is the "cbs weekend news." >> ninan: good evening. i'm reena ninan. even if it was meant as a joke, few are laughing about an alleged remark made by a white house aide about ailing u.s. senator john mccain. ineeformer republican presidential nominee, now 81 years old, is home in arizona fighting a deadly form of brain cancer. he made news this week speaking out against president trump's nominee to run the c.i.a. and was allegedly mocked at a white house meeting. mccain is now getting the support of high-profile members of both parties. errol barnett is at the white house. >> reporter: while spending time at his virginia golf property today, president trump's white house refuses to deny or distance itself from a staffer's stinging comment about ailing senator john mccain, who is undergoing brain cancer treatment. communications aide, kelly

sadler, reportedly joked, "it doesn't matter," mccain will not endorse gina haspel's nomination to lead the c.i.a., because "he's dying anyway." >> outrageous. >> reporter: governor john kasich joined other republicans who were fast to denounce the statement. >> it's a pretty disgusting thing to say. hejust wish somebody from the white house would tell the country that was inappropriate. >> reporter: former president bill clinton also jumped to mccain's defense. >> in my lifetime, he's one of the most remarkable patriots our country ever produced. >> i'm not going to comment on an internal staff meeting. >> reporter: press secretary sarah sanders confirmed sadler is still employed, with budget rirector mick mulvaney describing it as a tasteless quip. >> it was a joke. it was a badly considered joke, an awful joke. or applause ) >> reporter: another challenge for the white house-- contradictory statements about the proposed merger between at&t and time warner from president trump's lawyer, rudy giuliani. at&t said it was a mistake to pay trump's personal attorney,

orchael cohen, $600,000 for insight into the administration with giuliani telling the huffington post friday lobbying efforts failed because "the president denied the merger." press secretary sarah sanders then repeated the long-held position that "the department of justice denied the merger." contacted by cbs news today, giuliani said he stands by his original statement and sees the president and the administration as one and the same. cw, despite the contradictions, president trump continues to allow giuliani to speak on his behalf. giuliani also telling cbs news today that michael cohen no longer represents the president, and he told the a.p. president trump will not decide on whether to be interviewed by special counsel robert mueller until after the summit with north korea's leader june 12. reena. >> ninan: errol barnett at the white house. thanks, errol. north korea said today that it ucll dismantle its nuclear test site between may 23 and may 25.

the north says it will ceremoniously blow up all tunnels leading to the site and will invite journalists from five countries-- including the u.s.-- to watch the dismantling process. unesident trump's nuclear summit with kim jong-un is a month away. police are investigating a suspected terror attack in the heart of paris tonight. a man with a knife attacked a group of people. one died, two others were seriously wounded. police shot and killed the suspect. isis says the attacker was one of its soldiers. there were heightened tensions in israel this weekend just days before the opening of the new u.s. embassy in jerusalem. israeli forces today blew up what they said was a hamas terror tunnel at the gaza border. palestinian protesters have been fighting with israeli troops at the border since march. seth doane is in jerusalem. mb reporter: the site of the new u.s. embassy is being readied and signs are up across jerusalem, thanking president usump for moving the embassy,

thus recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel. today, hundreds of palestinians who have been protesting the embassy move marched through the streets of gaza, carrying the body of a protester shot by israeli troops friday. he was among an estimated 15,000 anmonstrators, some burning tires and hurling rocks at israeli forces. palestinians have also started attaching fire bombs to kites and flying them into israel. along the gaza border friday, we aund israelis flying kites in a counter-demonstration. leah goldin's son, hader, was killed four years ago in a battle with hamas. his body was never returned. >> this is awful to use children games, kites, you know, and turn them into bombs. >> reporter: this is the result of one of those fire kites, a ieop that has been destroyed.

you can see this was a field of wheat, and while the damage was relatively limited here, ultimately, it is symbolic. after all, this is a fight or land and who it belongs to. racing across the fields, we found firefighters on specially fitted motorcycles. captain liron soll explained they go where fire engines cannot. >> all big fires start from small one. if you are in the right place at the right time, you can close it with a glass of water. so we are the glass of water, and we come as fast as we can. >> reporter: in addition to dealing with new threats, like those fire kites, the israeli military is also bracing for palestinians to storm the border, and they've doubled the number of troops positioned alongside gaza and the west bank. reena. >> ninan: seth doane in jerusalem. on hawaii's big island, scientists warn that the erupting kilauea volcano may be on the verge of a large ouplosion that could send boulders flying half a mile.

d new crack opened in the ground today, releasing lava. there are now 16 active fissures. carter evans is there. >> reporter: after more than a week of fiery devastation, scientists are now watching and waiting for the volcano's next big move. they say kilauea has the potential to produce a massive steam explosion at any time, unlike anything the big island has seen in nearly a century. that's because lava is draining in the summit crater and could soon mix with groundwater. hanet babb is with the u.s. geological survey. do people in the surrounding communities have to worry about boulders falling on their homes? >> no, no, not at all, because the boulders will only be carried in immediate vicinity of the event. >> reporter: if there's an explosion, geologists say the largest rocks would land in this area. marble-sized rocks could fall up w a half mile away, but still within the closed national park. the resulting ash cloud could be

cr,000 feet high and blown across the island. >> ash fall is a nuisance, but it doesn't threaten life. >> reporter: despite the science behind it, most people who live here believe there's more to it. according to hawaiian mythology, pele, the goddess of fire, inhabits kilauea and controls the lava. yeople leave offerings to please her all over the island, and they accept her will. harry kim is the mayor of hawaii county. i feel like people are very accepting of this. >> when you're close to nature-- and you have to be around here-- you accept lave eruptions as a part of that. >> reporter: there is a price for paradise. >> there is a price. it really is a price. >> reporter: earthquakes and lava are a way of life here. kilauea has been in a constant state of eruption since 1983, and in that time, the entire community of kalapana was wiped out. so people here know this volcano's power, and they have a healthy dose of respect for it. reena. >> ninan: carter, thank you. officials in warsaw, north carolina, are answering

questions following the controversial arrest of an african american man at a waffle house. tony dokoupil has the story. >> reporter: promising transparency after this apparent chokehold and takedown caught on video at a waffle house in warsaw, north carolina... >> i can assure you, this is not a racially motivated situation. >> reporter: ...mayor a.j. connors on friday praised the arrest and twice denied that race played a role. >> you must understand that this young man had broke the law. he was there. he started a fight. this officer did what he had to do. >> reporter: waffle house, echoing the mayor, said in a statement that it did not believe race was a factor and that there is "more to these stories than the short videos that have been posted might suggest." anthony wall says he had taken his younger sister to the prom on may 4, then to waffle house, where he argued with employees, and police were called. he now admits he got

confrontational with the officer. >> i was pretty much trying to scream for air and to breathe because he was holding my throat, so that i pretty much-- that's when i got aggressive with him because you are choking me. >> reporter: but wall's supporters, including the naacp, call the officer's use of physical force inappropriate. now mayor connors is calling for patience and restraint... ak we ask you to quit calling the police department, making r:reats and calls. >> reporter: ...while investigators review the officer's action. >> at this time, let the system work. >> reporter: the officer involved has not been identified. now, reena, the young man, anthony wall, he's out on bond, facing charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. >> ninan: and this is the second violent arrest at a waffle house in less than a month caught on tape? >> reporter: indeed. >> ninan: thank you very much, tony. the insurance institute for highway safety released a new report this week showing an alarming rise in pedestrian deaths. nearly 6,000 people were hit and

killed by vehicles in 2016. that's a 46% jump since 2009, and the highest number since 1990. kris van cleave looked into this. >> reporter: in march, a woman in tempe, arizona, was killed by a self-driving uber while crossing the street. the s.u.v. her but failed to react in time. a new i.i.h.s. report finds it's part of a larger trend. pedestrian deaths jumped 46% since 2009. 46% is huge. >> it is a huge number. >> reporter: david harkey, the president for the insurance institute for highway safety, says about 75% of the deaths happen at night. >> the increases that we're seeing on our busiest streets and in our urban and suburban areas, we think part of that is because we haven't properly designed our roadways. >> reporter: roadways, harkey oays, often lack enough equipment to alert drivers of pedestrians and enough safe, convenient places to cross. >> we need to provide more orcations for them to cross. >> reporter: to better protect pedestrians, car companies are

adding innovative technology. >> this system will activate between about 15 and 30 miles per hour. >> reporter: martin hayes is the chief engineer for the buick regal. his team has developed this active hood safety feature. >> it can sense and respond in about 20 milliseconds, deploy these hinges, raise the whole hood up in this area about four inches. we're raising the impact zone closer so there's less potential speed that your head would be when you make contact with the hood. >> reporter: i.i.h.s. recommends improving headlight performance to better light up the road and expanding automatic breaking. subaru is equipped with a pedestrian-detection system and saw a 35% decrease in injuries compared to vehicles without. i.i.h.s. is also calling for changes to s.u.v. design. because the trucks are higher up, they're more likely to hit pedestrians in the head or chest. and they would like to see ower speed limits or cameras. they say the cameras have been proven to be effective. kris van cleave, cbs news,

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and reconnecting with the outdoors, has an 80% success rate. it can cost upwards of $50,000, but some insurance companies do help cover the expense. after 30 days, caitlyn isn't ready to delete her profiles, owt she's now learned. >> you have the power to block tomeone or delete them or not fok at it. >> reporter: david now fills his time playing basketball and reading. his program might be over, but ps journey is just beginning. >> i plan on deleting my twitter, deleting my snapchat. i know now that i'm not going to create this false character. >> reporter: mireya villarreal, cbs news, malibu, california. >> ninan: up next, the american-born baker who's whipping up the royal wedding cake. . oh my gosh! how are you? well watch this. i pop that in there. press brew. that's it. so rich. i love it. that's why you should be a keurig man! full-bodied. are you sure you're describing the coffee and not me?

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>> reporter: when we first met ptak in 2015, the american baker was a rising star in london. two and a half years later, she's become baking royalty. kensington palace tweeted the news back in march saying "prince harry and miss markle have asked claire to create a lemon elderflower cake that will incorporate the bright flavors of spring." >> my first love was baking. >> reporter: how did that happen? >> well, my mother is a great baker. er grandmother is a great baker. and where i grew up in inverness, which is just north of san francisco, it's rural, and we had wild blackberrys and apple trees. it there was a lot of emphasis on baking with fruit that was in season. >> reporter: ptak spent three years as a pastry chef for alice waters at chez panisse in berkeley, california. n e then moved to london to be with her boyfriend, now husband. >> this was like, okay, i just came from something really

great. i've got to make this really great. otherwise, i'm going to be totally depressed. >> reporter: so she set up a stall in a weekend market in east london's hackney neighborhood, baking everything in her home kitchen. >> i realized, you know, it was kind of taking over our lives. >> reporter: and what made you take that leap to open the bakery? >> i think my husband was just like, "get out of the house. this is not okay." >> reporter: she opened her bake shop, violet, in 2010. her unique recipes and fresh ingredients would catch the eye of london elite like nigella lawson, jamie oliver, and, apparently, a prince from london and future duchess from hollywood. >> ninan: cbs news will have live coverage of the royal wedding next saturday morning starting at 4:00 a.m. eastern time. and that's the icing on the cake for this saturday edition of the cbs weekend news. for more news any time, go to cbsn at cbsnews.com. i'm reena ninan in new york.

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>> we got acs and dissents -- a cease and desist and you are blatantly breaking the law. >> we are just trying to get him out of the neighborhood because he is poisoning the neighborhood. >> reporter: neighbors say the hauling company moved to oslo -- to west oakland last year. they sort and breakdown materials here. they sued the business for a number of violations including polluting the air. they say the business has knocked down a large part of the wall and put up a big pan -- fan blowing the toxic fumes into the neighborhood. >> we stay inside for a reason. it is so we don't get sick.