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memo issued shortly before president nixon receive signed. president cannot pardon himself, under the fundamental legal prince pull that you can't be the judge in your own case. jeff. >> palaw >> a violent end today. the man shot himself to death as the a police swat team moved in. mireya villarreal has the late details. dwight jones was tracked down to this extended stay hotel in northern scottsdale at 5:00 a.m. when he started shooting. >> the swat team set up on the room. able to enter using robot and other tactics and determine the suspect had killed himself with an apparent gunshot pice believ, pitts was jones' first victim
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thursday. friday two paralegals turned up dead. valerie sharp and laura anderson. the next morning, found life coach, marshal levine murdered. police believe jones is connected to all six murders. each victim had a connection to his 2009 divorce and custody battle. >> here is open letter. >> jones posted disturbing audio clips on youtube since removed. in one of them he accuses his ex-wife's attorney of sprefding lies. >> her attorney told her to plant those tapes and do all of that devious [ bleep ] she did. >> today is not a success story. but aster that has the closure. >> weep just walked out of a press conference right now where you heard the sheriff talk about closure. he also confirms, they started tracking jones on saturday night. then on sunday they saw him drop a bag into a trash can. when they retrieved that bag they actually found a base toll inside linked to several of the murders. and jeff, he also confirms that this, all started with a tip from the public. >> mireya villarreal, in
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scottsdale, arizona for us tonight. mireya villarreal thank you. coming up next, bill clinton saonica lewinsk will n be getting an apology. later how the children
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children of america's fallen heroes. now helping others through their grief. >> there is daddy. >> brinley and ansley thompson come here often to visit their dad. todd thompson served two years in iraq and died in 2012. >> brinley. i'm jeff. nice to meet you. ansley. we met the girl here at section 60, final resting place for the men and women who died in iraq and afghanistan. tell me what it is like, visiting here, ansley? >> when you come here it's, you think back at the funeral. and when, when, it was the last time you said good-bye. >> there are more than 5,000 sds aund the country. grieving the death of a parent. sibling or close relative. many of them come together each year at the good grief camp. run by taps, tragedy assistance program for survivors.
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>> when we help others we feel better. >> here they find empathy from legacy mentors. kids who have experienced the worst kind of pain. now remarkably helping others through theirs. kids like brook neeren who lost her father nathaniel in iraq 13 years ago. the knock on the door still echos. >> i saw two men standing there in uniform. i knew exactly what it meant. and the whole time, i just stood there saying, i know that he is dead. because why else would they come to my house? i felt like i lost my whole world. he was so important to me. >> brook, entered the good grief camp six months later. >> i really don't know where i would be if i've didn't have taps. you know they were, they were the ones there for me when i felt like no one else was. >> ss mentoring 8-year-old adrian williams. >> i never thought i would be
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able to relate to an #-year-old. but here we are sharing very similar stories about our dads. >> corbin cabrera, now 19, first attended good grief camp when he was 15 after losing his dad, david cabrera. >> i was lucky enough to have a mentor who could get through to men a way that helped me tremendously. >> how is it going? >> corbin is brinley's mentor. >> does he help make you less sad? >> yes. >> i see the look on brinley's face when your name its mentioned. that's pretty great. >> there is nothing look it. >> because not only do we get to help the kids, in a way the kids help us. >> for the cold star consider, grief and pride come in equal measures. >> end of the day when i can help somebody else to go through some of the stuff i went through before i came to taps means the world to me. >> i think you are doing that with brinley.
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denver police are interviewing uh to determine if an fbi agent should face charges
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in an accidental shooting. offduty and dancing when he did a back flip. his gun fell to the floor. he picked it up. it went off. shooting a by stander in the leg. >> howard schultz stepping down as executive chairman of starbuck's. schultz, turned 65, is considering range of options including public service. he did not stay whether that might include a run for president. >> former president george h.w. bush was released from the maine hospital today. after treatment for low blood pressure and fatigue. mr. bush turns 94 next week. the cbs "overnight news" will be right back. hey, want the fastest internet?
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former president bill clinton on a book tour promoting first novel co-authored by james patterson. the tour dominated by questions straight out of the history books about the darkest moments of his presidency. his ed o'keefe. >> you are giving one side. >> in a combative interview with nbc, former president bill clinton said the me too movement has not changed how he views his affair with white house intern monica lewinsky. >> did you ever apologize for it? >> yes, and nobody believes -- that i got out of that for free. i left the white house $16 million in debt. >> do you feel like you owe her an apology -- >> no, i do not -- for frz i never talked to her. but i did say publicly on more than one occasion i was sorry.
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>> i misled people including even my wife. i deeply regret that. >> you don't think a private apology. >> i dealt with it 20 years ago. plus, and the american people, 2/3 of them stayed with me. and i have tried to, to do a good job since then with my life and with my work. >> in a separate interview with cbs sunday morning, mr. clinton was asked about comments by new york senator gillebrand who said last fall she should have stepped down because of the lewinsky scandal. >> i disagree with her. i think, you have to, really ignore what the context was. but, you know -- she is living in a different context. and she did for different reasons. >> tweet, lewinsky is grateful to people w have helped her evolve. last fall, told cbs this morning that the years since the affair have been difficult.
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>> you know there were many times over the last, two decades when, i wasn't sure i would make it. >> in that interview, mr. clinton said he likes the metoo movement calling it way overdue. but he added i still have some questions about some of the decisions which have been made. >> that's the "overnight news" for tuesday.
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>> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." overni ne decion ia hntated case, pitting gay rights against religious freedom. justices ruled in favor of a baker in colorado, who refused a religious ground to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. but the ruling does not mean businesses can cite their faith to turn away gay customers. here is jan crawford.
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>> moments after the court's ruling, the masterpiece cake shop, baker jack phillips celebrated what he saw as victory for religious freedom. in a 7-2 ruling written by justice anthony kennedy. the court said colorado officials who compared, phillip's religious objections to defenses of the slavery and holocaust, a clear and impermissible hostility toward thatedection to efs baking the cake. phillips told us when the court was considering the case he would serve same-sex couples other baked good in his shop but would not create a wedding cake. >> because? >> because the biblical teaching on marriage is pretty clear. and this is promoting a ceremony that goes against those core teachings. >> the court's ruling was narrow and may well apply only to phillips. the justices made a plea for civility in future cases writing. these disputes must be resolved with tolerance, without un do disrespect to sincere religious beliefs and without subjecting gay gay persons to indignities. the language gave the couple.
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charlie craig and david mullins some comfort. >> i think the decision in our case is so specific. that i don't think it will half a larger effect on the movement. >> president trump is claiming he has the absolute right to pardon himself though he says he has done noth wrong. the president made a controversial assertion as he launched new attacks against the special counsel russia investigation. here's paula reid. >> reporter: the president tweeted while he has no plans to pardon himself. he could if he wanted to. i have the absolute right to pardon myself, but why would i do that when i have done nothing wrong? he also continued his attacks on the legitimacy of the special counsel. tweeting that robert mueller's appointment is totally unconstitutional. the president's tweets echo comments from personal attorney, rudy giuliani sunday. >> there is nothing that limits the presidential power of pardon from a federal crime. >> giuliani acknowledged the question whether the president can pardon himself is less >> the president of the united states pardoning himself would
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just unthinkable and would lead to, probably, immediate impeachment. you know, the house, senate would be under tremendous pressure. >> republican congressman will heard on face the nation. >> that would create outrage on both sides of political aisle. >> reporter: today, democratic senator, ron widen, staunch liberal shuddered at the thought. >> i certainly hope it never reaches that point. that would bring about a full-scale constitutional crisis >> talk of pardons appears to be getting ahead of the investigation. the president has not decided whether to sit for an interview. and there is no guarantee of indictment. trial, or verdict. all of which would be challenge white house press secretary sarah sanders today. >> the president hasn't done anything wrong. and wouldn't have any need for a pardon. >> the issue of presidential pardons has never been tested in the court.
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in fact the only official guidance we have on that issue is a 1974 justice department memo issued shortly before president nixon receive signed. that memo says that a president cannot pardon himself, under the fundamental legal principle that you can't be the judge in your own case. hundreds of firefighters, are battling firefighters in the southwest. the biggest fires in colorado and new mexico, torched thousand of akers. fire crews say they're making progress but the fight is not over. here its mark strassmann. >> jeez. >> reporter: strong winds. dry conditions helped fuel the 416 fire north of durango, colorado. helicopter crews have worked to contain the growing inferno from the sky, since its outbreak on friday. so far the fire has burned more than 2200 acres and is only 10% contained. a wall of smoke towered above the dense dry brush in southern colorado's san juan national
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forest. >> oh, my god. >> about 200 miles east in colfax county, new mexico, residents grow concerned as the yute park fire edges closer to their homes. >> black smoke. pretty high. i didn't see the flames. but i just saw the smoke. it looked close. >> since thursday the fire has burned around 32,000 acres in northern new mexico. more than 500 crews are fighting the flames. people in nearby cimmaron were urged to evacuate their homes over the weekend. >> it any just weird. we are a small town. so it's not much ever going on. just unreal. in a dream. >> plumes of thick smoke filled the sky. jared chaterly with the convention center. evacuees may find shelter, food, supplies. >> you are told to pack your stuff and get out. we are here to acome date people in every whey we can. >> new videos have been released in the arrest of an nba player
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in milwaukee. in january police fired a stun gun at 23-year-old sterling brown, over a late night parking violation. now, new body cam video shows after the arrest, officers talked about possible accusations of racism, and overtime pay. >> a new body camera video obtained by milwaukee station, wisn shows officers expressing concern over the perception of sterling brown's arrest. >> initial video released last month showed brown being thrown to the ground. >> taser. taser. taser. aftehe pardisar in two handicap spots outside a wall greens.
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>>en a second new body camera video, an officer is seen stepping on brown's ankle after he is on the ground. >> an officer then begins to question if brown is a milwaukee bucks player. >> what you think, i look familiar dent i.noew video, an officer appears to call a supervisor to request overtime pay. new photos also obtained by wisn shows the injuries to brown's face and bed after the arrest. brown was briefly jailed. but never charged with a crime. hours after the incident he played in an nba game with bruises on his face. when the initial videos were released milwaukee mayor tom barrett said she was outraged by the officers' actions. >> this type of behavior, whether it is toward a professional athlete or any other citizen, has no place in our city. the cbs "overnight news" will be right back. any object. any surface.
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the arrest of two black men at philadelphia star bucks raised question as but how employees are trained to avoid racial bias. a recent harvard university study found discrimination is a prevalent factor in the politeness of employees in the service industry. hotel employees, for example are 20% likely to offer restaurant recommendations to white customers than to black or asian customers. wcbs anchor and contributor maurice dubois want to washington, d.c. to see how a chain of restaurants there is tackling the issue. >> bus boys and poets is a restaurant and bookstore that employs 650 people across six locations in washington. for the past 13 years, the restaurant owner, has been
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conducting unique racial bias training for employees. we recently tended training with 10 millenials, we met in a room named after lanston hughes, a renowned pout once a bus boy. >> can you be color blind in america s america? >> no. >> being color blind is rejecting somebody's culture who they are, how they are. >> race perplexed artist turned restauranteur since he first came to america in 1966 as a 10-year-old iraqi refugee. >> my family lived in virginia. back then introduced to race in america. >> hit you in the face. >> absolutely. i was a small boy with an afro and darker skin. some times thought i was black. some people thought i was white. some people thought i was who knows what. >> what does a kid make of that? >> it is confusing. i didn't know anything about race. >> he set out to create a community where people of different cultures and races
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could interact, and shares his vision with employees every couple of weeks, at anti-ba bia trainings. >> a lot of white people i hear them say i'm color blind. like that its the ultimate, the ultimate space to be in. which means that you don't see color and therefore, you don't have any racism or prejudice in your bones. >> that is ignorant. >> saying you are color blind. you don't see me. to be color blind, shouldn't be. appreciate that. >> how does race impact the way you serve? >> for me, i'm not going to say race doesn't exist. it does. but i bring my same attitude to any table that i go to. >> let's say a host at the front door, a saturday morning. we just opened the door. let's say the entire space its open at that moment in time. so, the hostess wants to seat people according to sections. so, the black couple walks in through the door. they walk through an entire empty restaurant.
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and get seated in the back corner. what does the black couple thinking? >> they put them in the back. >> why you sitting me in the back? >> i had that happen. you set me by the bathroom. >> i was going by the rotation. the server got there. first in. hadn't gotten the tables. >> randomly at the next table. >> what you have to do is explain. you have to keep the lines of communication open. because if you don't, then people will, think this. >> now let me ask you this. go back to my example. what if a white couple walks in. they get seated in the back corner, what's the white people thinking? >> we got the whole room to ourselves, honey. >> what does the hostess looks like? >> everybody reads the book by its cover. >> i was having the conversation with the gentleman the other day. in the uber ride on the way to work. he says why is being black different than being any other race? or any other color? >> was he black or -- >> he was black. i was like, because, they can
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see us coming. physically you can see us coming. you can make your perception from there. >> what about main take aways here. how are you going to change the way you do your job? >> to me this discussion is a mindfulness exercise. an invitation to be, deliberate. and to not sink into the biases that i have built up over many and, it's a reminder to practice compassion. >> any body think this is a nice discussion, but people are people. they're going to be who they are. and nothing is going to change. >> i think that when you were hired here, you have demonstrated that your mind is open enough to, to accept other people experiences and learn about them and about yourself. >> so, i think what i am hearing >> i do think we need new bring this conversation to a wider audience. >> we could have all the idea to want to go out and start the
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conversation the hardest thing do. >> is the world as simple as respect? is that all it is? >> yeah. >> respect other people. >> i think the biggest, biggest problem at least in america when it comes to race relation is recognizing, just where we are as a person, and as a people, to, to figure out how we fix the problem. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back. when i kept finding myself smoking in my attic.
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make the most of a few minutes with ky natural feeling with aloe vera >> recreational marijuana is against the law in 41 states. any weed is forbidden by the federal government. as ben tracy shows us, it is all about seeing green. ♪ dinosaur ♪ ♪ >> hollywood has long been addicted to a good marijuana joke. >> so these are our raw flowers. >> now that pot is legal for
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recreational use in nine states. >> yeah. this stuff is awesome. >> with more on horizo laughing all the way to the bank. >> is it hard to find high quality planlts? >> only if you are really high. >> what better than tommy chong to be one of first, so-called gangapreneurs. a natural fit, he gladly let his career go up in smoke. he hand his partner, cheech maren practically invented the stoner comedy. >> hey, man, am i driving okay? >> how much of what you have in this life is due to this? >> everything. >> everything. >> all the movies. all the record. my nice house in the pallisades, my tesla. you look at me, i am a --
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but marijuana really has been responsible for everything. >> including a nine month stint in prison in 2003 for selling glass bongs on the internet. >> our quality. choice is so high. >> now he is legitimate, selling organically grown, chongs choice. as the the face of the brand, well, he has to make sure it's good. >> i'm the tester. i'm the guy that smells it. feels it. puts it in my pipe. and smokes it. >> quality control. tau awe i'm quality control all the way. >> chongs choice is for sale in six states. with any other product. name recognition matters. >> do you think somebody who walks into a store like this for the first time and sees your name on something, says, okay, i know him. i trust this. >> absolutely. absolutely. especially with me. you know they know the movies.
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they know me from all sorts of. dancing with the stars for instance. >> i'm quite sure that subliminally a lot of the old guys are going i belter start smoking pot too. >> so i can dance like that guy. >> from fashion to fragrance, to beverages, hard and soft, celebrities sells. and with marijuana sales ex-pected ex-pect ed expected to reach $8 billion to $10 billion end of this year and $20 billion by 2022. more celebrities are investing money and lending their names to get a foothold in the growing market. >> this was an industry in the shadows. all around, on the black market for many decades. kind of, rose up very quickly. a lot of people were shocked by how fast it materialized. >> chris walsh is founding editor of marijuana business daily. yes there is such a thing. >> get some one not as familiar with marijuana.
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tourist. local. haven't done it since college. they go into a store and there are 50 jars with different strains. they're all named something different. >> he says celebrities such as chong, willie nelson. snoop dogg and whoopi goldberg are helping marijuana go mainstream. >> what we found is that the stores can basically charge an average 25% markup over the same type of product that doesn't have celeb rip tee name on it. so clearly consumers are willing to pay more and it's working. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ grammy winning artist, melissa ethridge is getting in on the act from the ground up. >> this is my dream. my building it and they will come. >> she calls the 47 acres in california's santa cruz mountains, etheridge farms. >> it is one thing to use this, one thing to be an advocate for
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it. why did you want to go into the business? >> i wanted to be in the front of this because i feel that, that there is not a representation for middle-aged women in the cannibas industry. >> this new business venture is personal. she says she discovered the healing power of marijuana during painful chemotherapy sessions after she was dieing anotioned with breast cancer in 2004. >> so they gave me like super duper chemowhich was really, really horrible. especially in your gastrointestinal system. immediately, as soon as i took the first, chemo, you start feeling it. by the end of the night. i, i, smoked. and you get instant relief from nausea. and, you have an appetite. >> for etheridge. pot isn't just about getting high. it is about getting healthy. she says the product grown here will have strict standard. >> you know it has been pesticide free. it's the quality. and it's measured out.
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you are going to be able to understand what the dosage is. and that's, that any the product i want to present. edibles my friend. >> even edible products. ginger snap weed cookies and baked goods. >> if you have an edible. what do i do, eat the whole thing, no its the answer. do not ever eat the whole thing of an edible, people. >> then there is the infused lavender cream. >> arthritis. women who haven't been able to knit for years have put it on their hand. cover with gloves overnight. wake up. believe me. >> that effective. >> so effective. it's, it's -- kind of sad that it's not out in the world. >> etheridge farms not yet up and running. >> get relationships with them. they're beautiful. >> she hopes putting the her name on her products will lead to more people experiencing a higher level of relaxation. >> life is hard enough. let's, let's take it easy on
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ourselves. we don't have to go through life, you know, clutching the
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an fbi agent who busted a very dangerous move on a dance floor, could face criminal charges. the incident at a denver nightclub caught on camera. here is jeff pegues. >> this definitely was not that agent's finest hour. now his career is on the line. the shooting happened in a denver nightclub early saturday morning. the agent was off duty. when his gun accidentally fired. he was dancing. right as he did the back flip his gun fell out and hit the ground. it shot off. >> kara chancellor was in mile high distillery and tasting bar when the offduty fbi agent dropped his gun and accidentally fired it when he tried to grab it. in the video you can see the agent throwing up his hand and walking away.
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witnesses called 911. >> mile high spirits are saying, they are saying the gun went off from someone's pocket? >> two minutes after that. paramedics start flooding in. they're crowding this guy. >> police say theab struck a ma in the leg taken to a hospital in good condition. unknown itch the agent had been drinking at the time of the incident. police tested his blood alcohol level. some witnesses were unsure about the agent's sobriety. >> i would hope that alcohol was not involved because as a gun owner myself. and, being some one who its part of community cares about gun safety. i'm responsible with my firearm. >> denver district attorney's office will determine if charges will be filed against the agent. >> he could face local charges as a result of this which will make his fbi situation much worse. >> ron hosko former fbi assistant director says the unfortunate accident comes at a time when the agency is already under scrutiny. >> unintended, unwelcome black
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eye for the fbi. >> reporter: denver police are obviously leading this investigation. but the fbi is conducting an internal investigation. typically in cases like these, the fbi tries to re-create what happened. but in this case, obviously, there is video. that is the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a bit later for the morning news and from the broadcast center here in new york city. i'm michelle mille
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captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs it's tuesday, june 5th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." federal prosecutors accuse president trump's former campaign chairman, paul manafort, of witness tampering in the criminal cases against him. the search for the missing continues in guatemala after a volcano eruption kills more than 60 people. the man suspected of going on a killing spree in arizona is found dead in a hotel room. and last-minute cancelation. president trump calls off the white house celebration of the super bowl champions, the philadelphia eagles. ♪

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