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not wearing a seatbelt. he was arrested for driving without a license. >> how long have you been in the u.s.? >> 11 years. >> have you ever been deported before? >> no. >> no. >> this would be your first time. >> first time. >> huh are you feeling now? >> feel, so bad. i am so scared. i don't like to go in my country. my family is here. my wife, she pregnant. this is, i feel so bad.
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>> unlike diaz lopez, 70% of those deported by ice from this jail have prior criminal record. such as javiercuatro with felonies and deportations. >> i heard you said you want bedeported. go back? why? >> i don't have a chance. you know. you don't have nothing. >> moments later, ice arrived to pick up diaz lopez, cuatro and they were taken to a detention center in atlanta for possible deportation. nationwide, 78 local law enforcement agencies across 20 states participate in the 287 g program. through which ice deported close to 6,000 illegal immigrants last year. 653 alone came from gwinnett
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county. >> if you are in a country illegally, the least you can do is obey that country's laws. >> gin ewinnett county sheriff signed the county up for the program in 2009. >> what do you say an excuse to profile? >> if they've don't commit a crime and come to the jail we'll never have contact with them. >> california and sanctuary cities ban programs like 287 g. >> unfortunately, we are one of the worst states to be undocumented individual. >> local activist, helped to block the statewide implementation in georgia, earlier this year. >> our communities are targeted based on what look like. police officers pulling people over for broken tail light or driving without a license. >> profiling or them doing their job? >> just the thought of dealing with some one undocumented person. gives them a little bit extra push to maybe take them to the jail. see what they could do. >> what do you say to critics who say look most people you are nonvio ofnders. t ice are
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>> they're wrong. i have known -- ille but they are here illegally. they are going to be here illegally. you drive, drive, taking a chance. >> extraordinary look inside the system. david. you met the two guys. one wanted to be deported. one didn't. what's their status? >> from lopez, arrested without a li license, waiting to see an immigration judge. and cuatro, got what he wanted. he
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morning. the swimsuit competition is out. and in its place, a question and answer session about contestants hopes and dreams. >> this is a new beginning. >> former miss america, gretchen carlson is chairwoman of the organization. >> we want to be open, transparent, inclusive to women who may not have felt comfortable participating in our program before. >> the pait began as a swimsuit competition and incorporated other events. south carolina native kimberly aiken won the 1994 crown and thinks the decision is overdue. >> when you are telling a young woman that, what's, what we value is scholarship, and then we say, get up on the stage bikini. there is obviously nothing wrong with that. but we are trying to take the focus off of that physical beauty. >> the change comes as tv ratings are on the decline. and last year, a series of e-mails disparaging the looks of
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contestants, surfaced forcing the resignation of the ceo. today reaction on social media was mixed. one tweet put it. i only watched miss america for the articles any way. on the cbs program the talk. was some dissent.ed the an >> i'm not really excite add but this. because, to me, watching a boughty pageant was about, posture, and grace, and charm, and articulation. >> michelle miller, cbs news, new york. still ahead here tonight, how did they land the plane when they couldn't see out the windows. ♪
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hawaii's volcano destroyed hundred more homes overnight. overnight, lava overtook two ocean front communities evacuated last week. among the homes lost, the one owned by big island's mayor. >> american airlines jet came under attack from mother nature. this is what a hailstorm did sunday night to flight 1897 san antonio to phoenix. the hail ripped the nosecone off the airbus a 319. windshield hit so many times, pilots cou managed a safe emergency landing in el paso. up next, swimmer sets out to do something no one has ever done before. deal talk.
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finally, a long distance swimmer, conquered the atlantic 20 years ago is taking on the pacific. jim axelrod has his story. >> reporter: this morning, off the coast of japan. right now in the water and ready to go. 51-year-old ben lecoin treaded water in the pacific ocean, wearing a wet suit. but cloaked an understaple. i am looking forward to a big crossing. >> big crossing doesn't begin to cover it. a frenchman now living in texas is attempting a six month 5600 mile swim across the pacific ocean, to san francisco. along the way to book end to his
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prior swim across the atlantic, two decades ago. >> i know i was going to go back to the project. eventually. >> already 11 miles in. he will be swimming right rohra a ite arks. but it is the danger the planet is in that is on his mind. like climate change and pollution. he designed his rut to pass through a collection of microplastic ref use roughly the size of germany, france and britain, combined. >> i remember times where we go on the beach and walk and never see any plastic. now everywhere i go, on the beach, i see plastic everywhere. >> he plans to swim eight hours at a stretch, eating 8,000 calories a day. resting each evening on a support boat. if he makes it he will be the already the first to have soloed the atlantic. physical aspect of it swimming it is difficult and all that. what is much more difficult to
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welcome to the joifr. i'm david begnaud. we begin with the stunning loss of one of america's top fashion designers. kate spade who built a handbag empire found dead in her new york city apartment. police say the 55-year-old mother and wife left a suicide note. jericka duncan at the scene on park avenue. >> a stellar career with a tragic end. shortly after 2:00 p.m. today the body of 55-year-old kate spade, a ground breaking force in the fashion world, was removed from her apartment building. >> it appears at this point in time to be a tragic case of apparent suicide.
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>> the fashion icon known for her sleek handbag had been found hanging from a redarve tied to a door knob in her bedroom. a housekeeper police said who found her. nearby, a suicide note addressed to her 13-year-old daughter, police say there are signs pointing toward marital and financial issues. born in 1962, spade was at the forefront of a powerful wave of female american designers in the 90s. she and her husband, andy spade, launched an eclectic handbag line in 1993 complete with their signature label. >> i remember thinking there is something missing. i want something for my eye to o on the inside. took it out of the box. sewed it on the outside. the handbags modeled after the ones she saw in her mother's closet were a hit with career women and young girls. part of a sophisticated affordable style. though she sold the company ove aade a nam o cuers.
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karen garrity was one of them she paid her respects today. >> though i never met her. she touched my life. i am praying for the family. and for her soul. >> search-and-rescue efforts are entering a fourth day in guatemala after a devastating volcano eruption. the volcano of fire blew its top sunday. a scorching cloud of ash, rock, toxic gas swept over villages as lava gushed down the side of the volcano. officials say 69 people have been killed. but that number is expected to keep going up. manuel bojorquez is in the disaster zone. about 30 miles from the capital of guatemala city. >> this afternoon. we were freeing to get closer to the volcano. and i'm looking out the window right now at what appears to be another flow of lava. the urgency was loud and clear. the threat of another eruption sent people racing to safety. as toxic plumes of smoke rose
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high in the sky. it was yet another reminder that the volcano of fire is not done wielding its fiery wrath after sunday's firy eruption spread destruction to. understand the scope of the damage it must be seen from above. we are flying over one of the hardest hit areas. told military members down there are in search a-and-rescue mode. meaning there could be survivors down there. >> rescuer who made it to the heavily hit zones, searched through mud and ash. and in some areas, several feet high. this man says he lost everything. his sisters and his home. >> reporter: your house is gone? do you still have the hope to find them? or at least to be able to bury
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them? those who have already learned the worst held funerals, like this procession for seven victims in the town. many of those fleeing have stopped here just a few miles away from thll the continued threat of eruptions is not the only thing hampering the rescue effort here. there is also the threat of rainfall mixing with the ash. creating a toxic sludge. this as officials say the 72 hour window to find survivors is starting to close. in hawaii, volcano emergency shows no signs of slowing down. a mun onths after it started. lava is pouring into the ocean. that mix is releasing toxic steam containing particles of glass. the lava flowcartnsheig >> reporter: this is the eruption blasting lava up to 260
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feet in the air more than a week. the total number of homes destroyed is now believed off to be 159. up from 87 on friday. this is the second time lava hit the ocean since the crisis began. this is where the lava meets the ocean. it is cooled now. hard enough off to walk on. but you can still see steam rising there. and the problem with this flow is that it cross aid major highway. the communities are now completely surrounded by lava. after escape routes were overrun this weekend. authorities don't have a firm count on the number of people who have chosen to stay behind. but they believe it is more than dozen. first responders are now doing fly yefrz flyovers and lava and for any one that may want to leave. >> we are looking for people if they're, if they want to come out. they will wave us down. >> everything from this point that way is completely new. >> jeffrey wise lives in a voluntary evacuation zone.
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he decided to leave because there was only one remaining escape route. >> it has cracks with steam coming out of it. haven't been staying in my house in the case it would be compromised i wouldn't be able to get out. >> hon drepundreds of earthquak shaks, 5.5 sunday. sent ash 8,000 feet into the air covering popular tourist areas and leaving huge cracks in nearby roads. in the southwest, a murder spree believed to be a man's revenge after a disvors battle came to a violent end at an arizona hel t 56-year-old dwight jones killed himself monday after opening fire on officers who were closing in on him. now, jones is suspected of murdering six people. investigators say, four of the alleged victims had links to legal battles with his ex-wife. mireya villarreal is in scottsdale. >> dwight jones' ex-wife connie says her husband was emotionally disturbed. in rambling audio messages to his son. jones accused his ex-wife of
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conspiring against him along with well known forensic psychiatrist dr. steven pitt. >> she had dr. pitt give the exam but the garbage he made up couldn't be get me committed to a mental ward permanent like she wanted. >> police say pitt was jones' first victim. pitt evaluated jones and testified against him during the divorce. jones' next victims veleria arpa pair legal as at the law firm. he also killed marshal levine worked at an office used by a counselor who evaluated jones' son. the final two victims, 70-year-old mary simmons and 72-year-old bryon thomas. >> mr. jones was visiting them in an effort to right some wrongs. >> investigators say ballistics, dna, and surveillance video evidence connect jones to at least three crimes.
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since the assassination of robert f kennedy. the 42-year-old gunned down, as hope for his presidential campaign was taking off. the shocking loss capped off one of the traumatic years in american history and changed a generation. jim axelrod takes a look back in aster that aired on "sunday morning." >> it's on to chicago. let's win this. >> when robert f. kennedy stepped from the stage at ambassador hotel in los angeles. his walk through the kitchen, moments later, would become the violent book end to one of the most turbulent stretches in american history. >> i am announcing today my candidacy. >> three months earlier, kennedy
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announced he would take on the sitting president from his own party. >> i do not lightly dismiss the dangers and the difficulties of challenging an incumbent president. but these are not ordinary times. >> a short while later, with anti-war sentiment spiking. lyndon johnson pulled out of the race. >> i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as the your president. >> just four days after that. >> martin luther king was shot and killed tonight in memphis, tennessee. >> finally, a few minutes after midnight, june 5, 1968, america faced the murder of yet another kennedy. >> thank you >> pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. five shots. >> journalist pete hamil helped
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subdue the assassin. says the wound that america suffered that night has yet to heal. >> a story of what might have been. not about what happened. but what we lost when it ed >> what did we lose? >> hope. >> i want the democratic party and the united states of america to stand for hope. instead of despair. >> my father gave people hope. he lifted them up. >> kathleen kennedy townsend the oldest of robert and ethel kennedy's 11 children. she says people found that hope in the questions her father was asking. >> we have this great wealth, $800 billion ape year. we have all this military power. yet how do we to it? what do we do with it? >> how do we make moral choices? how do we help our fellow human being. most meaningful thing you can
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do. >> it was their faith in the answers he offered. that helped him build a coalition that implausible if not impossible to imagine today. >> he could speak to white working class men and women. because they trusted him that he would fight for them. and he also, fault for african-americans. if you talk to, those who met him, you never sensed that he felt he was better than you. he was with you. >> the story of bobby kennedy as his loyalists tell it is a tale of transformation. from hard charging, law and order young attorney, to joe mccarthy's staff. social justice warrior by the late 60s. >> he was not just a speaker, he would listen to what people were saying after the great wound of his brother's assassination. and he understood i think that, that, part of -- part of him although he came from the irish, part of him was jewish.
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part of h latino. >> to somebody as famous as he was, he was living his life not performing it. >> reporter: a young senator from new york who used his boldfaced name, fame, and political capital to focus on the forgotten. >> senator robert kennedy, the rich man's son has come to mississippi, the poorest state in the union to see the rural side of poverty. >> how did, the trip to the delta come about. >> by miracle. a young lawyer working with the poor in mississippi was there with kennedy in april, 1967, and knew the power of the people he was meeting. >> robert kennedy and john kennedy's pictures. >> edelman says he was not prepared to like him because as attorney general kennedy had authorized the wiretapping of
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martin luther king jr. in 1963. still, there kennedy was. in mississippi, putting poverty on the map. >> he was just shocked. >> good luck. >> peter edelman who would meet maryann on the trip and would later marry her. a kennedy aide. >> you see, children with swelling bellies. i have been in third, fourth world countries and haven't seen anything as terrible as this. >> for a citizen living here in the state of mississippi doing reasonably well, you don't run up against this kind of poverty. >> i watched him interact with children. the thing that i grew to like most about him to see that he was really absorbing it was his touch. he would rub a child's cheek. and, that, that, meant a lot to me. >> a lot of people in this room. >> little more than a year after that trip, bobby kennedy was
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gone. >> i didn't expect that to happen. >> writer pete hamil is still haunted. >> i wanted to write you. >> so taken by rfk's potential he had written him, begging him to get into the race. >> the fight you might make would be the fight. >> i have to take my share of responsibility. >> he thought bobby kennedy uniquely positioned to address the divisions in america. >> when we dealt with vietnam. >> if you uh won. the country might be saved. >> i think i learned a lesson. i think from that lesson that i think that we can do better in the future. >> kennedy would campaign with that letter in his jacket pocket. >> it actually makes me remember those times. i read it now. i regret the part i had in making, if i did, in making him make the choice.
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because of a young dope with a pistol. >> you do think of that part? >> i do. >> did he ever express his own fear that he too would be assassinated. >> never. never. do you think it was in there, he didn't talk about it? >> i think it was in there. when i saw him that night. there was a look on his face. that was -- i knew this was going to happen. decades later, how bobby kennedy died is still raising questions. last week, two of his children, called for a new investigation into whether there was a second gunman. senator robert francis kennedy died at 1:44 a.m., june 6, 1968. he was 42 years old. but what is being marked this week is the meaning of his life.
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manyts of th on.>> 50 years ago was eulogized by his brother ted. >> some men see things as they are and say why? i dream things that never were and say why not? >> reporter: a train carried his body from new york city to the nation's capital. >> the funeral train is an old tradition in american life. this is a familiar route. along the way there have been people along the tracks. >> that train ride was supposed to be three hours. instead. seven hours. two million people came out. african-americans in baltimore singing the battle hymn of the republic. nobody organized this. it was spontaneous. >> theytand. they w sof crying. >> what did he have that touched so many people? his love, his courage. and his, his, ability to, to,
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relate. >> there are plenty of people in the country who fine the story of the kennedys an exercise in grand scale myth making. but there are many others, marking and mourning the night half a century ago when what may have been the brightest spark of political hope in their life times was extinguished. >> it's hard to know exactly what heals. there is pain that lasts for 50 years. it's enormous sadness. enormous sense of loss. i am not a believer that, that time heals all wounds. at all. i think the wounds stay for a long type.
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sures a day to being seizure free 71 days after he began smoking marijuana. >> have you had 71 days where he didn't have a seizure? >> never. >> medical marijuana is legal in 29d states and washington. nine states and d.c. allow for legal recreational marijuana. georgia has some of the strictest marijuana laws in the country. physicians are not allowed to prescribe marijuana for medical use and illegal to sell or possess it. the law does allow those with state issued medical card to possess low thc oil. >> only way he could get medical card was six year waiting list. >> they say frustrated with traditional prescription medication they took matters into their own hands. >> you're having to buy it illegally? >> yes. >> matthew brill says he smoked the marijuana first to make sure it was okay re givt to his stepson. >> y gsot arrested. >> yes. >> you both go to jail.
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>> for six days. >> they were charged with reckless conduct after some one alerted the georgia division of family and children services. on april 20th, david was removed from the brill's custody. that day he had a ee sure and rushed to the hospital. >> how is david doing? >> when i talked to him tonight. the ten men out phone call i was allowed to have with him he is on the verge of going into seizure. >> david is living in a group home 60 miles from his parents. division of family and children services said in a statement. case managers continue to work with the parents. so the family can be restored as quickly as possible. >> they're facing real criminal charges. >> rachel coogle, criminal defense attorney. >> i think if they beat the criminal case, they still are definitely in hot watt r with regard to child protective services. >> in a statement, the sheriff defended the charges against the brills saying it is my duty to enforce state law. the brills understand.
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a new study shows, lottery and prize scams are duping eric millions every year. in the last three years, the better business bureau says 460,000 americans have reported losing more than $330 million. the scams, usually phone or e-mail are spreading to social media. anna werner shows us. >> they said congratulations, mr. walker, you have won the jamaica sweepstakes. >> allen walker had moved to st. louis in 2015 when the call came in on his cell phone. telling him he had won, $94,000. it was be delivered soon. all he had to do was send them a fee for taxes.
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>> kept telling me. >> walker sent them two checks, totaling $5,500, all his saves. they didn't show up with the prize. then he got repeated calls to send money to different people. that's when he realized it wade. >> lead investigator for better business bureau. >> most of the people, that are cold calling you from jamaica. >> baker says 3,000 people reported sweepstakes and lottery scams to the bb scam tracker in 2017. that same year, the ftc and fbi combined received more than 145,000 complaints about the scams. losses topped $100 million. the bbb study says scammers contact their victims to get their personal information every way they can. through cold calling. text messages, internetd pop-ups, mail and social media
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like facebook. >> fact that they migrated to social media means that is a huge new audience that is introduced. >> facebook told us in a statement, scams violate our policies. we have a dedicated team stand automated systems to help detect and block these kind of scams. baker encourages relatives and friends of older consumers to help them avoid becoming fraud victims by educating them. if you've think you within a lottery, keep stakes, some body wants taxes, for any reason. they're crooks, do not send money. >> baker says the actual number of victims could be up to ten times hyperthan actually often o embarrassed admit are they were scammed. >> that's the "overnight news" for wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later in the morning. cbs this morning starts 7:00 a.m. eastern. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm david begnaud. thank you for watching.
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