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he had been wanted for weeks for attempted murder. now there are questions how he alluded authorities and got that close to the white house. here is jeff pegues. >> reporter: martice edwards appeared in a washington, d.c. courtroom and did not fight extradition to maryland on charge of attempted murder. secret service didn't provide much information about edward arrested tuesday while reporting to work as white house contractor. edwards is charged with shooting the boyfriend of his
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ex-girlfriend on may 3rd in prince george's county maryland, some nine miles from the white house. two weeks later on may 17th. police entered an arrest warrant into a national crime innor mags data base launching a search that data base available to all law enforcement agencies. but the secret service says it didn't become aware of the warrant until june 4. maryland officials say the warrant was updated that day with new information. a spokesman for the prince george's county states attorney. >> why it was not seen by the secret service until june 4th, that, that is a question that they would have to answer not anything that i would have knowledge of. >> reporter: pentagon officials say edwards applied in 2012 to be police officer at defense intelligence agency but did not complete the training. in 2015, edwards did logistics support at the dia but hasn't worked there since. >> in a statement to night the white house said that, edwards was a temporary employee with
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the national security council last year. they say that he didn't attend classified briefings. they've also say his access to the white house was revoked before his arrest. jeff. >> jeff peg spuchlt es new details tonight. >> in t pen suburb of mesa, arizona four officers put on paid administrative leave after surveillance video showed them violently beating a man. this follows a number of incidents in mesa in which the police were accused of excessive force. jamie yuccas its there. >> reporter: this surveillance video shows 33-year-oldober johnson leaning against a wall using his phone. police say they asked him to sit down. when he didn't immediately comply, four mesa police cer, r johnsim, before on falls to the ground. johnson's attorney, benjamin taylor. >> datace, color, age, gender. nobody deserves to be beat like >>eeic osndrs. office
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seeant on administrative leave. police chief, ramon batista. i am disappointed. there will be a special director that says we will not strike some body in the face or head unless they are showing us active aggression. >> police were responding to a domestic disturbance call at an apartment complex. a woman had called saying her ex-boyfriend, a friend of johnson's, tried breaking into her apartment. that's him casually sitting down against the wall. >> he planned to sit down. >> skrouchi icrouching down. they came over to beat him up. >> johnson's head was smashed against the elevator. eventually handcuffed to his feet, face covered. batista took over a department reeling from string of come of plants. >> crawl towards me. >> the department of justice, launched a civil rights investigation after this video surfaced showing a mesa police officer, fatally shooting, daniel shaefer in january, 2016.
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shaever was unarmed. the officer was late ear quitted of murder and removed from the police force. >> the apart. incident happened back on may 23rd. the police chief says he released the video soon as the community member gave it to him. however now the police union its criticizing the chief for doing that. jeff. thank you.n mesa. cominnext, why there cominnext, why there are new concerns prepare for your demise, mr. billingsley! cominnext, why there are new concerns do your worst, doctor. i will. but first, a little presentation. hijacking earth's geothermal energy supply. phase 1. choosing the right drill bit.
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elections were held in eight states, one most talked about involved a california judge. voters unseated judge aaron persky for giving what many thought was a weak sentence in a sexual salt case. john blackstone has more. >> the leaders of the campaign to recall judge aaron persky for sentencing brock turner, athlete to six months in county jail for sexual assault. celebrated their win as victory for justice. >> the voters are saying enough is enough. sexual violence and violence against women is serious and taken seriously. >> no recall. >> those on the other side who fought the recall, worry its impact will go far beyond sexual assault cases. >> so now we are going to have judges who are going to look over their shoulders before deciding, i really want to do the right thing. >> retired superior court judge, worked with range of recall opponents, including even the
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distrack it toern who convicted brock turner. off awe don't support it. never supported it. >> all saying the recall threatens judicial independence. >> the system is i don't like that sentence, that verdict. i will get people together and ned in thisguy out. case. a judge made a lawful decision. that, that some people found unpopular. >> reporter: california one of nine states that allow vote tires recall judges. >> attacking judges. >> in his only television interview before the vote, judge persky insisted he was fighting to defend the judicial fud tinn. back of his or her mind how is this going to look? how will it look on social media? will i be villified on cable news. that's the wrong avenue. we can't do that the we shouldn't do that. we shouldn't put judges, a position where they fear it. >> judge persky will soon be gone from this court. but the case that led to his recall, is under appeal. brock turner has served his jail
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sentence, but is challenging the conviction that put him on the sex offender registry for life. jeff. >> john blackstone. thank you. still ahead here, kate spade's husband reveals more details about their life together and the designer's suicide. melatonin is the body's own sleep ingredient. only remfresh uses ion-powered melatonin to deliver up to 7 hours of sleep support. number one sleep doctor recommended remfresh - your nightly sleep companion. available in the natural sleep section at walmart.
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kate spade's husband andy said in a statement he is heartbroken.% he and the designer had been living apart for ten months said his wife had been getting help for depression and anxiety for five year. he said there was no indication and no warning that sunny would do this. it was a complete shock. and it was clearly wasn't here. there were personal demons she was battling. there were handshakes and hugs as congressman, steve scalise returned. nearly a year ago gravely wounded by a gun man who opened fired on republicans practicing. scalise took swings and ground balls. nancy cordes will take us behind the scenes of scalise's return.
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next week on cbs this morning. up next here also from cbs this morning, john dickerson takes us back to the emotional journey when the nation mourned robert f. kennedy, 50 years ago.
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senator robert f. kennedy died 50 years ago today. his widow ethel marked the anniversary placing a rose on h. tonight john dickerson takes us back to the day america said good-bye. >> as the 21 car funeral train traveled slowly south from new york city. mourners stood in silence. >> did it feel like you were attend a funeral or a mass or what? >> no. it made me feel like i was part of history. >> stephanie lang was 24 when she watched with her husband and 2-year-old daughter as the train passed near her home in baltimore. >> when the train came through, that was the moment that i stopped. and put my hand on my heart.
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you know, and, you know. it was the shame that it happened to him and his family. >> mixed in age. d r ansize. the trip for this reason is going to take longer than scheduled. >> reporter: it is estimated at least a million people lined the more than 200 mile route. aboard, photographer paul fusco captured, the ten row deep crowds, couples sitting alone. people perched on walls or in their backyard. 22 of these rare images are now museum of modern art. >> it was fairly solemn. because the the train was carrying -- the remains of our last hope. >> michael scott says seeing them here takes him back. to the side of the tracks in northeast maryland. >> you can see it in their faces. some are crying, some of the
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faces and the pictures are stoic. but there was an energy coming from that train which demanded respect. >> scott was 15 when kennedy died.hedmiredim for demonstrators. so scott told his mother. he had to see the train. >> and then the last car standing there, i see a lady with a veil sitting next to a americans, people from appalachia, and in that box was robert kennedy. it is imprinted in my head, in my mind. i will never forget that. >> reporter: the images of the last good-bye. for the man and the hope he represented. john dickerson, cbs news, baltimore. that is the "overnight news" for this thursday.
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york.e welcome you to the the family of kate spade offering the first insight into what may have caused the celebrated fashion designer to take her own life. the 55-year-old mother and wife found dead in her new york city apartment tuesday. in an e-mail her sister says she believed that spade suffered from bipolar disorder a mental illness that affects more than 5 million americans. jericka duncan has more. >> the motto for spade's fashion line is live colorfully. beneath the exterior, police tell cbs this morning that spade was wrestling with financial and family, use. police say a housekeeper found kate spade hanging from a red scarf tied to a door knob in her
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time. the designer left a suicide note addressed to her 13-year-old daughter. telling her, it was not her fault. >> the contents of that note as well as the the physical state of the apartment, and the comments of the witness, lend to the credibility that it is an apparent suicide. >> her family said in a statement we are all devastated and we loved kate dearly and will miss her terribly. spade's older sister, rita, suggests the designer may have suffered from bipolar disorder. she tried numerous times to get her help. >> i think women do want something that is interesting. >> the 55-year-old became a fashion industry darling in the 90s with simple whimsical style. >> some color, texture, prints. something a little more interesting. but also elegant.>> she and her built a fashion empire around her signature hand bags, counting celebrities like elli
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kemper among clientele. >> she puts forward an aspirational line, i want to be like that. i want to be chic and pulled together and a new york lady. then i can. >> reporter: spade stepped away from the lime light after selling her company in 2007. but recently mounted a come back. >> i personally, i love andy, took off a good nine years. raising my daughter. and, absolutely adored every moment of it. >> police say she may have taken her own life because of money and marital problems. >> she and andy they were a team. they were adorable together. >> new york fashion week creator fern malice who knew spade for three decade was shocked by her death. >> i just went, what. the last person on earth you would think would take her life. >> reporter: spade's brother-in-law actor david spade tweeted out this picture, that said, at his book signing.
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that, i love this pic of her. so pretty. it is a rough world out there. people, now obviously. kate spade's death has brought a lot of attention to mental health and awareness. if you do need help, you can go 1-800-273-8255. >> a search for survivors shifting to a recovery effort now after that devastating volcano eruption in guatemala. the death toll has gone up to at least 75. after the volcano blew its top sunday. nearly 200 people are still missing right now. manuel bojorquez is in one of the hardest hit areas 30 miles outside the capital, guatemala city. we are going to part of the village where rescue workers are trying to recover bodies. it is san mi guchlt el los lotos. we were walking on 8 to 10 feet of volcanic ash that buried
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homes and people. we're told after the eruption people had to build an impromptu bridge over the hot ashes to get injured people to the other side for help see. what they did here. they used cinder blocks, parts of the tin roofs, anything they could find. even these wooden planks to try to get people to safety. >> the toxic flow from sunday's eruption of the volcano rushed through areas it had never reached before. surprising and trapping entire neighborhood. and cutting off access, and freshwater to others. >> the water its not safe. here residents told us it was the first time these trucks were able to reach them. they brought water and much needed food. this is the first time you are getting food. it is estimated 1.7 million people have been affected by the disaster. some ignoring evacuation orders. fearing looters.
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and the volcano remains active. with crews on edge as they continue the painstaking work. this afternoon, we witnessed workers pull several bodies from the rubble, including one they say appeared to be a child. and as a threat of more eruptions continues the number of people evacuated quadrupled to more than 12,000. in hawaii lava from the volcano destroyed homes. and lava wiped out two ocean front communities on the big island. 500 homes believed to have been lost so far. official say most residents have already evacuated. the two pictures were taken two days apart. the lava filled in all of the bay, extending nearly a mile
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from the coastline. lonnie quinn, chief weatherca weathercaster at wcbs, shows us how it compares to guatemala. >> of the volcano, and kilauea are both volcanos. a composite volcano. this looks like a typical volcano. tall, steep. 12,000. kilauea is shield volcano. 4,000 feet tall. in hi awst tmoptveiolerud ave 30 miles underground and breaks through the earth at openings. a composite volcano on the other hand. these will erupt violently, primarily out of the one main vent. and the lava in hawaii, causing all the damage is fountaining, at about, well, maybe, 250 feet in the air because all that pressure is spread out through openings. it has the a consistency kind of like thick maple syrup. travels
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the eruption from the volcano, entirely different. reached 47,000 feet in the air. got to think of this as flash flood. filled with rocks, and ash, and just speeds down the mountain at over 50 miles per hour. outrunning suck like this an absolute impossibility. people die when they can't escape it. it is over 1 f degrees. going to burn or destroy everything in its path. now, eventually this turns into a dense mud. and one thing both volcanos have in common. the danger is not done yet. at the volcano if landslides. they can be danger ru. in kilauea, eruptions continue, and could continue for a month if not two months more. >> you are watching the cbs "overnight news." we'll be right back. ♪
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judge from office because of controversial sentence in a sex assault case. judge aaron persky, first california judge to be recalled in # 6 years. he was voted off the bench tuesday after sparking outrage for giving a short jail sentence to brock turner. turner is the former stanford university swimmer who was convicted of sexual assault with the intent to commit rape. john blackstone has more from palo alto. sexual violence and violence against women is a voting issue. >> dawber harnessed anger over persky's sentencing of brock
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turner. freed from county jail after serving three months of his six month sentence for sexually a fraternity party. her searing statement about the impact of sexual assault was read to turner in court and wi s accept responsibility for every decision i made as a judge. >> reporter: in his only television interview before the recall vote, persky defended the sentence. >> you did have some idea before you passed the sentence it would be a controversial sentence? >> yes. and by my ethical constranlts by the rule of law i had to completely tune that out. >> persky supporters insisted judges should not be held hostage to public opinion. >> this recall is a very serious threat to judicial independence. >> retired superior court judge, campaigned to keep persky on the bench. >> they're targeting a judge with no history or track record of bias who did nothing wrong and made a lawful decision and they have succeeded in taking
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his job away. >> but dawber stands by her campaign. tuesday night she ended iicad in court. >> to girls everywhere, we are with you. on nights when you feel alone, we are with you. >> cordell said she spoke with persky, last night while disappointed with the outcome. he is doing okay. licensed lawyer. he can practice law. people worries this vote sends dotike it, you could be fired. a new jersey police officer seen on video punching a woman in the head during an arrest is not going to face criminal charges. cell phone video shows one officer pinning down 20-year-old, emily wyland while suspected drinking at a beach in wildwood, new jersey during memorial day weekend. the cape may county prosecutors
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office says the officers action do's not warrant criminal charges. but wineman is facing charges including assaulting a police officer. she does have a prior criminal history. currently on probation for misdemean misdemeanor, assault that is. she admits she is not a perfect woman, but says her reaction in this case was only human. i spoke with her and her first tv >> in my eyes i'm not a criminal, not a bad person. >> emily wineman says she stand by her actions memorial day weekend after wildwood new jersey police office ears tempted to cite her for posse possessing alcohol at the beach. >> how old are you? >> had you been drinking? >> no. >> were any of the alcohol containers around you open? >> no. they were sealed. >> the 20-year-old philadelphia woman willingly took two breath liesers tests both came back negative. >> do you guys have anything bet tire do there is so much stuff going on, trying to stop people for underaged drinking i didn't
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drink. >> he said that's it. i was going to let you go. now i am going to write you up. i stayed calmch a little attitude. >> little attitude. little. not really -- i didn't see a big issue. >> steven dix is her attorney. >> he hadn't told her she committed any crime. he hadn't told her i am going to issue a summons. he hadn't told her any of those things. and, then he says, oh, you are about to get dropped. >> don't touch me. >> you are about to get dropped. >> moments later the officer's body camera shows him on top of her. >> you are choking me. ed. a bystander caught the moment on their cell phone. >> the officer can later be heard on the body camera explaining his use of force. >> she tried kick at us. so we slammed her on the ground. she kicked him. i've hilt her a couple time. >> the police are saying you resisted. so why not justop and argue with them in court later.
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>> it's -- >> impossible to answer that question, really. >> why is it impossible? >> it is all happening in the moment. >> weanmshe is charged wtt the officer. >> i got the sand in my mouth. when he did smash my head into the ground. i had the sand on my mouth. when they got me on the stomach. i turned to spit it out. >> what's your reaction to the officers went be charged? >> they think because they're cops they can get away with it. that's not the case. that's not right. at all. >> do you feel look you owe the officers an apology? >> honestly, no, i don't. like i said i am sorry. >> they owe her an apology. >> very sorry the situation happened the i've don't owe them an apology. >> the prosecutor says in decide nogt to charge the officers he made the decision following the law not based on emotion. after our interview we reached out to wildwood police chief and city mayor for comment. they did not call us back. she is charged with two counts
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of aggravated assault on an officer, spitting at an officer. disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and minor in possession of alcohol. due in court on june 15th. we'll be right back. un-stop right there!
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a lot of people across the country are reflection on the life and legacy of robert f. kennedy. wednesday marked 50 years since kennedy was assassinated in los angeles. at the start of an inspiring run for the presidency. after his funeral in new york, a train took his remains to arlington national cemetery outside washington, d.c. up to two million americans lined the railroad tracks to pay tribute and say good-bye. many who were there five decades ago still feel the pain of bobby kennedy's loss. here's john dickerson. >> was asleep. my wife woke me up. i think, bobby, bobby had been shot.
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♪ but -- it is amazing 50 years later. it is still real. >> john andersen was a campaign aide for robert f. kennedy in 1968. and managed the guest list on the funeral train that day. i was struck by the size of the crowds. every now and then there would be one, two people standing with the flag or, or sign. it was very emotional. it still is. >> also aboard the train, photographer, paul fusco, he captured the faces, black and white. male. female. young and old. staring into the train window. >> mixed in age and sex and color and size. new jersey is mixed. >> john ma len who was 20 at the time stood along the tracks in new jersey. >> did it feel look a funeral?
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>> it actually did. the sense was that you were at a wake the you were paying your respects. and just, just here to do that. and, stay quietly,aitingor the fratrain to come >> one of the houses here, i could hear a woman crying. and as the train came by she, she just called out oh, bobby, oh, bobby. when did you make the decision that you would go watch the train go by. >> soon as i k was going to be coming by this close. i just felt i needed to do it. good people like bobby kennedy need to be remembered. >> nothing has changed. >> when bennett levin was 28 years old he watch the tra in p >> we waited. we waited. we waited for what seemed to be eternity. the bridge was lined three deep. there wasn't a spot to be had. >> what people were there. >> every common day working
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people. everybody seemed to turn out. the crowd, even though the train was hours late, stood there waiting for the train. and, you know, that, in it self. said a lot for the esteem that the people held robert kennedy in. to za, levin owns the car that held the casket 50 years age. >> this is where the casket was placed. because the door is so narrow. the window was removed. and, the -- the casket came in. and they took chairs from the dining room. and put six chairs here. to hold the casket. ♪ glory glory hallelujah >> last car standing there, i see a lady with a veil. and she is sitting next to a casket. that has a flag over it. i was like -- i wasn't ready for that. i just expected to see the train. and here i am looking at a lady with a veil. upown street.to a coffin.>>icere
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tossing tear gas into the crowd. >> during a year marked by racial unrest from assassination of martin luther king to riots in cities, 15-year-old mike cam scott went with his mother to watch the train pass through northeast maryland. >> the fact that he was willing to stand up for people who look like me, people who weren't privileged, people who work in harsh working conditions. that spoke to me. as a young man. the train was carrying -- the l. and i think that was felt. for everyone. >> some of the people here are waving. waving good-bye. >> stephanie lang watched the train in baltimore when she was 24 years old. she went with >> i was thinking about ethel kennedy. the grief that sunny was going through. to lose a husband. >> it will soon be approaching the outskirts of baltimore. >> when the train came through that was a moment that i
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stopped. and paid my respects. and, and -- saw the train come by and put my hand on my he >> why did you pack a page of a. these pictures? >> that was the momenten our life that historyhink that peop would walk to the edge of the train track for any public figure today. >> no. >> why do you think that is? >> i don't think we have the respect. that we have today. >> the train carrying the body of senator kennedy arrives. almost five hours after it was scheduled. >> an event that was the end of that adventure. it was a little piece of american history. had very little. and it also gave me a lot of hope at that moment. deal talk.
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country is warming up to coffee. and ben tracy is in shanghai. >> reporter: it is no secret there is a whole lot of tea in china. its tea fields are legendary. providing the leaves for the hundreds of cups of tea the average person here drinks every year. but now, coffee is the buzz of beijing. >> this woman says, i prefer coffee. coffee tastes like happiness. >> it is increasingly becoming the caffeine fix of choice for the middle kingdom's rapidly growing middle class. coffee consumption in china nearly tripled in four years. with coffee imports growing 16% a year, compared to about 2% in the united states.saminsky owns coffee in shanghai. came to china to work for apple
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but because a coffee craze coming. >> as they got wealthier why not drinking tea. why coffee? >> it is perceived as having a level of status. when you are adopting western products. so that's why, you know, companies like chanel andhe and starbuck's do well here. >> starbuck's opened its largest store in the world, right in the heart of shanghai. where lanes sometimes stretch down the street. the company is opening a new store in china every 15 hours. and it now has plenty of competition. here in shanghai, there are now more than 6,500 coffee shops. to say there is one on every corner would be a gross understatement. on this corner there is one, there is two. and there is three. the average person in mainland china consumes just three cups of coffee per year compare that 36un30 cups per person in the it cups in the u.s. but that demand coupled with the
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impact of climate change and the world's coffee supply could lead to a caffeine crash. fewer beans, and higher prices for consumers. >> in the next 30 yebert two toe million tons of coffee. and currently, the global supply of coffee is 6.9 million tons. >> if coffee does take off here is there enough supply? >> no. >> thankfully, there is still all of that tea in china. >> that is the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. i'll also see you on sn digital streaming network. check it out. click the live window. from the cbs center in new york from the cbs center in new york city, i'm david > it'shursday, june 7th,
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2018. this is the "cbs morning news." a woman is free after diwoan bars, thanks to some reality star help. >> this is the greatest day of my life. i cannot -- my heart is just bursting with gratitude for what has taken place. >> this is the latest in a series of high-profile acts of clemency by president trump. new video is released of an unarmed man beaten by police in mesa, arizona. and --

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