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captioning sponsored by cb captioning sponsored by cbs >> ninan: the immigration battle heats up. migrant children separated from their parents, living in so-called tent cities. president trump blames the democrats. also tonight, paul manafort's sirst weekend in jail. sources say he's counting on a presidential pardon. the investigation after a border patrol vehicle appears to hit a native american man. tesheriff's department is reeling after a second deputy ies from gunshot wounds. >> yesterday was a terribly tragic day. >> ninan: good evening. n'm reena ninan. president trump is again lashing out at democrats in congress on immigration.
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in a tweet today, the president repeated his assertion that democrats are to blame for the ieparation of migrant families at the u.s. border and called on them to work with republicans on new legislation. this comes as hundreds of migrant children are now being housed in a new tent city in a texas border town. weijia jiang has more. >> reporter: we're getting a first look at the so-called tent city in tornillo, texas, created for children being separated from their parents who are trying to cross the border illegally. >> i hate it. i hate the children being taken away. >> reporter: on friday, president trump said it was not his administration's fault. >> the democrats forced that law upon our nation. i hate it. >> reporter: but it was mr. trump's own justice department that implemented a policy change in may, requiring kids to be taken away from parents who are held in jail. new numbers reveal over a six-week period, nearly 2,000 children were separated from nearly as many adults.
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the crackdown has sparked controversy and stirred emotions. this image shows a two-year-old ryrl from honduras crying as police search and detain her mother. >> mr. president, have you spoken with paul manafort? >> reporter: at an impromptu press conference on the white house north lawn, president trump also talked about his former campaign chairman, paul manafort, who woke up in this virginia jail. the president tried to separate himself. >> you know, paul manafort worked for me for a very short orriod of time. >> reporter: a federal judge in washington sent manafort behind bars after prosecutors accused aem of tampering with witnesses. he faces dozens of charges, including financial fraud, money laundering, and false ndatements. manafort and his russian business partner allegedly asked european contacts to testify ceat their lobbying work did not tke place in the u.s. judge amy berman jackson told nonafort's attorney, "this is not middle school. i can't take his cell phone. i have no appetite for this."
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maurces tell cbs news manafort is ultimately banking on a presidential pardon. >> he is not going to pardon anybody in this investigation. ut he is not, obviously, going to give up his right to pardon if a miscarriage of justice is resented to him. >> doesn't that wind up meaning that he could, that he might? >> well, of course he could. of course, he could. >> reporter: to be clear, those manafort charges do not involve work for the trump campaign or russian meddling, but he is a ,otential key witness for the special counsel, who is hoping for manafort's cooperation. reena. >> ninan: weijia, we know the president's made clear he doesn't intend to use executive power, so is there legislative hope at this time? >> reporter: well, for that immigration bill, republicans thy that the president supports and could sign a package that they are crafting that would at east allow parents and children to be detained together. and a source has just told cbs news the president will attend a g.o.p. conference on capitol
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hill tuesday, and that's when the house is expected to vote on two immigration bills. re, there is some hope. , ninan: okay, thank you for clarifying that immigration. weijia jiang at the white house. owank you, weijia. well, tomorrow on "face the trtion,"margaret brennan's guests will include president trump's attorney rudy giuliani. a sheriff's department in kansas city, kansas, is reeling after two of its deputies were allegedly shot and killed by a man in their custody. iey are the 29th and 30th officers to be fatally shot this year in the line of duty. here's kenneth craig. >> yesterday was a terribly tragic day. >> reporter: the two kansas city-area deputies murdered during a transport ambush had a ombined 20 years on the force, the type of officers, according to a sheriff's office spokesperson, who not only put their lives on the line but reported to work every day with smiles. >> these were two bright and intelligent, wonderful s.rsonalities. they were an asset to our
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agency. >> reporter: 35-year-old deputy patrick rohrer, and 44-year-old s.puty theresa king were also both parents, their families and community now struggling to understand how a routine ransport ended in tragedy. the sheriff's office says the shooting friday morning happened in a secure gated area of the county jail as the two deputies ckre transporting two inmates back from a court hearing. police say one of the inmates as somehow able to grab one of the deputy's guns and open fire, espite protocols in place to protect them. >> they're handcuffed in the front and shackled. we always evaluate procedures, but we did confirm that they did follow proper procedure. ls reporter: the unidentified gunman was also injured. he is in stable condition. last year, four officers were shot and killed while handling seisoners nationwide. in three of those cases, the officers were killed with their
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own guns. there are a lot of unanswered questions, and this entire icident is still under investigation, including how the inmate was able to get a hold of the deputy's gun. reena, probably the biggest question of all. >> ninan: yeah, that is a big uestion. glad to see they're still investigating. kenneth, thank you. well, authorities in arizona are investigating a possible hit-and-run incident involving a border patrol vehicle. a native american man says that a driver ran him over and drove jamie yuccas has the video. >> reporter: this video is just 37 seconds long but appears to show 34-year-old paulo remes getting hit by a border patrol vehicle. the s.u.v. then drives away. almost a million people have watched the video on social media since it posted. nihappened thursday night in a part of the tohono o'odham nation. th is a 62-mile reservation that weraddles the u.s.-mexico border in southern arizona near tucson.
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tribal leaders oppose president trump's border wall. it's an area where native americans encounter agents often as they look for illegal immigrants and drug traffickers. u.s. border patrol says, "we do not tolerate misconduct on or thf duty and will fully cooperate with all investigations." remes and his family released a statement through community leaders, saying he saw "the ehicle approaching near his grandparents' home" and that's when he "started filming." he says when he stepped into the road, "the driver accelerated reward him," and struck him. reena, tribal leaders say this is one of many incidents acvolving federal agents acting improperly on their land. in 2003, the tribe says that a edrder patrol agent ran over and killed a teenager on the reservation. the officer in that case was later cleared of any wrongdoing. cc ninan: jamie yuccas, thank you very much, jamie. moll, overseas in russia, the inlice in moscow are investigating a crash today involving a taxicab. video shows the cab pulling out of traffic and speeding away as
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it swerves right into a crowd on the sidewalk. the driver is in custody. no one died, but eight people were injured, including two from mexico. moscow is packed with tourists in town for the world cup soccer tournament. hundreds of migrants escaping violence and poverty in north africa are due to arrive in spain on sunday. they're aboard the "aquarius." it's a former german coast guard s.ip, now being used for humanitarian rescues. here's roxana saberi. >> reporter: on the rescue ship aquarius," women cradle babies, kids play games, and people sleep, waiting for their ship to reach land. >> okay, guys. >> reporter: the migrants' tumultuous journey began last weekend when they left libya for europe, crammed onto inflatable boats. when heavy winds tossed some uessengers into the sea, anscuers intervened and saved 629 people. ,> we were just go, go, go, trying to get lifejackets, throwing at them, at the people op they fell. >> reporter: italy helped with ope rescue operation, but the
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teuntry's newly elected populous government refused to let the "aquarius" dock on its shores. malta said no, too, exposing eep divisions over undocumented migrants fleeing to europe. >> we have the most vulnerable of the vulnerable on the ship right now, and they're being lied to transport across the mediterranean for some idiotic exercise of political influence. and these people are suffering. >> reporter: on monday came news that spain would take the ship in. migrants, mostly from africa, will join roughly 37,000 others who the u.n. says have reached european shores so far this asar. as the "aquarius" prepares to arrive at spain's eastern port of valencia on sunday, spirits bu board are lifting. but human rights activists worry others won't be as lucky because this episode may have set a precedent of turning migrants away. the u.n. says nearly 800 people have died or disappeared trying to cross the mediterranean to
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yet into europe this year. e.u. leaders are set to discuss asylum rules at a summit at the umd of this month. eena. >> ninan: roxana saberi in london. thank you, roxanna. in response to the massacre in parkland, florida, school districts across the state are toaining civilian guardians to confront shooters. they will be armed and wear uniforms, but they won't have law enforcement authority. adriana diaz has more on this. ( gunfire ) >> reporter: armed with real guns, these everyday people-- a minister and a former teacher-- are training to stop potential school shooters in their tracks. mo it's more about being proactive instead of reactive. why don't we have somebody already there to engage an active shooter? >> reporter: are you prepared to potentially kill someone if there is a threat? >> at the end of this training, i believe we will be ready to do what we have to do to stop that threat, yes. >> reporter: despite your background as a minister? >> i'm human.
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>> what is the safe direction on the range? m> reporter: candidates for the guardian program must pass background and psychological checks, then an intensive six-week course that includes firearms training, precision shooting, and both virtual and live active-shooter scenarios. what about parents who are uncomfortable with more guns on campus or any guns on campus? >> those parents need to wake up and understand this is a new lkrmal. >> reporter: the polk county program was created by sheriff grady judd and school superintendent jacqueline byrd. >> this is the last, best chance to save your child, to find the hetive shooter, and kill him wiaveyard dead before he can hurt your child with a gun. >> reporter: guardians get 112 hours of firearms training. that's more than the 80 hours sheriffs deputies get. es i tell them very clearly, "if you're going to hesitate and not make sure that you protect our children and our staff, leave
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now, because this is not for you." >> reporter: are you comfortable with having guns in your daughter's school? >> no. >> reporter: some parents, like annette rising, are concerned. >> some parents are totally itainst it. e lot of parents don't believe that there should be any on school at all. >> reporter: what do you say to people who don't want guns at school. >> i kindly remind people that people are already bringing guns to school and that's much more dangerous. >> reporter: a cold reminder of a new reality. adriana diaz, cbs news, polk county, philadelphia. >> ninan: in philadelphia today, a mural was dedicated to cbs news legend ed bradley. the mural is in the neighborhood where the award-winning journalist grew up. it shows bradley surrounded by images from his groundbreaking career. he was cbs' first african seerican white house correspondent and worked at "60 minutes" for 26 years. bradley died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of 65.
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>> they're sophisticated, and they're growing even more sophisticated. >> reporter: scott smith is an assistant director of the f.b.i. how much money in the u.s. have they gotten away with? >> ( sighs ) well, over billions in the last gveral years. >> reporter: mike and gail malone were lucky. zecret service agents working on their case moved quickly, froze the scammers' bank account, recovered their money, and made arrests. >> i can't begin to tell you the feeling that you have when you think a substantial portion of your life savings is gone instantly, and it happened that quick. >> reporter: malone says the cammers are so sophisticated, that they not only got into his email accounts but they jammed his internet access, and even diverted some of his phone messages. jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. >> ninan: still ahead, things are looking up in the land of the giants. i was just finishing a ride.
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project is making it better than ever to see these trees in person. >> completely restored, and it's just a more tranquil and a more serene experience. >> reporter: frank dean is president of the yosemite conservancy, a nonprofit that raised $20 million for the restoration of the grove. ehe national park service put in another $20 million. how is this different than what was here four years ago? >> well, where we're standing right now, there was a diesel fuel station for the trams. so now what you have is the first view you get as you see it framed by two or three giant sequoia trees. ny reporter: the goal was to ovke out many modern additions, returning the grove to a more natural state, removing pavement and parking lots, restoring streams and wetlands, and minimizing the damage from cars and people getting too close. >> you can see that people have come up to this tree before and feel the bark, and maybe pull a strip of bark off. so if we have thousands of
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e,ople coming to visit the grove, we just can't allow people to come up and touch the trees anymore. > reporter: sue beatty, a restoration ecologist with the national park service, helped plan the makeover, including new fences to protect the trees' bark from too many hands and roised walkways to protect the roots from too many feet. >> all those footsteps would compact the soil around those trees, and the roots are very shallow. so, if you compact that soil, they're not able to grab the water and nutrients that they ored. >> reporter: the latest steps in that protection were being sompleted just in time for this weekend's reopening. but while workers were taking care of details on the ground, visitors will be looking up-- way up. john blackstone cbs news, in the mariposa grove, yosemite national park. >> ninan: next on the cbs weekend news, a father's day celebration decades overdue for a wrongfully convicted dad.
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>> i didn't have a father, so it was just a blank day. in my mind, i'm just thinking that he was just going to die in jail. > reporter: his father, malcolm alexander, was convicted of rape in 1980. the sentence was life, with no chance of parole. but louisiana inmate number 93124 was innocent. d.n.a. evidence finally proved it, and in january, he walked out to his family and freedom. hi was now 58. >> to actually hug him as a free man was like a dream come true. words can't even explain how i felt, all the emotion i was feeling at that time. >> reporter: his father had spent almost 38 years behind bars. usethere's a whole life to live without him, because you're living without love. see, there's no love in an institution. >> reporter: there is in this home outside new orleans. malcolm stewart was two when his father went to prison. >> you go to your friends' house, and they have their dad, and it's like, "wow, man, i wish
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i had that." >> reporter: this father's day, he will, after a lifetime of prison visits and phone calls to a dad who never deserved to spend one minute behind bars. what's it like just to be able to sit side by side after 38 years? >> no rush. >> no rush. to nowhere to go. we're here. we made it where we wanted to ah. >> yeah. >> reporter: you don't seem bitter at all. >> there's no time to even think about nothing negative, being mad, none of that. my dad's here. it's father's day. i'm very happy. you know what i mean? it's like i said, it's a new beginning. >> reporter: this family has one word in their father's day card: "gratitude." mark strassmann, cbs news, new orleans. >> ninan: and on that note of gratitude, we want to wish you all a happy father's day weekend. that will do it for us for the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. later on cbs, "48 hours." for more news any time, go to
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cbsn at cbsnews.com. i'm reena nina nds. live from the cbs in bay area studios, this is kpix news. >> new at six, firefighters in the east bay are battling flames in gusty winds. they were put to the test just a little while ago. i am emily turner. >> at 3:00 in the afternoon, between concorde and bay point, gusty winds quickly spread the fire to about 25 acres and at one point, a church near willow pass road was threatened. firefighters were able to stop the flames about an hour after they started. >> the winds have presented some challenges for us. it has made the fire a little bit difficult to keep up with. the good nieces it is now under control and it is out. we are cleaning up the hotspots . we will be doing that for the next few hours.
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>> reporter: investigators are looking into how the fire started. a pair of water main breaks have left a mess in walnut creek. a cement pipe broke at 2 am near ygnacio valley road. 90 minutes earlier, a cast iron main failed on new will avenue. dozens of homes were without running water throughout the day. >> the broken water mains caused torrents of water to bubble up through the cement. flowed into walnut creek neighborhoods.>> i got up to get a drink of water and nothing came out of the foster. i thought it might be just our hobbles.>> 43 homes were affected by the water main break on newell avenue. crews were able to shut off the water to the broken pipes. and it left a muddy mess behind. >> this is the main te

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