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father's day to you. >> thank you very much. >> hope your kids did something nice for you. >> yeah. and it was tasty. captioning sponsored by cbs nt quijano: life inside tent outy. migrant kids captured at the border are now being housed here. critics who have visited the sacility say conditions are adequate but the policy is wrong. >> it's crazy to me to think slat in 2018 we have to legislate to say you shouldn't s. taking children away from >>eir parents. >> quijano: also tonight, fact checking the immigration debate. president trump blames democrats for the separation of migrant children from their parents, but it's being done under the president's zero tolerance policy. oladly gun violence erupts at an all-night arts and music festival. >> the bullet came out here, ho. >> quijano: the midwest swelters in a dangerous heat wave, now pushing east. and the winning strategy everyone can embrace: the hug.
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>> our friendship will last nonger than this silly game. ja quijano: good evening. i'm elaine quijano. a newly opened tent city along the texas border is now at the na onati immigration debate. the camp is housing teenage boys who illegally entered the united tates unaccompanied by an adult. they're being moved here to make room at shelters for a growing number of migrant children, separated from their parents under the trump administration's omro tolerance immigration policy. mireya villarreal is outside the facility near the tornillo port of entry in el paso county. >> we will not go away! this is not okay! >> reporter: thousands of protesters chanted and held signs demanding the trump administration stop separating children from their parents at the border. bye march was organized by democratic congressman beto o'rourke. >> we were told there were 98 kids in this tent city yesterday.
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we were told today there are 200 kids. i all have to own this. we cannot blame this on trump. we cannot blame this on a political party. this is america right now, so ierica has got to show up. >> reporter: the federal detention facility in rural el paso is being used to house unaccompanied minors. the teen boys began arriving on juiday. jane and boyd griffith live in el paso. >> my husband just said, it's been a long time since i was in a protest march, back when we were protesting against vietnam. >> this is a facility you would rae if you went to any kind of natural disaster site, the tents like the u.n. uses. e> reporter: republican congressman will hurd has been inside the encampment, currently housing 16 and 17 year old boys. >> there are 20 kids per tent. there's two adults in the room. ma reporter: congressman hurd's district stretches across the texas-mexico border. >> my constituents that are outraged, they should know that i'm outraged, too. what's happening in tornillo is a symptom of a larger problem. >> reporter: for now these tents are considered overflow. its occupants are being moved
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here from other shutters. department of homeland security numbers show over a six-week period, nearly 2,000 children were separated from nearly as many adults. >> fight back! >> reporter: jaclyn allotta auought her two children to protest. >> i'm here because i grew up in a border town. i now live in a border town. lld this just pulls at my hearted strings. a me, it's not a political issue. it's a mother issue. it's a neighbor issue. it's a what's right. >> reporter: despite a number of requests, we are not being allowed inside. in fact, this is about as close as we can get. we cannot even get in the perimeter of this detention eacility. elaine, right now we know there are about 200 kids inside, but we are also being told at its capacity, this place can house up to 4,000 children. >> quijano: mireya, thank you. tonight about 2,000 migrant children who have been separated from their parents in the past ntx weeks will sleep in u.s. government shelters. we asked tony dokoupil to look into what's driving the crisis. >> you are not forgotten! you are not forgotten!
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>> reporter: growing outrage tonight as thousands of children are split from their parents at hhe u.s.-mexico border and housed in shelters like this dormer walmart in texas. >> free our children now! >> reporter: but amid the outrage, there is also confusion 's president trump has repeatedly tried to blame democrats for the policy. >> no, i hate it. i hate the children being taken away. ae democrats have to change their law. that's their law. >> reporter: not true according to independent immigration wnalysts and a review of past f ministrations. under presidents obama and bush, icderal authorities typically released families awaiting the decision of an immigration judge, a policy hard-liners e.iticized as "catch and release." the trump administration ended this approach. in april, attorney general jeff cessions announced a "zero tolerance" policy that refers everyone caught at the border to federal criminal prosecution. that's where the separation happens. children can't stay with parents in a federal jail. >> this administration has taken
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a decision to apply the law in its most extreme fashion. te reporter: doris meissner is a senior fellow at the migration policy institute, a non-partisan think-tank based in washington. she has served both republican and democratic administrations. >> they're deciding to prosecute everybody that then leads to the need to separate families. the blame should be assigned to the trump administration's recent decisions. n> reporter: more than 11,400 migrant kids are currently in federal custody. and elaine, that number has surged by another 2,400 children in the past six weeks since the eeackdown began. >> quijano: tony dokoupil, thank u.u. president trump is meeting with house republicans this week as they prepare to vote on two separate immigration bills. errol barnett has more from the white house. >> reporter: this weekend president trump again blamed democrats for breaking up families at the southern border,
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nhile pressuring them to work ng t republicans on an immigration bill. a senior white house official is quoted as saying the new separation policy is designed to "force people to the table." >> that person should have the guts to come forward and put their name to that quote. >> reporter: adviser to the president kellyanne conway aynies that children are being used as leverage to get gomocrats to negotiate. s> nobody likes this policy. >> using children is not the answer. >> reporter: republican senators susan collins and jeff flake sent this letter to the white house asking for details on its zero tolerance policy. >> it is inconsistent with our american values to separate these children from their parents, unless there's evidence of abuse or another very good reason. >> it is a policy that is unacceptable, unjust, un- american, and unconscionable. >> reporter: congressional democrats who are working on legislation to end the practice visited a detention facility in new jersey.
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>> we will not rest until we shut that policy down. >> reporter: now, first lady melania trump weighed in on the issue today through a statement saying she "hates to see children separated from their families," adding that "while this should be a country that follows all laws, it also should be a country that governs with heart." elaine? >> quijano: errol barnett, thank you. we will have more on the immigration showdown tomorrow on "cbs this morning". gayle king will broadcast from the border town of mcallen, texas. a vehicle carrying as many as 14 people, including undocumented immigrants, crashed today in big wells, texas, about 100 miles southwest of san antonio. at least five people were killed. the county sheriff says the vehicle was being chased by border patrol agents when it crashed. there was chaos in trenton, new jersey overnight, when bullets started flying at an all-night arts festival.
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one of the shooters is dead. more than 20 are wounded. meg oliver has the story. >> reporter: people flooded out of an art festival in trenton, new jersey, after gunfire erupted just before 3:00 a.m. sunday. >> and the next thing you know, we turn around and everybody is running down the street, all hell broke loose. >> reporter: investigators say it started when several rival gang members at the event started shooting at each other. more than 1,000 people were in the area, sparking a stampede as they ran for their lives. >> when i was running, the guy was running next to me. so, by the time i realized he got hit, he fell to the ground. so i'm like, i'm looking, and i'm like, oh, that could have been me. >> reporter: 22 people were injured. 17 are being treated for gunshot wounds. >> shots fired down here at trenton all night, man. ( screaming ) >> reporter: police shot and killed one suspect, 33-year-old eahaij wells. .nother suspect, 23-year-old amir armstrong is in custody,
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charged with a weapons offense, and a third unidentified suspect is in critical condition. art all-night is in its 12th year. a 24-hour pop-up art gallery that lets artists display their work for free. it typically attracts up to 30,000 people every year. organizers say "our hearts ache and our eyes are blurry, but our inspiration will never fade, not tonight, not ever." police found several weapons on the scene. the suspect who was killed was just released from prison on parole for homicide charges. three victims who were in critical condition have been upgraded to stable, including a 13-year-old boy, elaine. >> quijano: meg oliver, thank you. in afghanistan, tens of thousands have been killed since the taliban was driven from power in 2001, following the 9/11 attacks. a temporary truce was shattered this weekend when two separate bombings in-and-around jalalabad left more than 50 people dead. here's roxana saberi.
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>> reporter: for three days, a country weary of war, witnessed scenes it hadn't seen in years. teliban fighters embracing soldiers instead of aiming at them, and posing for selfies with civilians. "our hope is peace," this taliban fighter said, "and the end of fighting in afghanistan." these celebrations came as the kirst formal ceasefire since 2001 took hold, coinciding with one end of the holy month of ramadan. but the pause for peace was punctured by two suicide bombings, one struck the eastern city of jalalabad on sunday. the other hit a nearby district the day before, killing at least 36 people. isis, which was not a part of rue truce, claimed responsibility for saturday's explosion. news of that bombing came as afghanistan's president offered to extend the ceasefire with the taliban. heur ceasefire surprises the world," ashraf ghani said. ashere is no need for fighting anymore." but the taliban rejected his
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request, so the group's fighters are ready to resume attacks on s e u.s.-backed government and foreign troops. critics of the ceasefire say it allowed thousands of armed taliban fighters to enter cities around the country. now the fear is that they could launch new attacks. elaine? >> quijano: roxana saberi, thank you. here at home, much of the midwest is sweltering in a dangerous heat wave. chicago, st. louis, and kansas city are broiling in high humidity with temperatures well into the 90s. as the severe heat pushes east tonight, powerful storms will threaten the central u.s. through tuesday. akming up, the maker of a popular vape device responds to growing concerns that teenagers are getting hooked. later, the last play of the game, and perhaps the only one that really mattered, was the hug. shouldn't drive us apart. but when you experience sudden, frequent, uncontrollable
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>> quijano: juul vaping is errging among teenagers. the electronic devices look like pens or flash drives. they vaporize liquids that come in sweet flavors like cotton candy. and kids say they're easy to get, even though they're not supposed to be sold to minors. anna werner has the company's response to these concerns. >> juul is a product for adult smokers. >> reporter: juul's ashley gould duys it's adults, like those featured in the company's current marketing campaign, who gee the product's target market. e ey're mature smokers who say fey've switched from cigarettes to juul, the e-cigarette that resembles a u.s.b. drive. gould says the company aimed to eliminate the smell and social cigma of cigarettes... and be healthier. >> this technology has the possibility to enable them to continue to have nicotine in the say it's delivered in a cigarette, without the combustion and thereby with the comise of not having to die from it. >> reporter: and juul has taken off.
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it commands over 60% of the e- cigarette market. but something else appears to be driving juul's popularity, too, its appeal to kids. >> do it for the juul! >> reporter: on social media, teens post photos and videos of themselves juuling with hashtags like "do it for juul." j the problem here is everyone was asleep at the switch. s reporter: matt myers heads the campaign for tobacco-free kids. >> and by the time we woke up, we had an epidemic on our hands. >> reporter: you call this an epidemic? >> this is absolutely an epidemic. s> reporter: a whole new generation of young people, he says, who could wind up addicted to nicotine for life. myers and other anti-tobacco groups also point to juul's early social media marketing, that they say echoed prior big tobacco campaigns, with youthful images and bright colors. loe company insists it never deliberately targeted kids and was caught unprepared. >> it's a combination of the company was very small and the product took off very fast.
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re reporter: but at a certain anint i think people say, okay, now you're not that anymore. isn't there more that you can do? ter:here is more we can do, and there is more we need to do. >> reporter: juul says it's ntending $30 million on youth raevention programs and is working with social media llatforms to remove images of teens using the product. ngen we talked to the company, they told us, look, we had no idea that this was going to take off with kids, and we don't understand why it did. ha that's their job. when you market a product that's highly addictive, knowing that youth tobacco use is a long-time o oblem, it's your responsibility. >> our objective is to be a responsible player in this narket. i will take the criticism that we should've known. i will take that criticism. tt we know now, we're working very hard, and we are committed. >> reporter: well, here's another area where juul gets a lot of criticism. the pods that users plug into the device, with the nicotine liquid, come in flavors like mango and berry. the company says adults who
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>> quijano: now to a new technology for self-driving cars-- the computers in robotic vehicles can get confused by runstruction zones, bad weather, hd other unexpected hazards, but a company called "phantom auto" has come up with a remote- controlled back-up system that provides the computers human help. bore's kris van cleave. at welcome, everybody. ive. i'll be monitoring your vehicle remotely. >> reporter >> reporter: ben shuckman, our remote driver, is a few miles away in a silicon valley office. california's one of at least five states allowing self- ariving cars to be on the road without a safety driver, if they have a system in place for a human to take over remotely.
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phantom auto doesn't build self- oneving cars, but they're hoping their technology can come to the rescue of a confused autonomous vehicle. it uses cell phone signals and cameras already mounted to the vehicle, so a remote driver can take over in a situation where the car doesn't know what to do. you're saying the ultimate back- up for the self-driving car is the human? >> yeah. say you come to a construction site and you have a construction norker giving hand signals-- >> reporter: somebody flagging traffic. >> exactly, exactly. ac the vehicle may approach that construction site and just completely be paralyzed. v that point, the vehicle itself would ping a remote operator. tee remote operator would be able to drive you through the construction site in the same way you could drive through a construction site today. >> reporter: what a lot of people seeing this will wonder is what is it like driving a car that you're nowhere near? >> you go through a very strict training procedure in order to learn how to operate something completely new.
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>> reporter: federal regulations are stalled in congress, leaving oversight largely to the states. some are stricter than others. the self-driving uber crash that killed a pedestrian in arizona has prompted states to take a second look at their regulations as the technology is not yet foolproof. fou can think of the phantom auto service similar to something like onstar, a remote help desk that would automatically link with the vehicle or the touch of a button for the passenger. wu'd have a remote driver who heuld be the back-up for multiple vehicles, leaving the back-up plan for self-driving cars firmly in the hands of a human. kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. t quijano: up next, the game ended with a strikeout, but the hug amounted to a game-winning home run. of biting fleas alone. advantage ii monthly topical kills fleas through contact so they don't have to bite your cat to die. advantage ii. fight the misery of biting fleas.
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>> quijano: we end tonight with a sometimes forgotten rule of good sportsmanship, that winning is not the only thing, and that a simple hug could mean everything. epor's jim axelrod. >> reporter: the most-talked- about strikeout in the country ths nothing to do with winning and losing. ( cheers and applause )
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minnesota high school pitcher ty koehn has provided us all a master class in how you play the game. l i never thought a story like this would blow up the way it did. >> reporter: last week, ty's team advanced to the state tournament when he struck out ngck cocon looking on a 2-2 fastball that nicked the outside corner. >> i really felt for him, and i just felt it was right to go over there and say something. >> reporter: that's right. htch ty. while his teammates from mount n,ew high erupted in celebration, ty waved off his ugn catcher to attend to more pressing business, hugging the kid he had just struck out. >> i didn't think. i just ran over there, it was instict. >> reporter: after all, ty and jack have been pals since they were 13 and teammates on the same travel team. iney stayed close even after heading off to different high schools. >> and i said, you had a great season, you were a great player. don't let this outcome affect frr friendship. and i told him i loved him and
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he's my brother and our friendship will always last longer than this silly game. >> reporter: "the hug" has "tcome a social media sensation, which just may say something about our thirst these days for examples of how to treat each other with class, grace, and empathy. >> our friendship means so much more than a game. like in 20 years, i'm not going to remember the score of that game, but i'll remember him coming up to me after that and being there for me when i needed someone. >> reporter: hall of fame manager leo durocher once said, "nice guys finish last." clearly he never met ty koehn, an impressive winner on the field, who saved his best stuff until after the game was over. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> quijano: true sportsmanship. that's the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes." for more news any time go to our streaming news channel, cbsn at cbsnews.com. i'm elaine quijano in new york. thank you for joining us. happy father's day and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgb
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investigators say: someone is running around setting fires -- in santa rosa. good evening, i just 8 months after the devastating wine country wild fires, investigators say someone is running around setting fires in santa rosa. good evening. >> the suspicious fires all broke out in grassy areas on the southwest side of santa rosa last night and early this morning. firefighters scrambled to put each one of them out. now emily turner shows us the search is on to find whoever's setting them before it's too late. >> anybody who sets fires, it's deplorable. >> reporter: deplorable it may be and dangerous. the fire department says the first 911 call came in just before midnight last night. for a fire along the railroad tracks.
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a total of 10 fires had been set. >> given the volume of fires one after another all along what we refer to as a walking path essentially over an hour and a half, we're confident it's arson. >> reporter: because of the time frame and the distance they covered, fire investigators feel like the arsonist was on foot. the first fire was at hern and the railroad path. the path continued north before cutting west along the santa rosa creek trail. neither police nor fire have any idea who it may be and are looking for the community's help. the community already once burned and twice as sensitive to flames. >> to purposely set a fire is to destroy. and given what happened last october, it's doubly bad because everyone knows what damage that can do. >> reporter: luckily, last night's blaze didn't damage person or

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