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synagogue mass shooting. with what we are learn iing abo the people kill and the survivors. a community coming together to mourn. we begin with the headlines in 60 seconds. we now know the names of the vick tims in saturday's mass shooting inside the synagogue. eight men and three women. >> ranging in age from 54 to 97 years old. >> the sabbath worship in pittsburgh shattered by gunfire. >> witnesses say he yelled all
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jews must die as he opened fire. >> we treating it as a hate crime. >> this was a pure act of evil. you have heard that from the president and vice president yesterday. >> leaders from around the world are showing their support for pittsburgh's jewish community. >> vatican city the pope led prayers. >> football takes a backseat. the steelers observe a moment of silence prior to teed's game. >> pittsburgh is strong. we are a resilient city. we'll get through this darkest day of pittsburgh's history by working together. good evening, outside the tree of life synagogue at y re pittsburgh, normally quiet section of pittsburgh, the squirrel hill neighborhood is home to a thriving jewish community. tonight they are mourning 11 people here. the deadliest attack on jews in american history. neighbors have been stopping by
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all day long to leave flowers and candles and share their sense of disbelief that a hate crime has touched them so closely. we have seen stars of david show up outside the synagogue here in the past few hours with names of all of the 11 who have lost their lives. a vigil to honor the victims is taking place now just about ten minutes from here. those killed range in age from 54 to 97. four of the six people injured were police officers. the mayhem started saturday morning inside the tree of life synagogue in the squirrel hill neighborhood of pittsburgh. three different congregations were worshipping in separate rooms. >> initial reports of an active shooter, one down and the tree of life synagogue. >> the shooter identified as robert bowers was armed with an assault weapon and three glock
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handguns, kofrgt police. he opened fire on the main floor and went downstairs where another congregation was gathering in the basement. there he unleashed more gunfire, according to authority, killing 11 people and wounding 6 others in the horrific attack. officers arrived on scene minutes later and engaged bowers at the front door as he was fleeing the synagogue screaming, i just want to kill jews. he went back into the building and continued shooting. >> we are pinned out by gunfire. he's fired with an automatic weapon. >> 34-10, please seasoned medic send medics up here. >> he barricaded himself in a classroom. the breath of the carnage became clear. >> we have four down at this time. we are an additional four victims, second floor atrium.
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>> the victims range in age from 54 to 97. three were female, eight were male. two of the wounded were found barricaded in the basement. it was the deadliest rampage against the jewish community in american history. busters was found on the third floor. he had sho two more officers multiple times. on the calls, police say bowers can be heard opening fire on the officers. >> we have one hit high. that's all i got right now. shots were still going off when i came out of the room. >> reporter: ten minutes later he was wounded and forced to surrender. >> we have suspect hands up. >> even in custody police say he continued to spew his hiateful rhetoric. >> the suspect's talking about all the jews need to die. we're stil communicating with
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him. >> many of who you have asked why the suspect hasn't been charged with domestic terrorism. i asked the u.s. attorney and here's what he said. domestic terrorism is when someone pushes an ideology. in this case, they say the guy was really just motivate d by hatred and that is why they charged him with a hate crime. if convicted, he could get the death penalty. >> thank you very much. we are going to move now to jeff. prior to this shooting, the accused murder here was not known to law enforcement officials. but he did have an active and hate-filled presence on social media. >> reporter: he didn't stand out to his neighbors about a 25-minute drive from the synagogue. >> it's just how normal he seemed. >> reporter: he had no criminal record beyond a traffic violation. robert jones is leading the
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investigation for the fbi. review possible surveillance a camera video and exploit digital media to determine how and why he committed this terrible act. >> reporter: his social media footprint shows he was stirring with hate. he had an account on a website popular among the alt-right and white nationalists. about a month ago, he posted a picture of three glock handguns calling them my glock family. he wrote, jews are the children of satan. he said president trump was surrounded by jewish people. he also appeared to be obsessed with a group called the hebrew immigrant society. in his last post before the show shooting, he wrote he likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. i can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. skro screw your optics. i'm going in. >> did anyone in the
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organization know he was obsessed with hias. >> we had no idea until after the attack happened. but we should have known it. he was all over social media. admittedly, it was on gab, which we do not follow. that's a problem. we're going to have to start following these outlets, unfortunately. >> he says one of the congregation ace tacked yesterday supports the program, but it's unclear if that's why bowers targeted the synagogue. also gab.com said it disavows and condemns all acts of violence and defends free expression. >> thank you very much. we are back in just a moment. .
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we are learning more about the 11 people who died here yesterday. targeted simply for practicing their faith. among the 11, there were two brothers. one married couple, a professor and a doctor. 65-year-old richard godfrey had a successful dental practice and had just celebrated his 38th wedding anniversary. brothers cecil and david rosenthal were at services every week. one of his patients wrote he took time with each of his patients. there was no rush to get out of his office.
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the oldest of the victims is 97-year-old rose mallinger was almost the first to walk into services and described as the most caring, gentle, loving woman. daniel stein recently became a grandfather. his nephew said he was somebody that everybody liked. melvin wax was known for his generosity. he was described by those who knew him as a pillar at the synagogue performing many roles there. the married couple were both retired and liked to take walks around the neighborhood. irving younger said he loved to exchange jokes about jews making fun of themselves. joyce fine beberg was an assist at the pittsburgh research center and known for her memory. she was always available for whatever oneigneed. 11 lives taken away inside a
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house of worship. we spoke to a couple earlier, three of them avoided possibly being victims themselves. >> one of the pains of glass, there was shards of glass all over the sidewalk. at the same moment, we heard, boom. and then dean said. >> it is come iing from inside building. it's active gunfire. we ran to the car. dialled 911. >> us yo saw them only because you were arriving late. >> i see them waving saying don't go in this. and then somebody said there are guns going off inside. >> if we had been there three
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minutes earlier, maybe two minutes earlier, we wouldn't be talking to you. >> i noticed just before the interview started, you were holding your wife's hand and also his hand. >> the way to respond in the moment of trauma is to reach out. it just seems so painfully ironic that a hate crime takes those who share love. >> how does this impact your faith? >> funny you should ask. i usually say morning blessings. and i started saying the ones that i usually say and i realized i us couldn't say them. and i just talked to god directly. i said i'm really having trouble
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here. i cannot pray because i'm broken. and i can't pray. >> the thing that troubles me equally are the messages that are out there that are coming from our leadership and that give people such inclinations the permission to do great evil. >> when something has been torn, a life has been torn away and the lives of the people who survived it have been torn. just render red and you can't just say we get over it because we'll think and pray about other things or something in the future will happen that we'll be healed. you first have to feel the pain and all its power. >> we want to thank ruth and cy and dean and the rabbi for that conversation. they felt it was important that people heard what they are thinking today.
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president trump did not waiver in his condemnation of the synagogue attack. he denounced all forms of anti-semitism. many kept talking. >> reporter: today the president and first lady greeted trick or treaters after saying an act of hate should not force the event to be cancelled. in indiana yesterday he condemned the massacre. >> there must be no tolerance for anti-semitism in america or for any form of religious or racial hatred or prejudice. >> reporter: moments later he was making jokes. >> maybe i should cancel this because i have a bad hair day. >> reporter: critics argue the president has consistently failed to show moral leadership in hate-filled incidents such as the rally in charlottesville. >> you had some bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people.
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>> reporter: democratic congressman adam schiff says the president has created a toxic lit the ma. >> the tone he sets is one of division and hatred and incitement of violence and there's no escaping our responsibility. >> reporter: the vice president denied a connection. >> frankly, people on both sides of the aisle use strong language about our political dimfference. >> reporter: president trump said he believes having armed guards would have stopped the attacker, but the mayor of pittsburgh disagrees. he says that gun control measures are a better way to stop this kind of violence. >> we're going to have more here coming up. the rapid rise of hate crimes in the u.s. we saved hundreds
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of any group. here's meg oliver. >> reporter: this is where someone plastered hateful graffiti. america in 2018 is grappling with the rise of anti-semitism. saturday's attack in pittsburgh comes after a year that has seen a sharp uptick in bomb threats. anti-semitic rallies, social media threats and swastikas on synagogues targeted at jewish americans. >> to bring it to the place we pray is deeply upsetting. >> reporter: jonathan noted a 57% increase in anti-semitic incidents nationwide last year compared to 2016. that's the biggest spike since 1979. those incidents occurred in every state in 2017 for the first time in seven years. >> what changed? >> i us think our polarized
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environment. we see people bringing a kind of toxicity into the political conversations we have just never seen before. >> in 2016 more than 1 in 5 hate crimes were prompted by religious bias. out of those 1500 offenses, more than half were antijewish, that's far more than hate crimes targeting muslims, catholics or any other religious group. >> there's just so much hate speech right now that there's so little coming together that we need to focus on that. >> they just released a report that showed social media harassment targeting jewish americans has increased around the midterm elections and two-thirds of those online attacks were from people, not bots. >> we'll be right back.
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around the world. there's a vigil taking place two miles away. can you talk about that? >> reporter: yeah, this one hits close to home. hias originate in the 1880s a as a resettlement program. it helped millions of jews from around the world, including soviet jews like my family, my parents. et we moved here in 1980 with the help of hias. they bought our airline tickets. i reached out today and found a digital copy of my documentation when i moved here as an 18-month-old. we moved to galveston, texas, with the help of hias. my parents would pay $20 or so to pay back for those tickets. it just one of the families that were helped by that. it expanded to not only jew iis refugees, but to refugees around the world.
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as we have seen too many time, the people of pittsburgh here are now eunited this weekend. especially in squirrel hill. >> reporter: squirrel hill is picturesque and home to a quarter of the city's jewish community. >> what's the one word you'd use to describe this community? >> there's a hebrew word which means unity. >> reporter: this bookstore has been part of the neighborhood since the 1950s. >> it doesn't matter what we do, where we go to synagogue or church, we're neighbors. >> this community is a throwback in time. old fashioned markets lined the main street. neighbors know each other well. >> there are lots of things to wonder about. >> it was mr. rogers' real life neighborhood. he grew up a few blocks from the site of yesterday's deadly shooting. >> if it can happen here, it
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really can happen anywhere. >> the victims called squirrel hill home. >> how is the community doing? >> obviously, it brings you together. >> it definitely feels like there's an overall sadness and it's a process that everyone is coming to terms with in their own way individual hi. >> today children like 3-year-old lulu came together to learn about a virtue that weaves the fabric of squirrel hill. >> have you learned about mr. ror rogers here? what have you learned? >> love. >> reporter: love and resilience are hallmarks here tonight at this vigil. >> that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others check back with us
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later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." reporting from pittsburgh, i'm jeff glor opinion. this is the cbs overnight news. >> good evening, i'm jeff glor. here at the corner of shady and wilkins here, normally quiet section of pittsburgh. the squirrel hill neighborhood is is home to a thriving jewish community. tonight it's mourning 11 people murdered here in a mass shooting yesterday. the deadliest attack on jews in american history. neighbors have been sharing their sense of disbelief that a hate crime here touched them so slows clothesly. we have seen stars of david show up outside the synagogue here in the past few hours.
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a vigil is taking place right now just about ten minutes from here. those killed range in age from 54 to 97. four of the six people injured were police officers. david begin ours coverage. >> reporter: the may health started saturday morngd in the squirrel hill neighborhood of pittsburgh. thee different congregations were worshipping in separate rooms. >> reports of an active shooter. >> reporter: the shooter was armed with an ar-15 assault weapon and three glock handguns. police say hi opened fire on the main floor and went downstairs where another congregation was gathering in the basement. there he unleashed more gunfire, according to authority, killing 11 people and wounding 6 others
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in the horrific attack. officers arrived on scene minutes later and engaged bowers at the front door as he was fleeing the synagogue screaming, i just want to kill jews. he went back into the building and continued shooting. >> we are pinned out by gunfire. he's fired with an automatic weapon. >> 34-10, please seasoned medic send medics up here. >> he barricaded himself in a classroom. the breath of the carnage became clear. >> we have at least four down at this time. we are an additional four victims, second floor atrium. >> the victims range in age from 54 to 97. three were female, eight were male. two of the wounded were found barricaded in the basement. it was the deadliest rampage against the jewish community in american history. busters was found on the third floor.
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he had shot two more officers multiple times. on the calls, police say bowers can be heard opening fire on the officers. >> we have one hit high. that's all i got right now. shots were still going off when i came out of the room. >> reporter: ten minutes later he was wounded and forced to surrender. >> we have suspect hands up. >> even in custody police say he continued to spew his hateful rhetoric. >> the suspect's talking about all the jews need to die. we're stil communicating with him. >> many of who you have asked why the suspect hasn't been charged with domestic terrorism. i asked the u.s. attorney and here's what he said. domestic terrorism is when someone pushes an ideology. in this case, they say the guy was really just motivated by hatred and that is why they charged him with a hate crime.
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if convicted, he cou the death penalty. >> thank you very much. we are learning more about people who died here. targeted simply for practicing their faith. >> among the 11, there were two brothers. one married couple, a professor and a doctor. 65-year-old richard godfrey had a successful dental practice and had just celebrated his 38th wedding anniversary. both in their 50s, brothers cecil and david rosenthal were at services every week. one of his patients wrote he took time with each of his patients. there was no rush to get out of his office. the oldest of the victims is 97-year-old rose mallinger was almost always the first to walk into services and described as the most caring, gentle, loving woman. daniel stein recently became a
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grandfather. his nephew said he was somebody that everybody liked. melvin wax was a retired accountant and was known for his generosity. he was described by those who knew him as a pillar at the synagogue performing many roles there. the married couple were both retired and both liked to take walks around the neighborhood. irving younger was a realtor and his friends said he loved to exchange jokes about jews making fun of themselves. joyce fineberg was an assistant at the university of pittsburgh research center and known for her memory. she was always available for whatever one might need. 11 lives taken away inside a house of worship. we are going to move to jeff. prior to this shooting, the murderer here robert bowers was
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not known to law enforcement officials, but he did have an active and hate-filled presence on social media. here's jeff. >> robert bowers didn't stand out to the neighbors in his apartment complexion about a 25-minute drive from the synagogue. >> the most terrifying thing is how normal he seemed. >> reporter: he had no criminal record beyond a traffic violation. robert jones is leading the investigation for the fbi. >> we continue to conduct interviews, scrub social media, review possible surveillance camera video and exploit digital media to determine how and why he committed this terrible act. >> reporter: his social media footprint shows he was stirring with hate. he had an account on a website popular among the alt-right and white nationalists. about a month ago, he posted a picture of three glock handguns calling them my glock family. in his bio he wrote, jews are the children of satan. he said president trump was surrounded by jewish people. he also appeared to be obsessed with a group called the hebrew
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immigrant aid society. in his last post before the show shooting, he wrote, hias likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. i can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. screw your optics. i'm going in. >> did you know or anyone in the organization know he was obsessed with hias. >> we had no idea he was obsessed with hias until after the attack happened. but we should have known it. he was all over social media. admittedly, it was on gab, which we do not follow. that's a problem. we're going to have to start following these outlets, unfortunately. which tolerate hate speech. >> he says one of the congregations attacked yesterday supports the program, but it's unclear if that's why bowers targeted the synagogue. also gab.com said it disavows
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and condemns all acts of terrorism and violence and defends free expression. >> thank you very much.
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this is the cbs overnight news. >> welcome back to the overnight news. it's a arrangement day in florida for the man accused of sending package bombs to critics of president trump. 56-year-old cesar sayoc has a long criminal history. >> the amateur bodybuilder and former stripper is due in federal court on monday morning and we'll be there. but i want to start this morning by giving you a sense of an interview with a woman who mages a pizza restaurant here in soout florida. she says he was a model employee. showed up on time, people liked him, no worries. but she says he was anti-gay,
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anti-black, antijust about everything, but ien couldn't fire him just because i couldn't like what he believed. >> he spewed a lot of hatred. he was definitely not right in the head. >> reporter: debra was sayoc's boss. she said he often expressed extreme political views. >> he was real racist. he was vile. anti everything. but i really don't know who i was talking to nightly. >> reporter: when he was arrested on friday, it appeared he was living in this white van that was plastered with pro-trump stickers as well as those target iing the president political opponents. you could see pictures of barack obaman hillary clinton ihas ait by a sat say cnn chem wsentipe b is is week.>> you taka lo at th people. >> reporter: he posted videos of
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himself at trump rallies and social media to lash out at politicians. >> he was a little intimidating if you weren't a trump supporter. >> reporter: it was his erratic behavior and that con speckous van. >> he would strip down to his underwear and walk down the street and shower here every morning. >> never saw him with anyone? >> never. >> never talked to you directly? >> never. >> reporter: his arrest came four days after the first explosive device was found at the home of billionaire george soros. more than a dozen other packages containing bombs were also mailed. all of them in an envelope with six stamps and return address of debbie wasserman schultz. on thursday investigators found one fingerprint on one of the packages. then they lifted a dna sample from one of the explosive devices. after matching that fingerprint and dna to sayoc, they used video surveillance to identify
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him. an electronic device was used to ping and track his cell phone. it took a little over a day from the firsten fingerprint being detected to his arrest. but it's still not known if all the bombs mailed have been fo d found. >> there may be other packages in transit now and other packages on the way. so we need the help of everyone out there, every citizen, everyone we've got to help with this investigation in the days to come. >> reporter: as scary as this week was for a lot of people, no one was harmed by any of this. the fbi says none of the devices were actually rigged to explode. so they are not sure if he just did a lousy job assembling them or never really intended to hurt anyone and just want. eded t
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all shapes and sizes. if you're feeling creative, you can make your own mix. licorice, especially salty licorice, is a favorite scandinavian treat, but when i sat down to eat some, it felt more like i had been tricked. why make it so salty? licorice is made from the licorice root. the twiz letters and red vines that we americans call it, don't contain licorice at all. it's really strange to foreigners. >> he's the founder of a licorice company based in a black fortress on the outskirts
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of denmark. >> he opened his first store. he was born on a small picturesque danish island in the baltic sea. >> this is paradise on earth when it's summer and it's like this. this is super amazing. >> reporter: it's the sunniest place in all of denmark and the crowds of tourists passing through gave him a chance to try out his licorice creations. >> the idea was actually to create a recipe or two and then just be in front of the actual consumer. and to sample them and look in their eyes and see what do they like? are they smiling or throwing up? >> what he found is he can get international visitors to try his product if he mixed the
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licorice taste with flavors they were more familiar with. >> what flavor is this? >> this is blue bberry. >> at the factory back in koepen hague b, he now produces link irish in various flavors of chocolate. >> this is more for me. you have to hide it in something else to make me like it. >> reporter: there's also licorice mixed with chilies, orr begunic slow-cooked licorice for c connoisseurs, syrups and sprinkles to mix in with other dishes. and you won't find any of this in the grocery store. they have marketed and packaged itself as a luxury gold sold in small butte teens. moes try to convince tourists to sample a taste they have grown up with. >> do you feel like you're on a mission? >> i do. you have to try this one. we have the salted caramel.
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it's a flavor everybody likes. >> reporter: they just opened two stores in dubai and is now sold in new york city. but it all began back on bornholm. >> i call it the vatican of licorice. it's where everything started. >> reporter: the tect call director has worked with him since the beginning helping develop new recipes. packaging is is important, but licorice is still at the root of everything. >> if you give us the time, we can make the whole world love licorice. it was 200 years ago that a young woman named mary shelley penned perhaps the greatest horror story ever. frankenstein. there's more to that story than just a good book. red s roxanne has the tale behind the tale. >> reporter: we all know the tale of the mad scientist and
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that unholy creation that became his undoing. >> frankenstein! >> frankenstein's monster has taken many shapes over the years. but it fist came to life two centuries ago on these pages written by a young woman barely 18 years old. >> here we have something that really gives us the genesis of the novel frankenstein. >> reporter: mary shelley's man script is held at oxford university in england where chris fletcher is keeper of special collections. >> from relatively modest beginnings of 500 copies of this to what it's become now, tells a really interesting story. >> reporter: that story began two years earlier when its
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author left england with her future husband. the they joined fellow pirate at this swiss villa for what was supposed to be a pleasant holiday on the shores of lake geneva. while the villa is the same, this professor explains that summer was like none other. >> an almost perpetual rain confines us to the house. >> reporter: it wasn't just the perpetual rain, but a freakish shrouded much of europe in cold and darkness. setting the gloomy stage for a gothic master fees. >> lord byron suggested we shall each write a ghost story. so the results of that famous contest are known -- >> are you saying if the fine had been fine that summer, we might not hav ihink that's quit probable. >> the storm's figure heavily in
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the ghost story, which would become the novel frankenstein published in 1818. her tale about a man-made monster turned murderer has been translated into dozens of lack wajs and adaptations and spin offs. ranging from slapstick comedy to dramatic theater. a few comic books and even songs. frank b stien has taken up a place in culture. but this monster is often misunderstood. a lot of people think that frankenstein is the name of the creature, of the monster. when in fact, it's the name of his creator. >> the creature himself does not have a name. >> another common misconceptket is purely evil. but events marking the ingchar.
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>> inside he might have beauty, but people don't give him a chance to show it. >> do you think they should? >> yeah. >> we're going to talk frankenste frankenstein. >> in london professor jack says frankenstein is still teaching us. >> about science, about responsibility, as a researcher is what you're doing ethical. do you have responsibilities for the things that you create? now there are real tools that are giving scientists the potential to enact potentially massive changes to life, say should we be editing the human genome. should we be trying to improve upon human nature? that's a question we should all have a say >> reporter: enduring questions posed by a young writer 200 years ago. >> she's dealing with etre and articulates that have been
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steve hartman now with a pint-sized wedding crasher and a bride right out of the storybook. >> reporter: 5-year-old lei la loves to play princesses. in fact, nothing delights her more. so imagine the joy when she saw one of her favorite characters come to life. >> i just heard her run away from me screaming, cinderella. >> as if she's spotted cinderella. >> she believed it was cinderella. >> her mom says the woman her daughter now believes to be cinderella is a heavy equipment operator from western new york named olivia spark. she came to this conclusion
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after spotting her here at akron falls park on her wedding she made a et beeline. >> you're used to chasing her around apologizing for her. >> absolutely. it meant a lot i didn't need to apologize. >> olivia not only welcomed her, she played along. >> i was more than happy to be cinderella for that little girl. >> reporter: she talked for quite awhile before telling her she had to get back to the ball. but that's not the end of the fairy tale. since their chance meeting, cinderella has stayed in touch with her princess charming. making her the happiest royal subject in the kingdom. >> hi, cinderella. come inside. >> reporter: she came over on this day in her wedding dress and at our request, but they see each other all the time now. >> come in. >> it's an instant bond.
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ta love each other. it's cute. >> reporter: jessica says normally she won't even talk to strangers. >> my slippers, i took them off. >> reporter: she's made an turns a littleinderella. bit of fairy god mother in her. she and her family have started a gofundme to send her to meet more princesses at disney world. it's such a kind gesture she's now not the only one who sees cinderella here. >> you believe in her. >> i do. she's the epitome of a true princess. she's kind, she's sweet, she went out of her way to make her day special. who would do that other than a princess. >> reporter: i guess they don't all wear glass slippers. steef hartman, on the road in akron, new york. >> that's the "cbs overnight news" for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others check back for "cbs this morning."
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2018. this is the "cbs morning news." a plane carrying 189 people plunges into the sea off indonesia minutes after takeoff. crews are pulling debris from the water as families gather at the airport and pray. religious leaders from all faiths and community members in pittsburgh come together to honor the 11 people killed in the synagogue mass shooting. a federal prosecutors seek approval to pursue the death penalty for the suspected

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