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event during china's annual ice festival. they put on backpacks, they wobble around. >> that's it for us here at 5. a 20-year-old man has been charged with capital murder in the fatal drive-by shooting of seven-year-old jazmine barnes. >> the homicide investigators formally charged eric black, jr. with capital murder in the death of jazmine barnes. >> quijano: shutdown showdown. president trump again threatens to go around congress to build his border wall, as the standoff with democrats enters its third week. >> this is the first president in history who shut down his own government. >> the president is not fighting for the wall, he is fighting for the protection of american citizens. >> quijano: also, an apparent "about face" on syria, the trump administration changes its tune again. >> we won't be finally pulled out until isis is gone. >> how long? >> quijano: extreme winter
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weather across the nation from rain, snow, and wind in the west to above average temperatures in the east. will it last? and, a 90-year-old woman who risked her life during world war ii, risks her life again. >> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano. texas authorities have charged a man in the killing a week ago of seven-year-old jazmine barnes. eric black, jr. was captured by deputies on saturday. janet shamlian is in houston with new details that has captured the nation's attention. >> reporter: eric black, jr. was charged this morning with capital murder in the drive-by shooting death of seven-year-old jazmine darnes. the sheriff office said the 20- year-old acknowledged he had a role in the shooting. the week long search for the gunman was focused on finding a white man. >> this was likely a case of mistaken identity, where the intended targets were likely
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someone else, but, instead, they fired upon laporsha, jazmine, and her siblings. >> reporter: the second grader's death lead to an intense manhunt, after she was shot in the head while riding in her mother's car with her three sisters during an early morning coffee run a week ago today. jazmine's mom was struck in the shoulder. >> turn yourself in. because we're not going to stop looking, we're not going to stop looking. we're going to bring justice to my baby. >> reporter: after jazmine's teenaged sister described the shooter as white and helped with this suspect sketch, many feared a hate crime. >> he was white, and he had blue eyes, and that was it. he had a hoodie on, so i couldn't see his hair or nothing like that. >> reporter: detectives now say the red truck the family described speeding from the scene was trying to escape the gunfire. >> we believe now that that red truck and driver is most likely just a witness, either by sight or sound, to what actually transpired. >> reporter: the seemingly random shooting mobilized the community. >> who's baby? >> our baby! >> reporter: close to 1,000
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people rallied around the family saturday, vowing to help find the killer. >> you owe my family this. we need it right now. justice for jazmine. >> reporter: a gofundme has topped $75,000. and houston texans' wide receiver deandre hopkins pledged his check from the team's playoff game to help jazmine's family. tonight, with a suspect in custody, no less heartache. the suspect, eric black, jr., may not have acted alone. the sheriff says others are being interviewed, and suggests a second arrest is possible. elaine? >> quijano: all right, janet shamlian, thank you. president trump said today he can relate to federal employees going without pay during a partial government shutdown. it's day 16 of the standoff, with democrats standing firm that no taxpayer dollars be used to build a wall. but in new comments and bold letters, mr. trump says, "the wall is coming." errol barnett is at the white house.
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>> reporter: what do you say to americans concerned about a delay in getting their tax refund? >> it will all work out. what we need is we need a strong border. >> reporter: president trump returning from camp david this afternoon, reiterated his threat to declare a national emergency to secure money for border security. >> it is a national security, it's a national emergency. >> reporter: on friday, the president explained such a move would allow him to circumvent congressional approval, and, instead, use pentagon funds to attain the $5.6 billion he wants for a southern wall, on what he now calls "a steel barrier." >> that's a nonstarter. >> reporter: house democrat adam schiff is doubtful of the declarations' legality. >> if harry truman couldn't nationalize the steel industry during wartime, this president doesn't have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion dollar wall on the border. >> reporter: bipartisan talks have been deadlocked for weeks, with democrats refusing to allocate any money for a wall that mr. trump had said mexico would pay for.
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acting chief of staff and budget director mick mulvaney said the president's main goal is border security. aiming to change conditions along the mexican border, even if it means moving away from a wall. >> if he has to give up a concrete wall and replace it with a steel fence in order to do that, so that democrats can say, "see, he's not building a wall any more." that should help us. >> reporter: but the partial government shutdown moving into a third week, democratic senator dick durbin said, affected government employees, like t.s.a. agents, will feel the financial pinch soon. >> as of this friday, they will miss a payday. that may mean some problems for mortgage payments, problems of balancing the budget of their own families and households. this is totally unnecessary. >> reporter: now, house speaker nancy pelosi also says house democrats plan to introduce stand-alone bills this week, which would reopen agencies like the treasury, but it is unclear if senate republican would approve that legislation. elaine? >> quijano: and errol, the president also confirmed the
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death of a wanted terrorist, what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: that's right. president trump confirming the death of jamal al-badawi, he is believed to be one of the masterminds behind the bombing of the u.s.s. cole. al-badawi was killed in an apparent drone strike in yemen january 1. and you may remember that attack on the u.s.s. cole killed 17 u.s. sailors back in the year 2000. >> quijano: all right errol barnett for us, errol, thank you. another pentagon official resigned chief of staff kevin sweeney resigned saturday after serving two years. sweeney, a retired rear admiral, is the third defense department official to step down since the president's controversial plan to withdrew u.s. troops from syria. and today, that plan appeared to change again. jonathan vigliotti reports. >> reporter: while visiting israel today, national security advisor john bolton said that the american military withdrawal from neighboring syria is now conditioned on defeating the
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remnants of isis adding, "there is no timetable for the pullout." it was welcome news for a nation worried about destabilization next door. and a major stepback from president trump's major announcement in december, when he said he would pull u.s. troops from syria immediately. speaking at the white house today, trump denied that was ever his plan. >> we are pulling back from syria. we're going to be removing our troops. i never said we are doing it that quickly. >> reporter: together, these comments are the first public confirmation that the white house is backing away from its previous timeline. there are currently 2,000 u.s. troops stationed in syria. but while bolton insisted the military's presence in the country is not an unlimited commitment, some questioned how realistic his new terms for a troop withdrawal are. one condition calls for turkey to assure the safety of u.s. allied kurdish fighters, but turkey considers the syrian kurds a terrorist group.
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and such a promise seems unlikely. bolton discussed his withdrawal plan at a dinner tonight with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, but the real test will be on tuesday. elaine, that's when bolton meets with turkey's president. >> quijano: jonathan vigliotti, thank you. big parts of the west tonight are dealing with some miserable winter weather, but it was warmer than normal today from the rockies east of the appalachians. the bad news, it won't last. ileana diaz is in malibu. >> reporter: heavy rains in southern california push debris and mud on to the pacific coast highway, where the woolsey fire burned nearly two months ago, trapping cars and even california highway patrol officers, who had to dig themselves out. >> it was crazy, there were places in the road where it had slid over, and it was really deep mud. >> reporter: this hillside came down, forcing drivers to abandon their cars in knee-deep mud, and prompting the closure of nearly 20 miles of the highway.
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further north, winds and high tide in the bay area flooded san francisco's popular embarcadero street. tourists stopped for what seemed like a good photo op. >> i heard that tree cracked, and saw big sparks coming out. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands were without power in the pacific northwest on sunday morning. after a wind storm knocked down trees and power lines across neighborhoods. >> the window in our bedroom that we were in, it just blew it out. >> reporter: seattle experienced wind gusts up to 60 miles-per- hour. reportedly, some of the strongest the city has had in ten years. crews continue to clean up the mess along the pacific coast highway, it is expected to remain closed up until tuesday. and while the mud appears to be drying out now, there is more heavy rain in the forecast. elaine? >> quijano: thanks, ileana. kevin spacey is expected to be arraigned tomorrow in a nantucket, massachusetts courtroom. the oscar-winning actor is accused of sexually groping a young man in 2016.
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spacey, whose 59, argued he should be excused from appearing in court, because it could magnify the negative publicity surrounding the case. the judge rejected that request. new york representative alexandria ocasio-cortez is taking controversy in stride. critics took aim after video from her college days was posted online the eve of her swearing in. but if it was meant to embarrass, it did not work. ocasio-cortez responded, posting this video showing her dance into her new office. the youngest woman ever elected to the house of representatives is also talking about her new job to "60 minutes." >> i really understood the frustration that working people had across the political spectrum, you know. when anybody is saying the economy is going great, we are at record levels, there's a frustration that says, "well, the economy is good for who?" >> i mean, unemployment is at record lows.
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>> i don't think that that tells the whole story. when you can't provide for your kids working a full-time job, working two full-time jobs, when you can't have health care, that is not-- that is not dignified. >> quijano: you can see the full interview with representative alexandria ocasio-cortez tonight on "60 minutes." cbs news is set to launch a new web series on facebook. "down to earth" deals with issues from around the world that hit close to home. the first episode is called "the brave ones" and is about a special forces team in zimbabwe made up entirely of women. here's a preview. >> just remember, you're trying to use the shadows. just move through the trees, move through the shadows like a ghost. >> to me, the abusive thing was refusing me to find a job, to look for a job, and to proceed
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with my education. that's where the fight starts. >> reporter: so, you'd start talking about it, he'd get angry, and then what would he do? >> sometimes he clubs me, he hits me. >> we thought, by putting them through our version of special forces, we were putting them through hell. but the reality is that they have already been through it. >> now i can think that i can. i can do something that is great, because i can save myself. no man is going to challenge me again. >> quijano: the cbs news series "down to earth" premieres tomorrow on facebook. >> quijano: coming up on tonight's weekend news: a new order in court, as 17 judges in texas are sworn in. and later, a major setback cleaning up a floating garbage dump twice the size of texas.
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>> quijano: in texas, 19 african-american women just made history. they ran for judgeships under a common campaign theme, and they won. michelle miller has their story. >> we put in the work on the campaign trail. we were definitely vocal, we were definitely present. >> and maybe we're just a little bit more noticeable. >> reporter: erica hughes, germaine tanner, and latosha lewis payne were part of a movement that flipped the harris county courthouses blue. >> texas and harris county is ready to embrace the diversity that we have in our state. >> reporter: the 17 newly- elected judges stomped on platforms promising perspective and fairness. >> they are going to get the very best opportunity for justice. >> reporter: to get their vote, candidates first had to capture voters' attention. >> we looked at each other and realized, "wow, it's 19 of us." >> we need to embrace the significance of having so many of us. >> reporter: so why not show it? >> harris county has been
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trending blue since 2008. >> reporter: enter dallas jones, a political strategist for harris county's democratic party. he arranged the photo shoot that produced this snapshot. >> they wanted to see real people and they wanted to see the power and strength of black women. >> reporter: the combination of that picture and three little words... >> black girl magic. >> black girl magic. >> reporter: ...went viral. the hashtag isn't new, it's promoted black female pride across social media for years, but as a slogan for a political campaign, it was lightning in a bottle. >> you saw 19 qualified african- american women on the ballot. i think that motivated our community to get out and vote. >> reporter: with more than 4.5- million residents, harris county is bigger in population than 14 states, and boasts both racial and economic diversity. still, it accounted for one- fifth of all the texas children locked up in the state's juvenile prisons in 2017. democrats in harris county won
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on reforming that system, which now faces multiple discrimination lawsuits. >> i felt like i was making a difference. >> reporter: judge mark carter, an african-american army veteran, considered himself a progressive reformer, but says he lost on election day because he's a republican. >> what we should be is independent. >> reporter: while applauding the new female bloc, carter says moderate voices like his were drowned out because of straight ticket voting. >> the bottom-line is that we're selecting our judges based on party. >> reporter: the irony is straight-ticket voting in texas will end before the 2020 elections. >> latosha lewis payne! ( applause ) >> reporter: this new slate of judges was sworn in on new year's day. >> a lot of judges win, get on the bench, and you won't see them again until election time. >> we want to stay in the community, and keep the community engaged about what we are doing in our courts. i think that that would make a difference. >> reporter: michelle miller,
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>> quijano: it was supposed to be a simple mission, use a high- tech device to skim nearly two trillion pieces of plastic from the pacific ocean. but the $20 million boom has gone bust. here's carter evans. >> reporter: the 2,000-foot long ocean cleanup system left san francisco last september with high expectations. the plan was to begin cleaning up the great pacific garbage patch, a giant floating mass twice the size of texas. but now, after months at sea, there are major setbacks, says 24-year-old dutch inventor, boyan slat. did the pipe itself crack? >> so we see a 60-foot section of the 2,000-foot long pipe that has detached. it's a vast area. >> reporter: just before the launch, slat took us out on the water, and he had some reservations. are you sure it will work? >> uh, no. ( laughs )
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we'll see in the coming months. >> reporter: during that time, the device floated freely with the currents, forming a "u" shape to corral the trash. a skirt, about ten-feet deep, was supposed to catch the plastic, but that also didn't go as planned. >> the system isn't able to retain the plastic well, so once it's caught, we also sometimes see it floating out again. >> reporter: it picked up 4,500 pounds of trash, not nearly enough according to some critics. >> you will have more plastics there next week and the week after. so the real answer is to not consume so many plastics. >> reporter: despite these setbacks, do you think this is still a viable system? >> we are really quite close to making it work. i don't think we have much of a choice. this plastic doesn't go away by itself. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, malibu. g nazis,s : still ahead, after every day, people are fighting type 2 diabetes with food, family and farxiga, the pill that starts with "f." farxiga, along with diet and exercise,
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war ii. >> i just remember those days. we lived in normandy, our house was bombed down with everything. >> reporter: marguerite, her mother, and her mother's friends risked their lives as part of the french resistance to the nazis. they saved 17 members of the allied forces, including eight u.s. airmen by hiding them in their apartment after the men were shot down. >> when they were shot down over paris, we would see some coming down in parachutes, you know? and then, afterwards, we heard the story of all the airmen we had in our apartment, told us how they escaped. >> reporter: is there one that you remember? >> all of them. all of them. and we found out they all arrived back safe in this country. >> reporter: and now it was marguerite's turn to experience what it feels like to parachute out of a plane. >> i wanted to experience what my husband experienced, and that
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>> reporter: her husband, ed miller, was an american airmen, who was also shot down over france during the war. now, 74 years after allied airmen parachuted in to liberate her homeland, she floats freely above the united states of america, which today is her home. what are we to take away from what you and your mother did? >> well, you must always help your country as much as you can, and be proud. it was wonderful! >> reporter: david begnaud, cbs news, homestead, florida. >> thank you! >> quijano: remarkable perspective. that's the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. later on cbs, 60 minutes. for more news anytime, go to cbsn at cbsnews.org or download the cbs news app. i'm elaine quijano in new york. for all of us at cbs news, thank you for joining us and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. we are on storm watch as having rains wreak havoc on bay area roads and send rivers of mud running through neighborhoods. what started out as a gentle rain has turned quite nasty. i will have the story coming up. hazards in the high country tonight. were white out conditions have shut down interstate 80 through the sierra and have triggered avalanche warnings. >> in the past few minutes, san francisco shut down the great highway from lincoln to slope due to flooding. the wet weather is also causing major problems in the north bay tonight. this car leaning upside down
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and crashing into a hillsboro creek. it happened right of highway 101 this afternoon. you can see the front of the car just crushed from the impact. the doors are open indicating whoever what's inside did make it out okay. in san anselmo some are dealing with this mess , heavy flooding like out the front yard and pouring into the driveway and knocked down part of one homeowners fence and got into his garage. he told us the flooding seemed to come out of nowhere. >> everything was fine and we are checking the coverts and there is another big one down there. then i stepped away for about two minutes and i noticed part of the fence had been knocked into the little creek there. >> the home owner says fortunately the rest of us house remained pretty dry.

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