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york city, i'm david begnaud. thanks for watching. have a great weekend. captioning funded by cbs it's friday, january 25th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." two competing plans to end the government shutdown fail, but there are new bipartisan negotiations as federal workers miss a second paycheck today. the showdown in venezuela escalates. president maduro goes on the offensive against the opposition leader. and a rescuer needs rescuing when several people fall through thin ice.
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good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. federal employees will miss a second paycheck this morning as the government shutdown enters day 35. there may be hope. after the senate rejected two proposals yesterday, there's now a bipartisan effort to reopen the government. marc liverman is here in new york with the latest. marc, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. those two proposals were expected to fail even before the senate voted, and now that they did, all those federal workers living without a paycheck are back to helping leaders on both sides of the aisle find another way to end the shutdown. 35 days into the partial government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are missing a second paycheck today. >> i shouldn't have to go into my savings because they're fighting about a border wall. >> reporter: as expected, dueling measures to reopen the government failed in the senate yesterday.
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>> two show votes, and my hope is that after that it will allow us to really get down to work. >> reporter: shortly after bipartisan talks between lawmakers ramped up -- >> i'm prepared to listen to anyone in order to get the government opened. >> mitch mcconnell's meeting with chuck schumer -- >> reporter: president trump said he'd support a reasonable agreement but didn't back away from the main sticking point. >> we have to have a wall in order to have border security. you cannot have border security without a wall. >> reporter: he suggested a prorated down payment to start paying for it. most democrats remain firmly against the border wall. >> how ludicrous it is that this government is shut down over a promise the president of the united states couldn't keep! >> reporter: meanwhile, federal workers are flocking to food banks to get by. >> i know they are, and i don't really quite understand why. >> reporter: commerce secretary and multimillionair wilbur
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ross said they should just take out loans. >> we have not gotten paid at all, and i think the most desperate part is just pushing our bills back. some companies are understanding. some companies are not understanding. >> reporter: president trump said he's looking at alternatives to fund the wall. an apparent reference to declaring a national emergency. earlier this month the president had backed off declaring an emergency, but now it looks like that's back on the table as an option as the shutdown drags on. >> marc liverman here in new york. thank you very much, marc. so starting today federal workers at the southern u.s. border will start forcing some asylum applicants to wait in mexico while their cases are being considered. it's part of a new initiative announced by the trump administration. customs and border patrol agents are among thousands of federal employees working without pay during the partial shutdown. mireya villarreal was at the southern arizona border yesterday to show us the challenges agents face. >> reporter: this group is part of 180 migrants apprehended by arizona border agents. fernando says this area has
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become a hotbed for illegal crossings. >> i've seen six different presidents in the time that i've been with the border patrol, and this is the worst crisis that i've seen. >> reporter: you actually use that word, crisis? >> yes. >> reporter: he says these patrols are dangerous, but that hasn't stopped him or agents from doing their jobs despite not being paid because of the shutdown. >> they believe that -- strongly in the mission, and they know we have a job to do. >> reporter: in this part of the border, this is the only barrier between the united states and mexico. just over it is a major highway. buses come right through here. migrants get off and walk right into the united states. last year, border agents apprehended 52,000 people in this area alone. an increase of more than 1,000 apprehensions a month over the previous year. in nearby nogales, the mayor says adding to the border wall which his city has had for more than 20 years would be effective.
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>> we do not need a wall in nogales. we do not need wires in nogales. we need technology. >> reporter: monday surveillance cameras near yuma captured more than 100 migrants who scaled a wall with the help of a ladder. last week more than 300 asylum seekers in san luis were arrested after they burrowed under a steel barrier. despite lapses in the wall, the agent says they still work. >> operationally, i can tell you that without a physical barrier, the border patrol, we'd have a tough time succeeding. >> reporter: it took six hours to transport the entire group from the desert to a nearby port of entry. now it will take several days to screen them and process them, all the while work being done by agents that are still not getting paid. mireya villarreal, cbs news along the arizona border. ahead on "cbs this morning," we'll hear from furloughed workers and their families about how they are coping with the
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government shutdown. president trump's former attorney michael cohen has been subpoenaed to testify before a senate panel on february 12th. the subpoena is from the senate intelligence committee investigating russian interference in the 2016 election. cohen's interview will likely take place behind closed doors. this comes a day after cohen postponed his public testimony to a house committee citing concerns for his family's safety. cohen will begin a three-year prison sentence in march. venezuela's military leaders are pledging support to president maduro. meanwhile, the u.s. and several other countries recognize 35-year-old opposition leader juan guaido as interim president this week. maduro accuses the u.s. of trying to organize a coup. hundreds of thousands of venezuelans took to the streets to protest the country's failing economy and demand maduro step aside. more than a dozen people died in the violent unrest just this week. secretary of state mike pompeo pledged $20 million in
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humanitarian aid to the government yesterday. the state department also ordered nonessential u.s. embassy personnel home from venezuela and said all u.s. citizens should strongly consider leaving. we now know the names of three of the five women who were shot and killed inside a bank in sebring, florida, on wednesday. meanwhile, the suspected gunman, zephen xaver, appeared in court yesterday. an indiana police department has released a 2014 incident report in which the suspect said that he had dreams of hurting other students in a classroom when he was 16 years old. demarco morgan has more. zephen xaver. >> reporter: appearing on videotape and wearing a black and white jumpsuit, zephen xaver stood and listened as a highland county judge charged him with premeditated murder. >> the charges are five counts of homicide, murder in the first degree. >> reporter: the shooting happened at the suntrust bank in
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sebring. xaver entered wearing a bulletproof vest and with a gun. he forced five women to lie down and shot them. one employee in the back room heard and escaped, contacting law enforcement. the shooter also called 911. >> he told dispatchers that he had killed five people in the bank. >> reporter: when police arrived at the bank, xaver was barricaded inside. after negotiations failed, an armored s.w.a.t. vehicle rammed the building. >> there he is, boys. >> reporter: xaver surrendered and was taken into custody. >> we have no information about what his motive might have been. >> reporter: among the victims, one customer, cynthia watson, and marisol lopez and anna pinon williams. williams had worked at the bank for three weeks. >> anna was a wife to my brother. a mother to seven children. her life was truly a light in this world. >> reporter: xaver had attended
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high school in indiana and had moved to florida with his mother. a woman identifying himself as a former girlfriend told affiliate wsbt that xaver had a fascination with hurting people. >> he just for some reason always hated people and wanted everybody to die, and he got kicked out of school for having a dream that he killed everybody in his class. >> reporter: cbs has reached out to the shooter's former high school in indiana multiple times but hasn't heard back. xaver is behind bars without bond. and if convicted, he could face the death penalty. demarco morgan, cbs news, sebring, florida. a deep freeze is set to invade the midwest with frigid temperatures through the weekend. windchill advisories were issued for parts of wisconsin, minnesota, and the dakotas. portions of northern ohio could get chills as low as minus 14 degrees. meteorologists say there's a potential for a record-setting cold in iowa. forecasters warn the frosty weather is expected to linger into next week, but even colder temperatures midweek. coming up on "the morning news"
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now, halloween costume controversy. florida's secretary of state resigns in a black-face scandal. an indiana school superintendent is charged with insurance fraud after allegedly trying to help a sick student. this is the "cbs morning news." to help a sick student. this is the "cbs morning news." it looks like emily cooking dinner for ten. it looks like jonathan on a date with his wife. entresto is a heart failure medicine that helps your heart so you can keep on doing what you love. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. it helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren,... ...or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems,
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hold the rope. hold the rope, brian. give me your hand. [ scream ] >> police officers in toledo, ohio, had to rescue one of their hone after he plunged into a frozen pond. the officers were called to the pond last friday after an 11-year-old boy fell in. during the rescue, two officers also fell through the ice. they were saved, and so was the boy. they're all okay. >>orida's ary of state has resigned in a black-face scandal, and a rare victory for a california utility.
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those are some of the headlines on the "morning newsstand." "the sacramento bee" reports california investigators say pacific gas and electric did not cause the 2017 tubbs fire. it swept through wine country and killed 22 people. a long-awaited report says the fire was caused by a private electrical system on private property. cal fire investigators did not find any violations of state law. survivors of the tubbs fire had sued pg&e. the company still faces billions of dollars in potential damages from other wildfires. it had said it plans to file for bankruptcy. "the tallahassee democrat" reports florida secretary of state michael ertel resigned less than three weeks after being sworn into office. he stepped down yesterday after the paper obtained photos of him in black face posing as a hurricane katrina victim at a halloween party 14 years ago. in the photo, he's dressed as a woman. the picture was taken two months after the hurricane devastated new orleans. ertel told the paper "there's nothing i can say." po> "the cleveland plain dealer"
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filed by couples who lost eggs and embryos after a storage tank failed at university hospital's fertility clinic.morehan 4,000 s were destroyed when the nitrogen-cooled storage tank failed last march. more than 80 lawsuits have been filed. the new lawsuits also blame the company, data loggers, which was supposed to monitor the alarm system on the tanks. university hospital has apologized and says it's offering free fertility care to impacted patients. "usa today" reports an indiana school superintendent faces fraud and other charges for allegedly using her own medical insurance to help a sick student. casey smitherman, superintendent of the elwood community schools, says that she took a 15-year-old student with a sore throat to a medical clinic and said that he was her son. she paid for his visit and his medicine with her own insurance. >> i'm not justifying what i did, but i also think it's hard to think about looking in the
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face of that sick kid. so until you're in that boat, you don't know. >> smitherman is now in a diversion program that will allow the charges to be dropped if she's not arrested again in the coming year. and the "los angeles times" reports a mexican actor from the oscar-nominated movie "roma" has been denied visas to the u.s. and might miss the oscars. jorge guerrero says that he's been denied visas on three occasions to attend screenings and other industry events. he says he submitted a letter from the film's producers as evidence that he had official invitations to appear in the u.s. guerrero says u.s. officials refused to read the letter. "roma" is nominated for ten oscars including best picture. still ahead, walmart is hiring. the retail giant is offering an impressive salary for hundreds of truck driver positions. ruck driver positions.
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farm is, the horse farm is the largest in asia and the second largest in the world. recent heavy nowfall covered its grasslands making for a stunning sight as dozens of horses galloped through the snow. on the cbs "money watch" now, walmart is paying top dollar for truck drivers, and krispy kreme has a valentine's day treat. diane king hall is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, diane. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. wall street turned in a mixed performance yesterday, but solid earnings reports from some top u.s. companies seemed to ease investor anxiety about a slowing global economy and an intensifying partial government shutdown. the dow slipped 22 points. the s&p 500 rose three, and the nasdaq jumped 47. cvs pharmacy is launching a new initiative to label photos of models in beauty aisles and indicate if they're digitally altered. it's called beauty marks. the chain is the first major u.s. company to roll out the policy. it's meant to address concerns about how unrealistic ideals of beauty affect women, especially
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younger women. neutrogena, cover girl, and revlon are taking part. walmart wants to hire truck drivers and pay close to $90,000 a year. the world's biggest retailer says hundreds of positions are available. the 8,000 drivers who already work there will also be getting a raise. the move comes as many companies struggle with an industry-wide shortage of truck drivers. walmart says new drivers will need to have 30 months of experience over the past three years and a good safety record. and we have a sweet followup after yesterday's story that the classic valentine's day sweetheart candies won't be on shelves this year. krispy kreme is coming to the rescue with their own take. they will have messages on doughnuts like "i love you" and "call me" like the candies did. krispy kreme says finding the right words can be hard but eating it is easy. >> no calories. >> i don't know about that. >> that is fake news. >> yeah. yeah.
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new york... diverts to san francisco overnight. the medical emergency onboard. plus: pg&e cleared of causing the deadly tubbs fire in wine country. what this means for people who lost their homes. and could levi's be leaving san francisco? this morning... the company's downtown plaza is up for sale. join us for kpix 5 news this morning... beginning at 4:30. good morning. it's friday, january 25th.
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here's a look at the forecast in some cities around the country. ♪ tiger woods made his first appearance on the 2019 pga tour in yesterday's first round of the farmers insurance open in san diego. woods shot a two under par 70 that left him eight shots behind the leader, john rahm, who shot a 62. woods is coming off a comeback year. he won his first tournament in five years at september's tour championship. woods started last season after recovering from a fourth
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our top stories this morning -- federal employees will miss a second paycheck today. day 35 of the government shutdown. bipartisan negotiations to reopen the government is bringing new hope after the senate rejected two proposals yesterday. venezuela's military leaders are pledging support to president maduro. earlier this week the u.s. recognized opposition leader juan guaido as the interim president. a failing economy led to deadly protests. the state department has ordered nonessential personnel home. and a deep freeze is set to invade the midwest through the weekend. windchill advisories were issued
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from the dakotas to ohio. forecasters warn the chilly weather is expected to linger into next week with even colder temperatures midweek. in alabama, it was an act of kindness and respect captured on camera and shared by millions. jim axelrod has the story. >> reporter: by now, you may have seen this picture as the body of watasha carter made its way through a rainy birmingham, alabama, this past saturday. >> it was a tough day for everybody in birmingham and alabama, jefferson county. it was a tough day. >> reporter: a sheriff's deputy named tiffany dials stood saluting the casket of the police sergeant who'd been gunned down on duty. >> i was representing my shift. i was the only one available to go out there. i was representing everybody. >> reporter: in a city mourning the worst came a small reminder of our best. >> i really think it was just manners. >> reporter: the man never said a word, not for 45 minutes while
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he held the umbrella with both standing in front of a memorial to fallen police officers. >> i didn't want her to get wet while i stood there dry. >> reporter: the man was sean allen, a deputy istrict attorney. two days after spending three quarters of an hour standing next to each other -- >> hi. >> reporter: the two finally met. >> nice to meet you. come here. give me a hug. >> reporter: happy as he was to do the right thing, allen doesn't want that to overshadow why they were there in the first place. >> my intention was never to get attention. my intention was to pay my respects to sergeant carter and to help this deputy who was paying her respects to sergeant carter. >> reporter: birmingham is still somber, though steadied by the gesture of sean allen who harnessed the meaning of a moment to cut through its gloom with a ray of light. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. coming up first on "cbs this morning," wells fargo ceo tim sloan tells us how his company is helping furloughed federal employees make ends meet. plus, facebook is accused of
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inappropriately profiting from unwitting children making purchases while playing games. and a closer look at the powerful family allegedly at the center of the deadliest drug crisis in u.s. history. that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. ♪
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forecast for this friday, january 25. good morning. i am kenny choi. >> i am michelle griego. we have a warming trend that continues into the weekend. here's a live look of the bay bridge and it is a chilly day, 40 in concord, 49 in oakland, san francisco 50, san jose 42 and santa rosa at 46. we have clear skies and chilly temperatures with patchy fog. as we head through the afternoon enjoy the sunshine. we are warming up with above average temperatures, 5 up to
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