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that is is for us at 5:00. >> >> ninan: behind bars. bail is set for $1 million after singer r. kelly is charged with criminal sexual abuse involving underaged victims. >> robert kelly was indicted before a cook county grand jury on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four victims. >> ninan: also tonight, new england patriots owner robert kraft faces charges of soliciting prostitution, and police say they have visual evidence. heavy rain produces dangerous flooding in the south as snow and ice batter the midwest. a boeing 767 cargo jet crashed newer houston with three people on board. there are no survivors.
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and two communities in chicago divided by a street are joining together through a shared love of art. >> i see a change in the air. >> ninan: good evening. i'm reena ninan. singer r. kelly remains in custody after surrendering to police on charges of criminal sexual abuse. today, prosecutors described the disturbing allegations against him involving multiple underaged girls. he maintains his innocence. a judge set his bond at $1 million. fwarning for viewers tonight-- the details in our first story are graphic. here's jericka duncan. >> reporter: in graphic detail, state attorney kim foxx described the allegations involving four women who say they were sexually abused by three-time grammy winner and r&b singer r. kelly. one of the cases involved a 24-year-old who says she had an appointment to braid kelly's rir back in 2003. >> robert kelly grabbed the victim by the head and tried to emrce her mouth on to his exposed penis, and his semen was
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identified on the shirt. the male d.n.a. identified in the semen sample is a match to fibert kelly's d.n.a. profile. >> reporter: the charges involve multiple forced sex cets. according to court records, three of the four women were between 13 and 16 years old when the alleged abuse happened. >> between may 1, 2009, and january 31, 2010, the victim had vaginal and oral sex with robert kelly multiple times. at times, robert kelly would spit on her, slap her in the face, and choke her. >> reporter: kelly, who's 52 years old, turned himself in to yolice friday night, hours after being charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. kelly's attorney, steven greenberg, says his client, who remains in custody on $1 million in bond, is devastated. r, here is someone who at one point was a huge star, and now he's sitting behind bars, even if it's just for a day.
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he's got these accusations. unfortunately, you know, there's this whole hashtag movement. just because someone says something now, and it's 2019, it doesn't make them credible. re reporter: at the bond waring, there were alleged victims and kelly supporters. joycelyn savage, whose parents claim kelly was keeping her ptptive, was in court. she had no comment as she left the courthouse. now, jerhonda pace, one of four women who r. kelly was accused of abusing, was also in court. she appeared in the docu-series special "surviving r. kelly." she says she had sex with r. kelly when she was a teen and actually met him after he was acquitted in 2008 of child ncrnography charges. now, as far as these charges are concerned, if r. kelly is found guilty on all 10 counts, he's looking at up to 70 years in prison. reena. >> ninan: jericka, thank you. special counsel prosecutors unleashed words of fury about president trump's former
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campaign chair paul manafort today. this afternoon, the counsel released its recommendations for manafort's punishment before his sentencing next month. nikole killion has more on the filing from the white house. >> traitor! >> reporter: in a newly unsealed memo, the special counsel's office didn't mince words about former trump utmpaign chairman paul manafort. prosecutors stated, "for over a decade, manafort repeatedly and brazenly violated the law." they added, "his criminal actions were bold, some of which are committed under a spotlight rmanto his work as the campaign chairman, and later when he was on bail from this court." while the government didn't take itposition on manafort's rntence, it warned he presents a great risk of recidivism, and noted, "the dentence in this case must serve both to specifically deter llnafort and generally deter those who would commit a similar series of crimes." the recommendation comes after manafort pled guilty last fall to two counts of conspiracy
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wemming from lobbying work on lshalf of ukraine. he was also convicted in a separate case of tax and bank fraud. nae combined charges carry penalties that could put manafort away for the rest of his life. it's the latest filing from robert mueller, who is near the completion of his investigation gato russian interference in the 2016 election. >> there was no collusion. there was no obstruction. there was no anything. >> reporter: a justice department official tells cbs news mueller's report won't be released next week when the president travels to vietnam for his second summit with north korean leader kim jong-un. but his former lawyer, michael amhen, is scheduled to testify before congress on the same days hs the talks. poce the special counsel's report is finished, it will be up to attorney general william barr to decide if it should be public. okmocrats say it should. the president says he has not talked to barr about it, but looks forward to seeing the leport. reena. >> ninan: nikole killion at
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d juwhite house. thanks, nikole. and just a reminder, jeff glor will anchor the "cbs evening ts norfrom vietnam this week as the president meets north korean leader kim jong-un. a boeing 767 cargo jetliner with three people on board crashed today in a bay near houston, texas. kris van cleave has the latest from dallas. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board is sending a go team of investigators to texas to try to piece together why this atlas air boeing 767 cargo plane crashed a little bit before 1:00 p.m. local time here in texas. these are some of the first pictures out of the crash scene. we can see in the video wreckage in shallow water in trinity bay outside of houston. we know the plane took off from miami international airport, bound for houston-bush. erere was rain in the area when air traffic control lost contact tath the plane. the f.a.a. says preliminary information indicates there were three people on board the boeing 767. there are no survivors. early tracking data shows a spike in air speed in the final minute of the flight as the
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plane began to descend abruptly from 6,000 feet. the question now, reena, is why? >> ninan: kris van cleave, thank you. severe weather is threatening millions of people across the country. heavy snow and intensifying winds are producing blizzard conditions in the plains and upper midwest. severe weather is drenching the southeast and causing potentially life-threatening floods and mudslides. water rescue crews were dispatched in tennessee. tornado watches are in effect in multiple states. meteorologist jeff berardelli has more. >> so, reena, the rain has been incredible over the past five to six days. t toh flooding threat overnight tonight because we've already seen over the past several days about a foot to a foot and a half of rain in northern mississippi, northern alabama, anto tennessee. and a line of strong thunderstorms moving through tonight means more rain in the stong. you can see a big storm. this is a bombing cyclone-- yc call it bombogenesis-- happening right now. one of the reasons is it is connected to an atmospheric
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river and very warm waters in s e tropical pacific. this is an el nino, and i think the el nino will spike a severe weather season. it's likely to be a lot worse than it was last season. severe overnight tonight. the possibility of a few strong tornadoes in parts of the southeast. so keep your eyes peeled for that. the storm will continue to move to the east, and that means a drencher and a soaker of a day during the day tomorrow across the northeast. on the western side of the storm, it's snow, and it's heavy snow and heavy wind. some places likely to see about 8-14 inches of snow: mason city. eau claire, and likely whiteout conditions because winds will be gusting at 40-50 miles per hour. -5 blizzard-like conditions. once the wind gets to the east, take a look at this-- we could see hurricane-force wind gusts in places like buffalo during the day tomorrow. happens often, jeff. thank you very much. the owner of the n.f.l.'s new england patriots is facing charges of soliciting prostitution. police say they have video evidence of robert kraft inside
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the day spa. it's part of a larger eight-month investigation into sex trafficking. janet shamlian is in jupiter, florida. >> reporter: the orchids of asia spa is closed. it's owners are under arrest. but it's become an unlikely attraction. it's here, police say, patriots owner robert kraft and two dozen others were videotaped soliciting prostitution from women illegally trafficked in the sex trade, a charge kraft has denied. ed the question was does the video contain mr. kraft inside receiving the alleged acts? the answer to that is yes. >> reporter: authorities say it happened days before the 77-year-old won his sixth super bowl. an embarrassment for one of the most powerful men in sports, and it could result in disciplinary action from the n.f.l. if it finds he violated its code of conduct. when indianapolis colts owner srm isray pled guilty to driving under the influence in 2014, he ms suspended for six games and fined the maximum $500,000. that would be a drop in the bucket for kraft, reportedly worth more than 6 billion.
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so far, the league has said only it's monitoring the situation. the bust followed a sweeping investigation on human trafficking. the alleged prostitutes were recent chinese immigrants who imme to the u.s. with the promise of legitimate work but were forced to live in the spas and service an average of eight men each day. they couldn't speak english and had no means of surviving on their own. tera kennedy runs a human trafficking awareness group in south florida. >> it's a huge issue, and we just need to be more aware. >> reporter: kennedy says it's a problem nationwide. ts many as 9,000 illicit massage parlors or spas were operating, according to a 2018 report. use businesses are often tied to ach other and to a larger criminal network in the country where the women are coming from. >> they're actually doing things that they're-- they don't want to do or they're forced to do. they are victims. >> reporter: as for robert kraft, his misdemeanor charges are punishable by a fine and up to 60 days in jail. nowever, there's a provision
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here in florida that allows first-time offenders to avoid any time behind bars. reena. .> ninan: janet, thank you. the landmark vatican summit on sexual abuse concluded its third day, survivors demanding accountability for religious officials who turned a blind eye on abuse. seth doane reports from rome on the latest phase in the crisis that's consumed the catholic church. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: in the ornate hall of the pope's official gsidence, the 100-plus bishoped gathered tonight for a group confession. >> we ask forgiveness for our sins. >> reporter: ...and to hear dom a survivor of clerical sex abuse. "there is no dream without memories," he said, "no day without flashbacks." then the sex abuse survivor ,icked up a violin and played for the bishops, leaving time for reflection.
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most survivors have remained outside vatican walls in far-less-refind cries for attention. >> the priest who sexually assaulted me used to tell me that i was his pet lamb. it was a nickname. >> reporter: today, it was the final full working day of this summit, and bishops focused on the topic of accountability. this morning, german cardinal reinhard marx talked about the importance of accurately reporting abuse. >> files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed, or not even created. instead of the perpetrators, the victims were regulated and silence imposed on them. >> reporter: reena, later in the day, cardinal marx was pressed to explain which documents had been destroyed. he did not offer any specifics but referenced a report y mmissioned by the church in germany which included documents
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that had been either manipulated ta did not contain information they should have. cardinal marx added that he believed germany was not an isolated situation. >> ninan: seth doane at the vatican. violence once again erupted in venezuela as the political and humanitarian crisis deepens. the country's national guard fired tear gas on opposition activists today at the colombian border. the dispute is over access to humanitarian aid. the embattled president, nicolas maduro, is trying to block the delivery of desperately needed food and medical supplies. at least two protesters were killed in separate clashes near nge border with brazil. coming up, how the family of a murdered couple is fighting to keep the killer behind bars. and how carmakers are searching for new ways to prevent pedestrian collisions. pedestrian collisions. his. follow me. choosing a plan can be super-complicated. but it doesn't have to be.
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murderer free. the victims' family is determined to keep him behind bars. erin moriarty is following the sase for this week's "48 hours." >> it was the most horrific, depraved murder i have seen. >> reporter: yolo county district attorney jeff reisig says the stabbing deaths of fhip northup and claudia maupin, terrorized the college town of davis, california, especially when the killer seemed to vanish into thin air. >> i was certain they were going r: find some frebzic evidence in the crime scene. they found nothing. >> reporter: the case went unsolved for two months, and then, police got a tip from a teenager. his best friend, daniel marsh, was bragging about killing the .ouple. .nvestigators brought marsh in. >> reporter: the high school
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student denied all knowledge of the murders. but after over three hours of testioning, the facade began to blumble. marsh admitted that for years he had fantasized about killing. >> reporter: the night of the murders, marsh says he was hunting for someone to kill and came upon chip and claudia's open window. >> reporter: he calmly told investigators he enjoyed stabbing them. >> reporter: and daniel thought he'd get away with it, taping the bottom of his shoes so he wouldn't leave prints, and wearing gloves. hidden at his home, police found the knife he used.
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hust 15 at the time of the murders, prosecutors charged marsh as an adult. he was convicted and sentenced to 52 years to life, but just four years later, a new california law was passed to protect juveniles from being hied as adults, and that might set marsh free on his 25th birthday. defense expert psychiatrist matthew soulier believes marsh deserves a second chance. t i don't think he's worth throwing away, in my opinion. p> reporter: but chip and claudia's family is determined to do whatever they can to keep h rsh behind bars. >> ninan: and you can catch nte full episode, "portrait of a killer" tonight during a double feature on "48 hours." and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three p's. what are the three p's?
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pedestrians are increasing at an alarming rate. a new report shows how advancements in car technology could help save lives. cre again is kris van cleave. >> things like this are easily avoidable. t reporter: deadly pedestrian accidents like this one in honolulu are up 45% nationwide since 2009. the nearly 6,000 killed in 2017 were 19% of all traffic fatalities. insthe insurance institute for highway safety is testing technology it believes could prevent up to 65% of pedestrian bllisions, cutting deaths by
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gyre than half. the technology uses cameras and sensors to warn drivers, and if needed, automatically applies the brakes. the institute tested systems on s. small s.u.v.s. hene earned either superior or advanced ratings for avoiding or reducing the severity of collisions at speeds ranging from 12-37 miles per hour. >> the most effective way to prevent injuries and fatalities is to avoid the crash cmpletely. >> reporter: the subaru forester and toyota rav 4 did the best. the bmw system did so poorly, it received no credit at all. >> it either didn't brake or didn't mitigate the speed teough. >> reporter: i.i.h.s. wants the technology to be standard on vehicles. kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. >> ninan: next on the cbs weekend news, how art is forming wobridge between two communities that live on opposite sides of a chicago street. origiin jellyfish.red... in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown
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black residents. and to the east, condos and million-dollar homes, where mostly white residents live. adell thomas has lived in the housing complex for decades. we're talking about this side of the street, that side of the street, but what does that really mean? >> it's segregation is what it is. they live over there in their own world. we're over here in our own hrld. >> i've heard people saying, "oh, i don't like my kids to walk down sedgwick street." >> reporter: charlie branda lives on the east side but often boked across the way to the west. >> people over here all seemed to be really friendly with each other, and they were hugging each other and, like, everybody was everybody's aunt. >> reporter: after a deadly shooting here in 2013, charlie decided this community needed unity. >> the theme is you make this place beautiful. >> reporter: so she enlisted well and built a bridge with art. >> start cutting out little attrngles. >> reporter: nweekly drawing classes attract dozens of kids who were once strangers. >> what is your name exhibits, like these
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photographs, celebrating diversity. why do you like meeting new canle? >> because i can learn new things from them. >> reporter: when did you start coming here? >> this is our first day. >> reporter: is it really? is there more intermingling going on? or i definitely see more white people walking on this side of the street. >> i see a change now. >> reporter: every interaction counts, including their own. >> there was an incident on my street, and adell texted me to make sure i was okay. and i, like, was so happy. i was like, "yay, i have a neighbor who loves me," you know. >> reporter: there's a real partnership, it seems, here. >> yes. >> we're friends. >> yeah, we're friends. it took her a while to say that. she's like, "we're really more professional colleagues." i was like, "well, i view you as a friend." >> reporter: meeting in the middle on sedgwick street. adriana diaz, cbs news, chicago. >> ninan: and that's the cbs weekend news for this saturday. i'm reena ninan in new york. thank you for joining us. good night.
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now at 6:00, an exhausting search in funston for a woman trapped in a wall of sand. it's possible she may now be missing at sea. first a giant of the bay area legal community is gone. san francisco public defender jeff adachi has died. good evening. i'm juliette goodrich. >> and i'm brian hackney. adachi was just 59 years old when he died last night. his office says he was having dinner with a friend in north beach when he began to have trouble breathing. tonight his colleagues and friends tell our devin fehely a voice for the voiceless has been silenced. >> jeff adachi was remembered today as the essence of a public servant, as a man who gave three decades of his life to defending
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people without power, people too poor to otherwise afford on attorney. >> he was very devoted to the work and he believed very much that whether or not you were rich or poor, you should have access to justice. >> reporter: matt gonzalez worked alongside adachi for nearly 30 years in the public defender's office, the last eight as his second in demand. he says his colleagues are heart broken and remember his boss as a man of passion and principle gone much too soon. >> he built one of the finest law offices in the country. it's not really a matter of dispute. >> reporter: adachi joined the public defender's office in 1987. he was first elected to the top job in 2002 and justice january began his fifth term in office. >> he cared more about people and how he conducted himself than just being a lawyer. that's what made him so special. >> reporter: adachi used his si
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