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steakhouse in 1985. cast lawn's death led to the rise of john gotti, running criminal interprizes ranging from gambling to money laundering to prostitution. after gotti went to prison, cali eventually took over the. >> now the traditional mob makes its money through drugs. that's where most of the money is now. >> reporter: jeff, among other leads police are pursuing is whether or not this was the work of an organized crime gang or a faction inside the gambino family, including john gotti's brother gene who was just released six months ago after serving 29 years for dealing heroin. jeff? >> demarco, thank you. boeing said today it is becausing delivery of its 737 md
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after two deadly accidents in six months. attention now turns to the black boxes from sunday's crash in ethiopia. kris van cleave has the latest on this. >> reporter: with frustration over the pace of the investigation mounting, the voice and data recorders from ethiopians airlines flight 302 were finally delivered to french accident investigators in paris this afternoon. this is what the plane's flight data recorded looked like after the crash. work to access the black boxes starts tomorrow. >> -- taken three days? >> i would have hoped it would have happened a lot sooner. >> reporter: acting faa administrator daniel elwell grounded the max, citing new satellite data. that crashed in october. >> should this action have been taken in october or november of last year? >> if it was an unsafe ai certi. we're confident in the safety of
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the airplane, what we don't know if there is a linkage between those two accidents and now that we have the new evidence, we grounded the airplanes to find the linkage. >> those are hard thoughts to put together, the plane is safe but you can't fly it. >> i'm confident the 73 max will fly again but we have to determine if there is a link. >> reporter: who met with boeing in november. the pilots were frustrated boeing was not forthcoming about new systems on the max until after the lion air crash. >> the meeting was tense. the trust was broken. there was information that was withheld from our manual, for whatever reason, information regarding a system that was of critical importance to us. >> reporter: the possibility of a long grounding is now a billion-dollar dilemma for boeing and the airlines. president trump had a message for boeing. >> they have to figure it out fast. they know that. they're under great pressure. >> reporter: boeing is working on a software update for the 737 max. the faa says the planes will not
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fly until that's been installed and proven to fix the issues. jeff? >> okay. kris van cleave, thank you. tv network and two beauty product brands cut ties with actress lori loughlin and her daughter today. carter evans has more on the college admissions scandal that continues to unfold. >> why did you go to college? >> mostly my parents really wanted me to go. >> reporter: that's olivia jade, a prolific social media influencers with millions of followers who is quickly becoming the face of the college admission scandal. >> this is, like, my favorite product ever. >> reporter: her celebrity parents, former "full house" actress lori loughlin and designer mossimo giannulli allegedly bribed her way into usc. the school is not talking about her status, but some of the high-end brands she's paid to endorse are. today sephora and tresemme terminated her deals and the hallmark channel severed ties
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with her mother. the fallout continues across the country. reports that the high-power parents of isabel leaherniquez bribed her way in. six coaches from other schools swept up by the scandal have either lost their jobs or put on leave. then there are the lawsuits. at least two filed already, including a $500 billion suit from jennifer toy, who says her son joshua, w had a 4.2 grade point average, was rejected from some of the colleges where the cheating took place. >> i'm not quite sure there is going to be a legal solution to their anger and anxiety. >> reporter: but former college admissions officer believes the skabld could spur much-needed changes. >> i'm not beyond the idea of seeing the federal government create some sort of rules and regulations. >> reporter: ucla is one of the schools that's named in that $500 billion lawsuit, and now usc says students who have
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applied for next year who are implicated in all of this will be denied admission. jeff? >> wow. all right. carter evans, thank you. coming up next, jussie smollett returns to prime time tv and court.
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punched him in the face, doused him with a chemical and tied a noose around his neck. >> i see the attacker masked and he said, "this maga country [ bleep ]". >> reporter: a grand jury said those were lies and charged him with felonies for each falsehood he told the police. the panel concluded there was no reasonable ground for believing that such offenses had been committed. these two brothers say smollett actually paid them to stage the january 29th attack. smollett's defense says the indictment is redundant and vindictive. jussie smollett has already been written out of the final two episodes of the tv show "empire" this season, but while he won't be on set, he will b.ff? >> all right. dean reynolds, thank you very much. when we come back here tonight, the second time was a charm for a rocket crew.
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cyclone spun off several tornadoes as it moved through the nation's midsection. one tore through west paducah, kentucky. at least one person was hurt there. colorado dug out after high winds and heavy snows stranded dozens on interstates. the 25th on presidential succession and the 26th which set the national voting age at v8. title ix wanting kroings against women in college admissions and sports. his son evan served as indiana's governor and a senator as well. birch bayh was 91. up next here tonight, he didn't always have a home, now he has his choice of a future.
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we've seen how the college entrance process can produce so much wrong, so we end here tonight with a student is doing everything right. here is vladimir duthiers.
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>> reporter: high school student dylan just got life-changing news. after once living in a homeless shelter, he's been given the opportunity to live in a college dorm thanks to a generous donor inspired by his ambition. >> thank you, heavenly father, for everything you have givenbo receive. >> reporter: the 17-year-old's been accepted to 17 schools and he did it while facing overwhelming adversity. little brothers suffering from a serious heart condition and months without a home. >> it made me realize that i have to workha. >> reporter: his mother moved the family from trinidad to the u.s. when dylan was just 7 years old. he will be the first person in his family to go to college. >> what is that going to feel like for you? >> i don't know what heaven feels like, but i think it might be just that. >> reporter: as a single mom, she struggled to support three kids. after losing her job, they ended
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up in a shelter, but she persevered, eventually landing permanent supportive housing for her family. >> where do you think he gets that drive, that determination from? >> i don't want to toot my own horn but -- >> i was waiting for that. >> he got it from me. >> reporter: that drive has dylan already making plans for law school. >> i'm just thankful that this has happened to me. >> reporter: truth is dylan made it happen for himself. vladim vladimir dutyier, sbees news, jersey city. >> that is the overnight news for this friday. check back for cnew york city, i'm jeff glor.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm meg oliver. president trump tweeted veto after congress rejected his national emergency declaration to build a border wall. they claim by shuffling funds around the president would be stepping on the constitutional power of congress to control the nation's spending. trouble is opponents don't have the votes to override a presidential veto. nancy cordes has the details. >> for me, this is a constitutional question. >> reporter: utah's mitt romney was one of 12 senate republicans who broke with the president today. >> the joint resolution has passed. >> reporter: voting against his emergency declaration. >> this declaration is a % dangerous precedent.
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>> reporter: the president responded with one word, "veto.d of miles of up s >> repor the splnhe president's party has less tntt. by declaring a national emergency, mr. trump gave himself the power to redirect billions of dollars that congress had already authorized for other military construction projects, from hawaii to kuwait. >> we don't know which ones. >> reporter: senators tried to get details today from the acting defense secretary. >> do you have a list of those projects yet, mr. secretary? >> senator, i don't have a final list of those projects. >> well, obviously i think it would be important for all of us to understand which projects would be sacrificed, even in the short run. >> reporter: the house and senate may have voted against him, predent was still in high spirits today. he knows it would take 2/3 of congress to overturn his
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presidential veto. texas democrat joaquin castro. >> at this pointjority, s where do you go from here? bhaur your other options if you want to try to stop the president? >> well, the first thing is, you know, you're right, it's going to be very tough, but we're going to give it a shot. >> reporter: this fight is working its way through the courts as well. some republicans say that the law clearly gives the president the authority to declare a national emergency. while others argue that these votes in the house and senate will send a message to the courts that there was no emergency. the race for the democratic presidential nomination seems to get more crowded by the day. the latest entry is former texas congressman beto o'rourke. his first stop, where else? iowa. ed o'keefe has the story. >> reporter: like he did in texas, beto o'rourke kept a small footprint on his firstay on the presidential campaign trail, even driving his own car. >> why did you choose to start in this corner of the state? >> this is a very important part
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of america that isn't listened to often enough. >> reporter: it's his first ever trip to iowa. >> pronounce your first name. >> beto. >> reporter: along with his name, voters are still learning what the former three-term congressman from el paso stands for, including universal health care. "cbs this morning" co-host gayle king sat down with o'rourke for his first sit-down interview since announcing his candidacy. >> people said we had a candidate who didn't have vast political experience and maybe this time we need somebody in the white hoowknbeen around the few times, who has greater experience than yourself. >> right. >> and clearly you're not deterred by that. >> right. i guess it depends on what kind of experience you're looking for. i've got experience hiring people, creating jobs, developing the economy in the community of which i live, serving in local government, with amy, helping to raise a
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family and finding ways to work across the aisle to get legislation passed even when i'm in the minority party. >> reporter: a recent poll of iowa democrats put o'rourke in fifth place behind former vice president joe biden, who is expected to join the race next month, and three senators. that's a decent start for the 46-year-old who lost the senate race last year, but it's the fact that he lost by only three points in ruby red texas and how he did it that has won him fans nationwide and worries other democratic campaigns. he travelled with a small team, never hired consultants and raised a record $80 million. his popularity stems in part from his constant use of social media. even during a dental cleaning. >> and what is it about him that maybe piques your interest? >> he just looks very charismatic and seems like he could really make a change. >> reporter: president trump said he saw o'rourke today, too. >> i've never seen so much hand movement. i said, is he crazy or is that
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just the way he acts? >> one iowa man we so this coff showed up to see the congressman in part because he'd put up a good fight in that texas senate race, but he's just beginning to shop for a presidential candidate. so are most democrats. ed o'keefe, cbs news, burlington, iowa. >> was like a scene from "the godfather" playing out in real life in new york. a reputed mob boss was run down, shot and killed in his own driveway. demarco williams has the details. >> reporter: it happened just after 9:00 last night. there were a dozen shots in all. six of them striking reputed mafia boss frank cali in the chest. frank's wife and children were home at the time. >> confirmed male shot. >> he has a conversation with an individual in front of that residence and that individual at some point in time, it's only
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about a minute into it, pulls out a firearm and shots are fired. >> reporter: police say cali tried to crawl to safety under a car. they say surveillance video capturedhond the vehicle a pickup truck believed to be the getaway car. home to some of new york's most notorious mobsters and their families. >> it's deja vu all over again. >> reporter: david shapiro is a former special agent with the fbi. >> this was not a robbery. this was something to send a message and make sure that it was heard loud and clear. >> reporter: last night's shooting was reminiscent of the murder of another crime boss. gunned down outside a popular new york city steakhouse in 1985. castellano's death led to t rise of john dgotti. after gotti went to prison, cali eventually took over the
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organization. shapiro believes the killing shows the mob is alive and well. >> do we know how cali made his money? >> now the traditional mob makes its money through drugs. that's where most of the money is now. >> reporter: among other leads police are pursuing is whether or not this was the work of an organized crime gang or a faction inside the gambino family, including john gotti's brother gene who was just released six months ago after serving 29 years for dealing heroin. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." a deep sea expedition searching for u.s. naval ships lost in world war ii has struck pay dirt again. earlier this year, mark phillips was on board a research vessel when robot sub-marines discovered the wreckage of the aircraft carrier "uss hornet." the hornet wasn't the only ship to sink in that area and it wasn't the only one found during the expedition. mark phillips has an update from london. >> you know what they say about busses? you wait and then you wait for one, two come along at the same time. try that with aircraft carriers. >> you should be able to see the instruments here. >> reporter: we're 2 1/2 miles down, peering inside the cook pit of an avenger torpedo bomber
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from the sunken world war iiair" it's a clue. where it lies, can the "wasp" itself be far away? it had been part of the ferocious 1942 air and sea battle for the strategic south pacific island of gawdle canal. >> all of a sudden, we got hit with torpidees. >> reporter: jim forester, 98 years, 21 years old on the wasp that day. >> you imagine yourself lifted out of your chair and you had nothing to do with it. up you go. that's what happened. >> reporter: one of the torpedo. 6 of her crew weren ip. >> grabbed my nose and the family jewels and -- >>nd jumped into the pacific? >> yes.
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>> here we go. >> reporter: the "wasp" has been lost for almost 77 years, but the deep water research vessel has been combing the south pacific looking for long-lost war wrecks. we recently watched mission leader rob kraft and his crew find another carrier, the "uss hornet." >> this is hornet? >> this is hornet. >> i saw where they found the hornet. i said take a look over on the other side and you'll find the wasp. >> shall we? >> it's almost like the searchers were listening. >> all righty. three, two, one. splash. >> reporter: we can now report the crew have found the wasp on the other side of the canal, more or less j forester said 2i, so a mile less deep than "hornet," but the wasp was actually harder to find because
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the research on where she b goodbe lucky, bes in analyzing the data, coming up with the best possible sinking location for her and it turned out to be accurate. >> reporter: luck, skill or a little of each. we showed jim forester what they found. to him it was more than an old wreck. >> it was home to me. >> more than just a ship. this was home to you for 2 1/2 years or so, wasn't it? >> yeah. >> of course we're looking at more than just a wreck there, we're looking at a war grave as well. >> yeah, i lost real two good friends. they were ammunition ordinancemen and they were probably down in the magazines where the bombs were stored. >> reporter: where they didn't stand ahahe ultate sat get to se of it and, y or life.
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it starts as a technical exercise. >> yeah, absolutely. >> and it ends with the people. >> i was very fortunate. >> reporter: jim forester went on to a remarkable 30-year navy career, rising from enlisted man to navy commander. >> sounds to me like you've been a pretty lucky guy all your life, starting back that day on the "wasp." >> well, it was "wasp" that did it for me. >> now she's been found, the navy's latest memorial and war grave and a protected one. the exact location of these wrecks and kept secret by the navy and the people who find her just because they're trying to keep scavengers away. >> winning movie has inspired a woman from maryland to take a new tact to some the decades-old murder oft outside in 1996. now her sister hopes billboard ads will help find the killer. erroll barnett has the story.
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>> reporter: the easy road behind me is the point. you can see one of the three billboards she's put up all over town trying to gather people's attention. she admits she's lost time with her husband and children because she's been so consumed with her twin's case and she's willing to put up her inheritance to pay for a possible breakthrough. >> some of the pictures i can't even tell us apart. >> reporter: jenny says no one knew her twin sister jodi better than she did. racterher.ole night was v her boyfriend.a sarch in around 4:00 a.m., she gave someone a ride home, bought more alcohol and made phone calls from a store parking lot. >> she never would haveit in a parking lot. >> reporter: according to police, a witness at a gas station saw a man in a white bmw approach her car. the two spoke but as she began to drive away, the suspect shot
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her through her car's rear passenger window, severing her spine. she then somehow drove across the street. >> when she stopped, he drove up to her car and got out, and i think she had died at that point. the witnesses said he reached over her body, put her car in park and took something out of it. >> reporter: 23 years later with no leads, she is desperate for answers. >> at least i had a day of hope, that's more than i've had in awhile. >> reporter: inspired by the oscar winning film "three billboards outside ebbing, missouri." she's putting up a series of her own. >> i picked three different locations in the city. >> reporter: and offering $100,000 to anyone hler. >> right now we're comfortable in saying we don't have any leads. >> reporter: corporal sean kingston is with the baltimore county pe deptment. >> no fingerprints, no dna. >> i don't want to say what we have and what we don't have.
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>> the family is trying to put as much pressure on you to get a break. >> reporter: solving her twin's murder means finding peace. >> if there is someone out there who has some information, what would you say to them? >> oh, just, please come forward. this is just ripping me apart. >> reporter: she also tells us her family has sued to access the original autopsy and police report but they've been unable to view them. we also tried to access those documents, but err told by the state's attorneys office they cannot r
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for up to 10 hours of protection. it catches leaks, so you can catch zzzzs. because my morning starts before morning starts. always in our continuing series on motherhood, we'll take you this morning to beijing where child care is traditionally a family afair. in 3/4 of chinese families, it's the grandparents who care for children before they head off to school. as ben tracy reports, that sometimes means your in-laws will be moving in. >> reporter: so most americans would probably dread the idea of living in a small two-bedroom apartment with their in-laws, but here in china, it's not only common, it seems to be something that the parents and grandparents actually seem to enjoy. it will be a few years before colin can drive a real car and
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get around beijing on his own. so for now the 212-year-old has his parents and grandparents to steer him in the right direction. shortly after colin was born, they moved into their son and daughter-in-law's small two-bedroom apartment to help raise their new grandson. >> 90% of the families which i know have their parents inlaw together with them. >> reporter: abigail chang has long and unpredictable hours as an executive assistant at an automobile company. her husband is an engineer. so for most of the work week, the grandparents are in charge. and cooking all the meals. >> would you be able to have this kind of job if you didn't have this help from the grandparents? >> no way. yeah, i have to tell you, no way. i have to keep my job because i can only trust them. i can only trust my parents or
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my husband's parents. they are the only people in the whole wide world who can love my son so much. >> why were you willing to move in here and help so much. >> reporter: she says it's the chinese tradition. we are still quite healthy after retirement. being around the kid every day brings us joy. we have nothing to complain about. historically multiple generational living has been seen as the cultural ideal in china been with several generations living under one roof. today grandparents share almost half of child care duties with mothers of 2 and 3-year-olds. it's a big part of why china has one of the highest rates of women in the workforce in the world. >> it's not just about individual choices, but it's the well-being of the whole family. >> reporter: university of maryland sociology professor chen says that in china parents often leave their children behind with grandparents as they
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move from the countryside to the major cities in search of better-paying jobs. >> grandparents providing care for the grandchildren very much creates that opportunity for other members of the family, mostly the mother, to engage in other opportunities. >> reporter: chen was herself raised by grandparents in china and later in the united states benefitted from grandparents helping with her own kids. >> without a doubt, i would not have gotten tenure without the help from my parents and my parents-in-law. >> reporter: in america, only about 14% of grandparents provide significant care to grandkids, but chen says it is more common among certain communities. >> black grandmothers, hispanic grandparents, the asian american grandparents often times play a much more prominent role. >> reporter: chen says that even though many new parents in china expect grandparents to help out, she wanted to take a moment to
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make sure her mother-in-law knows how truly grateful. she is. >> what did you say to her and what did she say to you? >> i said to her that i appreciate they help a lot, and we always know that -- the chinese, we don't say it a lot. she said to me, yeah, i'm also a good daughter-in-law. >> you may be wondering if abigail's parents also help out with their son. well, they have their hands full. they're actually caring for their parents, which would bepa. this intergenerational support in china works both ways in families. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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student from around the world will could out of school today in a massive strike over climate change. the protests are planned in more than 130 u.s. cities and about 90 countries in every corner of the globe. tony dokoupil talked with some of the organizers about what they hope to accomplish. ♪ >> reporter: every friday, as most kids hurry off to school, alexandra villasenior heads to the united nations. >> climate change will be a global program. i decided this is the best place to strike. >> reporter: the seventh grader plays hooky in hopes to push adults into action against global warming. >> what did your mom say when you proposed the idea of not going to school on fridays? >> both of my parents were very supportive. they understand my point of view. >> no double-take at all? >> well, they did start one-gire tomorrow. >>eporter: villaseniorsco-fer o
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12-year-old haven coleman andis ra hirsi. the three young women were inspired a fourth. >> we're not doing anything to fight the climate crisis. >> reporter: gretta started her own fridays for the future strike last august outside the swedish parliament in stockholm. >> change is coming whether you like it or not. >> reporter: since then she's taken her message directly to the united nations climate change conference known as cop 24 is in you are not mature enough to tell it like it is. even that burden you leave to us children. >> i was amazed because she put the world leaders in their place. she really pointed out that they are acting like children. >> i'll link you into all the e-mails, okay? >> rep h organizing sco. thouf g hundreds. we're still influencing.
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we're still powerful because a voice is a voice, and every voice has power. >> reporter: a lesson you don't always learn in a book in a fight that certainly won't be over tomorrow. >> if you could teach everybody one thing abouthat you've learned about climate change, what would it be? >> that a lot of world leaders and politicians have to start making decisions based on facts. they need to start listening to scientists and they need to stop being bought off. >> and if they don't? >> if they don't then you can say good-bye to your life and your future. we will continue striking until the necessary actions are taken. weltoppg. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this friday. captioning funded by cbs
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it's friday, march 15th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." terror in new zealand. dozens killed in mass shootings at two mosques. multiple arrests made in what's being called orchestrated attacks. new reported details have been released on the final momentetopian >> clege scam aft. families caught up in an

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