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guatemala, el salvador and honduras, blaming them for not doing enough to stop the flow of migrants, a move critics say could only make the problem worse. but it's the president's threat of shutting down the board they're has other here is concerned. we went to an industrial park in santa teresa, new mexico to see businesses that rely on cross-border trade. >> it would cause financial hardship, and you would put a lot of people out of work. and that's americans, not mexicans. >> reporter: jerry pacheco, the president of the border industrial organization says the impacts will have effect. you hear that there is a threat to shut down the border, and you think what? >> it would be devastating, and not just here. the supply chains all the way back to the midwest, our auto industry, our ag industry would be affected immediately.
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>> reporter: a border shutdown could threaten the more than $611 billion in yearly crossborder trade and impact around five million jobs, according to the u.s. chamber of commerce. and thousands of people cross this bridge every day in either direction to go to work or school. tonight the associated press is reporting the white house is considering appointing a point person to oversee all immigration policy, a so-called immigration czar. jeff? >> manny, thank you very much. two women who accused virginia's lieutenant governor justin fairfax of sexual assaults are calling for a public hearing tonight. vanessa tyson and meredith watson gave their first television interviews to gayle king of "cbs this morning." chip reid has that and fairfax's response. >> what do you want to happen to justin fairfax? >> i'd want him to resign. >> reporter: college professor vanessa tyson says she met justin fairfax at the democratic
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convention in boston in 2004 when he was a law student. she says he asked her to accompany him to his hotel room. >> oh, he just needed to pick up some paperwork is what he said. >> and then what happened? >> he kisses me. >> and you're okay with the kissing? >> yeah, i'm okay with the kissing. >> reporter: but suddenly she says he became violent, forcing her to perform oral sex. >> he is using his hand on the back of my neck, and, you know, i couldn't say anything because i'm choking and gagging. >> reporter: tyson says she went public in february, only after a racist photo was found on the year book page of virginia governor ralph northam. she feared if northam resigned, fairfax would automatically become voter. >> the voters of virginia have the right to know. >> reporter: tyson is demanding a public hearing, and so is meredith watson, who claims fairfax raped her 19 years ago when they were students at duke university. >> had i had the strength or the courage to say something in 2 0
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2000, maybe it never would have happened to her. >> reporter: fairfax has vehemently denied both accusers' allegations, and has called for a law enforcement investigation, but watson fears that would allow the issue to be swept under the rug. >> you have someone in a position of leadership who has the ability to affect legislation on how these issues will be handled, and he himself is a predator. >> reporter: in a statement, lieutenant governor fairfax responded, "i feel so strongly regarding my innocence that i submitted myself to polygraph tests for each of the accusations against me. i passed those tests. i did not assault either of my accusers. there is no word yet whether the virginia legislature will hold a public hearing. jeff? >> chip reid, thank you very much. coming up next, a groundbreaking medical treatment that can turn a patient's blood
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there's a breakthrough cancer treatment making news tonight. it can turn your own blood cells into biological weapons that kill cancer cells. here is dr. jon lapook. >> reporter: in 2016, test grade students sally naser learned she had a cancerous growth on both her lungs. >> it was so big, and it was in a critical spot, pushing up against some of my critical organs. >> reporter: she had first been diagnosed with a tumor, a type of bone cancer called sarcoma age 10. this was her third relapse. camille naser is her mother. >> one of the doctor's advice was i think now is a good time
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to take a family vacation. and we said and sally said we weren't quite ready to give up yet. >> reporter: one last option. sally joined a trial at baylor college of medicine using a therapy called car-t. first doctors removed some of sally's t-cell, infection fightsing white blood cells and genetically modified them to recognize her cancer as being enemy cells that should be destroyed. millions of those new cells were then put back into sally's body, ready to search out and destroy the cancer. >> it just took 20 minutes and they were all right, that's it. >> reporter: of ten patient, three have stable disease and two, including naser, have no evidence of cancer. two car-t therapies are already fda approved for forms of luke kemah and lymphoma. the next hurdle is proving it
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works on solid tumors like lung, colon and sarcoma. dr. louis weiner is with the american association for cancer research. >> solid tumors are very, very difficult to treat, represent a huge burden of cancer morbidity and mortality. >> reporter: nasser now a freshman at university amherst. >> this is the longest that it's hasn't recurred. it gives me hope the treatment actually worked. >> reporter: dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. coming up here, some reports about mick jagger's health. choosing my car insurance was the easiest decision ever.
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ky natural feeling the lubrication you want nothing you don't get what you want police in georgia are looking for a driver who ran down a 9-year-old girl in her front yard. it was captured on security camera. the caree off ad fridayevan hit. the girl landed in intensive care with multiple fractures. police in los angeles are
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searching for the person who killed a rising rap star. nipsey hussle was near a clothing store he owned when he was gunned down. the grammy nominee had a reputation for helping improve his neighborhood. he was 33 years old. the rolling stones have announced their north american concert tour son hold, and we're getting details about mick jagger's medical issues. he will reportedly have heart surgery in new york this week. jagger is 75 and is expected to make a full recovery. billboard reports the stones will be playing again by july. up next here, a medical marvel, and one of the sweetest kids you will ever meet. portion is sponsored by astrazeneca. visit us at astrazeneca-us.com.
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when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you.
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we end here tonight with some wonderful news about a little girl we first met last year. she is alive and home, thanks to a first of its kind surgery and a remarkable recovery. >> hi, baby! >> reporter: i'vy finn spent th first six months of her life inside a hospital, after being the first to undergo an experimental surgery while she was still in the womb.
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it was her only chance of survival after an ultrasound revealed ivy had hypoplastic heart syndrome. she also had intact atrial septum where blood backs up and damages the lungs, worsening her case. when we first met her parents, rachel and jeff they were overjoyed ivy could even be delivered. >> really, she has exceeded expectations in every way. >> reporter: now she is going home. >> bye, thank you so much! thank you. >> reporter: the family marked a milestone in houston, where texas children's hospital agreed to take ivy's case after the finns were turned away by other hospitals because of the severity of her condition. >> going home, ivy. >> she has one more surgery, probably right around the 2 to 4-year range, and then after that it's really how long is her heart going to be able to kind of keep up. >> reporter: ivy will likely need a heart transplant down the road. until then, the finns are trying
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to raise awareness about hypoplastic left heart syndrome, since surgeries remain experimental. >> are you enjoying your walk, ivy? >> reporter: and they're soak up every second they can with a baby who beat the odds. >> she has literally not taken her eyes off mom for the past five minutes. look at this. >> she is locked in. >> rachel, what do you think about when you look at her? >> i mean, there really aren't any words to describe it how thankful we are that we have her. because we really didn't think we would. and she's -- she's amazing. >> that is the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for over, check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm tanya rivero. house democrats are demanding answers from the white house over allegations that security clearances were handed out to people who didn't deserve them. a security official told congress more than two dozen administration officials were disqualified for a variety of reasons from foreign influence to drug use to criminal conduct, and they all got their security clearances anyway. major garrett has the story. >> reporter: the memo from house yoyfr sight committee elijah cummings said a whistle-blower named tricia newbold claimed that 25 officials were granted security clearances despite disqualifying
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issues raised by herself and other career officials. in an interview with committee staff nine days ago, newbold said she came forward because she could not sit back knowing that the issues that we have could impact national security. newbold said three unnamed senior white house officials, two of whom still work there, drew objections due to concerns about potential foreign influence, conflict of interest business entanglements. the house oversight committee has asked the white house for security-related clearance documents for ivanka trump, son-in-law and white house adviser jared kushner, and national security adviser john bolton. newbold lives near baltimore and did not respond to our request for comment. >> i am convinced that she simply wants government to run the way government is supposed to run. >> reporter: president trump does have the authority to grant security clearances regardless of staff objections or warnings. kushner faced delays in his security clearance approval before the president pushed it
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through, according to "the new york times." but the president denied involvement. >> i was never involved with the security. back ath aboutecurity for numerous people, actually. but i don't want to get involved in that stuff. >> reporter: jim jordan, the ranking republican on the house oversight committee accused the chairman, chairman cummings, of, quote, cherry picking newbold's testimony. about all this the white house had no comment. president trump is threatening to close the border with mexico. more customs and border patrol agents are being sent to the border and more migrants are being shipped back to mexico. manuel bojorquez reports. >> reporter: the border patrol says it is likely to have surpassed 100,000 apprehensions of migrants on the southern border last month, including here along the sprawling el paso sector.
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that would be the highest one-month total in more than a decade. u.s. immigration officials say they have reached a breaking point trying to handle the influx of people seeking asylum. >> the challenge that this demographic presents for us, what makes it so unique is the fact that nearly 70% of them are all family units and unaccompanied children. >> reporter: last week some migrants were housed in a caged section below a bridge in el paso. officials said the detention centers were beyond capacity. dhs has been forced to release thousands of asylum seekers into the u.s., while others have been sent to mexico to await their asylum hearing. president trump slashed the $700 million in u.s. aid to guatemala, el salvador and honduras, blaming them for not doing enough to stop the flow of migrants, a move critics say of shutting down the board border that has others here concerned.
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we went to an industrial park in santa teresa, new mexico to see businesses that rely on cross-border trade. >> it would cause financial hardship, and you would put a lot of people out of work. and that's americans, not mexicans. >> reporter: jerry pacheco, the president of the border industrial association says the impacts will have a ripple effect. you hear that there is a threat to shut down the border, and you think what? >> it would be devastating, and not just here. the supply chains all the way back to the midwest, our auto industry, our ag industry would be affected immediately. >> reporter: a border shutdown could threaten the more than $611 billion in yearly crossborder trade and impact around five million jobs, according to the u.s. chamber of commerce. and thousands of people cross this bridge every day in either direction to go to work or school. tonight the associated press is reporting the white house is considering appointing a point person to oversee all immigration policy, a so-called immigration czar.
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former vice president joe biden hasn't officially declared he's running for president, but he's already defending himself against accusations he acted inappropriately with a female candidate. ed o'keefe reports. >> reporter: former congressional aide amy lappos told the "hartford courant" today that biden reached for her face and rubbed noses with her in 2009. biden should not run for president and objectifying women is not okay. and that referring to this type of behavior as simply affection or grandpa-like or friendly is ridiculously dismissive and part of the problem. on friday, former nevada assemblywoman lucy flores recalled a 2014 event where biden approached her from behind, smelled her hair and kissed her head. >> this isn't new. i'm not bringing up something that people have not been aware of. >> reporter: biden has a tendency to be affectionate with
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women while on the campaign trail. flores says biden's behavior wasn't sexual, but should be a factor in the democratic primary. and yet, where he to win the nomination and square off against president trump -- >> that's not even a question. of course i would support biden. >> reporter: in a statement, biden said over the years i have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort, and not once, never, did i believe i acted inappropriately. we have arrived at an important time when women feel they can and should relate their experiences and men should pay attention, and i will. several women defended biden today, including stephanie carter, seen here at the swearing in of her husband, secretary of defense ash carter. she says that moment has been misinterpreted, that he was helping someone get through a big day, for which i will always be grateful. at a forum for already announced candidates today in washington, some of them said it will be up to biden whether to run and for voters to judge his behavior. >> i'm going to focus that on my campaign and leave that in the
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hands of him and the candidates and the american people. >> reporter: people in the crowd at that presidential forum today were split on the accusations against biden. some saying it wasn't a factor. some saying it should be. one guy told me he hadn't heard anything about it. if he runs, biden is expected to join the presidential ration later this month, at the latest. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome back. it was a weekend of upsets in the ncaa basketball tournament. underdogs came out on top and advance to the final four. those games take place this saturday in minneapolis, and you can watch them right here on cbs. dana jacobsen is working the tournament and brings us up to speed. >> open look, going in! >> reporter: with that three-point bucket, michigan state broke hearts in north carolina and busted brackets across the country. >> and michigan state is headed to minneapolis! >> reporter: edging out top seeded duke in a thrilling finish. after the game, long-time head coach tom izzo was in tears. >> it's a dream come true, you know.
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to be the best, you got to beat the best. >> the drive, harper. rep anun its ti tetirs' first ever final four. >> and it's over! >> reporter: with an upset win over kentucky in overtime. students and fans filled the streets in auburn's corner, a tiger tradition following a big win. and virginia is headed to its first final four in 35 years after an overtime win against purdue. the cavaliers redeemed themselves after an historic exit in the first round last year when they became the first ever one seeds to lose to a 16 seed. >> picks it up, back in. there is a new member of the final four club. >> reporter: texas tech's top-rated defense slugged it out with gonzaga's top-rated offense. >> he's got four blocks! >> reporter: big-time blocks led texas tech to their stunning victory. coach, congratulations. a trip to the time four for the
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first time ever for texas tech. >> well, i go to the final four every year. this is the first time i get to coach a team that i love in the final four. another big event this weekend, the academy of country music awards. you can catch it right here on cbs sunday starting at 8:00 eastern. one award has already been announced. ashley mcbride has won new female artist of the year. mcbride sat down with jan crawford to discuss her life and music. ♪ it ain't something, i want to spend a lot of time in ♪ >> reporter: long before the accolades started rolling in for ashley mcbride, there were countless days and nights writing music with friends, making the truth rhyme, and hoping it would connect. >> that's kind of our rule. don't write anything down until somebody cries. we like to dive deep. ♪ missing someone all the while running ♪
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>> reporter: it was that that took her from smalltown arkansas all the way to nashville. the sound and look so different, the industry first tried to turn her into someone else. >> it start wad photo shoot. this person looks at me and says i need you to start running twice a day. >> running? >> i wouldn't run if a bear chased me. it's i need you to lose 10, 20, 30 if you can. and i still try to lose 10, 20, 30, every day of my life like every other woman. >> reporter: she took the criticism and turned it into a country music hit. ♪ and they said i'd never see exactly where i am, and i hear the crowd ♪ >> reporter: "girl going nowhere" earned a grammy nomination. >> i don't know that i've written more important than "girl going nowhere" yet. ♪ >> reporter: mcbride's favorite song, about an honest man who always carried his bible and his
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pistol may also be her most personal. >> and when people get upset when we do bible and a 4 and they cry. i say two things, number one, i'm so sorry. and number two, i am so happy you have somebody to feel like that about. >> reporter: and who is that person for you? >> my dad. ♪ see through the lights like an old screen door ♪ >> reporter: for every no mcbride heard from critics in nashville, she's heard them all life from her dad, who thought the music industry was no place for his daughter. >> just a few years ago right when he was first getting sick we took a trip together. and he said just tell me something. promise me when you've made your money and had your fill of all this music stuff, you'll go to medical school. you can say anything you want about me and about us and the music we make, but my daddy doesn't approve of it. so how bad is it going to hurt me if you say that? >> reporter: a physician and farmer, william mcbride is now
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fighting a degenerative disease. >> i'm careful the things i share with him because it's important to me, and it's not always important to him. >> reporter: the awards and the success? >> any of it, yeah. i said, you know, daddy, i'm not just -- i'm not just playing bars anymore. i'm playing arenas. we're traveling the world. and he said i'm proud for you. didn't say of you. everybody wants their father to be proud of them. everybody does. >> reporter: but you're not sure? >> no, i'm not. >> reporter: and how do you work through that? >> i write some songs about it. >> reporter: mcbride found the encouragement to keep going from her mother. >> i could have said i wanted to be a one-legged purple gorilla, and she would have said okay, honey. >> reporter: but she thought you could be the best one-legged purple gorilla that ever was. >>. she believed in you. >> always. >> reporter: and put her faith in a band that's gone from riding in vans to tour buses and
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airplanes. >> this is the only thing i know how to do. and i'm going to do it to the best of my ability. >> reporter: now that they found a bigger stage, mcbride's also found a bigger purpose. >> you got to encourage. >> reporter: why do you feel strongly about that? >> i can't do this again. hang on. i might do it again. it's important to encourage. because not everybody gets it. somebody doesn't think they can go to college, somebody doesn't think they can spell good, you know. somebody's not getting yes. >> reporter: how many times did you not get yes? >> more times than i got yes i got no. not everybody has my mom in their lives. >> reporter: and what's your message to them? >> if anybody has told you not to passionately pursue what sets your soul on fire, they are wrong. don't you dare give up. and if you do, you better not let me find out about it. ♪
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anthony mason got a sneak peek. >> reporter: new york's metropolitan museum of art is filled with masterpieces by giants like picasso and rembrandt. ♪ next week, don felder's gibson double-necked guitar will join them. ♪ it's the instrument felder has used for 40 years to play "hotel california," the masterpiece he cowrote for the eagles. it will be shown along with keith moon's custom drum set, jerry lee lewis' baby grand piano, and john lennon's 12-spring rickenbacker. at the met's exhibition "play it loud." it's the first time an art museum has honored the instruments of rock 'n roll. >> this is chuck berry's guitar that he used to record john my b
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good, the first great rock an then about a guitar player. ♪ >> it's still got the traveling tags on the case. >> yeah, chuck berry on the case. it's as pure as you can get. >> reporter: jason dubney is curator of the met's musical instrument department. >> i think we're celebrating these amazing artists. >> reporter: he spent five years organizing the exhibition with the rock & roll hall of fame. these are ringo's drums? >> this is his first lovely drum set. he bought this in 1963. >> reporter: featuring the same drum head used on the beatles' ed sullivan show appearance in 1964. >> he really wanted the drums to say ludwig, so everybody knew he was playing american drums. >> reporter: this looks almost like a time machine. >> in a way, it almost is. >> reporter: it's the towering rigged up on top of a hammond
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organ in 1967 for emerson, lake and palmer. ♪ be careful as you pass, move along, move along ♪ >> reporter: steve miller's much smaller synthesizer is here too. >> all the synth parts on "fly like an eagle" were played on this. >> reporter: on this machine? >> on this and this. and here it is, 50 years later. >> reporter: in a museum. >> and look. doesn't it look great? it never looked that great in my studio. it's fantastic. >> reporter: for musicians like miller, the exhibit is full of inspiration. ♪ the telecaster of blues legend muddy waters is here. >> as muddy always said, you know, the blues had a baby and it's called rock 'n roll. there it is. this is the instrument. >> reporter: this is the father? >> this is the father right here. >> reporter: so is the g everly. >> i can hear the lick. ♪ little suzie
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♪ wake up, little suzie, wake up ♪ >> there it is. >> reporter: this is a thing of beauty, this is. how does it feel to see it in a case now? >> well, it feels really great. i was kind of hoping we could get it out of the case and i could play it for you. >> reporter: well, then he did. >> oh, man, i miss this guitar. this guitar is really good. ♪ >> reporter: miller's own les paul tv special is in the exhibit. he had it decorated by a hawaiian surfboard artist. ♪ of all the tools for making music, the guitar became central to rock's image. ♪ >> yeah! ♪ >> reporter: don 'star solo in the eagl"hotfornia" is o
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the greatest of all time. felder needed a double neck to perform all the guitar parts he'd recorded live. >> literally, it's two guitars in one kind of glued together. >> reporter: because that was your touring instrument for that song? >> that's the only way i could play it. ♪ >> reporter: the white stratocaster jimmy hendrix played at woodstock in 1969 is also iconic. felder was in the crowd that day. ♪ what was hendrix's set like? >> well, hendrix was in a whole another orbit of his own. >> reporter: the instruments of rock stars have become almost as celebrated as the musicians themselves. >> i guarantee you that all the players that had these instruments here, you can identify their style, their playing. you can hear the first couple of bars and go i know who that is.
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steve hartman made a trip back to washington state where an elementary school student gave the entire town a lesson in history and civic responsibility. >> reporter: what were you here for? >> soccer game. >> reporter: 11-year-old sarah heycocks was walking through this park when she came across something mysterious. it was like the beginning of a mystery, a stone with a plaque. >> this is what i first saw. >> reporter: it was clear lay tribute, but to who? >> 1930 to 1969. i was wow, that's a really short life. i just did the quick math in my head. he died at 39. >> reporter: did you wonder why? >> yeah. that's not typical. >> reporter: as we first reported last year, since there were no other markings and no one around to ask, sarah took it
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upon herself to learn all she could about the life and death of edwin pratt. she learned he was director of the seattle urban league, worked on school desegregation, and was the first black person to move into sarah's town. it was a bold and fatal decision. pratt was assassinated right there on the front porch. >> it was just the lack of recognition. he's got to have something more than just a plaque outside of a bathroom. >> reporter: about that same time, across the street from sarah's school, she noticed the district was putting up a new early learning center. she found out it didn't have a name yet. and her wheels started turning. sarah launched a petition drive and went all over town, explaining to anyone who would listen why that new building should be named after pratt. >> thank you for helping me honor edwin pratt. >> reporter: over time, she assembled quite a bandwagon. >> would all of those here tonight to support edwin pratt
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please raise your hands. >> reporter: at this point, the school board really had no choice but to vote on her recommendation. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> all opposed say nay. the vote is unanimous. the motion carries. [ cheering ] >> reporter: it has been nine months now since we first told the story, and today the edwin pratt early learning center is open for business. sarah recently took a tour with some pratt relatives who flew in to meet her and rediscover him. >> we as family have gotten to know more about my uncle than i think we ever would have had this not happened. and we can't ever thank you enough for that. >> reporter: because of sarah, there will never be another kid in shoreline who doesn't know the name edwin pratt. and some day, if she keeps this up, everyone will also know the name sarah haycocks. steve hartman, on the road in shoreline, washington. >> what an inspiring little
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girl. and that is the ♪ it is tuesday, april 2nd, 2019, this is the "cbs morning news." vigil violence. chaos erupts overnight at a memorial for rapper, nipsey hussle. this, as police identify the suspect in his murder. overru5ed concerns.wh s w stopping the influx of migrants. president trump renews the threat to shut down so
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