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titanic. >> got it at five, we will see back at six for an hour of news. >> we will see you at 6 o'clock. captioning sponsored by cbs >> quijano: destructive and deadly. tornadoes tear through the south, killing several people as a massive storm system threatens billions from the gulf coast to new england. also tonight, immigration threats. the white house insists the trump administration is still considering whether to release detained migrants into so-called sanctuary cities. >> look, this is an option on the table. >> quijano: mayor pete buttigieg of south bend, indiana south bend, may be the hottest thing in democratic party politics. can it last? >> i am running for president of the united states. (cheering and applause). >> quijano: and... >> here it is. >> quijano: just like old times, tiger woods roars back to win his 15th championship
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and fifth masters in one of the greatest comebacks in sports. good evening. i'm elaine quijano. tiger woods has done it again. after all the personal problems, all the injuries, and all the doubts, woods returned the roars and magic to golf today by winning the masters. it was his fifth championship at augusta and the first since 2005. an he did it by putting on quite a show. mark strassmann is there. >> the return to glory. >> reporter: that winning putt and tiger woods' reaction to it was a tribute to tenacity. it's also one of the great individual comeback stories in sports history. 14 years after winning his last masters, woods, now 43, won his fifth, but the first his two young children have ever seen. >> to have my kids there, it's come full circle. you know, my dad was here in
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'97, and now i'm the dad with two kids here. >> reporter: at one point late in the final round, woods was if a five-way tie for the first. one by one, his competitors fell away, and the clear gallery favorite, golf's biggest draw even when he wasn't winning, finally won his 15th major golf championship by one stroke. >> we saw history today. >> reporter: because? >> because it's tiger woods. too much talent to not do it. >> reporter: over the last decade, woods has overcome physical injuries to his back and knee and self-inflicted tabloid headlines. in his improbable victory, the vegas odds were 14-1. there is also redemption. >> to play as well as i did and do all the little things well this week and to do itthis has o me and my family, this tournament. to have everyone here, it's something i'll never ever
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forget. >> reporter: all weekend a tiger on the prowl and in the hunt thrilled the galleries here. beyond the masters, elaine, his victory here sends a two-word message to the world of golf: i'm back. >> quijano: remarkable. mark strassmann, thank you. now to the weather, millions are atedonight as massive rummables into the east. it's already left a wide swath of destruction and death across the south. at least six people have been killed this weekend by violent storms, including more than a dozen suspected tornadoes. mireya villarreal is in at, you texas. >> reporter: parts of the town look like they were ripped apart by a giant blender. over the my right, this is where three houses used to sit, ripped apart in alto, texas, we the tornado that came through here. this car was thrown clear across an entire field. the strength and unpredictability of this one
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storm system can be measured in the destruction it left behind. dozens of homes in hamilton, mississippi, completely flattened, an yet this closet was spared with clothes still hanging inside. at least 11 tornadoes touched down in three different states. >> it happened so quick. i didn't have time to get scared until it was over. >> reporter: this woman was home in franklin, texas, with her four grandsons when one ripped through their small city. they survived by hiding in this hallway. >> my front porch, the awning out over the house is in my neighbor's yard. >> reporter: the worst of these storms hit louisiana, mississippi, and texas saturday. in angelina county, two children were killed when a tree hit their car. at the height of the storm, more than 100,000 people were without power. a tornado also touched down in alto, texas, population 1,200.
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cecil morgan has lived here most of his life. moore gone stayed home to ride out the storm, thinking they were just in for heavy rains and high winds. when you're huddled in this corner, what did you tell your grandchildren? >> we were just praying. we didn't tell them nothing. >> reporter: but daylight crews were on scene, cleaning up debris, assessing the damage and providing help to those in need. you lived here for 30 years. what are you going to do now? >> we have to start over. that's all i can do. do something. >> reporter: more than half of this town was affected by this tornado. now more than 200 have been displaced. volunteers and lawmaker tell me it was a miracle that everyone survived this storm system, including the morgan family. elaine. >> quijano: truly a miracle. mireya, thank you. white house officials today nded pde tmp'scontrorsial propod detained migrants to so-called sanctuary cities. those are often democratically controlled towns and cities that refuse to fully cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
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errol barnett is at the white house. >> if democrats would step up and help the president fix the law, this all could go away. >> reporter: press secretary sarah sanders today reinforced the administration's plan to send detained migrants to sanctuary cities, many of them run by democrats. >> they support open borders. they support sanctuary cities. so let's spread out some of that burden and put it in some of those other locations if that's what they want to see happen and are refusing to help fix the problem. >> whether it's catch and release or chain my immigration or any of them, the asylum laws are absolutely insane. >> reporter: on friday, the president once again vented from us administration about the nation's immigration and asylum laws while insisting saturday he has the absolute legal right to implement his transfer plan. opponents of the president's plan call it expensive, dehumanizing, and illegal. >> this is again his manufactured chaos. >> the president has no right to
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spend money appropriated by congress for other purposes. >> reporter: jerry nadler, who chairs the house judiciary committee, said today he is interested to hear more from the president's senior adviser, stephen miller. >> we heard several weeks ago from whistle blowers tha millup with this and privately steve miller, who seems to be the boss of everybody on immigration, ought to come before congress and explain some of these policies. >> reporter: the white house is also pushing back against reports president trump offered a pardon to his new acting secretary of the department of homeland security if he broke immigration laws. press secretary sarah sanders dismissing that notion today, saying president trump, in her words, is about restoring law and order. elaine? >> quijano: meanwhile, errol, congressional democrats are still waiting for the full 400-page mueller report. are they any closer to seeing it? >> yes, or at least a version of it. it has been three weeksow congreast week that theedti a at
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should expect eihe thed veron coming week. >> quijano: errol barnett, errol, thank you. mayor pete buttigieg of south bend, indiana south bend, today made it official. he's running for president. buttigieg kicked off his campaign in his hometown. he's the 18th democrat to join an already-crowded feel. for some he's already the party's new hope to win back the heartland. here's meg oliver. >> reporter: pete buttigieg is officially in the race for president. the democrat announced today in south bend, indiana, where he's known as mayor pete. >> i'm a proud son of south bend, indiana, and i am running for president of the united states. >> reporter: buttigieg is an afghanistan war veteran and harvard grad, but he says he's a less traditional candidate. pete buttigieg would be first openly gay president. the 37-year-old mayor has now found himself in a dust-up with
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vice president mike pence, who previously served as governor of indiana. buttigieg criticized pence friday for his opposition to gay marriage and guy rights, which pence claims is informed by his christian faith. >> i don't have a problem with religion. i'm religious, too. i have a problem with religion being used as a justification to harm people. >> reporter: in 2015, pence signed a law that critics say unfairly targeted lgbt people. it was eventually rolled back. >> i hope he'll offer more to the american people than attacks on my christian faith or attacks on the president as he seeks the highest office in the land. all of us in this country have the right to our religious beliefs. >> reporter: meanwhile, boot is focused and ready on his first day in the race. >> i recognize the audacity of doing this as a midwestern millennial mayor. we live in a moment that
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>> reporter: buttigieg told the crowd today that freedom, security, and democracy don't belong to one political party and that he's running to champion the causes of workers and families. before he declared, elaine, buttigieg is running third in the polls in iowa and new hampshire. >> quijano: meg oliver, thank you. american airlines said today its fleet of boeing 737 max jetliners will stay off its schedule into august. american says the decision will increase daily cancellations at the airline from what it was, about 90 flights a day to, 115. southwest airlines made a similar decision last week. all 737 max aircraft are grounded worldwide after two deadly crashes. boeing is racing to develop a software fix that would prevent the repeated triggering of a system that forcesne'sno dowwhtt filingim
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>> quijano: the next generation of cell phone technology known as 5g just got a big boost from the trump administration. on friday it announced a new plan to accelerate the rollout of the superfast network across the country. and as adriana diaz shows us, phone companies are racing to capitalize on the upgrade. so this is the 5g land? >> this is. >> reporter: motorola took us into a secure area to see the moto z-3 phone with an adapter that kicks it up to 5g speed. >> it will show 5g u.w.b. to show it's now regulated on the 5g network. >> reporter: doug michau says 5g can provide speeds ten times faster than current 4g l.t.e., allowing photos and videos to
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download? >> n just seconds. hi, doug. >> hey, adriana, how are you? >> reporter: and chris tal clear video calls. so i'll never have that awkward freeze where theture freezes and you don't know what face you're making when that happens? >> exactly. >> reporte releas 5g companies in the coming months. motorola teamed up with vitello to be first. right now it's only available in parts of chicago and minneapolis with plans to be in 30 cities by the end of the year. the signals carried on new smaller towers that can fit on a light pole. cnet tried it out. 5g worked in speed tests but dropped out when she downloaded an app or video. >> i knew it wouldn't be smooth sailing, because it never is when you have new technology. >> reporter: she says once the bugs work out, 5g will not just speed up our phones, but rittman open up new technologies. one company called third eye is developing mixed reality glasses that would let a doctor take and analyze a 3d scan or give mechanics an image of an engine.
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>> this is t very beginning. 5g will definitely get stronger. report 5g's ability to cut down on lag time will one day allow driverless cars to talk to each other. >> the goal is to get to less than ten million second, which is almost inanswer theious. so if you get that to a driverless car, it could be that much more accurate and more safe. >> reporter: 5g networks are currently being built. big cities will see it first, but it could take a while before the whole country is dialed in. adriana, cbs news, chicago. >> quijano: up next on the weekend news, why some taxpayers are finding costly surprises in their 2018 returns.
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>> quijano: tomorrow is tax day for most americans. returns must be postmarked or filed electronically before my night on monday. supporters of the new tax law said most americans would pay less this year, but nearly three out of four people in a cbs news poll say what they owe has gone up or is unchanged. only a quarter believe their taxes have declined. tony dokoupil visited a family that expected a refund, but instead is paying up. 6 we're getting to the point where, you know, i wasn't dreading doing my taxes anymore. >> reporter: jason and amber edwards were counting on loweren 2018. >> i was a bit optimistic. >> reporter: the college educators from rhode island had planned to put the extra money toward their newly adopted baby son. >> hi, buddy. report but when they filed their return, they got a surprise new york refund, and the i.r.s. said they owed thousands in additional taxes. >> it became a huge shock,
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because we had just starred to get all the necessities for a baby, and then to turn around and suddenly have to write a $3,000 check, you know, this was not the year for us to be doing that. >> they're a good example of reality. >> reporter: jeffrey levine is a certified public account ptd in new york. in 2017 we asked him to review the edwards' tax returns and project their tax bill under the new law. levine estimated a savings of about $650. the segment was so popular with g.o.p. lawmakers, even the president retweeted it. so what happened? >> they owe a lot more than they probably thought they would have given that increase in income, because they experienced withholding changes like most of the american public. >> reporter: tax withholding is the money your employer pulls automatically from your paycheck and sends to the i.r.s. under the new tax law, the withholding changed, giving people more must money in each
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paycheck but resulting in larger bills at the end of the year. >> c on,dy.>>orter: like wt to n this position where they thawing, you know, they were going to get money back, and, you know, their paychecks were a little bit more, but they also wind up owing, too, then why did we even do it. >> reporter: for people who got a surprise tax bill this year, levine says there is only one way to avoid it. >> you need to put more money in throughout the cheer, whether that's changing your withholdings to have more taken out of each paycheck or perhaps making estimated tax payments. that's up to you. it's pay me now or pay me later, but you're going to pay one way or another. >> reporter: tony dokoupil, cbs news, new york. >> quijano: still ahead, why are gas prices suddenly going up.
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>> quijano: americans are gearing up to hit the road this summer. triple-a says 40% of us are planning family vacation. one in three will go on a second trip if gas prices stay low, but a new surge in prices has some folks hitting the brakes. here's ileana diaz. >> right there. >> reporter: across california, drivers are feeling enal av gas the pump. in california, it is up 60 cents, forcing drivers the pay nearly $4 per gallon. >> the last couple weeks have really given a lot of drivers a
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sense of sticker shock. >> reporter: doug shupe with a.a.a. says rising prices are due to three factors, a midwest storm that cut off supply, a more expensive supper blend, and partial shutdowns of refineries. >> four of those refineries are located here in southern california. and that's why we have seen some double-digit increases at the pumps. >> reporter: causing some californians who normally rely on their cars to resort to other means of transportation. >> i'm not going too far. i'm going to go shopping. i'm going to go to a friend's house, but i'm going to ride my bike. >> reporter: a.a.a. says gas prices will remain high for next two to three weeks. drivers can start the see a slight drop in may, but prices will still be high for summer travel. elayne? >> quijano: ileana diaz, thank you. when we return, they live in a piece of history and get paid for it.
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>> quijano: have you ever considered leaving everything behind and going to live on a remote island away from it all? john blackstone met a lucky cup whole did just that. >> reporter: on san francisco bay an isolated island presented an unusual job opportunity. living and working in a victorian lighthouse. >> i'm telling you, i can't think of a country in the world we didn't get applications from. there were some i hadn't even heard of. >> reporter: tom was in charge of replacing&qg jay rogers. >> there is a huge desire the step back from the face of modern life. >> reporter: but the pace of life on the island isn't exactly laid back. it's actually a bed and breakfast inn. jillian and che do everything from running a boat to cooking and serving meals. >> this is where we spend most of our day is in the kitchen. >> reporter: but not bad looking out the window, a view of san francisco. >> absolutely. in fact, it's completely
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distracting sometimes. >> reporter: this lighthouse is now considered a treasure, but at one time the coast guard was ready to demolish it, until lighthouse lovers stepped in to save it. >> the guests can come up here whenever they want. all our proposals are here. >> reporter: the visitors this day are tyler waterson and tiffany vans. >> people ask, do you have a cook or maintenance person or anything? it's all us. >> reporter: you're going to be living in the 18 70s. >> which i'm okay. with. >> reporter: among their new duty, learning to get the old foghorn up and running. [horn sounds] as a noisy demonstration for overnight guests. when the sun sets, the little island becomes the guiding light it has been for 145 years. john blackstone, cbs news, east brother, island. >> rte >>ja ler on s ines.
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for all of us here at cbs news thank you for joining us and good night. >> live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix 5 news. >> and desk, and cabinets, anything that was locked. >> several san francisco churches targeted by thieves, all in a matter of days. and east bay congressmen and residential hopeful kicks off his campaign today right here at dublin high school. the excitement from the rally just ahead. it is swhere katie but here comes another one with more rain moving into the bay area we will have the wet weather forecast. kpix 5 news at 6:00 starts right now with a string of burglaries in san francisco's
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bayview district . >> kpix 5's john ramis reports five churches were broken into in just 11 days. >> the idea of the house being broken into wouldn't shock many people in the bay area but the reaction is different when it's a house of god. >> it seems like something you don't do. >> reporter: on wednesday, march 27, someone broke into st. john's missionary baptist church on third street in san francisco. the treasurer says the burglary is one used with the prybar. >> desk, cabinets, anything locked. we assume they were looking for cash. >> reporter: she says beside some ice cream taken from the kitchen freezer the burglars didn't get much because the church doesn't hold cash in the building overnight but the next day griffin cewith ri
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