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leg. >> we always have that. you never had that? i am sorry brian. >> that is why i got into whether. >> cbs weekend news is next we will see you back here at 6:00 p.m. they'r captioning sponsored by cbs >> begnaud: a tiger attack at a u.s. zoo. visitors watched as the tiger malled a trainer. tso tonight, death and destruction-- there is a huge storm that has killed at least five people and it is moving orom the deep south to the northeast. >> this house behind us is totally destroyed. >> begnaud: a former white house counsel firing back. don mcgahn is responding to criticism that he helped robert mueller. we'll remember the columbine 13, 20 years after the school shooting that stunned this nation. >> they're going through a time where their wounds have been ripped open.>> begna: ankeepingt the beat. >> people demand us to sing now. they won't take no for an answer.
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>> begnaud: meet mike and moe, two police officers who are mmiting their community through song. ♪ my girl >> begnaud: good evening. gim david begnaud. we're going to begin tonight with that tiger attack at a zoo in topeka, kansas. the animal tackled a female keeper who has worked with that tiger for several years. she's going to survive. here's chris martinez with more on what happened. to >> reporter: the topeka zoo had just opened when the 911 call came in. >> reporter: the woman and sanjiv, the seven-year-old sumatran tiger, are in the tige. >> as soon as sanjiv recognized that, he essentially tackled our epeper. >> reporter: the incident lasted nearly 10 minutes, until
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ckher workers were able to lure the cat back into an enclosed area. first responders then rushed the victim to the hospital. zoo director brendan wiley described the injuries. >> lacerations and punctures to te back of the head, neck. she's stable, but that's about all that we know. >> reporter: the director says the victim was the primary tiger keeper and had worked with this tiger for several years. >> it's a normal part of the daily process for her to enter that space, to clean it, to maintain it, to put out any alrichment items. all of that is normal. the one point that was not normal was that sanjiv also found access to that space at ime.same time. o> reporter: the zoo plans to review the incident, but says this is the first attack of its kind, and there are no plans to euthanize the animal. chris martinez, cbs news, los angeles. >> begnaud: that tiger, by the way, is critically endangered thd recently fathered four cubs. all right, we're going to turn to the weather now. a massive storm that barreled
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through the southeast before moving north has killed at least five people, and it has left a trail of devastation. kenneth craig looks at some of the hardest hit areas. >> reporter: eight-year-old mariah weinman was killed when a tree fell on this house south of as. in reston, virginia, cleanup began this morning after a rare tornado touched downed from night. ed ault lost his truck and almost his home. nt we ran down to the basement, and we were huddled up in the bathroom. we're sitting in there, no more than five seconds, and we hear tis incredible crack. i noticed that my truck was sitting under the tree. >> reporter: the national weather service was on the scene assessing the damage. >> there was leaf splatter on sides of house where there shouldn't be, but it wasin of at covers plasters, all sides of dwellings and cars. la reporter: in atlanta friday, a tree crashed through the roof of this apartment
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complex, and on to this couple and their young daughter, who were playing in bed. ncey were cut and bruised, but otherwise okay. in mississippi, at least three are dead, and there's a state of emergency after tornadoes, high wind, and soaking rain. >> it just went through in a matter of seconds and it was over. i mean, out of blue. >> reporter: this storm system is now making its way out to the atlantic. he the good news is it looks like easter sunday will be mostly clear. oot, david, thousands of residents who were in the path of these storms are still without power tonight. >> begnaud: good point. thank you, kenneth. twys the release of the muelreport, reaction is coming in from all sl am, democ. and tonight, the former white house counsel, who cooperated with robert mueller, and is named in the report in pretty good detail. here's weijia jiang.d, president trump was all smiles from his florida golf club. suggest he's preoccupied with the mueller report, despite iclaring game over when it was idenased. the president wrote, "the end
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result of the greatest witch hunt in u.s. political history is no collusion with russia, and no obstruction. pretty amazing." but special counsel robert mueller did not reach a conclusion on the obstruction of nustice. he investigated 10 events in which it may have occurred, including mr. trump directing white house counsel don mcgahn to fire mueller. mcgahn took copious notes about the request. president trump warned, "watch out for people that take so-called notes when the notes never existed until needed." ad his persttgiulia, slmed mcgs credibility in multiple interviews. ggahn's lawyer responded in a statement, "it's a mystery why idy giuliani feels the need to de-litigate incidents the attorney general and deputy attorney general have concluded were not obstruction. but they are accurately aescribed in the report. >> the mueller document has now left with us a road map to go forward. >> reporter: congressional
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rsmocrats issued a subpoena for ed unredacted version of the report and called for mueller to testify before congress. >> we have a constitution of the united states, and it says when a president engages in this kind of activity, then it's time for impeachment. th reporter: massachusetts senator elizabeth warren is the first major presidential candidate to mention impeaching mr. trump. but other 2020 hopefuls say there's a better option. >> if we really want to send hiumpism into the history books, the best thing we can do is defeat it decisively at the ballot box in 2020. >> reporter: on monday, house opeaker nancy pelosi is planning to hold a conference call with democrats to go over the findings and the mueller report, what she calls a grave matter. david, pelosi says they will also talk about "the next steps that must be taken." >> begnaud: weijia jiang traveling with the president tonight in florida. thank you, weijia. bob schieffer will be back to
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host "face the nation" tomorrow. he'll have more on the mueller report. he'll speak with maryland congressman elijah cummings and utah senator mike lee. we got a good news update tonight on a five-year-old boy ao was grabbed by a stranger and thrown over a third-floor railing at the mall of america. his name is landen, and his family says he is showing real signs of recovery, but he is still in i.c.u. tonight. police say the 24-year-old man who grabbed him, was looking for someone to kill, and he chose the boy at random. a gofundme page has raised almost $1 million. the columbine high school shooting happened 20 years ago today. for many of us, that was the first mass school shooting that not only shocked us but scared us. hoday, students and teachers returned to littleton, colorado, to remember those who were killed, and our barry petersen was colorado aon, thame ch o
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bet have the last word, and people have been able to move forward with great faith and with great hope. >> reporter: 20 years ago, two students opened fire, and columbine went from just another suburban denver school to a name that now means mass murder. here at the memorial for those who were killed and at the service, there was another message: hope that this community can stay togethe healing. as kiki leyba will tell you, healing is hard. he was a first-year teacher when the shooting started. he still teaches here. you were there. 20 years, and yet, there's still pain in your voice. >> trauma has memory, and we can-- we can feel it. come back on days like this eve siegnows.e district attorn.
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he helped survivors from columbine, the aurora theater massacre, the boston marathon bombing. what are they suffering? >> they're going through a time where their wounds have been ripped open. it's flooding back in. >> reporter: kiki was invited to the staff at sandy hook elementary school to meet them after that shooting. >> it's a really important part of that healing, to have that sportunity to meet with somebody or talk to somebody who can relate to your experience. >> reporter: but i really kind of wonder if we should always keep this going on to remember what happened and what the lessons were. >> we really need to keep the dialogue. >> reporter: the dialogue s ans the memories. ri yeah, the memories. t mean, that's part of it. it's part of what we have to deal with until something changes.r: t a e abhalfe from columbine high schl.th sadness here, but just like 20
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years ago, this community comes together to help those who still need to heal. david. >> begnaud: barry, we're glad you're there. thank you. a journalist on assignment in northern ireland was killed by two teenagers, according to police who have arrested those teens. s is happeneriearlier in the we mckee was hit by a stray bullet that was fired at police officers. authorities are calling her death a terrorist act sanctioned by a dissident group known as the new i.r.a. on this easter weekend, there is growing resentment in france to the push to rebuild a national .reasure, notre dame. reconstruction could easily cost more than $1 billion. and as roxana saberi reports, elme people feel that money could be put to better use. >> reporter: yellow vest protests erupted for the23rdstrh
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some r demon motorcycles on fire and many more marching peacefully against income inequality and rising prices. but this time, five days after notre dame cathedral went up in xlames, some expressed a new grievance with messages like this, "millions for notre dame of paris. nothing for the miserable ones." some of these protesters are beuse billiona have pledged large sums of money to rebuild notre dame while many of them are struggling to make ends end. the rich people are more rich today, and the poor people are more poor. >> reporter: clement deuner is an engineer. >> notre dame, it is very beautiful church, but it is only the wood and the stone, in fact, weive ma money for that?r: wshoy use that money f>>or all >> and the fire just ran... >> reporter: but notre dame spokesman andre finot says rebuilding the cathedral will help everyone in france.
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e the most visited place, notre dame, 12 million visitors, you know. >> reporter: so the tourism helps the economy. >> yes, yes. >> reporter: which helps-- >> with billions and billions. >> reporter: that's not how many of these protesters see it. since the fire, they feel even sae forgotten. roxana saberi, cbs news, paris. >> begnaud: coming up, a preview of tonight's "48 hours." dould a former f.b.i. agent and his daughter get a new trial after both of them were convicted of murder? and surprise hospital bills. a number of states are passing new laws to cut down on it. we're going to share one family stories. some things are just too good to be true. just like you, i thought that reverse mortgages had to have some kind of catch. just a way for the banks to get your house right? wellthen i did so mework d i fod out it's not any of that. it's not another way for the bank to get your house.
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new trial. the father, by the way, is a .ormer f.b.i. agent. both dad and daughter were convicted of killing the woman's husband. but did they get a fair trial? here's maureen maher. >> reporter: no one who attended the 2011 wedding of molly martens to jason corbett could have imagined how their story together would end. jason had been a 31-year-old widower with two small children s limerick, ireland, when he hired tennessee-born molly as an au pair. his sister, tracy lynch, says they quickly fell in love. >> we started to see, you know, a little glimpse of the old jason coming back. that was just, you know, not so sad all the time. u> reporter: the couple settled in the suburbs of winston-salem with jason's children. at wthingsegan to anher, con >> i dit was g at ms a
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and shughteri inteed i reporter: just hours after they beat jason to death, molly and tom told investigators they acted in self-defense. >> he's got molly by the throat. >> i was screaming, "help," and he was screaming, "i'm going to kill you." >> reporter: father and daughter went on trial in august 2017. they were found guilty and sentenced to 20-25 years in prison. but the case was immediately placed in jeopardy when the jury foreman said this while leaving the courthouse: >> we didn't discuss the verdict, but in having private conversations, everybody-- we could read that everybody was going in the same direction. at iyss jur: the defense has misconduct-- discussing the case prior to deliberations. hnd still ahead, a stressful hospital stay, then the shock of tesurprise medical bill.
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he% of americans have be with a bill they thought was going to be covered by their insurance. 20% of those bills were from doctors outside of their insurance networks. jim axelrod has one family's ltory. >> reporter: it was pure bliss for adam and laura parkinson when their son, nathan, arrived 13 months ago. then, a few days later, came a second delivery. this bill that we're looking at, this came out of left field? >> absolutely left field. teme out of nowhere. >> reporter: the parkinsons received a surprise medical bill for $3,700. your jaw must have hit the ground. >> for a doctor that we'd seen for five minutes to give us a bill like this? wo was crazy. >> reporter: they had done their homework, choosing an in-network hospital and obstetrician to avoid any turprises.but the esthesiologiso administered an epidural for laura, was out of network. lyter an appeal, insurance paid
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a portion, but the parkinsons were still on the hook for nearly $1,500. >> you go to a hospital expecting it to be in network. you don't have to ask a question of every single person who walks in the door-- hold on. are you in network? are you in network? >> reporter: a new survey of in-network hospital admissions in 37 states found one in seven patients receive a surprise bill. anesthesiology accounted for the largest share of out-of-network claims. massachusetts attorney general maura healey says new federal laws are needed. is there a law on the books to , int to? how do you handle it? >> well, we do have a law here in massachusetts. it's a consumer law that says you can't hide the ball from consumers. you need to be transparent. you need to make d >> repr: the parkinsons doctors group agreed to drop the balance. what do you want people to understand about your experience? >> that it's okay to question the bills that are coming in. >> absolutely. question everything.
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oo! >> reporter: a simple question r fore costs nothing. a surprise answer later may be very expensive. jim axelrod, cbs news, douglas, massachusetts. >> begnaud: up next, policing their city... ♪ we're just ordinary people >> begnaud: ...in some pretty perfect harmony. ok everyone! our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure.
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nir our final story tonight, cops on the beat takes on a literal meaning. here's jeff glor. ♪ what's going on in that beautiful mind i'm on your magical mystery ride wd i'm so dizzy don't know what hit me ♪ >> glor: one is a former college basketball player. ♪ i give my all >> glor: the other a gospel singer. ♪ i'll give my all >> that's right. keep going. keep going. >> glor: when they came together as cops, something clicked. >> people are always saying, "when are you guys ever going to start working?" and it's like, we are working. this is how we work, though. >> glor: after officers moearms badger and michael norwood were ff musical parthime a n.io facebook. wake no an
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answer. i remember we had somebody pulled over. he goes, "you're the singing cops. w.want a song right now." "sir, what about your license?" >> glor: "you just broke the law." >> right. >> right, right. >> you all went to school today? >> glor: on a serious note, norwood and badger are using their music to connect with the >>mmunity. >> you got to give me something for that. teat's what i'm talking about. >> glor: and they started a program called "copss," which stands for "children overcoming police stereotypes through sports." >> let him shoot! let him shoot. >> glor: they run basketball games for kids all over buffalo. >> you're my second pick. i need you to play like a second pick. let's go. >> glor: does it change the opinion that people have of police officers, what you've been able to do? >> i think so. w absolutely. >> it definitely changes the narrative of what we've seen. through building tin tig olme hose sds are noonly embra
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cers, but now they're coming up to us saying, "hey, man, i want to be like you." and, you know, in our community there's been a definitely divide between our community and the police officers. our whole mission has been to mend that divide. so i think it's working. ♪ i got sunshine >> glor: when you listen, it's not hard to see why. ♪ when it's cold outside i got the month of may ♪ i guess you would say what can make me feel this way ♪ my girl my girl ♪ my girl. talkin 'bout my girl ♪ my girl >> glor: i love it! >> thank you! >> begnaud: man, we are lucky to have those guys in law enforcement. there should be a live stream in your cop car that we can just dip into and watch.r thisur thanko much f
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this is kpix 5 news. now at 6 pm, alameda county says no more. how law enforcement and lawmakers on the street are joining together. we are here for the street celebrations at golden gate park. >> he walked up and grabbed the gun from him -- >> exclusive video, a hospital employee in san jose stops an armed suspect. that is not fog hovering over san francil in golden gate park, chopper five was overhead at 41 20 this afternoon as thousands of people celebrated the annual pot holiday, kpix 5's and anne
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makovec was in the crowd. >> reporter: pot enthusiasts came from all walks of life. >> it is a holiday for pot smokers. >> reporter: a tradition dating back to the 70s but it is much more regulated these days. the city started officially permitting the event two years ago. after recreational pot became legal. ♪ san francisco, let's go. >> that is one of the biggest joints i have ever seen. >> i like smoking big i can. >> reporter: now added fencing, better security and a beefed up cleaning to

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