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♪ hailed as a hero. the woman killed at a california synagogue stepped in front off a bullet aimed at the rabbi and we're getting new details about the attack. >> you saw the hate. also tonight deadly collapse. gusty winds sunday giant construction crane down taking likes. she carries a gun to class. he's a professor who wear as bullet proof vest. both sides of the debate. remembering hundreds of
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americans killed in a secret rehearsal of the invasion 75 year later. and they shot for the stars. wait until you see where it landed. >> just look up. >> yeah, right there. >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm elaine cehawno. 60-year-old laurie gilbert cay was killed when a gunman burst through the doors and opened fire. the suspect is identified as a 19-year-old college student. they say he was motivated by hate. sgler >> reporter: the pass over celebration was almost over when a young man stormed in and opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle. he was inside it the synagogue
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with his daughter. were you afraid at all yesterday? his niece was also shot. >> everyone was crying, screaming. >> reporter: the rabbi tried to talk to the attacker was also injured by a bullet. laurie gilbert cay went in front of the rabbi. san diego sheriff identified gore saying his gun may have malfunctioned after firing several rounds. he got away then called 911 to turn himself in. police discovered what appears to be his manifesto posted hours earlier on social media. >> when you walk in to a house of worship and you shoot cong regts, that's a hate crime.
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>> reporter: this more than six months after the deadliest attack on jews in recent u.s. history. a commemoration was held today to honorer those victims. what do you think of the fact that someone could do this to another human being? or a kid? >> it shouldn't happen no matter what age because we're not supposed to live hate. >> reporter: all survivors from yesterday's attack have been released from the hoshusbands. the suspect is charged with within count murder, three counts attempted murdser. he is being questioned by the fbi. investigators in seattle are trying to find out what caused a giant crane to collapse on the streets. >> reporter: a disaster zone in
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downtown seattle after a crane collapsed in a south lake union neighborhood on saturday. two including sarah wang a freshman were in vehicles that were crushed. >> bang and i knew what the was. >> reporter: bruce cashmere ran to help, finding a badly damaged vehicle with a mother and baby einside, somehow unharmed. >> very lucky baby, very lucky. not a mark on her. good to see. >> reporter: this shows the tower beginning to lean. >> it started to lean and it didn't stop its lean. it was going the whole time but before i registered t was actually falling. >> reporter: crane accidents happen from weather, to maintenance to operator error.
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but by and large crane use is safe. >> with the locations and everything and doing the wirk, they're not that common to have this dramatic type crane action. smaller accidents are fairly common. >> reporter: he says cranes are currently in high demand. according to the "seattle times" they have more cranes in use than any other city. >> we're going to pay extra attention to make sure the cranes in seattle are safe. >> reporter: investigators will look into everything from wegtser conditions to service and maintenance records to determi determine exactly what caused this deadly collapse. president trump skipped the white house correspondents dinner again this year. instead he travelled to green bay e wisconsin for his first
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campaign rally for release of the mueller report. the subject came up. >> is there any place that's more fun than a trump rally? >> reporter: president trump fired up a wisconsin crowd at a campaign rally last night bashing the mueller report once with again. >> the radical, liberal democrats put all their hopes behind their collusion delusion. >> reporter: special counsel robert mueller found no members of the trump campaign conspired with the russians to influence the 2016 presidential election but he did not draw a conclusion on oobstruction of justice. attorney general william barr did. >> the evidence is not sufficient to establish that the president committed a obstruction of justice offence. >> reporter: barr is scheduled to testify ebefore the house
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judiciary committee thursday. they plan to allow lawyers from both sides to question barr. they hold the position that only members of congress should do the probing. and >> they're going to have to wirk that out but he has to come before the house. he is the attorney general of the united states. >> reporter: republican senator lindsey graham says he has all the answers he needs. >> it's over for me. he didn't collude with the russians. obstruction of justice in this situation is absurd. >> reporter: a chairman of the house judiciary committee says dis cushions are in a going. rens on the panel says the demands from democrats are abusive and illogical. to simone, i leave the van gogh.
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to harrison, the wine collection. grace, you get the beach house, just don't leave the lights on, okay? to mateo, my favorite chair. to chris, the family recipes. to craig, this rock. to jamie, well, let's just say, enjoy the ride. the redwoods to the redheads. the rainbows to the proud. the almonds to walter. the beaches to the bums. and the fog to, who else, karl. i leave these things to my heirs, all 39 million of you, on one condition.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." now to developing news in virgin virginia where tonight emergency crews have rescued five men in a cave about 180 miles east of row enoek. >> reporter: with the help of rescuers the first man emerged from the cave nearly two days after he first entered it. he's with the virginia
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department of emergency management. >> they were experiencinging mild hypothermia. andlr >> reporter: a dozen emergency work withers started it propelling down to rescue five men. >> these individuals went into the cave on friday and one made it out last night and reported the other ones are stuck. they can't get out of the cave. >> reporter: officials said the men entered the cave without proper timing gear. last night saturated the cave, making it too slippery to make it out on their own. >> they're physically helping them move and walk and get out of the areas they need to. >> reporter: the men have become too weak to pull themselves out of the steep incline. foe
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foerm former indiana senator lerks ugar has died. his public service career began when he was elected to the indianapolis schoolboard, before going to the u.s. senate for six terms. the latest state considering whether to allow concealed firearms on campus. it's dividing some teachers and students. frers >> this is a smith and wessen .40. >> reporter: is this loaded? >> no. >> reporter: will you have this on you on campus? >> yes. i angtle up a little bit. >> they're usually in a war zone. >> what looks like a college student and a professor gearing up for battle is their
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preparation for class. >> how are you guys doing? good, good. >> reporter: university of kansas seen yer says she couldn't wait for her birthday. so she took this concealed carry class to carry. >> they fall vict toom rapes and assaults. >> reporter: kansas is one of ten states that allows public university students to carry concealed firearms. 23 leave it the decision up to each college or university. do you think allowing campus carry is a way to protect students if a shooter comes on campus? >> i think it's a deterrent. i think putting guns in the hands of responsible gun owners makes campuses safer. >> reporter: this permits
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students to carry guns in most buildings. >> they have a secret gun i don't know if they hae. >> reporter: you can't ask they have have one. >> and they can't tell me. that's part of the policy. >> reporter: the secrecy of who was armed prompted kevin will mont to wear this bullet proof vest while teaching. whats do you say to the student who says it's my second amendment right? >> it's always been their right but we've always had the commonsense to keep it out of certain places. not in church, not in school. >> reporter: we asked them to sit down together. are you armed right now? >> i am. i don't see ea difference
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between me carrying a half mile away or on campuses. >> i think guns, being on campus is a problem. one of the reasons i wear a vest is i think if people saw people walking round with guns, it would be a problem. i don't think it's the role off a student to jump into the role off ram bow and take over situations. >> i beg to differ. i think it's upon myself to protect myself. if i were to end up in a less than favorable situation. >> one of the things about student life is the freedom to be ewho you are and grow and discover who you are. guns don't make that a better kind of inenvironment. >> if we're talking about freedom i think constitutional freedoms come first and freedom you have until you violate esome
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fentanyl is responsible for more overdose deaths than heroin or prescription pain killers. it's also surprisingly simple to buy online. scott pelley reports on how it's getting to the united states for tonight's "60 minutes." >> where did all this stuff come from? >> from china. >> reporter: some of this fentanyl was seized by the derks ea. the rest was found in the mail by u.s. postal service inspectors. frers >> this is essentially enough to kill every man, woman and child in the city. >> reporter: it's a derivative used by veterinarians to tranquilize elephants. so if you touch this stuff, it could kill you? >> yes.
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it was supposed to be a secret. on this date in 1945 hundreds of sailors and soldiers were on a training mission off the british coast. it was a rehearsal of d-day, burt the nazis found out, costing hundreds of lives. >> reporter: they dime be remembered when nearly 750 american service mn were killed off these shores. >> to stand there and lookout and think about where my uncle's body lay. he's still with the ship. >> my dad described the water as he jumped in on fire. >> reporter: but for decades what happened here so long ago was shrouded in secrecy.
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>> all along the coast -- >> reporter: hundreds of u.s. military personnel were taking part in what was called a preparation tiger. a laerj scale preparation for landings. frers england's south devyn's coast was chosen because of the beach of normandy which would be the biggest sea einvasion in history. exercise tiger was a fire drill. german torpedo boats attacked the convoy. in the smoke and confusion, communication trouble that led to a staggering number of friendly fire deaths. they ordered survivors to never
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reveal what happened. four decades later this german tank was pulled from the sea and now a poignant memorial for those who died. al reynold's daughter is alive and survived the tiger disaster. >> i feel this is a shame that these men did not get recognition through their life. >> reporter: 75 years on and after decades off secrecy the message from the u.s. now is that the men who took part in exercise tiger did not die in vein but were brave servicemen who helped defeat the nazis. next how these girls shot for it the stars and actually landed in space.
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we end tonight in the west texas desert where dreams sometimes come true. >> reporter: the stars at night are big and bright in marpa, texas. for these girls the fun starts when the sun goes down the sky lights up. >> the big dipper. >> reporter: what else e? >> a bunch of sparkling beautiful lights. >> stars and moon. >> reporter: culet, ashley e sharlau, mad sng, and mable,er all 10 and 11 years old decided
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to aim for the stars and enter a nation wide science contest. their teammate, the martha martians. >> ying women can do things like that too. >> reporter: if they won, their experiment woulded be performed on the international space station by real astronotes. but winning seemed like a long shot. more than 23,000 students were participating, many in high school. >> i was trying to prepare them for not going on because they are very ying and they surprise me every time we go on to the next step. sglerks t >> reporter: the girls even surprised themselves, trying to find a way to kill bacteria in space. >> in the first one we're going to have bacteria called
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bacilissenilis. >> reporter: they were impressed and picked the martha martians experiment to go to space. >> if somebody says you shouldn't do it, don't let them pull you down. >> reporter: the girls celebrated by piling into the back of the pick up truck to catch a glimpse of their future. see the tiny speck in the sky? that's the iss floating by. >> instead of looking up all this stufr online or the internet, we can actually see it. just right there. >> reporter: despite being one of the yingest teams from a tiny texas town, the girls shot for the stars and landed on the international space station. cbs news, martha, texas. and that's the overnight news for this monday. for others check
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[ later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine quijano. ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." a memorial is growing out sad synagogue in california, scene of the latest assault on a house of worship. laurie gilbert cay was wounded when a gunman opened doors and opened fire. he's identified as a 19-year-old college student motivated by hat hate. >> reporter: the passover celebration was almost eover when a young man stormed in and opened fire with a semiautomatic
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rifle. 34-year-old ahmed was hit in the leg. he was inside the synagogue with his daughter. his niece, 8-year-old was also shot. along with rabbi israel goldstein who tried to talk to the attacker but was injured by a bullet. laur laurie gilbert cay was wounded shielding the rabbi. san diego sheriff identified the shooter saysing hay gun may have malfunctioned after firing several rounds. he got away uninjured then called 911 to turn himself in. they discovered his manifesto posted hours earlier on social media. >> when you walk in to a house
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of worship and you shoot congregates, that's a hate crime. >> reporter: the attack comes exactly six months after a man killed 11 people at the tree of life synagogue, the deadliest attack on jews in recent u.s. history. a commemoration was held to honor those victims. >> no matter what age, nobody should go through what we're going through. you're not supposed to feel hate. >> reporter: all survivors from yesterday's attack have been released. the suspect charged with one count murder, three counts attempted murder. he is being questioned by the fbi. >> thank you. now to developing news in virginia where tonight emergency crews have rescued five men in the cave.
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they got caught 180 miles east of roanoke. the first man emerged nearly two days after he first entered. >> one of the biggest problem is that they were exhausted. >> reporter: a dozen emergency workers began propelling their way just before noon to rescue the five men. >> these individuals went into a cave on friday. and one made it out last night and reported that the other ones are stuck. they can't get out of the cave. >> reporter: they say the men entered without praper timing gear. and last night saturated the cave, making it to hard to get
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out on their own. the men, have become too weak to pull themselves out of a steep incline about 120 feet down. investigators in seattle are trying to figure out what caused a giant construction crane to fall on one of the city's busiest streets. the crane killed four people. sglerks the crane collapsed saturday. >> it sounded like an earthquake. >> reporter: two of the victims were crane operators. two others were in vehicles that were crushed. >> and bang, yeb knew what it was. >> reporter: bruce cashmere ran to help, finding a badly damaged vehicle with a mother and baby einside. >> reporter: not a mark on them. good to see.
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>> reporter: this cell phone video shows the tower beginning to lean. james saw the whole thing go down. when it started to lean. it was going to the whole time because before i reg estrd t was falling. >> reporter: he says crane accidents happen for various reasons from wegter to maintenance to operator error. but by and large crane use is safe. >> reporter: with cranes like this and the location and everything and doing the work, they're not that calm to have this dramatic type crane. >> reporter: cranes are currently in high demand in yoois cities. seattle has more cranes in u.s. than any other city. >> reporter: we've heir a good track record but year going to pay extraattention that the cranes are safe.
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>> the next 24 to 48 hours are said to be the mosted critical when they look at everything from service and maintenance to figure out what caused this deadly collapse. president trump skipped the white house correspondents dinner again this year. instead he travelled to green bay, wisconsin for his first campaign rally since release of the mueller report. the subject came up. >> is there any place that's more fun than a trump rally? >> reporter: president trump fired up a wisconsin crowd at a campaign rally last night, bashing the mueller report once aben. >> the rad krblgs liberal democrats with all their hopes behind their collusion delusion. >> reporter: special counsel robert mueller found no members
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off the trump kwam pain conspired with the russians but did not crew draw a conclusion on obstruction of justice. >> the evidence by the special counsel is not enough to establish a obstruction of justice defense. sglerks the panel plans to allow lawyers from both sides the question barr. the committee also wants to go into a closed session if members want to talk about redacted portions of the report, which the do jerks opposes. >> he has to come before the house. he is the attorney general of the united states. >> reporter: republican senator lindsey graham says he has all the answers he needs. >> it's over for me. he didn't collude with the russians.
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we may never know the true number of migrant families separated at the border by president's zero tolerance policy. it could take up to two years to relocate and unite them all. we've been looking back at those reunited. >> reporter: jose arrived in mexico, california, 324 days after being separated from his son.
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he's on a journey to reunite with 10-year-old. who is more than 1,000 miles away in arkansas. what did you think? they left guatemala in may of last year after jose says they received death threats from gangs that there control their town. we spoke with jose in san diego before the next part of his trip. you wanted to go back back together if you were deported. once in custody he says, an officer approached me and gave me five pages and told me to sign. no one was explaining what you were signing? >> translator: no, i didn't know because everything was in english, he says. it was his own deportation
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order, taking him back to guatemala and keeping his son in ice custody. i hold him he was going to school to take care of himself. >> the government is two years sgle he was in government cares for five months before being released to an urngal. they don't believe he was mistreated but has nightmares. he says eeach night he and other children would say a prayer. some would cry. what would you tell him? he's tlr best dad and you wluv him a lot. >> reporter: two days after
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a story of a new jersey company. p>> reporter: from above the coast of southwest england shines pristine. but buried in the rocky ecrevices emeally stevenson spots scraps of trash. >> as soon as your eyes adjust to see the plastic, you see it everywhere. >> reporter: the 21-year-old h nearly half her life cleaning up these shoreses. >> i think we're finding more plastic bottles and more in general, including bags. >> reporter: perfectly preserved bag of chips. >> and on the back, 16th of august, 1997. so that's the same eage of me. >> reporter: bags off chips are hard to recycle.
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which is why they often wash up on shores. >> this is now the oldest thing i've ever found. >> reporter: so she made this dress. out off bags of walkers crisps, the united kingdom's biggest putatdo chip brand, known to americans as la yes, s. she used the attention to push people to protest, by mailing their empty bags of chips back to walkers. they promised nor environmentally friendly packaging by 2025. >> i thought it was crazy that paracycle was already able to recycle. why aren't they working together? >> i want to change the way people look at garbage. >> reporter:ilities rar new jersey-based company taking on
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trash around the world. its founder dropped out of princeton university because he believed waste auz a treasure untapped. they take tough to recycle debris like cigarette buts and bags of chips for free. they can pay to send in their used packaging to warehouses like this one. >> zip lock bags. >> reporter: terracycle turns it into plastic pellets that they buy to make watering cans and picnic tables. >> this lumber has been made out of capri sun pouchs. >> yep. takes them apart and figure out how to put them back together. >> reporter: what has been the
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environmental impact? >> we've recycled millions of pounds of plastic materials in its lifetime. >> reporter: but critics point out that's a small portion of the metric tons reported since the '50s. most of can which has not been recycled. and terks erracycle is giving businesses excuse to keep using >> they're taking a voluntary step too than doing nothing at all and they should design their way out of of it. >> are you going to motivate this company to do that? >> absolutely. in fact loupe does just that. >> you dpa posit and they arrive at your door. >> we pick it up, clean it and it goes around your desk.
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>> reporter: still it carries an environmental cost. >> the environmental impact of the steel container is higher than the plastic one. >> reporter: an expert on the environmental responsibility of businesses. >> whether you think of the foot print of the transportation, it's going to be quite aify times before they're better in an environmental sense. >> and that's not the only challenge. >> reporter: you're just changing the container. you still have these wipes that are hard to recycle. sgli >> reporter: it's showing we can create a major solution. we try to solve that in a big way. >> reporter: back in england, emily thinks it will catch on. >> the companies know these next
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earning $1.2 billion world wide. some fans couldn't get enough and sat through all 21 movies that led up to the latest blockbuster. here with the story. >> the crowd of fans i joined were happy to pay to sit in a daerk theater for a movie marathon that culminated in the marvels cinematic universe. draft house waswin of a dozen theaters to screen every movie in marvels cinematic universe. >> it's like going to woodstock for marvel. >> it brought him up. >> it's an experience 1/2. >> he brought his somewhat reluctant mother. frers >> what did you think when he said we're going to sit through practically three days off movies? >> to train for watching nearly
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three days, he spent the same amount of time watching from his couch. >> we brought tooth paste. >> reporter: fans to stretch their legs while fans help cleaning crews with the theater that was stacked 24/7. >> and there's a full restaurant menu and that means a kitchen staff serving food all day and all night. >> we just finished iron man and a bowl of popcorn. and 21 more to go. >> reporter: in 11 years those twin movies that make up the marvel cinematic universe have grossed more than any other 14chise, totalets $18.5 billion and could push global earnings over. >> i'm feeling a lot more
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injuresed than i thought i would be. >> i get to see how the characters came to be. >> reporter: of course it makes it harder to keep track of everything else in the world. the screening of "thor" and culminating in the nba playoffs. and when joe biden announced he was running for president e fans were enjoying "black panther." which time magazine raenged as marvel's best of all time based on online reviews. unfortunately i missed it because of work. what's your favorite marvel movie? >> i would say "guardians of of the galaxy." >> that would be mine.
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eleanor was alone the night she went to bratd's barbecue and about that same time these three young men arrived. they were having a good old time when jamario howard noticed helen. he said he hates seeing people eat alone. when most of us see someone eating alone, we feel that way but our sympathy never solves anything. and he got up from his table and sat at hers. >> he said i saw you sitting here alone and said do you mind having company? >> and she said go ahead and i introduced myself and that's how it all got started. >> reporter: they all ended up having dinner together. >> and it was a really nice, plez ncht evening. >> with those 20 somethings did speaks volumes about their character.
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they say it wasn't entirely altruestic. they enjoyeds her company as much as she enjoyed theirs. >>. >> i already feel like we're her grand kids. >> reporter: they have all vowed to make ream for one another. >> i use dooded to say that i'm going to change the world somehow. i'm not rich, famous or smart, so i can't be the president. but we can show the world that it's all right to be kind and before long the world will be a better place. >> reporter: amen. steve hartman on the road in oxford, alabama. >> and that's the overnight news for this monday.
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for others check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in n york city i'm elaine quijano. captioning funded by cbs it's monday, april 29th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." a deadly synagogue shooting. a worshipper is killed and three others hurt after a gunman opened fire in california. now tales of heroism are emerging from the tragedy. and in tennessee, seven bodies found at two different homes.
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