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and through the gulf, essentially being rerouted around new orleans. john, an official told me a short while ago the fact most americans don't know we're in the middle of a major flood fight here in south louisiana is a sign this is working exactly as it should be. >> amazing. david, thank you. we are learning more tonight about an american airlines pilot who was hauled off by police just before a flight. turns out he was wanted for a triple murder. kris van cleave reports. >> reporter: the mugshot is eye-catching. 51-year-old pilot christian martin still in his airline uniform was arrested at the louisville airport for a triple
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murder he allegedly committed four years ago. martin was about to fly a plane load of people including ashleigh martin and her family to charlotte saturday morning. >> it's scary to think that this happened so long ago and they're just now getting around to catching the guy. >> reporter: investigators say in 2015, three years before martin joined a regional carrier owned by american airlines, he allegedly shot and killed calvin phillips, his wife deborah and neighbor. >> a victim of a crime goes beyond those just killed. it scars a family. it scars the community. >> reporter: at the time of the murder, martin who served in the army was facing a military court-martial for mishandling classified information and assault. told cnn his father was killed while preparing to testify against martin. >> he was shamefully kicked out of the military. my father had a lot to do that. >> reporter: martin was reportedly a person of interest immediately after the murders but was not charged until last friday. in a 2016 interview he denied
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being involved. >> i don't know why anybody would want to do something to them is in american airlines says martin was repeatedly vetted and had no criminal history that would disqualify him from being a commercial pilot. kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. cbs news has learned about a failed federal criminal investigation into price fixing in the drug industry. this follows a "60 minutes" report accusing drug makers pushing up prices by billions of dollars. here is jeff pegues. >> reporter: cbs news has learned that the antitrust division of the justice department is anticipating criminal charges as it continues to investigate whether generic drug companies engaged in a conspiracy to raise prices. the federal investigation has already led to two guilty pleas. on friday more than 40 states filed a $500 page lawsuit alleging the biggest generic drug makers --
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>> we're blowing the lid off this whole thing. >> reporter: on "cbs this morning," connecticut attorney general accused the companies of jacking up some drug prices nearly 8,000%. >> really what blew this whole thing wide open are the phone records. and we've gotten i think 11 million phone records, 7 million documents. >> we can see that competitor "a" is talking to competitor "b" five times on one day. >> reporter: connecticut prosecutor joe nielson told "60 minutes" phone logs, emails and texts show generic drug companies communicating before raising prices. in one text, a heritage pharmaceuticals exec wrote to a counterpart at citron, we are raising the price right now, just letting you know. drug makers have denied an overarching conspiracy and the industry trade group told us generic prices have declined for three straight years. >> hard to watch someone that you love literally dying in front of you.
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>> reporter: ny hartwich told "60 minutes" in 2013 she and her mother molly were both prescribed the drug ursodiol for a rare genetic disease but molly didn't have prescription drug coverage and after the price went up, she stopped taking the drug. >> it's disheartening to think that somewhere in some corporate boardroom a group of people decided it was a good idea to raise the price because it was better for their pockets. >> reporter: molly died three years after she was diagnosed. nu no one can know if ursodiol would have extended her life, but what angers ny hartwich is her mother never got a chance to find out, she says because the price of the drug. john? next, why a major city is considering banning a high-tech crime fighting tool.
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san francisco on a proposal to ban police from using facial recognition technology. jonathan vigliotti on what's at stake. >> reporter: from security cameras to cell phones, our faces are now everywhere. that's why more law enforcement agencies are harnessing facial recognition technology to help fight crime. >> so this is how it works, a person suspected of committing a crime is caught on a surveillance camera like this one. a screen grab of the person's face, in this case me, is then containing hundreds of thousands of mug shots of people with previous arrests. >> reporter: the washington county sheriff's department just outside portland, oregon has been using amazon's recognition software for nearly two years. >> the chin, eyes, everything is measured. >> so the computer's not literally looking at the face,
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it's looking at measurements. >> correct, yes. >> reporter: officers say this is only one of many tools used but there is growing public fear of this technology. the loudest backlash is coming from san francisco. lawmakers and civil liberties watchdogs are pushing for the nation's first ever city-wide ban at all governmental agencies. >> facial recognition is bias against people of color and is often inaccurate. >> reporter: the aclu points to its test of amazon's facial recognition program as proof after scanning members of congress. 28 lawmakers were incorrectly matched, including six members of the congressional black caucus. critics also warn of big brother watching our every move. >> this is a system that is too dangerous to deploy because it allows the government to track who we are, where we go and even who we associate with. >> reporter: but the officers we spoke to disagree. >> i would hate to see it banned fully anywhere because with the
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an american add venturer who has scaled the world's highest peaks recently set a new record, traveling nearly 7 miles below the surface of the sea. >> at bottom. repeat, at bottom. >> reporter: the world's oceans don't go any deeper than the pacific's mariana trench. and victor vescovo set a record there for the deepest dive ever, descending more than 35,800 feet in a tight numb submarine named "limiting factor." >> it was an amazing dive. i think almost exactly 12 hours, four hours on the bottom. >> reporter: vescovo encountered translucent creatures, some never seen before. he also spotted depressingly familiar items, including a
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"cbs sunday morning's" lee cowan looks back. >> oh, rex. >> reporter: doris day didn't just light up the screen, she made you feel like you could be right up there with her. >> you have a beautiful back. >> my mother always made me sit up straight. >> reporter: they called her the girl next door and america's sweetheart, but, of course, that was just the half of it. born doris marryian capellhoff, she had a voice as golden as her hair ♪ going to take a sentimental journey ♪ >> reporter: she made some 600 recordings, many before she was even in the movies. there she proved she could match wits with the best of them. >> no alcoholic beverage. no drug known to science. no torture yet devised could induce me to stay married to you. >> reporter: she was as confident as she was charming and pretty sexy, too. >> you'll find most people are willing to meet you halfway.
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>> reporter: this may be the most famous bubble bath never taken together. rock hudson became a life long friend. >> we really had fun making movies. >> yeah. i wish we made more. >> reporter: but she never did. shortly after that she retreated to the seaside community of carmel where she seemed to prefer dogs to most people. she had bad luck with men. she rarely made public appearances, focussing instead on rescuing animals of every sort. ♪ >> reporter: doris day didn't so much timeless as ageless. forever remembered as the fresh faced star with the smile to match who left her fans wanting more. lee cowan, cbs news, los angeles. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for
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"the morning news" and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm john dickerson. this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm don dahler. president trump fired the first shot in his trade war with china, but beijing is striking back and the first casualty is the u.s. stock market. the dow sunk more than 600 points after china announced new sanctions against u.s. imports. and american consumers will soon be feeling the pinch. paula reid has the story. >> reporter: today's market plunge comes amid an escalating trade war between washington and beijing. this morning china announced it would impose tariffs on $60
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billion worth of u.s. goods starting june 1st in retaliation for the trump administration raising tariffs on $200 billion in chinese imports last week. while investors were rattled by the prospect of an indefinite battle between the world's two largest economies, president trump seemed to relish the fight. >> i love the position we're in. there can be some retaliation, but it can't be very, very substantial by comparison. >> reporter: mr. trump is even mulling additional tariffs. >> we have the right to do another $325 billion at 25% in additional tariffs. that is a tremendous amount of money that would come into our country. >> reporter: but tariffs don't bring money into the u.s. they are paid as a tax by u.s. importers who often pass that cost on to u.s. consumers. in a new report, goldman sachs confirmed the cost of u.s. tariffs have fallen entirely on u.s. businesses and households and warned the consequences
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could worsen if a deal is not reached. even white house economic adviser larry kudlow admitted sunday the administration's approach hurts the u.s. >> but it's u.s. businesses and u.s. consumers who pay, correct? >> yes, to some extent. again, both sides -- both sides will suffer on this. >> reporter: among those suffering, minnesota soybean farmer brad hovel. >> it's getting really tough. >> reporter: hovel says china's demand for minnesota's soybean crop has dropped significantly since the trade war began. today soybean prices reached a ten-year low. >> it is a shame they put them retaliatory tariffs on us. >> reporter: president trump says he will meet with china's president xi jinping at the g20 summit. so far that far-off prospect has not been enough to reassure nervous investors. >> so what comes next in president trump's trade war with china? jill schlesinger discussed it all with john dickerson. >> jill, let's start with the
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stock market, which companies were hit the biggest. >> intel, apple and caterpillar together. the three of them down 10% in the last six trading sessions. why? when you look at where their money is coming from, intel sells 25% of its chips in china. apple and caterpillar, their revenues 18%, 5% respectively. these are companies coming under pressure. >> so those are the companies. consumers are also taking in the teeth, larry kudlow, the president's economic adviser admitted to that, but he also said china will feel some pain. >> for the u.s. it's much easier to quantify. we know products impacted by tariffs, those are rising much faster than the inflation rate. economists believe households will pay $500 to 1,000 on average. they don't import as much u.s. stuff as we import from them so that's different. also the statistics we get out of china under the best of circumstances are a little bit murky. >> so the president has said if
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you are one of those consumers who sees your prices going up, you have an option, which is to buy from another country. how viable is that option? >> well, in some cases it can work, but in others not so much. if you look at consumer electronics, we don't make a lot of consumer electronics here, so i think that's a very difficult thing to keep in mind. also there are the knock-on effects. remember, some items not subject to tariffs are also rising right now. after days of torrential rain the mighty mississippi river is bursting its banks. there is widespread flooding throughout the south and that's making it impossible for thousands of farmers to plant their summer crops. david begnaud has the story from water-logged louisiana. >> reporter: severe weather in garner, north carolina brought golf-sized hail that shattered windshields and damaged cars. that same system flooded the city that sits below sea level, new orleans. it happened saturday with 2 inches of rain falling per hour.
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neighborhoods flooded and public transportation was halted. just outside new orleans, the bonnie carre spillway has been opened in order to stop the mighty mississippi river from overflowing levees and flooding the crescent city. today marks the 200th day that the mississippi river has been at flood stage in south louisiana. 41% of the country's water is drained through here and into the gulf of mexico. colonel michael clancy is with the u.s. army corps of engineers. >> mississippi river were to flow into the superdome it would fill the superdome up in about two or three minutes. >> to live here is to live with water and to live with risk. >> reporter: mark davis is a water policy expert at tulane university. >> what does opening bonnie carre spillway mean to the rest of the country along the mississippi river? >> opening bonnie carre keeps essentially the chemical quarter, the port of new orleans, all of the population centers here in business.
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>> reporter: bonnie carre was constructed after the great mississippi flood of 1927. that was the most destructive river flood in u.s. history that forced nearly 700,000 people from their homes. actress felicity huffman is the latest high-profile defendant to plead guilty in the college admissions bribery scandal. carter evans has the latest. >> reporter: actress felicity huffman left the federal courthouse in silence swarmed by shouting reporters. inside, the former "desperate housewives" star broke down as she admitted to the judge she paid $15,000 to have a proctor correct the answers on her daughter's college entrance exams. she talked about her daughter needing more time on exams since she was 8 years old and admitted everything the prosecutors said she did. in a statement the actress expressed deep regret and shame. my daughter knew absolutely nothing about my actions. this transgression towards her and the public i will carry for the rest of my life. >> her situation is about the
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best one of all of these defendants. >> reporter: cbs news analyst rikki klieman. >> it also has to be looked at as bad for those other people who are not rushing to the courthouse to plead guilty. >> reporter: prosecutors have charged 33 parents with paying college admissions consultant rick singer to get their children into school. so far, 14 parents including huffman have or have agreed to plead guilty while 19 have pleaded not guilty. actress lori loughlin and her husband, designer massimo giannulli are among the heist profile who pleaded not guilty. >> if they go to trial and the evidence against them is solid that they are going to do some very serious time and they will always be compared to felicity huffman. >> reporter: los angeles businessman devin sloane also pleaded guilty today.
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now prosecutors are recommending lower prison sentences for both sloane and huffman because of their cooperation. they'll be back in court for sentencing in september. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. sun care is self care. i used to not love wearing an spf just because i felt like it was so oily and greasy and that it was going to clog my pores. but what i love about olay regenerist whip with spf 25 is that it's lightweight, it's barely there. and then i can put makeup on over it if i want or if i'm not working, you know, just roll. it's perfect for me. i'm busy philipps, and i'm fearless to face anything.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." millions of fans of radio shock jock howard stern lost track of him when he went to satellite radio. well, that was 13 years ago, and if you want to know what he's been up to, well, he's got a new book and it's full of all the raunchy interviews you might have missed. tracy smith was invited into stern's studio for a little chat. >> this is what heaven might look like when you finally get there as a broadcaster. >> reporter: this is the house that howard stern built. >> this is my favorite channel on sirius. >> reporter: over the past 13
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years, the so-called shock jock has helped sirius xm satellite radio grow from a fledgeling experiment into a 33 million subscriber-- the evolution of 65-year-old stern himself. >> people assume they come here and it would be the launchiest show on the planet. >> right. that you go totally "x" rated. >> no, that's boring. >> ladies, what would your man say is your biggest turn-on? >> reporter: sure, there are still plenty of juvenile bits about sex and bathroom habits but there are also moments like this. actress charlize theron talking about how a hollywood producer hit on her. >> i knocked on the door and he opened up the door and he was in his pajamas. and then we sat down and started talking. he sat very close to me. that was strange. the drinking bothered me. i was like this doesn't feel right. >> reporter: time and time again when celebrities sit down in
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howard's studio, they reveal personal stories they maybe haven't shared with anyone else. >> you had it? >> i had prostate cancer a couple of years ago. >> why do you think it is that celebrities open up to you? >> i think what happens is they -- and i've spent a lot of time reflecting on this. you know, my whole career has been about honesty. painful honesty. you know, penis size, ins securities, i hate the way i look. like right now i'm so aware of this camera and i have my glasses off and i look horrible. >> you don't. >> well, thank you, but i feel that way. and so, you know, i think that kind of honesty when people walk in, they feel that expectation that maybe they should open up. >> reporter: as we saw in his movie "private parts." >> hi, robin. we back on the air? >> yeah, everybody can hear. >> okay, i'm right outside pig
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vomit's office. i'm going to knock on his door. >> reporter: howard stern changed radio itself by sharing everything. it made for great ratings but a mess of a personal life. >> i was childish, i narcissist. my life was in crisis. i got a divorce. i have three daughters. i was concerned about what does life look like now? how am i a good parent on my own? >> reporter: so several years ago he started seeing a psycho therapist and going four times a week. >> are you happier now? >> i'm a lot happier now. i'm still pretty miserable. there is still an angry guy in here somewhere, but i've learned to have a conversation with him and kind of live with him. >> reporter: but he also lives with guilt about how he treated some guests. >> so in the past you saw your interview subjects as -- >> i saw them as an annoyance
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and people who get in the way -- >> you say that one of your biggest regrets is robin williams. >> yeah, well, there's a lot of regrets. i wanted to call him and say, listen, i'm a huge fan of yours, and when you came in my studio i was insane. i was not in the right mind to do an interview with you and you came in so open and ready to perform. and that should have been celebrated. and oddly enough, i said to my wife that morning, i'm going to get on this and then i believe it was either that day or the next day, whatever, but he killed himself, and i never got the chance to apologize. and i feel -- i just wish i could have, you know? >> how are you? >> reporter: today stern does extensive research so by the time a guest hits the couch he knows just what to ask. >> do you feel like you're a therapist in a way? >> some people have said to me, oh, i didn't know we were going to do a therapy session. >> do you suffer from depression? are you medicated? >> i'm medicated. yeah. >> you are?
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>> yeah. >> i think there is an impression i'm after some gotcha moment. i'm not. i'm after really having a great conversation with someone. >> reporter: he's compiled his favorite interviews into a book with a title that shows he hasn't changed that much. it's published by simon & schuster, a division of cbs. >> so what do you say to those folks who dismiss you as this vulgar guy? i'm not going to read his book because he's that, you know, potty mouth guy. >> i'd like to say to them i think if they read this book, and you can learn something from it, what was it that drove them? what are they struggling with? there is a lot of human drama in these conversations. >> there was a meeting where john came in and said, hey, guys, i'm leaving the group. >> reporter: along with big gets like paul mccartney and madonna. >> that is how i flirt with people. >> look at that multibillionaire donald trump. >> reporter: the book includes several interviews with donald trump from the 1990s until right before the election. >> donald knows how to
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communicate. >> you say he's one of the best guests. >> he is one of the best guests ever. why? because as a radio guest he says whatever pops into his mind and he understands how to play that game. >> so he's a great radio guest. what do you think of him as a president? >> well, listen, he asked me to endorse him and i couldn't. >> you couldn't? >> i couldn't. donald and i disagree on a lot of things. i had to say to donald on the phone it was uncomfortable. i can't endorse you. i always had a good feeling about donald, but the presidency is a different story. you know, i don't sense his passion for it. i think he would much rather be at mar-a-lago. i've been to mar-a-lago and had dinner there. it's fantastic. it's like a dream. why would you want to leave? >> look at them. and they're all pretending to work. no. >> reporter: today stern has a staff of about 60. >> all right. time for news with robin. >> all right. the big news is -- >> sidekick robin quivers has
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been with him from the beginning and when she recently faced down cancer it shook him. >> did you allow yourself to think about what if i lose her? >> i cried. i cried like a baby. it was horrible. i just lost it. i couldn't control myself. i was like, oh, my god, robin, i'm going to lose robin, you know? i couldn't imagine my life without her. i don't know that i would even continue to do a radio show if i lose robin. i don't know how that would look. >> and then we have a whole big staging area back here. >> reporter: and then there was his open health scare. when he missed a day of work in 2017, he said he had the flu, but in truth he had surgery because doctors suspected a spot on his kidney was cancer. >> the weird thing about it was i couldn't admit it to the audience. i was afraid to. >> why? >> i didn't want to admit that i was somehow getting older and, you know, it brought out a lot of issues.
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i wasn't indestructible. i'm not superman. i'm human. and it hit me like a ton of bricks. >> reporter: turns out it wasn't cans? while he may not be superman, he and his wife beth are heros of a sort to a rather astounding number of rescue animals. >> now we've had over 1,000 cats come through our house and we've gotten homes for all of them. >> 1,000 cats? >> yeah, fartman now helps cats. >> seems like a fitting image for howard stern. declawed made, but sharper than ever. >> it sounds to me like this evolution is allowing you to get closer to people? >> i'm able to tell people what i think of them and how important they are without feeling ashamed. for so many years i was afraid to feel attachm here's a simple true-or-false quiz for you. if you're between age 50 and 85, it's important for you to know the truth, so please listen closely.
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if you haven't been to the international spy mutually in washington, d.c. in awhile, you might not recognize the place. it's almost like it's in disguise. the museum has just completed a major renovation and erroll barnett snuck inside for a look around. >> surely you recognize this guy to my right, country's first president, george washington. an actual letter he wrote in 1777. it's difficult to see, but it
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effectively establishing the country's very first spy network to take on the brits. this is where america's spy story begins, and this $162 million museum is reimagining what it means to be a spy. >> you'll be assigned a cover identity. >> reporter: this wouldn't be a spy museum without a voevert alias assigned to every visitor. >> nico damir from pueblo city, mexico. i'm a photographer. >> reporter: lead curator showed me the exhibit pulling back the spy on international spies. >> she didn't spy for very long. only really a few months and, of course, she ended her life really tragically. she was executed during world war i foris podge. >> reporter: you'll also find a high altitude flight suit on loan from the cia. >> the idea was to keep the pilot alive in the spy plane sos they could capture imagery from the skies.
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>> reporter: and this ice pick used to assassinate a soviet exile. >> you can still see actually the rust mark right on the blade there with the bloody fingerprint of the assassin. >> reporter: many if not most of the artifacts here in the new museum originated in my personal collection. >> this historian spent 45 years tracking down what he calls the nation's most obscure artifact. >> there is a hidden world before every newspaper headline. the true stories are even more fantastic than the fiction. >> reporter: like that of the so-called russian ten, a group of russian spies living as suburban couples, the inspiration for the tv program "the americans." >> my wife, elizabeth, page, henry. >> in the fbi this is their greatest counterintelligence success in history. >> reporter: computer images of
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flowers which the russians imbedded with secret messages are on display next to the handcuffs used to arrest anna chapman and nine others in 2010. good spying, milton says, prevents conflict. >> more wars are fought because of faulty information than good information. >> colonel chris costa is a former military intelligence officer in tand the museum's executive director. he explained why american intelligence failures like those that preceded 9/11 and the iraq wars are also on display. >> we don't always get it right and learning comes from success as well as failures. >> the key question being what? >> why was there an analytical failure? that's why we spy. >> reporter: one exhibit even comes with a warning. a room on enhanced interrogation, a practice now banned by the u.s. government. >> we show the evolution current day backward through history.
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♪a little respect police officers are bringing songs to kids on the streets of buffalo and they're not singing the blues. here is jeff glor. ♪ what's going on in that beautiful mind ♪ ♪ i'm on your magical mystery ride ♪ ♪ and i'm so dizzy don't know what hit me ♪ >> one is a former college basketball player. ♪ all to me >> the other a gospel singer. ♪ i give my all >> keep going. keep going. >> reporter: when they came together as cops, something clicked. >> boom. >> people are always saying, when are you guys ever going to start working?
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and it's like, well, we are working. this is how we work, though ♪ take me in to your loving arms ♪ >> reporter: after these officers were recorded singing inside a buffalo restaurant, their musical partnership became a sensation. >> can i put this on facebook? >> yeah, you can put it on facebook. >> people demand us to sing now. they won't take no for an answer. they don't care what's going on. i remember we had somebody pulled over. you're the singing cops, i want a song right now. sir, what about your license? >> you just broke the law. >> right. >> y'all went to school today? >> reporter: on a serious note, norwood and badger are using their music to connect with the community. >> you got to give me some for that. that's what i'm talking about. >> reporter: and they started a program called c.o. p.s. which stands for children overcoming police stereotypes through sports. they run basketball camps all over buffalo. >> does it change the opinion
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that people have of police officers, what you've been able to do? >> i think so. >> absolutely. >> it definitely changes the narrative of what we've seen. through building these relationships in these high schools and these grammar schools, now these same kids are not only embracing police officers, but now they're coming up to us saying, hey, man, i want to be like you. you know, in our community there's been a definitely a 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 ♪ >> reporter: when you listen it's not hard to see why. ♪ when it's cold outside, i got the month of♪ ♪ i guess you would say ♪ what can make me feel this way ♪ ♪ my girl ♪ my girl my girl ♪ ♪ talking bout my girl ♪ my girl >> i love it.
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>> and that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back a little later for "the morning news" and s this morning.. from the broadcast center in new from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler. it's tuesday, may 14th, 2019. this is the cbs morning news. mid air collision. at least four people are dead after two sight seeing planes collide in alaska. smart phones, guns, shoes, and gulf clubs, more than 4,000 chinese products could get hit with a new round of tariffs. meanwhile, president trump is promising relief to rm parers hurting from thesc
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