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were warning signs. only 25% of active shooters have been diagnosed with menly loaners. and 27%ed a online ped. >> not at all. all of the shooters in our study, planned and prepared. many shooters spent almost two years, planning their attack. >> reporter: the fbi and the police here are still trying to determine how long this gunman was planning his attack. >> jeff pegues, in virginia beach tonight. thank you, jeff. rain is expected to keep falling across the central u.s. this week. the arkansas river hit a record
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flood record this weekend. floods have wiped out $5 millio. there's more flooding along the mississippi, missouri and illinois rivers. tonight, the u.s. and iran have hardened their positions. tensions are simmering. iran has rejected mike pompeo's offer to negotiate, saying no talks until sanctions are lifted. there's a u.s. aircraft area waiting to get onboard. >> reporter: from the deck of "uss abraham lincoln," avoiding for a war, is similar to preparing for with un. 180 in surveillance in training runs a day. u.s. forces regularly patrol
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these waters. but this aircraft carrier was sent here specifically in response for the iranian threat. rear admiral john f.g. wade decussed specifics. what makes this situation unique? >> it's unique because there's credible threats against our forces and others in this reg n region. >> reporter: have you been told about the threats? >> i've seen the intelligence and they're credible. >> reporter: credible enough for john bolton to redirect the jlyn lincoln, along with troops. the national security adviser said sending this strike group is sending a message. what is that? >> we are here.
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we're ready. fully prepared and ready to go. >> reporter: they may have to be. washington has warned that tehran will be met with fierce retaliation. cha it is tuesday, june 4th in china. the 30th an verse of a crackdown of a movement in teiananmen square. china appears to be more happen in wiping the incident from history. elizabeth palmer went to beijing. >> reporter: on june 4th, 1989, weeks of demonstrations and beijing's tiananmen square ended in mass murder. cbs cameras recorded chinese soldiers hooting unarmed
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civilians. most of them students. one of t student leaders survived. he had to fly into exile. >> i'm a survivor of a massacre. >> reporter: a massacre no one talks about in china. posing as tourists, we went there. tourists have to show i.d. and there's surveillance cameras everywhere. it's hard to imagine this vast square filled with passionate students demanding for freedom. the chinese government have erased any reminder from those events. and it's worked. we showed some of the photographs to young events? >> i think so. >> reporter: no idea in what country? >> i have no idea.
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>> reporter: minutes later, the police showed up. we ended up in custody for six hours. consumerism and capitalism have eclipsed those for people. one person who risked his life for the cause, says tiananmen makes the chinese party nervous. >> reporter: elizabeth palmer, cbs news, beijing. there has been a grim turn in the search for eight
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you know, it's been a tragic climbing season in the himala himalayas. on one of india's highest peaks, a journey ended with a grim discovery. >> reporter: the search for survivors in the himalayas has become a recovery mission. a local official confirming five bodies were found by chopper, tethered together. of this group of eight professional climbers, three are still missing, feared buried by an avalanche.
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this pair has a passion for adventure. according to the family of the british expedition leader, the team went out to claim an unnamed summit. >> he wanted to search for new routes and places. >> reporter: the group l f base camp on may 13th and stayed in contact. communication was lost on may 26th, as they approached the summit. search crews lost three excepts as they were scheduled to return. this is one of the latest in the deadliest climbing seasons. bad weather and long lines were 11 culprits in the deaths of iconic mt. everest. the desire to stand on the latest, is trying even the most experience. when we come back, hundreds of jets may have faulty parts.
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need to be fixed, including the 737 maxes. that line is getting a software upgrade after two deadly crashes overseas. look at this. a 900-foot cruise ship crashed into a smaller boat and a peer. the crash re-ignited calls to have large ships banned from veni venice's waterways. the result of today's final "jeopardy!" was leaked. i apologize in advance. james holzhauer was closing in on becoming the show's all-time winningest champ. and here's what happened. >> what did you wager? what a payday. >> a high-five with the champion. it ended with about $60,000 shos
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decade ago. reporte lease may have been new orleans royalty. but in her palace, the queen knew how to serve. born in 1923, she waited tables in the french quarter before she transformed a cafe into a fine dining restaurant in the 1950s. >> it was a safe haven for all of us. >> reporter: she broke segregation laws by providing a space for white and black activists to meet. we paid her a visit in 2015, just another highlight of our 25-year friendship. >> no matter what you do on this earth, you have to do it and do
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it well. >> reporter: she even served as the inspiration behind disney's first african-american princess. one of her most treasured awards is the 2016 james beard for lifetime achievement. >> in some ways, we change the course of america. and i say we change the course of america over a bowl of gumbo. >> reporter: lea chase died saturday. she was 96 years old. that's a wrap. that's "the overnight news" for this tuesday. for some, the news continues. for others, check back later in the morning. from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm david begna begnaud. we'll see you later tonight on "the cbs evening news."
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this is "the cbs overnight news." >> welcome to "the overnight news." i'm meg oliver. the president will meet with prime minister theresa may just days before she leaves office. and he'll try to avoid the thousands of demonstrators who plan to take to the streets today to protest his visit. ben tracy is traveling with the president. >> reporter: white ties and tiaras, at a dinner fit for a queen and a president. inside the palace, and several members looking on, queen
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elizabeth toasted the special relationship between the two countries. >> mr. president, as we look to the future, i'm confident that our shared values and interests, will continue to unite us. >> reporter: president trump continued the favor. >> i offer a toast to the eternal friendship of our people. the official royal welcome came earlier in the day in the palace garden. the attire, undeniably british. the music, unmistakenly american. the royals are masters of pomp. but the circles are unique. trump insulted his royal host, just days before he arrived. calling out prince harry's wife, the american, meghan markle, for her criticism of him during the 2016 election. >> she said she would move to canada if you got elected. instead, she moved to britain.
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>> there's a lot of people moving here. i didn't know she was nasty. >> reporter: the president made it on camera and a tweet. in london, the president did what presidents do, including laying a wreath at the unknown warrior. but again, it's what he said, that is creating diplomatic drama. at the eve of his visit, he outdoing criticized theresa may for her brexit negotiations, while praising boris johnson in the middle of an election. and minutes before he came to mayor, he called the mayor of london, a loser. some believe that trump did not deserve a state visiting, preferring to the royal family
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roll up the red carpet. some of the president's comments may fuel protests that were planning to take place tomorrow. also tomorrow, more of the ceremonial events get under way tomorrow. and he has a meeting with prime minister may. a search continues in the himalayas for a group to be the first-ever to climb that highest big. jonathan vigliotti reports on the rescue mission. >> reporter: the search for survivors in the himalayas has become a recovery mission. a local official confirming five bodies were found potogether in the snow. of the groups of eight professional climbers, three are feared missing. according to family of british expedition leader, martin moran, the team had set out to attempt
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an unclimbed, unnamed summit. >> we wanted to go search for new things, new routes and new places. >> reporter: the group stayed in regular contact. communication was abruptly lost on may 26th. search crews launched helicopters three days after the team was scheduled to return. today's grizzly discovery is one of the latest in the main climbing seasons. bad the death-defying drive to stand on top of the world, is proving fatal for even the most experience. jonathan vigliotti, cnn, los angeles. apple held its product reveal. and itunes is going the way of the ipod. >> i listened to that.
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the innovation of the apple sign-on. this is apple taking a shot at the way facebook and google is using our data. >> we're not taking a shot at anybody. we're focused on the user app and the user wants to go across numerous properties on the web, without being surveillance. we're moving privacy protections forward. and i think it's a reasonable request for people to make. >> reporter: do you think facebook cares about our private security? >> i think people are caring more. many people are getting more offe offended. this is good. we need to shine a light on it. you can imagine an environment from everyone begins to think there's no privacy. if there's no privacy, your freedom of expression just plummets. now, you're thinking about everybody is going to know everything you're doing. this is not good for our
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country. not good for democracy. a solemn memorial was held in virginia beechl, for the dozen people killed in a mass chute i shooting. >> reporter: in a short e-mail, dewayne craddock quit his job, citing personal reasons. >> we ran in there. i turned. and i said, come on. he said, i'm going to check on other people, barricade yourself in. >> reporter: lakeeta brown worked for the city 4 1/2 years. we spoke to her father today. sf >> reporter: the city employees had active shooter training.
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john dudley works in the building but left for the day before the shooting started. >> they trade you on these situations. >> active shooter trains. hide, fight, run. >> reporter: the gunman was described by quiet but normal. one employee said he saw him brushing his teeth before the rampage. no one is suggesting that there were warning signs. according to this fbi report, only 25% of active shooters have been diagnosed with mental illness. shooters aren't typically loaners. and 27% had online interaction. it's not accurate to say someone just snapped. >> not at all. in fact, what we found was, all of the shooters in our study, planned and prepared. many shooters spent almost two years, planning their attack. >> reporter: the fbi and the police here are still trying to
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this is "the cbs overnight news." >> today marks the 30th anniversary of china's brutal crackdown on protesters in tiananmen square, the government's murderous response to a pro-democracy sit-in, is being remembered around the world but not in china. >> reporter: the enduring image of a lone man standing up to tanks has been a symbol of the showdown of tiananmen square and hard-liners in the communist party who ordered in the army. shooting.th,ols oug the square
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one of leade escape. 30 years later, living in exile, he is still haunted. we were going to send in police with their batons. >> reporter: in fact, they sent in troops and tanks. hundreds, maybe thousands, died. we went back to tiananmen square. still, such a sensitive location, that visitors have to show i.d. just to get in. nowhere in this vast square is there any reminder of events of 30 years ago. not a statue. not a monument, not even a tiny ue.aven from chineseis
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at whpewhen we ot you c nm passersby. can you recognize this country? >> what country? >> reporter: minutes later, the police showed up and held and detained us for six hours. even 30 years on, tiananmen rain prove a dangerous precedent. >> people stand up in the history of the people's republic of china. >> reporter: in tend, the chine chine chine chinese -- the young man on tiananmen square, it hurts. are you a heartbroken man? >> yes. yes. i have to live with the quilt. >> i suppose there's two ways to see it.
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accused of nonviolent crimes out of jail before their trial. >> anger got the better of me. anger got the better of me. >> reporter: it was meant to be a no it to another lel.2017 he got so frustrated with his loud neighbors, instead of just knocking on their door, surveillance cameras show him pointing a handgun at the door and kicking it. then, the gun went off. >> that's a crazy, dangerous, irresponsible, uncalled for thing to do. but that's what i did and garst. er. >> reporter: no one was hurt, but this cab driver knew he was in trouble. discharging a firearm, but he
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found himself facing murder charges. so, he went to jail. pretrial detention is what it's called. how long did you think you would be in there? >> i thought i would be there for a few days before people came to their senses and charged me with what i did. >> reporter: what happened instead? >> i spent six months in jail for pricrimes i never committed. >> reporter: bill was locked up for one reason. he didn't have enough money to buy his freedom. he's not alone. it's estimated 60% of the people in jail today, 60%, haven't been convicted of anything. >> the estimates i've seen are more than 450,000 people today are in jail, just because they can't pay bail. >> almost 500,000 people. >> exactly. it's unfair for taxpayers for no
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public safety benefit. there's no rationale behind the money bail system. >> repoter: phil is the director of a nonprofit dedicated to scrapping the cash bail system entirely, across the country. >> we're not arguing that everyone has to be released or stay in jail. we're arguing that wealth status should not be who stays in jail and who is released. >> reporter: in the constitution, it's the 14th amendment that guaranteed equal protection under the law. but it's the eighth amendment, saying the bail should not be x exce excessive. a detroit man faced two years after he fired a paint gun at a police car. even though he had a clean record, the judge set fwbail at
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$30,000. >> 30,000? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: the purpose of bail was to allow people to pay it and incentivize them to come back to court. >> reporter: what has it become now? >> it's punishment. >> reporter: robin has watched the impact of cash bail untravel her clients' lives for years. >> they can go home. >> reporter: right then, they're not thinking about what that means on their record. they want to get out of jail. >> sure. i stand there helpless of a public defender, you're not guilty. and they say, i don't care. i need to get back to my life and my job. >> reporter: private bail bond companies get people out of jail all the time. it's a $2 million a year industry. >> we understand that people don't have that money sitting around. bail provides that. >> reporter: gloria mitchell is
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a second generation bail bondsman in pomona, california. >> reporter: her fee is 10% of the bail amount. that's money the accused defenders don't get back, even if they're innocent. that's what happened to alex, after he says he was wrongly accused of attacking a man on the street near his home. >> i never put my hands on him. >> reporter: and he was arrested. bail at $150,000. knoll only did he have two care givers, he was the only care giver for his grandma. he turned to 10% of his bond, and it cost him $15,000. >> i owe $8,500. >> reporter: you will be paying that for -- >> for many years. >> reporter: because of an accusation. >> a false accusation, yes. >> reporter: a judge threw out his case shortly after his bond
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was posted. had he paid the bail himself, he would have godden all of it back. it's stories like that, and worse, that given robin steinberg an idea. why not step in and pay bail for those who need it the most and do it at no cost to them? >> the bail concept is providing an emergency crisis of people willin who are only there because they don't have enough money to pay their bail. >> reporter: she amassed a pot of money to use to bail out one client after another, without losing a cent. >> if you come out of bail, it will go over to somebody else. >> reporter: so far, the revo e revolving fund has bought the freedom of 5,000 people last year. >> the amount of 15,150. >> 96% people come back for the
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court appearance. >> 96%. >> and sometimes, they go on, not just for months, but for years. >> a stranger to help you is a hero. > >> reporter: lamal edwards didn't have the money to get his bike on the sidewalk. without his bail, he sat in jail for five days. that time behind bars cost him his job. >> i'm being punished before i was sentenced. >> reporter: he was trying to find other work, but no one would hire him as his case winded through the legal system. >> reporter: after two years of fighting, the charges against ramel were dropped. he was later hired by the bail project, to go bac new york city jail, where he had given up hope, to give home to
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someone else. >> i'm a hero in training. >> reporter: this woman is also working with the bail project. we found her itself of detroit's wayne county jail, who had been waiting for her partner, brian. he lost his job because he couldn't make bail. and karina had to quit hers. >> i wasn't getting help from anybody. >> reporter: for those who worry there's a public safety risk for releasing those accused but not convicted, phil says, they need to look no further than the nation's capital. washington, d.c., did away with its bail system in 1962. and statistics show it has not led to increase in crime. >> nair not given a price tag.
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they're told to come back to court. in some cases, a judge will decide if someone is too dangerous. in washington, that's 10% in the past. >> reporter: there's growing efforts to change the system across the country. nearly a dozen states have legislation spending. new york, just moved one step the closer to eliminate cash bail. it's controversial, to be sure. and it's being fought tooth and kneel for the industry. >> you're talking about 3,000 bail agents just losing their jobs. nobody wants to hear that part of it. they think we're here for the money. >> reporter: any kind of reform is too late for bill, who was punished before he ever saw a day in court.
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when that day came, he was acquitted on all charges. when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you.
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if you're one of those people with a fear of heights, you may want to hold on during the next series. it's about a foot bridge in the smokey mountains of tennessee, with a view to take your breath away. mark strassmann took a walk across. >> reporter: the new sky bridge is tough to beat for a mountain
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panoramic. it spans 680 feet. every step takes a claim as the best seat in the smoky mountains. this bridge was his idea. >> it opened up a view that's unbelievable. >> reporter: in 2016, the great smoky mountain fire nearly burned gatlinburg off of the map. flames damaged or destroyed 14 buildings. >> how close did the flames get? >> they came across right where you and i are sitting. >> reporter: bridge conduction took nine months and steel cable capable of holding 500 people at once. in the middle of the bridge, there's a surprise. 15 feet of pure glass. it's like walking on air. if you have any fear of heights,
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the freakout factor is high. for many people there's only one way to walk away, don't. >> are you ready?eporhi the vie you didn't expect, of people bridging their ducks. like this indiana family. is it just the heights thing? >> yeah. it don't feel sturdy at all. >> reporter: i've walked out on it 100-plus times now. you to stop and look. >> reporter: seeing past -- the mountains, ooh it ooh es all abo all about the view. that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news. and you don't want to miss "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm meg oliver.
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it's tuesday, june 4th, 2019. this is the cbs morning news. high stakes, president trump is set to meet with britain's outgoing prime minister this morning, the controversial issues he plans to address days before theresa may steps down. rising concern, more than a dozen counties along the arkansas river bracing for more record flooding, the big business this disaster is now impacting across the u.s. we're going to say good-bye to james, too. >> and final jeopardjeopardy, h winning streak has come to an
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