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in 30 minutes. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> quija ump administration explores "all options" to deal with iran. tensions escalate after the s ery attacks on two tankers in the persian gulf. >> there is a pattern that is disturbingly reminiscent of the run-up to the war in iraq. >> quijano: also tonight, ,utrage in hong kong. millions take to the streets again, demanding the city's leader resign over a controversial extradition bill. the mayor of phoenix says she's sick over this video... >> ( bleep ). >> ( bleep ), baby. >> quijano: ...showing a police encounter with a young family. too much rain has farmers struggling to stay afloat. and, facing with his own death, this man want to help as many kids as possible.
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>> i made sure they promised that when my time comes, that this will keep going. it has to. >> quijano: good evening. i'm elaine quijano. the trump administration says the world must unite. it is working to build a global consensus that iran was behind the attacks on two oil tankers. so far, only britain and saudi arabia are backing the case. errol barnett is at the white house. >> united states is considering a full range of options. >> reporter: secretary of state mike pompeo told "face the nation" that a military response against iran is just one possibility following thursday's attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. the u.s. released this image of what appears to be an unexploded mine attached to the starboard side of one vessel. and the department of defense says this video shows iran's revolutionary guard removing that mine. germany's foreign minister said
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he is not convinced this video proves iran is to blame. >> this was taken from an american camera. the world needs to unite against this threat from islamic republic of iran. >> reporter: democrats are resisting a military response. >> where this administration might be leading us on a path to war that could get away from this white house very quickly. >> reporter: other democrats today beat the drum for impeachment of the president. congresswoman ocasio-cortez says momentum is growing. >> we need to at least open an inquiry so that we can look at what is going on. >> reporter: president trump insists he did not obstruct justice, and says the constitution allowed him to fire special counsel robert mueller if he wanted to. >> article 2 allows me to do whatever i want. >> reporter: now republicans, like senator lindsey graham, believe that a democratic focus on impeachment will only help the president get re-elected. and today, the south carolina senator was president trump's golf partner. elaine? >> quijano: all right, errol barnett, thank you.
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on the road to 2020, a new cbs news battleground tracker poll looks at potential voters in 18 states that will determine who ultimately wins the democratic nomination. it's early, but the poll shows joe biden is still leading. senators elizabeth warren and bernie sanders are behind him. senator kamala harris rounds out the top tier. joining us now with more is cbs news' director of elections and surveys, anthony salvanto. so anthony, we see joe biden in the lead, but what is the real size of the field that voters are considering? >> elaine, when you look at all the candidates voters say they are considering, even if they are not voting for them right now, you see a bitter race. they are considereing biden but also warren, harris, sanders, to a lesser extent, buttigieg. >> quijano: and what does electability mean and who is seen as electabile? >> they certaiinly prioritize, democrats say they have to be convinced somebody can beat
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trump before they will vote for them. biden is in the lead in that sense. most democrats think he can. the other seem to be 50/50 propositions in the minds of democrats, that is a case they have to make. >> quijano: well, is there a difference between progressives and moderates on what voters want from a candidate? >> it appear there is right now. o u have folks who say they would like the party to advance a more progressive agenda than they ever have before. they're for biden, but just as much for warren or sanders. but the folks who would like a more moderate candidate, one who returned to past administration policies more, they are more for joe biden. and that is a division i think we watch closely going forward, elaine. >> quijano: all right, anthony salvanto, thank you. in hong kong, the outrage is not letting up. around two million opponents were back on the streets today demanding the city's leader resign. she supports an extradition bill that would send people to china to face trial and an uncertain future. ramy inocencia is there.
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>> reporter: consumed by anger and clad in black, a crush of protesters marched through hong kong again today, denouncing the government, and by extension, beijing. they're furious with their leader, cheif executive carrie lam, hand picked by china's communist leaders. we are now in the thick of hong kong's black march. the route is so clogged, so many people have come out, we're moving in fits and starts as you can see. but the people are defiant, angry, holding all of these placards and saying "carrie lam, arief executive, resign." >> pause and think. >> reporter: on saturday, she hit the pause button indefinitely on controversial extradition legislation which could send people into china's olbious legal system. violence wednesday forced the government to backpedal. police were accused of using excessive force. several dozen people were hurt. a protester hanging a banner fell to his death on saturday night, adding to the outrage. today, citizens paid their
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respects before joining the masses. do you think this will have an effect? >> i am not quite sure if we can do anything to affect the decisions of the government. but i just understand, if we do g thing today, nothing will be changed in the future. >> reporter: after sunset, carrie lam did apologize, but only on paper. and as you can see, the crowds y,re have only gotten bigger and they have only gotten more resolute, elaine. >> quijano: all right, ramy roocencia, thanks. the mayor of phoenix is apologizing following a video that shows a controversial confrontation between the city's police and a young family. officers are seen pointing guns and threatening to shoot a gther who was with his pregnant fiancee and two children. here is jonathan vigliotti. >> reporter: cell phone video captures the chaos. oe
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>> reporter: as phoenix police officers at times sounded like hitmen. >> reporter: inside this s.u.v., dravon ames and his pregnant fiancee iesha harper, along her two young children. >> he needs to slow down, those kids is right there. lo reporter: the woman behind this cell phone video asking to take the kids. >> excuse me, can i get the kids? me reporter: the crime that sparked it all? a doll, allegedly taken by one of the children from a nearby family dollar store. police say a pack of underwear was also shoplifted. it happened on may 27th. on twitter phoenix's mayor says the police response was beyond upsetting. >> i'm disappointed. i'm sorry, i apologized to the family. >> reporter: under growing scrutiny, the police chief responded today. >> this is not the type of behavior you should see from a phoenix police officer.
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>> reporter: the children were eventually handed over to that good samaritan and later returned to the mother who, along with the fiance, was released from police custody. the store manager, declining to prosecute. the officers have been placed on desk duty pending an investigation. the family, now suing the city for $10 million. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, los angeles. >> quijano: authorities say an off-duty police officer acted in self-defense in a deadly shooting inside a costco near los angeles. officials say he was holding his child when he was attacked by a 32-year-old man. kenneth french was killed and two of his family members were wounded. the officer's child is okay. target is telling customers not to worry about this weekend's massive computer crash. the company says it was caused by an internal technical issue and that no personal information was taken. registers were down nationwide for about two hours. severe storms are expected today from texas to the east coast. several tornadoes cut a path of destruction through indiana and oklahoma saturday.
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another twister ripped the roof off a high school near indianapolis. meteorologist jeff berardelli is here with more. so jeff, what are you seeing? >> elaine, it has been an extremely active 24 hours. you see the red dots, 20 reports of tornadoes in the past 24 hours. but that's not all. wind damages reports 120 reports of winds up to 85, 90 miles an hour in some areas. all right, so the threat is not over yet. we will see more showers and storms from the ohio valley, especially a bull's eye in texas around waco and austin. and overnight tonight, you may wake up to thunder in washington d.c. the other big story, baking in california, some spots 100 to 110 degrees, especially in the valleys. the worst of it is probably wednesday, we could break some records. now as we look ahead, through the week into next week, heavy rain is the threat. once again, the relentless rain continues in the eastern half of the country from missouri and mississippi rivers, east of the east coast, 2 to 4 inches, some
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places as much as eight inches. that is the short term. in the longer-term, since the 1950s, we see a major uptick in the amount of downpours, in the midwest, ohio valley and northeast especially and as long as we continue to warm the climate we'll continue to see heavier rain and more flooding. >> quijano: all right, jeff, thank you. that rain has caused historic flooding this spring for farmers in the midwest and plains struggling with their crops. this is the slowest start to the corn planting season on record. tariffs are only adding to the pain. here's dean reynolds. >> reporter: you planted here? >> yes, this is all planted dig down, you'll find it. >> reporter: you almost need a microscope to spot dave kestle's corn crop this spring. >> that one is giving it up already. >> reporter: really? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: usually knee-high by now, his corn plants are just green specks in a sea of brown dirt. >> i doubt that, even now that i have uncovered it, if that one
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would survive. >> reporter: record rainfall in april and may forced kestle to aklay planting for six weeks finishing the job just yesterday. but now that his seeds are in the ground, all it takes are a couple of sunny days to bake the dirt rock hard. >> he is fighting hard to try to come up. but he was under this. >> reporter: kestle says he needs a perfect balance of sun and rain to even approach last year's corn and soybeans harvest. what do you think the odds of having a perfect balance between sun and rain? >> just go to vegas instead. i think your odds are better. >> reporter: the weather is a problem in a time the trump administration is waging a trade war with china, where u.s. soybean exports have fallen about 80%, a decline that could mean a $3 billion loss for american farmers. but kestle supports mr. trump, and believes his tariff policy is a way to get better trade deals. >> he seems harsh right now, but he's a businessman and he's trying to make this fair trade. that's all he is trying to do is make it fair. >> reporter: do you think he is
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succeeding? >> i think he's gaining ground. >> reporter: farmers, he says, have to be optimists. dean reynolds, cbs news, manhattan, illinois. >> quijano: britain's prince harry is celebrating his very first father's day. he and his wife meghan posted this beautiful photo of harry cradling their son archie while the six-week-old clutches his father's finger. absolutely lovely. coming up on the "cbs weekend news," why a netflix series is putting prosecutors on defense. later, we visit the small factory town building the future high speed train. speed train. about helping her raise her first child. and when i was first diagnosed, my choice was everyday verzenio. it's the only one of its kind that can be taken every day.
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here's michelle miller. >> reporter: in a "wall street journal" op-ed, linda fairstein said "when they see us" is "full of distortions and falsehoods" and misleadingly depicts her as a "bigot" and "evil mastermind." the four-part series details the 1989 conviction of five black and latino teens accused of raping a white woman after a night of rioting in new york's central park. it depicts coerced confessions, overzealous law enforcement and race-based prejudice. yusef salaam, antron mccay, kevin richardson, korey wise, and raymond santana recounted their experience to maurice dubois on "cbs sunday morning." >> i'm hearing korey being physically beaten in the next room. and i'm immediately beyond afraid. >> reporter: a judge threw out
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the convictions in 2002, relying on d.n.a. evidence and a new confession from another man, but not until after the so-called central park five spent six to 13 years in prison. fairstein denies the confessions were coerced, and said there was "certainly more than enough evidence to support those convictions" for the attacks on several other victims that night. >> miss fairstein continues to miss the big picture points. >> reporter: attorney barry scheck helped start the innocence project, which represents defendants wrongfully convicted. >> if that videotaping had happened, from the time these young men got miranda warnings until the end of the interrogation, none of this would have happened. all of those coercive techniques would have been exposed. >> reporter: what is the lesson learned here? >> we have to check these interrogation techniques, because there is too much coercive interrogation going on. to this day. >> reporter: fallout from the series has been swift. fairstein, now a best-selling author, has been dropped by her publisher, and resigned from several boards.
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and last week, prosecutor elizabeth lederer said she would not return to teaching at columbia law school after student protests. the school dean says the netflix series has "reignited a painful and vital national conversation about race, identity and criminal justice." michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> quijano: still ahead on the "cbs weekend news," why amtrak is banking on these new acela trains to speed into the future. future. my dad has roots in the mountains of northern mexico. home to the strongest runners in the universe. my dad's ancestors were african bantu. i bet they told the most amazing stories. with new features and richer stories... ...ancestrydna can show dad where he's from- and strengthen the bonds you share. it's only $59. give it to dad for father's day.
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>> quijano: we're getting a sneak peek at the future high speed rail in the u.s. the next generation of acela will hold more people, be safer and travel faster. here is kris van cleave. >> reporter: inside this sprawling western new york factory, the future of america's high-speed rail is starting to avke shape, in the same spot where trains have been serviced, built and rehabbed since the 1850s. stanley hall is the third generation stanley hall to work here. >> it is not just my father and grandfather. you know, my brother comes in here and works. i had several cousins that worked here. when i was first hired, my uncle helped me a lot get in here. >> reporter: they start as a shell, before some of the 800 who work in this hornell, new york, plant build them into the trains that will replace
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amtrak's aging high speed rail network, acela. it is a boon for hornell, a city of about 8,200 people. mayor john buckley. >> there's been an infusion of people, of capital and an infusion of culture here in the city of hornell, which we're all very appreciative of. el reporter: former delta airlines c.e.o. richard anderson now runs amtrak. how important to the future of amtrak is the new acela? >> it is incredibly important. it really lays out a clear vision for what short haul, inner-city passenger rail transportation can do for this country. >> reporter: the updated acela trains are faster. they will hold about 380 people, that's 25% more passengers than the old ones, and are designed to tilt as they take turns, allowing them to go faster. amtrak's most lucrative corridor, linking boston, new york and d.c., will see a cut in travel time by at least 15 minutes. >> we've got to position amtrak to have a modenr product that a millenial wants to get on, with high speed wi-fi, craft beers
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and reliable schedules that beat buses, cars and airplanes. the new model meets new stronger crafts-worthiness standards and designed not to jack-knife guarding against the derailment that killed eight people when an amtrak 188 took a turn too fast near philadelphia in 2015. >> they are the most modern trains in the world. amtrak will be a different, more modern experience. coupled with that, even though the passenger won't know it, they will be the safest trains they can ride. >> reporter: amtrak is 48 years old. the railroad predicts they are on track to break even for the first time by 2021, when the new acela will start racing along the northeast corridor. stanley hall plans to be one of the first passengers. >> just going to be, you know, just pride, you know, because i know somewhere on that train there is going to be a plaque that said that this was manufactured in hornell, new york. >> reporter: kris van cleave, has news, hornell, new york. >> quijano: up next, how a sudden change in fortune turned a volunteer deputy into the
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bob charland is the man behind pedal for youth, visiting schools in poor neighborhoods to reward kids who do well with a bicycle. >> kids that live in poverty see the worst of law enforcement. there is a higher crime rate in poverty areas, so police are constantly in there. so now maybe some day when this kid grows up, he will say, my first bike came from a cop. >> we have well over a thousand bikes down here. >> reporter: so far, bob's group has given away nearly 1,100 bikes. that would be impressive enough if that was the whole story. it is not. how do you describe what is going on with your health? >> my brain is deteriorating. >>r:eebo charland is ck. very sick. >> i have a tumor in my frontal lobe. >> reporter: do you have any idea how much time you have left? >> two years ago, they said my s late80s. >> reporter: which is why charland is filled with a sense of urgency these days.
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so many people would look at you and say, if i had weeks or months, hopefully longer, but if that is what i had left, i would be sitting on a beach somewhere. >> nah. what is that going to do? >> reporter: not a bad scene, in terms of describing how spending your life. >> this is a beautiful scene. >> reporter: because what does it for him, is doing for others, as he told his team. >> and i made sure they promised me that when my time comes, and tleave, that this going to keep going. it has to. >> reporter: with the number of bicycles he's collected to give away, that is one worry bob charland can cross off his list. jim axelrod, cbs news, springfield, massachusetts. >> quijano: a beautiful gift that is the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm elaine quijano at the broadcast center in new york city. for all of us at cbs news, happy
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father's d , and good night. now at 6:00, a wild night on 101. chp was working a crash on one side of the freeway when cars began piling up on the other. what some ridesharing companies are doing to try to avoid treating their drivers like employees. too many seem to think good intentionings excuse. a powerful message to his silicon valley peers in the process. i'm juliette goodrich. >> i'm brian hackney. uber and lyft are trying to stop a proposed state law that officially defines its drivers as employees.
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the companies are using some questionable tactics. >> there's a bill that would require companies like huber and lyft to treat their drivers like applied, now we learn the companies are going through the apps they use to interface with their drivers to try to get the drivers to sign a petition. >> what happened when i press to go to uber, i get a notification and the notification says protect drivers' flexibility. >> reporter: notifications on the uber and lyft apps for drivers are usually preserved for important messages. >> it shows you recent changes to calif
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