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the goat was pulled out to safety. >> that was riveting. thank you, that is it for us at five, we will see you back here at six. >> thanks so much, we will see you at 6:00. >> quijano: deportation ultimatum, president trump gives esmocrats a last chance to negotiate immigration reform. if not delayed raids will begin. >> his threats are meant to terrorize good communities like nhe ones in oakland. >> quijano: also tonight cyber- strike. trikions escalate between the u.s. and iran on a digital battle field. look out. a hot air balloon makes a hard landing in missouri. a deepening mystery-- what is killing the gray whales on the west coast? and hurricane hawkins, setting records at 103. >> i hope i'm inspiring them to be healthy. and to realize you can still be
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doing it at this kind of an age. >> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano. president trump is standing firm on his decision to delay the deportations of thousands of people living in the country rylegally. this after an about face on the controversial issue yesterday and making new demands on democrats. errol barnett is at the white house. >> reporter: president trump ignored questions as he returned to the white house today. but he was talking. >> we're doing a fantastic job under the circumstances. >> reporter: in a newly released interview, president trump praised his administration's treatment of detained migrants and their families despite criticism of the conditions at border facilities. he also blames democrats for the .roblems. >> if they changed asylum and loopholes, everything on the border would be perfect. p reporter: this weekend the president reversed himself and hlayed his plan to catch and pport illegal immigrants
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including families. it happened after house speaker nancy pelosi spoke with the president on friday, requesting a postponement. she welcomed the news tweeting "families belong together." for those feeling threatened, senator kamala harris offers this: t there are those of us who wll fight for you and your rights every day. my message to them is do not live in fear. >> reporter: the democratic mayor of oakland, california, did not pull her punches saying te president's rhetoric is causing harm. >> his threats are meant to terrorize good communities like e e ones in oakland. >> reporter: after overnighting at camp david president trump sient much of today at his virginia golf course before returning here to the white huse. and he described his decision to delay today's deportations as a last chance for democrats-- or else. eilane. >> quijano: errol barnett, thank nett president trump says new
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sanctions will be imposed on iran as soon as tomorrow. tensions are rising quickly following last week's shoot down of a u.s. unmanned drone with new american attacks in cyberspace. charlie d'agata is monitoring onvelopments in the region where iranians are reacting to increasing pressure. >> reporter: iran's leaders may not want war, but lawmakers in parliamentoday were shouting "death to america." iranian president hassan rouhani again accused the u.s. of violating iranian airspace while president trump tempered warnings with a sense of only. >> hopefully we can get iran back on to an economic track that is fantastic where they are a really wealthy nation, which would be a wonderful thing. all those things i want to do. t reporter: iranian state tv tas been broadcasting video oarporting to show the missile that was launched to bring the drone down and debris plucked
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from iran territorial waters. in jerusalem, john bolton warned tehran not to mistake president trump's a bankrupted decision to off military strikes for weakness. >> no one has granted them a hunting license in the middle east. as president trump said on friday, our military is rebuilt, new and ready to go. >> reporter: with tensions escalating the u.s. maintains several military options in this region and president trump says none of them is off the table. and there is another front to this conflict. the u.s. cyber-operation against iranian forces, just another example of the shadow war between these two countries. no surprise iranian authorities have not commented. elaine. >> quijano: charlie d'agata, thank you. >> the trump administration's
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strategy of putting maximum pressure on iran doesn't just rely on diplomacy or military might. u.s. economic sanctions are already in full force. a handful of countries have wceived waivers to keep buying oil from iran. but those waivers have now expired. iraq, though, still has a waiver ror iran to fulfill its energy needs. here's roxana saberi. b reporter: when baghdad bakes under the searing sun, it cools down with the help of one of iraq's newest treasures. a power plant running on technology from america and natural gas. from iran? es yes, from iran. >> reporter: but the trump administration, that is a problem. a is imposed harsh sanctions on iran and wants to stop them to tly on the east for energy. that worries engineer saman saed. if you had to shut this down tomorrow what would happen to haghdad? >> they would die.
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pl reporter: die? because people wouldn't have electricity? >> yes. >> reporter: even now iraq is barely coping. this is a typical neighborhood in baghdad. it looks like pretty much any street in the middle east but we oave to tilt the camera up to tell this story. dhis tangled web of wires links homes to unofficial power tations run out of backyards like this one. this diesel powers how many home homes in this neighborhood? >> about 25. >> every day whenever the official grid runs out of electricity, shihab al naseri turns on the generator sending neighbors 10 more hours of power. last summer power shortages in southern iraq sent protestors teto the streets. >> we are making progress. >> iraq's new minister of electricity says this country has enough resources to generate its own power eventually. >> it's just a matter of time, 2-3 years. >> reporter: al khateeb believes more cuts to power could lead to instability and not just in his
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otuntry. >> we're talking about the safety of the middle east. >> reporter: but the hope here h that the trump administration will keep letting iraq get its energy from iran so that long hot summers like this will cool off and the lights in baghdad illl stay on. roxana saberi, cbs news, baghdad. >> quijano: north korean dictator kim jung-un says he has received a personal letter from esesident trump. the country's state-run news agency says it is of "excellent content." talks to de nuclearize the country broke down last february. president trump travels to south korea next weekend. kendreds of people gathered today in new hampshire to mourn seven bikers killed in a devastating crash. among the dead, active and former marines and their spouses riding to a long planned usremony for motorcycle enthusiasts. officials say a pickup truck towing a flatbed trailer collided with the motorcyclists
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on a rural two lane highway. the pickup driver was not hurt, police are investigating. now to hawaii where family and friends are mourning the livers lost in one the state's worst sivilian aviation disasters. investigators are searching for clues about why a twin engine plane crashed on oahu's mortgage shore late friday. jonathan vigliotti is there. >> i looked over, big old ball of fire, wow. >> reporter: carlos zepata works for oahu parachute center the company whose plane crashed at e llingham airfield friday, killing all 11 on board. >> what a shame. i saw it hit. i was right there, man. i was right there. i had heard the boom. >> reporter: zepata drove the customers to their sunset tandem flights, one of the last people to speak to the victims before vie crash. that must have been a moment of disbelief for you. >> yeah, it was, it was.
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>> oh my god. >> reporter: the n.t.s.b. is combing through the charred wreckage investigating what caused the twin turbine beechcraft king air to fall out of the sky. heong the victims skydiving instructors larry leplaster, casey williamson and mike martin. another victim, joshua drablos graduated from the naval academy. his family says they are devastating and in shock. sky diver brett martin was friends. he believes the plane was fit to fly. >> put it this way: i would have jumped out of that plane. >> reporter: the same plane was involved in a mid air incident three years ago in northern california purportedly shown here, 14 sky divers had to jump prematurely to safety after the toane started spinning. the n.t.s.b. later determined pilot error played a role. from the hawaii flight say 9 plane appeared to turn around just after takeoff. there wasn't enough altitude or time for those on board to jump to safety. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, oahu. >>uijano: there were some terrifying moments in missouri
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when a hot air balloon made a hard landing into a crowd of people. it happened at a festival in the city of hannibal. at least three people were hurt. meg oliver has the story. >> reporter: some spectators seen frozen in place as the massive hot air balloon barreled toward them. >> reporter: people scrambled to dodge the fast-moving basket. onboard the pilot and a trssenger trying to help steer through the crowd. more than 1,000 people were at the festival celebrating the city's bicentennial. melanie locke captured the accident on her cell phone. what was the reaction of the crowd? >> the crowd was really shocked and scared and people were eetting up and running for their
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lives. >> reporter: the balloon cut through trees, leveled lawn chairs and knocked people to the ground. it took rescue crews less than an hour to secure the scene before the balloons were relaunched into the sky. meg oliver, cbs news, new york. >> quijano: it's the first weekend of summer but some parts of the country don't seem to be getting the message. snow blanketed some of the higher elevations in the west. two feet of flurries fell on steam boat springs resort since friday and thunderstorms forced music lovers at a festival in through the streets of some towns. meteorologist jeff berardelli, how usual is two feet of snow? colorado in june conditions it can snow in june but two feet is really strange. he think what may be happen sght arctic is warming really quickly. it can create unusual weather
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patterns. the cool pool is moving east and it's initiating severe weather because it is butting heads with all that heat in the south east. so that is he vary weather will be moving east overnight tonight. the real bull's eye for tonight places like dallas, tyler, texas, into little rock. that will be moving south overnight, augstin, texas, san antonio. eventually places like houston. mring the day tomorrow that moves east towards the ohio valley, great lakes, e78ly the appalachian trail, possibility of really strong gusty wind and thrge hail as well as this all moves toward the east. rainfall potential over the next seven days, again, these places have seen record rainfall this winter and spring. ued it looks like it will continue to go down heavy in places like that. >> quijano: jeff, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> quijano: california's historic santa anita race track closes for the season today amid new controversy over the deaths of multiple horses. hall of fame horse trainer jerry hollendorfer was banned from the track on saturday after the rourth horse under his care died.
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it was the 30th horse to die at santa anita since december. last year 493 horses died while lecing at north american race tracks. ac average of ten fatalities every week. next on the cbs weekend news, what is killing these gentle giants on the pacific coast? later, how dance is teaching these girls to cope. ♪ ♪ cope. with accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. indeed. are you in good hands? metastatic breast cancer is relentless, but i'm relentless too. mbc doesn't take a day off, and neither will i. and i treat my mbc with everyday verzenio- the only one of its kind that can be taken every day. in fact, verzenio is a cdk4 & 6 inhibitor for postmenopausal women with hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer,
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i it looks like it's on track to reach or exceed the most we've ever seen in a previous year. >> reporter: so far this year at least 167 dead gray whales have washed up on shorelines from mexico to alaska. >> and it's believed hundreds more could be dead in the ocean. >> one of the most common features we're seeing is that the whales are extremely emaciated, malnourished. >> reporter: most of them travel from baja, mexico to the arctic and back. it is one of the longest mammal migrations on earth. fe're on a kind of ocean highway war all sorts of marine life. right now we're watching humpback whales feed, a mother and her calf. earlier we saw a super-herd of dolphins. aray whales have thousands of more miles to travel before they reach their main food source. unlike most whales, grays eat rany creatures on the ocean floor. >> any time a group of large animals are all showing the same stress, nutritional conditions it means there is something wrong with their foods.
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g we really want to evaluate y e there changes in the environment that are causing this. the arctic ecosystem has been syanging dramatically with miimate change, with less and sess ice cover. >> reporter: experts say more competition for food and contaminated water could also be factors for the rising death toll. >> if you have gray whales that are dying because something is wrong in the ocean, it means other animals in the ocean are going to die, too. >> reporter: jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, northern, california. >> quijano: still ahead on the cbs weekend news... ♪ ♪ ...we're following the beat when girls are dancing and learning to code. e. my risk of a fatal cardiovascular event. and that's why there's jardiance- the first type 2 diabetes pill that offers a lifesaving cardiovascular benefit for adults who also have known heart disease. it can significantly reduce my risk of dying from a cardiovascular event.
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programming or coding. this is 14-year-old lauryn dorsett's second year. she admits the dancing part came easy. >> the coding part is sort of hard at first when you think about it, but once you will imroa into it and stay with it for awhile it gets easier. >> reporter: so when you found out how much you could potentially make later on in life with these skills you thought what? >> i thought i should look more into this because not all fields offer its same type of opportunities. >> reporter: and opportunity is everything says franklin. he is a senior vice president at comcast who started dance logic in 2018. >> i had no idea what it was going to turn out to be. >> reporter: because originally you wanted to focus just on coding. >> exactly. >> but his friend and co-founder betty lindley who runs the cultural center suggested he incorporate dance. >> we're trying to find a hook because coding alone doesn't bring the hook. and it worked. the dancing is getting them to come back to the class. >> reporter: for people who look at something like coding think,
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"i'm not good at math or science, this is too hard," what do you say to that? >> it is always hard in the beginning. this is why the dance part is so important. because a lot of young ladies came in could not dance but they practiced. >> reporter: both girls said it gave them confidence and they felt like that helps them in the real world because now they said can i do anything. >> it is all because of practice, okay. it wasn't anything else besides try it, let's get it wrong, let's try it again, and then boom, the smile comes on your face, you say, "i got it, mr. franklin." >> i did it right. >> reporter: you're a senior vice president of a major corporation and you're taking your saturdays to help young girls, why do you think it is so important to give back. >> i came from a very rough neighborhood, right. and some one introduced me to something that kept me out of trouble. if i can help motivate some other person to do the same thing and show it is not that , all righ that's the reward i get out of this. >> when the girls finish the 14 week program they are rewarded. >> you now have an ipad.
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>> quijano: it's not often a runner sets world records just a couple of years after taking up the sport, but as maurice dubois shows us this beginner has plenty of life experience. >> reporter: at 103-years-old, julia hawkins isn't slowing down. she is picking up the pace. >> julia hawkins, gold medallist. >> reporter: during this week's lational senior games in albuquerque, new mexico, , urricane hawkins," as she's known won gold in both the 50 and 100 meter races. that is not all, the sprinter set a new u.s.a. track and field record as the oldest woman to compete on an american track. >> i hope i'm inspiring them to be healthy and to realize you
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can still be doing it at this kind of an age. >> reporter: hawkins is no stranger to breaking records. she started her running career at age 100 and quickly racked up three world records by 102 including in the 100-meter dash. she told reporters at the time she skipped her nap to make that race. >> i thought it would be neat to be 100 and run do the 100-yard dash. >> reporter: her training secret, gardening at her home in louisiana. >> everything at 100 is >> hawkins says she competes to impress her family but with this drive and a few world records under her belted, she's on track to impress many more people than that. >> maurice dubois, cbs news, new york. >> quijano: impressive and inspiring. thats the cbs week be news for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm elaine quijano at the broadcast center in new york.
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for all of us at cbs news, good ni t. dark plumes of smoke paying over the county. a fire christoper wray roofing count and has shut down one lane. a crash caught on surveillance video. what one neighbor said she saw. this turns into a cluster hours longways denied entry and an over packed venue. why some told us they fear for their safety. good evening. >> we begin with the fire, drivers on highway four driving by this huge fire and large plume of traffic slowing down as the flames raged and not too long ago a firefighter was taken to the hospital with injuries. three alarm fire broke out at a
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lumber company. our reporter live at the scene with the latest. >> you can see some activity. they are still on scene. dousing the flames of a large fire at its peak can be seen for miles around. >> within the black clouds and keep rising and rising. >> reporter: was worried it was getting close to his house. subject my fear was that i wasn't going to get to work on time tomorrow. >> reporter: it turns out one firefighter was hurt, smoke inhalation. firefighters arrived quickly before the blaze could get near the neighborhood. the lumber company caught fire this afternoon started outside of the building
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