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captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ >> dubois: on the "cbs evening news" this thursday, a supreme court loss for the president. the justices block a citizenship question on the 2020 census. >> this was a political play on the census which never should have been allowed. >> president trump calling it "ridiculous." >> the president is asking to sklay the census. >> democrat fight night round one is officially in the history books. >> tonight, 10 more candidates will participate in the second round. >> an alabama woman whose unborn child died after she was shot in n fight has been charged with manslaughter. >> authorities blame the mom for starting the argument. >> dubois: only on cbs, two american world cup champions raise the alarm about possible brain injuries from playing soccer. ce one of the difficulties is how do you determine what's not normal and what is?
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>> dubois: and mink the bear's incredible journey, thousands of miles to get back home. >> a bear's home range is a bear's home. >> dubois: good evening. i'm maurice dubois. this is our western edition. the trump administration wanted to ask every person in the country whether he or she is an american citizen as part of the 2020 census. but today, in a 5-4 decision, the supreme court blocked that. the president vows to keep fighting, and there's a lot at stake. the census bureau predicts millions of immigrants would go uncounted if the question were on the form, and some states could lose seats in congress. more now from chief legal correspondent jan crawford. >> reporter: in a sharp rebuke of the trump administration, the justices said they would have to be naive to believe the rationale for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. commerce secretary wilbur ross said it would help enforce lbting rights. but chief justice john roberts
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called that explanation contrived. >> every single person in this sountry deserves took counted, plain and simple. >> reporter: it was a victory for immigrant rights groups who accused the administration of adding the question to deter non-citizens from responding to the census. blocking the question for now, the justices sent the case back to the lower court for more evidence, which likely will include documents from a deceased republican operative outlining a strategy to undercount minorities by adding the citizenship question. on twitter, the president said the decision was "totally ridiculous," and the fight wasn't over. he said he was asking lawyers about a delay in the census while the administration gave ehe court additional information. >> i think it's a very fair question. just like "how old are you, you know, "what's your race? what's your gender?" i never thought it was inappropriate. i reporter: it wasn't the only politically loaded case on the court's last day.
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in another 5-4 decision, this tme with the conservatives tsining roberts, the court looked at partisan gerrymandering and said federal courts should stay out of it. the justices refused to strike down electoral maps in north carolina, drawn to favor republicans, and in maryland, drawn to help democrats, as too extreme, saying that political question was better for state courts and legislatures. >> dubois: now, jan, back to the president's suggestion that the pnsus be delayed. does he have the authority to make that happen? >> reporter: well, i mean, the constitution requires that there's a census every 10 years, so that means it has to be done in 2020. so, i mean, maurice, it's really unclear whether this issue could even be resolved in time for that. >> dubois: okay, we'll certainly be watching that one. jan crawford at the supreme court tonight. thank you. late today, the house passed a hotly debated bill that provides more than $4.5 billion to ease the crisis at the border, but it soes not include guarantees of higher standards of care for
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detained migrant families. manuel bojorquez has more on this. >> the situation at the border is a challenge to the conscience of america. >> reporter: the house of representatives passed the senate version of the bill, which would allocate $1.1 billion to improve border facilities, and almost $3 billion to care for migrant children, though the white house did pledge to notify lawmakers within 24 hours if a migrant enild dies in government custody and limits stays of children at temporary facilities to 90 days. facilities like this one in homestead, florida. it's the nation's largest and only privately run shelter for unaccompanied minors with approximately 2500 kids aged 13 to 17. ne facility is not subject to state inspections. lawyers who have been inside filed a motion last month alleging "prison-like" rules. a 13-year-old salvadoran told an attorney, "you can't share food. you can't hug or touch anyone." a 16-year-old guatemalan who had been there 138 days said,
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"nobody here has explained to me why i have not been released." >> the children were in despair. >> reporter: hope frye was part of the team that went in. >> we do not need to detain children this way. children can be promptly released and handled within the existing shelter system. r reporter: but federal officials say shelters are currently holding 13,500 shildren, and some shelters are beyond 90% capacity. the company the government pays to run homestead, caliburn, calls allegations of prison-like conditions inaccurate and added: cst critics argue the shelter is holding some migrants far longer than necessary, sometimes nnths. caliburn says it must ensure minors are released to vetted sponsors and the vetting process takes time. the company says the average stay here is 35 days. maurice. >> dubois: manuel bojorquez, thank you very much tonight. u.s. customs and border protection posted video today of
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agents rescuing a migrant boy in the rio grande. it happened tuesday near eagle pass, texas. as you can see, border patrol agents performed c.p.r. on the 13-year-old from honduras. he was unconscious and not breathing after being underwater for more than a minute but the agents were able to revive him. this is night two of the democratic debate. 10 more candidates are sharing the stage in miami, including two at the top of the polls. ed o'keefe has a preview and a look back at night one. >> i think it's important to make a statement. >> reporter: heading into tonight's debate, vermont senator bernie sanders kept focused on immigration. c all that i can say is that in the united states of america, i think most of us would agree, you do not lock up thousands of children, including kids who are eight, nine, or 10 years of age. >> reporter: and he wasn't alone. n' we're incarcerating them in tents.
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>> reporter: more presidential contenders traveled 30 miles huth of the debate hall to this south florida immigrant detention facility. hnders is one of the headliners tonight in round two of a debate fat also features polling t-ont-runner joe biden, who spent the day mostly out of public view, alongside three other senators, a member of the house, a mayor, a former governor, a self-help author, and a businessman. like last night, everyone gets 60 seconds to answer questions and 30 seconds to respond. some of the lesser known candidates may take aim at center stage in search of a breakthrough. >> i don't want to talk about nostalgia for segregationist senators in the '70s. i don't want to talk about crime bill votes in the '90s. >> we've been working hard the dast two, three weeks to get ready for tonight. i'm looking forward to it. >> reporter: the first 10 candidates to debate highlighted policy differences on issues like immigration and health care. >> they can choose health care-- >> you've got to start by acknowledging it's not working for people. >> reporter: but on one point
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they all agreed. >> on january 20, 2021, we'll say adios to donald trump. .> the biggest threat to the security of the united states is donald trump. there's no question about it. >> i don't think we should conduct foreign policy in our bathrobe at 5:00 in the morning. >> reporter: plenty of big names on stage tonight, but early expectations are that front- tinner joe biden will get most l the incoming fire. senior campaign aides tell us he expects to focus most of his attention on president trump. maurice. io dubois: ed o'keefe in miami tonight. thank you. the president is in osaka, japan, where he has a full schedule of meetings with world leaders. dus trip began with a dinner meeting with australian prime minister scott morrison. overnight he plans to meet with russian president vladimir putin, and saturday with chinese president xi jinping. paul manafort was in a new york city courtroom today. the former trump campaign cairman pleaded not guilty to
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new york state charges, including mortgage fraud and conspiracy. manafort is already serving a seven-year sentence on federal tax and bank fraud and other charges. police in utah today zeroed in on a person of interest in the disappearance of a university student. mackenzie lueck has been missing for 10 days now. jonathan vigliotti has the latest on the search. s reporter: salt lake city police spent hours collecting bag after bag of items they hope could lead them to 23-year-old mackenzie lueck. they also interviewed, then released a man they described as a person of interest. >> our detectives collected multiple items that are in the process of being tested and analyzed. >> reporter: among the items not found is a mattress that police say was given away online. aey're hoping to track down whoever claimed it. iese are the last-known images of lueck, a utah university student seen here on june 17 after landing at salt lake city airport. she took a lyft to a local park.
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rpere she met someone waiting in a car. the home police have zeroed in on is five miles away. what led them there is still unknown. police will only say they used llacking technology in seeking a search warrant. >> this is a digital forensic ynvestigation. this is covering computers, cell phones, i.p. addresses, u.r.l.s, texting apps. >> reporter: but the court question, what happened to mackenzie lueck, remains a mystery. the police chief said he had an emotional conversation with heck's father. >> i can feel the heartache and the pain and the suffering in his voice as we spoke. >> reporter: and police searched rsat home for 19 hours using dogs and shovels. so far, no arrests have been made. and, maurice, they say that this remains a missing persons case. >> dubois: jonathan vigliotti in salt lake city, thank you. the two american soldiers who were killed in a taliban ambush in afghanistan this week were identified today.
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master sergeant michael riley, originally from germany, was a decorated green beret. he was 32 and on his sixth deployment. and sergeant james johnston from trumansburg, new york, was an ordnance disposal specialist. he was 24. the u.s. women's soccer team takes on france tomorrow in the world cup quarter finals. on the eve of the big game, two former team u.s.a. players are raising awareness about possible brain injuries from playing soccer. dr. jon lapook has a story you'll see only on cbs. >> reporter: 20 years after this magical moment that won the 1999 women's world cup, brandi chastain and some of her former teammates are trying to leave otother legacy. they will be studied for signs of c.t.e., chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease caused by repeated hits to the head. how many times do you think you got hit so hard you saw stars or tight have had a concussion? >> i would say probably four
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times that i clearly remember that were like, "wow! that was pretty..." you know. had to blink. give it a minute. >> reporter: but research suggests it's not concussions that lead to c.t.e. it's the repeated hits to the head that often occur in practice. and there is some evidence women's brains may be more ablnerable than men's. >> oh, i did a lot of heading ve ball, and very proudly so and very determined and very aggressive. >> we don't know a lot about seis disease. we know virtually nothing about women getting this disease. earceporter: the research will be done by professor of neurology robert stern and his yeam at the boston university c.t.e. center, the group that is also studying the brains of former football players for signs of c.t.e. they hope to recruit 20 former women's players. >> we reavtart understanding whether there's a link between heading the ball
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td later-life neurodegeneration. >> oh, a tremendous header! >> reporter: michelle akers, a mainstay of the women's team in the 1990s, has agreed to join the study. she scored the game-winning goal in the very first women's world 1up in 1991 and was part of the 1999 team. she remembers practicing headers for hours. >> my couch would just serve balls and balls and balls into the box, and i would do header after header after header after header. >> reporter: akers is a legend for a generation of soccer fans. >> awesome! >> reporter: now age 53, she has suffered from migraine headaches mnd wonders whether her playing wreer will affect normal aging. .> i am definitely vulnerable to this kind of problem so-- it's important to figure it out. and if i am vulnerable, then lots of other people are. >> reporter: c.t.e. has been diagnosed in male soccer players but never in a female.s ause onn 1972 that title ix legislation spurred participation of women
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in soccer. and players like chastain and akers are only now reaching an age where they might start to show symptoms. >> dubois: a lot of people are going to watch this one, jon. thank you. we have some dramatic video tonight of a deadly plane accident in russia today. a passenger captured the moment the twin-engine plane made an emergency landing then hit a building and burst into flames. the plane was carrying 48 people. two people were killed, including the pilot. next on the "cbs evening news," she was shot in the stomach and lost her baby. so why is she being charged with manslaughter? and later, an american woman is attacked and killed by sharks in the bahamas. toward things like complimentary maintenance. or for vehicle accessories. and with fordpass, a tap can also get you 24/7 roadside assistance. and lock your vehicle.
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arrest came some six months after the 28-year-old, who was five months pregnant at the time, was shot in the stomach. according to the grand jury indictment, jones intentionally caused the death of her unborn baby by initiating a fight, knowing she was five months pregnant, concluding it was g used in a sudden heat of passion. the fight happened last december at this birmingham, alabama ingurb shopping center. the grand jury found the shooter, 23-year-old ebony jemison, acted in self-defense sen she pulled out a gun. the manslaughter charges against jemison have been dropped. this case has quickly become a lightning rod for pro-abortion- rights activists. one abortion advocacy group said they would help raise jones' $50,000 bail posting, "losing a pregnancy is not a crime." alabama recently passed one of the most-restrictive abortion laws in the country. some see jones' case as a new attack on women. pro-abortion rights activists are calling this a slippery
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slope and question if a pregnant woman is seen having a drink or not properly practicing prenatal care, could she or would she be arrested. we talked to the family of marshae jones. they tell us she did not start the fight in this alabama parking lot and they say losing her child is punishment enough. >> dubois: mireya villarreal. tank you very much tonight. chill ahead, a swarm of sharks killed an american woman in the bahamas. an american woman in the bahamas.
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her in time. a witness who took this photo says this may be one of the three sharks involved in the attack. bahamian police say lindsey was astten all over her body, her right arm severed. >> attacks are rare to begin with, right, but to have multiple sharks involved is even earer. >> reporter: and those attacks can be more violent, according to marine biologist chris lowe. >> unfortunately, what happens is they become more aggressive quite often, because when more than one shark is involved, they compete with each other. >> reporter: there have been a rash of human shark encounters just this month, three of them in north carolina. 17-year-old page winter lost a leg. worldwide, there were 66 shark wtacks last year, four of them fatal. it seems like we're seeing more of them. is that the case? >> well, the numbers aren't exploding. they're going up slightly, but u're putting more people in the >> rorter: carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> dubois: up next, a long trip home.
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viewers in hanover, new hampshire. t this bear and her cubs were caught last year. >> reporter: the story began three years ago after a resident fed mink a donut every day. seeing humans as a food source, her cubs broke into someone's porch. the authorities decided to euthanize the entire family. >> you can't fault her for just trying to feed her cubs. >> reporter: after a public ubtcry, their sentence was commuted. then last year, mink and her four new cubs discovered bird feeders. this time mink was relocated 100 miles away. in what can only be described as an incredible journey, her tracking collar shows her circuitous path of thousands of miles that last month finally brought her back home. we visited the nearby kilham bear center, now home to mink's cubs and some younger ones who welcomed us with open paws. noted bear expert ben kilham has been caring for and releasing orphaned bear cubs for more than 25 years. did you think she would return? >> i knew she would return or
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try to return. a bear's home range is a bear's home. >> reporter: black bears, he says, are much smarter than people think. >> they recognize their own image. >> reporter: that's self- awareness? >> yeah, that's self-awareness. >> come on, guys. >> reporter: kilham usually ilkes in eight cubs a year, but this year, it's more than 80, due to a severe food shortage that forced mama bears to search for food far away. some never returned to their cubs. the day we were there, two more starving cubs arrived. as for mink, this time, she doesn't appear to be causing problems. kilham says that's because people here are finally following a simple rule: >> don't put any food out for s.ars. when you feed a bear, it's like inviting your brother-in-law over for dinner and he stays for a month. >> reporter: and let's face it, no one wants that. chip reid, cbs news, hanover, new hampshire. >> dubois: there really is no place like home. that is the "cbs evening news." i'm maurice dubois. we'll see you back here tomorrow. have a good night. captioning sponsored by cbs
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