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♪ historic handshake. >> president trump makes history stepping into north korea for new talks with kim jong-un. >> i was proud to step over the line. >> reaction is swift. >> you have a president who seems to love what -- also tonight -- millions mark gay pride. new york city celebrates the rebellion that sparked the modern lgbtq rights movement. europe roasts in record heat. do the deadly temperatures point to a climate crisis. and meet the bear's epic trek. thousands of miles to get back
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home. >> a bear's home range is a bear's home. welcome to the overnight news. i'm vladimir duthiers. president trump returns to the white house after his historic five-day trip of asia. he became the first sitting u.s. president to set foot inside north korea. the white house hopes it will jump-start nuclear talks with kim jong-un. but critics call the move nothing more than a photo op with a dictator. weeja jang is travel with the president. >> reporter: the build-up was dramatic. president trump and north korean dictator kim jong-un walked toward each other from opposite sides of the joint security area in the dmz. the demilitarized border zone that separates north and south korea. then, a handshake before the president single footstep made him the first sitting u.s. president to enter north korea. >> we were in japan for the g20. we came over. i said, hey, i'm over here.
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i want to call up chairman kim. and we got to meet. and stepping across that line was a great honor. >> reporter: kim said it showed mr. trump's willingness to eliminate the unfortunate past and open a new future. afterward, the two leaders met inside what's known as the freedom house for nearly one hour. >> this was a special moment, and this is, i think, really, as president moon said, this is an historic moim iic moment, the f meeting. >> reporter: it unfolded after trump tweeted yesterday an invitation for kim to meet, to say hello and shake hands. cbs news learned the president did not give his staff much notice about the tweet but he has talked about wanting the dmz rendezvous for at least a year. kim said he was surprised by the president's invitation, even though the two had recently rekindled their relationship. after tird su in february ended early without a deal for pyongyang to give up its nuclear program and
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dismantle its wa >> reporter: despite coming back together in an unprecedented way, reaching an agreement remains a challenge. the president said economic sanctions on the north would stay in place, though he seemed open to lifting some of them in return for north korean concessi concessions. >> at some point, look, i'm looking forward to taking them off. i don't like sanctions being on this country. i'm looking forward. but the sanctions remain, yes. but at some point during the negotiation, things can happen. >> reporter: president trump said negotiating teams would resume talks in two or three weeks. led by secretary of state mike pompeo, even though in april north korea demanded pompeo be removed from the negotiations. the president also said he would invite kim to visit the white house but did not say when. vlad? >> thank you. as expected, many democrats panned president trump's diplomatic moves.
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>> it's worrisome that this president erratically sets up a meeting without the staff work being done. it seems like it's all for show. it's not substantive. >> this guy was lobbing missiles into the sea of japan just a few weeks ago, and the president is going to talk to m? country, weo work. we want to see a denuclearization of the korean peninsula, reduction in these missiles but it's not as easy as just going and bringing a hot dish over the fence to the dictator next door. >> you don't have to say positive things about brutal dictators. you should sit down and negotiate with them. if we can get rid of north korean weapons there and their missile system, that would be a very good thing. >> despite three years of almost bizarre foreign policy from this president, this country is no safer when it comes to north korea. let's get perspective from margaret brennan, moderator of
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"face the nation" and senior foreign affairs correspondent. the president has been criticized in the past for using twitter to conduct diplomacy. is it effective? >> well, the president's tweet got him the meeting he wanted but whether it will actually get h a to talk about giving up its nuclear program will be the test of whether this means anything. and we know that diplomats at the state department over the next month will be trying to put together working level negotiations with the north korean counterparts to try to talk about that. leading up to that failed summit in hanoi, north korea refused to talk about denuclearization. that's why it failed when the two leaders got together. whether or not there's a third summit or actual agreement rests on whether kim jong-un decided and will tell his own people to start talking. >> marg rerkts the president suggested this meeting was spontaneous. was it? >> yes and no. the meeting was put together very quickly in the past 48
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hours. we know the national security team was hugely skeptical, opposed to this. wanted to see actual ground work being laid. by ground work i mean some sign that north korea was serious this time because the perception was they weren't last time they met with president trump. so the president got the meeting he wanted. the test will be whether it results in any kind of diplomatic agreement down the line. >> margaret brennan in washington, thank you. a global celebration in new york city today. millions turned out in manhattan and beyond to mark world pride day. in the place the movement was born. tom hanson was there. >> reporter: new york city played host to the biggest pride celebration in the world sunday. millions of people were in celebration mode adding to this already packed city. >> we're proud to be gay. we're not different from anyone else. we're just a little more fun. that's all. >> it all started here. it started at stonewall. >> reporter: the parade marks 50
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years since riots at the stonewall inn which sparked the gay rights movement. >> this is amazing we've come this far that we can get married. that there are all kinds of rights. >> reporter: being gay was a crime five decades ago and there were frequent raids on bars like stonewall. nypd commissioner james o'neil actually apologized for its role in raiding stonewall. >> the actions taken by the nypd were wrong, plain and simple. the actions and laws were discriminatory and oppressive and, for that, i apologize. >> reporter: today the nypd provides its support so that moments like this are possible. justin mahoney said his visibility is welcome here. >> i feel free. like i'm just really -- i don't feel like i have to hide myself. especially being in the big apple. everybody is like supportive. and it's just like -- you feel so much love all the time. >> reporter: we've heard from so many people today who say they are proud this is where the revolution began but, vlad, they
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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> an accident investigators are responding to a plane crash at an airport in addison, texas, north of dallas. the twin engine beechcraft crashed into a hangar at takeoff early sunday setting it on fire. the plane was destroyed. officials believe there were several people on board. tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in sudan today demanding civilian rule after a deadly military crac
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witnesses say snipers opened fire on a group of demonstrators. at least eight people were shot in the capital city of khartoum. security forces pelted demonstrators with tear gas. this is the first big demonstration since june 3rd when the army ousted sudan's leader and killed dozens of civilians. in japan today, whaling ships are getting set to head out to sea the day ahead of the first commercial whaling hunt in 30 years. in 1987, japan agreed to global whaling moratorium. the last year was a taerths of international criticism after announcing it would resume whaling on july 1st. europe is burning up as a brutal heat wave spreads across the continent. the mercury pushes into triple dishes again. roxana is in lyon, france. >> reporter: germany is sizzling. and in spain, triple-digit temperatures are contributing to the worst wildfire in 20 years. europe has been sweltserring for
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days as a heat wave moves across the continent. several countries have set new june records, including a high of 115 degrees in france on friday. surpassing the old monthly record by three degrees. the country is still haunted by a heat wave in 2003 that led to the deaths of an estimated 15,000 people. officials say this time, they are prepared. setting aside places for people to cool off and checking on the elderly. ariel vail is the mayor of a paris district. >> we have social services. we have maps of those people. we start calling them. roll call them. check that they're fine. >> reporter: at the height of the heat last week, parisians and tourists had to find ways to adapt. >> go out nearly the morning, later at night. >> strategizing well? >> we're trat jising. we're using our arizona strategies. in a new location. >> reporter: weather experts say heat waves like this are
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becoming more intense and common. mark masslyn is a climatologist at university college london. >> we know these heat waves are now twice as likely to occur than they were, say, 20 years ago. what's worrying is with climate change, the frequency is going to increase in the future. >> reporter: the world meteorological organization says this year is on track to be one of the hottest in history. and that this heat wave is consistent with greenhouse gas emissions. here in france, relief is in the forecast for now. vlad? >> thanks, roxana. it's another hot day for millions of americans, especially in the midwest. meteorologist jeff baridelli is here with what's next. >> feels like temperatures 100 to 110 degrees in parts of the upper midwest. that's because we have this big heat ridge or dome of high pressure, jet stream way up into canada. and this is on the northern side of this ridge,
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this ring of fire as we call it, we have showers, thunderstorms and the threat for severe weather in places like minneapolis all the way west to sioux falls and pierre and all the way south into wisconsin and into chicago. you can see that line of storms. tomorrow the threat for severe thunderstorms is in a similar place because, again, that ridge of high pressure has not moved. how hot does it feel? it feels like the 90s and low 100s across the upper midwest. tomorrow is going to be almost equally as hot. just a little bit cooler but not cool by any means with feels-like temperatures in the upper 90s to near 100 degrees. through the upcoming week, a ridge of high pressure in the eastern two-thirds of the country straight through the fourth of july. if you're hot right now you'll stay hot through the fourth and probably beyond that. >> be looking towards a pool. thank you, jeff.>>oregon, repub lawmakers were back at work at the capitol. some fled the state instead of voting on a climate change bill. the governor ordered the state
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bang, a trade war with china could shut down the party. >> how many of these product comes from china? >> all of our products are produced in china. >> reporter: skip mccall manages a store for phantom fireworks, the country's largest consumer fireworks retailer. >> you think it would affect your livelihood if these tariffs are applied? >> i think it will. i worry more about our employees. >> reporter: how many people do you employ? >> this time of year we're at max. we're probably around 3,000 nationwide. >> reporter: wow. bruce is phantom's ceo. and at this 1.2 million square-footwear house in youngstown, ohio, the shelves are packed with exploding nov elsies. all have traveled halfway around the world from china. but as president trump proposes tariffs of up to 25% on all chinese products, domestic fireworks sales could fizzle. >> we depend on china for a lot of imports.
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>> reporter: greg ipp is "the wall street journal's" chief economics commentator. he says the prices of goods like fireworks are volatile because there aren't any american-made substitutes. >> a lot of the stuff we import from china is only made in china. they can absorb the cost themselves or pass it on to the consumers. >> even if the price goes up by 25%, you will still buy? >> might buy less. >> oh, my goodness. >> that worries bruce who hopes china and the u.s. reach an agreement before tariffs blow up his bottom line. >> it's my opinion that they are going to make a deal. i'm guessing but i'm also praying. >> this is prayer for you? >> it is. >> reporter: we asked phantom's ceo why not make fireworks in the u.s.? he said it could take a decade for the u.s. to catch up with china's efficient fireworks production. adriana diaz, cbs, chicago. how london's zoo is counting
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human kind. and that is a problem. here's the story. >> reporter: it's one of the world's oldest zoos. home to lions, tigers and beers? if you are thinking, oh, my, then you're not alone. ♪ this summer, the london zoo is hosting what it's calling zoo nights. where grown-ups can get closer to wildlife with a glass of wine or three. >> really feels like we're almost like at a music festival or something. tell me about the vibe. >> it has that kind of feel with all the food stands and face paints. >> reporter: zoo nights is making a comeback after being canceled in 2015 following reports of wasted visitors harassing animals in enclosures. >> i think this whole idea that it's lots of people coming in and getting drunk and doing things that they shouldn't be doing is really exaggerated. >> reporter: brian zimmerman is
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the chief curator of the london zoo. >> there's been a few isolated incident froms several years ago. they were dealt with at the time and we haven't had anything for the last few years. >> reporter: areas have been closed off to protect the more sensitive animals. and extra staff are on hand in case anyone gets out of control. it's not all fun and fauna for visitors. with protesters greeting them as they arrive. critics say the zoo is putting profits over animal protection. geordi works with peta. >> there is scientific evidence that shows loud noises affect animals in captivity a lot. they get fearful, they get stressful. >> reporter: zoo nights is expected to make over a million dollars this summer. with most of the cash going to conservation projects. but around 150,000 people have already signed a petition demanding the event be shut
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>> reporter: the story began three years ago after a resident fed mink a doughnut every day. seeing humans as a food source, her cubs broke into a porch. >> you can't fault her for just trying to feed her cubs. >> reporter: after a public outcry 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 that last month finally brought her back home. we visited the nearby killem bear center now home to mink's cubs and some others who welcomed us with open paws. a noted bear expert 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 try to return. home.r's home range is a bear's
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>> reporter: black bears are much smarter than people think. >> they recognize their own image. >> reporter: that's self-awareness. >> yeah. that's self-awareness. >> reporter: killem usually takes in about eight cubs a year. this year 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. killem says that's because people here are finally following a simple rule. >> don't put any food out for bears. 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. that is the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm vladimir duthiers.
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♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm vladimir duthiers. president trump returns to the white house today after his historic five-day tour of asia. mr. trump became the first sitting u.s. president to set foot inside north korea. the white house hopes it will jump-start nuclear talks with north korea but others call it nothing more than a photo op with a dictator. weijia jiang is travel with the president. >> reporter: the build-up was dramatic. president trump and north korean dictator kim jong-un walked toward each other from opposite sides of the joint security area in the dmz, the demilitarized border zone that separates north and south korea.
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then, a handshake before the president's single footstep made him the first sitting u.s. president to enter north korea. >> we were in japan for the g20. we came over. i said, hey, i'm over here. i want to call up chairman kim. and we got to meet. and stepping across that line was a great honor. >> reporter: kim said the historic moment showed trump's willingness to eliminate the unfortunate past and open a new future. afterward, the two leaders met inside what's known as the freedom house for nearly one hour. >> this was a special moment, and this is, i think, really, as president moon said, this is an historic moment, the fact we're meeting. >> reporter: the meeting unfolded after mr. trump tweeted yesterday an invitation for him to meet, to say hello and to shake hands. cbs news learned the president did not give his staff much notice about the tweet but he has talked about wanting the dmz rendezvous for at least a year. kim said he was surprised by the
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president's invitation, even though the two had recently rekindled their relationship. after their second summit in february ended early without a deal for pyongyang to give up its nuclear program and dismantle its weapons. >> sometimes you have to walk. >> reporter: despite coming back together in an unprecedented way, reaching an agreement remains a challenge. the president said economic sanctions on the north would stay in place, though he seemed open to lifting some of them in return for north korean concessions. >> at some point, look, i'm looking forward to taking them off. i don't like sanctions being on this country. i'm looking forward. but the sanctions remain, yes. but at some point during the negotiation, things can happen. >> reporter: president trump said negotiating teams would resume talks in two or three weeks led by secretary of state mike pompeo, even though in april north korea demanded pompeo be removed from the negotiations. the president also said he would
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invite kim to visit the white house but did not say when. vlad? >> all right, weijia jiang in seoul, thank you. as expected, many democrats panned president trump's diplomatic moves.>>prents uafthk being done. it seems like it's all for show. it's not substantive. >> i mean, this guy was lobbing missiles into the sea of japan just a few weeks ago, and the president is going to talk to him? are you kidding me? >> as a country, we want this to work. we want to see a denuclearization of the korean peninsula, reduction in these missiles, but it's not as easy as just going and bringing a hot dish over the fence to the dictator next door. >> you don't have to say positive things about brutal dictators. you should sit down and negotiate with them. in the case of north korea, if we can get rid of nuclear weapons there and they are a threat to europe and the united states, that would be a very
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good thing. >> despite three years of almost bizarre foreign policy from this president, this country is no safer when it comes to north korea. all right. let's get some perspective from margaret brennan, moderator of "face the nation" and senior foreign affairs correspondent. the president has been criticized in the past for using twitter to conduct diplomacy. the question is, is it effective? >> well, the president's tweet got him the meeting he wanted, but whether it will actually get north korea to agree to even talk about giving up its nuclear program will be the test of whether this means anything. and we know that diplomats at the state department over the next month will be trying to put together working level negotiations with their north korean counterparts to try to talk about that. leading up to that failed summit in hanoi, north korea refused to talk about denuclearization. that's why it failed when the two leaders got together. whether or not there's a third
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summit or an actual agreement rests on whether kim jong-un decided and will tell his own people to start talking. >> margaret, the president suggested this meeting was spontaneous. was it? >> yes and no. the meeting was put together very quickly in the past 48 hours. we know the national security team was hugely skeptical, opposed to this, wanted to see actual ground work being laid. by ground work i mean some sign that north korea was serious this time because the perception was they weren't last time they met with president trump. so the president got the meeting he wanted. the test will be whether it results in any kind of diplomatic agreement down the line. >> margaret brennan in washington, thank you. a global celebration in new york city today. millions turned out in manhattan and beyond to mark world pride day in the place the movement was born. tom hanson was there. >> reporter: new york city played host to the biggest pride celebration in the world sunday. millions of people were in
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celebration mode adding to this already packed city. >> we're proud to be gay. we're not different from anyone else. we're just a little more fun. that's all. >> reporter: but today is world pride. in paris, france, thousands braved a heat wave to join the parade. 15,000 people took to the streets of lisbon, portugal along with mexico city and lima, peru. back in new york, andrew cuomo kicked off the festival with a reminder of why this festival exists. >> new york should be very proud because new york has always been the home of the lgbtq equality movement, always. it all started here. it started at stonewall. >> reporter: the parade marks 50 years since riots at the stonewall inn which sparked the gay rights movement. >> this is amazing we've come this far that we can get married. that there are all kinds of rights. >> reporter: being gay was a crime five decades ago, and there were frequent raids on bars like stonewall.
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earlier this month, nypd commissioner james o'neil actually apologized for its role in raiding stonewall. >> the actions taken by the nypd were wrong, plain and simple. the actions and laws were discriminatory and oppressive and, for that, i apologize. >> reporter: today the nypd provides its support so that moments like this are possible. justin mahoney said his visibility is welcome here. >> i feel free. like, i'm just really -- i don't feel like i have to hide myself. especially being in the big apple. everybody is, like, supportive. and it's just like -- you feel so much love all the time. >> reporter: we've heard from so many people who said they are proud this is where the revolution began. but, vlad, they also say despite the progress made over the last 50 years since stonewall, there is much further to go within the community to be more inclusive, especially toward people who are transgender.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> pride month came to an end to grand fashion with a giant march through the streets of new york city. the parade ended at the famous stonewall inn. that's where a police raid half a century ago helped usher in the modern gay rights movement. david begnaud has the story. >> reporter: what happened in 1969 and you know who did it? the nypd's public morals squad. that was a thing back then. they raided the bar. but gay bars were commonly raided during that time period. as the patrons were kicked on to the street, they started to fight back. they picked up everything they could on the street and started throwing it at tbaanat led to t
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which spread nationally. there was a bartender there that night who still works in the bar today. we start our story with him. >> hi. >> nice to meet you. >> same here. >> reporter: he calls himself triece sequoia. >> we know it was another raid. we heard a crash and somebody threw a rock through the window. >> reporter: this time stonewall patrons resisted arrest. the violence escalated and hundreds of people pumped in. mark seagal was there, too. stonewall turned him into an activist. >> from the very first day it was, we're going to take back our identity. we're no longer going to allow society to label us. we'll be out, loud and proud and in your face. >> reporter: in 1973, seagal stormed a live broadcast of the cbs evening news with walter cronkite and held a sign saying gays protest cbs prejudice. a message seen by millions of viewers. but cronkite mess >> the homosexual men and women
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have organized a fight for acceptance and respectability. >> reporter: cbs became one of the first networks to discuss gay rights. the nypd commissioner apologized to the gay community. >> the actions and the laws were discriminatory and oppressive. >> do you remember where you were when you decided, i have to do this? >> wasn't sure i was going to do it until i got up to the podium. this has to be done. otherwise, new york city is not going to be the place that it needs to be. >> reporter: despite the progress made since the riots, statistics show that tolerance for lgbtq americans, particularly among young people, has sharply decreased from 63% in 2016 to 45% last year. sarah kate ellis is product of g.l.a.d., one of the leading gay rights organizations. >> finish this for me. our story today is -- >> is about joining forces with all marginalized people. >> this stonewall pride has been a looking glass. >> reporter: for raymond braun,
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the stonewall riots are history but it's an event that motivated him to travel around the country to tuscaloosa, alabama, a city that held its first gay pride parade in 2014. a journey documented in the film "state of pride." >> we should be thinking about pride in literally every community. even if 20 people show up, it's a couple rainbow flags and a picnic table, that's important. >> you can't legislate acceptance. if your not accepted, you are not safe and you're not going to move through this world with the same rights no matter what as anybody else. our stories are our most powerful tools for building acceptance. >> reporter: mark seagal who you saw in the story who interrupted walter cronkite's newscast said to me this week, if you remember nothing else, remember this. pride means visibility. >> members of the lgbtq community have been fighting for their rights for decades. now one transgender man has taken that one step further. he's fighting professional in the boxing ring.
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david jacobson reports. >> ever since i was little, as far as i can remember, i always saw myself as a boy. i would keep it quiet. i didn't know i had any otherfe. >> reporter: patricio grew up as patricia in gardenia, california. a place where the freeways meet. a city where people can, quite literally, choose their own path. for pat, that path led to the gym. >> always resonated with a fighter. when i really started was around 16. the trainer had me spar the first session. hit me way too hard the first time. i was going through so much, and emotionally, mentally, i think it was the first time i felt present in my body being hit that hard. >> reporter: he says he fell in love with the sport and developed into one of the best female boxers in the country. >> it was during that time that i made the choice. i decided to go all in with boxing. it paid off. >> reporter: in 2012, pat qualified for the first ever
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women's boxing olympic trials but a shoulder injury led to a medical disqualification. >> i had worked so hard to get to that point that, you know, i slipped into a pretty big depression. it forcedny look at myself and, what do i need to do to love myself, even if this sport isn't here? the biggest thing that came out is you've been lying for years, and i realized at that moment, i couldn't wait any longer. >> reporter: it was during recovery that pat made the decision to transition from female to male. >> i was willing to deal with any of the ramifications. i couldn't live a lie anymore. if the costs of that meant losing people i love, then that was a cost i was willing to pay because i loved myself first and foremost. >> reporter: while his family was supportive, others were not. >> the gym i had been training at made it clear i could train there but no one could know that i was a part of the gym. so i walked out of that gym that day and i never came back. i really didn't know where i was
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going to go. >> reporter: pat found a gym in du erte, california, and found a coach who had his back unconditionally. >> he just walked in the door one day and kind of told me the deal with his ex-coach and the falling out they had, and i said, yeah, you're going to be trained just like another boxer. you'll just be one of the guys here. >> reporter: in 2016, he decided it was time to begin the process of getting a license to fight as a male. >> i had to have gender reassignment surgery, and it had to be on hormones treatment for a minimum of two years. >> pat was ready. yeah, we trained hard and worked hard and pat's sparring with professional boxers and doing great. so we knew it was time. >> once we finally got that license, we thought, great, we'll be able to fight like that did not happen. >> i could tell that he was disappointed, to say the least. frustrated. >> reporter: amita is pat's partner. >> things would get to the point where his coach and another
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person's coach would negotiate in the amateur division for there to be an official sanctioned fight, and then someone would tell that person's coach that pat is transgender, and the people would walk out of the room. he didn't know when his big break would come. he didn't know when a promoter would give him a chance to prove himself. >> reporter: that big break came when eric gomez caught wind of pat's story. he knew the importance of finding the perfect opponent. he landed on hugo aguilar, a journeyman boxer from mexico. and on december 8th, 2018, pat became the first transgender male to fight professionally in the u.s. >> in his first professional career -- >> reporter: with his victory, pat also became the first transgender male to win a pro bout. >> i knew i deserved to be in there. i didn't need that moment to be validated in myself. it was like opening a door. it was opening a door. i walked through it. now there's like a thousand
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if you were a teenager, would you volunteer to go back to school on a saturday? well, there's a weekend project in philadelphia that combines dance with computer coding, and the classes are filling up. jericka duncan shows us how it works. >> reporter: numbers -- steps. and creativity are integral parts of choreography and coding. >> with dancing, you have to look at the steps and figure out, how do they step in to one another. same with coding. >> reporter: this 14-year-old is part of dance logic, a program in philadelphia that combines dance and computer programming,
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or coding. >> basically, if i see myself coding and helping others, i think i can also bring in other people who look like me to also want to pursue that field as well. >> reporter: this is 14-year-old lauren dorsett's second year. she admits the dancing part came easy. >> the coding part is sort of hard at first. when you grow into it and stay with it for a while, it sta fout how much you could potentially make later on in life with these skills you thought -- >> i should look more into this. not all fields offer the same type of opportunities. you can get far with this. >> reporter: and opportunity is everything, says franklin. he's a senior vice president at comcast who started dance logic in 2018. >> i have no idea what it was going to turn out to be. >> reporter: originally, you wanted to focus just on coding. >> exactly. >> reporter: but his friend and co-founder suggested he incorporate dance.
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>> he was teaching coding to children and youth in the community. >> but there was a problem. >> he had trouble getting them to participate. >> we were trying to find the hook because coding alone doesn't bring the hook. and it worked. dance was getting them to come back to the class. >> reporter: for people who look at something like coding and think i'm not good at math, i'm not good at science, this is too hard. what do you say? >> it's like everything else. it's always hard in the beginning. this is why the dance part is so important. a lot of young ladies came in that could not dance but they practiced. >> i inherited two left feet from my father. >> uh-oh. your dad's watching. you just put him throughout on national tv? >> yes, i did. but if i have the confidence to dance in front of a bunch of people and not be afraid of making mistakes, then i have the confidence to accomplish whatever goals i have in life. >> both girls said it gave them confidence. >> yep. >> and they felt that helps them in the real world because now they said i can do anything. >> exactly. because something they thought
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was hard, right, now became easy, right, and it was all because of practice. okay? it wasn't anything else besides, let's try it. let's get it wrong. let's try it again and then, boom, the smile comes on your face. i got it, mr. franklin. then they can say, i can also do this, and the world is theirs. because you cannot find women in this field. >> reporter: according to the pew research center, women hold just 25% of computer-related occupations in the u.s. new research projects that number could fall to 22% by 2025. you are a senior vice president of a major corporation and you're taking your saturdays to help young girls. you could be doing so many things i'm sure. why do you think it's so important to give back? >> i came from a very rough neighborhood, right? and someone 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 them it's not that hard, all right, that's the reward i get out of this.
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steve hartman paid another visit to one of his favorite young people. she grants more wishes than a fairy godmother. >> reporter: at a nursing home in arkansas, we found a gem named ruby. as we first reported in march, 11-year-old ruby likes to go to work with her mom. amanda is a nurse who travels to several nursing homes in the area. and it was on one of those visits that ruby started going up to residents with her notepad. >> if you could have any three things, any three things, what would they be? what would you want? >> she came up with this idea, these questions? >> yes. >> with the intention of -- >> i don't think she had an intention. >> reporter: she was mostly just curious what they'd say. >> were you surprised?
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>> yeah. i was very surprised. i thought people would say money, houses, lamborghini. >> reporter: but instead, here's what she got. electric razor. new shoes. vienna sausage. for some reason a lot of people asked for vienna sausage. and other really basic items. >> that's all they wanted and i really decided i needed to do something. >> reporter: so she started a charity called three wishes for ruby's residents. >> i'm going to sit right beside you. >> reporter: now while her mom is caring for patients, ruby goes room to room. >> i love cheese. >> i do, too. >> reporter: jots down wishes. >> avocados. >> and then sets out to grant those wishes. >> thank you, sweetheart. >> reporter: she has a gofundme to cover costs but again, no one is asking for a sports car here. her expenses are minimal. especially compared to the rewards. >> it really lifts you. it really does. >> reporter: on this day, she came back with a wheelchair pull
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of sausages and other grocery items. >> you have this huge chocolate pie you can eat all by yourself. >> but make no mistake. this isn't about food. >> watermelon and oranges. >> no one has this kind of reaction over fresh fruit alone. >> thank you so much. i can't believe it. >> reporter: whether she knows it or not, ruby is satisfying some much more basic human needs here. to be remembered. to be cherished. especially by a child. that is what our seniors are truly hungry for, and that is what ruby brings every time she sets foot in a nursing home. and now it's not just her. since we first told this story, ruby has helped start chapters of her charity in other states. she speaks to advocates for the aging. and, of course, she's still very much hands-on. proving no one needs a l lamborghi lamborghini. >> you know, i'm a hugger. >> reporter: when they've got home delivery of all the happy they can handle. steve hartman, on the road, near
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harrison, arkansas. that's the "overnightrn ht n for this monday. from the cbs broadcast center in captioning funded by cbs it's monday, july 1st, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." no survivors. an airplane crashes in texas, killing all ten people onboard. what officials say happened right before the aircraft plunged into a hangar and burst into flames. president trump became the first sitting president to step into north korea. and a dazzling display of p.r.i.d.e. we'll take you through new york city marking 50 years since the
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