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block asylum seekers but that rule seems to face a court battle. >> thank you. two of jeffery epstein's accuser faced him today, he faces sexual charged against under aged girl and hoping for home detention as he awaits trial but new evidence found at his new york home could complicate that. >> in a safe in his home prosecutors found pyles piles of cash and diamonds and passport with his picture and fake name and residency in saudi arabia and found nude and semi-nude young girls and bank accounts totally over $500 million all reasons government wants him to remain in jail until his trial. >> certainly anybody who keeps thousands of pictures of nude and semi-nude children in his home is somebody that i think
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could present a danger to the community. >> two of epstein's accusers, asked the judge not to release epstein on bail. one saying she was 14 years old when epstein abused her in palm beach. >> was a very dark time of my life but i just hope that basically he gets what prosecuted the way he should have been. >> epstein's defense attorney argued if he wanted to flee he already would have and he's disciplined himself his conviction in 2008 telling the judge it's not like he's an out of control rapist to which the judge replied, how do you know that. >> so epstein wants to stay in his $77 million townhouse how would that work. >> ultimately will be up to the judge but legal team says he will pay for armed guards for surveillance cameras and ankle monitor to prevent fleeing.
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to complicate it for the judge more women have come forward since epstein's arrest more than a week ago but the judge will decide on bail this thursday. >> okay. thank you. protesters in san juan demand their governor step down after using profanities in social media chat to describe a politician and federal control board. our david begnaud is there. >> we're in front of the govern governor's mansion chanting where is ricky, he's out selling what's left of the island. there's two thousand people, they are loud and peaceful. the governor said he's not leaving but did apologize for what he said in that chat room that he ran. in one chat talk of violence against the governor's responded you'd be doing me a good favor.
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tonight politicians wondering whether more over sight is needed to determine how much money puerto rico should get after hurricane maria. >> what happens if the governor resigns? >> well, good question. his number two resigned this past weekend because i was caught up in the scandal. so no one really knows. >> all right. david, thank you. the murder of a well-known civil rights activist has left baton rouge in shock. we spoke to her brother today. later why new yorker may need to stock up on flashlights and candles. and men on the moon and the women who helped to put them there. we were made to move, from the dawn of time.
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>> the 75-year-old local civil rights activist was last seen saturday morning with her family and 3:45 that afternoon her car found on a dead end sleep several miles from her home. >> they popped the trunk and she was in the trunk of the car. >> police have little information to explain what happened an autopsy said she died of traumatic asphyxia including sufficient indication. >> how did it happen? >> or why. >> how why did it happen, was it a robbery or what. >> she was known for her charity work and activism and described as a treasure to the community and founded the black history in 2011 spoke at an event she organized. >> embrace diversity. learn about our history.
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that's the only way we're going to be able to heal. >> it took more than 20rs il museum, it was sadie's dream and now her family tells us they're not sure who will actually run it. police have been tirelessly working to find who killed her here in baton rouge. >> thank you. in a moment, the man paving the way for the future of space travel. of savings and service. whoa. travis in it made it. it's amazing.
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next infrastructure for future space travel. >> takes hundreds and millions of dollars to get started with something interesting. i want to reduce that price of admission with reusable space vehicles so that the next generation you can actually have two kids in a dorm room build a great space company. >> for to start amazon the infrastructure already existed. >> yes i didn't have to build a transportation network to deliver the packages it existed it was called the post office. >> more from the future of space tomorrow night along with a conversation with caroline kennedy. up next a look back at the women who helped put men on the moon.
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50 years ago tomorrow three men in space suits set off on the greatest scientific adventure of all time as the scientist astronauts headed to the moon while women blazing new trails on earth. >> 3, 2, 1, lift off. it was great to experience lift off and the shock wave in the room. >> the eagle has landed. >> it was a total relief when they land. >> they're back from the moon landed in the pacific ocean. >> it was reliefful thing to watch splash down. >> they were trail blazers hidden figures critical to the success of the apollo 11 mission. joa anne morgan said it was life changing. >> what it said to me, it meant
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so much to me is hey i'm really now part of this team. >> accept in a profession not used to women. >> my director said i want joanne at the console she's the best communicator, she's the one. >> she's the only room in the firing room for the launch of the saturn 5 rocket. >> it's still the most powerful rocket that's ever left any place on earth. >> man on the way to the moon. >> with the astronauts on the way the moon the task of alerting them to problems fell to margaret hamilton and team at m.i.it. t. >> we had to solve things never had to be solved before. >> and they had to plan for every contingency. >> you had to say what if the astronaut put in this key stroke what do we do to recover from it. >> something unexpected did happen as eagle waspproaching the moon's surface that could
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have jeoparded tison. >> 1201. >> roger 1201. >> my first thought was how could this be happening now. i personally remember what i ll sheer terror. >> we're go. >> there was no need to abort. her software was fine. >> that's one small step for man. >> it's the first time man walked on the moon and first time software ran on the move. >> but the most critical phase of the mission had yet to come. >> does it look different? >> yes and no. it's much more pristine. >> the only woman in mission control calculated the maneuvers to bring the astronauts home. >> it's very nerve wrapping. doesn't matter how successful any other stage has been if you don't get them back safe and sound. >> apollo 11 is back from the moon, safe and sound. >> it was also an opportunity i
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felt to encourage other women to go into science and technology. i got letters from all over the world little girls an boyds saying i didn't know women could do this.. >> this is "cbs overnight." >> welcome to the overnight news. there's a war of words raging between president trump and d dem -- democrats in agrees telling four congress women to go back to the country they came from and called them communist and racist who hate our country. they are all of course american citizens and three were born here. some are turning their back on the president and c colorado from overseas as well. we -- coming from overseas as well. >> it's time for us to impeach this president. >> late eshman congress women of color known as the squad fired back at
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president trump after he tweeted over the weekend that they should go back and go back broken and crime-infested places from which they came. >> this is a distraction and we should not take the bait. >> all four democratic lawmakers are american citizens and only s one born outside of the u.s. she came to the u.s. in 2000 after emigrate from somolia. >> if you are not happy here you can leave. far as i can am concerned if you hate our kunitz you can hate our country you can leave. >> the president defiantly defended himself at a event supposed to showcase his product but racist tweets about who should stay in america quickly got all his attention. >> some think it is controversial. a lot of people love it by the way. lot of people love it. >> mr. trump also called the women anti-american and bunch of communists. >> which are you talking about. >> you can guess that. >> president trump singled out
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omar for comments in february claiming the pro-israel lobbying group has bought the support of her democratic colleagues. >> says horrible things about israel. hates israel. hates jews. it's very simple. >> he does not know how to attend his policy so what he does is attack us personally and that is what this is all about. >> republicans were slow to respond to the president's remarks but several saying today he was out of line. >> the tweets are racist and xenophobic. >> others stood by him. >> come on, of course the president's not racist, but he's frustrated like so many americans are. >> speaker nancy pelosi said the house would vote o resolution forcing lawmakers to go on the record accusing mr. trump of wanting to make
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america white again. >> speaker pelosi says you want to make america white again. is that true. >> well that's a very racist statement somebody that would say that. >> cbs news has been pressing g.o.p. leaders all leader including senate majority leader mcmcconnell and house majority leader mccarthy to weigh in but so far we've gotten silence. congressman two in the house said they will talk about it more but so far has not happened and no indication when it will. >> president trump now to have i.c.e. agents arrest and deport millions of migrants in the country illegal will. the round up started on sunday. so far little evidence of any arrests. the immigration and customs enforcement agency is not commenting. >> the truth is these days it's going to be a night mare. >> at the basement of this church in new jersey volunteers met with anxious immigrant families like jose' who came
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with his 13-year-old son fernando and asked we not use their real names. >> i'm just scared one morning all of my dreams and all of my expectations and all of my freedom just disappear. >> jose' came to the united states from mexico 20 years ago and given a deportation order two years ago after being pulled over for a broken taillight. he's now a father of three u.s. citizen children. >> i feel like he can get detained and my family separated. >> they're so worried they have covered the windows of their home and barricaded the front door and every day feels like it could be their last together. >> at times i feel more worried is at night by that last hug i give my dad. last kiss i give him. last time i feel i'm never going to see him again. >> trump administration lay out new rule to block asylum seekers from central america and other
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countriries but that rule seems to face a court battle. there was a bail hearing for sex trafficker jeffrey epstein. >> in accept seen's home prosecutors found passport with his picture and fake name and residency in saudi arabia and found nude and semi-nude young girls and bank accounts totally over $500 million all reasons government wants him to remain in jail until his trial. >> certainly anybody who keeps thousands of pictures of nude and semi-nude children in his home is somebody that i think could present a danger to the community. >> two of epstein's accusers, anny farmer and courtney wild asked the judge not to release epstein on bail. one saying she was 14 years old when epstein abused her in palm beach.
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>> was a very dark time of my life but i just hope that basically he gets what prosecuted the way he should have been. >> epstein's defense attorney argued if he wanted to flee he already would have and he's disciplined himself his conviction in 2008 telling the judge it's not like he's an out of control rapist to which the judge replied, how do you know that. there's a political scandal brewing in puerto rico where protesters are calling for the governor and his top aides to resign. we'll tell you what it's all about. >> we're in front of the governor's mansion where people are chanting where is ricky, he's out selling what's left of the islan. there's two thousand people, they are loud and peaceful. the governor said he's not leaving but did apologize for what he said in that chat room that he ran. in one chat talk of violence against the mayor of san juan.
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the governor's chief financial officer wrote i'm dieing to shoot her up to which the governor responded you'd be doing me a good favor. tonight politicians wondering whether more over sight is needed to determine how much money puerto rico should get after hurricane maria. and how exactly it should get it given the political crisis brewing here. >> "cbs overnight" will be right back. (flight attendants) ♪ when you have nausea,
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zero, all engine running, lift off. we have a lift off. >> today marks the 50th anniversary of an event that willi live on in human history the launch of apollo 11 to the moon carrying three astronauts on 240,000 mile trip, each way, the highlight of course was neil armstrong the first man to set foot on the lunar surface. couldn't have been a army of scientist and support crew and others. >> now after seeing it happen, knowing it happened still seems like a dream. >> even for the people who actually did it the idea of waubing on the moon -- walking on the moon is still a little hard to comprehend. >> any time you get home sick
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could look up to see the earth. a spectacular place to rarkable looking up to see the earth. >> only $250,000 miles a . >> only 250,000 miles away. that's home. >> in 1972 he became the last man to set foot on the moon. >> you're one of twelve people ever who stood on the moon. can you get your head around that? >> not really. an honor and privilege to be part of the apollo program, like everybody else we happened to be at the right place and right time with extraordinary strong motivation to succeed. >> and they were motivated from the astronauts waving good-bye on the way to the history books to the chain-smoke giegs in -- in guys in mission control. and back where tv didn't go a small army of women working just as hard at jobs just as
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important we all know this image of buzzaldrin of miss space suit -- before man could take a giant leap they needed to solve a few giant problems. >> in the near vacuum of space the gases within his body would immediately expand. >> without the right space suit an astronaut could blowup like a balloon or burn up or maybe get drilled by a micro meteorite. when nasa needed a moon stoof, big contractors made stitch prototypes that looked like a cross between sir gallagher and buzz light year. >> to infinity and beyond. >> nasa needed something more flexible and found out no one
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made knew flexible than the person who made these. >> her midrif f bulge is showing. see the before and after of playtex bruh. >> formerly known as ilc. the girtle company was not nearly as big as other suit makers but had pretty radical ideas. in 1967 ilc came up with a softer more flexible space suit made almost entirely of fabric and then shot this film at a local high school with an employee putting a suit through its paces. in the end the company won the contract for the apollo suits and gave some of their bra-making seamstresses a brand new assignment. >> did they tell you initially you're going to be sewing space suits. >> they just brought me over
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here. >> from bras to space suits. >> little pieces like this to big pieces like this. ha, ha. >> ruth anna. anna lee. elliott. thompson. four of the women who made the suits who went to the moon. women it turned out had the perfect touch according to the project manager homer reed. >> the people who sewed the suits were all women. >> is that because -- >> -- agility. >> it took plenty of agility each suit 21 layers sewn to precise tolerance of one 64th of an inch on a sewing machine your grandmother would have used. >> we were interested in accuracy. >> in other words there was no room for any mistakes. >> i went home monday night and cried because i knew i couldn't
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do it. >> why did you think that? >> because i was scared. >> scared of? >> this was a person's life this depended on. >> in fact they never forgot their work could be the difference between victory and tragedy. >> they took this job very seriously. >> they did. they may have had the most important job of all frankly. >> basil hero is the author of "a mission of a lifetime". >> kneel armstrong said those space suits you were a pin prick away from death if the suits failed that's it we're done. >> so the women put their heart into it. lily elliott cut the patterns. >> when you have all these inspections going on it clicked in your head okay i got to do this right. >> this is a cbs news special report. >> then the job got even tougher. >> america's first three apollo astronauts were trapped and killed by a flash fire that swept their ship at cape kennedy in florida. >> it had happened during a test
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when a spark in the capsule pure oxygen atmosphere triggered an inferno from which there was no escape. >> this is a time for great sadness, national sadness, it's also a time for courage and if that sounds trite i'll change the words to guts. >> in the months that followed nasa engineers put their grief aside and made the space craft safer and revamped the suits to take out anything that could burn and inspections could be brutal if one of the women left so much as a stray pin in the finished suit there would be hell to pay. >> the astronauts themselves were familiar faces as their suits were made, both in person forfeiti a reminder that the astronauts on the skilled hands at ilc. es >> we'd have astronauts come in
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and thank us. that was a real boost. it made a connection there that you didn't forget. >> we're getting a picture on the tv. >> and on july 20, 1969, when the big moment finally arrived, the women of international late ex held their breath. >> once they start the down the ladder. and he put his foot on the moon, that was a pinnacle of watching something that you have helped to do. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> where was your heart in that moment? >> in my throat. >> is there an inner dial ogden go -- dialogue. >> oh, my, hope that's going to hold. hope that stitch didn't pop. >> watching from mission control homer reno wanted it to be over
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especially when buzz turned a moon walk into a moon sprint. >> coral that guy. lock him up. get him up the ladder. let's declare it a success and go inside. >> you wanted him to stop running. >> i wanted him to get up that ladder. >> an old kangaroo hop. >> in fact, not one of the space suits failed not once, on the first moon mission or the last. >> i was strolling on the moon one day. ♪ in the merry, merry month of -- december -- >> may. >> may. >> if you listen to all of the audio every once in a while you'll hear a song. >> da da da da da. >> were you able to enjoy yourself. >> i really did. the whole time i was up there. >> this is a neat way to travel. >> isn't this great. >> jack schmidt turned 84 this month and still loves sharing
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his lunar experience. >> i liked to crawl back in there but doesn't look like they want me to. >> some of the ladies who sewed his suit would like back in too. >> we enjoyed every stitch. i'd do it all over again if i could. >> you'd still like to be doing it. >> yes. i love it. >> well i'm still amazed but it was great. >> they're all retired now. but ilc is still making space suits and who knows, an ilc suit might one day go to mars. it all began with apollo 11 when a small group of dedicated women back on earth help to bring us all just a little bit closer to the heavens. the heavens. >> i think they're taking did you know you can save money by using dish soap to clean grease on more than dishes? using multiple cleaners on grease can be expensive, and sometimes ineffective. for better value, tackle grease with dawn ultra.
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in the decades since apollo 11 much has changed at the johnson space september in houston, include -- center in houston, including the original mission control room. >> neil armstrong walked because of the nasa team. >> there it is. u.s. on the surface of the moon. >> in the apollo era this mission control in houston was one of the most famous on earth but when we met up in 1917 it was in ruins. >> look at the consoles i used
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to have abort switch where the hell is it? the displays don't work. >> he was in charge when an explosion of apollo 11 nearly cost the lives of its three astronauts. >> high drama featured in the movie apollo 11. >> we never lost an american in space -- >> actor ed harris played krants. >> failure is not an option. >> now 85 his mission became renewing this room. >> this is a space where we battled to achieve the high ground of space. >> the condition of this place is as though someone had spit on sacred ground. >> the carpeting was held together with yellow duct tape. i would walk in, console pieces were missing. wou punch out the intercom button and keep them as souvenirs. >> part restoration and part scavenger hunt, scouring for
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artifacts to match historical art facts. >> my contractor went out literally was on ebay, thrift stores, antiques to find every single piece, the cups, head sets and pencils of everything. >> welcome to july 1969. >> you got your abort switch back. >> oh, yeah, i got aboard switch. >> he helped to raise $5 million to pay for it. >> all of a sudden it had energy. posses the ability that said i want to go down and punch some buttons. >> 3, 2, 1, lift off. >> the redone room now open visitors can tour the space where there was so much space history. >> this was not only the start of the space revolution but technology revolution in our
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let's say you're going on vacation and need a place to leave your dog, easy enough, but what if you need someone to carey for your orchid. >> vascular surgeon and wife are pet lovers. >> you can see ham let. and greg the cdone key they car for 40 other animals saying it has nothing over his attach with his pet orchids. >> you love them. >> absolutely. you get close with them over the years. it's not, okay, i'm a regular normal guy, i just bought an orchid and bought another one. again, i promise you i'm normal. >> you keep saying that. >> the guy who says it the most is probably least likely to be
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normal. >> he knows what i'm about to tell you may sound crazy but in his defense he's not the only one who sends his plants to a kind of finishing school. >> these all belong to different people? >> almost all of them yes. >> art chadwick owns chadwick and sons orchids near richmond virginia, mostly boards orchids. >> people say can i take care of my orchid now it's blooming. i guess i could. ah, now i got a place to excepted my plants to camp. >> why don't people just throw them away. >> you feel guilty about throwing away a living plant, like throwing away your dog, can't do that. eartarted falling off. >> why does someone bother bringing you that. >> she has emotional attachment to it. >> to this thing? >> yep it's like family to them. >> and like family it could be hard to say good-bye. >> i have one of your orchids here it hasn't bloom in six
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years. >> had to tell this woman it will likely never bloom again. she said just to bear it. >> how did she take it. >> silence initially but realized there's not much she could do. >> fortunately most orchids survive so after you pay your monthly $2 per plant boarding fee you get your babies back in full bloom. and again mark is not alone. there are orchid borders in most states now. it's common. but normal? >> i'll assure you. >> i'll let you be the judge of that. >> and that's "cbs overnight" for this tuesday. cbs this morning will be broadcasting live from the kennedy space center in florida marching the exact moment apollo 11 blasted off 50 years ago. later norah wl bring you primetime special man on the moon at 10:00 p.m. eastern from the cbs
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captioning funded by cbs it's tuesday, july 16th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." >> if you hate our country, if you're not happy here, you can leave. >> president trump denies his tweets are racist as he steps up attacks on four congresswomen. the criticism he's facing on both sides of the aisle. meddling in u.s. elections, a senior white house official says the russians are still at it despite warnings to knock it off. and shooting for the moon. 50 years ago today, "apollo 11" astronauts embarked on a historic journey into space. how one
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