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see in 30 minutes. captioning sponsored by cbs captioning sponsored by cbs >> quijano: tonight president uiump bows to criticism, next year's g7 summit will not be held at his florida golf resort. oufa as the white hous >> quijano: also tonight u.s. lroops roll out of syria leaving america's kurdish allies to fight for themselves as a ceasefire is set to end. a training accident kills multiple soldiers at an army base in georgia. plus technology and the future of work. why truckers and everyone else should buckle their seatbelts. and throwing a punch to knock out cancer. >> and the winner. >> let's just say you don't what to fight a cancer surv. >> this is the cbs weekend news.
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>> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano. the decision while it lasted was unprecedented in american edlitics. with an impeachment inquiry on capitol hill, president trump last thursday awarded a huge contract to himself. directing next year's g7 meeting be held at his golf resort gtside miami. then last night an abrupt reversal after days of fierce criticism. weijia jiang is at the white house. >> reporter: president trump blamed "media and democrat crazed and irrational hostility" for ditching his doral golf resort in florida as the site of the g7 summit in june. >> it's like such a natural. >> reporter: the president came up with the idea which he first floated during this year's gthering in france. >> we have incredible conference rooms, incredible restaurants. >> white house acting chief of staff mick mulvaney suggested why mr. trump changed his mind. >> he was honestly surprised at the level of pushback. at the end of the day he still
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considers himself to be in the hospitality business. >> reporter: but at a press briefing on thursday mulvaney brid president trump was prepared to handle criticism. >> and there was going to be folks that will never get over the fact it is a trump property. ct get that but we're still thag to go with it. >> reporter: it was also during that briefing mulvaney admitted there was a quid pro quo involving military aid to araine, and said the president froze the money to get ukraine to look into the origins of the .ussia investigation. >> whether or not they were cooperating in an ongoing investigation with our department of justice, that is hatpletely legitimate. >> reporter: a claim so stunning he as asked to clarify. >> to be clear, what you just ouscribed is a quid pro quo, it is funding will not flow unless g wiinvestigation into the vemocratic server happens as well. >> we do-- we do that all the heme with foreign policy >> reporter: today, mulvaney denied saying what he said. >> you were asked by jonathan karl, you described a quid pro quo and you said that happens hat the time. in,and again, reporters will use
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ueir language all the time, so, my language never said quid pro hao. i see how people took that the wrong way, absolutely but i never said it was a quid pro quo because there isn't. >> reporter: democrats believe the damage is done and argue isy now have even more evidence in their impeachment inquiry. >> the speaker of the house would like to get this wrapped up by the end of the year. t quijano: weijia, there are reports senior aides have started to reach out to replacements for mick mulvaney what are you hearing? >> reporter: the white hse says mulvaney still has president trump's confidence but cbs news says he was on thin ice bfore the briefing with officials unhappy over his handling of the impeachment inquiry. and there is a growing rivalry between mulvaney and white house counsel pat cippolone to serve lo the permanent chief of staff. elaine, asked about that acting sktle in april, mulvaney said it doesn't matter because the president could fire anyone at any time. >> quijano: weijia jiang, thank you. american forces continued their withdrawal from northern syria today. defense secretary mark esper
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tys they're headed for iraq, not home as president trump promised. left behind, america's alle kurds. as holly williams reports, a ceasefire about to end could determine their fate. >> reporter: there were reports re sporadic clashes between lashish-led forces and kurdish fighters in syria today. ay. turkey said one of its soldiers was killed. but for now, the ceasefire seems os be mostly holding. remember, this turkish incursion began last week after president trump effectively opened the door to turkey announcing that u.s. forces would pull back from the border. and now u.s. troops are in the owocess of withdrawing entirely from eastern syria. kurdish-led forces were h-leica's closest partners on tne ground in syria in the fight against isis. they are now the target of turkey's offensive and say they yave been betrayed by the u.s. turkey claims the kurdish-led group is a terrorist organization. president trump called the ceasefire which was negotiated by vice president mike pence and turkish president recip erdogan
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last week, a "great day for civilization." but it is due to expire on tuesday. kurdish forces say they pulled lledof one town today but turkey oday they need to withdraw from a nearly 300 mile stretch of order or it will renew its assault. the other impact of the u.s. withdraw is to hand even greater influence to russia. turkish president erdogan will teet the russian president vladimir putin on tuesday and thefuture of eastern syria could be decided at that meeting at which the united states will play no part. elaine? >> quijano: all right, holly williams, thank you. u.ree soldiers were killed and three others injured during a training accident today at fort stewart, an army base in georgia. orey were riding in a bradley fighting vehicle when the accident happened. tom hanson has new details. >> reporter: the six soldiers were riding in a 25 ton armored bradley fighting vehicik the ones pictured here when it rolled into water early sunday morning.
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three died on scene and three inhers were rushed to a nearby hospital. investigators have not said what caused the accident. in a written statement major general tony aguto said, "today is a heartbreaking day for the third infantry division and the entire fort stewart-hunter army airfield community as we are all devastated after a training nicident this morning on the rtrt stewart training area." the 450 square mile base is home to about 18,000 soldiers and 4,000 army civilian workers fd is responsible for training and deploying active and reserved military personnel. pe incident falls on the heels of other deadly accidents for the military. itarune at west point military academy, a vehicle training exercise killed one cadet and injured 21 others. erd in january, a combat engineer died when his bradley fighting vehicle rolled over. the military plans to release the names 24 hours after they notify all next of kin. tom hanson, cbs news, new york.
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>> quijano: we learn today that the european union is expected so delay its divorce from britan until february. y.e deadline had been october 31. >> order! >> quijano: in a rare saturday session the house of commons refused to vote on prime usnister boris johnson's brexit plan. outside one million protestors demanded a new referendum on the issue. canadians go to the polls tomorrow to choose lawmakers who will sit in their house of commons. prime minister justin trudeau's majority government could be in jeopardy after being bruised by scandals. alls show the liberal and conservative rivals in a dead heat. ofusands of antigovernment protesters in hong kong defied a ban and flooded streets today. it got ugly fast. some protestors threw gas bombs rod set fires. belice responded with water cannon and tear gas. it is the 20th week of
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increasingly violent glyonstrations with no end in sight. now to new tensions between two nuclear-armed rivals. today india and pakistan once again exchanged fire across the line dividing the disputed himalayan region of kashmir. at least ten people have died in the latest cross border fighting. ramy inocencio is in new delhi. >> reporter: the fighting broke out on kashmir's line of control rotween india and pakistan, about 500 miles north of here. thdia's military says the fighting started when pakistan ng sd on an indian border post ded several civilian areas along the heavily militarized hontier. but pakistani officials dispute pat version saying they retaliated because india fired first. both countries say the attacks are unprovoked and are a violation of a ceasefire deal cea has been in place between the two since 2003. --w, earlier this year india and pakistan were on the brink of a
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full-scale war when the two lerried out air strikes over each other's territories. then in august the conflict flared again when prime minister narendra modi stripped kashmir modts status as a semi- autonomous region sending in more than 10,000 troops and imposing a virtual blackout on all information coming in and out of the region. we're now told some mobile phone service has been restored but the internet is still blocked for kashmir's entire population of 8 million people. the region is muslim-majority and has been a major flash point over the past seven decades. and since 1989 at least 70,000 people have been killed. elaine. >> quijano: ramy inocencio, thank you. a series of controlled explosions toppled two construction cranes that have been leaning over a collapsed new orleans hotel. ( explosion ) the city insists the demolitions went as planned.
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but as you can see, the crane on the left appears to have only partially fallen. on the right a large portion of that crane was left hanging over canal street. 300,000 public school children in chicago are expected to miss a third day of class tomorrow. chercity's 25,000 teachers have been striking since thursday. pay is not the only issue. teachers are also demanding smaller classes and more resources like nurses and social workers. senator bernie sanders is back on the campaign trail. the democratic presidential icndidate spoke to a crowd of thousands in new york city yesterday, 19 days after he suffered a heart attack. among his supporters, portresswoman alexandra ocasio- cortez who officially endorsed him. z th sat down with nikole killion. >> reporter: you both are part of the most diverse congress in ofstory. this is also the most diverse democratic presidential field ic p. .'m going to be a little blunt, and don't take offense, senator,
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on'tas a woman of color, why back an old white guy and is old the future of the party? >> yeah, you know, i think, i'm actually very excited about this extnership. because it shows what we have to no in our country is that we have to come together across is race, across gender, across generation and across class in order to establish our basic systems of rights. >> the only way in my view that e beat trump is through a campaign of energy and excitement, where millions of ionsle, young people, working g pple, poor people, who have not been involved in politics aregoing to stand up and say, "you know what, this is our country. and it's not just the country of the 1%." knd i think with alexandria on ward we are going to rally those people and win this campaign. t quijano: and you can watch noch more of nikole killion's interview with bernie sanners and senator ocasio-cortez tomorrow morning on "cbs this morning." thidventurous nine year old got
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she was in his corner. are you nervous? >> i'm so nervous. >> reporter: annie's cheering section-- look at her! --included her mother and ter,er, also a cancer survivor. >> she's tough. >> reporter: tough enough to teat more than breast cancer. >> and the winner, awesome annie dragolich. are you surprised? s no. >> reporter: no. >> what did i tell you. >> reporter: you said you were going to win. winning with the confidence that comes when you already have won the fight of your life. >> annie, annie, annie! >> reporter: chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> quijano: that's the weekend news for this sunday. "60 minutes" is coming up. but before we go, an introduction. meet emerson martinez-fernandez autiful. i'm aineuijano in new york. thank you for watching and good night. live from the cbs bay area
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studios, this is kpix 5 live news. he is fighting back. he ended up being handcuffed. more power outages could be on the way. yet another school just in the south bay. good evening. >> a former city of oakland council member was arrested this week. speak he sold told kpix 5 that anybody was assaulted, it was him. >> reporter: he says the entire situation escalated so quickly, that he had been tackled and was under arrest. >> i didn't threaten anyone. i did not put my hands on anyone. i was angry, but i had not
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physically threatened anybody. i was leaving out of frustration. >> reporter: the former city councilman says as he was leaving, he was confronted by four or five police officers. he showed us the cuts on his arms. >> he took a stance to block me. i tried to squeeze around him. and then he moved over and grabbed me. >> reporter: he said that he would to city hall to discuss over the this

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