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welcome in the best view from united states, anyway. you have to be willing to wake up very ♪ ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> diaz: tonight-- holding their fire, with tensions still high. israel and hamas both claim victory after a deadly fight. gaza, left in shambles. today, relief as humanitarian aid arrives. cbs news is there. >> i'm holly williams in the gaza strip, where a ceasefire with israel is still holding, but an 11-day conflict has led to devastation. >> diaz: also tonight: president biden's first foreign policy crisis. "face the nation" with reaction. >> i think that the u.s. not being front and center was probably not a bad thing. >> diaz: plus, summer fever. crowds rush back as america's covid recovery speeds ahead. newly-released video in
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louisiana prompts more outrage in a black man's deadly arrest. queen elizabeth back in public meeting u.s. marines. while it's hats off for graduates of west point. and later, the cub's historic choice for wrigley field's new voice. >> i thought that this stream was out of the ballpark. this is the "cbs weekend news." from chicago, here's adriana diaz. >> diaz: good evening. diplomats today pushed to cement a truce between israel and hamas militants, following 11 days of conflict-- violence that put civilians on both sides in the cross-fire. today, trucks carrying humanitarian aid began rolling into gaza, as residents picked through the rubble, taking stock of the damage. the u.n. is pledging to help rebuild. more than 250 people were killed, most of them palestinians in gaza.
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cbs's holly williams is there. >> reporter: four-year-old sara was at home when an israeli airstrike hit her family's apartment building, her relatives told us. the ceiling collapsed. she suffered a spinal injury, and her doctors say she'll never walk again. "i picked her up and ran through the streets until i saw the ambulance," her mother leena told us. "what did she do to deserve this?" hamas, the group that governs the gaza strip, classed by the u.s. as a terrorist organization, claims the ceasefire is a victory, but for the people of gaza, this looks like a terrible loss. ( explosions ) hamas fired over 4,000 rockets atsraeownd killing 13, but most of their projectiles were shot down by israel's iron dome air defense system. in gaza, where they have no
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protection, the death toll is over 240, say palestinian officials, including 66 children. this gives you a sense of the force of the israeli airstrikes. this multi-story building has been knocked off its foundations. now, we understand that there were hamas administrative offices inside this building, along with apartments being used by civilians. around two million palestinians are crammed into the 25-mile- long gaza strip, living under a blockade that makes it nearly impossible for them to leave, and has crippled the economy. gaza is around 40 miles down the coast from tel aviv, an israeli metropolis, but it may as well be in a different century. and this conflict has only added to its problems. since the cease-fire began, the inin 18 ainer-loads ofd, iludinn adriana?
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>> diaz: holly williams in gaza, thank you, and stay safe. the conflict between israel and hamas militants was president biden's first foreign policy crisis. cbs's debra alfarone is at the white house with the latest developments. debra, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, adirana. and, president biden took no questions as he left the white house today to go to camp david. now, the president spent the week in a delicate dance, pushing both israeli prime minister netanyahu and palestinian leader abbas to end the conflict, while not wanting to appear to take sides. and it's that low-key approach that got support from defense secretary-- former defense secretary, rather-- robert gates, when he was being interviewed on "face the nation:" >> i think that the u.s. not being front and center was probably not a bad thing. i think letting the egyptians, others, take the lead-- i think sometimes the united states can achieve its objectives more
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effectively by playing a behind- the-scenes role than by being out in front. >> reporter: secretary of state antony blinken will be traveling to the region to meet with his counterparts-- his israeli, palestinian, and other regional counterparts there. adriana? >> diaz: an important trip, debra, thank you so much. and you can watch the full interview with former defense secretary robert gates tomorrow on "face the nation." other guests include senator bernie sanders, and retired lieutenant general russel honore. now to the latest in the pandemic-- this week, some 27,000 new infections were reported in the u.s. that is down nearly 90%-- that's right, 90%-- from the worst of the pandemic in january. cbs's danya bacchus is at the beach in santa monica, california. danya, good evening. adriana. santa monica beach is already busy, ahead of california's full reopening on june 15, which
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means the end of social distancing, capacity limits, and some mask-wearing. across the country, signs of pre-pandemic life are returning. >> i'm ready. i got my two shots. >> reporter: with covid cases falling fast, states are on track to fully reopen. health officials say vaccinations are key. tonight, the c.d.c. says almost 61% of adults in the u.s. are partially vaccinated. dr. anthony fauci says we're on track to meet president biden's goal of 70% by the fourth of july. >> i believe that's an attainable goal, but we still have a ways to go. >> reporter: in 26 states, less than half of adults are fully vaccinated. oregon is the latest state to offer up a chance at cash prizes for those getting shots. >> take your shot now-- you have an opportunity to win a million dollars. >> reporter: in san francisco, there's reason to celebrate-- the city gave out its one- millionth vaccine dose this week, and its largest hospital reported no covid 19 patients
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for the first time since march of last year. >> just to see the zero means a lot. >> reporter: as the nation races to summer, travel fever is rising. the t.s.a. says compared to last year, five times as many fliers took to the sky friday. at dallas love field airport, it's starting to look like normal. it feels like there's more travelers, you know, flying. >> reporter: los angeles officials plan to close the remaining mass vaccination sites this summer, and move to mobile clinics. the hope is to get more shots in arms in under-vaccinated communities. adriana. >> diaz: danya bacchus, thank you so much. newly-released video of a deadly arrest of a black man in louisiana two years ago is drawing more outrage. today, the family of ronald green told cbs news it wants the officers held accountable. we get more now from cbs's michael george-- and a warning, the video is disturbing. >> i'm scared! i'm your brother, i'm scared! >> reporter: ronald greene is
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pleading with louisiana state police officers, who wrestle him to the ground following a pursuit in may 2019. >> put your hands behind your back. >> taser, taser, taser. (screams) >> reporter: after excerpts were published by the associated press, state police released 40 minutes of body camera videos, which show greene being tased and punched from several angles. officers say he continued to resist. greene can be heard repeatedly saying "i'm sorry." >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. >> reporter: the f.b.i. is investigating greene's death and what led up to it, but on the tape, trooper chris hollingsworth is heard explaining what happened. >> i beat the ever living ( bleep ) out of him, choked him, and everything else trying to get him under control. and the ( bleep ) was still fighting, and we was still wrestling with him, trying to hold him down, because he was spitting blood everywhere, and then all of a sudden he just went limp. >> reporter: greene's family is suing the louisiana state police for wrongful death. they say the agency initially
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claimed greene died after crashing into a tree during the chase. cbs news has confirmed an autopsy report showed head injuries. a broken breastbone and a torn aorta were factors in his death. colonel lamar davis: >> having, you know, contacted and spoken with the greene family, i can feel their pain. >> reporter: the louisiana state police fired two of the troopers and suspended another. last fall, just hours after learning he would be fired, trooper hollingsworth died in a single car crash. michael george, cbs news, new york. >> diaz: the atlantic hurricane season is still a week away, but the first storm has already been named. cbs meterologist jeff berardelli joins us now with more. jeff, isn't it a little early for hurricanes? >> it's a little bit on the early side, but sometimes mother nature does not follow the calendar. you know, we've seen this happen seven years in a row now-- we have our first named storm. sub-tropical storm ana.
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but the good news is that this storm is moving away from the united states. it is not going to be a problem. has winds of 40 miles an hour, but it reminds us that hurricane season is right around the corner. in the eastern half of the nation, heat is the big problem. newark airport today up to 96 degrees, and it will be similar tomorrow in new york city, d.c., all the way down to raleigh- durham. now the big story in the west is the drought. 70% of the west is in drought right now. it is the driest it has been on record in 127 years. and this is not coincidence. this is climate change. if you look at the long-term drought, you can see a clear trend to deeper and deeper drought over the past 120 years. a lot of scientists think that we are getting into permanent drought in the west because of climate change. adriana. >> diaz: all right, jeff. not coincidence, it's climate change. thank you so much. queen elizabeth was back at work today. she visited the royal navy's new flagship aircraft carrier that bears the name of her 16th- century predecessor.
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the 96-year-old monarch visited with members of the crew, including 250 u.s. marines. and it was graduation day at the u.s. military academy at west point. defense secretary lloyd austin attended the ceremony, where 100 cadets were commissioned as second lieutenants. hats off to the class of 2021! straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news," apple's tim cook is in the hot seat in an epic battle in court. taking on tesla, ford electrifies the f-150. and later, local boy makes good. a cubs fan gets his dream job at wrigley field.
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>> diaz: apple is accused of monopolizing its app store, and the epic battle has reached federal court. cbs technology reporter dan patterson has more.
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>> are you feeling confident about this case today? >> reporter: one of america's most powerful c.e.o.s arrived at federal court in oakland to defend how the nation's most valuable company runs its app store. it was apple c.e.o. tim cook's first time in court testifying, and the biggest moment in the anti-trust court battle with epic games, the creator of "fortnite." in the lawsuit, epic charges apple is an illegal monopoly, controlling access to its iphone operating system, and gouging developers with up to 30% commission on sales. last year, epic tried to get around that, and "fortnite" was removed from the app store. meghan dimuzio runs the coalition for app fairness. >> if you want your app on an iphone or an ipad, you have to go through the app store, period. there's no alternative. >> reporter: is google guilty of doing the same thing? >> there are similar grievances with google as there are with apple. however, you know, our developer
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members continue to point tech towards apple as having the most egregious behavior. >> reporter: but apple rejects that argument, insisting it must control the operating system to protect the iphone user's privacy and security. dan patterson, cbs news. >> diaz: still ahead on the "cbs weekend news:" ford powers into the future. its iconic american pick-up is changing the look of electric vehicles.
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>> diaz: ford charged up its model line-up this week with an electric version of the f-150. the automaker says the popular pick-up aims to be the model t of electric cars. cbs's erroll barnett too ride. >> reporter: since the end of world war ii when ford's f- trucks have become synonymous with american grit. now, ford is betting on the future that the best selling
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pickup in america is ready for the electric revolution. >> it was very important for our customers that this didn't look like a science project. it needed to look like a truck. >> there we go. >> reporter: linda zhang's task was to electrify this icon, as the chief engineer for the f-150 lightning. she was more than happy to tell us about the truck's ability to tow up to 10,000 pounds, but her favorite feature to show off is its acceleration. >> kick it! >> reporter: shooting from zero to 60 miles an hour in 4.5 seconds. wow! why is ford doing this now? >> i think this is an indication that ford believes e.v.s are ready to go mainstream. >> reporter: "car and driver's" eric tingwall. >> they are making the most popular vehicle in america an electric, thinking that they can tap into that huge audience, huge customer base, and get them excited about e.v.s. >> reporter: but less than 2% of cars sold in the u.s. are electric, and americans bought more f-series trucks in the first quarter of this year than
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all e.v.s purchased last year. plus, the segment is getting crowded. >> gm's going to be competing in this space. tesla obviously has the cyber truck coming. >> reporter: the lightning's baseline model is priced at $40,000. production begins next year. errol barnett, cbs news, bruce township, michigan. >> diaz: next on the "cbs weekend news," a billionaire's art collection goes on display in a new home. we'll visit.
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>> diaz: the mona lisa has something new to smile about-- a museum opening in paris this weekend after a long pandemic wait. and as cbs's elaine cobbe shows us, not everything is as it appears. >> reporter: this is a dream come true for french billionaire françois pinault. paris' landmark commodities exchange, the bourse du commerce, transformed into a new museum displaying pinault's collection of contempoary art. inside, old meets new.
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the space re-imagined by japanese architect tadao ando. the exhibit's centerpiece is a replica of giambologna's "abduction of the sabine women," by new-york based swiss artist urs fischer. it appears to be marble, but it's really sculpted wax. the entire installation is a giant candle and will be lit and gradually melt away. director martin béthenod says the new museum will also explore how france is acknowledging and reevaluating its colonialist past. >> what is important here is not big names, big works, impressive; but sensibility, humanism, and sense of the relationship between art and existence. >> reporter: a third of the artists in this exhibition are american, including kerry james marshall and david hammons, whose works explore black identity and the cultural slavery of people of colr. but there's fun, too. stuffed pigeons look down from under the dome, and an
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animatronic mouse peeps from a hole in the wall. the old commodities exchange was built in 1889, the same year as the eiffel tower. it costs $200 million to transform it into this art museum where old and new are now side by side. paris is already home to more than 200 museums, so can the capital of culture make room for one more? art and museum tour guide susan taylor-leduc says it's on her list. >> paris can absolutely take another museum, especially a modern art museum. i think that it's an extraordinary setting, so having the opportunity to have so many new works of art and on a-- new exhibitions is always a pull for the city of paris. >> reporter: as people applaud the re-opening of museums, the pinault collection will be hoping "something new" will keep them coming back for more. elaine cobbe, cbs news, paris. >> diaz: love with elaine takes us to paris. when we return, a life-long cubs
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fan scored his dream job at wrigley field, breaking barriers on the way.
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>> diaz: finally tonight, here in chicago, the cubs are making history again. not for their performance on the field-- but for a performer off the field. a new voice is in the air at chicago's wrigley field. >> good afternoon! and welcome to baseball he in beautiful wrigley field. >> diaz: it's deep... >> your attention, pleas >>iaz: ...animated... >> anthony rizzo! >> diaz: ...and younger than it sounds. >> this is the voice of wrigley field, jeremiah paprocki! >> diaz: your voice sounds like you're, like, 58 years old! ( laughs ) but how old are you actually? >> i'm 21, yeah. number nine! >> diaz: and in college. his senior year classes are still online. >> i thought that this dream was out of the ballpark, but here i
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am in the ballpark as the voice. so, anything can happen. >> diaz: so, where's your new office? >> i'm in the press box. >> diaz: jeremiah paprocki is the youngest p.a. announcer ever at wrigley, home to a historic team; legendary play-by-play broadcaster harry caray... >> three strikes, you're out! >> diaz: ...and super fans like bill murray. >> we came here to win this ball game! >> diaz: but paprocki is also the team's first ever black public address announcer. >> it really means a lot. people of color in general reaching out and saying, like, "hey, you're such a huge inspiration." >> diaz: an inspiration who's now a bit of a sports star of his own. >> congratulations, man. >> i appreciate it. that's awesome, man, thank you. >> diaz: his passion for baseball came from his mother. she once worked as a parking attendant here, and always brought him to games, where he would mimic the announcers. so, can i get some announcing? can you give me, like-- >> of course. >> diaz: --some samples? >> yeah. ladies and gentlemen, good
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afternoon and welcome to baseball here at beautiful wrigley field! >> diaz: that is amazing! it got serious in high school. >> this is a reminder for seniors... >> diaz: and this spring, when he saw the cubs p.a. job pop up on facebook... >> i'm here to audition. >> diaz: ...his mom filmed his audition. and he knocked it out of the park. >> offer you the job as the next p.a. announcer at wrigley field. >> wow. being told you're going to be the new voice of wrigley field, you know, it's like this has to be a joke in some way, or maybe i'm dreaming? so i don't know. right now, i'm still speechless. >> diaz: hopefully he's not too speechless-- he's got a lot of talking ahead of him. that's the news tonight. we leave you now with chicago's famed buckingham fountain, back on today after a year hiatus due to the pandemic. i'm adriana diaz in chicago. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs
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captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org because of this pandemic operation had to be put on hold for over a year. and holy cow, was there some demand pent-up. the incredible turnout here in oakland. and gosh this is like a solution for the trash problem. brush fire burns at least one building and nearly touched off a much bigger problem.
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illegal dumping in oakland. people waited long lines to do the right thing at the city's first bulky block party. wilson walker shows us how this could be a first step in a much bigger journey. >> reporter: looks like one nice giant piece of the solution. >> time to minimize. and that was still too much stuff. >> reporter: he came by sedan pickup truck u-haul and various other modes of transport. the stuff itself was just about anything you can think of, and the people that were dumping it
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