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for a full hour of news. >> news updates are always on kpix.com. cbs weekend news is next. along with dennis and juliette we'll be back in 30 minutes. between now and then you e on ♪ ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> duncan: tonight, another mass shooting in america. more than 20 people shot. at least two killed. the gunmen targeted people gathered for a concert near miami. >> it is just an indication of the problem we have with this gun violence in this country. >> duncan: also tonight, traditions return. at the indianapolis speedway. on the streets of washington, d.c. anand at packeked baseball stad. america roars back this holiday weekend. plus president biden condemns a push by texas republicans to restrict voting. a century after the massacre, tulsa marks one of the worst
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acts of racial violence in american history. >> i want to shed light on what was hidden for so long. >> duncan: and later-- ♪ ♪ ♪ "taps" across america our steve our steve hartman's call to honor fallen on memorial day. >> reporter: i was not surprised. i was blown away. >> this is the "cbs weekend news." from new york, here is jericka duncan. >> duncan: good evening, another weekend in america has been marred by a mass shooting. tonight, police near miami, florida, are searching for gunmen who used assault weapons and handguns to fire a hail of bullets into a crowd. the county's police director calls them "cold-blooded murderers." at least two people were killed, more than 20 others wounded in the attack. the community is being asked for help and a cash reward has been offered for clues. cbs' manuel bojorquez is there.
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manny, good evening. >> reporter: jericka, the shots rang out after midnight at a banquet hall behind me just as a rap concert was ending. as people filed out, police say three men opened fire. >> we need additional units to respond, multiple victims. again, we need additional units to respond. >> reporter: tonight, police are looking for three men who jumped out of a nissan pathfinder at this strip mall, armed with assault weapons and handguns firing into the crowd of concert-goers, leaving more than 20 injuries and two dead. >> we will need additional units to respond. >> reporter: the injured were rushed to several hospitals. chad harris among the stunned parents, his 19-year-old daughter one of the wounded. >> my daughter was shot. words can't explain how i feel right now. this is a sad moment. >> this type of gun violence has to stop, every weekend it is the same thing. this is targeted, this is definitely not random. >> reporter: for police it is a worrying reminder than that the
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nation returning from normal from the pandemic means violence like this returns too. >> it is very disheartening but it is a trend you are seeing around the country. >> reporter: on "face the nation," miami police chief art acevedo warned of a violent summer and urged law makers to act. >> and we need the federal government and both sides to address this issue, because without legislation, without certainty as it relates to holding these criminals accountable, we are never going to get through this summer. >> reporter: even before this shooting, local leaders had proposed a $10 million plan to stem gun violence, which involves creating more jobs for underserved youth and adding surveillance cancer to high crime neighborhoods. tonight, one philanthropist is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the men involved in this attack. jericka. >> duncan: manuel bojorquez for us tonight in miami, thank you. americans are heading into another pandemic summer, but this time with optimism, and
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memorial day weekend is proof of that. cbs' lilia luciano is in hollywood, california. lilia, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, jericka, it is a very busy hollywood boulevard tonight. here in california, masks are still man dated but elsewhere in america, it is a holiday weekend with way fewer restrictions. america's pastimes are making a big comeback this memorial day weekend. >> start your engines! >> reporter: in indianapolis 135,000 racing fans revved up at the indy 500, the largest crowd at a sporting event since the start of the pandemic. >> in washington, d.c., thousands of bikers rolled through the nation's capitol, raising awareness for missing service members. in boston, fenway park is packed again. even c.d.c. director rochelle walensky was there throwing out the first pitch, while travels
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soars to pandemic peaks. it is all possible because half of american adults are fully vaccinated in less than six months-- but covid still kills, the u.s. death toll pushing past 594,000. and tonight new concern about a variant detected in vietnam. there is the biden administration urges china to cooperate with an investigation on the virus source. >> they could provide the blood samples from those who worked in the lab in wuhan. they've refused to do that. >> reporter: there is joy in our new normal. >> real relief and celebration to be able to be outside again and be able to feel safe. >> reporter: here in hollywood yet another reason to celebrate. with 75% of movie theaters now open nationwide, memorial day weekend could break the $100 million mark at the box office. jericka, last year that wasn't even $1 million. >> duncan: lilia, thank you. president biden is expected to
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travel to arlington national cemetery tomorrow to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. today, in delaware, the president and his family attended church on what is the sixth anniversary of the death of his son, beau biden. later, the president, joined by his grandson attended a memorial day service. mr. biden called it "a hard day for his family." in texas, republican lawmakers have a midnight deadline to pass some of the toughest voting restrictions in this country. that's when the legislative session ends. cbs' christina ruffini joins us. why is this getting so much attend, even from the president. >> reporter: good evening, jericka, president biden said texas senate bill like its predecessors in florida and georgia attacks the sacred right to vote, he said these laws are disproportionately targeting black and brown americans and we should be making it easier not harder for every eligible american voter to vote. now, proponents of the bill like
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those other states say it is about voting security, although there was no evidence of widespread voting fraud in 2020. now, this texas bill does things like bans drive-in voting, makes it illegal for counties to send ballots to anyone who doesn't specifically request them, and it limits after work voting hours, polls must now close by 7:00 p.m. opponents include civic rights groups and even some business whose fear a backlash like they saw in those other states. jericka, no democrats in the texas legislature support the legislation. >> duncan: christina ruffini reporting from the white house, thank you. for decades, a massacre in segregated tulsa, oklahoma, remained an untold story of one of the most violent and racist incidents in american history. but times are changing, and 100 years later, we remember. cbs' omar villafranca is there. >> reporter: sunday's sermon at mt. vernon a.m.e. was about remembering the past. ♪ ♪ ♪
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>> reporter: fitting for a church that 100 years ago was almost fully burnt to the ground in the 1921 tulsa race massacre. >> a revival is springing up in tulsa, oklahoma. >> reporter: street vendors lined greenwood avenue where black wall street once stood, part of the 100 year commemoration of the massacre. this neighborhood was once a black economic powerhouse. on may 1, 1921, a white mob attacked the black community, over 1,000 homes, schools and businesses were looted and burned to the ground. historians say as many as 300 black residents were killed. >> i still see black men being shot, black bodies lying in the street. >> reporter: earlier this month, three of the last known survivors of the massacre testified before a house committee. 107-year-old viola fletcher was only six years old when it happened. >> i have lived through the
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massacre every day. the country may forget this history, but i cannot. >> reporter: her brother, 100- year-old hugh van ellis. >> we live with it every day. we aren't just black and white pictures. we are flesh and blood. >> reporter: while this debate on how to commemorate the events and push for reparations continues, pastor robert turner of mount venon a.m.e. church wants people to focus on justice. >> i hate that incidents than that we are still trying to figure out all of what the details are. i want to shed light on what was hidden for so long in our community, and that was the act of racial terror. >> reporter: president biden will be in tulsa on tuesday to pay his respects, the same day the city plans to start digging in an area that could contain a mass grave of victims from the massacre. jericka. >> duncan: omar villafranca for us in tulsa, thank you. tomorrow night, gayle king will host a cbs news special on the
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100th anniversary of the tulsa massacre. that's at 10:00 eastern, 9:00 central. recovery efforts are underway ongoing tonight after a small crashed into a lake, 20 myles southeast of nashville, seven people were on board and were killed, among them, diet guru and church leader gwen lara and her husband, actor joe lara. well, the remains of 215 children have been found in a mass grave in canada. tributes have appeared at the site of a grounds of a former residential school in british columbia. it was set up to forcibly assimilate indigenous people and operated for nearly 90 years until closing in 1978. these schools were across canada. an investigation found many of the 150,000 children who attended them suffered from physical abuse, rape, and malnutrition. well, back here in this country, asian americans have faced a dramatic spike in violence in
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recent months as cbs' nancy chen reports, some are finding new ways to protect each other. >> reporter: they keep happening, attacks on asian americans nationwide, including a 75-year-old woman punched to the ground without warning last week in new york. there alone, 86 anti-asian hate crimes have been reported so far this year, up from 19 in 2020. in response, people are finding ways to help their neighbors, med student michelle tran has been distributing 14,000 self defense devices, paid for with donations. >> having a personal alarm or a pepper spray or being equipped enough to feel more protected walking down the street is what we are hoping to achieve with this project. >> reporter: the n.y.p.d. created an asian hate crimes task force last year. it includes 25 investigators of asian descent speaking a combined 11 languages. they patrol asian american communities, often undercover,
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and work with detectives to solve hate crimes. inspector tommy ng threads task force. >> i came to this country in 1988. i was a victim of a robbery when delivering food. never reported it to the police. you know, i didn't speak the language that well, i felt embarrassed. >> reporter: the incident inspired him to join the force and help bridge the gap between law enforcement and victims. >> it feels like talking to a relative that speaks your language, and it brings you a comfort level to absent that even though you are a victim of a crime, someone is here to guide you from the beginning of the process to the end of the process. >> reporter: nancy chen, cbs news, new york. >> duncan: five-time grammy the winner b.j. thomas is being remembered for recording some of the catchiest tunes. ♪ raindrops are falling on my head ♪ they keep falling ♪ >> duncan: thomas also sang "hooked on a feeling" and sold more than 70 million records. he died from complications of lung cancer yesterday. b.j. thomas was 78.
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>> reporter: because everybody remembers the floating nightmares last spring. like the two and a half thousand people who spent their dream vacation in quarantine on the "diamond princess" off japan. simon calder is a travel writer. >> it is a huge p.r. challenge, the people who are most susceptible to covid 19, older travelers, are the absolute prime demographic for the cruise industry. >> reporter: calder twice fully vaccinated, also had to have a covid test. >> thank you. >> reporter: and cruise ships from now on will have to have a secure quarantine area where passengers can be looked after if they do fall ill. most foreign countries aren't ready to welcome floods of tourists yet, but as for the tourists themselves, they are raring to go. elaine spencer is a veteran cruiser who wrote a book about her two weeks trapped in quarantine on the diamond princess. she and her husband have already
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♪♪ >> duncan: the unofficial start of summer has been a chilly one in the east, but in california, swimmers are out and often sharing the surf with sharks. also in the water, a very brave carter evans. >> reporter: getting in the water with great white sharks seems like a terrible idea. i don't dare stand up on this board. we are just off the coast of santa barbara, and within minutes-- this shark is so close. i can almost grab its dorsal fin. it is right underneath me. now, scientists say that shark is not interested in me or other people. watch this huge shark swim right up to these unsuspecting children and just swim away. the population of these great white whites on so-cal beaches
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is exploding. >> oh, my god, don't bite me. >> reporter: wedding photographer carlos gauna started capturing these stunning images off the beach last year when the pandemic dried up business. >> almost every time i see an interaction with a human and a shark, my heart does pound. we all have been conditioned ever since "jaws" came out the fear that interaction. >> reporter: but this is far from "jaws." watch as a large shark calmly cruises the surf lineup. this one approaches a family. and a swimmer is headed right toward another. all of the sharks seem uninterested. why don't they want to eat us? >> well, we don't really fully know the answer to that question. first of all, we are not close to being on the menu. >> reporter: chris lowe is director of the is that correct lab in cal-state, long beach, he says most of the sharks spotted off southern california beaches are juvenile great whites hunting stingrays not surfers, although he warns they are still wild animals that should not be
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provoked. >> when they are born they are completely on their own. the safest place for them to be is in shallow water. >> reporter: i mean, we are essentially telling people here, don't worry about the baby great whites in the water but does the same thing apply on the east coast? >> actually, no. there we have adults that are there to feed on seals, and those steels are sharing the, seals are sharing the beach with people so that's a veryy didifferent sisituation, e evenn northern california, i would be a lot more hesitant of getting in the water. >> reporter: but off the so-cal coast-- this shark is swimming so gracefully-- lowe's team is looking to predict the conditions can that will lead to encounters between sharks and people. >> i am kind of hoping in about five years you will get a rip current report and you will get a shark report. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, santa barbara. >> duncan: i prefer to stay on the sand. next on the "cbs weekend news", a new tradition set to ring out across the land, this memorial day. ♪ ♪ ♪
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elise preston has the story. ( ♪ "taps" ♪ ) >> reporter: this is what memorial day sounded like last year for tens of thousands of buglers and trumpeters. with memorial day parades and ceremonies canceled because of the pandemic, they honored america's patriots by playing taps. ( ♪ "taps" ♪ ) >> reporter: from coast to coast, musicians of all skill levels answered the call from cbs' steve hartman and taps for veterans jari villanueva. together, they created "taps across america." >> i was not surprised. i was blown away that everybody felt as i did, that this is what america needed right now. >> reporter: the idea came from a story hartman did nine years ago with don brittain from tacoma, washington. he played "taps" every day at sunset to honor america's veterans. >> when i am playing this i am not aware of anything but the
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fact i am playing this and i am trying to play it as best as i can, and do a good job. >> reporter: what about that story resonated with you years later. >> what struck me most about the story was not just the playing of the "taps," but when neighbors came out and stood on their balconies on their porch, and they just were just with their over heart, and it blew me away it brought me to tears in the moment. >> reporter: a moment so moving, he wants all americans to experience it. >> if they don't remember i was a journalist, if they remember that i had anything to do with starting "taps across america," that's fine with me, life well served. >> reporter: once again, he's asking musicians to sound those 24 notes monday afternoon, so those who hear "taps" will stop and remember america's fallen. elise preston, cbs news, new york. >> duncan: that again is 3:00 local time. hope to hear from you. that's the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. we leave you tonight with images
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from arlington national cemetery. i am jericka duncan in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. it was 20 degrees warmer today than yesterday for some parts of the bay area, but tomorrow there is a heat advisory. i will show you how much higher the numbers have to go for that. the taurus are back at fisherman's wharf but there is a new problem for the merchants, these legal vendors selling anything from five dollars shots taguchi knockoff bags. coming up, with the city plans to do. it's 65% of the sales from us. >> to have unpermitted vending next to them and in front of them it's not fair.
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it is a crackdown that pays off big for police in one east bay city. >> there facing off against mother nature and an open ocean. this group of women is hours away from embarking on. >> it is a massive opportunity to inspire all the young girls to go out there and dream. good evening and thank you for joining us s >> we begin with the weekend warm-up. taking a live look across the bay area and marking the unofficial start of summer with some real heat this weekend and it's only the beginning. darren peck shows us which spots will hit triple digits. >> inland parts of the bay area and he is usually when we get the warm-ups the current numbers are impressive and i will come back and talk about that in more detail because i need to look ahead until tomorrow. that is when the heat advisory goes into effect until noon to 9:00 tomorrow night focused on the north bay and the east bay
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