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guard? >> they kept saying he's aaron. and i said he's usually not here saturday afternoon. that's why i was so surprised it was him. >> reporter: what was he like? >> he was a very nice person. he was very good at his job. anytime we felt there was a threat, he'd come and stay and show his presence, which is what we need to feel safe at work. >> reporter: how are you feeling about the fact that this 18-year-old targeted the store that you work? >> i think it's horrible. i don't like to give my energy to things that -- these kinds of agendas. so, i don't talk about that part as much as i talk about how we're going to keep moving forward from this. we don't appreciate anyone coming into our community. he doesn't even live here.
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coming into our community and thinking he's going to stop us from being resilient. he's just not going to get to do that, not here. >> reporter: our interview with mrs. stanfield. local authorities are investigating copy cat threats to other businesses in buffalo. there's been at least one arrest. christopher wray called it extremism. >> reporter: tonight the 18-year-old's online radicalization is becoming clearer. authorities are combing throug a series of on a line posts and says he was and says christopher wray called such individuals the greatest terrorist threat in the count rae. >> because they act alone and
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move quickly from wradicalization to action, often using easily obtainable weapons for soft targets. >> reporter: the fbi had been funneling more of its resources to domestic terrorism cases, which had more than doubled from about 1,000 to 2700 investigations. while white supremacist propaganda has urged. according to the antidefamation league, in 2021,er it appeared in every states,b with the highest levels in pennsylvania, virginia and texas. and he says white supremacists have been recruiting by pointing to a racist concept called the great replacement. >> the concept being that white people are being replaced by
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immigrants, by muslims. by people coming from africa and arab countries. >> reporter: it is a concept taking root in american politics. wyoming representative, liz cheney harshly criticized her fellow republicans for what she said is enabling racist idology in her ranks. and these are the common thread among mass shootings. from october 2018 in pittsburgh to now, buffalo, even today online,b the adl says like-minded people aren't condemning the suspect's actions, just the opposite. >> he is now a saint. frankly, it's rinse and repeat with these extremists. they learn from one another and prepare the social media at the same time that they're preparing their weapons. >> reporter: the investigation into the gunman who was in a cell behind me continues. the fbi's examining online postings in which the gunman
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tonight the fda reached an agreement aimed add easing the nationwide baby formula shortage. it laid out the steps to shut down a plant that's been shut down since february. new formula hitting store shelves after about eight weeks. what that means is ten weeks away. we spoke exclusively with the second-largest producers of formula in the u.s. the maker of enfamil. peop people are desperate. >> we have increased production by more than 30% and feeding more than 200,000 more babies a month than before. we're working cleosely with the
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what has become an all-too familiar scene in america, a community rocked by senseless violence. what started as a typical saturday for buffalo turned into a nightmare. strawberries for a favorite short cake dessert. their lives shattered by someone with hate in his heart. but as one resident in the community said we can't match his hate, love must prevail. there's one story we've heard that is chilling. 72-year-old catherine massy wrote a letter that appeared in the local paper almost exactly a year ago, calling on the federal government to address gun violence in the country. on saturday, she became a victim herself, one of the ten killed and three injured. a local bishop said we pray for guidance, peace, pray for unity but most of all god, we pray that justice be done. reporting from buffalo, new
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york. i'm laura o'donnell. fwnt. goodnight. goodnight. ♪ this is cbs news flash. i'm matt piper in new york. the food and drug administration is authorized to approve a booster shot as new york city approaches high-risk status with health officials urging people to mask up again in all indoor settings. a wildfire in new mexico,b the 3,000 acre blaze with hundreds of homes burned to the ground. and congress set to hold its first hearing on ufo's in half a
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century. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or tv. ♪ we're here in buffalo, new york, where wore learning new details about what happened inside this supermarket behind me and we have new reporting about what led up to saturday's deadly shooting. authorities tell cbs news that the suspect made multiple visits to the store ahead of his ram it is page. he called this grocery store attack site number one and had plans to continue the shooting spree at two other places in the city of buffalo. we're also learning the suspected gunman taunted federal police online months ago.
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well, tonight, this is a a community in morning. ten killed, three injured. 11 were black. they ranged in age from 32 to 86 and included a retired police officer, substitute teacher and a grandmother of six. tomorrow president biden will come to buffalo to greave with this community and it was a deadly weekend here in america. united states has seen 202 mass shootings so far this year. four of them happened on sunday. we spoke earlier with buffalo's police commissioner, who's been with the department for 25 years. when you learn that people like the suspect and others are learning this hate and sharing this hate online, what do you want done? >> i don't know how you stop a lone person who just gets so embedded in this material; that
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develops such hate for somebody. it's absolutely pure evil. >> cbs's jericka duncan is here to start us off. i know you've been here all weekend. >> it wasn't just tops. he was lookin to do damage in other places. the sheer number of people alone, ten, is enough. but to know that more people could have died is unfathomable. tops cashier says she was at work when the shooter opened fire. she ran to a back conference room with co workers. they barricaded the door with the table. so, you're in there praying that he doesn't come. >> i was instructing my co workers to please be quiet so he won't hear us. >> possible act aer shooter at the tops. >> reporter: on saturday afternoon, they say 18-year-old peyton dressed in military-style
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camouflage and shaot four peopl in the parking lot and walked in the supermarket where he encountered a security guard, 55-year-old retired police lieutenant. >> he actually was able to shoot the assailant twice but he had on a bullet proof vest and lost his life in the process. >> reporter: the gunman shot a total of 13, killing ten. investigators said he had plans to go to another store after the rampage but was arrested. they say he drove more than 200 miles from his home in new york to kill as many black people as he could. he pled not guilty to a charge of first degree murder. he even scouted out the supermarket in early emarch and visited the day before the shooting. >> seeing her dropping to the
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ground over and over. >>epte saye saw the video of his 72-year-o do >> i'm hurt. i won't see my baby no more. i'm hurt. >> reporter: hey was the youngest of the ten people killed. the oldest was 86-year-old ruth whitfield. >> ware with mad. >> reporter: an emotional garnel whitfield jr. says his mom stopped to buy groceries after visiting his father at a nearby nursing home. >> what i loved most about my mom is how she loved us, how she loved our family unconditionally. >> reporter: 20-year-old tops employee suffered a gun shot wound to the neck. hoe did not want to apipear on camera but did want to share his story. what's the emotion you're feeling right now? >> discomfort, sadness, maybe a bit of regret.
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>> regret why? >> out of all the people that,b the three people that were spar spared, i was one of them. >> and i know you worked in buffalo for years. how is the community doing? >> they're trying their best to pull people together, offering counseling,b coming together to peep people who are in need of food. this was a supermarket in the kmaunt that they worked over ten years, the counsel,b it took them six years and it's been here almost 20. you have that aspect and i just got off the phone with the mayor and he talked about the children who with are confused, upset and said this is the time to remind them that love conquers hate. well, today employees of the supermarket met to get counseling at a leakalal library. among them was a cashier working
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along side her daughter when the first shots rang out. we spoke with her earlier. tell me where you were saturday afternoon. if you don't mind me asking. >> i was at register six in the front end. i just finished cashing out a customer. >> reporter: and then what happens next? >> and then we all paused. customer, with associate, everyone we all paused. no one moved. woe saw the security guard backing up and responding to the threat. so, we knew we were being hit and we iran. at first i didn't know where i was running. i got knocked to the side boy a customer. my daughter was still in the front. and i didn't know until i got all the way to the back. because i didn't look back. >> reporter: you must have been in sheer panic. >> i definitely was. i started yelling where is my baby?
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do you know where she is? did you see her? he's coming because you could hear shots getting closer. i had to regroup. >> how well did you know the officer who was a security guard? >> they kept saying it was aaron and i'm like no, i didn't see aaron. that can't be him. he's usually not even here saturday afternoon. for that's my i was so surprised it was him. >> how are you feeling about the fact that this 18-year-old targeted the store where you work? >> i think it's horrible. i don't like to give my energy to things that -- these kinds of agendas. so, i don't talk about that part as much as i talk about how we're going to keep moving forward from this. we don't appreciate anyone coming into our community. he doesn't even live here. coming into our community, thinking he ezgoing to stop us from being resilient. he's just not going to get to do
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thanks for staying with us. as the sit issy of buffalo continues to mourn the death of ten of its residents in a senseless slaughter, more details are coming to light about the alleged gunman. buffalo's police commissioner says he planned to continue his rampage, targeting shoppers at another large store nearby. instead, he surrendered to police. tony dokoupil is inuffa discussed this with tay
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anok a walk throuhetered commun. >> reporter: fair to say you've not seen anything like this, in terms of the number of dead and a hate crime like this? and the victims, have you had a chance to meet with any of the families? >> i can share about the investigation, that the shooter came here, was a premeditated act. wanted to kill as many black people as possible. if not for the heroic action of the security officer, retired buffalo police lieutenant, he would have been more successful in that effort. and if not for the quick response of the buffalo police department, he certainly would have killed more people in the immediate area. i have had the opportunity to speak to family members of three of the precious lives that were lost. obviously, this is very painful
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for the family. certainly something that no one could prepare themselves for. we're wrapping our arms around these families and showing them our love and care and concern. >> reporter: it's been interesting talking to people in the wide wither community. they all, in a sepu potential victims and survivors because of this particular market. what can you tell us of the significance of the attack here. >> this was the center of the community. it was a hard fight to get the corporate community to invest here. this was a food desert before this market. and tops was one of the corporations that stepped forward and said we believe in this community with, we're go tag invest in this community. so, people have a real sense of importance around what this market means to the community.
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a lot of people come here from the immediate community and from nearby communities and so, a lot of people feel this very personally, not just in the immediate community, but in other places of the city eof buffalo and new yorkwell. >> reporr: and nervous about shopping at any time. they feel specifically targeted. what to you say to community members about how safety can once again feel natural and normal in the community? >> it's scary to know that kind of racism and hate still exists in our country. unfortunately weesk we've seen too many of these mass shootings for different reasons. it shakes your sense of security
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and safety. we have said to the community that we are a safe community. we are a close community. and you can't police your way out of these pealings. but we have increased police patrol, not only in this immediate neighborhood but in other areas of the sit issy. and hopefully, seeing a greater presence of law enforcement, right now, in particular, is making feel more comfortable. >> the equation is tragic. hate plus guns, ekals shooting. i know you're working on thery here. >> reporter: heading away from the top's friendly market and almost immediately we see her. >> my mother's been hear 64 years. >> reporter: retired nurse outside the bright yellow home
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she grew up in. close enough to the scene to have heard the shots. >> for something like this to happen, to be targeted, it's heartbreaking. >> reporter: just about everyone round here knows one of the victims or feels grateful that they with weren't one of them. where are you emotionally with all this? are you angry? sad, scared? >> i'm sad. you can't get angry because racism has always been around. i remember when we grew up, i don't remember seeing this much anger in people and such a level of tdisrespect. it's not right and it's heartbreaking. it really is. >> reporter: across the street we spot a young family. one-year-old cameron in his father's arms and his mother who remembers going to tops for greens before sunday dinner. because of the shatting, she says she's angry and hurt and
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scared in a way she's never been before. >> i was surrounded by white people and i was -- honestly, i felt a little afraid, i felt like anything could happen. just getting makeup. >> reporter: fear is also on the mind of abdul, who flagged us down to say he's been haunted by video of the shooting. >> had to literally sit down because i almost passt out. what would recause a person to act in a senseless violence like that? and it showed he encountered a caucasian man and apologized to him and didn't shoot him. >> reporter: it was gwendolyn taylor who told us this is her first time out of the house since seeing it. you attack a store where everybody goes. >> it was all of us. >> reporter: have you heard from other people who feel like you do? >> absolutely. my family members is calling me like don't go outside.
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>> reporter: both say they're afraid for the faucher. >> i'm very fearful, especially for us as african-americans. >> reporter: people talk about progress and change. if anythinn growing behind closed doors bigger than ever. >> reporter: but back outside the tops market, we met pastor, whose sister and niece survived inside the store and whao had a message that surprised us. what would your message be to the gunman? >> we forgive you and asking god to forgive all your sins. >> the cbs overnight news will be right back.
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compared to other men. >> iegter way, i think of determination like mind muscle. it's what keeps your brain going when the going gets tough. and it can accomplish great things. how great? let's look at our library and pul one of my favorite stories about this potent force called determination. >> i really want it to be a doctor when i grow up. >> reporter: whenever his two little girls play doctor and dream of becoming one, one day, master mechanic is filled with the feeling of déjà vu. you want tod be doctor? >> oh, yeah. i grew up in east cleveland, which is a very impoverished city. i remember powdered milk, government powdered milk and block cheese. >> reporter: and because they were so poor, young carl quickly set aside his aspirations and focussed on becoming the best
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auto mechanic he could be. you would work on cars in the parking lot of the parts store? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: he eventually got his own shop until one day he decided to ratchet things up. in 2006, he eenrolled at ursline college. his intention was to get a business degree to help him manage his repair shop but there was one hurdle, a biology class. he put if off as long as po pospnlable. >> i went to class and in the first hour of being there, i knew what i wanted to do with the rest of my life. all those ideas of wanting to be a doctor came rushing back. >> reporter: the car doctor. >> dr. carl allen bates. >> reporter: the car doctor is now a doctor. he graduated from northeast ohio
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medical university and he's a univty medine resent. because, according to his supervisors, he worked so long in a garage. that cannot translate. >> you'd be shocked actually. some of the customer service. >> reporter: could you imagine right now going to learn automechanics? >> no, but carl said he'll do our oil changes. >> reporter: fortunately he has other repairs on his mind. he also knows, whether you're working under a hood or staring down a hatch, your success hinges on your drive. >> i would hear people say it's going to take nine years to become a doctor and i would say nine years are going to be passed anyway. i'd rather be somebody i want to be than some place i could have been. >> reporter: and there's the subscription for the i do it
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blues. i'd rather be someplace i'd like to a be than some place i could have been. good morning. >> hey, how's it going, steve? >> how do you instill this in kids, this determination? >> let them know you'll learn more from failures than successes and they're not go tag be good at everything they want to do. >> emmet defined determination as never giving up. and i think you're saying one of the keys to never giving up is re recognizing you're not always go tag succeeds. >> i want to learn how to play the piano. my daughter, kennedy, actually plays. >> reporter: is your dad any good? >> guess not. >> from a mechanic to a doctor to a musician. >> we'll see if that works out. >> thanks so much for joining us. really appreciate it.
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over the weekend, a ukrainian band won this year's euro vision song contest. with well, now, another ukrainian rock star may soon be touring with ping floyd. here's ian lee. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: he's a singer, turned soulter. this song of protest from the ukrainian capitol went viral. >> watching our volunteers into a bloody fight. everyone, every ukrainian around the world knows this song. >> reporter: we met the rock star as he prepared to return to the frontlines of ukraine's war with russia. >> we got three rbgs and one more here.
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♪ >> reporter: but his old life caught up with him when pink floyd saw that video. he was recovering after being injured when the band gave him a call. >> would you mind using your vocals for a pink floyd song? what would you say? and i said let me think yes. >> reporter: were you a big fan of pink floyd before they contacted you? >> everyone is a big fan of pink floyd. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: their collaboration is raising money for ukrainian relief. other artists are also joining the bandwagon. ed sheeran teamed up with a ukrainian rock group to remix one of his songs. for andre, music takes a backseat. his priority is the war. what do you nide right now? >> night vision. grenade launches.
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>> reporter: weapons to win against russia. so one day he can rock a mic instead of a machine gun. cbs news, london. ♪ ♪ this is cbs news flash. the food and drug administration is expected to authorize a booster shot of the pfizer covid-19 shot for children 5 to 11, as nourk reaches so-called high-risk stating urging people mask up again in all indoor public settings. a wildfire in new mexico is now the largest in state history. the blaze ignited more than a month ago with hundreds of homes burned to the ground. and the first ufo hearing in half a century as found most
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incidents remain unidentified. for more, download he bs it's tuesday, may 17, it's tuesday, may 17, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." store scouted. new details emerge about the mass murder in buffalo. that left ten people dead. how authorities say the suspect planned his attack months in advance. rescue mission. after weeks of defending a bombed out steel plant in mariupol, ukraine ramps up efforts to evacuate hundreds of exhausted fighters. wrong turn. a man is caught on video driving a rented maserati down an iconic landmark. good morning and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. it will be another emotional day in buffalo, new york. president biden and the first
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