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cinematic experience in san jose. simply san jose is kicking off their film series, movies played with a live krista, and with the 1990 film cinema paradiso. ♪ tonight the urgent search for answers and ufo debris. >> it represented a reasonable threat to civilian aircraft so i gave the order to take it down. >> canada and the u.s. keep blowing things out of the sky. four takedowns in eight days, but so far few details about exactly what is being hit. >> what has gone on is nothing short of craziness. also tonight, moments of hope. moments of hope after the earthquake in syria. in ukraine, new video of a rundvance.
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in an exclusive interview, we speak to a captured fighter from a notorious mercenary group. >> it's like a meat grinder, they don't care if you return home. why this man's punishment could be a first in new york in 60 years. at the super bowl, how fans put aside their differences for the gift of life. >> does anybody have a kidney i could get? he came through. later we're on the front lines of what some are calling education reform in florida. why books are being pulled from school libraries. >> teachers have been called groomers. this is the "cbs weekend news." good evening and thank you for joining us. it has happened again. today another aerial object shot
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down by warplanes. the latest shootdown happened over lake huron following it over yukon's territory. we are started this was on both sides, and they are demanding more details as other officials say the objects were smaller and did not closely resemble the chinese spy balloon shot down earlier this month. canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, doubledn h de
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unidentified object over the yukon on saturday. >> it represented a reasonable threat to civilian aircraft so i gave the order to take it down. >> u.s. and canadian forces are now in recovery mode piecing together several objects that american fighter jets shot down. the u.s. downed an aerial object the size of a small car on friday over alaska. it landed on sea ice and crews are still working to get answers on who owned it and what it was. >> the predominant concern by the president was the safety of flight issue at that altitude. >> a lot of those who were critical of president biden shooting down a chinese spy balloon earlier in the month, they are pleased with the response. >> we prefer them to be trigger happy than to be permissive. >> what has gone on in the last two weeks or so ten days, it has been nothing short of craziness
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and the military needs to have a plan to not only determine what is out there but determine the dangers that go with it. >> officials are on alert shutting down the airspace over montana on saturday after concerns of a radar anomaly over the canadian border. today they said it was an unmanned object that was shot down over lake huron. and the officials here at the white house say they have no indication the latest unmanned object had surveillance capabilities but they are not ruling that out. they are saying the object did not pose any military threats tto the ground. thank you. tomorrow marks one week since the devastating earthquake struck in turkey and syria, and the death toll topping 33,000. today just a bit of hope as rescuers pulled a father and his 11-year-old daughter from the
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rubble after 41 hours of being buried. we have more on the race against time. >> good evening. nearly a week after the massive earthquake, hundreds of thousands of people are still sleeping in sub zero temperatures, including here in one of the worst affected areas where anger is only growing. these apocalyptic scenes are far as the eye can see. as we drove through the town we could not find a single has been t habitable building. >> my mother and sister are still under the rubble. i can't reach them. my soul is gone. they are dying under the rubble and i am dying here. the distribution has been slow and haphazard. for those looking for something
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warm to wear, donated clothes in piles on the street, and food and instant formula and diapers are available in some areas, but none of it a substitute for what has been lost. we met a man that shelters across the street from the apartment building he was raised in, which is now in ruins. he tells us his parents were killed in the quake and that they only found his mother's remains. how long can you live like this for? >> translator: everyone here is leaving, he says. if we find my father then we will leave, too. because there's not a single building here left to live in. >> reporter: food over the past week has gone from shock to grief to anger. they knew this area was vulnerable to earthquakes and did not do enough to protect the people. this man is smashing the logo of
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a prominent construction company. critics of the president erdogan say he's to blame for the government's failings, but not everybody is casting blame. he wants to appeal for help instead. i would like to speak to the american president, joe biden, he says. let's please put politics aside and help the people of turkey. president erdogan promised to rebuild across the country within a year, but with the crews still going through the piles of rubble, it's hard to see how he will keep that promise. >> thank you for your reporting. turning now to the war in ukraine. ukrainian forces destroyed a line of russian tanks in a failed assault in eastern
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ukraine. russia has been relying on paid fighters from the notorious wagner group to bolster its ranks. we spoke with one of those mercenaries that was captured. >> a hired gun no longer calling the shots. we met him as he was being held by the ukrainian intelligence. bolstered by convicts recruited from russian penal colonies. he already served over half of the three-year jail term when he accepted a devil's deal, fighting in ukraine for freedom and cash. >> wagner is like a meat grinder. they don't care if you return home. >> the ukrainian tanks, fighting with little more than a rifle. >> there were mountains of
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bodies. >> he was filmed hsurveying the bodies piled high, and their final destination, a cemetery in russia. if those recruits refused to fight -- >> you are just killed. that's it. if you don't agree with an order, you are just killed. >> did you see this happen? >> yes, one of the fighters who was too scared to fight, they made him big his own grave and shot him. >> he claims he saw other comrades shot in the head, but he had no part. if he could turn back time, he says he would choose the brutality of a russian prison cell over the carnage of a ukrainian battlefield. cbs news, kyiv. the terrorism trial in new
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york could yield the state's first death penalty in decades. a man was convicted last month following a deadly rampage in 2017. here's more on what we can expect and the motivation behind the murderers. >> reporter: federal prosecutors said he wanted to impress the islamic state group known as isis when he carried out the attacks that day. he was hoping to become a member. >> we have multiple casualties. >> the 2017 attack on a bike path along manhattan's west side highway left eight people dead and renewed fears of terrorism nearly two decades after 9/11. prosecutors this week will ask a jury to sentence the 35-year-old to death on halloween, he drove down a bike path mowingow
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cyclists blocks away from the twin towers, and then police stopped him with a gunshot to the stomach. last month he was convicted on 28 counts of crimes that included murder and aid the racketeering and supporting a foreign terrorists organization. what if prosecutors can't get a unanimous vote? >> he cannot be sentenced to less than life in prison. if they do not unanimously decide in favor of the death penalty, he will be sentenced to life in prison. >> reporter: two years ago president biden issued a moratorium on federal executions, but attorney general merrick garland is still allowing prosecutors to continue seeking capital punishment, although that only applies to cases that predate biden's time in office. >> thank you. it's super bowl time in glendale, arizona. while there's not much middle
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ground for diehard fans of the kansas city chiefs and the philadelphia eagles, they found something they could agree on. chris has that story. >> reporter: this is football's biggest night and you are not going to find more ardent fans there, but there are two here today reminding us of what is important. outside super bowl lvii, fired up fans. but in a sea of division, green versus red, kansas city versus philly and the week's long war of words, these two are a lesson in finding common ground. welsh, a philly native and life long eagles fan, and gladwell from kansas city.
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they met 20 years ago. unsurprisingly they quickly lost touch until 2019, when welch made a desperate plea for help on facebook. >> does anybody have the kidney i can get? the one i have is junk. he came through and sent me a message. i said, yeah, i am days away from dialysis. >> i saw that he had his son, and i was, like, i looked at my grandson and i -- yeah, let me get tested. >> for all their differences they were a perfect match. >> what went through your mind when he said, not only am i a match but i am giving you my kidney? >> i cried. this man right here is my hero. >> so during the height of the pandemic, gladwell rushed to philly for the surgery, and it was a life changing success. >> when i first got the kidney i had a rejection episode, and i believe it was because it was a
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kansas city chief's kidney. a little more medicine and a little more time in philly, the kidney came around and started going strong. >> when the eagles and chiefs heard their story, they got quite the surprise zoom call. they were going to the super bowl together. >> amazing. i can't put a word to it. >> but sitting side by side, there will be plenty of words. >> a lot of smack. >> a lot of smack. i may even paint my face. >> red? >> no, what is wrong with you? >> does it matter who wins or loses? >> no, he already won. >> no. >> he won. >> you are here. >> that's true. >> the power of a match, and i asked john if he had second thoughts about going forward with the surgery, and he said marines help marines. >> love that sense of humor between the two of them. thank you. still ahead, the battle over
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>> two weeks ago as the state celebrated literacy week, beg r until all books to be vetted and we needed to be sure we were in compliance with the state laws. >> the public schools including in jacksonville will conduct a formal review of all books. while that review is ongoing, classrooms and school libraries look like this. under florida's law beginning this year, school books have to be reviewed by a media specialists to ensure they are free of pornography or certain race-based teachings from k kindergarten to third grade, they must be free of sexual orientation or gender identity. >> they come for teachers over math and over books, and
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teachers have been called groomers. >> desantis passed laws that say they empower parents. >> floridians want our school systems to be about educating kids, not indoctrinating them. >> there's a boy that likes a boy in the series. >> and stephanie walter is his mother. >> i think what the legislation is stoking fear that things are happening in the classroom that are not happening. >> these all have to go, so i have some health issues that i don't know how much i will be in the classroom. it's very upsetting and it's really hard for me to not just want to yell and scream about, you know, how crazy this whole situation is. >> a school library that has thousands of books, and add to that classroom libraries and
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move them out of richardson bay. live from the studio we are not watching the super bowl either. >> neighbors rocked by the house explosion continued with cleanup today, the explosion on thursday morning destroyed one house and caused two adjacent homes to be red tagged. >> the video of the explosion is graphic. our reporter interviewed a man who was standing across the street when the house exploded. >> reporter: that man was standing right there, about 40 to 50 feet away from the house when it exploded and it was all caught on tape. surveillance video shows albert standing next to a light pole in front of his home. he and his next-door neighbor worst were talking with the house across the street blew up. >> all of a sudden we heard an explosion and then we saw the fire. >> reporter: the impact pushed them several feet away and took them a sera

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