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chinese naval blockade to cut the island off. retired u.s. air force officer germantes leilare teaches at taiwan's national defense university. >> well, they could break it for a certain period of time. they could sink some ships, they could shoot down some airplanes. >> but then they'd need the u.s. >> they need someone to come and help them. >> reporter: now, there's no military direct confrontation, at least yet, but this meeting between president tsai, who openly calls for taiwanese independence, and speaker mccarthy will have provoked and angered china. and norah, taiwan is now braced for some kind of reprisal. >> big developments there. elizabeth palmer, thank you. and there's this breaking news. robert f. kennedy jr. is running for president, as a democrat challenging president he joe biden for the party's nomination. the 69-year-old long-time anti-vaccine activist filed paperwork today. he's the son of former attorney general robert kennedy and the
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nephew of former president john f. kennedy. the u.s. attorney's office in washington has opened a civil rights investigation into the death of a 17-year-old who was shot and killed last month by u.s. park police. cbs's jeff pegues reports the investigation comes less than 24 hours after body cam footage of the shooting was released to the public. and a warning, some of the video is disturbing. >> reporter: at least four d.c. police officers approached the car early saturday morning, march 18th. a young man appeared to be sleeping inside. police say the car was stolen, and they called for backup with two u.s. park police officers responding. >> if he takes off just let him go. but don't get inside that car. >> reporter: ignoring that advice, those two officers opened the rear doors, and one got in. >> police! don't move! >> reporter: the driver, 17-year-old dalaneo martin, drove off. one officer falling to the ground, the other still in the back seat. >> stop!
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stop or i'll shoot! >> reporter: martin's family says he was shot in the back five times. he slumped over the wheel, the car crashing into a house. police say a gun was found in the vehicle. dalaneo martin leaves behind an infant son. her mother terra martin shared her grief. >> he's my child. he's my son. and until you be where i'm at today you would never understand. >> reporter: the doj will determine if martin's civil rights were violated. a key moment in the probe will be when the officer got into the car. keith taylor is a former nypd supervisor. >> it could be considered an officer-created jeopardy situation where the tactical decisions were not advantageous to the officer because it placed the officer in harm's way. >> reporter: within days of the shooting the union that represents the park police
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officers released a statement saying that the officers acted appropriately. norah. >> jeff es,u. fterno tictims shoong in nashville. n walked out of their ro classes to demand action against gun violence. >> reporter: seattle, charlotte, boston. coast to coast outrage about gun violence. high schoolers staged a noon walkout in protest. including in uvalde, texas where a school gunman last year massacred 19 children and two adults. >> stop! there's gunshots up at the church! >> reporte: last week's shooting at nashville's covenant school took six lives. three 9-year-olds and three adults, including katherine koonce, the head of the christian school. among the hundreds today grieving the lifelong educator,
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ann coddle, a close friend. >> with each day i think of the layers of loss to our school family, to our family, to our friends and to the community. >> reporter: like responding officers, koonce heard the shots and had one focus. stopping the carnage. >> there was a confrontation, i'm sure. you can tell the way she was laying in the hallway. >> reporter: coddles not surprised. her priority would have been to save the kids, even at risk to herself. >> her private would have been everyone. everyone in danger in that moment. without reservation. >> reporter: more fallout from the shooting. last week three democratic state lawmakers hijacked a legislative session using a bullhorn to demand gun restrictions. furious and could hold a vote tomorrow whether t oust those >> m ssmann thank you
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catholic diocese. more than 150 catholic priests and others are accused of abusing more than 600 children over the past 80 years. the archbishop of baltimore said it is difficult for most to imagine that such evil acts could have actually occurred and offered an apology to survivors, pledging solidarity and support in their healing. and that's why these investigations are so important. tonight police are investigating the murder of a tech titan on the streets of san francisco. cash app founder bob lee was stabbed to death early tuesday morning, and no arrests have been made. cbs's carter evans reports on the death that has shocked silicon valley. >> reporter: tonight friends and family are confirming what many fear. the 43-year-old man san francisco police found stabbed here on main street early tuesday morning is well-known tech executive bob lee. the father of two was chief product officer at cryptocurrency startup mobile coin. before that he worked with former twitter ceo jack dorsey
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at square. dorsey today called his death heartbreaking. lee would later create the mobile payment service cash app. >> bob's someone that i just talked to a couple days before and was planning on seeing in miami. it was really close to home. he got stabbed in front of my old apartment complex. >> reporter: jake shields is lee's friend. >> i'm a professional fighter and i live right there and i started feeling unsafe. >> reporter: current twitter ceo elon musk responded to news of the killing by taking a swipe at the city. "the violent crime in sf," he said, "is horrific." san francisco's district aattorney also called the crime horrific. now, lee had just moved his family from san francisco to miami to be with his father. friends say he was back in town visiting when he was attacked. norah? >> carter evans, thank you. there's a lot more news ahead on there's a lot more news ahead on the " dove 0% is different. we left aluminum out and put unbeatable 48 hours freshness and 1 quarter moisturizers... in.
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enhe s from the vundrs of palestinians had been arrested. some zip-tied on the mosque floor. "i was praying when israeli forces started firing stun grenades," this woman says. "one hit me on my chest." since the start of ramadan israeli forces have entered the al aqsa complex known to jews as the temple mount nearly every evening. police claim it's in part to remove worshippers from staying overnight inside the mosque, in violation of an agreement not to do so until the last ten days of the holy month. but israeli police have not explained why the predawn raid on the eve of the jewish passover involved so much force. hamas, the militant palestinian movement which controls neighboring gaza, responded with rocket fire on southern israel, prompting israeliir strikes as violence between israelis and palestinians continues to surge the fear is it could spiral into
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it's just amazing of what god can do with you. johnson & johnson is offering to pay nearly $9 billion to settle allegations that its once popular talcum baby powder caused more than 60,000 cases of cancer. the company says it's not admitting any wrongdoing. it would be one of the largest product liability settlements in u.s. history. tonight the countdown to the coronation is on for britain's king charles. an image of the invitation revealed that charles's wife will soon be known as queen camilla rather than the current title of queen consort. the change will officially take effect after the may 6th coronation ceremony where both the king and queen will be crowned. all right. call it the luck of the irish. a golfer hits back-to-back holes in one at augusta.
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unbelievable. next. which just had to end tonight at augusta national where the 87th masters teed off today with the par 3 contest. sheamus power of ireland hit a hole in one and then followed it up with another. he's only the third player going back to 1960 to score back-to-back aces in the contest. remarkably, three other players also scored individual holes in one today. round one of the masters is tomorrow, and cbs will have full coverage of golf's tradition unlike any other throughout the weekend. and that's it. the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for "cbs mornings." remember, you can follow us online anytime at cbsncom.
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hopeou get re. reportingrom e nation's capital, i'mor this is cbs news flash. i'm shanl kaul in new york. victims of the 2019 mass shooting in sutherland springs, texas have tentatively settled with the justice department over the government's failure to update the background check system. the $144.5 million settlement is the largest of its kind. tiktok's parent company bytedance has a new app catching on. lemonade is a photo-based app that's seen downloads jump here in the u.s. this comes as lawmakers consider an outright nationwide ban of tiktok over its use of user data. and the top ten busiest airports i revealed. atlanta's hartsfield jackson international took the top spot,
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followed by dallas-fort worth and denver international. for more download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we want to begin with a startling new development in the federal investigation of donald trump that could mark a turning point. it comes after the former president launched a new round of attacks on the fbi and justice department, both at mar-a-lago last night and again today on truth social. well, for months the special counsel right here in washington has waged a behind-the-scenes legal battle to get trump's closest advisers to testify. the president's lawyers have tried to limit that testimony, and they've repeatedly failed. chief staff wl '
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tey.today l mike pence is willing to answer questions under oath about then president trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. legal experts say it's this investigation that could be much more damaging than what happened yesterday. cbs's robert costa has all the new reporting. good evening, robert. >> good evening, norah. this is an extraordinary and potentially historic development. a former vice president now willing within certain bounds to testify about possible illegal acts by a president. an adviser to former vice president mike pence says he could testify before the grand jury within weeks and prosecutors could get a vivid firsthand account of what donald trump did and said as he relentlessly pressured pence to overturn the 2020 election. >> this is an earthquake. and not a small earthquake. >> reporter: forme f edericen hhe ko vel avenbeing e bysal instigio i 6th riot.
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>> when the mobs were attacking the capitol trying to stop the election, what did the president tell vice president pence if anything before, during, after? >> reporter: the former president spent the last 24 hours assailing all four ongoing investigations of him. >> i never thought anything like this could happen in america. >> reporter: today calling on congressional republicans to defund the doj and fbi, a move dismissed even by his staunch ally, south carolina republican senator lindsey graham. >> i think it's a bad idea. >> reporter: at tuesday's new york arraignment judge juan merchan warned against rhetoric that could inflame or cause civil unrest. but trump later took the gloves off during a rally at mar-a-lago. >> the criminal is the district attorney. >> reporter: tearing into manhattan d.a. alvin bragg and judge merchan personally. >> i have a trump-hating judge with a trump-hating wife and
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family. >> reporter: one a b detailed a34-countminal indictmenttr ahim of falsifying records as part of a years-long alleged hush money scheme. trump's lawyers say they will mount an aggressive effort to have the charges dismissed. >> you're charging the president of the united states with crimes, crimes that will never be sustained in the court of law because they don't exist. >> reporter: sources say the manhattan d.a. and his prosecutors are aiming for a trial next january. and if that were to happen that means trump could be spending time in new york facing trial. all while campaigning in iowa and new hampshire ahead of those early nominating contests. >> it's going to be an extraordinary year ahead. robert costa, thank you you so much. well, another wave of deadly tornadoes left a path of destruction across the midwest today, and the threat continues tonight. early this morning at least five people were killed and dozens others injured when a large twister tore through a rural community in southeastern
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missouri. that's about 100 miles south of st. louis. cbs's adriana diaz >> reporter: mowed down in minutes. this is what's left of glen allen, missouri. shredded homes, uprooted trees and a trail of ruin. keith and shannon lincoln rode out the storm in their bathroom. >> they was all in the tub i just got down by them. >> i was just praying to god. >> yes. >> please, god, don't get the house because we're in the house. please, god, don't get the house. please let us live. >> reporter: the powerful ef2 tornado packing winds up to 130 miles per hour tore through this rural community overnight when most people were asleep. today governor mike parsons saw the destruction firsthand. >> i think when you look at the devastation of this it's going to be weeks upon months to be able to recover. it's a long journey ahead for the people that live here. >> reporter: as crews clear roads blocked by broken tree limbs and debris, search and rescue teams are going door to door looking for survivors.
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>> oh, my god! >> reporter: at least 11 tornadoes were reported since tuesday across missouri, iowa and illinois. >> oh, where amber reel took this cell phone video from her house in kelowna. >> what do you think now when you see what's across the street from your house? >> i'm lucky. i mean, my neighbors have their stuff all blown out. >> reporter: the severe weather battering the midwest is part of the same storm system that brought up to 18 inches of snow in the dakotas over the past two days. this is what the tornado did to a main church in town, a place the community will no doubt rally around. now, today missouri's governor also said the president called to offer support and aid but these storms are continuing to push east tonight and overnight with new york, philly and washington where you are, norah, in the path of severe weather. >> adriana diaz, thank you. well, just moments ago china threatened a resolute response to the historic visit today of
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taiwan's president. she met with house speaker kevin mccarthy and a bipartisan group of lawmakers in california. as cbs's elizabeth palmer reports, it was the highest-level meeting for a taiwanese leader on u.s. soil in decades. >> reporter: president tsai ing-wen arrived at the reagan library to a warm welcome from house speaker kevin mccarthy and lawmakers from both parties in a show of democratic solidarity. >> taiwan is grateful to have the united states of america by our side. >> reporter: taiwan is counting on the u.s. to protect it from china. and speaker mccarthy served up strong encouragement. >> we must continue the arms sales to taiwan and make sure such sales reach taiwan. >> reporter: china had warned against the meeting, which the foreign ministry spokeswoman said gravely undermines its sovereignty. last time taiwan's president met with a senior american
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politician it was nancyosin d c. it responded by sending warships, planes and even missiles around and over taiwan. an intimidating reminder that china has the muscle to try to seize the island by force. taiwan's military can fight back with modern weapons supplied by the u.s. but many analysts think it would be overwhelmed by the most likely scenario, that is a chinese naval blockade to cut the island off. retired u.s. air force officer germantes leilari teaches at taiwan's national defense ufrpt. >> well, they could break it for a certain period of time. they could sink some ships, they could shoot down some airplanes. >> but then they'd need the u.s. >> they need someone to come and help them. >> reporter: now, there's no military direct confrontation, at least yet, but this meeting enly cal twanese tsai, w
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guermantes. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm jan crawford in washington. thanks for staying with us. hundreds turned out yesterday in nashville to pay their final respects to dr. katherine koonce. she was the head of the covenant school, who died along with two other adults and three 9-year-old students in last week's school shooting. police haven't released a motive for the rampage, but all agree it would have been much worse if not for the brave actions of three local police officers. they wasted no time rushing toward the gunfire and bringing down the shooter. mark sas has the>> is tour pa
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phenomenal job. our support doesn't just go toward the officers. it goes to the family. >> reporter: three nashville officers praised for stopping last week's school shooting are now talk for the first time about those horrifying moments. >> once we started hearing the first shots, that's when everything kind of kicked into overdrive for us. >> reporter: detective michael collazo was one of the first to enter the covenant school, along with detective sergeant jeff mathis and officer rick engelbert. >> metro police! >> not knowing what i was walking into, i went through that door with purpose. >> kept walking toward the gun -- sound of gunfire. i couldn't get to it fast enough. i just looked for the nearest staircase i could find because i could tell it was above my head. >> reporter: body camera footage showed the officers, and some of them had never worked together before that moment, methodically moving about the halls before taking down 28-year-old shooter audrey hale. [ gunshots ]
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>> clear! >> they were so in tune to try to get in and take this threat down that they didn't think about their own safety. they just wanted to save kids. >> reporter: police say hale fired 152 rounds. the shooter killed three 9-year-olds and three staff members. yesterday police revealed they entered 47 items into evidence after executing a search warrant at the shooter's home. they also found a suicide note and journals indicating the massacre had been planned for months, and discovered more weapons and ammunition. while many are praising the officers, they quickly turned the focus back to the victims and their grieving families and credited any heroic actions to their training. >> i took an oath to serve and protect this community. my family sometimes comes second. it has to. >> reporter: police have yet to release a motive in this shooting. but what happened here brought thousands of gun control advocates to protest at esse s
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building. the republican majority's response, delay action on legisl here to next year. >> that was mark strassmann in nashville. the summer travel season is right around the corner, and airlines are still struggling with staff shortages. major u.s. airlines hired 50,000 new workers last year, but the big trouble is finding qualified pilots. airlines worldwide are estimated to need 60 o',000 new pilots by the end of the decade. and that spurred one airline, united, to set up its own training school. kris van cleave took to the skies to see how that's going. >> and we're flying. > reporter: ricky foster's dream of becoming an airline pilot is really taking off. after completing basic pilot training outside phoenix. >> i feel like an eagle up here. >> like you're soaring. >> i feel like i'm soaring. >> reporter: we first met the former flight attendant and mother of two last year when she was among the lys ited's aviati.
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it's part of the effort to address the current pilot shortage and diversify a work force that is overwhelmingly white and male. this first graduating class is 80% woman or minority. >> your graduating class looks nothing like a flight school anywhere else. >> no. it looks nothing like the industry. but guess what it does look like. it does look like the demographic we serve. it looks like our passengers. >> reporter: airlines are hiring thousands of employees as travel demand has roared back from pandemic lows. josh azuha left his job as a denver-area police officer to attend aviate. >> the next level for me is to instruct here at the academy as a flight instructor and build my hours before hopefully transitioning to the airlines. >> reporter: and there will likely be a job waiting for him. united expects major u.s. carriers will need 10,000 new pilots this year alone but only have about 6,600 qualified candidates. the cost and years of training to become an airline pilot
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discourages many people despite a potential six-figure salary. >> basically you either had to go through the military or you needed to have access to someone willing to give you 0 to $150,000 to get through the training. it's a huge barrier to entry. >> reporter: ceo scott kirby says united is the first major u.s. carrier to start its own flight school. >> does of aate get you through the pilot crisis? >> they're still four to five years away from showing up for their first day in the united airlines cockpit. but it is the right kind of long-term answer to not just solving the pilot shortage but creating good careers for people and giving people access to careers that can be life changing for them, their families and their communities. >> you are my first passenger. >> reporter: new pilot ricky foster hopes to swap this small plane for a united flight deck, landing her dream gig within the next few years. i'm kris van cleave in phoenix. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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and while cases and hospitalizations have fallen dramatically, the disease is still a part of everyday life for many americans, particularly those battling long covid. dr. celine gounder reports on one patient's long road to recovery. >> almost there. >> reporter: for trevor taylor most mornings start out like this. one small step at a time. >> finishing strong, huh? >> yep. let's finish strong. >> reporter: it's been an uphill battle for the 57-year-old who told us her covid diagnosis in january 2021 nearly killed her. >> it was scary because i remember my eyes being open but everything was black. i remember the nurse saying to me you have to fight. the person next to you is dying, and if you don't you're going to be in this body bag. you've got to fight. >> reporter: taylor wasn't vaccinated at the time. she was rushed to the hospital on the same day that she was scheduled to get her first dose of the covid vaccine. since then she's been out of work. and instead of driving to the
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hospital to her old job as an administrator she makes the trip multiple times a week for physical therapy. >> go for two-minute intervals if you can and then just take a break. the timer will stop. all right? >> i do my therapy. i come home. i can't move off the couch. so for me i'm up and down like a roller coaster. one minute i breathe good. the next minute i don't. and then when i have a lot of activity for a day i can be down for 48 hours. i cannot get off the bed. >> so the whole way up. >> reporter: taylor's become one of millions of americans to experience long covid. her case so severe that she relies on oxygen to get around. >> there you go. >> right here, my love. you did it. home stretch. look at you. >> reporter: for two years now she's been visiting nyu's post-covid care program. >> it's coming out my throat -- >> reporter: where she and 1,000 other patients be are are treated by pull monday op gists like dr. rainy kondos. >> they have what we call symptoms associated with their covid infection but are now lingering longer so, long covid. it is a major problem if you
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think of the fact that about 25% of patientshg covid. and if you're talking about millions and millions of patients, you can imagine that's a large number. >> reporter: patients are long covid commonly experience symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath and chest pain. now, let's compare treva to other patients with long covid. how is she similar or different to some of the other patients? >> she's fairly representative of the patients with severe covid that we saw prevaccination during the early days of the pandemic. these other patients with long covid didn't have severe covid. they had a cold. and the cold got better. and then a few months later they can't get out of bed. most of the long covid patients that we're seeing are those that were healthy and now have lingering symptoms. >> don't stop. don't stop. don't stop. keep going. you got this. almost there. >> reporter: one way to monitor those symptoms is through breathing tests, which taylor receives every six weeks. while exhausting, the tool measures her lung function and
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tracks her improvement over time. >> easy. relax. >> reporter: in what ways does being a patient in a program like this help patients heal? >> many of these patients were going to their primary care doctors and their primary care doctors were telling them they were crazy and that there was nothing wrong with them and they should just go home and forget it. and they felt very unheard. and i think what we're trying to do is provide a place for them to be heard. yes, i need to reorder oxygen for myself, please. >> how many tanks are you requesting? >> i'm requesting four tanks. two small, two tall. >> reporter: treva, what would you like people to know about long covid? >> i would like for people to understand that first, long covid is very real. it's not something that's in your head. it's not in your imagination. trust me, i would do anything not to be like this. every day getting up is a fight. every day to breathe is a fight. but it's worth the fight because i love people and people give me energy and as long as i can show a fight i know that there's a
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chance. >> that was dr. celine gounder reporting. housands o s t survivedstrun feet. millions of potential customers are still working from home. and that's got many cities scrambling for new ways to entice them back. carter evans reports. >> reporter: even though the doors are open again at this location of the famous pirsohki piroshki bakery in seattle business is still down 85%. >> we only have two employees now versus having 15, 16 in 2019. >> reporter: when we first met owner olga seguin last fall sales were so bad she had to close three stores. >> what happened to business downtown? >> it disappeared. >> reporter: what about all those corporate workers that used to be your customers? >> they're at home in suburbs. >> reporter: even seattle's mayor admitted downtown was changing. >> it will never be the good old days where everyone is downtown working. >> reporter: it's happening across the country. a new berkeley study analyzes
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cell phone gps data to track activity and ranked the economic recovery of 62 north american cities. san diego's near the top of the list with pley hsing entertainment, but slenear the francisco, which lost about 150,000 office workers. >> a lot of these professional services don't have to be face to face. they have no reason to come back. >> reporter: study author karen chappell says skyrocketing housing prices are also a problem. >> you want people downtown 24/7. maybe put some more affordable housing in downtown areas. >> reporter: so seattle's now considering modifying zoning so unused offices can be turned into apartments. >> thinking of it more as a neighborhood, it's got to be one of our strategies. >> reporter: mark o'macintyre is seattle's director of economic development. >> when i spoke to business owners when i was there one of main concerns was crime downtown. >> the public safety issues are real. but we've got to make sure that people feel safe coming
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downtown, being downtown. >> behind you. >> reporter: but seattle business owners are still waiting for the downtown rebound. >> the changes are coming a when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been
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geneva, switzerland is known as the luxury watch capital of the world. makers of some of the finest timepieces just wrapped up their most prestigious event of the year. ian lee has the story. >> reporter: elegance and precision make swiss watches tick. and at the watches and wonders fair in switzerland it's all about keeping time with the latest trends. >> to me the movers and shakers of today's watchmaking world. >> reporter: timekeepers tick off the coolest features. like improved water and corrosion resistance, a reversible watch that displays two time zones for jet setters, or for the ecoconscious knowing time waits for no one, a watch made from recycled steel. but some just see them as an investment. >> certainly as a collector's
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item itheext generation. >> reporter: despite people cutting back as inflation rises, the swiss watch industry saw an uptick of 11% in exports last year, reaching nearly $27 billion. this consultant says the swiss watch industry has never exported so many watches as it has so far this year. experts say you don't have to look too close to understand their timeless appeal. >> people still want to rejoice, to have some joy in their lives. >> reporter: and let's face it, this year's showstopper, a $4.2 million watch by patek philippe, is probably for those with endless time and money. ian lee, cbs news. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for "cbs mornings." and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm jan crawford.
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>is"c flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. victims of the 2017 mass shooting in sutherland springs, texas have tentatively settled with the justice department over the government's failure to update the background check system. the $144.5 million settlement is the largest of its kind. tiktok's parent company bytedance has a new app catching on. lemon8 is a photo-based app that's seen downloads jump here in the u.s. this comes as lawmakers consider an outright nationwide ban of tiktok over its use of user data. and the top ten busiest airports in the world have been revealed. atlanta's hartsfield jackson international took the top spot,
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followed by dallas-fort worth and denveinternational. for more download the krb newsrv m shalle uls news, new york. e l trr donald trump.t neyork case bu ght here in washington in the special counsel probe. just hours ago former vice president mike pence signaling he'll testify in a federal investigation. our new reporting as donald trump goes on the attack. here are tonight's headlines. >> there is no case. there's no case. >> donald trump blasts the justice department and fbi. and the late development. what will mike pence testify to in the federal january 6th investigation? in missouri a tornado has killed at least five people. >> please, god, don't get the house. please let us live.
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i'm going to pull it open. i'm going to grab him. >> a d.c. teen is shot and killed by park police. the civil rights probe as we're now seeing body cam footage. >> stop! stop or i'll shoot! all across the country students walk out of school demanding gun reform. house speaker kevin mccarthy's historic meeting with taiwanese president tsai ing-wen -- >> we once again find ourselves in a world where democracy is under threat. israeli police clash with palestinian worshippers at the al aqsa mosque in jerusalem. >> both sides are bracing for increased tensions. looks good. >> and back-to-back holes in one in augusta on the eve of the masters.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we want to begin with a startling new development in the federal investigation of donald trump that could mark a turning point. it comes after the former justicdeme, bo at a new round mar-a-lago last night and again today on truth social. for months the special counsel right here in washington has waged a behind-the-scenes legal battle to get trump's closest advisers to testify. the president's lawyers have tried to limit that testimony, and they've repeatedly failed. and yesterday we learned trump's chief of staff will have to testify. today we learned mike pence is willing to answer questions under oath about then president trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. legal experts say it's this investigation that could be much more damaging than what happened yesterday. cbs's robert costa has all the new reporting. good evening, robert. >> good evening, norah.
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this is an extraordinary and potentially historic development. a former vice president now willing within certain bounds to testify about possible illegal acts by a president. an adviser to former vice president mike pence says he juryithin eks.before the grand and prosecutors could get a vivid firsthand account of what donald trump did and said as he relentlessly pressured pence to overturn the 2020 election. >> this is an earthquake. and not a small earthquake. or several avenues being explored by special counsel jack smith's investigation into the january 6th riot. >> when the mobs were attacking the capitol, trying to stop the election, what did the president tell vice president pence, if anything, before, during, after? >> reporter: the former president spent the last 24 hours assailing all four ongoing
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investigations of him. >> and i never thought anything like this could happen in america. >> reporter: today calling on congressional republicans to defund the doj and fbi, a move dismissed even by his staunch ally south carolina republican senator lindsey graham. >> i think it's a bad idea. >> reporter: at tuesday's new york arraignment judge juan merchan warned against rhetoric that could inflame or cause civil unrest. but trump later took the gloves atto.>> rteatn d.a. alvin bragg dg >> i have a trump-hating judge with a trump-hating wife and family. >> reporter: one day after bragg detailed a 34-count criminal indictment of trump, accusing him of falsifying business records as part of a years-long alleged hush money scheme. trump's lawyers say they will mount an aggressive effort to have the charges dismissed. >> you're charging the president of the united states with
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crimes, crimes that will never be sustained in a court of law because they don't exist. >> reporter: sources say the manhattan d.a. and his prosecutors are aiming for a trial next january, and if that were to happen that means trump could be spending time in new york facing trial, all while campaigning in iowa and new hampshire ahead of those early nominating contests. >> it's going to be an extraordinary year ahead. robert costa, thank you so much. well, another wave of deadly tornadoes left a path of destruction across the midwest today, and the threat continues tonight. early this morning at least five people were killed and dozens others injured when a large twister tore through a rural community in southeastern missouri. that's about 100 miles south of st. louis.cbs's riana diaz is i small town of glen allen, which took a direct hit. >> reporter: mowed down in minutes. this is what's left of glen allen, missouri. shredded homes, uprooted trees and a trail of ruin. keith and shannon lincoln rode
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out the storm in their bathroom. >> they was all in the tub. i just got down by them. >> i was just praying to god, please god, don't get the house because we're in the house. please god, don't get the house. please let us live. >> reporter: the powerful ef2 tornado packing winds up to 130 miles per hour tore through this rural community overnight, when most people were asleep. today governor mike parsons saw the destruction firsthand. >> i think when you look at the devastation of this it's going to be weeks upon months to be able to recover. it's a long journey ahead for the people that live here. >> reporter: as crews clear roads blocked by broken tree limbs and debris, search and oo since tuesday across missouri, iowa and illinois. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: where amber reel took this cell phone video from her house in kelowna.
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>> what do you think now when you see what's across the street from your house? >> i'm lucky. my neighbors have their stuff all blown out. >> reporter: the severe weather battering the midwest is part of the same storm system that brought up to 18 inches of snow in the dakotas over the past two days, crippling travel on major highways. this is what the tornado did to a main church in town, a place the community will no doubt rally around. now, today missouri's governor also said the president called to offer support and aid, but these storms are continuing to push east tonight and overnight with new york, philly and washington where you are, norah, in the path of severe weather. >> adriana diaz, thank you. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." well, just moments ago china threatened a resolute response to the historic visit today of taiwan's president. she met with house speaker kevin mccarthy and a bipartisan group of lawmakers in california. as cbs's elizabeth palmer reports, it was the highest-level meeting for a taiwanese leader on u.s. soil in decades. >> reporter: president tsai ing-wen arrived at the reagan library to a warm welcome from house speaker kevin mccarthy and lawmakers from both parties in a show of democr sity.is grateful
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the united states of america by our side. >> reporter: taiwan is counting on the u.s. to protect it from china. and speaker mccarthy served up strong encouragement. >> we must continue the arm sales to taiwan and make sure such sales reach taiwan. >> reporter: china had warned against the meeting, which the foreign ministry spokeswoman said gravely undermines its sovereignty. last time taiwan's president met with a senior american politician it was nancy pelosi in taipei. and china was furious. it responded by sending warships, planes and even missiles around and over taiwan. an intimidating reminder that china has the muscle to try to seize the island by force. taiwan's military can fight back with modern weapons supplied by the u.s. but many analysts think it would be overwhelmed by the most likely scenario, that is, a chinese naval blockade to cut
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the island off. retired u.s. air force officer guermantes laylari teaches at taiwan's national defense university. >> well, they could break it for a certain period of time. they could sink some ships, they could shoot down some airplanes. >> but then they'd need the u.s. >> they need someone to come and help them. >> reporter: now, there's no military direct confrontation, at least yet, but this meeting between president tsai, who openly calls for taiwanese independence, and speaker mccarthy will have provoked and angered china. and norah, taiwan is now braced for some kind of reprisal. >> big developments there. elizabeth palmer, thank you. and there's this breaking news. robert f. kennedy jr. is running for president, as a democrat challenging president he joe biden for the party's nomination. the 69-year-old long-time anti-vaccine activist filed paperwork today. he's the son of former attorney general robert kennedy and the
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nephew of former president john f. kennedy. the a in wasto righ investigation into the death of a 17-year-old who was shot and killed last month by u.s. park police. cbs's jeff pegues reports the investigation comes less than 24 hours after body cam footage of the shooting was released to the public. and a warning, some of the video is disturbing. >> reporter: at least four d.c. police officers approached the car early saturday morning, march 18th. a young man appeared to be sleeping inside. police say the car was stolen, and they called for backup with two u.s. park police officers responding. >> if he takes off just let him go. but don't get inside that car. >> reporter: ignoring that advice, those two officers opened the rear doors, and one got in. >> police! don't move! >> reporter: the driver, 17-year-old dalaneo martin, drove off. one officer falling to the ground, the other still in the back seat. >> stop! stop or i'll shoot!
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>> reporter: martin's family says he was shot in the back five times. he slumped over the wheel, the car crashing into a house. police say a gun was found in the vehicle. dalaneo martin leaves behind an infant son. her mother terra martin shared her grief. >> he's my child. he's my son. and until you be where i'm at today you would never understand. >> reporter: the doj will determine if martin's civil rights were violated. a key moment in the probe will be when the officer got into the car. keith taylor is a former nypd supervisor. >> it could be considered an officer-created jeopardy situation where the tactical decisions were not advantageous to the officer because it placed the officer in harm's way. >> reporter: within days of the shooting the union that represents the park police officers released a statement saying that the officers acted
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appropriately. norah. >> jeff pegues, thank you. the final funeral was held this afternoon for the victims of last week's covenant school shooting in nashville. cbs's mark strassmann reports it took place a students across the nation walked out of their classes to demand action against gun violence. >> reporter: seattle, charlotte, boston. coast to coast outrage about gun violence. high schoolers staged a noon walkout in protest. including in uvalde, texas where a school gunman last year massacred 19 children and two adults. >> stop! there's gunshots up at the church! >> reporter: last week's shooting at nashville's covenant school took six lives. three 9-year-olds and three adults, including katherine koonce, the head of the
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christian school. among the hundreds today grieving the lifelong educator, ann coddle, a close friend. >> with each day i think of the layers of loss to our school family, to our family, to our a. >> reporter: like responding officers, koonce heard the shots and had one focus. stopping the carnage. >> there was a confrontation, i'm sure. you can tell the way she was laying in the hallway. >> reporter: coddles not surprised. her priority would have been to save the kids, even at risk to herself. >> her priority would have been everyone. everyone in danger in that moment. without reservation. >> reporter: more fallout from the shooting. last week three democratic state lawmakers hijacked a legislative session using a bullhorn to demand gun restrictions. the republican majority was furious and could hold a vote tomorrow whether to oust those three lawmakers. norah? >> mark strassmann, thank you very much.
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at square. dorsey today called his death heartbreaking. lee would later create the mobile payment service cash app. >> bob's someone that i just talked to a couple days before and was planning on meeting tomorrow in miami. it was really close to home. he got stabbed in front of my old apartment complex. >> reporter: jake shields is lee's friend. >> i'm a professional fighter and i lived right there and i started feeling unsafe. >> reporter: current twitter ceo elon musk responded to news of the killing by taking a swipe at the city. "violent crime in sf," he said, "is horrific." san francisco's district attorney also called the crime horrific. now, lee had just moved his family from san francisco to miami to be with his father. friends say he was back in town visiting when he was attacked. norah? >> carter evans, thank you. there's a lot more news ahead on there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overn dove 0% is different. we left aluminum out and put unbeatable 48 hours freshness and 1 quarter moisturizers... in.
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when the smoke from the violence cleared, hundreds of palestinians had been arrested. some zip-tied on the mosque floor. "i was praying when israeli forces started firing stun grenades," this woman says. "one hit me on my chest." since the start of ramadan israeli forces have entered the al aqsa complex known to jews as the temple mount nearly every evening. police claim it's in part to remove worshippers from staying overnight inside the mosque, in violation of an agreement not to do so until the last ten days of the holy month. but israeli police have not explained why the predawn raid on the eve of the jewish passover involved so much force. hamas, the militant palestinian movement which controls neighboring gaza, responded with rocket fire on southern israel, prompting israeli air strikes as violence between israelis and palestinians continues to surge the fear is it could spiral into
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next. we just had to end tonight at augusta national where the 87th masters teed off today with the par 3 contest. seamus power of ireland hit a hole in one and then followed it up with another. he's only the third player going back to 1960 to score back-to-back aces in the contest. remarkably, three other players also scored individual holes in one today. round one of the masters is tomorrow, and cbs will have full coverage of golf's tradition unlike any other throughout the weekend. and that's it. the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for "cbs mornings." remember, you can follow us
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online anytime at cbsnews.com. hope you get some rest. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. victims of the 2017 mass shooting in sutherland springs, texas have tentatively settled with the justice department over the government's failure to update the background check system. the $144.5 million settlement is th the largest of its kind. tiktok's parent company bytedance has a new app catching on. lemon8 is a photo-based app that's seen downloads jump here in the u.s. this comes as lawmakers consider an outright nationwide ban of tiktok over its use of user data. and the top ten busiest airports in the world have been revealed. atlanta's hartsfield jackson international took the top spot, followed by dallas-fort worth
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and denver inter for more download the cbs news app on y it's thursday, april 6th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." ready to testify? a surprise development involving former vice president mike pence as a grand jury investigates the events surrounding the january 6th capitol riot. deadly tornado. powerful storms kill at least five people in southeastern missouri. how one couple rode out the storm in their bathroom. staggering report. a new investigation accuses baltimore's catholic church of sexually abusing hundreds of children over 80 years. good morning. i'm wendy gillette in for anne-marie green. just one day after former president donald trump was
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