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healthy, more birds could be coming outside soon. >> very colorful. >> a perfect time for that now that it is nice and warm outside. >> yeah. >> that'll do it here at 5:00. see you at tonight, terror at a texas mall. >> all you hear is 50 to 60 gunshots. >> gunfire and panic just outside of dallas. eight are dead as another american community is targeted by a gunman. >> it's just unfathomable. also tonight, deadly crash. a car kills seven people outside a migrant shelter in brownsville, texas, this as the u.s. braces for a migration surge at the southern border. >> what we need is our system fix, not this band-aid solution. plus, storm threat. suspected tornadoes tear through
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the midwest. details on the new danger. nuclear warning. in.cuaons d worries ovai i charl d'ata i ukrain both sides step up attacks ahead of the looming ukrainian counteroffensive. coronation celebration. the party goes on in britain. and, later, high-wire act. 73-year-old tightrope walker defies age and gravity for a new generation. >> when you plant that concept in kids, it might change their life. >> announcer: this is the "cbs weekend news" from new york with jericka duncan. >> good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. it's been another violent weekend in america. the worst of it in two texas communities. we begin in the dallas suburb of
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allen where a gunman killed at least eight people saturday, some of them children. cbs station ktvt identifies the gunman as 33-year-old mauricio garcia. he was staying at a nearby hotel and later killed at the scene. today to honor the victims, president biden ordered flags flown at half-staff at federal buildings. he denounced the violence as senseless. cbs's omar villafranca is in allen tonight. and a warning to our viewers, some of the video you're about to see is, without a doubt, disturbing. omar, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening. mourners have set up a makeshift memorial behind me at the mall. while this small community just north of dallas tries to make sense of this senseless attack. crosses and carnations were placed outside the outlet mall today after a shooter opened fire saturday, killing at least eight people at a suburban dallas shopping center.
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the gunfire sent customers running for cover. dash cam video showed the shooter drive up in a gray car, open the door, and take aim. and he was wearing body armor. witnesses say they heard dozens of shots. >> there were at least 50 to 100 rounds. it was nonstop. there was nothing we could do. it was just terrible. >> i saw someone with blood on them. and then i ran into the back with my mom. and we just stayed down, hunkered down. >> reporter: as people took cover, an allen, texas, police officer at the mall on an already unrelated call, confronted the gunman according to allen texas police chief brian harvey. >> he heard gunshots, went to the gunshots, engaged the suspect and neutralized the suspect. >> reporter: seven others were
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injured and remain in area hospitals. steven raced to the scene to hei oushootiinuding a child, but the little girl was dead. >> it was a war zone there. there's no other way to describe it. there's no way these people could have survived the assault of those weapons. >> reporter: the allen premium outlet mall was packed with shoppers getting ready for summer. now the affluent suburb is hurting after being added to the growing list of american cities that were the site of the latest mass shooting. >> we know you are grieving. we are grieving. rest assured the nation and the world are also grieving. >> reporter: the community will try to start healing tonight at a vigil being held at a church where hundreds are expected to attend. jericka? >> omar villafranca, thank you. now to the city of brownsville, texas, this was the scene moments before an suv plowed into people gathered near a migrant shelter, killing seven. several others were injured. >> reporter: good evening. tragedy in this border
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commy., w im rosshe strfr the dead and injured were transported to area hospitals, police say. the number of injured is expected to rise. authorities say the victims include asylum seekers from latin america en route to the united states. witnesses say the driver ran a red light before veering off the side of the road, crashing into a large group. he then exited the vehicle and attempted to flee while shouting at the victims. myrna artiaga manages the nearby shelter. >> it was terrible. people were running to hem them. >> reporter: brownsville police have charged the suspect with reckless driving and are investigating whether he acted intentionally or if he had alcohol in his system. police say he is not cooperating. this incident comes just days
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after homeland security secretary mayorkas visited this border community ahead of the lifting of title 42 and the anticipated rise in migrant arrivals. >> thank you for your reporting. from brownsville, as the pandemic era restrictions impacting border communities ends this week, u.s. officials are bracing for a new migrant surge. cbs's skyler henry is at the white house tonight with more on the challenges facing this administration. good evening. >> good evening to you. well, there is four days left until title 42 ends and there's new urgency as the biden administration looks to try to control the growing humanitarian crisis along the u.s./mexico border that stretches nearly 2,000 miles long. >> we are prepared. >> reporter: homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas says the biden administration is ready for a surge of migrants on the southern border. active troops are expected to
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arrive wednesday ahead of an expected influx of migrants when title 42 ends thursday. >> the deployment of active duty troops is not to do enforcement work, not to interact with the migrants, but to provide other support so that our border patrol agents can be out in the field. >> reporter: the biden administration plans to enact a policy that would block most asylum requests if migrants have passed through another country, like mexico, without applying for protection in that country first. arizona senator kyrsten sinema is accusing republicans and democrats of playing politics with a broken immigration system. >> this is a crisis for our border communities and migrants. unfortunately, the parties are thinking about this from a political perspective rather than a human perspective. >> reporter: the political divide is also playing out in washington as congressional leaders are set to meet president biden tuesday, looking to hammer out a deal on raising the debt ceiling. lawmakers remain split along party lines with the republican-led house passing a measure that raises the debt limit but also slashes federal spending.
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>> we're not going to give any politician, including the president, a blank check to continue to bankrupt the country. >> they didn't produce a budget. what they did was produce a ransom note. >> reporter: yesterday all but six senate republicans vowed to oppose raising the debt ceiling without, quote, substantive spending and budget reforms but both sides must come together quickly. treasury officials warn that the u.s. is less than a month away from running out of cash to pay its bills on time. jericka? >> that's not very long. skyler henry for us at the white house, thank you. today former president donald trump missed a hard deadline to testify in his own defense at a civil trial in new york. columnist e. jean carroll is suing trump for battery and defamation after he denied claims that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the mid-'90s. closing arguments begin tomorrow. tonight severe thunderstorms with large hail and hurricane-force winds threaten
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th lin ss 're seeingmidwest. in northern texas, heavy rainfall and hail the size of baseballs are expected through the night. several suspected tornados were also reported across the plains. for more on that, let's check in with meteorologist paul goodloe with our partners at the weather channel. >> good evening. our coolish spring has ended so warmth now spreading across the middle of the u.s. that's also going to fire up more strong and severe thunderstorms as we head throughout the rest of tonight and even overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. those storms, a risk of tornadoes 2 and 3 on the scale, that goes up to 10. we'll see a lot more people dealing with the large hail, perhaps golf ball or larger size hail and even damaging winds, 06, 70 mile an hour plus wind gusts. the timing of this as we
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continue towards overnight or midnight, we'll see a line of storms blasting through iowa, into chicago and in the predawn hours, storms are rolling down the mississippi into st. louis. your morning commute in st. louis, even chicago could be a mess because of these storms. jericka? >> thank you. to ukraine where tonight there are new concerns about the safety of europe's largest nuclear power plant. the head of the u.n. nuclear agency issued a warning that the plant is being threatened because of new fighting there. this video shows bus after bus after bus all packed with people ordered to evacuate from the area by the russians who control it. more now from cbs's charlie d'agata. >> reporter: what's left of the rubble of bakhmut, russians are trying to burn to the ground, accusing the wagner mercenary group of using banned incendiary weapons, posting videos as proof. a ferocious parting shot after the head of wagner threatened to pull his forces out of bakhmut following a rant, standing amonn
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ammunition. the fighting for that city alone has cost thousand says of lives on both sides. a sea of ukrainian flags fly over the country's war dead. the ukrainian government never reveals the true death toll of those soldiers killed in action. but these fresh graves tell their own story, including those they are preparing to fill. ahead of the looming ukrainian counteroffensive, russia has gone on the offensive. a massive fireball lit up the horizon after a cruise missile strike on what ukraine called an industrial complex. ukraine has stepped up its attacks, too, striking targets like fuel depots on russian territory. and that was before the alleged drone strike on the kremlin on wednesday.
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maybe not the terrorist act to kill putin, the kremlin says it is. but it's an embarrassment to ow president, moscow's victory parade. an annual symbol of russian military might while the bloody battlefields of ukraine tell a much different story. tonight renewed concerns around the russian-held zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. mass evacuations are under way in villages surrounding the plant as shelling has intensified in that area. >> yeah, some powerful images there. charlie d'agata, thank you. well, today in britain, coronation celebrations took place outside as millions attended street parties and participated in a tradition known as the big lunch. as cbs's chris livesay discovered, the events not only embrace the king but the country's growing cultural diversity. >> reporter: it was only the
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second televised coronation in british history. the first in color. and in more ways than one. ♪ representing the diverse city of a monarchy that once reigned over a quarter of the globe. prime minister rishi sunak of indian punjabi descent, hosted jill biden at street parties happening across the uk, complete with characteristic brass bands and uncharacteristic sunny weather. we attended it our own party in london, albeit far from downing street and buckingham palace. they're celebrating the king not with coronation quiche or chicken, but with tandori chicken and african doughnuts. for one afternoon there's a new queen in town. rita is one of the organizers. what are we looking at, people from which countries? >> ethiopia, somalia,
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bangladeshi, english. >> reporter: some of them countries where people today often associate the monarchy with empire and oppression, says this woman. >> we call it change history. we can only do with what we've got here. you either make the best of it or you stay bitter. >> reporter: though embraces were conspicuously absent at westminster abbey for prince harry and the royal family, flying in from california, the duke of sussex made a swift appearance, sidelined behind his aunt, princess anne and her hat. some may say he was hiding, others that he was hidden. the celebrations continue here at windsor castle. andrea bocelli and katy perry are among those singing at the coronation concert hosted by none other than tom cruise. >> chris, thank you. straight ahead othe "cbs weekend news," charged up. a dury.ald in e auto
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moamous buils inhe world. well, recently a celebrated daredevil known for walking between structures helped promote an exhibit on architecture with a stunt that's inspiring to both kids and adults alike. here's cbs's jan crawford. >> reporter: so many of us spend our days looking down at our devices, but all eyes here were looking up. up at legendary highwire walker philippe petit, hundreds of feet above dozens of schoolchildren. >> it was inspiring. i would be really terrified if i was doing that. >> the first step would be right there. >> reporter: before his walk, we got a preview. i'm going to confess to you something. i have a terrible fear of heights, but you're not afraid. >> no, not only i'm not afraid, but it's the opposite, i am impatient to get o the wire. it's the best place on earth to
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be. >> reporter: petit has done nearly 100 high-profile highwire walks. the most famous was between new york's twin towers when he was 24. he is now 73. >> i have no respect for age. i think age is a human invention that is not very useful. >> reporter: he came to help promote an upcoming exhibit about buildings told through the lens of children's books. >> when you see a man walking, first it makes you believe in miracles. and then you can really realize that nothing is impossible. when you plant that concept in kids, it may change their lives. >> reporter: and inspire them to live their dreams. jan crawford, cbs news, washington. >> don't know if i'll walk a tightrope, but i am inspired. that's the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. coming up tonight on "60 minutes," how a middle school tip led federal investigators to a cleaning company employing children. that does it for us tonight. we thank you for watching. have a gre wk.
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now at 6:00, it's not just an inconvenience that has officials calling out cinco de mayo road closures in san jose. >> if that's not racism, i don't know what it is. maybe it's geographic red line. maybe it's a stigma on the entire east side. >> i'm john ramos in berkeley. a popular children's theater group is putting a brakes on the upcoming season. the reason? inflation is making it hard to even keep the lights on. we'll have that story coming up. and later a bay area ranch that's helped both adults and kids heal through horse therapy. get some major gifts to contue rk. live from the cbs studios
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in san francisco this saturday afternoon, i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. one neighborhood is stuck in the middle of the so-called food desert. and the weekly farmers' market in a west oakland neighborhood has helped supplement that shortage where the nearest grocery stores are more than two miles away on the other side of i-980. devin fehely spoke with a pair of community activists working to change that. >> reporter: this area has been neglected for many years. >> reporter: each sunday the west oakland farmer's market transforms this area into an oasis of fresh fruits and vegetables. in a neighborhood otherwise known as a food desert. >> it's a vibrant community, it's a growing community and a very diverse community. yet there is not a lot of places for people to hang out, so the farmers' market serves thi
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