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>> we expect a demonstration. happy mother's day by the way. >> don't forget p re ws. cbs weekend news is next. captions by: vitac ♪ tonight bipartisan backlash. the biden administration defends the country's new border policies from critics across the political divide. >> this is not an asylum ban. we have a humanitarian obligation as well as a matter of security. >> crossings fall at the southern border. down 50%. but will it last? as pressure builds on border communities straining to accommodate arrivals. >> reporter: i'm in brownsville, texas, where shelters are nearing capacity. migrants on the move from this station. tonight, dangerous heat wave, intense temperatures for
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millions in the northwest. plus, buffalo remembers. bells toll today for victims of a shooting massacre one year later. >> we are rooted in strength. we are rooted in this community. >> as mothers rally nationwide for new gun restrictions. >> we're here to demand that our lawmakers take action. and later, nearly a century after amelia earhart's transatlantic flight, a new aviation first for women. how this mother and daughter soared into history flying side by side. >> announcer: this is the "cbs weekend news" from new york with jericka duncan. good evening. thanks for joining us on this mother's day. we begin tonight with president biden's new border strategy, the revised rules are under
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political attack from both the right and the left. lawsuits have been filed as a result, but so far the administration's latest moves appear to have deterred the record migrant rush many had feared following the expiration of title 42. government data obtained by cbs news shows 4,200 people on saturday crossed the southern border. 6,300 on friday. that's compared to these numbers before title 42 expired thursday just before midnight. cbs's skyler henry is at the white house with more on what's next. skyler, good evening. >> reporter: jericka, good to see you. immigration officials say despite the lack of a spike, the border is still seeing historically high migration levels. >> we've been planning for this transition for months and months. >> reporter: homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas says it's too early to tell whether the numbers at the southern border have peaked. >> the numbers we have experienced over the past two
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days are markedly down over what they were prior to the end of title 42. >> reporter: the biden administration says it's steps it has taken, including restricting asylums that's led to the lower than expected numbers. border patrol is preparing for daily migrant arrivals to increase from 12,000 to 14,000 a day, but the characterization of the situation along the southern border is split along political party lines. >> the president has been actively engaged in trying to manage this crisis. >> reporter: some republicans are criticizing the narrative and the administration. >> we're going to look very closely at the failures of this administration and secretary mayorkas. >> reporter: texas congressman tony gonzalez shot this cell phone video at a customs and border processing center on friday. >> this is what not this bad looks like. in this particular facility it's meant to house 1,000 people. it's housing over 3,000. >> reporter: now, a federal judge in florida ruled that migrants cannot be released without a formal notice to
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appear in court. the department of justice requested a temporary restraining order on that ruling that the court denied. the doj is now expected to appeal for an emergency stay. jericka? >> skyler henry at the white house, thank you. tonight many of the migrants stuck in mexico were trying to get into the u.s. with the assumption they would be let in after the asylum rule changed. as you can imagine, that misinformation caused confusion. cbs's nicole is in the border town of brownsville, texas. what more are you learning about the number of migrants crossing? >> reporter: over the past two days u.s. border patrol says there's been rolely a
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some are penniless. he says he has been through a lot and now waits among many others at a brownsville, texas, bus station to start his new life in the u.s. others remain at overcrowded migrant processing centers.
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>> withe are holding 5,000 peop. my capacity is 4,600. >> reporter: border communities stuck in the middle of immigration politics. >> this is not a democratic or republican problem. it's an american problem. >> reporter: across the rio grande river behind me, beyond this border wall, migrant tents lining this crossing. mexico has announced it won't admit more than 1,000 migrants a day from those expelled by the u.s. >> causing more confusion. thank you. nicole reporting all week on those important stories, thank you. to the weather now. a dangerous heat wave gripped parts of the northwest this weekend and the scorching is not over. let's bring in meteorologist lynette charles from our partners at the weather channel. good evening. >> good evening, jericka. we're talking about heat, heat and more heat across the pacific northwest. that is where we are going. as we can see, big ridge out
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here.ngo cau plenty of heat. but we are also dealing with an area of low pressure and hopefully that will bring in a few clouds to bring people cool. we had those highs that will be 20 to 30 degrees above average. also record heat is going to help fuel the canadian wildfires out there. we are definitely going to be dealing with temperatures that are in the 90s, the upper 80s. seattle, portland have already set some records for today and we'll do it all over again in tuesday where we're staying in the 80s and 90s. very likely above average as we go into next week. jericka, back to you. >> thank you, lynette. today in buffalo, new york, people paused to remember the racially motivated massacre at tops supermarket. [ bells tolling ]
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though, across america this weekend. cbs's astrad martinez joins us. >> reporter: good evening. gun violence has been endemic since the year of the shooting at the tops supermarket in buffalo, new york. the country has seen 221 mass shootings in 2023 and the problem only seems to grow. >> put our broken pieces back together again. >> reporter: pain from the mass shooting at tops supermarket is still on the minds of the community. >> i don't need help remembering. i promise i can't forget. >> reporter: a gunman who had posted a white supremacist tirade open fire on shoppers in the predominantly black neighborhood. and the scourge of random gun violence lived on in cities across the country this weekend.
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like in yuma, arizona, two dead, five injured. many of them teenagers at a family gathering. in albany, new york, three shot and one killed, including an 8-year-old. and in philadelphia, a 14-year-old was shot and killed saturday. but critics say lawmakers have been slow with solutions. >> people don't like to hear it, but it's not guns, it's people. >> reporter: president biden publishing an op-ed today, criticizing congress for its lack of action. >> hello, sir. >> reporter: in an exclusive interview airing this tuesday on "cbs mornings," former president barack obama tells nate burleson that gun violence has become an ideological issue. >> urban, race is always an element in these issues. >> reporter: parents lost their own loved ones use this mother's day to reinvigorate calls to end the crisis. >> we need to protect our loved ones! >> we don't know who or why they killed my son. and i just would like an end to
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gun violence. >> reporter: and ten days from now, america will mark one year since yet another mass shooting. that one in wiley, texas, where a gunman killed 19 students and 2 teachers at an elementary school. >> countless communities still healing. thank you. as we continue to remember buffalo, earlier this month we spoke to the mayor there, byron brown. >> finish this statement for me. the last year has been. >> painful, filled with sadness, but also filled with hope for the future. >> there wasn't violence after that incident. ten people killed in a predominantly black neighborhood that was sought out by a white supremacist. what does that say to the world, to this country, about the type of people that are here?
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>> shows the quality of the people in this communit iss loving unit it's communy.the and horror of how the community handled it probably is the most pronounced example of the quality of this community and the loving nature of the people of buffalo. >> and there will be more on the buffalo esieged city of bakhmut. two russian helicopters are reported to have been shot votes are being counted in the most pivotal elections in turkey's 100-year history.
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history. it could determine if the nato ally continues to democratic rule or continues on the path towards atocracy. >> erdogan is fighting for his life as he fights against opposition to his decades long rule. these elections have the major trappings of a major democracy in action. make no mistake, this is a vote unlike any other. as erdogan, a populist authoritarian, likes to keep his grip on a nation he's pushed from secular to religious, liberal to right wing, but also into a global player as a nato member with close ties to russia. and this is the man trying to unseat erdogan, opposition le leader, a soft-spoken economist and retired civil servant who is promising to return the modern turkish state to secular roots,
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ally closer to the west and bring it back into a parliament democracy. but it's the economy that has so many turks concerned as they struggle to cope with record high inflation and a cost of living prices. while still reeling from a massive earthquake in february that killed over 50,000 people. at this hour it's looking increasingly like the election will go into a runoff expected in two weeks. a vote, jericka, that could reach turkey. >> they'll be watching that closely. thank you. there's also been campaign chaos in minneapolis. the democratic farmer labor party was holding an endorsement convention for city council candidates when the trouble began. supporters of rival candidates took the stage. police were called. at least two people were hurt. the convention ended without a nominee being chosen. straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news," it's back to campus for this seasoned student trying to see if he can get a deeper understanding of
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artificial intelligence. plus, the sweet sound of success for sweden. the performance that helped win the super bowl of song competitions. we'll meet the mother/daughter duo on this mother's day behind an aviation first. my husband and i have never been more active. shingles doesn't care. i go to spin classes with my coworkers. good for you, shingles doesn't care. because no matter how healthy you feel, your risk of shingles sharply increases after age 50. but shingrix protects. proven over 90% effective, shingrix is a vaccine used to prevent shingles in adults 50 years and older. shingrix does not protect everyone and is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients or to a previous dose. an increased risk of guillain-barré syndrome was observed after getting shingrix. fainting can also happen. the most common side effects are pain, redness, and swelling at the injection site, muscle pain, tiredness, headache, shivering, fever,
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♪oh♪ ♪then you take me by the hand♪ ♪i feel better again♪ ♪oh i feel better now♪ suspended nba star ja morant for a possible second gun incident. video posted on instagram this weekend appears to show the all-star point guard flashing a gun in a car, nearly two months ago the nba suspended morant after a video showed him with a gun in a club. it's unclear when this latest incident happened. the league is investigating and
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morant has not cod. t corad pitcher ryan feltner is in the hospital with a skull fracture after a very scary play. this video is tough to watch. a phillies batter hit a line drive that hit feltner. he drops to the ground. remarkably, he never appeared to lose consciousness. he walked off the field with help from his teammates. tonight we finally know who won the world's biggest song competition. >> 243 points, we have a winner! sweden, you have -- >> swedish singer loreen is the euro vision singer beating some extravagant acts from 25 other countries. loreen is the second performer to take home the top prize twice. she won back in 2012. this year's event was held in liverpool, england. next on the "cbs weekend news," these two pilots just soared into aviation history. we'll tell you how. stay with us.
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place in history after becoming the first mother/daughter team to co-pilot an international flight. >> you looking over there once we got leveled off, wow, this is -- the two of us up here, flying this huge jet. that was a warming feeling. i enjoyed it. >> reporter: late last month the fedex pilots took a 14 1/2-hour trip from memphis to incheon, south korea, nearly 7,000 miles side by side. terri served as captain. nicole took the helm for takeoff and landing. >> it was one of the better landings that i've had, so -- in that moment, it was funny because my mom was sitting right next to me but i also reflected what my mom said where it was, no, i know i'm going to do well. >> reporter: at a young age nicole admired her mom's career in aviation, so she became an air force pilot and eventually joined
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>> being a mom and doing any job, it's not easy to find that fine balance of being able to do both and being able to do both well. >> reporter: their message to moms everywhere, let your dreams take flight. we thank you so much for watching. a special thank you to my mom for all that you do. hope you are watching. happy mother's day. have a good night.
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now at 6:00, nice day to celebrate moms. we'll show you how some mother's day events around the bay area had everybody out smiling and you know how long this warm weather is going to stick around. i'm john ramos at cal state east bay. one graduate here is reaching his dream. after spending 20 years in prison. we'll have that story. plus a new approach to the crabbing season that could help fishermen stay on the water longer while still protecting the whales. these units are now being used in multiple fisheries. >> live from the cbs studios in san francisco, i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. taking a live look outside. we had some
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beautiful weather out there for mother's day. and we're in for a bit of a warm-up i hear. darren? is that right? >> by tuesday, but the real story is how dramatically cooler we are today than just yesterday. some of us are 20 degrees cooler for mother's day. than you were on sunday. it sound like even a little more than that. santa rosa the temperature dropped like 24 degrees in just 24 hours. part of the reason here, strong on shore surge with the marine layer coming in. yesterday it was 73. we felt a ten degree drop here. going inland to the tri-valley where the number is 78 degrees in dublin, that dropped for the tri-valley is a 14-degree change but look at concord. you are right now 21 degrees cooler than you were yesterday and even though it's not as dramatic when you get into the heart of the bay, everybody did this. tomorrow pretty much staying right here. monday is just like this. and in fact just a quick look ahead to monday's daytime highs. these are pretty much a repeat of what sunday was. and then tuesday we crank it back up
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