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particularly upsets mr. biden's progressive allies. >> keep them out of negotiations. they don't work. they are unfair. they're cruel, and they're a non-starter. >> reporter: but republicans aren't prepared to budge. >> remember what we're talking about. able-bodied people with no dependents, okay? >> reporter: cbs news has learned the president decided just this morning he he needed to postpone the australia portion of his upcoming trip in order to return to washington. it's a sign of how urgent the issue is, with still no clear resolution in sight. norah. >> ed o'keefe at the white house, thank you. today on capitol hill, members of the senate judiciary committee grilled the head of the artificial intelligence company that makes chatgpt on the dangers posed by the quickly evolving technology. cbs's scott macfarlane reports the hearing come as lawmakers
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debate new rules aimed at regulating ai. >> reporter: a senate hearing on artificial intelligence began artificially. >> too often we have seen what happens when technology outpaces regulation. >> reporter: the chairman played an ai generated version of his own voice and words. >> pretty impressive. >> reporter: sam altman, who operates the virally successful chatgpt compared new advances in ai to the invention of the printing press but acknowledged the risk. >> i think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. >> reporter: congress is concerned it risks waiting too long to pass law governing ai. >> we should be concerned for our privacy, our liberty, and concerned for control over our lives. >> reporter: even the industry itself is urging congress to create safety rules,ot reing government approval for future ai innovations. >> how fast does congress have to move on this to keep up? >> i think it's more important
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to get it right than to move super fast. >> reporter: the tech leaders and lawmakers also recognize the impact of ai on the human workforce. >> my biggest nightmare long-term is displacement of workers and job losses. >> reporter: as washington mulls its next move, schools nationwide, including morgan state university in baltimore, have rolled out new ai programs, training students how to find work in ai and to ensure it's inclusive. >> we don't know what ai is going to enable us to be able to do, so the workforce has to stay nimble. we have to always be learning new things and be willing to educate a new crop of individuals. >> reporter: more congressional hearings into ai are set for later this week, but in the meantime, some of the ideas floated include government safety labels for ai technology. and, norah, a federal agency to liens and police the industry. liens and police the industry. >> scott macfarlane, thank you strong enamel is your best defense against acid erosion and cavities;
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organization with close ties to president vladimir putin. most know the group through its involvement in the war in ukraine, but one of its main sources of funding comes from working with unsavory regimes around the world. the u.s. label them a transnational criminal organization. cbs's debora patta followed the group to central africa. >> reporter: being vladimir pu putin's attack dog in ukraine requires deep pockets. that's why wagner boss yef again yi progozhin relies on plundering resources thousands of miles away here in the central african republic. in exchange, wagner provides mercenary muscle to prop up the country's leader. here you see masked russian fighters actually guarding the president. documents obtained by cbs news show how wagner is given government contracts to exploit c.a.r.'s gold mines and forests through a galaxy of shell
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companies. oisman, not his real name, told us he was tortured by the mersz naries, who seized his family's gold business. "like in ukraine," he tells us, "how else do you explain russia's economy remaining unaffected despite heavy sanctions?" >> but how does a criminal organization export its gold? "they have total control of the airport," usman explains" and a cargo plane flying between moscow and bangi." cbs news secretly recorded this wagner cargo plane just after it landed in the capital. from c.a.r., that plane went dark over africa before turning up in the united arab emirates. soon after, another plane also lands there from moscow. the two aircraft overlap for about eight hours, plenty of time to potentially transfer
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cargo before heading back to where they came from. the mercenaries are also plundering c.a.r.'s virgin redwood forests. cbs news secretly filmed wagner gunmen guarding a checkpoint along the transport route to cam arun. the wood ends up at cameroon's port, where we posed as buyers to go inside the c.a.r.-controlled customs area. >> is it easy to get wood from central africa republic and to bring it through cameroon? "very smooth," we're told. "no details." >> it's just mooth? >> reporter: this web of deceit allows progozhin to evade sanctions and rake in the billions that fund his criminal empire and his private army in ukraine. state department officials have told us the u.s is working to limit progozhin's ability to profit from wagner's operations in africa, and that it is
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building this morning. the intense heat blew out windows as flames shot out of the third and fourth floors. heavy black smoke could be seen across the city and forced the closure of a nearby interstate. at least five people were rescued, but fire crews were ordered to fall back over fear that the building might collapse. one firefighter suffered minor injuries. at least two people were sent to the hospital after being attacked by a swarm of bees in the l.a. suburb of encino, california, on monday. thousands of aggressive bees forced first responders to shut down roads and warn people to stay indoors. this voluntary officer was stung so many times, look at this, he fell head first to the ground. we can report the officer is in stable condition at a local hospital. a bee removal company was brought in and said someone or something likely disturbed the large hive found in the roof of a nearby home. dramatic video of an heroic littleeae making a
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>> it started selfishly as just trying to save my life. but then we realized that there's so many other children out there who needed a bone marrow transplant. >> reporter: after a nine-year wait, hallie found a match. but she wasn't out of the woods yet. her condition led to bone cancer and a leg amputation. ♪ the music of taylor swift got her through the hardest of times. >> sometimes i'd listen to her music, and i'd daydream about her and like meeting her and seeing her. >> reporter: and guess what? her wildest dreams came true. >> i was wondering if you wanted to come with me next sunday to see taylor swift at the eras tour in the front row? >> yes, i would love that! >> reporter: hallie was ready for it, celebrating a clean bill of health in style at the houston stop on the eras tour. >> it was just such a beautiful
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moment. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. a 12-week ban on nearly all abortions will become law in north carolina. the republican-controlled general assembly overturned governor roy cooper's veto of that ban last night. the bill takes effect july 1st. some new york city parents are protesting mayor eric adams' plan to house asylum seekers in public school gyms. the city says they've already opened up around 150 emergency sites, and adams told reporters schools are a last resort. and the guggenheim museum has made this adorable discovery. newspp onon or as hthheowd
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connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we're following a number of big stories, but we do want to begin tonight with new details in monday's deadly mass shooting in farmington, new mexico, that killed three people and wounded six others. this afternoon, police identified the gunman as 18-year-old high school senior beau wilson. authorities say he carried at least three weapons, including an ar-style rifle, and appeared to target his victims at random. they are still searching for a motive. those killed include an elderly mother in her 90s and her daughter, who was in her 70s. the third person killed was also in her 70s. the two members of law
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enforcement injured during the attack were treated at the local hospital. the police chief called it one of the most horrific and difficult days in the city's history. cbs's omar villafranca is going to start us off tonight from farmington, new mexico. good evening, omar. >> reporter: good evening. the shooting started at this intersection behind me and stretches down about a quarter mile. investigators say the suspect started shooting randomly into cars and hitting homes. and in about ten minutes, about 150 rounds were fired. three older women were killed, including a mother and a daughter just a day after mother's day. >> yesterday our community was shaken to the core. >> reporter: the new details released by police unveiled more about what happened in the nation's latest mass shooting. >> he was just shooting indiscriminately, houses, cars, people as he went. >> be advised i've got several people down. i've got three vehicles that are -- i've got three people that are dead as well. >> reporter: the three who died include 97-year-old gwendolyn schofield and her 73-year-old
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daughter, melody ivie, a preschool teacher, and 79-year-old shle jeffrey clark says the suspect, beau wilson, lived just two houses away. clark was in his garage and describes the sound. >> that. >> reporter: he went outside. >> and saw my neighbor in the front yard, very intent in shooting his rifle at things and people. >> be advised this guy is right in front of the church. >> reporter: as the suspect moved on, clark looked out to the street. >> and discovered two elderly people in their vehicle, dead. >> reporter: farmington police say the first shots came at 10:56 a.m. at 11:02, police found the suspect, and four minutes later at 11:06 -- >> the suspect was shot, and almost simultaneously as well, an officer was shot. >> we have an officer down. >> reporter: farmington police say they fired 16 total rounds.
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the suspect, well over 100. officers say at least one of the three guns was purchased legally. at a candlelight vigil, farmington's mayor spoke to the grief-stricken community. >> i can't express to you my pain. i can't express to you how i thought forever these kind of things wouldn't happen to us here. >> reporter: family members told investigators that the suspect may have had some mental health issues. it's also worth noting that there are three high school graduations this week, and there will be increased police presence at all of those events. norah. >> omar villafranca, thank you very much. we want to turn now to some breaking news of an intrusion at the home of one of president biden's top aides, national security adviser jake sullivan. the secret service launched an investigation into how an unidentified man entered sullivan's residence while agents were on duty last month. cbs's catherine herridge has the latest details. >> reporter: tonight, news of a major security breach that could have put national security
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adviser jake sullivan, one of president biden's most senior advisers, at risk. first reported by "the washington post" and confirmed by cbs news, an unknown intruder breached sullivan's washington home two weeks ago around 3:00 a.m. while sullivan's home has a robust security system, the intruder, apparently intoxicated, went undetected by at least two secret service agents outside. the source said sullivan confronted the intruder, instructed him to leave. there were no signs of a forced entry. >> this should not have happened, absolutely not. and especially where there are hostile nation states targeting u.s. officials on u.s. soil. >> reporter: the security lapse comes after john bolton, the trump administration's national security adviser, was threatened by the iranians last summer. the plot disrupted by the fbi. >> they were able to confirm that it was potentially an effort either to kidnap me or assassinate me. >> reporter: tonight investigators are scouring grainy video that may show the intruder outside sullivan's home, who remains at large.
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>> and catherine herridge joins us. catherine, all right. no signs of forced entry. was a door open in the middle of the night and there was no alarm on? >> that's right, norah. a lot of questions. and while the secret service investigation into the intrusion continues, a law enforcement source is telling cbs news tonight that sullivan's security detail has been benched in the meantime. >> catherine herridge, thank you. well, the man charged with attacking two congressional staffers with a baseball bat monday is now facing two federal felonies and multiple other charges, including a hate crime. doorbell video taken minutes before yesterday's attack shows a man with a bat chasing a woman near virginia congressman gerry connolly's office. that woman escaped. the 49-year-old suspect is charged with one count of assault of a government employee. a lower court has charged him with additional felonies and misdemeanors. back here in washington, the clock is ticking and america's ceos today are warning of a devastating scenario and
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potentially disastrous consequences if the u.s. defaults on its debts. today progress was made at a high-stakes oval office meeting, and the urgency of the situation led president biden to shorten his overseas trip next week. here's cbs's ed o'keefe. >> it's unfortunate we are where we are. >> reporter: another meeting between the president and top republicans without a deal. >> i made clear again at today's meeting that default is not an option. america pays its debts, pays its bills. >> reporter: the stalemate now has a firmer deadline. treasury secretary janet yellen warning america won't be able to pay its bills potentially as soon as june 1st. >> over the past few years, american families and businesses have worked hard to mount an historic economic recovery, and a default would reverse all of the hard-earned progress. >> reporter: that's what worries ally kirkpatrick. >> it's definitely something that's been keeping me up at
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night. >> reporter: she owns old town books in alexandria, virginia. >> any financial trend, you see it trickle down to a small business like mine, especially when it's a business that's entertainment, that's optional. >> reporter: the president and republican leaders are seeking potential areas of compromise, icluding permitting changes for domestic energy projects and clawing back some unspent federal covid relief money. another possibility, adding stricter work requirements to social safety net programs, particularly upsets mr. biden's progressive allies. >> keep them out of negotiations. they don't work. they are unfair. they're cruel, and they're a non-starter. >> reporter: but republicans aren't prepared to budge. >> remember what we're talking about. able-bodied people with no dependents, okay? >> reporter: cbs news has learned the president decided just this morning he needed to postpone the australia portion of his upcoming trip in order to return to washington. it's a sign of how urgent the
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issue is with still no clear resolution in sight. norah. >> ed o'keefe at the white house, thank you. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news." ♪ ♪ a tiny pinch of knorr chicken bouillon will save you more gas than driving downhill. because just one sip of this delectable silky chicken ramen noodle soup will put an end to your drive-through dinner rituals. it's time to bring out the cook in you and tell him to throw that glorious powder in that tasty silky combo of delightful carrots... (whispered): yummy ...luscious mushrooms, and a touch of bok choy. (whispered): good call. knorr taste combos. it's not fast food, but it's soooo good. ♪ ♪ bug spray works best... when your family actually wears it.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm erica brown in washington. thanks for staying with us. ukraine and president volodymyr zelenskyy wrapped up his whirlwind tour of western europe. he returns home with pledges of weapons and political support from the leaders of italy, germany, france, and the united kingdom. and while the world waits for ukraine's long anticipated offensive against russian forces, a cbs news investigation is shining light on one of vladimir putin's private armies, group. it's not only active in ukraine but also africa, where it's gets gold propping up ne
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and other resources to fund its paramilitary activities around the world. debora patta went undercover to central africa for the story. >> reporter: wagner boss yevgeny progozhin has a seemingly endless supply of hired guns in ukraine. but being vladimir putin's attack dog requires deep pockets, so he relies on plundering natural resources miles away here in the mineral-rich central african republic, known as c.a.r. in exchange, wagner provides the mercenary muscle to prop up the country's leader. rare footage filmed by cbs shows masked russian fighters actually guarding the president. in movies like this, bankrolled by progozhin, wagner portrays itself as the savior of c.a.r. there's even a statue in the capital honoring the paramilitary group. what wagner doesn't say is they
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effectively run this nation through violence and a galaxy of shell companies. usman, not his real name, told us he was tortured by mercenaries after they seized his family's gold business. he's been in hiding ever since but agreed to travel to neighboring cameroon to talk to us. "wagner is not here to defend the country," he said. "if even told you that, it's a lie." it's packed what the government has forged blood. the payoff, unfettered access to c.a.r.'s gold mines and forests, which fund the group's criminal activities far beyond africa. "like in ukraine," usman tells us," how else do you explain russia's economy remaining unaffected despite heavy sanctions?" this security analyst says c.a.r. pays wagner with lucrative deals. >> we're talking about billions
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of dollars here. >> reporter: these recent satellite images show the wagner operates a gold mine in c.a.r. but exporting gold is not easy for a u.s.-designated transnational criminal organization unless -- "they have total control of the airport," usman explains. >> so it flies its gold out of central africa republic? "there's a cargo plane flying between moscow and ban gi" he says. cbs news secretly recorded this wagner cargo plane just after it landed in the capital. they fly in and out at least twice a week. from c.a.r., that planet went dark over africa before turning up in the united arab emirates. soon after, another aircraft lands there from moscow. the planes overlap for at least eight hours, enough time to potentially transfer cargo before heading back to where they came from.
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wagner is also plundering c.a.r.'s virgin redwood forests through yet another front company transporting the timber by road from its base in bangi to cameroon. the drivers hand over this document. it's like a diplomatic free pass, meaning vehicles cannot be searched. "we know wagner often marks their wood in a special way," usman tells us, "so it's easily identified with white and green dots." cbs news secretly filmed wagner gunmen guarding one of many checkpoints they control on the timber transport route from c.a.r. to cameroon. wagner trucks pass through here, the border town, en route from the central african republic to the port of dwala every single week. tons of illegal logs end up at that port, where customs officials seldom ask questions. we posed as buyers. >> is it easy to get w from
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ral afrou cameroon? "very smooth," the official tells us. "there are no delays." >> it's just smooth? >> reporter: export documents obtained by cbs news show wagner regularly changes the names of front companies to avoid detection. >> this is, you know, one of the key elements of serious oganized crime, whereby in order to disguise one company, they use a proxy company. >> reporter: it's a model repeated across africa, allowing progozhin to evade sanctions and rake in billions to fund his rapidly expanding criminal empire and his private army empire and his private army fighting russia's war when it comes to your hair, ingredients matter. that's why herbal essences is packed with naturally derived plant ingredients you love, and none of the stuff you don't. our sulfate-free collections smell incredible...
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making sure they're prepared for school. making sure that there's a job waiting for them if they do the right thing. and then dealing with violence in their communities. the vast majority of these young people will succeed, and that will be good for all of us. >> gun violence is the number one cause of death for children in this country. what is the radical solution, and do you believe there is a larger issue at hand that causes fractures among us in this country? >> we are unique among advanced, developed nations in tolerating, on a routine basis, gun violence in the form of shootings, mass shootings, suicides. in australia, you had one mass shooting 50 years ago, and they said, oh, we're not doing that anymore. that is normally how you would expect a society to respond when your children are at risk.
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>> why is it so hard for us to do that? >> well, look, i think somehow -- and there are a lot of historical reasons for this. gun ownership in this country became an ideological issue and a partisan issue in ways that it shouldn't be. it has become sort of a proxy for arguments about our culture wars. instead of thinking about it in a very pragmatic way, we end up really arguing about identity and emotion and all kinds of stuff that does not have to do with keeping our children safe, even in the absence of action at the federal level, you are still seeing communities able to reduce violence by dealing with not just access to guns but, just as importantly, making sure that the young people in these communities feel as if they've got somebody who's paying attention to them. what's happening?and w g up
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>> reporter: there was no cynicism in this room. >> what's up, man? >> reporter: when the former president dropped by. ♪ >> truthfully i'm contemplating onlyfans ♪ [ applause ] >> maybe a couple of you just tell me a little bit about how you came to know about the program, why it's been important to you, the kinds of things that you've been doing. go ahead. >> after coming from lake geneva, you ended up inviting me to the studio. when i came in, it was a day i didn't have school, and he ough wrom ho se wldn't l m record music until he got the approval.
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he was like, you can sit over here and do your work. you can chill in the studio all day, but i got to get approval first. when he got the approval, i was able to record. >> all right. >> i've been here since then. >> fantastic. >> it just kind of shows you somebody cares or is easier to reach. it's not like you're just speaking to the community or you're just like -- you're n just showing your face to the community on camera. so for him to come in and shake everybody's hand, you know, listen to the raps, actually give feedback, it kind of meant a lot. ♪ >> when we went to that program and you saw this incredible talent in a church basement, making music and, nate, i think you felt it too. what was most powerful about it was seeing these young men really looking out for each other, getting more of that. >> yeah. >> in our communities is also going to make a difference. and that's what we're
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demonstrating through these model communities of my brother's keeper. it's a matter of want to on the part of the broader society. >> you know, i'm a father of a 19-year-old. >> mm-hmm. >> 17-year-old, a 12-year-old, and i am an optimistic man. >> mm-hmm. >> but i find myself falling into this space where i have concern about the country that they will inherit. >> right. >> once i'm gone. post-presidency, what about this country keeps you up at night? >> the thing that i'm most worried about is the degree to which we now have a divided conversation, in part because we have a divided media, right? so i'm much older than you, nate. >> you don't look it, though. >> that's what i was fishing for. but when i was coming up, you had three tv stations. >> yeah. >> and people were getting a similar sense of what is true and what isn't, what was real
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and what was not. today what i'm most concerned about is the fact that because of the splintering of the media, we almost occupy different realities. if something happens, in the past, everybody could say, all right, we may disagree on how to solve it, but at least we all agree that, yeah, that's an issue. now people will say, well, that didn't happen, or i don't believe that. and one of, i think, the goals of the obama foundation and one of the goals of my post-presidency is how do we return to that common conversation? how can we have a common set of facts? we may disagree on gun violence in terms of what the best prescriptions are, but we can't deny the data that says the united states has levels of gun violence that are 5, 10, 15 times more than other countries. >> yep. >> so if we say that it's just a mental health problem, well, it's not like there aren't people with mental health problems in those other countries. what's the difference? >> right. >> this is probably the
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difference. now, we can have a debate. but at least we've agreed on some facts. >> that was nate burleson with female: my husband worked on a strip job for a number of years, got black lung.lito he quicklya start and started asking for my help. since jerry got sick and i've taken on the extra work here it's been wonderful to know that i can still hear the word with
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for the first time in decades, the music industry is selling more vinyl records than cds. michael george has the story. ♪ >> reporter: saxophonist mike cohen says there's really only one right way to listen to music. >> vinyl. >> there's no comparison. >> no. no, none. none. >> reporter: cohen has been collecting records for decades. ♪ he says vinyl sounds much richer than digital music. >> this is what they sounded like, you know. this is what this band sounded like. >> in the room. >> in the room. i mnt' as ye going to get. >> reporter: bulky records sat on dusty shelves with the emergence of cassettes, cds, and then streaming. but now music fans are
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rediscovering vinyl. 41 million records were sold last year, topping cds for the first time since 1987. >> formats have come and gone, but it's really incredible that this century-old format has come back so strongly. >> reporter: joshua freed lander of the recording industry association of america says more than half of today's record buyers are younger than 45. >> some people like the classic look and feel, the bigger artwork, the tactile nature. >> reporter: contemporary artists are taking notice with vinyl releases from taylor swift and adele topping recent charts. mike cohen says he's glad people are heariheng appreciation for what's on the actual record versus just being able to punch anything up digitally. >> reporter: what was once part of music's past now spinning back into the future. ♪ michael george, cbs news, new york. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. be sure to check back later for "cbs mornings." and follow us online anytime at
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cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm erica brown. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. a 12-week ban on nearly all abortions will become law in north carolina. the republican-controlled general assembly overturned governor roy cooper's veto of that ban last night. the bill takes effect july 1st. some new york city parents are protesting mayor eric adams' plan to house asylum seekers in public school gyms. the city says they've already opened up around 150 emergency sites, and adams told reporters schools are a last resort. and the guggenheim museum has made this adorable discovery. x-rays on a picasso painting of a parisian nightclub found a
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small dog hidden beneath the surface. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. tonight, the breaking news about that mass shooting in new mexico. police searching for a motive after a heavily armed high school student opened fire at random, killing three. here are tonight's headlines. >> our community was shaken to the core. >> we're learning new information tonight about the 18-year-old gunman as police ramp up security at local schools. breaking news. an intruder gets past secret service and into the home of president biden's national security adviser. the details just coming in. we've got a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. >> default is not an option. >> president biden met for a second time with congressional leaders about the debt ceiling.
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two staff members for democratic congressman gerry connolly were attacked yesterday. a home security camera captured video of the suspect chasing a woman. russian mercenary group wagner is plundering african resources to help fund the war in ukraine. >> we're talking about billions of dollars here. a key senate committee opens hearings on regulating the ai industry before the technology becomes too advanced to control. >> if we don't step in, then this gets away from you. ♪ and the inspiring story of a young girl and her taylor-made concert experience. >> taylor came out, and it was just such a beautiful moment. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news."
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we're following a number of big stories, but we do want to begin tonight with new details in monday's deadly mass shooting in farmington, new mexico, that killed three people and wounded six others. this afternoon, police identified the gunman as 18-year-old high school senior beau wilson. authorities say he carried at least three weapons, including an ar-style rifle, and appeared to target his victims at random. they are still searching for a motive. those killed include an elderly mother in her 90s and her daughter, who was in her 70s. the third person killed was also in her 70s. the two members of law enforcement injured during the attack were treated at the local hospital. the police chief called it one of the most horrific and difficult days in the city's history. cbs's omar villafranca is going to start us off tonight from farmington, new mexico. good evening, omar. >> reporter: good evening. the shooting started at this intersection behind me and stretches down about a quarter mile. investigators say the suspect started shooting randomly into
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cars and hitting homes. and in about ten minutes, about 150 rounds were fired. three older women were killed, including a mother and a daughter just a day after mother's day. >> yesterday our community was shaken to the core. >> reporter: the new details released by police unveiled more about what happened in the nation's latest mass shooting. >> he was just shooting indiscriminately, houses, cars, people as he went. >> be advised i've got several people down. i've got three vehicles that are -- i've got three people that are dead as well. >> reporter: the three who died include 97-year-old gwendolyn schofield and her 73-year-old daughter, melody ivie, a preschool teacher, and 79-year-old shirley voita. jeffrey clark says the suspect, beau wilson, lived just two houses away. clark was in his garage and describes the sound. >> that. >> reporter: he went outside. >> and saw my neighbor in the front yard, very intent in shooting his rifle at things and
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people. >> be advised this guy is right in front of the church. >> reporter: as the suspect moved on, clark looked out to the street. >> and discovered two elderly people in their vehicle, dead. say the first shots came at 10:56 a.m. at 11:02, police found the suspect, and four minutes later at 11:06 -- >> the suspect was shot, and almost simultaneously as well, an officer was shot. >> we have an officer down. >> reporter: farmington police say they fired 16 total rounds. the suspect, well over 100. officers say at least one of the three guns was purchased legally. at a candlelight vigil, farmington's mayor spoke to the grief-stricken community. >> i can't express to you my pain. i can't express to you how i thought forever these kind of things wouldn't happen to us here. >> reporter: family members told investigators that the suspect may have had some mental health issues. it's also worth noting that
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there are three high school graduations this week, and there will be increased police presence at all of those events. norah. >> omar villafranca, thank you very much. we want to turn now to some breaking news of an intrusion at the home of one of president biden's top aides, national security adviser jake sullivan. the secret service launched an investigation into how an unidentified man entered sullivan's residence while agents were on duty last month. cbs's catherine herridge has the latest details. >> reporter: tonight, news of a major security breach that could have put national security adviser jake sullivan, one of president biden's most senior advisers, at risk. first reported by "the washington post" and confirmed by cbs news, an unknown intruder breached sullivan's washington home two weeks ago around 3:00 a.m. while sullivan's home has a robust security system, the intruder, apparently intoxicated, went undetected by at least two secret service agents outside. the source said sullivan
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confronted the intruder, instructed him to leave. there were no signs of a forced entry. >> this should not have happened, absolutely not. and especially where there are hostile nation states targeting u.s. officials on u.s. soil. >> reporter: the security lapse comes after john bolton, the trump administration's national security adviser, was threatened by the iranians last summer. the plot disrupted by the fbi. >> they were able to confirm that it was potentially an effort either to kidnap me or assaine at. >>te investigators are scouring grainy video that may show the intruder outside sullivan's home, who remains at large. >> and catherine herridge joins us. catherine, all right. no signs of forced entry. was a door open in the middle of the night and there was no alarm on? >> well, that's right, norah. a lot of questions. and while the secret service investigation into the intrusion cntinues, a law enforcemet source is telling cbs news tonight that sullivan's security detail has been benched in the meantime. >> catherine herridge, thank you. well, the man charged with attacking two congressional
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staffers with a baseball bat monday is now facing two federal felonies and multiple other charges, including a hate crime. doorbell video taken minutes before yesterday's attack shows a man with a bat chasing a woman near virginia congressman gerry connolly's office. that woman escaped. the 49-year-old suspect is charged with one count of assault of a government employee. a lower court has charged him with additional felonies and misdemeanors. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." back here in washington, the clock is ticking, and america's ceos today are warning of a devastating scenario and potentially disastrous consequences if the u.s. defaults on its debts. today progress was made at a high-stakes oval office meeting and the urgency of the situation led president biden to shorten his overseas trip next week. here's cbs's ed o'keefe. >> it's unfortunate we are where we are. >> reporter: another meeting between the president and top republicans without a deal.
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>> i made clear again at today's meeting that default is not an option. america pays its debts, pays its bills. haa firmer deadline. treasury secretary janet yellen warning the u.s. government won't be able to pay its bills potentially as early as june 1st. today she said every american will feel the pinch. >> over the past few years, american families and businesses have worked hard to mount an historic economic recovery, and a default would reverse all of the hard-earned progress. >> reporter: that's what worries ally kirkpatrick. >> it's definitely something that's been keeping me up at night. >> reporter: she owns old town books in alexandria, virginia. >> any financial trend, you see it trickle down to a small business like mine, especially when it's a business that's entertainment, that's optional. >> reporter: the president and republican leaders are seeking potential areas of compromise, including permitting changes for domestic energy projects and clawing back some unspent
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federal covid relief money. another possibility, adding stricter work requirements to social safety net programs, particularly upsets mr. biden's progressive allies. >> keep them out of negotiations. they don't work. they are unfair. they're cruel, and they're a non-starter. >> reporter: but republicans aren't prepared to budge. >> remember what we're talking about. able-bodied people with no dependents, okay? >> reporter: cbs news has learned the president decided just this morning he needed to postpone the australia portion of his upcoming trip in order to return to washington. it's a sign of how urgent the issue is, with still no clear resolution in sight. norah. >> ed o'keefe at the white house, thank you. today on capitol hill, members of the senate judiciary committee grilled the head of the artificial intelligence company that makes chatgpt on the dangers posed by the quickly evolving technology. cbs's scott macfarlane reports
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the hearings come as debaew rules aed a artifir:arinon artifici. >> tooftene have seen what happens when technology outpaces regulation. >> reporter: the chairman played an ai-generated version of his own voice and words. >> pretty impressive. >> reporter: sam altman, who operates the virally successful chatgpt, compared new advances in ai to the invention of the printing press but acknowledged the risk. >> i think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. >> reporter: congress is concerned it risks waiting too long to pass laws to govern ai after failing years ago to set safety rules for social media. >> we should be concerned for our privacy. we should be concerned for our liberty and for control over our lives. >> reporter: even the industry itself is urging congress to create safety rules, potentially requiring government approval for future ai innovations. >> how fast does congress have to move on this to keep up? >> i think it's more important to get it right than to move super fast.
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>> reporter: the tech leaders and lawmakers also recognize the impact of ai on the human workforce. >> my biggest nightmare long-term is displacement of workers and job losses. its xt movg as washington mulls state university in baltimore, have rolled out new ai programs, training students how to find work in ai and to ensure it's inclusive. >> we don't know what ai is going to enable us to be able to do, so the workforce has to stay nimble. we have to always be learning new things and be willing to educate a new crop of individuals. >> reporter: more congressional hearings into ai are set for later this week, but in the meantime, some of the ideas floated include government safety labels for ai technology and, norah, a federal agency to license and police the industry. >> scott macfarlane, thank you very much. the "cbs overnight news"
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organization with close ties to president vladimir putin. now, most know the group through its involvement in the war in ukraine, but one of its main soces ofsavory fng regunimesdi around the world. the u.s. labels them a transnational criminal organization. cbs's debora patta followed the mercenary group's trail to central africa. >> reporter: being vladimir putin's attack dog in ukraine requires deep pockets. that's why wagner boss yevgeny progozhin relies on plundering natural resources thousands of miles away here, in the central african republic. in exchange, wagner provides mercenary muscle to prop up the country's leader. here you see masked russian fighters actually guarding the president. documents obtained by cbs news show how wagner is given government contracts to exploit c.a.r.'s gold mines and forests through a galaxy of shell companies. usman, not his real name, told
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us he was tortured by the mercenaries, who seized his family's gold business. he said c.a.r.'s minerals and wood help fund the group's criminal activities. "like in ukraine," he tells us, "how else do you explain russia's economy remaining unaffected despite heavy sanctions?" but how does a u.s.-designated transnational criminal organization export its gold? "they have total control of the airport," usman explains, "and a cargo plane flying between moscow and bangui." cbs news secretly recorded this wagner cargo plane just after it landed in the capital. from c.a.r., that plane went dark over africa before turning up in the united arab emirates. soon after, another plane also lands there from moscow. the two aircraft overlap for about eight hours, plenty of time to potentially transfer cargo before heading back to
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where they came from. the mercenaries are also plundering c.a.r.'s virgin redwood forests. cbs news secretly filmed wagner gunmen guarding a checkpoint along the timber transport route to cameroon. the wood ends up at cameroon's port, where we posed as buyers to go inside the c.a.r.-controlled customs area. >> is it easy to get wood from central african republic and to bring it through cameroon? "very smooth," we're told. "no delays." >> it's just smooth? >> reporter: this web of deceit allows progozhin to evade sanctions and rake in the billions that fund his criminal empire and his private army in ukraine. state department officials have told us that the u.s. is working to limit progozhin's ability to profit from wagner's operations in africa, and that it is engaging all countries who may
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the intense heat blew out windows as flames shot out of the third and fourth floors. heavy black smoke could be seen across the city and forced the closure of a nearby interstate. at least five people were rescued, but fire crews were ordered to fall back over fear that the building might collapse. one firefighter suffered minor injuries. at least two people were sent to the hospital after being attacked by a swarm of bees in the l.a. suburb of encino, california, on monday. thousands of aggressive bees forced first responders to shut down roads and warn people to stay indoors. this voluntary officer was stung so many times -- look at this -- he fell head first to the ground. we can report the officer is in stable condition at a local hospital. a bee removal company was brought in and said someone or something likely disturbed the large hive found in the roof of a nearby home. dramatic video of an her little league umpire making a great call at home plate.
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finally tonight, the story of a brave texas teenager whose reputation of never giving up will leave you enchanted as she fights through some of life's most difficult battles. hallie barnard is fearless. ♪ the 14-year-old was born with a rare blood disease, giving new meaning to superstar taylor swift's song "bad blood." ♪ >> i felt like it really applied to me because i was like, oh, my gosh, i'm like taylor swift, you know. i got bad blood. >> reporter: the only cure for hallie's condition was a bone marrow transplant. she was desperate for one. that's when she became the mastermind behind hallie's heroes, a foundation to help others begin again.
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>> it started selfishly as just trying to save my life. but then we realized that there's so many other children out there who needed a bone marrow transplant. >> reporter: after a nine-year wait, hallie found a match. but she wasn't out of the woods yet. her condition led to bone cancer and a leg amputation. ♪ the music of taylor swift got her through the hardest of times. >> sometimes i'd listen to her music, and i'd daydream about her and like meeting her and seeing her. >> reporter: and guess what? her wildest dreams came true. >> i was wondering if you wanted to come with me next sunday to see taylor swift at the eras tour in the front row? >> yes, i would love that! >> reporter: hallie was ready for it, celebrating a clean bill of health in style at the houston stop on the eras tour. >> it was just such a beautiful moment.
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and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. a 12-week ban on nearly all abortions will become law in north carolina. the republican-controlled general assembly overturned governor roy cooper's veto of that ban last night. the bill takes effect july 1st. some new york city parents are protesting mayor eric adams' plan to house asylum seekers in public school gyms. the city says they've already opened up around 150 emergency sites, and adams told reportersr hamas adorle x-rays on a picasso painting of a parisian nightclub found a small dog hidden beneath the
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surface. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i' it's wednesday, may 17th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." debt ceiling deadline. president biden and speaker mccarthy optimistic after meeting yesterday.thlate. breaking overnight, abortion battle. north carolina's legislature overrides the governor's abortion bill veto. what it means for women in the state. new details in america's latest mass shooting. what we're learning about the suspect as the community in new mexico remembers the three victims.>>od morning, and goodbg as president biden heads to japan this morning for the g7 summit, there are signs of a
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