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lawmakers demand the answers about how much security services knew about the gyrocopter that landed on the capitol lawn. as it turns out, the pilot was tracked during his illegal flight. >> he should have been blown out of the air and very well could have been. a landmark agreement between the nfl and thousands of former players. a judge approves a $1 billion plan to settle concussion-related lawsuits. an eruption emergencies. one of chile's volcanos erupts sending ashes into the sky. this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, april 23rd, 2015. captioning funded by cbs good morning. i'm alison harmelin in for
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anne-marie green. turns out doug hughes department fly under the radar after all. he was being tracked by the nation's top security agencies. and as he entered restricted airspace near the capitol, authorities aimed multiple weapons aet the aircraft. next week congress will hold hearings to determine why hughes wasn't stopped. mark albert's in washington. good morning, mark. >> good morning, alison. last night lawmakers got their first in-depth briefing on this that lasted about 45 minutes. the ease with which he was able to penetrate the nation's most secure airspace is demanding lawmakers to ask for accountability. >> reporter: house oversight committee chair jason chaifetz had harsh words for postal worker doug hughes who flew a gyrocopter landing on the
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capitol lawn. but chaifetz was even tougher on norad and the fcc. >> they chose not to brief us. >> reporter: during a closed door briefing wednesday officials from the secret service and capitol police revealed multiple agencies tracked the aircraft but made a judgment call not to shoot it down out of concern for people on the ground. the top democrat elijah cummings made everyone aware this was a potential threat. >> this is a wakeup call for all of us. >> reporter: hughes had flown from gettysburg to d.c. to deliver letters about finance reform. >> delivered the mail without anybody getting hurt or creating property damage.
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i succeeded. >> reporter: he remains under house arrest in florida. the oversight committee chairman is citing a lack of communication and human error during the breach and warmed the faa and norad would have quote, a lot of explaining to do. the top democrat on the committee says this will be a transformative moment for the agencies that guard the capitol. alison? >> mark albert. thank you, mark. the secret service took a while to enter the home of george h.w. bush. they warned the alarm system was likely to fail back in 2010. the system stopped working in 2013 and was not replaced for 13 months. during that time an extra agent was assigned to the residence. today the parents of michael brown plan to file a civil lawsuit against the city of ferguson, missouri. brown, an unarmed black teenager
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was fatally shot by a police officer in the suburbs last august. it led to week of protest. the officer who shot brown, darren wilson, was not prosecuted. he resigned in november. baltimore police say five of the six police officer involved in the arrest of freddie gray are giving statements and cooperating. his treatment sparked angry demonstrations and more are planned for today. craig boswell reports. >> reporter: baltimore police kept all but a few protesters from breaching concrete and metal barricades wednesday near a western district police department. they have focused their outrage here. wednesday's protest began as a peaceful march from several nearby churches. >> recent protests without violence, we can let our voices be heard without violence. that's the message we want to let people know. >> reporter: but some say police
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barricades ratcheted up the tension. >> i believe if they didn't have barriers, it would have been a more peaceful march and they would have marched through. >> reporter: freddie gray was arrested last week. the cause of death was a severe spinal injury but police say they don't know how that happened. the six saufbofficers involved are suspended with pay. protesters want them charged with murder. in a statement he likened the protesters to a lynch mob. >> when you're trying to put somebody in jail before all the facts are in and the investigation hasn't been completed, i mean that's wrong. >> reporter: demonstrators are promising an even larger protest thursday as they march on city hall. craig boswell, cbs news baltimore. the tulsa sheriff's office admits. he's a 73-year-old officer who says he confused his handgun
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with his taser when he fatally shot eric harris. cbs news has learned the special treatment was given bates. he was allowed to make authorized vehicle stops and when confronted he said quote, he could do whatever he wants and anyone who has a problem with that should go see the sheriff who's a close personal friend. this morning severe weather stretches from texas to the gulf coast. thunderstorms, hail and tornados were a possibility. the twister sailed through a rural area. there are no reports of injury or significant damage. in pittsburgh it looked much more like december than the end of april. snow fell yesterday as temperatures dropped. the temperature is expected to be below freezing. this morning freeze and frost warnings are from south dakota to ohio. this is the third day of testimony in the boston marathon. the same jury that convicted him
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must be decided whether they should be put to death. you're hearing emotional testimony from survivors and families. kris van cleave reports. >> reporter: never before seen video shows dzhokhar tsarnaev three months after the bombings and hours before his arraignment. he adjusts his hair and makes a crude gesture to the camera. a still image was shown during the opening arguments of the penalty phase. but it was the. the o emotional adrian haslet-davis that left the jury in tears. i thought that because i couldn't hear myself scream that i was dead. survivor eric wally told jurors about the ball bearing that tore through his eye and remains lodged in his brain. he struggled to describe being separated from his wife. she thought i was dead and i thought she was dead. prosecutors expect to conclude their case thursday and then the defense will try to convince the
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jury to spare the bomber's life. >> i hope he gets the death penalty. >> reporter: two of liz's sons lost their legs in the bombings. >> i watched my two kids my two boys almost die. >> reporter: the parents of m.i.t. police officer shaun collier are still haunted by his murder. the stepfather told officers it took the mother months to get out of bed. she spent the two-year anniversary of her son's death crying. kris van cleave, cbs news boston. lawyer for john hinckley says he's ready to live on his own for the first time. he was found guilty by not reason of insanity. he's now 60 years old. a decision could take months. the senate is expected to confirm a new attorney general today. after months of delay they agree on a confirmation vote for loretta lynch. she'll become the first black
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woman to hold the post. coming up on the "morning news," a volcano awakens. the huge eruption in chile sends thousands of people runs. later, amazon finds new places to put your packages. in a car. this is the "cbs morning news." it can be hard to get air out, which can make it hard to get air in. so i talked to my doctor. she said... doctor: symbicort could help you breathe better, starting within 5 minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. symbicort helps provide significant improvement of your lung function. symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be taken more than twice a day. symbicort contains formoterol. medicines like formoterol increase the risk of death from asthma problems. symbicort may increase your risk of lung infections osteoporosis, and some eye problems. you should tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. grandfather: symbicort could mean
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eruption has forces thousands of people from their homes in chile. time lapsed video shows a massive amount of smoke and ash shooting into the sky. the plume could be seen for miles. for the first time in four decades the volcano has erupted. residents in ar jengentina have been warned to stay indoors. flight 271 from paris was diverted because of bad weather in the new york area. it hit turbulence hitting the logan international airport.
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dozens of passengers were treated for nausea and minor injuries. >> passengers reported scary moments on sky west. flight 56 was heading to bradley international airport but the pilot diverted to buffalo. three of the 75 passengers had lost consciousness. the crew reported a possible problem with pressurization in the cabin. >> it seemed like there was some emergency that was happening that wasn't just for medical. they said there's a loss of cab p pressure. at that point they asked us to tighten our seatbelts and we nose-dived at 10,000 feet until we leveled out and that was pretty darn scary. straight ahead, lights out. ray-ban tells them to stop selling its trademark shades. it never dawned on me that it could hurt your teeth. my dentist has told me your enamel is wearing away, and that sounded really scary to me and i was like well
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their first quarter earnings. today tech giants will announce their results. google's fourth quarter earnings last year disappointed investors. microsoft profits fell due to sluggish computer sales, but amazon smashed expectations blowing past wall street and what they were expecting. after a sluggish start, stocks on wall street finished higher yesterday. the dow gained 88 points the s&p rose ten. now just ten points below its record high. the nasdaq finish 2d 1 points high jeer some good news for recent college grads. companies plan to hire more grads this year according to a just released survey. 65% of employers say they plan to hire a recent college grad. that's the most since 2007. 33% are offering higher pay, including a quarter who will pay $50,000 or more. amazon is considering a new delivery site, the trufrmg of your car. the retailer is teaming up with
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dhl and audi to start a small test run in germany. during checkout customers indicate the location of their car during the window. they use a digital order to open the trufrmg and when it's closed, the car is locked. ray-ban is calling out rand paul. they were selling ray-ban way fairer sunglasses with the rand logo on its website. some of the money went to his campaign, but the campaign didn't have ray-ban's consent. ray-ban told the campaign to stop and it did. and the first youtube video is uploaded ten years ago today. >> they have really really really long trunks.
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>> the clip ran just 18 seconds. a year later google paid $1.6 billion in stock for youtube. this year nearly 145 million americans watch a youtube video. that is nearly half of the u.s. population. alison? today is take your children to work day and my kids don't want to come to work. it's 4:00 in the morning. what about yours? >> i don't have any kids but there's little excitement going on here. >> it's 4:00 a.m. a federal judge approved a settlement between the national football league and thousands of players who followed cushion-related lawsuits and it could cause the league up to a billion ionion dollars. under the agreement they'll pay out an average of $190,000. players suffer from neurological orders caused by brain injuries. the vast majority of retired players approved the deal.
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nfl actuaries say about 37% of them could develop alzheimer's or demean cha. critics say the deal let the nfl easily. the league makes about $10 billion a year. the nfl came down on panthers craig hardy for domestic violence. he's suspended for ten games. there's credible evidence he choked and shoved his girlfriend who was thrown on a few on the covered with guns. the charges were thrown out when the woman refused to cooperate. hardy signed a one-year contact with the dallas cowboys. the team anticipated hardy's suspension before signing him. when we return the aftermath of a jewel heist. we're shown a hole where n the vault. and robert downey jr. whacks out of an interview. stop in for lunch and tap, swipe, and go.
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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. newly released images show how thieves pulled off an audacious heist in a london district. they drilled a hole inside a six-foot wall. police found power tools including grinders, drills, and crowbars. the atlantic hawks ownership is change changing. the new ownership including former nba star grant hill and spanx spounlder sara blankly. he announced he would sell the
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team after a racially charged e-mail surfaced. the top seeded hawks defeated brooklyn to take a 2-0 series lead. actor robert downey jr. decided he'd had enough when the reporter refused to stick to the script. he walked out on an interview as the questions got too personal. >> taking drugs and drinking and all of that do you think you're free of all of that -- >> i'm sorry. i really don't. what are we doing? >> well i'm just asking questions, that's all. >> right. bye. >> british reporter krishnan guru murphy doesn't get to finish the question. he tried to offer an apology as downie leaves the room. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," more on google's wireless service.
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detroit. snowflakes fell on co-measure park. new york beats detroit, 13-4. it was a case of deja vu for a man in lacy washington. he was attacked by a bear. more than three years ago he had a dangerous encounter with bear in the seam area. we look at his injuries from his latest attack. >> i was extremely fortunate. >> bob and his dog abby were on their usual run in air area. abby saw a bear and disappeared into the trees. when she came back running john
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was stunned to see a bear. the big bear bit into him causes dozens of pungsure wounds and slashes. >> as he got closer e knew instinctively that it was going to hit me. so i swung as hard as i could and hit him right on the nose. >> he suffered four maulings and played dead. he called nein. he realized the bear would come back. >> it would come in and maul me and i would hit it with a stick. it would sort of subside or calm down and i would cover up, you know, to protect my face and my ears around brought my knees up to my chest and remained still. >> the bear left again. this time other runners and hikers found bob and called for help. surgeons sachbed his eyes and ears and treated other wounds to his head, chest, arms and leg. >> i had the stick trying to keep him away. it was in his mouth.
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i'm just amazed. >> reporter: days later fish and wildlife officers killed an aggressive bear in the same area. they're testing to see if this is the same bear. this is his second bare attack. he was mauled by a smaller bear that he thinks is the same animal that got him last week. he said there will not be a third time. >> that was cairo's natasha chen reporting. mary doyle keefe was 92. the painting shows keefe in overalls holding a sandwich. her lunch box says rosy. it symbolized the contributions of women during world war ii. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning." a global look at its new wiring. plus we'll show you how more coyotes are invadeing urban areas and a warning how new keyless
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gunfire rings out when a would be rob are target the wrong by an off-duty police officer out walking his dog. good morning i'm ukee washington. i'm erika von tiehl. the resident of two houses teetering on the edge in florence have evacuated their homes we will tell you what is being done to fix that problem. and chaos caught on camera a group of students get in the fight at a subway station what police know about the the people involved, katie. ukee today will be a much cooler day, we are expecting to see more of the dose of march then anything as temperatures struggle to break out of the 50's. would you believe it? we will see freeze watches and warnings take effect by tonight. we will talk about that. all is calm and tranquil. we have a hint of the
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