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manchester, england >> quijano: donald trump's new war of words with the "new york times." trump fires back at a report featuring several women's stories of their alleged encounters with him. also tonight, the investigation into a deadly bus crash in tex texas. >> i try to stay out of trouble. >> quijano: our interview with a former fugitive finally arrested after nearly 50 years on the run. >> ahh! >> quijano: a swarm of aggressive bees attacks a california neighborhood stinging people and killing pets. >> and here we are, on board... >> quijano: and the farewell to say broadcasting legend. morley safer reflects on his decades of reporting for "60 minutes." captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs weekend news."
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>> quijano: welcome to the cbs weekend news. i'm elaine quijano. donald trump is hitting back at the "new york times" after the newspaper published personal stories from women who either met or knew the presumptive republican nominee for president. the report includes allegations of unwelcomed romantic advances and unsettling workplace conduct. julianna goldman has more. >> reporter: donald trump lashed out at the "new york times," tweeting that today's story depicting his treatment of women is "a lame hit piece." and he said he gave the paper many names of women he helped that they refused to use. one of the reporters shot back calling the charge, "factually nakerate." he said they interviewed and quoted women trump's office suggested. >> nobody respects women more than donald trump. i'll tell you. nobody. >> reporter: as the presumptive republican nominee heads into a likely match-up with hillary clinton in the general election, his approval ratings with women are are getting worse and his remarks that have alienated women are
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among the reasons g.o.p. leerkdz like paul ryan, are not ready to endorse him. >> it's an issue. it will be dealt with. >> reporter: trump's senior adviser paul manafort said he'll make up the gap. >> hillary clinton has high negatives, too, where she has a bigger disparity with her support from men than trump has with women. >> these are things he's going to have to answer for. >> reporter: while r.n.c. chairman reince priebus acknowledged the problem, he issued this warning shot to clinton. >> i think it's when people live in glass houses and throw stones is when people get in trouble. >> reporter: and this warning to 2012 g.o.p. nominee mitt romney and other republicans who are said to be trying to draft a third-party candidate. >> this is a suicide mission. it is-- it is not right. and i think what people should do is take the paul ryan approach, which is to work with donald trump and find out whether or not there's common ground. >> reporter: hillary clinton and bernie sanders spent today in kentucky ahead of tuesday's primary. clinton used one speech to hit both sanders and trump.
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she slammed trump on his economic proposals and said in general, she's never heard such reckless, risky talk. elaine, it's a theme she keeps coming back to. >> quijano: all right, julianna goldman in washington for us. julianna, thank you. donald trump and vice president joe biden are both attending the university of pennsylvania's graduation ceremony tonight. trump's daughter and biden's granddaughter are among the graduates. president obama spoke to graduates at rutgers university in new jersey. the president didn't directly mention donald trump but criticized what he described as a strain of antiintellectualism in recent political discourse. >> it's not cool to not know what you're talking about. ( laughter ) that's not keeping it real or telling it like it is. that's not challenging political correctness. ( laughter ) that's just not knowing what you're talking about. >> quijano: the president reminded graduates in politics and in life, ignorance is not a
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virtue. the national transportation safety board is investigating a deadly bus crash in south texas. eight people died and more than 40 were injured when the bus suddenly rolled on the side. jamie yuccas has the latest. >> reporter: in video taken at the scene of the crash on a remote stretch of highway nearly 50 miles north of laredo, texas, you can see it raining heavily. the conditions were the same when the driver of the bus lost control and rolled over. federal investigators are now trying to determine if weather was a factor in the deadly crash. 52 people were on the charter bus headed to a casino. seven people died at the scene of the crash, another died later at a hospital. 44 others had to be treat forward their injuries. the driver of the bus is among the survivors. >> this is a very serious accident. >> reporter: cbs news transportation safety analyst mark rosenker. >> were there design factors in the highway itself?
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were there weather issues? was this a mechanical failure ?fs the driver fatigued? was there a medical incident with the driver? was the driver distracted? lots of questions to be asked before the n.t.s.b. will understand exactly what happened. >> reporter: the majority of patients were treated at doctors hospital in laredo. extra staff had to be brought in to deal with the chaotic scene. chief nursing officer damon mott. >> we immediately put our disaster plan into place. staff started pouring in immediately, both from inside hospital and outside the hospital. >> reporter: investigator have not releasedly the identity of the driver or any prgs. according to the associated press, just last year the owner of the bus, o.g.a. charters, was ordered by louisiana inspectors to take one of its cariers off the road to finish brakee braked emergency engine problems. elaine. >> quijano: nearly a dozen people were hurt in a fiery crash last night near disney's animal kingdom in florida. an s.u.v. traveling in the wrong
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lane slammed head on into a bus carrying 16 people. police say some of the injuries are serious. a horrifying scene at an air show in atlanta yesterday. a stunt pilot was killed when his plane slammed into the ground and went up in flames. no spectators were hurt. the cause of the crash is under investigation. a father and son from centerville, utah are under arrest, accused of kidnapping a woman and her four teenaged daughters. police say the victims were tied up in the men's basement but managed to escape. a man who escaped from a prison work camp in georgia nearly 50 years ago was finally arrested in connecticut last week. robert stackowitz is now asking georgia officials to commute the remainder of his sentence because he says going back to prison would amount to a death sentence. demarco morgan is in danbury, connecticut. he spoke to the former fugitive. demarco, what did he tell you? >> reporter: elaine, 71-year-old robert stackowitz
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says he can barely walk. he is battling heart disease, bladder cancer, kidney disease, and diabetes. but in his better days he was living a normal life here in connecticut, even teaching at this technical school behind me for two years. in his first television interview, stacko wits told us a trip back to georgia to finish his 17-year sentence would be fatal but we wanted to know how he was able to stay under the radar for as long as he did. tell us about the day when you walked out of prison. >> somebody gave me a ride to the atlanta airport. i got on a plane, flew home. >> reporter: just that easy. >> well, back then, they didn't have any-- any terrorist checks or anything. >> reporter: and nearly five decades later, you've managed to escape law enforcement. how did you do it? >> well, they were looking for me in the beginning, i knew that, because my mother, they were bugging her and watching expher whatever.
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but, of course, i didn't go near there. and things calmed down after a while. i got a job, a social security card, went to work. never had a problem. >> reporter: you were able to do all of this as a convicted felon. >> yes. >> reporter: now, attorneys for stackowitz say georgia prosecutors are not planning to pursuit escape charges and they considering that thanksusa a victory. but, elaine, upon his return he could still face jail time. >> quijano: fascinating story. demarco morgan, thank you so much. you can see demarco's full report monday on "cbs this morning"." a swarm of aggressive bees has been attacking a town in northern california. here's chris martinez. >> reporter: despite swatting and spraying, the bees are relentless. >> got me right in the eye. >> reporter: and on hitchcock road, in concord, california, it seems everyone has felt their sting more than once. >> probably seven, ability, nine times-- there's 10! >> reporter: police received the first calls about the
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aggressive bees friday and from there it's only gotten worse. >> did you get attacked by the bees? >> reporter: it's bed the insects are so-called killer bees that took over a hive of hone bees in an amateur beekeeper's backyard. when the beebeekeeper removed the infiltrated hive, it left the bees with nowhere to go. the insects are behind the death of two dogs and have attacked a number of people, including mail carrier melissa weisner. >> climbing up my hair, running around and screaming. >> reporter: we spoke on line with professional beekeeper norman lott. he is helping rid the neighborhood of the bees. you have ever seen anything like this. >> no, i haven't. there's a situation there we're going on to have to deal with woarpt police are barred pedestrians from part of that neighborhood where most of the attacks have happened while beekeepers work to safely remove the bees. elaine, they are hopeful most if not all of those bees will be out of the neighborhood by tonight. >> quijano: chris martinez in los angeles. thank you. a bomb scare caused a
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professional soccer match to be canceled in manchester, england. thousands were evacuated after a fake bomb that was a training device accidentally left by a private company was found inside manchester united's legendary old trafford stadium. a bomb squad blew up the device. no one was hurt. at england' england's windsor c, there was a huge pageant celebrating queen elizabeth's nine of 90th birthday. as the queen is fond of horses, 900 horses and riders from around the world took parse in the ceremony. and the world's largest cruise ship set sail todayots maiden voyage. the billion-dollar "harmony of the seas" is headed from france to southhampton, england. it's 1200 feet long and taller than the eiffel tower. coming up, ferguson, missouri's troubled police department just sworn in its first african american police chief. we'll hear from him when the cbs weekend ne these guys represent blood cells. if you have afib not caused by a heart valve problem,
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>> quijano: this past week delrish moss was sworn in as the first african american police chief of ferguson, missouri. he's taking over nearly two years after a white ferguson officer killed an unarmed teenager, setting off protests nationwide. moss spoke to jeff pegues about the challenges he will face in ferguson. >> so help me god. >> reporter: when delrish moss was sworn in as ferguson's new police chief, he was blunt. >> if you do the job in a way that disrespects the badge that you hold, i will see to it that you'll either removed from police service or further prosecuted. >> reporter: moss, a 32-year veteran of the miami police department has experience with troubled agencies. he was a teenager in miami
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during the violent 1980s, when he says he was harassed by police. >> he was a white police officer and you told me you-- "n" word-- don't walk downtown after dark. i had another experience not long after, that a police officer pushes me up against the wall and start to frisk me . >> reporter: why would that draw you to law enforcement rather than push you away? >> my grandmother has a saying and that is you can't clean a house if you're not in it. >> reporter: ferguson erupted in violence in 2014, after michael brown, who was unarmed, was shot and killed by a white police officer. a subsequent justice department investigation found the trouble in ferg son was widespread. for example, between 2012 and 2014, every person taken into custody for resisting arrest after a traffic stop was african american. fret watson's case was in the d.o.j. report. four years ago, he was sitting in his parked car when a ferguson police officer demanded
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his i.d. >> i reached to get it from the back in my pocket, and he pulled out his gun, telling me to get out of the car. >> reporter: with his gun pointed at your head? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: watson's case is still not resolved. his attorney, michael john voss, of arch city defenders, says ferguson ticketed and arrested people like watson as a way to raise money. >> in 2014, $2.6 came from ferguson's courts for fines and fees. >> reporter: moss says he understands the challenges of the job and is ready to clean house if necessary. did you have family and friends discouraging you from taking this position? >> i think a lot of my family is worried. >> reporter: so they were saying, "don't do it?" >> they were saying, "don't do it. of." but i felt i had to do it. . >> reporter: if you don't get it right here, what next for this city? >> well, at some point, this city's going to have to get it right. >> reporter: moss knows his appointment is just one step toward real change.
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jeff pegues, cbs news, ferguson, missouri. >> quijano: still ahead on the cbs weekend news, goats in trees and the exotic elixir the
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help to produce. >> reporter: the goats in morocco's arg anaphorrest have an extraordinary skill. with the the finesse of a tightrope walker they scale up the precarious branches. it's a darwinian talent goats developed to reach arg an fruit. the nuts contain the valuable arg an oil popping up in everything any shampoo to food products but nowhere on the labels will you find the full story behind how this oil was born. so goats in trees, it's like a moroccan mirage. >> yeah, the first time i came to morocco and i saw these goats climbing the trees i thought i was hallucinating. >> reporter: along these roads, it is normal to see hundreds of goats in trees. and add ahmed and gabrielle jeriouda showed me this is where the arg an elixir takes root. >> they're basically eating the fruit and digesting it, and then they either spit it up or poop it out. but -- >> reporter: poop it out.
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>> uh-huh. >> reporter: you heard that right. centuries ago, locals discovered the goats' digestive tract made it easier to crack the arg an fruit's nut so they could reach the oil trapped inside. only catch? the nuts need to be collected by hand. >> here's one. that's one. >> yeah, that's one. >> reporter: that's a little goat poop. and then, you know, we should just get right into it. so this is how it starts. >> it starts in the tree. >> reporter: and it comes out like this. >> it comes out like that. >> so welcome to marjana. >> reporter: the huts are then hand pressed and processed by berber women in co-ops. it's an ancient recipe that takes two days for one liter. it's one of the reasons the precious oil received the name "liquid oil." one liter of pure arg an oil sells for up to $300. overnight, berber women like
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86-year-old khadija tiboka went from poor housewives to businesswomen. she bought a house and even paid fair brand new set of teeth. success has come at a cost to the tradition. goats and humans are being replaced with faster machines. but ahmed vows to hold on to morocco's past. at what point do you sell out? >> i don't think i will sell out anyway. when they see a bottle of oil that is, like, that bottle has, like, a lot of work of women. it has, like, good-quality oil. it has a story behind it. >> reporter: a story that begins in these moroccan treetops and ends in shops like ahmed and gabrielle's in new york city. they could be the last few drops of an ancient moroccan tradition, unable to keep up with modern demands. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, essaouira, morocco. >> quijano: up next, as he prepares to sign off from "60 minutes" tonight, a few pages from mor look, the wolf was huffing and puffing. like you do sometimes, grandpa?
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it will only be for a couple of months, maybe six months most. that war is going to be over by then." they're bringing the wounded man through any minute now. it was just at the point that the war began to escalate. and just as the medevac came, in the boy died. he was 17. and the the one question that occurred to all of us... and it was clear that this was big-time war that america was going to war in southeast asia. come this way. we were in a village and essentially marines went in to destroy. it was a search-and-destroy operation that was really a destroy operation. they burned most of the hamlets. they burned them with flame throwers, with their cigarette lighters. they found no viet cong that were visually viet cong. there were only old men and women and small children in the village. i covered it. this is what the war in vietnam is all about.
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and the story when it was reported, created a huge firestorm back here. every conceivable fiction was spread. one that i was a communist, and somebody explained to president johnson he was a canadian. and he said, "well, i knew there was something wrong with him." i really have, i guess, been to just about every corner of the world. i went to soviet russia where the average longevity was way up there, in the 90s, and many people over 100. this man is 103. his youngest daughter is twoork born when he was 81. we had a wonderful shot of a rather elderly man gathering firewood, and he explained that he had to get back down to the bottom of the mountain because there was a big party going on. it was his mother's birthday. she was well over 100.
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♪ ♪ all their friend and neighbors and families and everybody else was there swilling the worst wine i've ever, ever had the misfortune to drink in my life. but drinking it down by the gallon. one of the great pleasures of this work-- and maybe the greatest pleasure-- is that you get to do things and you get to see things that-- ah-- very few people get access to. >> quijano: truly original reporting. "morley safer: a reporter's life "airs tonight on cbs following "60 minutes." and that's the cbs weekend news for this sunday. i'm elaine quijano in new york. for all of us at cbs news, thank you for joining us and good
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>> i'm natasha brown. next on "eyewitness news" a man is accused of setting a woman on fire at a local motel. what he said to reporter as he was led away in handcuffs. plus, a high profile commencement at the university of pennsylvania. the big time politicians who are on campus right now. lauren. >> and it certainly is not feeling like may as that cooler air has settled in across the delaware valley. a chilly night ahead. i'll let you know
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>> ♪ >> from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> right now on "eyewitness news" vice president joe biden and republican presidential candidate donald trump head to the university of pennsylvania and they aren't playing politics, not today. good evening everyone, i'm natasha brown. thanks for joining us.

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