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an suv traveling in the wrong 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 teenage 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, 50 years ago arrested last week. robert stackowitz is asking officials to commute his sentence he says going back to prison would amount to a death sentence. demarco morgan in danbury, connecticut and spoke to the former fugitive. demarco, what did he tell you?
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>> 71-year-old, robert stackwood says he can barely walk, battling heart disease, bladder cancer, kidney disease and diabetes. in his better days living a there mall life in connecticut. and teaching at the school behind me for two years. in his first television interclued, he told us that a trip back to georgia to finish his 17 year sentence would be fatal. we wanted to know how he was able to stay under the radar as long as he did? tell us about the day when you walked out of prison. >> somebody gave me a ride through the atlanta airport. i got on a plane and flew home. >> reporter: just that easy? >> back then they didn't have any -- any terrorist checks or -- or anything. >> reporter: nearly five decade later, you have managed to escape law enforcement.
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how did you do it? >> well, they were looking for me at the beginning. i knew that. because my mother, they would -- they were bugging her and watching her and whatever. >> reporer: uh-huh. >> of course, i didn't go near there. and -- things kind of calmed down after a while. got a job. social security card. went to work. never had a problem. >> reporter: you were able to do all of this as a convicted felon. >> attorneys for stackowitz say they're not planning to pursue the escape charges and kid that a victory. but elaine upon his return. he could still face jail time. >> fascinating story. demarco morgan. thank you so much. you can see demarco's full report monday on cbs this morning. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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all: cbs cares! a swarm of aggressive bees has been attacking a town in northern california. here is chris martinez. >> reporter: despite the swatting and spraying, the bees are relentless. >> got me right in the eye. >> reporter: on hitchcock road in concord, california it seems everyone has felt their sting more than once. probably seven, eight, nine times. there is ten t police received the first calls about the aggressive bees friday and from there it is only gotten worse. >> be attacked by the bees. >> it is believed the insects are so-called killer bees that took over a hive in a amateur beekeeper's backyard when the
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beekeeper removed the hive it left the bees with ♪ ♪ where to go. the insects are behind the deaths of two dogs and attacked a number of people including mail carrier melissa wisener. we spoke online with professional beekeeper, norman lott helping rid the neighborhood of the bees. have you ever seen anything like this. [ indiscernible ] >> police have barred pedestrians from part of the neighborhood where most of the attacks have happened while bee keepers work to safely remove the bees. elaine, they're hopeful most if not all of those bees will be out of the neighborhood by tonight. >> chris martinez in los angeles, thank you. a bomb scare caused a professional soccer match to be canceled in manchester, england. thousand 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. bomb squad blew up the device. no one was hurt. at england's windsor castle, a pageant celebrating the 90th
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birthday. 900 horses and riders from around the world took part in the ceremony. the world's largest cruise ship set sail today on its maiden voyage. the billion dollar "harmony of the seas" from france to south hampton, england. 1200 feet long. and taller than the eiffel tower. coming up, ferguson missouri's troubled police department just swore in its first african-american police chief. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. (sounds of birds whistling) ♪ music ♪ introducing new k-y touch gel crème. for massage and intimacy. every touch, gently intensified. a little touch is all it takes. k-y touch.
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this past week, the first african-american police chief was sworn in of ferguson, mis. he is taking over nearly two year 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. >> when delrish moss was sworn in 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 will either are removed from police service, or, further prosecuted. >> reporter: moss, 32-year veteran of the miami police department has experience with
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troubled agencies. he was a teenager in miami during the violent 1980s when he says he was harassed by police. >> he was a white police officer. he told me, you n word don't walk downtown after dark. i had another experience not long after that. police officer gets out of the car. pushes me against the wall. starts to frisk me. >> reporter: why would that draw you to law enforcement rather than push you away. >> my grandmother has a saying, that is you can't clean a house if you are 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 that the trouble in ferguson was widespread. for example, between 2012 and 2014, every person taken into custody for resisting arrest
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after a traffic stop was african-american. fred watson's case was in the doj report. four years ago, he was sitting in his parked car when a ferguson police officer demanded his id. >> i reached to get it from the back in my pocket. he pulled out his gun. telling me to go out of the car. >> with his gun pointed at your head? >> yes. >> reporter: watson's case is still not resolved. his attorney, michael john vause of art city defenders said ferguson ticketed and arrested people like watson as a way to raise money. >> in 2014, $2.6 million came from ferguson's court 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: they were saying don't do it? >> saying don't do it. i felt i had to diet. for some reason. >> if you don't get it right here -- >> uh-huh. >> reporter: what next for this city? >> well, at some point this city is going to have to get it right. >> reporter: moss knows his appointment is just one step toward real change. jeff pegues, cbs news, ferguson, missouri.
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still ahead on the cbs weekend news, goats in trees. and the exotic elixir they help to produce.
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on assignment for "cbs sunday morning" filed an unusual postcard from morocco today. he tells us about tree climbing goats and the exotic elixir they help to produce. >> reporter: the goats in the argon forest have a skill. with the finesse of a tightrope walker they scale up precarious branches. a darwinian talent. goats developed to reach argon fruit and the nut contains argon oil popping up in everything from shampoo to food products. nowhere on the labels will you find the full story how this oil
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was born. so goats in trees, it's like a moroccan mirage. >> yeah, the first time i came to morocco and saw goats climbing the trees i thought i was hallucinating. >> reporter: along the roads it is normal to see hundreds of goats in trees. as ahmed and gabrielle show me this is where moroccan elixir takes root. >> they're eating the fruit. digesting it. and they either spit it up. or poop it out. >> reporter: poop it out? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: you heard it right. centuries ago, they discovered the digestive tract made it easier to crack the nut so they could reach the oil trapped inside. the only catch, the nuts need to be collected by hand. >> here's one. that's one.
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>> that's one. >> that is a little goat poop. >> you know. just getting right night. >> reporter: this is how it starts? >> starts in the tree. >> reporter: comes out like this? >> like this. >> reporter: welcome. >> welcome to the co-op. >> reporter: they're hand pressed and processed in co-ops. an ancient recipe that takes two days for one liter. the reason the precious oil earned the name liquid gold to. day with its growing popularity, one liter of pure are gone oil sells for up to $300. overnight, berber women like this 86-year-old went from poorhouse wives to business women. she bought a house and paid for a 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. >> what point do you sell out? >> i don't think i will sell out.
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when they see a bottle of of oil. that bottle has a lot of work of women. good quality oil. a soul behind it. >> reporter: a story that begins in these moroccan tree tops 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. up next, as he prepares to sign off from 60 minutes. a few pages from morley safr's notebook.
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tonight we say good-bye to a legend. morley safr is retiring after 52 years at cbs news and 46 years at 60 minutes. the show's longest serving correspondent. as he prepares to sign off tonight. morley looks back on his career. >> working in the london bureau of cbs in 1964. i got a call from the newsman -- manager. we want you to go to vietnam. couple months. maybe six months most. the war will be over by then.
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>> 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 one question -- it was clear that this was big-time war. that america was going to war in southeast asia. come this way, son. >> it was a village. essentially the marines went in to destroy. search and destroy operation that was really a destroy operation. they burned the hamlets, flame throwers, cigarette lighters. they found no viet cong, they were only old men, women, small children the village. i covered it. this its what the war in vietnam is all about. and the story, when it was reported created a huge firestorm back here. every conceivable fiction was -- was spread. one that i was a communist. somebody explained to president
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johnson i was a canadian. he said i knew there was something wrong with him. i really have been just to about every corner of the world. i went to abukazio, part of soviet russia. average longevity was up there in the 90s. many people well over 100. >> he is 103. his youngest daughter is 22. 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. one of the great pleasures of this work, maybe, maybe the greatest pleasure is that you get to do things and you get to see things that -- very few people get access to. >> that's the "cbs overnight news" for this monday morning. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the "the morning news" and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "cbs overnight news." >> the battle over transgender rights and public restrooms is sparking a legal standoff between states and the federal government. on friday, the obama administration directed public schools to let transgender students use the bathroom that matches their gender identity. this comes after the justice department and north carolina filed lawsuits against each other over the state's new bathroom law. mark strassmann has more in aster for "sunday morning." >> this is about the dignity and respect that we accord our fellow citizens and the laws that we as a people and as a country have enacted to protect them.
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indeed, to protect all of us. >> reporter: joaquin carcanio wants the protection, the 27-year-old activist living in raleigh, north carolina was born a girl. last year he transitioned into what he believes is his proper gender, a man, who sees himself at war with his own state. >> as trans individuals for me personally there is always a fear that you sort of carry with you. so that is a part of it. that goes for any sort of space you navigate in. but i have never had an issue going into a restroom or coming out of it. >> reporter: what message in the law was the governor and legislature do you think sending to you? >> that we're not welcome. that they don't want to belief we exist. north carolina is sending a message that well are not in a welcoming area. >> reporter: north carolina's public bathrooms are the new frontier in american civil
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rights law. that's because all most two month as go state lawmakers passed a bill saying transgender people have to use the bathroom which matches the gender on their birth certificate. backlash was immediate and neers. from fortune 500 corporations. celebrity critics like bruce springsteen. and president obama. >> i also think that the laws that have been passed there are wrong. and should be -- overturned. >> reporter: the laws supporters insist it was enacted to protect women and girls, both their privacy and their risk of attack from sexual predators. >> our nation is dealing with a very new complex and emotional issue. how to balance the expectations of privacy and equality. >> reporter: last monday governor pat mcrory, a republican up for re-election announced his state would sue the obama administration. he was responding to the department of justice charge that north carolina is violating civil rights law. which could cost the state
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almost $5 billion in federal aid. >> we believe a court rather than a federal agency should tell our state, our nation, and employers across the country, what the law requires. in many ways this battle is the latest chapter in a story that has the roots in the supreme court's landmark decision last june. which guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry. just since the beginning of this year, lawmakers in 34 states have pro posed so-called bathroom bills and religious freedom laws that critics say target gay, lesbian, and transgender people. these state actions descend from a little known bipartisan bill signed into law by president clinton back in 1993. the free exercise of religion has been called the first freedom. that which originally sparked the development of the full range of the bill of rights. the religious freedom restoration act or rifra
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prohibited the government from unduly interfering in the way americans express religious beliefs. >> it is really hard to explain what was happening. basically, the civil rights groups dropped the ball. everybody was just so excite add but religious freedom. how could you be owe posed to religious freedom. but the very smart, very conservative evangelical groups knew what their agenda was. >> marci hamilton teaches constitutional law at the university of pennsylvania. she argues rifra in effect granted a license to discriminate. >> it tilted the balance so people now have a concept that whatever they believe they can get around the law. when i go to a stop sign, it just doesn't matter that i am presbyterian. i got to stop at the stop sign. but now, every law is under attack. because of this message of complete liberty. >> she treasures the liberty. the owner of arlene's flowers, a
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35-year-old family run business in richland, washington. rob ingersol was a favorite customer who shopped here nearly a decade. >> i so enjoyed working with him. really creative mind. come in and pick out vases or containers. tell me what the event was for. then he would say just do your thing. >> reporter: three years ago, ingersol, who is gay, asked stutsman, a devout christian to do the flowers for his wedding. i put my hand on him. i said, sorry, i cannot do your wedding because of my relationship with jesus christ. >> why couldn't you do it? >> because my faith teaches me that marriage is between a man and woman and symbolizes christ and relationship with his church. as much as i love rob, my love
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for christ is more important. >> reporter: if your lifestyle offends me, why should i be obligated to provide a service when i'm not comfortable with you as a person? >> because that's how the free market works. when you walk into best buy, nobody should be asking you what your religion is or what your sexual orientation is, or what you did yesterday. it is jim crow, just that there are different targets at this point for some of the people. >> reporter: the targets are? >> the targets are the lgbtq community, sadly. not just same-sex couples, the entire community is being targeted. >> i think what we are seeing unprecedented attack against people of faith who have religious beliefs. >> alliance defending freedom, this advocacy group represents christian conservatives and has advised several states drafting religious freedom laws. >> it has nothing to do with how some one identifies in terms of being lgbt or saying they're
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straight. >> gay marriage is the objection? >> yes. >> reporter: that's what this is really all about? >> i think there is a more fundamental prince pull. whether we will continue to allow diversity of view points or allow the government to personally and professionally ruin some one because of a religious conviction they have. >> do you understand why some critics see this as extreme? >> i don't why it is extreme to say you wouldn't want to force someone to engage in speech and promote messages that violates their religious convictions or why it would be extreme that you would want to live and let live. and let people who have a diverse viewpoint or different viewpoint live consistently with that belief. >> reporter: but marci hamilton says the law on this matter is clear. >> what these individuals are arguing now in these groups its that they have rights in order to be able to discriminate against others. but of the rights that they're talking about are made up not right from the constitution. >> reporter: in the case, rob and his partner backed by the aclu, sued her for discrimination. washington state's attorney general also filed suit. claiming she broke washington's anti-discrimination law.
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as more states consider legalizing marijuana, there are new concerns about the risks of driving after using pot. kris van cleave has more on the growing debate. >> reporter: nearly three years since mary gaston hugged her son blake good-bye. just moments before he was hit and killed by a driver who was high on marijuana. >> every parent out there can appreciate when your child is on top of the world. where everything is going so right in their life. within minutes. watching him die. it's beyond the worst day of
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your life. >> why do you drive around smoke? >> reporter: triple a foundation looked at traffic deaths in washington since it became one of the first states to legalize pot. finding fatal crashes and a driver that used marijuana more than doubled in a year. the triple a foundation director of research. >> we know increasing contributing factor to a highway safety problem. >> reporter: taylor west from national canabus association. >> this study doesn't tell us anything about accidents related to impairment for marijuana. >> reporter: six states set legal limit above 0 for thc in a person's blood to define driving under the influence of marijuana. similar to blood alcohol indicating drunk driving. six states pro posed similar laws. >> there its no amount of pot in someone's body that would allow us to predict when he or she is impaired. it varies too much. >> reporter: instead the foundation points to these police dash cam videos of
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officers identifying impaired driving. like this car cutting off traffic and swerving in its lane. >> any reason you don't know you are doing 67 miles an hour. >> 67. >> 67. wouldn't make it up. let me ask you this, where is the weed at? >> reporter: here trained drug detection officers conduct a field sobriety test. gaston hopes the research is a weakup call. >> it was not on my radar. what it took to put it on my radar was the death of my 23-year-old child. >> reporter: 2015 federal government report found the crash risk from drugs like pot was highly influenced by other factors, age and gender. more than a dozen states are kidding legalizing marijuana. >> the newest smithsonian museum its getting ready off to open soon. the national museum of african-american history and culture will be the first to show the story of black americans. jan crawford takes us inside the construction site near the washington monument. >> reporter: it is hard to put into words what it means just to
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be standing here. i mean this museum is the culmination of generations of work. legislation was introduced 13 years in a row before congress finally agreed to build it. and now -- with the opening just months away, we got a first look. at what's inside. when you walk through the space some of the artifacts feel sacred. an actual slave cabin, from the 100s. segregated rail car. used through 1960. blacks and whites kept separate. and spans the african-american experience. 400 years of history. >> this is the most important demonstration of democracy in the world. >> reporter: architect david ajay won an international competition to design it. >> it is a building is really speaking about the struggles for freedom. liberty.
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the things that are really, about what america is. it its just really profoundly moving. >> reporter: from the painful legacy of slavery, oppression, liberation of artistic and achievement. chuck berry's cadillac under raps. the display cases yet to be filled. almost there. this beautiful structure looked like this when weep were first here, just two years ago. we the museum director, lonnie bunch. >> one of the things that worried me from the beginning could be find the artifacts that would move people. >> that hasn't been a problem. for years, curators have been collecting artifacts. >> the story of the tuskeegee airmen is crucial. >> reporter: the cure ape tore helped find this world war two plane. the first black americans
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allowed to fly fighter jets. >> when i saw it displayed i started to cry. we feel a tremendous sense of excitement. but also deep responsibility to this history. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: it is an american experience through an african-american lens. >> it has been a long time coming that this story which has the tragedy and hope should be told t it should be celebrated. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. clearasil ultra works fast to begin visibly clearing up skin in as little as 12 hours. and acne won't last forever. just like your mom won't walk in on you... forever. let's be clear. clearasil works fast. just how wet and sticky your current gel antiperspirant is. now we're going to show you how degree dry spray is different. degree dry spray. degree. it won't let you down. (sound♪ of music ♪histling) introducing new k-y touch gel crème.
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(babies crying) narrator: life. dishes. death. (slurping) dishes. every dish, every time, only finish has the powerball to take on anything. the career of a legendary cbs news journalist came to an
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end last night. 60 minutes correspondent, morley safr retired after 46 years with the broadcast. during that time he filed 919 stories. this morning, safr reflects on some of his most memorable assignments. >> i working in the lon done bureau of cbs. newsmanager. we want you to go to vietnam. a couple months. six months most. the war will be over by then. >> they're bringing the wounded man through any minute now. >> it was just at the point that the war begin to escalate. >> and just as the medevac came in the boy died. he was 17. it was clear this was big time war.
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america was going to war in southeast asia. >> and it was a village. and essentially marines went tine destroy. it was a search and destroy operation that was really a destroy operation. they burned most of the hamlets. they burned it with flame throwers and their cigarette lighters. they found no viet cong that were visibly viet cong. they were only, old men and women and small children in the village. >> i covered it. this is what the war in vietnam. >> the story, created a firestorm back here. every conceivable fiction was spread. one that was i was a communist. and somebody explained to president johnson that i was a canadian. he said well i knew there was something wrong with him. >> -- we are in the middle of these guys. >> when somebody stand out there showing gis doing things that are never shown in any romantic versions of war one might see in the movies. i think it is going to create
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shock. particularly in the war that had no clear rationale to either the guys fighting or or their, their parents and families at home. watching it on television. >> jackie gleeson was great, talk about larger than life. character. ♪ and away we go >> man of remarkable talent. >> being a -- >> wonderful comedy presence. really was the master of an era o american comedy. >> take 23. >> he loved to, to talk about how well he was treated. by cbs. >> when you have got good ratings and you are one, two, or three in the ratings. and there is nothing your little heart desires that they don't provide. >> i explained that we were then "60 minutes" was the number one
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show. we were not kings of the world. and he said, you are no gleason. ♪ ♪ he was a really professional level pool player. he wanted us to play a game. >> sure you haven't got any money? >> no, no. >> gleason broke and i was up first. i'm an okay pool player no gleason. let me modify that. i am really a lousy pool player. but i suddenly was hitting these brilliant shots. and gleason looked at me. eyes narrowed. ready to kill. and he thought he had been hustled with a live camera on him. >> hey, hey. >> good night, mr. gleason.
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>> that little snide remark will cost you. >> of course at that point, i just blew the shot. whereupon he just cleaned the table. did you like that one, pal. >> please. in effect i got to till you i let him win. because i was so scared of him. >> great shot. you didn't touch a ball. wish i could do that. >> at "60 minutes" we get an awful lot of "i didn't do it" letters. people in jail. quote, unquote, wrongly convicted. it can make you cynical. >> i received no justice. i kid myself a hostage in the house of injustice. >> but this one i must say caught my attention. >> arrested for the $615 armed robbery of a kentucky fried chicken restaurant.
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convicted and sentenced to life in prison. >> we have people who do rob for fun. and lionel jeter is one of them. >> the more we started to check it out. the more the story and convictions smelled to high heaven. there was no evidence of jeter's guilt, no gun, cash, license plate taken down at the scene of the crime. >> is that the man who held up the kentucky fried chicken? was that the man who held up the kentucky fried chicken? >> we broadcast our story which was a clear miscarriage of justice. within days jeter was out of jail. just about the most gratifying story that any reporter could possibly do to make that kind of difference. in effect to save a life. is pretty hot stuff. i really have i guess just been to about every corner of the world. i went to abkazio part of soviet russia where average longevity was way up there in the 90s. >> tarish jopua is 103. youngest daughter. 22. born when he was 81.
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>> we had a wonderful shot of a rather elderly man. gathering firewood. he explain heed had to get back down to the bottom of the mountain. because the it was a big party going on. it was his mother's birthday. she was well over 100. awful their friend and neighbors and families and everybody else was there. swilling the worst wine i had the misfortune to drink in my life. but drinking it by the gallon. one of the great pleasures of this work, and maybe, maybe the greatest pleasure is that you get to do things, and you get to see things that -- that -- very few people get access to. >> to watch more of morley safr's reports and a special
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finally this half-hour, how secure are the u.s. military cyberdefenses. the pentagon challenged a group of hackers to find out. here is david martin. >> walking the halls of the pentagon in his hoody, chris lynch has been mistaken for a repair man. as in how long will it take to fix my phone. >> this is the weirdest moment of my life. never thought i would show up in government or working at the pentagon. >> lynch was brought in by defense secretary carter to head a new office called the defense digital service. >> title on the door says rebel alliance. >> i would look to say the rebel alliance is anybody who wants to be part of working around and changing the bureaucracy. and i believe that is our mission. if we don't, i don't know who else will. >> just as in star wars, this rebel alliance, actually a staff of 12, is out to do battle with
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a mighty empire. the old and slow pentagon bureaucracy. awe kind of a swat team for nerd. >> bureaucracy busters. >> yeah, we have a type of person, one of our -- skill sets that we hire is actually a bureaucracy hacker. >> lynch's first project was hack the pentagon. pay a bounty off to an one who can find a way to hack into five of the defense departments public web sites. so hack the pentagon doesn't sound legal. >> there were a lot of people who didn't like that name. >> most hackers are seen as malicious. >> not every hacker is bad. that's the big change here is that we are now allowing people who actually want to, that are not malicious to do it. >> in six weeks, 1400 hackers uncovered 90 vulnerabilities in the software. flaws which could be exploited to tamper with the sites. >> we had our -- first vulnerability that came in 13 minutes from the launch of the program.
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>> just going to map things out. >> lynch covered an entire wall with plans for overhauling pentagon software that go far beyond public web sites. which is why army lieutenant colonel joe roman came looking for a software solution to paperwork of recruiting. >> we don't speak your language. you don't speak ours. i will speak slowly loudly so you understand. lynch found out the army is creating digital files the old fashion way. >> they're printing the stuff and scanning it. >> lot of printing and scanning. >> a project for lynch's great white wall. which ends with this admonition. governments hate, change and the way things are.
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