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captioning sponsored by cbs >> a suspected mass murderer's chilling interview. >> not after what i done. >> quijano: eight are dead in mississippi including a deputy sheriff. >> my intent was to have god kill me. i ran out of bullets. >> quijano: also tonight new details about the victims of a possible hate crime in oregon. our chief washington correspondent on the president's overseas trip and the turmoil he comes home to. >> what did president trump accomplish on his overseas trip. >> quijano: we're on the front lines of the battle to run isis out of iraq second largest city. and diver down in the heart of time square. >> this is
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this is the "cbs weekend news." >> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano. it apparently started as a family dispute and ended with aide people dead including two boys and a deputy sheriff. the killing spree took place at three separate locations in rural lincoln county, mississippi. the suspect who has a criminal record is 35 year old willie corey godbolt. he was arrested this morning and gave a chilling interview to a local newspaper. tony dokoupil has the story. >> i just wanted to live. i just wanted to love my family. i just wanted to love my wife. >> reporter: willie corey godbolt's alleged rampage ended here handcuffed and bandaged on a country road outside a superjack truck stop near his home in bogue chitto, miss mission. he calmly described the shooting spree that left eight dead according to police. >> my intention was to have god kill me. i ran out of bullets.
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suicide by cop was my intention. >> reporter: police were called to remove godbolt from private property when an altercation developed saturday night. >> i was having a conversation with my step daddy and my momma and her, my wife. about me taking my children home. >> reporter: godbolt allegedly shot and killed a sheriff's deputy and three women at the first home about 70 miles south of jackson, the state capitol. the deputy was identified as 36 year old william durr. >> the deputy at the house, that is what they do they intervened. it cost him his life. i'm sorry. >> reporter: four more people including two juveniles were shot and killed at two homes nearby before godbolt was a rested at 7 a.m. on sunday. he spoke to a clarion ledger reporter on the scene. >> so what is next for you? >> jail, jail.
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>> reporter: mississippi plans to charge godbolt with one count of capitol murder and seven counts of first degree murder. governor phil bryant thanked law enforcement for their sacrifice and asked residents to pray for those killed. >> quijano: tony dokoupil, thank you. the fbi is looking into possible hate crime charges against a man accused of stabbing two men to death on a train friday in portland, oregon. police say the victims confronted the suspect while he was yelling anti-mus 4reu78 slurs. mireya villarreal is in portland >> reporter: mournings embrace saturday night honoring the men they call heroes. >> let's pull together. >> reporter: today as as memorials grow at the site, family members celebrate the lives of the victims. 53 year old ricky best was an army veteran who served three tours in iraq. his family says standing up for people was in his character. best leaves behind three sons and a daughter. the second victim 23 year old taliesin myrddin namkai-meche
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recently graduated from reed college in portland. his mother says her son was a hero and will remain a hero on the other side of the vail. 21 year old micah flecher survived the attack, a student at portland state university and once wrote a poem about prejudice against muslims following 9/11. >> we let it leave an ugly. >> reporter: the three men were stabbed on a commuter train while trying to end an anti-muslim tirade against a young woman wearing a hijab and her friend. police say the alleged attacker jeremy chrisen is known for his extremist views. he was taken into custody shortly after friday's fatal confrontation. muslims and other supporters are rallying together online, a fundraiser for the victims has already raised over $200,000. oregon governor cate brown. >> to the muslim communities of portland and oregon, please know that i stand with you and i will do everything i can to ensure that you safely thrive in this
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great state. >> reporter: people continue to come by and leave tributes of love and support here at the station. the head of the security transit department says that all of the trains do have security cameras on board but elaine it's unclear right now whether this incident was captured on tape. >> quijano: mireya villarreal thank you. president trump is back in washington following his nine day 15,000 mile trip to the middle east and europe. today errol barnett discussed the trip and what is ahead for the president with our chief washington ton correspondent john dickerson. >> what did president trump accomplish on his overseas trip. >> he pretty much got the stagecraft right, some bumpee parts on his trip to nato but i'm not sure the white house thinks of it and the president thinks of it a little friks with nato leaders is okay. but in saudi arabia i think they launched what they saw as the most important part of this trip which was to basically reorient the united states in concert with sunni leaders to put pressure on iran, and to and on
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extremists across the world. >> the president very well may pull out of the paris pash-- paris climate agreement. how significant would thab. >> if the president pulls out of the paris climate agreement it is obviously a signal to european leaders that this is a different kind of president. elise ins to allies but only so far. >> reporter: president trump is back to tweeting his unedited opinions this morning, telling people among other things, quote, many of the leaks coming from the white house are fabricated lies, coming from the fake news media. are thinks support-- his supporters still buying that same excuse? >> his supporters by that line is a shrinking group. a lot of the things he is calling and has called fake news are now things that have either a, been supported by officials and by members of both parties. the things he said were fake and made up are now the subject of a special counsel investigation. hard to make the case that this is a fake set of inquiries. >> reporter: the president's son in law and advisor jared
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kushner is now under not just a media spotlight but his contacts with russian officials are under scrutiny are the. >> curber in said he is willing to talk to federal and congressional investigators so going back and changing that would be a problem. but if he becomes someone that investigator, the federal investigators talk to about what the president may or may not have said about influencing or trying to slow down the fbi investigation, jared curb nr has-- kurnner has to worry about what he said to those investigators. staffers who work for a president can get in jeopardy if they are defending the president the way you might in a public kind of pr campaign versus the scrutiny and rigor that you have to maintain when you are talking to federal investigators. >> johnic didderson, host of "face the nation," always great to get your insight. >> british airways is recovering from a computer meltdown that forced a groinding of the fleet
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in london. the airlines said hundreds of cancelations were caused by a power supply problem. demarco morgan has the latest. >> british airways flights slowly resumed sunday afternoon but not without a weekend of ground turbulence for its passion injuries in london. the airline's global it systems failure grounded hundreds of flighteds causing a traffic nightmare on the tarmac. lines of stranded passengers stretched from one end of the terminal to the next inside both heathrow, europe's busiest airport and gat wick. >> we've been in line about five hours, five, and we have no idea how long it will be in line, the rest of the day i'm sure. and we probably won't fly out today either. >> reporter: the computer glitch quickly disrupted the airline's website, airline check in, concert an baggage tracing. many passengers were left with no choice but to leave their bags behind and sleep in the airport not long before incoming and outgoing flights had been canceled.
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>> thing can happen, but the problem is we are stuck. there is no one to talk to us, we are to go and find people to ask them, they have barely any idea what to say. >> the airline c.e.o. alex cruz posted an apology on twitter. >> i know this has been a horrible time. i want to apologize for the fact that you have had to go through these very trying experiences. >> reporter: the airline c.e.o. say there is no evidence of a cyberattack. elaine, passengers now have the option to rebook their flight or receive a full refund. flights back in the u.s. at jfk things are running smoothly. >> quijano: demarco, thanks. this weekend iraqi forces backed by the u.s. military began what they hope will be the final push to drive isis out of the city the mosul. charlie d'agata reports tonight from the front lines. >> we're in an area of western mosul, a region taken over by iraqi forces not long ago. and this is what it cost to get rid of isis. the destruction is everywhere,
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it's staggering and stretches for miles. that is an isis car, you can still see the dekal there. the combination of air strikes, artillery, mortars and isis suicide car bombs that have leveled buildings and cost the lives of hundreds of civilians. over the past couple of days there's been an yup tick in the hostilities between both sides after the iraqi forces announced a launch of a new offensive to take over the old city. now we have three iraqi forces coming from the south, the north and west, on isis fighters that remain. they are pinned up gensz the tig rest river the. the old city itself is dengsly pop lated and tightly packed with narrow roads and alleyways that make it difficult if not impossible for iraqi armoured vehicles or heavy equipment to get into. that means iraqi forces have got to get out and fight this battle on foot. that gives isis something of an advantage. it also makes it much more difficult for u.s. air strikes to pinpoint the great accuracy
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any of these suspected isis positions who are hiding among the residents in their civilian population here. iraqi commanders here told us they know they're running out of time with an estimated 200,000 civilians still trapped inside the old city. their safety is of paramount importance. he rain? >> quijano: charlie d'agata, thank you. this weekend the pentagon identified the american soldier who was killed in an accident in syria on friday. 22 year old etian murphy was an recall army rangier on his first deployment. the cause of the vehicle rollover is under investigation. >> a member of the u.s. navy seal skydiving group was killed today in a parachuting accident. it happened during a fleet week performance in jersey city, new jersey, just across new york harbor from manhattan. investigators are looking into the cause. >> about 3700 u.s. service members are in new york for fleet week. on saturday u.s. navy divers showed off their skills in the middle of time square.
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take a look. >> this is just to show kind of what the divers are doing down in the water. we go to 190 feet, sometimes even deeper than that. so a lot of people can't see what we do down there or see the types of diving rigs that we use in the navy. and this shows all of it. >> the people you are seeing out here are actual sailors, divers, people that do these jobs every single day, you're seeing them come here, take a break and come interact with the public. so it's really neat. i love seeing the excitement. >> it was really good and it was cool. >> oh, really awesome. it feels like i'm at boot camp. >> well, i was hobbable hobl down the stairs he got out and splashed water all over me. >> we bring this so they can see what it feels like and what it looks like to be under the
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water. it's been great, the hospitality is the new york city citizens and everybody else from out of state has been absolutely wonderful. this is my first fleet week. my first time in new york city. so it's been very eye-opening. and very humbling. >> quijano: we're honored to have them with us. coming up next, how i pads are revolution identifying-- rev revolution identifying-- rev lyze ice the way blind students interact with the digital world.
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>> quijano: according to live wire.com apple has sold 360 million ipads since the original was launched in 2010. seven years later people are still finding new ways to use them. teachers at the new york school for the blind tell kenneth craig ipads are revolutionizing the way their students learn and interact. >> at one of the oldest schools for the blind in the u.s. nearly 300 students are learning to see
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the world in a whole new way. each one has their own ipad even though almost all of them are visually impaired and some like jessica corrine. >> use it for lots of din things. >> have no vision at all. >> technology is changing all around us. and it's kind of great to be a part of that. >> reporter: she is an 11th grader at the new york institute for special education. >> and you have here in the 30s and 40s. >> where dr. bern a debt capan shows how students played traded in old braille writers for ipads that can do more. >> an opportunity to be more literate and have material at the same time as their sighted peers. >> you can have screen enlargement, a voice over for the totally blind. >> reporter: jessica navigates hers with easy, using a bluetooth enabled braille writing. >> probably the best thing is you get to do your homework on the bus. >> and that's a good thing.
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>> oh yeah. >> 109 grader kevin figureroa is legally blind in one eye and can only see shadows and light with the other. but his life long dream is to make movies and with his tablet, it's quickly coming into focus. >> i love it. i try and get every opportunity i can to go outside and like shoot something. >> reporter: teachers and students here say thanks to the small gadget. >> very good. >> the possibilities are now endless. >> one more time. >> kenneth craig, cbs news, bronx, new york. >> still ahead, on the cbs weekend news, 48 hours investigates the cases thatth haunt the ncis.
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>> quijano: this week 48 hours continues its special series the real ncis, the cases they can't forget. tuesday night's show examined the critical role the naval criminal investigative service plays in addressing national security threats including cybercrimes. >> in june 2012, a group posted and claimed that they had hacked into a navy database called the smart web move. >> the smart web move database used to relocate military personnel around the world contains the personal and private records of ef he had-- every member of the united states arms forces and their
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families. this was quite alarming to us. we didn't know at this point if this was a terrorist group. we didn't know if these were foreign adversaries. we just didn't know. >> ncis investigators scoured the internet and found their answer in of all places twitter. discovering that a hacking group team digital had executed the break in as well as 50 other intrusions into corporate and government data sites. >> that was really the break in the case. >> social media revealed a stunning fact. the perpetrator of one of the most damaging cyberattacks on the u.s. navy as was one of their own. >> nick knight was a 27 year old navy enlisted member. he was a system administrate-- administrator on a nuclear aircraft carrier. >> ncis agents suspected knight wasn't working alone and when asked did hesitate to give up his partner. >> his response was daniel
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krueger. this other individual that we identified as four. >> this type of case, thinking a couple kids just hacking in for fun. really had much greater ramifications. in fact the navy spent more than a half million dollars to recover from the cyberbreak-in. >> you can see the full report 48 hours ncis, the terrorist, the spies, the hackers, tuesday night on cbs. >> we'll be right back.
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>> quijano: we end stont with steve hartman and an old friend many of us grew up with. >> oh my god. >> whenever evil claims a victory as it did in manchester, people search for words of hope. and this week that search lead many back deep into their childhood to mr. rogers neighborhood of all places. >> it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. ♪ a beautiful day for a neighbor. ♪. >> it was mr. fred rogers who once said, when i was a boy and i would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me look for the helpers, you will always find people who are helping. thousands shared that quote on social media this week. including a senior require from entertain am weekly named anthony bresnican. >> that quoalt seems almost too good to be true. whenever you see these quoteds it will be abraham lincoln saying something. >> and you find out he never
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said it. >> he never said it, mr. rogers said that. and i knew from experience that mr. rogers was like that in real life. >> which is why when anthony shared the helper quote, he added a personal story from when he was in college that made it all the more poignant. on twitter he began, i was struggling, lonely, dealing with a lot of broken pieces and not adjusting well. then one day he said he walked into an empty common with the tv on. >> it was mr. rogers. i just stood there mesmerize. >> he watched the entire episode and felt a little better. >> but says the real fix came a few days later. >> yeah, i'm going downstairs to the lobby of the student union and the elevator opens and mr. rogers is standing there. and i just got in the elevator and he said were you one of my television neighbors. i was like, yes. i was one of your neighbors. >> anthony told him how he had just watched the show and how it made him feel better. >> he sat down and he said would
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you like to tell me what was upsetting you. i didn't have anybody that i could talk to like that. i feel like his trolley car. i fell off the tracks. he put me back on. and that was all i needed. and at one point i said i'm really sorry. i hope i'm not tieing you up, and you have somewhere eltses to go he said sometimes you're in just the right place. >> i look for the people who are trying to help. >> mr. rogers was in just the right place again this week. reminding us to look for the helpers, the first responders, the global leaders and caring neighbors across the world who still outnumber evil. >> a million to one. >> steve hartman, on the road. in los angeles. >> quijano: that's the cbs weekend news for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm elaine quijano in new york, for all of us at cbs news, thank you for joining us. and a special thanks to u.s. service members as we honor our fallen heros on
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next on "eyewitness news" tragedy in in north philadelphia an early morning fire kills three in north philadelphia. the fire officials are making to the community. after a trip overseas, president trump is back in washington. just as the russian investigation heats up. chelsea? >> reporter: showers and storms move in. what does this mean
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live from the cbs3 broadcast her center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> pouring out so much from the first floor >> on "eyewitness news" tragedy in north philadelphia. >> row home goes up in flames with a

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