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family we will see you tonight captioning sponsored by cbs >> he did this in the name of isis. >> mason: new york police say the deadly truck attack was right out of the isis playbook. >> it appears that mr. saipov had been planning this for a number of weeks. >> mason: and we hear from the cop who stopped him. also tonight, the president accuses democrats of opening the door for a terrorist. >> he came in through the diversity program. we're going to stop that. >> the president ought to stop tweeting and start leading. >> mason: our first look at the ads russians posted on facebook to sway the u.s. election. and what we all can learn from the survivors of las vegas. >> there are more loving humans
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out there than you can ever imagine. >> this is the "cbs evening news." >> mason: good evening. i'm anthony mason at cbs news headquarters in new york. we begin tonight with jeff imlor, who is in downtown manhattan where federal terrorism charges have just been filed in the halloween truck attack. jeff? >> glor: anthony, that attack left eight people dead and 12 injured, and the driver was wounded by a police officer and taken from the hospital to u.s. district court to face a judge. sayfullo saipov was in a wheelchair, handcuffed and shackled. the police say the attack had been in the works for a long time. late this afternoon federal prosecutors filed two federal charges against the suspect, sayfullo saipov. u.s. attorney june kim. >> alleged terrorists like saipov view the city as a prime target for their hate-filled crimes, but the thing is, for
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the alleged terrorists, like saipov, they will find in new york city something else: justice. >> glor: according to the court file, saipov chose october 31st because it was halloween and he believed there would be more civilians on the streets. on one cell phone authorities found 90 isis-related propaganda videos and 3,800 propaganda images. saipov is in custody at a nearby hospital and apparently talking to police. sources tell cbs news saipov bragged about what he did and was very pleased with the success. sources also say police recovered knives from the truck and ten to 15 pieces of paper which give isis credit for the attack, saying isis will live forever. we also have a more detailed time line of the attack. the truck saipov rented turned on the a lower manhattan bike path at 3:04 p.m., striking bikers and pedestrians and killing three. police say he traveled at a high rate of speed for about a mile, hitting and killing five others
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before he crashed into a school bus. >> oh, my god. >> glor: that crash, which injured four, including two children, was caught on cell phone video. sources tell cbs news saipov said that was an accident. he wanted to continue down the bike path and over the brooklyn bridge. saipov attempted to get away carrying a pellet gun and a paintball gun. >> he have one person in custody. >> glor: he was arrested after being shot by 28-year-old ryan gnash, just five years on the force. he shot saipov once. >> i understand the importance of yesterday's events and the role we played, and i'm grateful for the recognition we have received. >> glor: n.y.p.d. deputy commissioner of counter-terrorism john miller says they're still investigating whether the radicalization was assisted. >> i think we've developed a level of connectivity between him and others who had -- who at various times had been the subject of investigation, but we're still delveling backward
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to determine what was that connectivity and did it have some meaning. >> glor: and saipov is being held tonight without bail. the f.b.i. today interviewed an associate of saipov, another uzbek, to see what information he might have. he is not a suspect. saipov had been on the f.b.i.'s radar, though there was no indication he was planning an attack. more now from homeland security correspondent jeff pegues. report until he was taken down by an alert new york city police officer, sayfullo saipov was not someone investigators seemed to view as capable of mass murder or even a threat. >> i need an ambulance right here. >> reporter: but while the 29-year-old married father of three wasn't himself the subject of a law enforcement investigation, an intelligence source tells cbs news he had some contact with individuals who were considered radicalized extremists, and at least one of whm was from his native uzbekistan. john miller, the n.y.p.d.'s deputy commissioner of
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intelligence and counter-terrorism, says investigators have been going through saipov's past. >> what were his communications, who were they work what was the content, what's relative to this? >> reporter: saipov is from uzbekistan, a hotbed of radicalization for young isis sympathizers, many of whom have gone on the fight in syria and iraq. he immigrated to the u.s. in 2010, settling in ohio, where people who know him say he spoke little english and seemed to grow disillusioned, angry, and depressed, even as he embraced islam. an uzbekistan religious activist knows the suspect. >> after he proved from ohio, i think he's becoming more and more radicalized, you know, maybe he can learn something from the internet. >> reporter: court documents filed late today show saipov was inspired by isis videos he had watched on his cellular phone, including one video by isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi.
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and he wanted to kill as many people as he could. >> he appears to have followed almost exactly to a "t" the instructions that isis has put out in its social media channels before with instructions to their followers on how to carry out such an attack. report and investigators say saipov practiced the attack. nine days earlier on october 22nd he rented a truck and rehearsed the turns he would have to make during the attack on halloween. he also said he wanted to fly the isis flag in his hotel hospital room. jeff? >> glor: thank you very much. six of the eight people killed in the attack were foreigners. more on this now from michelle miller. >> reporter: cell phone video shows the group of argentine friends on a care-free bike ride along manhattan's waterfront minutes before they were mowed down. they were lifelong friends, all successful businessmen, all graduates from the same high
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school 30 years ago. this snapshot captured their excitement before boarding a flight to new york. it was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. the men wearing matching t-shirts with the word "libre," which means "free," to honor their free decades of friendship. five were killed. among them ariel erlij, who organized the trip using his own money to help some of his friends buy their plane tickets. also killed was 31-year-old ann moore ducott, a young belgian woman. she leaves behind a three-year-old and a three-month-old. nicholas cleve was also cleervegd a software engineer described by those who knew him as a sweetheart. >> he had everything in the world going for him. >> reporter: james dracut says his son darren dracut was his best friend. he says his son was the most innocent and delicate kid in the
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world. the 33-year-old was that project manager with an investment firm. >> i'm not even angry. i'm not. i'm not angry at all. i'm absolutely hurt. >> reporter: of the nine survivors, anthony, only three remain hospitalized. all here at new york-presbyterian's cornell medical center. >> mason:>> glor: michelle, thay much. i'll take it. president trump responded with both anger for the suspect and democrats he blamed for allowing him into the country. here is chief white house correspondent major garrett. >> we're going to get rid of this lottery program as soon as possible. >> reporter: meeting with his cabinet, president trump called the new york attacker an animal and urged congress to end the visa lottery program the suspect used to enter the u.s. in 2010. >> "diversity lottery" sounds nice. it's not nice. not good. we want a mairtd-based program.
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>> reporter: the diversity program was created in 1990 to increase immigration from countries underrepresented in legal entries. at the time, largely those from europe and the middle east. applicants enter a lottery for up to 50,000 visas. they must complete the same background checks as other immigration programs. on twitter, the president referred to the diversity lottery as a chuck schumer beauty. the senate majority leader did support the program when it was signed into law by george herbert walker bush, but in 2013, schumer was part of a group of senators that unsuccessfully tried to scrap it. >> look, the president ought to stop tweeting and start leading. the american people long for leadership, not divisiveness, not finger-pointing, not name-calling. >> reporter: tennessee republican bob corker agreed. >> i don't know that's how you bring out the best in our country, but everybody has their ways i guess.
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>> reporter: the president also lashed out against prosecutions against terror suspects and said he would consider sending sayfullo saipov to the military prison in guantanamo bay, cuba. >> we need strong justice, much quicker and much stronger than we have right now. because what we have right now is a joke, and it's a laughingstock. >> i want the thank the terrorism, prosecutors and investigate centers my office. >> reporter: just hours later saipov was charged in federal court. acting u.s. attorney june kim. >> the folks in that unit, working with the f.b.i., the n.y.p.d., the j.t.t.f., have a long and unblemished track record of successfully investigating and prosecuting domestic and international terrorists. >> reporter: with saipov charged in federal court, moving him to guantanamo appears off the table. by way of explanation, the white house said the president was merely venting his food and drug administration administration and -- venting his frustration
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and will not be proposing new ways to prosecute terrorism cases. jeff? >> glor: major, thank you very much. the president's response to the new york attack was in sharp contrast to what he did after the massacre in las vegas. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: it was one month ago today that a former accounted nt opened fire on a country music concert, killing 59. >> look, we have a tragedy. >> reporter: in the days that followed, the president was clear: it was not the time to discuss policy. >> we're not going to talk about that today. we won't talk about that. we will be talking about gun laws as time goes by. >> reporter: in contrast, within hours of yesterday's terror attack in new york city, he was vowing to step up our already extreme vetting program and calling for an immigration overhaul. >> we'll get rid of this lottery program as soon as possible. >> reporter: the conflicting reactions to two tragedies angered some muslim american leaders. >> why the hypocrisy in why the
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double standards. >> reporter: and some las vegas survivors, who were lobbying capitol hill today. >> we knew that something needed to be done, and we just seemed the country was behind us. i think a month later we've seen nothing happen. >> reporter: they're pushing for legislation banning the kind of devices that allowed stephen paddock to wound 500 people in a matter of minutes. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said today it shouldn't surprise anyone that the president is more focused on immigration. >> the president has been talking about extreme vetting and the need for that for the purpose of protecting the citizens of this country since he was a candidate, long before he was ever president. >> reporter: despite some initial g.o.p. interest, a senate bill banning bump stocks currently has 40 democratic cosponsors but no republicans. and the senate judiciary committee says it won't even hold a hearing on bump stocks, jeff, until the las vegas
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investigation is further along. >> glor: nancy cordes, thank you very much. anthony, here in lower manhattan tonight, more streets are open behind us. that home depot rental truck has been taken away. from what we've seen on the streets, as we saw last night, new yorkers do not seen intimidated. anthony, back to you in studio 57. >> mason: things starting to get back to normal. there thanks, jeff. still ahead, two las vegas survivors thank the strangers who saved them. but up next, a first look at the social media ads posted by russians to disrupt our election.
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media companies. >> what we're talking about is a major foreign power with the sophistication and ability to involve themselves in a presidential election. >> reporter: senator richard burr, the republican chairman of the intelligence committee, said the ads were only a small element of russia's disinformation campaign, which also included free posts and reached more than one-third of the u.s. population. >> reporter: the original estimate that ten million americans were exposed to russian-origin content on facebook was increased to 126 million. >> reporter: facebook and twitter told the committees the russian posts were a fraction of overall content, but facing the crosshairs of congress, they also said they're investing in tools to prevent what happened last year from happening again, like making it easier to determine who is behind the ads you see. anthony? >> mason: julianna goldman. thanks, julianna. the navy said today two collisions this year involving pacific fleet destroyers and commercial ships were avoidable.
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hold this. >> reporter: and in the ambulance, she was comforted by another stranger, who was also a victim. >> she talked to me the whole time to the hospital. you're going to be okay, natalie. we're almost there. >> reporter: and the whole time... >> he had been shot, too. >> there is no way i would have made it out without the help of strangers. >> reporter: 18-year-old addison shore was enjoying the route 91 festival with friends until a bullet shattered her lower leg. a stranger made a tourniquet and carried her to safety. >>what is life like now? >> i'm just taking it day by day, and obviously so beyond thankful that i'm still here and my injury is something i can recover from. >> reporter: there are a lot of ups and downs every day. i have a very long road ahead of me. i don't know if the left side of my face will ever work the same, but at the same time, i'm grateful to be alive. >> reporter: as natalie recovers in california with her
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husband and addison at home in las vegas, both say they want to honor the memories of the 58 who did not survive and the many who risked their lives to save others. >> just because there was one horrible human being, disgusting, despicable act, there are more kind, loving humans out there than you could ever imagine. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, las vegas. >> mason: and we wish natalie and addison the best in their recovery. that's the news from here. we go back now to jeff glor. jeff? >> glor: anthony, thanks very much. investigators do seem to be moving extraordinarily quickly as they investigate the manhattan terror attack yesterday, announcing more information today, including those 90 isis propaganda videos and 3,800 images on just one cell phone as the suspect was charged in federal court today. that is the "cbs evening news" tonight with anthony mason.
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>> how easy it is to rent a truck used in the halloween terror attack. >> and bike path of destruction. >> imagine enjoying a beautiful day when up from behind a truck mows you down. >> i'm riding my bike. a truck is coming at me. what do i do? >> the school bus he deliberately ran into. >> oh, my god. >> plus, what we have learned about the terrorist. >> his sketchy history. so cheap he complained about the price of ginger ail at this store. >> he frequented this place and was not always kind. >> and defiant america. >> we send our thoughts and prayers inform the victim -- to the victims and their families. >> new yorkers will never live in fear. >>

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