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>> i would caution the audience to remain calm. >> it crushed me, the jury. they loved o.j. >> mr. simpson, would you please stand and face the jury? >> as o.j. simpson rose, the eyes he of the world were on ago. outside thousands waited along with the huge media crush in the midst was our "e.t." team. also reporting, maria shriver and bryant gumbel, gloria allred attended. we talked with marcia clark whose memories are vivid. >> i knew if there was a verdict it would be notguilty. still there was that little part of me that said, but they can't. they can't do it. >> in the matter of the people of the state of california with -- >> as can you see, there are
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numerous highway patrol vehicles behind the suspect vehicle which simpson. >> the o.j. obsession started ea the bronco clas. simpson was a suspect in the murder of his wife, nicole brownrlier. simpson, and her friend ron goldman. >> i think hearing the first reports you're going, o.j. simpson did what? >> keep in mind, o.j. was a hollywood superstar. hob-nobing with the likes of bruce jenner and gushing about his new wife nicole. >> i think any wife, nicole, brought stability into my wife. i never thought i would remarry. >> then when nicole and ron with werend stabbed to death, people couldn't get enough of the trial. >> all people want to talk about, your lair.
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just ridiculous. fou >> o.j.'s dream team included the late robert kardashian. and bruce was often in court. >> such a tragic story. nicole was near and dear to my heart. when things like this come back up it was lickke a minute ago. >> there were death threats. many occasions where we had to have security follow us home and stay outside of our hom night. >> witnesses likecate cato cato es allkaylin who stayed in o.j.'s guest house became a celebrity. >> i walked in nobody knowing who i was. my name. house. it was intrusive and invasive. our private lives were completely gone. >> what was it like walking out to the media horde everyday. >> overwhelming. the media out there with cameras
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constantly. couldn't walk to lunch without a throng surrounding you. >> finally when the verdict came in we had cameras rolling from coast to coast in bars, times square, and of course, outside court. >> we the jury in the aboved entitled action find the defendant not guilty of the crime of murder. >> as the dramatic not guilty verdict read ins the courtroom, the scene out here, outside the county courthouide erupted in mayhem. >> from tears of happiness outside, tears inside the courtroom while nicole's famse, sat stowic. >> i just wanted out. i wanted fresh air. if i can't change things, i got move on. >> it wasily outrageous verdict. the evidence was overwhelming. pretty much shook my leave in
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>> there were tears of joy an as well as o.j.'s son jason cried. >> i feel justice was served. it was absolutely the correct verdict. >> and kris jenner said recently when the verdict was read she could tell that her ex robert kardashian was floored that the jury found simpson not guilty. coming up, winona and naomi judd talking with their reunion in vegas. >> and queen latifah and her mom rb rita. >> she passed out. >> she he just fainted. >> which fashion designer had a near wardrobe malfunction at the vmas?
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group's 15-year history. >> i'm so proud of it. so proud to share it with you momma's he's crazy. >> it's been 30 years since the judds number 1 hit. more than 20 million albums sold an grammies. that's why it is big news when they get wack together. winona and her mom, nd five are back in las vegas. they invited "e.t." in to their rehearsal in nashville.aomi, >> you know what, this is your moment, you know, they say life is about moment. and this is one. this is take it easy for being here because this is our first time singing together in five years. >> right this minute we are at our vocal coach's house.
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>> we a here to practice. get our chops. and get just like the voice is a muscle, you're working your re muscle. and i've flown in today to wrap it all up and we he fly out saturday and here we go. >> 69-year-old naomi is fired up as winona, 51, is working up for that nine-show vegas residency. >> we know a lot of our fans are coming. like billions of them. because they've been asking us to do this. i've been rhinestones. my little fingers are down to nubs right now. >> i want y'all to sing with us, every lifted. >> you know they will sing their biggest hits for thevoice show called ladies night out.
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>> not a preacher, i'm just teaching. the blood harmony of family isespeci so sacred to me more than ever. >> what's the name they have given their fans? i changed it. they used to be the dead head. now they are the judd heads. >> and we are with another mother/daughter pair. queen latifah and her mom sat down with me in new york talk about a very important health issue affecting many americans that touched them quickly. >> you got the news that your mom c toed while teaching and that it is heart failure. >> a terrifying thing to hear your mom took a dive in class. she just passed out. >> a sollapsg diagnosis ten years ago from latifah's one hockin mom.
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>> you moved your mom in to make sure she was getting care. >> yeah, we moved the whole family out. now she is feeling good andactive moved back home. i miss my neighbor across the hall. >> now they are part of the american heart iationes a rise above heart failure campaign. >> how is it taking responsibility for your care? >> i almost feel guilty. >> oh, assocma. >> she is so -- shame. >> loving, giving. >> i am supposed to be the mommy. now. >> i'm not. i'm so not. >> the first time i said no to her, and she was like, yes. and we're going at it. and i'm like, wow. she is really firm. she he is going to make a great mom. >> i did have such a nice time with the two of them and rita
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steps to deal with her congestive heart failure which pretty much anybody can do. get of your salt shaker. lower your sodium and lose weight. >> even if you break up exercise for rid 10 minutes three times a day. that does it for me. and she is so good with helping others as well. we'll be right back. >> dancer mark ballas shows us the sensitive side. we have seen him rock it before. but now his band formed with girlfriend of three years, bcg. she he wrote this for boweyonce. but it was her voice that hooked mark. >> i thought, she seriously has it going on. by the sound of this voice i'm expecting this 45-year-old whiskey drinking woodstock
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>> they latest song roses and violets is available now. they first h. veil available at a "duck dynasty" wedding. >> he wants to work all the time. when i'm in the bathroom, doing
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by -- look at all those stars celebrating birthdays this weekend. on saturday ashley simpson turns 31. clive owen turns 61. and jac wagner turns 56. with tag designer heading near a function at 1996 mtv ks. >> i make a lot of my own clothes and one didn't work. didn't turn out. i didn't even hem it. >> that was gwenvma stefany who is 46 on saturday. happy birthday to you all. >> monday on "e.t.." exclusive hillary clinton. on her "snl" se. >> you got to act a little bit more like yourself. >> plus, behind the scenes with "blind spot" tattooed star and her live-in stusurpridouble. >> monday on "e.t.." >> we are almost out of time
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this weekend. for all of the late-breaking hollywood news, good to nt etonline.com. >> check out video from disclosure featuring lorde. >> off their new album. >> and this video is ae riske for lorde having an affair with an older man but kind of fascinating. enjoy it and the rest of your
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if you received a new credit card, you likely noticed a the front. a new technology expected to sharply reduce credit card fraud in some areas. the deadline for retailers to install terminals that can read the chips was a few days ago. here is editor of money answers.com. jordan, a lot to talk about. how does the new system work? >> you take the card that has the chip in it. put it in. leave it there a little while. take it out. creates a special transaction code each time. take a little bit longer. but a lot more secure than swiping. >> a lot of people who were supposed to get the card by the deadline potentially have not yet? >> correct. roughly half the number have gotten card. half have not. by end of 2017. everybody will have the card
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but the retailers have to have a terminal that can read this thing. a lot of retailers do not have the terminal. what happened this week was the fraud is now being shifted from the consumer to the terminal. >> one of the downsides, expected to reduce the fraud person to person interaction level, but the thieves will move online. >> correct. europe has made this transition. and online fraud went up 40% in europe after this. that's not affected by the chip card at all. you all do it online. the downside. a lot slower checkout lines. going to take longer to do this. make sure to take your card. a lot of people are going to forget their card. end of the day. supermarkets will have new card left over. >> right now put in your signature. eventually a pin code. >> correct. right now. putting in the chip. and then your sign the signature. eventually a pin code. you have to put it in. if somebody steals your card they can forge your signature. it will be much more secure. >> lot more to talk about. >> thank you. >> thank you.
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>> still ahead here, an update
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we are going to close with an update on chris mintz, survivor of the deadly shooting in oregon. nine people were killed. chris was shot seven times while confronting the gunman. >> reporter: from a hospital bed in roseberg, oregon, chris mintz posted a heartfelt message on facebook. >> i am doing well and overwhelmed by the support i have gotten. >> reporter: mintz selflessly stood in the shooter's pass to try to protect classmates.
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in the army when he heard of his heroic acts on social media he wasn't surprised. >> in the military we are trained to cover your buddy's back. in your head you are more concerned about the other person than yourself. i guess chris proved that. >> reporter: since thursday, $730,000 in donations have come in from over 22,000 people on mintz's fund me page. people are showing support by posting comments like this. thank you for being brave and taking action to help the people around you. yet in another act of kindness, he encourages supporters to give to the other victims of the shooting through their gofundme pages. a white house circulating asking the president to award the medal of freedom to chris mintz. >> i want to wish the other families a safe, speedy recovery. i will be talking to you soon. that's the "cbs overnight
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for some of you the news continues. for others, check back a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning.
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york city. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news, everyone. there has been so much talk about the driverless car in recent years. as bill whitaker found out for "60 minutes," they have come a long way. >> what do you have to do to make the car take over? >> i just pull this lever. and now system is active. >> reporter: computer scientist runs autonomous research for mercedes-benz. he punched in a route and took us for a 20 mile drive in the s-500, the company's most advanced self-driving prototype. >> this is like no hands. no feet, car is in charge. >> the car is in charge. >> right from the start the car astonished us.
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as we approached our first intersection it slowed down and steered itself into the left turn lane. it is a german car. so naturally it has a german accent. that was the voice of his secretary. >> reporter: it just took off by itself when the light turned green. now it is making this left turn by itself with other traffic around. this is absolutely amazing. just two minutes into the ride we entered a freeway on ramp. if you think a there mall merge is nerve-racking trying it with a driver talking with his hands. >> i must admit i find it disconcerting we are driving toward the freeway and you didn't have your hand on the wheel. >> shall i put them back on would it make you feel more comfortable. >> reporter: he gave us a rare opportunity to go on an actual test run near mercedes silicon valley lab. almost every major automaker is
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nissan teamed up with nasa, auto parts maker delphi put its system in the audi. the first to drive itself across the country. back at the merge. don't hold your breath for the car to step on it. this s-500 won't break the speed limit. >> are you going to have little old lady driving up behind you beeping the horn, get going, get moving. >> some people have remarked that the car itself in some cases drives a bit like an old lady. that's fine with us for the time being. >> reporter: especially since the car has driven about 20,000 miles without an accident. mercedes made its name selling the passion for driving on the open road. now it see is a future in the growing desire to be driven through traffic jammed streets. >> what's fueling this? >> people are increasingly asking for this. people probably have become used to live more with computers and
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interact with computers and they this. so all of a sudden we see this interest. and, hey there are certain situations where i don't want to drive, can your car do it for me? >> reporter: first you are amazed. then you begin to relax. surprisingly, it took less than 10 minutes to feel comfortable with the car in control. >> reporter: don't get too those beeps, that's not a sound you want to hear. it means the car senses trouble and need a helping human hand. the vehicle asked me to take over. at this intersection that silver car got too close. this for example. i took over. it would have managed. it was too close for us. >> that guy was getting into our lane there. >> reporter: it only happened a few times while well were driving around. he says teaching the car to handle encounters like the
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streets with impulsive human busy for the next decade. how do you figure things like that out? >> the important thing about an autonomous vehicle it has to have a very good sense of its environment. a vehicle cannot reaction to something it does not see. so we have to be very careful that we see everything that happens around us. >> reporter: the car seize with an array of cameras and radar sensors designed into the body constantly scanning up to 600 feet in all directions. we can actually detect more quickly that something is happening that makes cars and accident than the human driver can. >> so these cars would actually be safer, you're saying, than a >> that's what we aim for. >> reporter: that's what google is driving for too. its autonomous cars rely on roof mounted laser sensors to see the road. in the last six years, the fleet has driven more than a million
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miles. >> we are getting to a place. >> reporter: robotic scientists, the director of google's self driving car project. he invited us inside the garage where the autonomous future is taking shape. >> google is a tech company not a car maker? >> yes, the heart is algorithms and software. and that's one of the things we really are quite good at. >> reporter: there are so many scenarios how is it possible to put all the knowledge into the car? >> that's really the trick. that tea what makes this hard. you just can't go through and enumerate the thousand different scenarios it may encounter. it's not 1,000. there are an infinite number of them. right? so the trick is to develop the algorithm that can generalize. >> reporter: by generalize he means think. and this is how it works. the algorithms are trained to recognize other cars,
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pedestrians, cyclists and animals from their movements, each car's daily driving experience is analyzed uploaded and shared. the cars can make predictions collective knowledge of the look in the lower left corner as one of his cars encounters a pickup truck that stops to parallel park. how does the computer know it is some one intending to back into a parking space and not someone stopped in the street. >> our cars have received thousand of and thousands of vehicle. they get a feeling really for what the behavior of the vehicles are going to be. it has seen lots of cars backing up. it understand if there is a space here and a car stops in front of it that means it will probably back into the spot. >> my smartphone has computer glitches. my computer has glitches. how do you get people to trust this computer on wheel is not
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>> we are all used to our bits of home computing doing funny things. right. what you have to remember they're engineered and designed very differently. the way we develop the software. the way we develop the hardware. the way we think of the situations it has the to, deal with on the road. it is completely different. >> right now the technology can't handle snow. google's cars can't operate in heavy rain. the mercedes s-500 can't decipher hand gestures from traffic cops or pedestrians. 4 million miles of roads in the u.s. must be mapped in ultrahigh definition detail. the automakers call these solvable problems. in the meantime, the car industry plans to automate the driving experience feature by feature. what some are calling revolution by evolution. >> you can see bill's full report at cbsnews.com. when we return, a different type of vehicle.
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tesla remains the leader in new technology that drives electric cars, there is an older technology for electric vehicles, namely golf carts. they're filling up parking spaces all over one florida town. we went along for a ride. >> reporter: you own two. >> two. >> reporter: one for you and one for your wife? >> no, one for me to go golfing in. one for me to take her dinner and take her shopping. >> reporter: since moving to the villages, florida. gary traded in his car for a golf cart so he could get around most days. not a run of the mill model.
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his tricked out candy apple red, california roadster looks like a hot rod. safety features, seatbelts. turning signals. disk brakes. all which makes it street legal. >> get to all the rec centers. we can get to all the doctors, get to the hospitals. so, we prefer just cruising around in our golf carts. >> reporter: this is a community that caters to folks, 55 and older. here more carts than cars. >> people who have never been here, this is the sight. >> with over 60,000 golf carts. a major form of transportation for people. >> reporter: are you saving money with this? >> saving a lot of money on gas. this is electric powered. so, i take it home. plug it in. ready to go the next morning. and off we go. >> reporter: is there enough room in here for your wife. she doesn't mind it? >> no, my wife loves this. she is half the size of you. >> well, that's good. >> you can buy a car, a brand new car for less than you can
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spend on some of these golf carts. >> reporter: that's right from ordinary to extraordinary, can run you anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000. >> used to have two cars and two carts. now we have one car and two carts. two street legals. tim carol bought his first street legal six years ago. >> register it like a car. and get insurance. >> look car insurance. >> absolutely. >> this is what your show room? >> fun and game room. >> to get one. potential buyers need to go and see the golf cart man. he used to sell cars. now he owns one of two dealerships in the villages that sell only golf carts. some of his over the top custom wheels have been shipped as far away as alaska and canada. for the right price, deangelo
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from the classic chevy. to a vintage mustang. he says business is booming. what is the average age of your clientele? >> 59 to 99. >> reporter: willing to spend how much? >> whatever you feel like it. >> reporter: you told to a 99-year-old? >> yes. they don't care. and their answer is that this is what they want. listen, i wanted to make coffin out of golf carts. i would rather get buried mine car than a coffin. wouldn't you? that's what it is all about. >> born and raised in atlanta the i've went to georgia tech the i always wanted a replica of the georgia tech rambling wreck. >> bill tally paid deangelo $17,000 for this look-alike 1934 ford. seven days a week this is how you get around? >> yes. this is how i go to the dining room. how i go to entertainment, take
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people, to, from, go to the post office. this is my chariot. >> better than a car? >> for my application, yeah. >> reporter: what bells and whistles did you want on here? >> the main thing, i wanted a horn that would play the rambling wreck fight song. i got that. >> reporter: they are on the path to becoming a big part of our lives. >> reporter: regardless of cost, harvard business school fellow says the use of electric vehicle are on the rise even in urban areas. >> we expect as performance improves and manufacturers add more features they improve safety, they improve comfort, that these will become more and more relevant to the mainstream consumer. and the lower prices will bring more people into the market. >> reporter: major cities look los angeles and new york lowered speed limits. making the use of these virnlly
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viable. gary search thinks we could all take a lead from those over 50. >> reporter: do you see this becoming a trend in other places around the country? >> there is over 100,000 people and you will see, at least half if not more than half are, driving golf carts all around town. so, i think this could be a, a footprint for other cities to take a look at and say, could we decrease the amount of traffic and parking spaces. two golf carts fit into one parking space. so, it eliminates parking problems. the whole space issue within cities. >> reporter: for cbs this morning saturday, at the villages of florida. well, things in the bedroom have always been pretty good. yeah, no complaints. we've always had a lot of fun, but i wanted to try something new. and i'm into that. so we're using k-y love. it's a pleasure gel that magnifies both of our sensations.
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honey bees pollinate a third of the crops grown in the united states. in recent years they've been dying off at alarming rates. farmers overseas are having the same problem. british investigators are using a high tech backpack to track the trouble. >> reporter: at london's botanic gardens beneath the flowers where wild bumble bees roam. deep in a secure basement laboratory, she suits up her bees for flight. called the bumble bee backpack.
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one of the smallest tracking devices ever placed on a living organism. >> we will build a map of the bees movement and see a network where they have been. how long they have been out feeding and how far they traveled. >> reporter: the idea every time she passes a receiver like this it will be sent to a computer and you will know her every move. >> exactly. so her tag, emits a unique signal picked up by a reader if she flew within a meter of it. a bumble bee radar. outfigt the bees with the backpack is no small feet. she stores bees in a refrigerator. cold makes them more docile. >> making the warning sound to tell me. >> she restrains the bee, pinning it in place. she applies super glue to the back and the microchip. the bee can buzz off. wobbly start. the tracker is half the bee's weight. the pilot program is limited to
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a green house with plans to place receivers around the feeding path in the wild. she developed the backpack with an engineer friend, who tracked missiles for the british military. >> why put so much energy and effort into this? >> simply. interesting. i'm curious about the world. you need these tools to -- complexity of living systems. one tiny tool they hope will unlock the secret world of bees. and the mystery behind their disappearance. michael jordan turned basketball into an art form and done the same in the sneaker business. now there is an art show focusing on courtside footwear. footwear as works of art. that's the premise of an exhibition at the brooklyn museum called the rise of
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sneaker culture. lisa small, curated the exhibit. >> sneaker culture is the universe for collectors. connection to sports. music. and especially the drive and the mania to collect the next new release. >> reporter: sneaker enthusiasts, known as sneaker heads will spend thousand of dollars on their vast collections of must have shoes and special limited editions. so when you own a pair of really cool sneakers that maybe, just a few are around, it is kind of an art piece for sure. when you think about the, the artist design process. a lot of the shoe designers are excar designers or architects or industrial designer. >> reporter: designer and proud sneakerhead collaborated with nike to develop the pigeon dung sbc sneaker in 2005 and now a center piece of the exhibition. >> did you imagine, sneakers would be part of an art exhibit at the world class museum. >> never. never.
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>> we were the outcast. we were the nerd. >> reporter: staple has been a sneaker junkie since he was 12 years old. his taste in shoes is impeccable. >> were's beth wearing converse. you have the old version. i have the brand new converse 2s that came out. >> we might be wearing the same brand. but our collections are very different. i don't own 2,000 pairs of sneakers. staple does. can you trace back for first your love of sneakers. when was it that you saw a pair of sneakers and you were look i got to have those? >> the first one that did it, remember vividly. air jordan iii. i remember walking into the sixth grade social studies class. everyone looked at me. i was late. afterwards kids were like, what are those? this feeling. i am going to replicate the rest of my life. i knew i was ahead from that point on. really cool. >> reporter: the filmmaker behind sneaker head.
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setting off the craze. >> this you can buy. you cannot do this. can. can't. >> when you look back he made more money last year selling sneakers in one year than he did in his entire nba career. >> you can trace it back to michael jordan in 1984. the debut of the jordan one. that's when the whole thing exploded. >> from sports to music to hollywood. sneakers became a status symbol. run dmc's song "my adidas" combined hip-hop and sportswear. forged a style that is popular today. as the demand for sneakers grew. they become more exclusive and harder to get when things started to run afoul. >> i was surprised there was significant violence attached to
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>> this one started it all. >> the original one. >> the first of the releases was jeff staple's creation, the nike pigeon dunk, sb, dedicated to new york city. before the release date was made public. people started forming lines. this home video shows the the scene on the lower eastside yesterday. were you expecting the reaction? >> no. we were thinking, cool, release this. and they'll sell, hopefully. it was sort of a frenzy. big kind of ruckus. waiting across the street ton the four corners. and they knew they weren't going to get a shoe. they were waiting for the kids who got a shoe to get it from them. they had baseball bats. >> reporter: then years later the asking price for that shoe is $8,000. evidence the sneaker culture continues to march on. >> it is a $42 billion a year business. hard to imagine that growing bigger. definitely something that has
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the "cbs some people dedicate time and effort to take care of stray animals. steve hartman found brothers in texas who made it their life's work. >> reporter: i came to fort worth, texas. thinking i had seen everything. when out rolled evidence to the contrary. a guy on a mower, pulling nine dogs on a train. that's a new one. in fact the only thing more surprising than the sight may be the story behind it. this train ride is the brain child of brothers eugene and walter, and just a small part of a much larger mission.
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same wood they grew up in spend thousand feeding the wildlife here. >> you name them. >> yeah, the beaver does eat >> quack, quack, quack. over there. >> reporter: they don't miss so if you are wondering why they have this need to feed. childhood guilt. we killed them all. moved we shot them. of. train. over the years a lot of stray dogs have the wandered on to the property. of course they're cared for. that wasn't enough for the bostic boys who thought the mutts might enjoy movement as well. >> you know, be surprised how good it makes you feel when you see them loading up and how happy they are. >> reporter: the train departs joy.
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neighborhood. celebrities on a catwalk. their giant choo-choo toy takes the dogs mostly through the local warehouse district. for the brothers each one takes them one step closer to redemption. if that's true there has got to their happiness. fort worth, texas. that's the "cbs overnight news" for this monday. continues. for others, check back a little later for "the morning news" and "cbs this morning."
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