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coming up okay hannah daniels, kpix 5 at 11:00, up in flames, coming up tonight on cbs 2 news at 11:00, meet' man who risked his life to risk a stranger from' burning car. from low backs to high slits are these dresses appropriate for the prom? experts weigh in on how parents must compromise with their children. up next at 11. remembering prince his life and legacy. thank you for joining us. "cbs evening news with scott pelley" is next. why do we scream at each other this is what it sounds like when doves cry >> pelley: he was music royalty. the death of the artist who will forever be remembered as prince.
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purple rain also tonight, flooded texas gets the last thing it needed -- more rain. >> reporter: how much money do you think you will have lost? >> a lot, a lot of money. >> pelley: a bold prediction from a tough man on a delegate mission. >> certainly by june 7th we think we'll be the nominee. >> pelley: and day for a queen. elizabeth reaches a milestone. happy birthday your highness >> this is captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: the heavens provided a fitting back drop for the news: rain fell as word came that prince had died today, suddenly and unexpectedly at his home near minneapolis. and soon the tributes poured in for one of the most popular recording artists of all time. "purple rain" alone sold more
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quoting prince, stevie nicks tweeted, "this is what it sounds like when doves cry." dean reynolds begins our coverage. >> reporter: music fans were gone to the artist's famous paisley park home and recording study yes as word of his death rippled around the world. >> we need medical at paisley park, 7001 audubon road. person down, not breathing. >> reporter: it was 9:43 a.m. when emergency services responded to a call from the star's address. police say prince was found unresponsive inside an elevator while paramedics performed c.p.r., they were unable to revive him. at 10:07, he was pronounced dead at the age of 57. he had been battling illness over the last few weeks, forcing him to cancel two shows this month. purple rain purple rain he felt well enough to perform a week ago, and it would be one of his final big-city shows at
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but on the flight home, pruns's plane was forced to land in illinois, where he was treated for what publicists said was a medical emergency, possibly related to the flu. after three hours of treatment at a local hospital, he continued the flight home to minnesota. prince was very much minnesota's favorite son. just last saturday he threw an impromptu party for friends and neighbors. >> he was just here saturday. i can't believe he's gone. >> things have been open for me because of his music. he broke down walls. he broke down barriers. he brought people together. the impact is profound. >> reporter: president obama paid his respects by quoting him, "a strong spirit transcends rules," prince once said, and added the president, "nobody's spirit was stronger, boalgder or more creative." tributes to the legend by fellow artists have set insta gram and
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from elton john, "the greatest performer i have ever seen." from friend spike lee, "i miss my brother. prince was a funny cat, great sense of humor." and from oprah, "the doves really are crying now." the police here are currently investigating the cause of death. scott, we're outside prince's residence where people have been coming all day the pay their last respects and to fashion this small tribute to his memory. >> pelley: dean reynolds reporting tonight. dean, thank you. the rock 'n' roll hall of fame says that prince "rewrote the rule book, forging a synthesis of black funk and white rock that served as a blueprint for cutting edge music in the '80s." vladimir duthiers has the man and his music. this is what it sounds like when doves cry
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an icon, and a provocateur. he earned the nickname "his royal badness" with songs like "darling nikki" about a one-night stand prompting first time. he sang, wrote, produced and was known to shred on the guitar. a flamboyant artist on stage and off with a wardrobe and a personality to match. prince first broke through in the music world in the late 19 70s with hits like "i want to be your lover" little red corvette but it was his music in the 1980s, forming punk and rock, that catapulted prince the stardom with "little red corvette" in 1989. so tonight i'm going to party like it's 1999 just another manic monday
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too, from the bengals to sinead o'connor nothing compares to you he won seven grammys during his career and an oscar for original score to the film "purple rain" only want to see you in the purple rain joe levy is with "rolling stone" magazine. >> here's a guy who has a flag in the shape of a purple guitar. he's going the plant it on the mountaintop and you're going to follow him. that's a legacy right there. >> reporter: a legacy cemented in 2004 when he was inducted into the rock 'n' roll hall of fame. he talked about one essential thing to make his stardom possible. >> the freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything i wanted to. i embarked on a journey more fascinating than i could have ever imagined.
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this fascinating journey. it ain't over. peace. >> reporter: hundreds of fans have gathered here at new york's apollo theater where he played in 1993 to pay tribute to the man, the myth and the legend, and for those of us that came of age in the '80s, his music provided the soundtrack to our lives. scott, i can tell you, it was a prince song that was playing during this reporter's first kiss. >> pelley: vladimir duthiers in harlem for us tonight. vlad, thank you. later we're going to show you one of prince's most unforgettable performances, "purple rain" at the super bowl. in another important story, houston got no break today from relentless storms as rivers and creeks rise, so do the bills. manuel bojorquez is there. >> reporter: for a fourth day, heavy rains kept rivers and creeks swollen, spilling into neighborhoods and paralyzing
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>> no customers can be here right now? >> oh, no. >> reporter: sabio hernandez says the flooded parking will the of his restaurant will likely shut him down for a week. how much money do you think you will have lost? >> at least $5,000. >> reporter: you think in a week you'll lose about $5,000? >> yes, sir, easy. >> reporter: the losses are adding up, close to $2 billion by one estimate. >> i didn't know it would be so bad. >> reporter: texas a&m professor sam bredy says houston's geography and urban sprawl are proving to be a costly combination. >> between 1996 and 2011, this area has increased its pavement by 25%, and the water has nowhere to run except for into people's homes and businesses. >> reporter: brody estimates that roughly every ten square feet of pavement in houston equates the about $4,000 in extra flood damage, and in a span of 11 years, the city's flood costs totaled $3.5 billion in just insured losses. so this kind of damage, this
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continue? >> it will continue, and our data shows it's spiraling upward, not just here but nationwide. >> reporter: brody says one solution is to build higher. scott, this apartment complex was built on stilts, so even though the parking lot is flooded and cars are submerged, we're told all the units were spared. >> pelley: manuel bojorquez in the thick of hit the evening. manuel, thank you. in the race for the republican presidential nomination, front-runner donald trump now has 68% of the delegates he needs, and he has a new man plotting strategy to get the rest. here's major garrett. >> reporter: meeting in florida today, members of the republican national committee rejected a move to give individual delegates more clout at the summer's convention. rnc rules committee member randy evans. >> mostly we played this much of the game already under one set of the rules. it would be unfair the change the rules in the middle of the game. >> reporter: the rnc is fighting back against donald trump's claims that the nomination process is unfair,
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a contested convention. trump has complained the delegates could supersede actual voting results, for example, trump won all 50 delegates in south carolina, but that victory could be short lived. state chairman matt moore. >> our delegates in south carolina are free agents on a second ballot and beyond. you can't predict what they will do. >> reporter: trump's top campaign operative paul manafort is trying the smooth tensions with the committee. >> what he's talking about is creating transparency between elections and how delegates are selected. not for this cycle, but he started a conversation for the next four years. >> reporter: and so he's going to live within the rules for this campaign as they're written? >> we're winning with these rules. >> reporter: manafort also told us trump will win the nomination on the first ballot. >> we're convinced that we're going to win on first ballot. we're convinced it will be obviously in the middle of may, and certainly by june 7th we think we'll be the nominee.
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told us trump expects to sweep all five primaries next tuesday and predicted then party regulars will begin to see him as the presumptive nominee. scott, ted cruz is bracing for those defeats but looking the primaries in may to, if possible, derail the trump train. >> pelley: might be a new trump campaign with professionals like manafort coming on board now. major garrett reporting for us tonight. major, thank you. nowed to the democrats and what's looking more and more like campaign impossible for bernie sanders. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: in scranton, pennsylvania, today, sanders was still smarting over his 16-point loss next door. >> we just had a democratic primary in new york state the other day. [crowd booing] well, i share those sentiment, but... >> reporter: determined the stay in the race, sanders insisted in a fund-raising pitch that we still have a path to the nomination. but he would have to win 60% of all pledged delegates in the 15
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show him trailing by 13 in pennsylvania, 25 in maryland and 9 in connecticut. where clinton was today, scoring this offbeat compliment at one of her town halls. >> you are very human. i don't care what they say, but you're very human. [applause] so good luck. >> hi. how are you? >> reporter: clinton's aides are openly urging sanders to follow that lead and be a little nicer to the likely nominee than he was in new york. >> i do question her judgment. >> reporter: a top sanders' aid told cbs news they need the look in the mirror, arguing she's the one who went negative first. clinton today. in fact, he barely mentioned her, and, scott, despite the long odds, his supporters clearly want him to press on, giving him $46 million just last month, far more than any other candidate on either side.
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fund-raising machine. nancy cordes, thank you very much. today chicago mayor rahm emanuel ordered faster investigations of police shootings and misconduct cases, 45 days in most cases. it took 13 months and a court order for the release of a video showing a chicago cop shooting a black teenager 16 times and killing him. only then was the officer charged with murder. the c.i.a. is expanding death benefits to all employees killed in acts of terrorism. until now employees were only entitled to a payout if they had a spouse or children. the change will help families like that of glen doherty, a c.i.a. contractor who was killed when the u.s. compound in benghazi was overrun. the benefits are retroactive to 1983, which will cover the terrorist bombing of u.s. facilities in lebanon.
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>> pelley: today volkswagen agreed to buy back or fix nearly 500,000 diesel vehicles that were fraudulently rigged to pass emissions tests if -- that they should have failed. details with the settlement at the justice department are still being worked out. we learned today the f.b.i. paid more than $1 million to a private computer security team that helped it break into an iphone belonging to one of the intern terrorists. the f.b.i. found no links to foreign terrorists on the phone,
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today it was still worth it. today an ex-postal worker got four months in federal prison for landing a gyrocopter on the grounds of u.s. capitol last year. douglas hughes had pleaded guilty to flying without a license. hughes, who is 62, says he was calling attention to corruption in politics. the olympic torch was lit today from the rays of the sun at the site of the ancient games in greece. the torch will be carried on a 15-week journey to rio de janeiro where the olympic games will begin on august 5th. great britain says happy birthday to the queen. her story is next. type 2 diabetes doesn't care who you are. man. woman. or where you're from.
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>> pelley: a first today elizabeth ii. no british monarch had ever turned 90 before now. mark phillips is in london. >> reporter: the queen is normally a stay-at-home birthday girl, no hardship when your home is windsor castle. happy birthday to you but when it's the big 9-0 and you're the oldest and longest-reigning monarch ever, it calls for a public appearance. an eldest number provided the soundtrack for a visit to the post office. elvis may be the king of rock 'n' roll, but this monarchy has definitely not left the building. a new stamp shows three kings in waiting, and because of this reign, says prince william,
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>> it's been a real sorts of guiding example of just what a good monarch can be. >> reporter: for a good monarch, fist requirement is to be seen, and if 90-year-old legs will only carry one so far, 94-year-old legs on prince phillip, then enter the queenmobile, perhaps her most welcome birthday present. 90 years, 64 of them as queen, but there are two queens, the official dutiful one, and the private one. and few understand both queens better than margaret rhodes, who has been a friend since childhood. you call her by her first name. >> i call her by her childhood name, lilibeth. >> reporter: and lilibeth knows she's there to provide one thing above all, continuity. >> you have prime ministers by
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queen who is always there, you know, does all the things she's been taught to do, like putting on a crown at parliament. at the same time, she likes the take her dogs for a walk and ride her ponies. you know, she's a mixture. >> reporter: elizabeth at 90. that's how she rolls. mark phillips, cbs news, windsor.
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to one of the most innovative artists of all time was this one from the minnesota twins, bathing their stadium in purple and posting the message, "good night, sweet prince." lin-manuel miranda, author and star of "hamilton," tweeted, "step away from your computer, walk around, blast some prince. it's the only thing that has saved my day. it may save yours." and from paul mccartney, "god bless this creative giant. thanks, prince. love, paul." that's the "cbs evening news" tonight, but we're going to leave you with more of the music of prince. it is from one of his greatest performances, halftime at the super bowl in miami, 2007 on cbs singing "purple rain" in a downpour. i never meant to cause you any sorrow
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pain i only wanted one time to see you laughing >> well, i think music not only should it be entertaining, but it should try to uplift you in some form or fashion. purple rain purple rain purple rain purple rain >> come on, y'all. i think that the purpose of muse sick to make light of our dire situation. you take music out of the world, it's going to be pretty dark.
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can i play this guitar? note captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> prince dead at 57. inside the legacy he leaves
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