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>> tonight curfew over baltimore returns to a new normal am and more normal am and more cities equip officers with body cams. u.s. military aircraft arrive in nepal as aide workers struggle to reach remote villages. the the 2016 presidential field the 2016 presidential field is about to get a lot bigger. wages are finally on the way up in america. but slowly. and the princess has arrived. up next, her name. >> alice is a good name. >> victoria. >> mary i think quite a nice name captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> glor: hi, everyone, i'm jeff glor. when the sunsets on baltimore tonight there will be no curfew for the first time since last tuesday. maryland's governor says
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3,000 national guards troops could be moved out within a few days. at sunday services airport the city today baltimore seemed a different place than it was 1 week ago. mark albert is there. ♪ she shall overcome ♪ ♪. >> the prayer from the pews in baltimore's sandtown this sunday was to overcome a week of sometimes violent protests in this very fab hood. for the first time since tuesday, the city will not be under a 10 p.m. curfew. baltimore mayor stephanie laulings-blake says my goal has always been to not have a curfew in place a single day longer than necessary. i believe we reached that point today. prarishner ray kelly calls it progress. >> this seems like the start of a change that we have been fighting for for a lot of years in west baltimore. >> do you hope it lasts? >> i will make it last as long as i can. i'm not going to let the momentum. >> reporter: some national guards troops were seen
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packing up and moving out. >> we're going to get back to normal as quickly as we can. >> maryland governor larry hogan said at least 200 businesses were damaged. mondawmin mall looted on tuesday reopened today. >> happy yay. >> to the relieve of resident deeona beecher. >> i think the community is safe now. i think we can pov forward and be more productive. >> gray's death sparked to the just violence but calls for remore. officers put gray in a police van in handcuffs but to the a seat belt which broke department rules. and brought attention to so-called rough rides. >> do you want to review statewide to find out how prevalent it might be in other law enforcement agencies. >> actually we're signing eight pieces of legislation including one that allows us to gather all that kind of information from various police departments. we'll be doing that this week. >> reporter: rallies today including this one here at city hall have all been peaceful. in the past ten days police
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say there have been 4 will 67-- 486 arrests 113 police officers have been hurt in the past week. jeff? >> glor: mark albert thank you very much. on friday the justice department announced a $20 million program to help enlist police departments around the country buy body cameras for officers. minneapolises had already invested more than a hll dollars in the cameras. but as vanita nair reports there is more to the programs than simply pressing record. >> in order to turn them on we just simply push the lever down. >> reporter: officer brandon bartholomew is one of 36 officers testing cameras for the minneapolis police departments. >> you really become familiar and comfortable with the camera being there. i think the training is really on the job. >> drivers licence proof of insurance please. >> as many as 4,000 police departments nationwide are using body cameras. and while studies show the cameras can reduce excessive use of force they also present a new set of challenges. >> when you turn these
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cameras on and off, how long you have to keep the video who has access to it. so there's a lot of things still up in the air that we are absolutely going to need public input on. >> deputy chief travis glampe says a single crime could result in hours of video. the department says it will store all body camera video for a minimum of one year the a cost of at least $300,000 annually. cost isn't the only issue. retaining video for that long raises privacy concerns. >> every time we have the request for the video tape is the video public or not public. those are discussions we continue to have. >> janee harteau is the minneapolis police chief. the department is currently facing 30 lawsuits alleges excessive force that date back a number of years. in 2012 when the chief took over, there were more than 1400 incidents reviewed by internal affairs. the chief says that number dropped to 934 in 20 because of her emphasis on community
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policing. she hopes the cameras will build even more trust with the community. >> operation is very simple for the officer. >> reporter: the department is going ahead with plans to outfit most of its officers with cameras by the end of this year. >> go back to your car. >> even though the rules are still being written. vinita nair, cbs news, new york. >> glor: the death toll from the earthquake in nepal is now over 7200. u.s. military aircraft arrived today including four ospreys which will begin relief flights tomorrow. many villages still have not received aide. seth doane is in kathmandu. >> reporter: by helicopter today we saw just how remote some of these villages are. we're traveling with the head of the united nations world food program eratharin cousin as she surveyed the complicated relief operation. >> eight of the 14 highest peaks in the world are here in nepal.
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and so you have a terrain that makes it very difficult to reach populations. >> reporter: here they delivered more than 4,000 pounds of rice to hard-hit gorka. but landing on tough terrain can prove difficult. and with the monsoon season approaching, relief workers say it's a race against time. earlier this week we visited rural areas just a few hours from cat pan due. and found no relief had arrived. >> when you see people saying we're not getting the aid you're in charge, is that a failure? >> it's not a failure. it says we have work to do. it says that person that you talk to yes they may not have received the aid but there is a person in another town over who probably did. >> getting that aid on its way starts here. >> we are constantly every day into the night we are moving stock here. >> deannea beaumont showed us the world food program storage facility next to
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kathmandu airport with its range of relief supplies. >> medical items shelter there's food water an sanitation equipment everything you would need in the first few moments of the disaster. >> so far they have dispatched food for 250,000 people. but their goal is to feed 1.4 million. the challenge now is reaching them. seth doane cbs news kathmandu, nepal. >> another crisis is still unfolding in the mediterranean. migrants are looking to europe, trying to escape war poverty an violence in africa and the middle east. at least 25,000 have been rescued this year including several thousand today. here's allen pizzey. >> cast a drift like so much flotsam in barely sea-worthy boats just outside syrian water this is the migrant version of a luxury cruisement luxury because the seas were calm and the italian navy was on hand to
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rescue them, over the course of a weekend described as very busy due in part to smugglers taking advantage of the good weather some 5800 people and counting including women and children have been saved by ten italian vessels four private boats and a french ship. a single packed boatload of migrants can earn the smug ef-- smugglers as much as dt 90,000 with little overhead and no fear of being caught or punished. two suspected smugglers were picked up a by the italians an by grants spoke of being brutalize thed as they waited for their place on a boat. >> in libya we were beaten and humiliated this man said. in libya life is lard. >> nearly 2,000 migrants are believed to have died on the short crossing from north africa to europe since january. but as many as 200,000 are expected to try to make the trip this year. >> most end up on the italian island of lampedusa or sicily but want to move on. european countries have been unable to agree on rules or
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quotas for accepting them. and migrants are too desperate to care. allen pizzey cbs news rome. >> forecasters say the u.s. wildfire season is not shaping up well. the area's in red here are facing above average fire potential over the next few months due in part to severe drought. the orange areas are where the danger is expected to increase. last year more than 63,000 wildfires burned over 3.6 million acres. about 90% of wildfires are caused by humans. >> a big republican presidential field in 2016 will get significantly bigger this week with at least three new entrants. nancy cordes is in our washington bureau nancy two announcements tomorrow. >> that's right, jeff. dr. ben carson is making an announcement in detroit and businesswoman carly fee reena is expected to make it official too. carson got a lot of earl he attention from social conservatives. the question is whether this famed neurosurgeon can hold
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their attention now that other more seasoned candidates with deeper pockets are getting into the race. fiorina is also viewed as something of a long shot but the former c.e.o. of hewlett-packard is trying to change that. she has been one of hillary clinton's most spoken critics on the stump and likely to be the only female candidate in this very large gop field. >> another new entrant on tuesday and a familiar face mike huckabee. >> that's right he is expected to give it another go. and he's making his announcement in his hometown of hope arkansas which incidentally is president bill clinton's hometown too. and huckabee is going to be arguing that he took on the clinton machine when he was governor of arkansas and that he can do the same now. he's actually done pretty well in early polls partly because he had his own show for several years on fox and is so well-known to gop voters. >> also on tuesday this much discussed book clinton cash is coming out which takes a critical look at the donations to the clinton
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foundation. what impact is that having on the campaign now? >> well, most of the book's contents were leaked a couple of weeks ago and spurred a lot of reporting. so i would say that most of the damage from this book has already been done. it forced the clinton foundation to admit that it made some mistakes in reporting foreign donations. hillary clinton whoseaigning in nevada this week is going to have to address some of those questions at some point but he's she hasn't yet. >> nancy cordes, thank you very much. the decision was unanimous. the reaction, not some of. following months of buildup floyd mayweather beat manny pacquaio early this morning. 3. carter evans is in las vegas. >> good luck to both of you. god bless. >> after all the fanfare for the so-called fight of the century. >> mayweather -- >> it did not deliver the knockout punch many had hoped for. the excuses came quickly for manny pacquaio. >> on the third round i already, you know feel the pain in my shoulder.
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>> floyd mayweather wasn't buying it. >> both of my arms was injured, both of my hands was injured. but like i said before i will always find a way to win. >> which of the power punches -- >> to many fans though his way to win could be summed up in one word, -- >> i've been in much better fights. >> they paid dt 130,000 for eight tickets. >> i paid a lot of money and payweather just ran around. >> but mayweather is known as a defensive fighter for his ability to dodge punches so in the end of many of his fans to got exactly what they expected wantses with it worth it. >> more than worthed. >> louis flew in from houston to be in for the bought bout. >> it didn't live up to the mooip for the casual fan but for the hard-core fan it was the greatest thing ever. >> there are at least two other people calling this night the greatest thing ever may weather and -- mayweather pay agoo are about to polit an estimated
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300 million for less than an hour in the ring. >> they took their money and went home. >> floyd mayweather has one last fight scheduled in september. manny pacquaio said he planned to retire next year but jeff his fans are now calling for a rematch. >> carter avenue an-- evans thank you very much. wages are on the rise in the u.s. but how much and what is next. and the secretary of state goes on selfie safari. when the "cbs evening news" continues. it's the purple pill. the #1 prescribed acid blocking brand. available without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protectiontm. working on my feet all day gave me pain here. in my knees. but now, i step on this machine and get my number which matches my dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic inserts. now i get immediate relief from my foot pain. my knee pain. find a machine at drscholls.com why am i so awake?
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the employment cost indexed 2.6% growth from a year ago 2.8% for the private sector, that's getting pretty close to the 3% we saw during the last expansion. so we're getting closer to normal. >> the question is why did it take so long? >> it really is about the depth of that recession. we had such a large people of-- pool of work ares willing to kind of take a job at any level. that kept a lid on wages. now perversely, of course, the fact that american companies didn't have to pay larger wages helped the stock market go up by about 175% since the bottom. good for your 401(k) not so good for a struggling worker. >> these are not mass of numbers, 2.6 2.8% you say it's part of a larger trend within they seem small but it can have a big impact and part of the reason is the price is really low. inflation at really low levels, any little increase can be the difference between living paycheck to paycheck and feeling a lot more confi -- confident about yourself and your financial position that may encourage people to go out and spend a little more and may even propel the economy
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>> rather: nine years ago coach mike pressler was a hated man. the duke lacrosse coach was forced to resign when three of his players were accused of rape. later those allegations were proven false and the prosecutor in the case disbarred. armen keteyian spoke to pressler for 60 minutes sports about his second act. >> the effect he has on his players comes with intensity. >> don't get soft with me. >> unfiltered honesty. >> physical bryant lacrosse. >> always with one purpose. >> i can't handle losing. i have-- i have a physical reaction when i was player i still have a physical reaction when i coach. >> what does it do to you. >> i don't sleepment i can't think about anything else. it consumes me. i go on long walks in the
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>> anyone who has had a baby or is expecting one knows how difficult it can be to choose a name. but most of us don't have the added pressure of an entire nation weighing in with suggestions or people hoping to make big money on it. mark phillips tonight on the royal baby name game. >> the british royals may have the business of air creation down to a science it was barely 12 hours between duchess kate's arrival at the hospital and the family's plus 1 depar ture. >> but as the grandparents visited the newest royals the expected quick reveal of the nuprin ses's name has not happened. she is still officially doesn't have one. >> the delay has been good for business.
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money has been flooding into the bookies and the longer the delay the more money floods in. >> excellent. >> this also good for the royal watching business. the royals sell papers and the longer the story goes on the more papers get sold. and in the middle of a dull election campaign in britain a royal birth says palace watcher robert hartman provides some feel-good grist for the mill. >> there is something about the pre -- predictability about it that calls our attention to it. >> we all are wonderfulfully surprised when it is a girl. it is one in two and we go it's a girl it is even more to play with over the name. >> princess what's her name may be oblivious to all the fun but there's a lot in a royal name. the sentimental favorite may have to do with the father's history. especially the father's mother. >> diana may have been the most popular royal of her time but she wasn't always a hit within the family.
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many on the palace saturday think dianea would not be the first choice for a name. >> there is a possibility that she could be queen we hope not. but i think it's traician diddal. the royal family like tradition. that is what they are all about. >> so how to turn a one-day birth into a multiday drama watch this space. mark phillips cbs news, london. >> that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs 60 minses and first thing tomorrow cbs this morning. i'm jeff glor in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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the curfew has been lifted in baltimore. the national guard is pulling out. hello i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm bruce leshan. thousands of nationals are out of their way of baltimore this evening. the governor ordered them back to their basis today. the baltimore mayor lifted that curfew. >> and he's in baltimore where a rally just ended in front of city hall. how are people reacting to these two developments? >> reporter: well deborah, among the people we talked to, there was universal relief of the process of people being able to process this themselves and with no small amount of help,

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