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kaliningrad, the fly by was intended as a brush back to warn ships not to get too close. the captain plans to ig north warning. >> this u.s. navy will continue to operate forward. continue to operate with allies and partners. and planned events at sea and in doing so we will not cede space. >> reporter: this map explains why russia is pushing back. since the end of the cold war, the nato alliance expanded from the border of germany right up to the edge of russian territory. nato aircraft now conduct exercises with countries that used to be part of the old soviet bloc. and russia won't like what is coming next. in june, 13,000 u.s. troops will take part in a large scale military exercise in poland. one of the largest since the end of the cold war. >> david martin at the pentagon. david, thank you. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ♪ ♪
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the u.s. should be preparing for war against the zika virus. but congress has not put up the nearly $2 billion that the cdc says it must have. mosquitoes are soon likely to spread the virus here. so our dr. jon lapook went to washington and extracted a promise. >> reporter: when the administration moved $600 million from fighting ebola to zika, dr. anthony fauci of nih said a stopgap measure at best. >> when the president asked for $1.9 billion. >> house speaker paul ryan. >> mr. speaker do you believe the white house when it says it need the full $1.9 billion to fight zika over and beyond what has been
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>> the money is in the pipeline. appropriators will address the issue. >> the money will be there? >> congressman tom cole chairs an appropriation subcommittee considering the administration's request. who decides whether it is truly needed? do you believe the nih and cdc? >> we do believe the nih and the cdc. we have to use the resources we have wisely. >> we need the money now. >> reporter: democrats and the white house favor emergency request which doesn't need to be funded at the expense of other programs. house minority leader nancy pelosi. >> the budget process takes a long time, practically nine months before we could ever get any other money. there is no guarantee that you'll have it, the money at the end of the year. >> reporter: at the end of the day that money will be there or went be there? >> i don't know. honestly don't know. that is what is -- has us very concerned. >> reporter: congressman cole says he understands the importance of funding. w
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work with you. >> do you have the guarantee money will be there if needed truly needed? >> yeah, they do. >> reporter: scott, yesterday the cdc confirmed, zika causes birth defects. that makes it all the more our jnt to launch a full-scale assault against the virus and mosquitoes. >> jon lapook, the best doctor on capitol hill. thank you. independent review of the chicago police found disregard for african-americans who the report says are often stopped without justification, physically abused and detained without counsel. the investigation was ordered by the mayor. dean reynolds has the the report which is being called a light shining into darkness. >> reporter: the police accountability task force shed a harsh new light on an old problem. lori lightfoot chaired the panel. >> many people said that they believe that the police they encountered were fundamentally racist. >> reporter: she said the
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department's own data validate the widely held belief the police have no regard for the san kt tee of life when it comes to people of color. between 200 # and 2015, 74% of people here shot or killed by the cops were black. 76% of the time police used tasers. they used them on black people. >> they are killing our children. >> reporter: as protesters took to the streets over the shooting death of a black teenager by cops this week, the report was urging changes in police union contracts, which it said encourage a code of silence that protects bad officers. mayor rahm emanuel. >> the question isn't does we have racism, we do. the question is what are you going to do about it? >> reporter: the mayor picked the panel after the 2014 death of 17-year-old laquan mcdonald at the hands of a white policeman who shot him 16 times and later claimed his lifeas
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in danger. among the reports, 100 recommendations, a city wide reconciliation process beginning with acknowledgement by the police of their history of bias. a hotline for police to report wrongdoing. and an expanded use of body cameras. andy shaw is with the better government association. >> the lack of accountability is staggering and more staggering why haven't we collectively done more about it up till now? >> reporter: and it is an expensive problem, too, scott. because over the last 12 years the city of chicago has had to shell out some $650 million to settle cases of police brutality. >> just yesterday, chicago swore in a new african-american police superintendent. dean, thank you very much. nine people have been killed today in an earthquake in southern japan. this is what the 6.2 quake looked like
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dozens of homes collapsed. fires broke outen a number of cities. several aftershocks have been felt. there has just been another quake 6.5 near the pacific island of vanauatu. >> two years ago today, the islamic terrorist group, boko haram kidnapped 276 school girls in nigeria. despite a worldwide campaign to free them, more than 200 are still held. now, we are seeing some of them for the first time in a terrorist video. deborah patta has the it. >> reporter: soft-spoken, eyes downcast. the girls answer the voice off camera. they're being treated well. but they want to go home. boko haram claims it made the video last december. we can't verify the date. today, parents instantly
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the video. esther yakuba was devastated when she didn't spot her daughter. two years after the girls were kidnapped their school lies abandoned. the nigerian government has been unable to free the girls or even find them. a source close to the negotiations told us, boko haram demanded a large ransom and prisoner release in exchange for the girls. but it all fell apart when the government refused to pay. according to human rights groups, boko haram kidnapped over 2,000 girls in last two years. those who managed to escape often end up in refugee camps in neighboring cameroon. they tell harrowing stories of rape, being forced to marry the fighters, even being groomed as suicide bombers. today, relatives of the missing girls accused the government of failing to put enough
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all we want, said one, is for the government to bring back our girls. for now, negotiations between the nigerian government and boko haram have completely stalled. there have been reports since the kidnappings that some of the girls might have been moved out of the country or even killed. but the bottom line, scott, is that two years on, not a single girl has been found. >> debora patta reporting from johannesburg, south africa. debora, thank you. still ahead, once in danger. the creatures have made a come back. not everyone is happy. >> and the wars yerz' record season. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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beaches off cape cod are packed months ahead of tourist season. the visitors are in no hurry to leave. we sent don dahler to check it out. >> reporter: a pilot flying over
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image, gray and harbor seals basking in the sun. not unusual to see seals this time of year. what's unusual seeing this man from this perspective. marine biologist owen nichols studied them for 15 years. >> they were ex-term natd, extripated from the waters since the 60s. you are seeing a resurgence of seals. >> they're not hunted because they're federally protected. >> correct. >> reporter: before 19723 when marine mammal protection act went into effect. sightings of even a single seal were rare. but today, we spotted hundreds on the unin habted nature research where the aerial video was shot. biologists say resurgence of seals here is likely one of the reasons there has also been a rise in the number of sharks in the waters looking for food. researchers counted 68 great whites off cape cod in 2014. that number doubled
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year. but the hoards of seals are not only attracting sharks, local fishermen like doug feeney say they're eating to many fish. >> to us as fishermen, that's way too much. it's very taxing on us. >> reporter: an 800 pound male could consume 6% of his body weight each day. that's 50 pounds of fish including valuable species like cod and flounder. feeney and the biologists nichols are part of an ally yauch alliance, trying to find middle ground between conservation and protecting the livelihood of the fishermen. >> don dahler at the beach for us. thank you very much. you couldn't have scripted a better ending for one of the nba's all time greats. that's next.
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a lot of basketball fans were watching two big games. kobe bryant had a hollywood ending for his career. seemed like half of hollywood was there as he scored 60 points in the lakers win over utah. bryant's retiring after 20 seasons and five championships. up the coast, the warriors capped off a golden season beating memphis. the 73rd victory it set an nba record. steph curry led the way with 46 points. becoming the first to 400 three pointers in one season. up next the healing power of the arts.
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more than 1,200 days have passed since the massacre of 20 first graders and six adults at sandy hook elementary in connecticut. but for their families and classmates the pain is still fresh. elaine quijano shows us how the arts are helping the healing. >> one of my best friend, i lost him. >> tain gregory was in third grade when his playmate, first grader ben wheeler was killed. >> i sometimes, i still have dreams about him. i can still see, talk to him. >> reporter: what do you say to him? >> like, what i would usually say if he has gone on a trip or something like, how have you been? do you miss your friend and everything?
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>> reporter: tain hid under a table during the shooting. later, his mother sophfronia told him his friend was gone. >> he just wailed in a way i wish i could have taken it all back. dealing with death is hard for anyone. but for a child especially when it is another child it is extremely huge. >> reporter: when a group of broadway actors came to newtown offering an outlet for emotion, sophfronia knew tain had to take it. ♪ sunset i would like to remind you i am not really a lion." he joined the cast of shakespeare's mid 6 summer night's dream. the process, was documented in a film called "midsummer in newtown:behind the scenes look at a community's trauma and healing." >> this is a result of people saying "there is this great tragedy, now what do we do?"
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nelba marques-greene and her husband jimmy lost their daughter ana they stand by production, as they grieve along with their son, isaiah. >> you certainly can't raise a grieving child by yourself. >> reporter: young actors regaining their footing and finding their voice. ♪ it's the part of the story >> a big part of the story of newtown. that for some, there can be moments of triumph and moments of feeling like you know we are moving forward, but for all of us, who are dealing on a daily basis with our loss there will be lifelong grieving process. ♪ >> if he can take ahold of this, he can take ahold of anything. ♪ >> reporter: what do you think ben would have thought of your performan performance? >> i think he would have loved it. >> elaine kwuchlt i-- quijano. that's the overnight news for this friday. fome
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check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. hi, welcome to the overnight news. i'm demarco morgan. the new york primary just four days away. the democratic presidential candidates got together in brooklyn for the final debate of the campaign. polls show hillary clinton with a ten point lead over bernie sanders in new york. sanders was determined to close the gap before the ballots are cast. here is some of what the candidates had to say. >> senator sanders keeps bringing up speeches you gave to goldman sachs. i would look to ask you -- you said you don't want to release the transcripts until everybody does it. but if there is nothing in the speeches that you think would change voters' minds, why not just release the transcripts and put this whole issue to bed? >> you know -- first of all --
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issue. when i was in public service, serving as the senator from new york, i did stand up to the banks. i did make it clear that their behavior would not be excused. i amount only one on this stage who did not vote to deregulate swaps and derivatives as senator sanders did which led to a lot of the problems that we had with lehman brothers. now if you are going to look at the problems that actually caused the great recession, you got to look at the whole picture. it was a giant insurance company, aig, it was an investment bank, lehman brothers, it was mortgage companies like country wide. i'm not saying that senator sanders did something untoward when he voted to deregulate swaps and derivatives, but the fact is, he did. and that contributed to the collapse of the
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that started the cascade -- >> senator sanders, one second, please. >> sequester terry clcretary cl question was about the transcript of the speeches to goldman sacks. [ applause ] >> there are certain expectations when you run for president. this is a new one. and i have said if everybody agrees to do it, because, there are speeches from money on the other side. i know that. but i will tell you this. there is -- there is a long standing expectation that everybody running release their tax returns and you can go, you can go to my website and see eight years of tax returns. and i have released 30 years of tax returns. and i think every candidate including senator sanders and donald trump should do the same. >> sequester tercretary clintont to the tax returns to. put a button on this. you are running now f
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democratic nomination. it is your democratic opponent and many democratic vote whurz wawhurz -- voters who want to see the transcripts. [ applause ] >> let -- you know -- let's set the same standard for everybody. when everybody does it okay. i will do it. let's set and expect the same standard on tax returns. everybody does it. and then we move forward. >> thank you. well let me respond. secretary clinton, you just heard her, everybody else does it she will do it. i will do it. i am going to release all of the transcripts of the speeches that i gave on wall street behind closed doors not for $225,000, not for $2,000, not for 2 cents. there were no speeches. in other news the white house announced new measures designed to fight thep
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of prescription drug abuse. more than 14,000 americans died in 2014 from misuse and abuse of prescription opioids. jim axelrod has been investigating the story heave spoke to one doctor who admits he prescribes oxycodone to all most every one of his patients. that physician is under investigation after one patient died. some of the highest opioid prescription rates in the country writing 138 prescriptions for every 100 people. in three months seven doctors in west virginia have had their licenses suspended for revoked including the doctor who spock with us. at the end of this narrow, unpaved, pothole filled two mile logging road, doctor kostenko operates the clinic. treating patients for pain. >> reporter: what percentage of your patients get prescriptions for oxycodone? >> nearly
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>> reporter: how many patients do you have? >> at any given time, we are 800 to 1,000 active patients. >> reporter: one of west virginia's top ten prescribers of painkillers, he has written more than 40,000 prescriptions for oxycodone in the last two years. even he can't keep track of exactly how many prescriptions he writes. did you write 325 prescriptions the first week of january for more than 19,000 oxycodone pills? >> um -- possibly. >> reporter: you don't know how many prescriptions you wrote? >> i don't, it may well be. >> there is a lot of stress going on. >> reporter: the doctor hosts group sessions at his clinic where he explains his approach to treating disease and pain through changes indict and behavior. >> more and more of the toxins are going to got through. after filling out a medical self assessment, each pash end
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$120 in cash. at the end of each class they're handed their prescriptions for pain meds. there are hardly ever private exams. >> there is very little we need to do in private. >> reporter: in other word. conversation, confidential abut my use of pain medication that wouldn't occur in private? >> everyone is on the same pain medication. >> reporter: in last two years, three of the doctor's patients have died after overdosing on a cocktail of pills. including oxycodone prescribed by the doctor along with pills prescribed by other physicians. don't you have an obligation to talk to the other doctors? to make sure that cocktail isn't fatal? >> if the conversation would be productive, absolutely. >> reporter: well the patient is dead. how could the conversation be any less productive than what happened? >> there should be better communication between all ph
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drugs. there just is not. >> reporter: the executive director of west virginia's board of medicine. you have 14 people in your office. one is an investigator. and this is the state with the largest oxycodone abuse problem in the country? >> yes. >> reporter: sounds like you are saying this with a little bit of exasperation? >> we are overwhelmed. >> reporter: the state suspended the doctor's license while they investigate the deaths and decide to revoke his license. didn't help his case when discussing one of the deaths with us. a woman being medicated by another physician. and the doctor never consulted with. do you bear any responsibility for that death? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: as he explains it, dr. kostenko wishes the hospital where his patient was being treated reached out tomb hicht. he told us he didn't know how bad her condition was. new investion
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there is an educational success story in one of the toughest neighborhood in newark, new jersey. saint benedict's prep, a catholic high school, 85% of its students go on to earn college degrees. the school pretty much run by the students. their motto is whatever hurts my brother. hurts me. scott pelley has the story for "60 minutes." >> reporter: before newark had a skyline, saint benedict's red brick campus rose on a hill. over decades its walls have grown. but it's no citadel against the world. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: inside is the inner city. half the boys are black.
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another third hispanic. and nearly all come from low-income neighborhood. they call each other brother. and every morning all 550 grades 7 through 12, celebrate a revival. >> turn to somebody to your right and left, remind them i love you. >> reporter: their day begins with a chant they call the affirmation. you can be any good thing you want to be. go and conquer. >> you go and conquer! happy thursday! >> reporter: if you don't see discipline, just watch. senior group leader bruce davis has orderen the palm of his hand. >> hand down. group leaders stand for attendance. >> reporter: this is a large part of what
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benedict's rare and successful. students are required to run much of the school. davis is their elected leader. >> benedicts is different than the guys you see outside every single day. we learn what we are willing to accept which is nothing but the best, nothing but finishing what we started. >> reporter: students are organized into groups that compete for the top grades. so the boys press each other to study. the student groups coordinate events and set the schedules. that's the school motto. whatever hurts my brother hurts me. if one guy is missing, you know about it. >> i know who is missing, yeah. >> reporter: do you ever send a team to go out find somebody out on the street? >> that's exactly. if he is out, the parents don't know where he is, we have to find him. he has to be in school. r
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charge was a revelation nearly 50 years ago of this benedictine munch. head master edward leahy. >> reporter: with the kids running their school, i wonder how often do you have to get in front of a really bad decision? >> you hope you can sort them out afterwards. >> reporter: afterward. you let them make the mistake? >> that is a better learning experience for them. >> reporter: you know there are teachers and administrators watching this interview right now who are saying, he is describing chaos. >> i guess. >> reporter: chaos wasn't tolerated when leahy was a student here in the days of 1959. he joined the faculty shortly after the riots in '67 when white families were fleeing newark. and the decision was made to close the school? >> 1972. difficult decision. >> reporter: and there was talk of closing the monastery itself. >> there were
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some wanted to do it and move it some where else. >> reporter: not you. >> not me. >> reporter: the school closed for one year, then leahy at age 26, decided to try again. >> i don't think it was right to, to, participating in the racism to allow people outside to think that somehow that the school closed because of african-americans, increasing numbers of african-americans. >> you didn't do anything to get the talent. somehow god gave tight you. >> reporter: he had no idea how to run a school. but he took inspiration from the good book. the boy scout handbook which organizes boys to lead themselves. for incoming freshmen there is a boot camp. and during a sleepover in the gym they learn saint benedict's history and what's expected. >> you need to be on the same page or else you will do it again. >> reporter: it c
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like marine corps than common core. >> you follow me, right now! >> reporter: ten years a graduate enlisted midshipmen from the u.s. naval academy to add their inspiration. >> get back there and start again. now. we got the sense the guys would have been happier without the help. >> why are you on your knees while your brothers are pushing? >> the main point is to make the freshmen or incoming freshmen realize that the guys around him are there for him no matter how hard the situation can get. >> reporter: traumatized? not really. the boy scouts do it. the marine corps does it. street gangs do it. >> all the same thing. has the the same structure as a gang except you can only be in one gang. only been ours. if you are another gang in newark, you can't be here. >> reporter: saint benedict's is private, school year is 11 months, there is an entrance
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exceptions are made as you will see a little later. a bigger barrier to families would be the annual tuition of $12,000. but 80% pay only half which leaves leahy looking for another $6 million a year. >> it is the alumni. >> alumni. business here in town. and the philanthropic community. >> reporter: god works in mysterious ways. >> all the time. all the time. >> reporter: we discovered something mysterious about leahy, he cringes when you bring up sports. not because he is losing -- >> saint benedict's prep. >> reporter: his basketball team is ranked ninth nationally. his soccer team finished first in the nation. but leahy believes it is education that saves lives. devean johnson is a sophomore we met in his downtown neighborhood. >> this neighborhood is gang infested.
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>> devean lives with his grandmother a mile from saint benedict's and a doorstep from trouble. >> reporter: when we drove up and got out in the parking lot. couldn't help but notice this, 9 millimeter right here in front of your house. do you hear gunfire around here much? >> yeah. so, i mean -- >> reporter: what have you seen? >> two years in this neighborhood -- i feel like i have seen it all. all it is same situation different faces. >> reporter: how do you steer clear of that? >> first you have to realize what type of person you want to be in life. ♪ he won't let me go >> reporter: dev effortean real what kind of person he wanted to be while wandering in the wilderness. each spring, upper-classmen lead new students on a four-day,
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street smarts won't carry you far on the appalachian trail. >> the only class in the school that 9 8% is a failing grade. get 98% of the way down the trail you didn't get to the bus to bring you back hope. >> reporter: devean's group, one class mate decided 98% was all he had. >> you got to keep pushing, brother. >> that's crazy though. >> i said you are not going to quit in front of the camera. this is "60 minutes." don't quit. keep going. so, eventually we finally make it up this mountain. i was so relieved. >> reporter: at the summit, they caught a breathtaking view of character. >> i am just really excited to be here with y'all. and i really want to let you all know
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brothers. >> bring it in. >> yeah. all right. you can see the full report on our web site, cbsnews.com. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. a dramatic transformation -without the need for fillers. your concert tee might show your age...your skin never will. olay regenerist. olay. ageless. and try the micro-sculpting cream you love... ...now with lightweight spf 30 and to keep thosew they fdarks from fading... there's woolite darks. it's free of harsh ingredients, keeping dark clothes looking like new for 30 washes so your love for dark clothes will never fade. woolite darks.
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lab. don't get them confused with imitation gems, these home grown diamonds are the real thing and cost almost as much as the ones dug out of the ground. john blackstone has the story. >> reporter: at this silicon valley startup. engineers are doing in weeks what takes nature millions of years. >> just like out of the mine our growth chambers produce a rough diamond. ro >> reporter: they're making diamonds, chief technology officer of the diamond foundary shows of some of what they create. >> for us in a few weeks we produce a 1 carat stone with plasma and with chemistry we are accelerating the same processes that happen in the earth. >> reporter: to protect their secrets from the competition, the diamond founddary provided glimpses of the machines at 10,000 fahrenheit rearrange car been
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>> to the lay person it would be hard to see differences. john king is chief officer of the gemological institute of america, he grades diamonds and says there is little difference those mined from the earth and those grown in a machine. >> they're beth diamond. they have the same chemical properties. the same physical properties. but i think there is always that interest in items that have occurred naturally. >> reporter: which begs the question can a diamond made in a laboratory ever satisfy one of the most famous lines in advertising. >> a diamond is forever. >> reporter: the world's leading diamond producer, told cbs this morning, the finite nature of natural diamond makes them valuable. synthetic diamond can be mass produced and will not retain value over time. and retailers like kays and zales says none of their stories carry lab grown diamond. the
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said there is nothing romantic about environmental damage caused by mining. >> this day and age mining of diamond does not make any sense. >> reporter: what people know about mine diamond is they were made deep in the earth over millions of years. they are very rare the that's why they're special. >> diamond in the earth are not rare. the mining cartel just controls the piece of extraction. >> reporter: the diamond industry has been linked to human rights abuse in africa. and was inspiration behind the movie "blood diamond." >> america, it is bling-bling. >> when leo dicaprio heard of the diamond foundry, he became an early investor. >> we want to be a choice. >> reporter: whether diamond are coming from the earth or silicon
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an apparent cease-fire in the war of words between gop candidate donald trump and fox news commentator megyn kelly. >> reporter: donald trump is in serious political trouble with women voters, possible complication as he tries to sweep primaries in the northeast where gop instincts are less aggressively conservative. in the middle of this, trump took a call from megyn kelly of fox news. and the outlines of a truce ending one of the nastiest trump tantrums of the campaign it began to emerge. >> i had a meeting with donald trump. the meeting was at my request. and mr. trump was gracious enough to agree to it. >> reporter: the meeting wednesday at trump tower marked the first thaw in the trump-kelly feud. >> maybe it was time or maybe she felt it was time. by the way, in all fairness, i give her a lot of credit for, for doing whathe
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between the two began last summer at the first gop debate. >> you called women you don't like, fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals. your twitter account. >> only rosie o'donnell. >> reporter: and escalated from there. >> you know you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes -- blood coming out of her, wherever. >> i have zero respect for megyn kelly. i don't think she is very good at what she does. >> on twitter trump revisit his kelly file frequently. branding her a lightweight. some one no one would want to woo. overrated and hostile to trump's campaign. kelly foreshadowed a journalistic settlement with trump on a cbs sunday morning interview with charlie rose earlier this month. >> donald trump says i want to come on your show? would you say you are welcome come on, we have a spot for you? >> absolutely. >> it does not require an apology from him? >> oh, god no.
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69% of women have an unfavorable opinion of trump. only 19% view him favorably. the executive editor of the hollywood reporter. >> a reconciliation of sorts with megyn kelly probably could help him. i think kelly knows that. she is going to try to leverage that to get everything she can out of him. >> kelly hinted she may interview trump on her show in the near future. dragging out the drama may be good for both parties. fox news has incentive to keep this drama going. it is a drama. people are very interested and invested in what's going on between donald trump and megyn kelly. kelly has never flinched in the battle with trump. before kelly joined fox she was a litigator that handled complex depositions in court rat cacase grilling businessmen. >> check back with u
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later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm demarco morgan. tonight, a new cbs news poll finds out who americans believe has the best shot to win the white house. secretary kerry says the u.s. navy destroyer would have been within its rights to shoot down the russian war planes that buzzed it. a population explosion off cape cod. and are they hungry. and -- ♪ i'm not really a lion >> using the drama of shakespeare to work through the trauma of sandy hook. >> some times i still have dreams about him. i can still see and talk to him. we begin with a new cbs news poll. it shows democrat hillary clinton would beat
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donald trump by 10 points in a head-to-head match up. she would defeat ted cruz by 3 points. the only republican who beats clinton is john kasich. now, have a look at this. bernie sanders does clinton one better. he beats all the republicans. trump by 17 points. sanders and clinton debated in brooklyn last night. five days before the new york primary. here is some of what they said. >> tiff there is nothing in the speeches that you think would change voters minds, why not release the transcripts and put the whole issue to bed. >> you know, first of all, first of all -- >> there isn't an issue. when i was in public service, serving as senator fromew
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york, i did stand up to the banks. i did make it clear their behavior would not excused. i am the only one on this stage that did not vote to deregulate swaps and derivatives as senator sanders did which led to a lot of the problems that we had with leahman brothers. now if you are going to look at the problems at the problems that caused great recession. you have to look at the whole picture. it was a giant insurance company, aig. it was an investment bank, lehman brothers. it was mortgage companies like country wide. i'm not saying that senator sanders did something untoward when he voted to deregulate swaps and derivatives. >> madam secretary -- >> he did. and that contributed to the collapse of lehman brothers. that created the cascade -- >> secretary clinton, we will get to the tax returns later, to put a button on this you. are running now for the democratic nomination.
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>> right. >> and -- it is your democratic opponent and many democratic voters who want to see those transcripts. it is not about the republicans. [ applause ] >> you know, let's set the same standard for everybody. when everybody does it okay, i will do it. let's set and the same standard on tax returns. everybody does it and we move forward. >> thank you. let me respond, secretary clinton, you just heard her. everybody else does it. she'll do it. i will do it. i am going to release all of the transcripts of the speeches that i gave on wall street behind closed doors, not for 225,000, not for 2,000, not for 2 cents. there were no speeches.
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>> americans don't seem to look their choices very much. our new poll shows three candidates have a big problem with likability. 54% of registered voters have an unfavorable opinion of clinton. for trump it is 363%. for trump it is 63%. and cruz, 48%. one thing trump doesn't like is the gop rule book for winning delegates. here's major garrett. >> it is the politicians. >> donald trump can't stop complaining about republican nomination rules. especially after losing all 34 colorado delegates to ted cruz at the state convention last weekend. >> people are just furious. the republican folks they have taken their vote away. they didn't have the right to vote. i think it is a very sad situation. >> cruz said his better organized campaign won fair and square. >> my focus is on winning because donald is the nominee doesn't win. he gets clobbered by hillary clinton. and the stakes are too great. >> reporter: last night cruz -- accused trump supporters of
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using threatening tactics and seeking to intimidate anti-trump delegates at the gop. >> they're acting like union boss thugs. >> reporter: the fight might not end at the convention. the latest cbs news poll shows 63% of trump supporters want him to run as a third party candidate if he loses the nomination. although probable cause exists, the state will not file this case. >> reporter: trump's campaign did clear up one matter today, campaign manager, cory lewandowski will not be prosecuted for simple battery after grabbing a reporter's arm in march, palm county prosecutor david aronberg. >> while the evidence is legally sufficient for the police to have charged mr. lewandowski it is not strong enough to meet the legal burden of a reasonable likelihood of a conviction. >> reporter: lewandowski broke the news to trump during a meeting. scott, lewandowski thanked trump for his steadfast loyalty. p
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as effective for the past couple months. >> major, thanks very much. in another important story tonight the u.s. destroyer that was buzzed by russian fighters this week had the right to open fire according to secretary of state john kerry today. we asked david martin to tell us why the russians are tempting fate. >> reporter: the uss donald cook pulled into port in lithuania for what was supposed to be a good will visit to a nato ally but turned into a press conference about his run-in with russian jets. commander charles hampton said he had seen them coming from a long way off. >> we tracked them for a length of time. i had a track on both aircraft, 100 nautical miles away. >> reporter: they kept coming, very fast, very low and very close. flying what appeared to be a mock attack. although they were not carrying any weapons under their wings. the cook was operating in the baltic sea in international waters 70 miles off the coast of the russian enclave of
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kaliningrad, the fly by was intended as a brush back to warn ships not to get too close. but the ship's captain plans to ignore the warning. >> this u.s. navy will continue to operate forward. continue to operate with allies and partners. and planned events at sea and in doing so we will not cede space. >> reporter: this map explains why russia is pushing back. since the end of the cold war, the nato alliance expanded from the border of germany right up to the edge of russian territory. nato aircraft now conduct exercises with countries that used to be part of the old soviet bloc. and russia won't like what is coming next. in june, 13,000 u.s. troops will take part in a large scale military exercise in poland. one of the largest since the end of the cold war. >> david martin at the pentagon. david, thank you. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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♪ ♪ the u.s. should be preparing for war against the zika virus. but congress has not put up the nearly $2 billion that the cdc says it must have. mosquitoes are soon likely to spread the virus here. so our dr. jon lapook went to washington and extracted a promise. >> reporter: when the administration moved $600 million from fighting ebola to zika, dr. anthony fauci of nih said a stopgap measure at best. >> when the president asked for $1.9 billion. we needed $1.9 billion. >> house speaker paul ryan. >> mr. speaker do you believe the white house when it says it need the full $1.9 billion to fight zika over and beyond what has been allocated. >> the money i t
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appropriators will address the issue. >> the money will be there? >> congressman tom cole chairs an appropriation subcommittee considering the administration's request. who decides whether it is truly needed? do you believe the nih and cdc? >> we do believe the nih and the cdc. we have to use the resources we have wisely. >> we need the money now. >> reporter: democrats and the white house favor emergency request which doesn't need to be funded at the expense of other programs. house minority leader nancy pelosi. >> the budget process takes a long time, practically nine months before we could ever get any other money. there is no guarantee that you'll have it, the money at the end of the year. >> reporter: at the end of the day that money will be there or went be there? >> i don't know. honestly don't know.
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that is what is -- has us very concerned. >> reporter: congressman cole says he understands the importance of funding. >> we have a guarantee we will work with you. >> do you have the guarantee money will be there if needed truly needed? >> yeah, they do. >> reporter: scott, yesterday the cdc confirmed, zika causes birth defects. that makes it all the more urgent to launch a full-stale assault against the virus and mosquitoes. >> jon lapook, the best doctor on capitol hill. thank you. independent review of the chicago police found disregard for african-americans who the report says are often stopped without justification, physically abused and detained without counsel. the investigation was ordered by the mayor. dean reynolds has the report which is being called a light shining into darkness. >> reporter: the police accountability task force shed a harsh new light on an old problem. lori lightfoot chaired the panel. >> many people said that they believe that theic
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encountered were fundamentally racist. >> reporter: she said the department's own data validate the widely held belief the police have no regard for the san kt tee of life when it comes to people of color. between 200 # and 2015, 74% of people here shot or killed by the cops were black. 76% of the time police used tasers. they used them on black people. >> they are killing our children. >> reporter: as protesters took to the streets over the shooting death of a black teenager by cops this week, the report was urging changes in police union contracts, which it said encourage a code of silence that protects bad officers. mayor rahm emanuel. >> the question isn't does we have racism, we do. the question is what are you going to do about it? >> reporter: the mayor picked the panel after the 2014 death of 17-year-old laquan mcdonald at the hands of a white policeman who shot him 16 times
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and later claimed his life was in danger. among the reports, 100 recommendations, a city wide reconciliation process beginning with acknowledgement by the police of their history of bias. a hotline for police to report wrongdoing. and an expanded use of body cameras. andy shaw is with the better government association. >> the lack of accountability is staggering and more staggering why haven't we collectively done more about it up till now? >> reporter: and it is an expensive problem, too, scott. because over the last 12 years the city of chicago has had to shell out some $650 million to settle cases of police brutality. >> just yesterday, chicago swore in a new african-american police superintendent. dean, thank you very much.
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today in an earthquake in southern japan. this is what the 6.2 quake looked like in the newsroom. dozens of homes collapsed. fires broke outen a number of cities. several aftershocks have been felt. there has just been another quake 6.5 near the pacific island of vanauatu. >> two years ago today, the islamic terrorist group, boko haram kidnapped 276 school girls in nigeria. despite a worldwide campaign to free them, more than 200 are still held. now, we are seeing some of them for the first time in a terrorist video. deborah patta has the it. >> reporter: soft-spoken, eyes downcast. the girls answer the voice off camera. they're being treated well. but they want to go home. boko haram claims it made the video last december. we can't verify the date. today, parents instantly
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recognized the school girls on the video. esther yakuba was devastated when she didn't spot her daughter. two years after the girls were kidnapped their school lies abandoned. the nigerian government has been unable to free the girls or even find them. a source close to the negotiations told us, boko haram demanded a large ransom and prisoner release in exchange for the girls. but it all fell apart when the government refused to pay. according to human rights groups, boko haram kidnapped over 2,000 girls in last two years. those who managed to escape often end up in refugee camps in neighboring cameroon. they tell harrowing stories of rape, being forced to marry the fighters, even being groomed as suicide bombers. today, relatives of the missing girls accused the government of failing to put enough resource
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into the search. all we want, said one, is for the government to bring back our girls. for now, negotiations between the nigerian government and boko haram have completely stalled. there have been reports since the kidnappings that some of the girls might have been moved out of the country or even killed. but the bottom line, scott, is that two years on, not a single girl has been found. >> debora patta reporting from johannesburg, south africa. debora, thank you. still ahead, once in danger. the creatures have made a come back. not everyone is happy. >> and the warriors record season. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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beaches off cape cod are packed months ahead of tourist season. the visitors are in no hurry to leave. we sent don dahler to check it out. >> reporter: a pilot flying over monomoy island captured an
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image, miles and miles of gray and harbor seals basking in the sun. not unusual to see seals this time of year. what's unusual seeing this man from this perspective. marine biologist owen nichols studied them for 15 years. why has the seal population increased over the last few decades? >> they were essentially exterminated, extripated from the waters since the 60s. you are seeing a resurgence of seals. >> they're not hunted because they're federally protected. >> correct. >> reporter: before 1972, when marine mammal protection act went into effect. sightings of even a single seal were rare. but today, we spotted hundreds on the uninhabited nature reserve where the aerial video was shot. biologists say resurgence of seals here is likely one of the reasons there has also been a rise in the number of sharks in the waters looking for food.
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researchers counted 68 great whites off cape cod in 2014. that number doubled to 140 last year. but the hoards of seals are not only attracting sharks, local fishermen like doug feeney say they're eating to many fish. >> to us as fishermen, that's way too much. it's very taxing on us. >> reporter: an 800 pound male could consume 6% of his body weight each day. that's 50 pounds of fish including valuable species like cod and flounder. feeney and the biologists nichols are part of an ally alliance, trying to find middle ground between conservation and protecting the livelihood of the fishermen. >> don dahler at the beach for us. thank you very much. you couldn't have scripted a better ending for one of the nba's all time greats. that's next.
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a lot of basketball fans were watching two big games. kobe bryant had a hollywood ending for his career. seemed like half of hollywood was there as he scored 60 points in the lakers win over utah. bryant's retiring after 20 seasons and five championships. up the coast, the warriors capped off a golden season beating memphis. the 73rd victory it set an nba record. steph curry led the way with 46 points. becoming the first to 400 three pointers in one season. up next the healing power of the arts.
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more than 1,200 days have passed since the massacre of 20 first graders and six adults at sandy hook elementary in connecticut. but for their families and classmates the pain is still fresh. elaine quijano shows us how the arts are helping the healing. >> one of my best friend, i lost him. >> tain gregory was in third grade when his playmate, first grader ben wheeler was killed. >> i sometimes, i still have dreams about him. i can still see, talk to him. >> reporter: what do you say to him? >> like, what i would usually say if he has gone on a trip or something like, how have you been? do you miss your friend and
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everything? >> reporter: tain hid under a table during the shooting. later, his mother sophfronia told him his friend was gone. >> he just wailed in a way i wish i could have taken it all back. dealing with death is hard for anyone. but for a child especially when it is another child it is extremely huge. >> reporter: when a group of broadway actors came to newtown offering an outlet for emotion, sophfronia knew tain had to take it. ♪ sunset i would like to remind you i am not really a lion." he joined the cast of shakespeare's mid 6 summer night's dream. the process, was documented in a film called "midsummer in newtown:behind the scenes look at a community's trauma and healing." >> this is a result of people saying "there is this great tragedy, now what do we do?" nelba marques-greene and her husband jimmy lost their
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daughter ana they stand by production, as they grieve along with their son, isaiah. >> you certainly can't raise a grieving child by yourself. >> reporter: young actors regaining their footing and finding their voice. ♪ it's the part of the story >> a big part of the story of newtown. that for some, there can be moments of triumph and moments of feeling like you know we are moving forward, but for all of us, who are dealing on a daily basis with our loss there will be lifelong grieving process. ♪ >> if he can take ahold of this, he can take ahold of anything. ♪ >> reporter: what do you think ben would have thought of your performance? >> i think he would have loved it. >> elaine -- quijano. that's the overnight news for this friday. for some the news continues
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check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. hi, welcome to the overnight news. i'm demarco morgan. the new york primary just four days away. the democratic presidential candidates got together in brooklyn for the final debate of the campaign. polls show hillary clinton with a ten point lead over bernie sanders in new york. sanders was determined to close the gap before the ballots are cast. here is some of what the candidates had to say. >> senator sanders keeps bringing up speeches you gave to goldman sachs. i would like to ask you, you said you don't want to release the transcripts until everybody does it. but if there is nothing in the speeches that you think would change voters' minds, why not just release the transcripts and
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>> you know -- first of all -- first of all -- there isn't an issue. when i was in public service, serving as the senator from new york, i did stand up to the banks. i did make it clear that their behavior would not be excused. i am the only one on this stage who did not vote to deregulate swaps and derivatives as senator sanders did which led to a lot of the problems that we had with lehman brothers. now if you are going to look at the problems that actually caused the great recession, you got to look at the whole picture. it was a giant insurance company, aig, it was an investment bank, lehman brothers, it was mortgage companies like country wide. i'm not saying that senator sanders did something untoward when he voted to deregulate swaps and derivatives, but the fact is, he did. and that contributed to the collapse of the lehman brothers thatrt
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>> senator sanders, one second, please. >> secretary clinton, the question was about the transcript of the speeches to goldman sacks. [ applause ] >> there are certain expectations when you run for president. this is a new one. and i have said if everybody agrees to do it, because, there are speeches from money on the other side. i know that. but i will tell you this. there is -- there is a long standing expectation that everybody running release their tax returns and you can go, you can go to my website and see eight years of tax returns. and i have released 30 years of tax returns. and i think every candidate including senator sanders and donald trump should do the same. >> secretary clinton we will get to the tax returns to. put a button on this. you are running now for the democratic nominatio
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and many democratic voters who want to see those transcripts. it is not about the republicans. [ applause ] >> let -- you know -- let's set the same standard for everybody. when everybody does it okay. i will do it. let's set and expect the same standard on tax returns. everybody does it. and then we move forward. >> thank you. well let me respond. secretary clinton, you just heard her, everybody else does it she will do it. i will do it. i am going to release all of the transcripts of the speeches that i gave on wall street behind closed doors not for $225,000, not for $2,000, not for 2 cents. there were no speeches. in other news the white house recently announced new meur
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epidemic of prescription drug abuse. more than 14,000 americans died in 2014 from misuse and abuse of prescription opioids. jim axelrod has been investigating the story heave spoke to one doctor who admits he prescribes oxycodone to all most every one of his patients. that physician is under investigation after one patient died. some of the highest opioid prescription rates in the country writing 138 prscriptions for every 100 people. in three months seven doctors in west virginia have had their licenses suspended for revoked including the doctor who spoke with us. at the end of this narrow, unpaved, pothole filled two mile logging road, doctor kostenko operates the clinic. treating patients for pain. >> reporter: what percentage of your patients get prescriptions
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for oxycodone? >> nearly 100%. >> reporter: how many patients do you have? >> at any given time, we are 800 to 1,000 active patients. >> reporter: one of west virginia's top ten prescribers of painkillers, he has written more than 40,000 prescriptions for oxycodone in the last two years. even he can't keep track of exactly how many prescriptios he writes. did you write 325 prescriptions the first week of january for more than 19,000 oxycodone pills? >> um -- possibly. >> reporter: you don't know how many prescriptions you wrote? >> i don't, it may well be. >> there is a lot of stress going on. >> reporter: the doctor hosts group sessions at his clinic where he explains his approach to treating disease and pain through changes indict and behavior. >> more and more of the toxins are going to got through. after filling out a medical self assessment, each patient pays $120 in cash.
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at the end of each class they're handed their prescriptions for pain meds. there are hardly ever private exams. >> there is very little we need to do in private. >> reporter: in other words. conversation, confidential abut my use of pain medication that wouldn't occur in private? >> everyone is on the same pain medication. >> reporter: in last two years, three of the doctor's patients have died after overdosing on a cocktail of pills. including oxycodone prescribed by the doctor along with pills prescribed by other physicians. don't you have an obligation to talk to the other doctors? to make sure that cocktail isn't fatal? >> if the conversation would be productive, absolutely. >> reporter: well the patient is dead. how could the conversation be any less productive than what
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communication between all physicians dealing with these drugs. there just is not. >> reporter: the executive director of west virginia's board of medicine. you have 14 people in your office. one is an investigator. and this is the state with the largest oxycodone abuse problem in the country? >> yes. >> reporter: sounds like you are saying this with a little bit of exasperation? >> we are overwhelmed. >> reporter: the state suspended the doctor's license while they investigate the deaths and decide to revoke his license. didn't help his case when discussing one of the deaths with us. a woman being medicated by another physician. and the doctor never consulted with. do you bear any responsibility for that death? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: as he explains it, dr. kostenko wishes the hospital where his patient was being treated reached out to him.
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there is an educational success story in one of the toughest neighborhood in newark, new jersey. saint benedict's prep, a catholic high school, 85% of its students go on to earn college degrees. the school pretty much run by the students. their motto is whatever hurts my brother. hurts me. scott pelley has the story for "60 minutes." >> reporter: before newark had a skyline, saint benedict's red brick campus rose on a hill. over decades its walls have grown. but it's no citadel against the
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world. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: inside is the inner city. half the boys are black. another third hispanic. and nearly all come from low-income neighborhood. they call each other brother. and every morning all 550 grades 7 through 12, celebrate a revival. >> turn to somebody to your right and left, remind them i love you. >> reporter: their day begins with a chant they call the affirmation. you can be any good thing you want to be. go and conquer. >> you go and conquer! happy thursday! >> reporter: if you don't see discipline, just watch. senior group leader bruce davis has orderen the palm of his hand. >> hand down. group leaders stand for attendance. >> reporter: this is a large
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part of what makes saint benedict's rare and successful. students are required to run much of the school. davis is their elected leader. >> benedicts is different than the guys you see outside every single day. we learn what we are willing to accept which is nothing but the best, nothing but finishing what we started. >> reporter: students are organized into groups that compete for the top grades. so the boys press each other to study. the student groups coordinate events and set the schedules. that's the school motto. whatever hurts my brother hurts me. if one guy is missing, you know about it. >> i know who is missing, yeah. >> reporter: do you ever send a team to go out find somebody out on the street? >> that's exactly. if he is out, the parents don't
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find him. he has to be in school. >> reporter: putting students in charge was a revelation nearly 50 years ago of this benedictine monk. head master edward leahy. >> it is a population that never gets to have control. >> reporter: with the kids running their school, i wonder how often do you have to get in front of a really bad decision? >> you hope you can sort them out aftrwards. >> reporter: afterward. you let them make the mistake? >> that is a better learning experience for them. >> reporter: you know there are teachers and administrators watching this interview right now who are saying, he is describing chaos. >> i guess. >> reporter: chaos wasn't tolerated when leahy was a student here in the days of 1959. he joined the faculty shortly after the riots in '67 when white families were fleeing newark. and the decision was made to close the school? >> 1972. difficult decision. >> reporter: and there was talk of closing the monastery itself. >> there were some who wanted to
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do that. some wanted to do it and move it some where else. >> reporter: not you. >> not me. >> reporter: the school closed for one year, then leahy at age 26, decided to try again. >> i don't think it was right to, to, participating in the racism to allow people outside to think that somehow that the school closed because of african-americans, increasing numbers of african-americans. >> you didn't do anything to get the talent. somehow god gave it to you. >> reporter: he had no idea how to run a school. but he took inspiration from the good book. the boy scout handbook which organizes boys to lead themselves. for incoming freshmen there is a boot camp. and during a sleepover in the gym they learn saint benedict's history and what's expected. >> you need to be on the same page or else you will do it again.
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>> reporter: it can feel more like marine corps than common core. >> you follow me, right now! >> reporter: ten years a graduate enlisted midshipmen from the u.s. naval academy to add their inspiration. >> get back there and start again. now. we got the sense the guys would have been happier without the help. >> why are you on your knees while your brothers are pushing? >> the main point is to make the freshmen or incoming freshmen realize that the guys around him are there for him no matter how hard the situation can get. >> reporter: traumatized? not really. the boy scouts do it. the marine corps does it. street gangs do it. >> all the same thing. has the the same structure as a gang except you can only be in one gang. only been ours. if you are another gang in newark, you can't be here. >> reporter: saint benedict's is private, school year is 11
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months, there is an entrance exam. exceptions are made as you will see a little later. a bigger barrier to families would be the annual tuition of $12,000. but 80% pay only half which leaves leahy looking for another $6 million a year. >> it is the alumni. >> alumni. business here in town. and the philanthropic community. >> reporter: god works in mysterious ways. >> all the time. all the time. >> reporter: we discovered something mysterious about leahy, he cringes when you bring up sports. not because he is losing -- >> saint benedict's prep. >> reporter: his basketball team is ranked ninth nationally. his soccer team finished first in the nation. but leahy believes it is education that saves lives. devean johnson is a sophomore we met in his downtown neighborhood. >> this neighborhood is
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grandmother a mile from saint benedict's and a doorstep from trouble. >> reporter: when we drove up and got out in the parking lot. couldn't help but notice this, 9 millimeter right here in front of your house. do you hear gunfire around here much? >> yeah. so, i mean -- >> reporter: what have you seen? >> two years in this neighborhood -- i feel like i have seen it all. all it is same situation different faces. >> reporter: how do you steer clear of that? >> first you have to realize what type of person you want to be in life. ♪ he won't let me go >> reporter: devean realized what kind of person he wanted to be while wandering in the wilderness. each spring, upper-classmen lead new students on a four-day, 55-mile hike.
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street smarts won't carry you far on the appalachian trail. >> the only class in the school that 98% is a failing grade. get 98% of the way down the trail you didn't get to the bus to bring you back hope. >> reporter: devean's group, one class mate decided 98% was all he had. >> you got to keep pushing, brother. >> that's crazy though. >> i said you are not going to quit in front of the camera. this is "60 minutes." don't quit. keep going. so, eventually we finally make it up this mountain. i was so relieved. >> reporter: at the summit, they caught a breathtaking view of character. >> i am just really excited to be here with y'all. and i really want to let you all know that -- that you're all my
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es... are approved to kill the same number of them. lysol wipes are approved to kill more types of germs than clorox. this cold and flu season lysol that. silicon valley is famous for designing software. but some companies there are now taking aim at hardest substance on earth.
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they're growing diamonds in a lab. don't get them confused with imitation gems, these home grown diamonds are the real thing and cost almost as much as the ones dug out of the ground. john blackstone has the story. >> reporter: at this silicon valley startup. engineers are doing in weeks what takes nature millions of years. >> just like out of the mine our growth chambers produce a rough diamond. >> reporter: they're making diamonds, chief technology officer of the diamond foundry shows off some of what they create. >> for us in a few weeks we produce a 1 carat stone with plasma and withchemistry we are accelerating the same processes that happen in the earth. >> reporter: to protect their secrets from the competition, the diamond foundry provided glimpses of the machines at 10,000 fahrenheit rearrange car carbon atoms into precious gems. >> to the lay person it would be hard to see di
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john king is chief officer of the gemological institute of america, he grades diamonds and says there is little difference those mined from the earth and those grown in a machine. >> they're both diamonds. they have the same chemical properties. the same physical properties. but i think there is always that interest in items that have occurred naturally. >> reporter: which begs the question can a diamond made in a laboratory ever satisfy one of the most famous lines in advertising? >> a diamond is forever. >> reporter: de the world's leading diamond producer, de beers, told cbs this morning, the finite nature of natural diamond makes them valuable. synthetic diamond can be mass produced and will not retain value over time. and retailers like kays and zales says none of their stories carry lab grown diamond. ♪ every kiss begins with kay
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the ceo of diamond foundry said there is nothing romantic about environmental damage caused by mining. >> this day and age mining of diamond does not make any sense. >> reporter: what people know about mined diamonds is they were made deep in the earth over millions of years. they are very rare the that's why they're special. >> diamonds in the earth are not rare. the mining cartel just controls the piece of extraction. >> reporter: the diamond industry has been linked to human rights abuse in africa. >> give it to me. and was inspiration behind the movie "blood diamond." >> america, it is bling-bling. but out here it is bling-bang, huh? >> when leo dicaprio heard of the diamond foundry, he became an early investor. >> we want to be a choice. sustainable, honest, transparent choice in an industry that hasn't had it. >> reporter: whether diamond are coming from the earth or silicon valley, don't expect a bargain. foy
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helps students develop strong critical thinking skills- [boy] kinda like eisxercing my brain? yeah! see this old question? it doesn't tell me whether you understand the math, because you can just guess and get it right. [boy] eenie meanie miny mo! [woman] exactly. now try this new kind of question. [boy] hm, 3/2 is the same as 3 one halves; that's here at one and one half! [woman] right! now i can see that you really understand fractions. and the number line. [boy] do i win anything? [woman. laughs] ah! ha-ha
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