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which included evidence that was found as far as 2 1/2 miles away. they did not name any suspects. the explosion killed 15 people. 12 of them first responders including phil calvin's son perry. >> i want him to get the maximum penalty. like to see him put so far back in prison that they don't ever see the light of day. who ever it was. >> reporter: i'm standing where the blast happened. the 93-foot-long crater it left behid has been filled. west is still rebuilding after half homes were damaged or destroyed. scott, the disaster called into question, federal oversight of facilities which store dangerous chemicals in populated areas. >> manuel bojorquez there for us tonight. manuel, thank you. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ♪ ♪
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well in campaign 2016, the highest ranking republican in the country today called for unity on the eve of his meeting with the man who has cleave cleaved the party in two. here's major garrett. >> wed into a real unification of our party, which look after a tough primary that is going to take some effort. >> house speaker paul ryan said an alliance with presumptive nominee donald trump will not be rushed. >> this is a big tent party. plenty of room for disputes in the party. >> trump sounded optimistic about the path ahead. >> i have a lot of respect for paul ryan. if we make a deal that will be great. if we don't, we will trudge forward like i have been doing and winning all the time.
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republican party headquarters, ryan will be looking for assurances trump is a true conservative. today the speaker sat down with house republicans already backing trump. among them duncan hunter. >> they're going to meet. they're going to talk. they're going to got to know each other. tell each other what their priorities are and have a nice hug after that. >> trump reopened the question about releasing tax returns telling associated press it would not happen before the election, and there was "nothing to learn." that prompted this attack from democrat hillary clinton. >> my husband and i have released 33 years of tax returns. so you got to ask yourself, why doesn't he want to release them? yeah, well we are going to find out. >> late today, trump tweeted he would release his returns before the election, provided ongoing audits were complete. >> 2012 republican nominee mitt romney a harsh trump critic said it is disqualifying for a candidate not to release tax
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on facebook romney wrote there is only one logical explanation for mr. trump's refusal to release his returns. there is a bombshell in them. >> major garrett in the washington newsroom. major, thanks. federal civil rights charges were filed against former south carolina police officer michael schleger in the shooting of an unarmed black motorist michael scott. a trial on state murder charges is set for fall. he could get life without par e parole. >> ate was the police shooting of a black man in ferguson, missouri 2013 that ig need it national debate over policing and racism. this week ferguson swore in a new police chief who sat down with our jeff pegues. >> so help me god. >> when he was sworn in as ferguson's new police chief he was blunt. >> if you do the job in a way that disrespects the badge that you
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you are either removed from police service or further prosecuted. >> moss, a 32 year veteran of miami's police department has experience with troubled agencies. he was a teenager in miami during the violent 1980s when he says he was harassed by police. >> it was a white police officer. he told me, you n word don't walk downtown after dark. i had another experience not long after that. police officer gets out of the car, pushes me against the wall starts to frisk me. >> reporter: why would that draw you to law enforcement rather than push you away from law enforce snmt. >> my grandmother has a saying, you can't clean a house if you're not in it. >> reporter: a justice department investigation found that in ferguson, between 2012 and 2014, every person taken into custody for resisting arrest after a traffic stop was african-american. >> the culture -- >> fred watson's case was in a doj report. four years ago he was sitting in his parked car when a ferguson police officer
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>> i reached to get it from the back in my pocket. he said put your hand on the wheel. he pulled out his gun. telling me to go out of the car. >> reporter: with his gun pointed at your head? >> yes. >> reporter: watson's case is still not resolved. moss says he will hold his officers to a hyigher standard. >> reporter: do you expect to clean house? >> i expect to clean house where people need to go. >> reporter: moss knows a new police chief is just one step towards real change. jeff pegues, cbs news, ferguson, missouri. >> tonight we have new information about a doctor in minneapolis who treated prince in the final weeks of his life. jamie yuccas is following the investigation. >> reporter: prince rodgers nelson treated by dr. michael schoenberg for undisclosed illness and law enforcement want to know if it had anything to do with how the singer died. in a search warrant executed last week obtained by the l.a. times, investigators
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cal records. documents. prescriptiontions and medical images from his medical office. the document paints the picture of a man in need of serious medical attention the last three weeks of his life. according to the warrant, the doctor first saw prince on april 7th, the same day prince canceled two atlanta concerts due to isness. the day after the resejabled performances on april 15th, prince's plane made an emergency stop. prince had to be treated at a hospital. a week later, the doctor saw prince again this time giving him a prescription. it is not known what medications the doctor prescribed but told authorities it could be filled at a local pharmacy. the next day, thursday, april 21st, scholenberg went toupeesly park to deliver prince's test results and came upon a death scene instead. he wasn't the only doctor prince reached out to in the final days. the lawyer
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kornfeld who said prince's representatives reached out to him the day before he died. >> dr. kornfeld felt that his mission was a life saving mission. >> dr. scholenberg no longer employed at the medical center. a spokesperson would not tell us why or how he left. according to the warrant, prince's estate manager said the singer dealt with healther use for at laes a year. >> jamie yuccas, thanks. a new study about folic acid and pregnancy gets a reality check from our dr. jon lapook. how do you tell more than 900 stories on "60 minutes." brilliantly. and one at a time. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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developing an autism spectrum disorder. well our dr. jon lapook has been looking into this and with us now with a dose of reality. jon, pregnant women are told to take folic acid. >> and that stays exactly the same. there is no doubt that women who have too little intake of folic acid in pregnancy have increased risk of having kids with birth defects. so that recommendation from the government, which is to take 400-800 micrograms of folic acid a day in pregnancy stays the same. nobody is questioning that. >> what do you make of this study? >> this study -- normally we would not cover aster that was this preliminary. an abstract. meaning it hasn't y been submitted for, for publication to a journal. it has the not been reviewed yet by the scientific community. there are numbers in there that give me pause. for example the rate of autism they report is five times what the cdc reports. that makes me wonder are they
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everd overdieing anotion. what it showed was women who have high levels of foliction ait, folate, b-12 soon after delivery had kids who went on to develop autism at a hyperrate than normal. now this does not mean that taking too much b-12 or folate causes autism this association. needs more study. and the bottom line here is recommendation stays exactly the same. we do not want will tune misinterpret the headline. should still be taking folic acid supplementation during pregnancy. >> despite the headlines today this study kpizis extremely preliminary and doesn't change the advice to take folic acid. >> check with your doctor when taking supplementation or medication. >> dr. jon lapook with the straight story. thank you, jon. coming up next, the owner could only watch helplessly as firefighters tried to save his house.
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homeowner security camera captured the moment when the canadian wildfire known as "the beast" came knocking. firefighters worked frantically to beat down the flames. the fire tore through fort mcmurray in western canada's oil country last week. the entire town of 90,000 evacuated. tonight, the fire is still spreading, but it is spreading away from towns, some oil workers will return to the jobs tomorrow. the fbi is now looking into allegations surrounding the russian doping scandal. that's according to someone familiar with this investigation. on sunday, 60 minutes reported
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testing at the so skrchltch win olympics knew of four gold medals won by russians who were using performance enhancing drugs. and russian intelligence was involved in the testing. a revolutionary high-speed transit system called the hyperloop passed its first major test today in the nevada desert. lasted all of two seconds. the developer said it was enough to prove that the magnetic technology can work. billionaire elon musk provided the inspiration for transportation and some day it may carry passengers through tubes at up to 700 miles an hour. and we'll be right back.
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sccome this way. >> this is what the war in vietnam is all about. >> burned the old couple's cottage. fire was coming from here. morley safr's ground breaking report from vietnam on this broadcast in 1965. well today, morley broke another story. he announced he is retiring after more than half a century at cbs news including 46 years on "60 minutes" telling a record 919 stories with that unique safr touch. >> suppose you had a few dolrs
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istanbul and this is how you would go. first-class on the orient express. >> he stares down from the podium like some benevolent bird of prey. eyes staring past that great beak. it is all wonderfully choreographed, every gangely movement. >> here we are on board the good ship "dandelahu." >> surely you haven't got any money? >> no, no, it is against company rules. >> we'll play for fun. fun. [ laughter ] >> do you like that one, pal? ♪ ♪ portrait of a 68-year-old hustler and some memories. it seemed a pity to interrupt who
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happy tale. the russians are coming. or at lest thast they want to. if you can believe it there is a more remote area at the tip of the archipelago. >> morley, can i ask you a question, please? >> yes. >> is your wife here? >> no, she is not. >> great. >> what is wrong with the men? i thought "60 minutes" was a high-class show. >> i had led a charmed life as a reporter, as an individual, a lot of it is blood, sweat, toil, tears, but a lot of it is pure unadulterated luck. and i have been a very lucky guy. >> and so have we. we will celebrate morley's remarkable work on a special edition of "60 minutes" sunday at 8:00. that's the "cbs overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us later for the "mor
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"cbs this morning" from the broadcast center in new york city. i'm scott pelley. ♪ ♪ welcome to the "cbs overnight news." i'm don dahler. the road to the white house wind up at capitol hill today for the gop presumptive nominee donald trump. the billionaire businessman will sit down with house speaker paul ryan to see if they can find common ground. ryan, the nation's highest ranking elected republican stunned the political establishment when he said he was not ready to support trump's presidential bid. ryan insists his main goal is to bring the party together. >> that means we need a real unification of our party. which, you know, look after a tough primary, that is going to take some effort. we are committed to putting that effort in. i want to be a part of the un y unifying process we are at full strength this fall so we can win this election. we cannot afford to
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election to hillary clinton to pack the supreme the court keep the liberal obama agenda going. we have to be at full strength to win the election. we have to go through the effort and process of unifying. >> major garrett has more. >> several prominent congressional republicans are still straddling the donald trump fence. house speaker paul ryan, ted cruz and to a lesser extent, marco rubio. still other hill republicans have begun the slow migration towards trump. a process he hopes to accelerate. >> i would look to see unity. >> presumptive nominee donald trump said thursday's meeting with paul ryan might create new possibilities. >> i have hey lot of respect for paul. i think we will half a good meetig, i hope. i think he loves this party. he loves the country. heave wants to see something good happen. >> i want to have a conversation one-on-one. >> ryan said he was still looking for clarity. >> there are critical principles that we all believe in as conservatives that we want to make sure we are all
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forward. >> representative chris collins one of trump's earliest supporters in congress said ryan's decision not to endorse has had a chilling effect. >> i would admit for aee wk or so it has frozen some things. they can all be unfrozen this thursday or a week from this thursday. imagine we thought we would still be fighting for ten more weeks. >> ahead of the game? >> ten weeks ahead of the game. that's huge. >> returning to his day job, texas senator ted cruz refused to utter trump's name for offer endorsement. >> there will be time for voters to make the determination who they will support. >> marco rubio, vanquished rival sounded equally vague. >> he is the presumptive nominee. it doesn't change what i said in the past. >> if donald trump is our nominee, it will fracture the reicpublpaan rty. >> meaning rubio is not backing away from this. >> what he is trying to carry out is a scam. >> if we nominate d
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we will lose the. >> a con artist will never get control of this party. >> still says, he would back the nominee. >> signed a pledge. put my name on it. said i would support the republican nominee. that's what i intend to do. >> trump is focusing on five, six finalists to be his runningmate. priority is finding some one with washington political and legislative experience, but the new jersey governor chris christie is still on the list, proof positive trump know house to play the guessing game. >> trump claims he has a mandate from the vote tires continue speaking his mind. but he has been forced to dial back his comments on several occasions such as plan to ban all foreign muslims from entering the united states. trump says that doesn't apply to london's new muslim mayor. mark films reports. >> whatever or who ever donald trump had in mind when he announced his proposed temporary ban on muslims entering the u.s. a good bet it wasenn't the new mayor of london wh
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trump backtracked a little. khan said that is not good enough. sadiq khan won the election for mayor and by the biggest margin any major has ever had. that in which election in which his faith and history as a political activist and human rights lawyer forced him to battle off claims he was sympathetic to some extremist views. now that khan is the mayor of one of the great western capitals, donald trump was inevitably asked if he would be banned like all the rest of the world's muslims. there will always be exceptions, trump told "the new york times." sadiq khan told donald trump what to do with his exceptions. >> i think donald trump has ignorant views about islam. not just about me. i don't want to be the exception to be allowed to go to america. >> this has become a tale of two city. paris mayor, hopped the train to london, to congratulate its new mayor. what did she think of donald
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proposition. not much. >> mr. trump is so stupid, my god, my god. >> not just stupid but wrong. >> you can be a muslim and be european. you can be a paris mayor, and london mayor and work closely together. hope donald trump looks at the lessons that london set last thursday and recognizes possible to be western and muslim and to be friends with mayors of paris as well. >> sadiq khan says the trump position plays into the hand of the extremists by playing into their narrative that the west is an unwelcoming place and is the enemy. and by the way, he has broken with tradition for foreign politicians. he says that if there is a contest between donald trump and hillary clinton, he not only backs hillary clinton, he hopes she trounces him. >> for the democrats, hillary clinton just can't seem to shake bernie sanders. he b
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primary, 51% to 36%. though sanders has no chance of winning delegates for the nomination he is forcing clinton to spend precious time and moneyen tmoney in the primaries. nancy cordes in kentucky and their primary is next week. >> we have won a big, big victorien west virginia. sanders capitalized tuesday on opposition to clinton that runs so deep in west virginia, 43% of sanders' voters said they will defect to trump in the fall if clinton is the nominee. it is a massive shift in a state clinton won by about 41 points in 2008. but this time her record on free trade hurt her. so did this recent slip up. >> we are going to put a lot of coal miners and coal come pans out of business. clinton's repeated apologies did not heal the wound. >> that is not twhutwhat i inte at all. >> could run into the problem ne
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mining state in the country. but it is also her next chance to stop a sanders ministreak. >> hello, louisville! >> so she barn stormed the state tuesday and began airing ads here. >> and she is the one who will make a real difference for you. >> the white house has tried to stay neutral in the primary, but, vice president joe biden weighed in tuesday on clinton's behalf. >> i feel confident that hillary will be the nominee. i feel confident she will be the next president. >> sanders insisted clinton is still beatable though she needs to win 13% in the remaining eight state con tetsz. >> let me be as clear as i can be. we are in this campaign to win the democratic nomination! [ cheers and applause ] >> it is easy to see why his supporters are still hoping against hope. sanders has now won nearly as many states as clinton has the. 19 states. to her 23.
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the summer olympics in rio are less than 100 days away. the russian team is embroiled in a doping scandal. a 60 minutes report looked at the 2014 winter olympics in sochi, two whistle blowers, russian athletes routinely took performance enhancing drugs including at least four who won gold medals. here's that report. >> reporter: the two now live in this sparse one bedroom apartment some where in the united states. which we will not reveal for their protection. it's far from the cries of traitor and judas back home. the price for believing in the purity
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>> for me when you have this 100% belief that you are doing something right, you just follow this belief. and let's see what happens. >> yuli's maiden name, and her specialty was 800 meters. for more than five years she willingly took anabolic steroid for strength and blood boosting substance epo for endurance. all directed by her russian coaches and medical staff. >> let me read to you some of the druggize have read that you have taken. testosterone. >> uh-huh. >> turnabolin. >> yeah. >> parabolin. >> those are powerful drugs. >> translator: yes, these are all steroids. >> did you think anything that you were doing was, was wrong? >> translator: it's hard to believe you
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wrong when everybody around you says it is right. and there is no other way that you are shown. i was an untouchable, a sake red athlete. >> reporter: untouchable meant she could take banned substances without the fear of being caught. performance enhancing drugs put her on track for 2012 summer olympics in london. she met vitali stepanov at a drug seminar. a low level job at the russian anti-doping agency. he was a true believer. >> i want sports to be fair. if somebody wins, i want him, him or her to be a real hero. not a fact one. >> 15 minutes their first date, he got a dose of reality. >> she says i am doping. i am -- all my teammates are doping as well. >> reporter: what do you think? >> i had suspicion. but i was hoping that i am --
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>> she said that's not what it does. it helps russian athletes to win medals it does testing, fake testing. >> yet some two very different lives equal aid marriage. he now lived with doping at hope and corruption at work. >> there was a situation when i was -- offered a bribe by the vice president of the federation. just like that person comes to me and he says -- this athlete cannot be tested. how much money do you need? and my answer is -- this is what i get paid for. and i don't need any extra money. so she was selected. she must be tested. >> he says he repeatedly informed his bosses about the corruption. only to be told, what happens in russia, staiys in russia. frustrate heed made a dangerous decision to reach outside russia to the world anti-doping agency. over the next three years he sent 200
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detailing what he witnessed. but they told him they did not have the purr to investigate inside russia. his crusade would eventually cost him his job and drive his wife to file for divorce. >> sometimes i thought he was my enemy. that he wants to interfere. it was not easy. >> i think i have this opportunity to become a taxi driver in moscow. i'll be divorced taxi driver. >> reporter: that's where you were at at that point in time? >> yes. >> reporter: the fight was over. >> the fight was over. i lost. >> reporter: the turning point came right before the london games when yulia was injured. no longer a medal contender she lost the protection and tested positive for epo. facing a two year ban she called vitalyi, days before their di strors wou -- their divorce would be final. >> hege
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truth. people know the whole truth, the way things happen in russia to destroy the system. one has to talk about it. >> after i finished talking to her, you know, i -- i think -- am i going to be able to get another person on my side? after three years of trying. maybe i can get my wife on my side. trying to, you know, clean up sports. >> not only did he bring her to his side. he convinced yulia to take an extraordinary risk and use her phone to secretly record her coach giving her steroid, her team mates, detailing their drug use, and the team medical direct or who told her how to get back on the drug program. >> it was total craziness. that's how i held the phone. put the jackets and held the phone this way. >> in this recording, 800 meter nn
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taking performance enhancing drugs. she won gold in london. she said my coach helps to cover up the tests. there is no other way to do it. everyone in russia is on pharma, the world anti-doping agency steered the stepanov's to a reporter at the german television knelt work. their tapes became the centerpiece of this dock men fare which aired in december, 2014. and sent shock waves through the world of sports. >> you know, we don't peck who our heroes are. at the end of the day, they stood up. and they dipped td the right th that clean talt leelts rights are protected around the globe. >> travis tiger, the ceo of the doping agency has been advising stepanovs. built a reputation taking down some notorious dopers including lance armstr
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stepanovs have uncovered a defining moment in the anti-doping movement. >> confirmed what a lot of this is not just a few athletes, obtaining performance enhancing drugs. a system orchestrated by sport leaders to ensure they won at all costs. >> essentially limited to athletics and russia. >> reporter: the outrage sparked by what the stepanov's uncovered. its 300 plus page report detailed what was called "a deep leap rooted culture of cheating that reached the highest levels of the russian government. >> bribes. >> bribes. >> covering up tests? >> covering up tests. >> fake urine. >> fact urine. >> you name it. >> you name it they attempted to get away with it. >> you can see the story on cbsnews.com. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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dirty. >> reporter: you may find it hard to believe. ♪ it's my life ♪ it's now or never >> reporter: one of the most recognizable faces in rock music prides himself on his ability to keep a clean kitchen. all part of john bon jovi's mission. john and his wife dorthea opened the second soul kitchen, a restaurant that encourages customers to pay it forward. >> what your intention was and you start it off. >> intention was to feed people in need. then try to figure out a way to sustain that. we wanted people to eat with dignity and people to feel empowered. this was where we ended up here. >> what does that mean dignity when you come into the place? why was that so important to you both? >> well, because you are teaching a man to fish instead of giving him a fish. when you come into this restaurant the a
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so if you are in need, you participate. that means busing a table, washing a dish, working in our gardens. if you are here to enjoy a meal and affect change directly, by buying a pay it forward car, you are paying for your meal and someone else's here in the restaurant or going to come tomorrow. and you don't know the difference between who are in need and who aren't in need. >> everyone is having the same experience. >> reporter: the restaurant is part of a bigger center, beat, bringing everyone altogether. they opened it in toms river, new jersey, a town still struggling after it was devastated by super storm sandy. the center also include a food pantry, food bank and teaching kit. en. >> the point is them to be trained so they can go on to get a better job at a restaurant. >> reporter: come in here, tliern ma learn to make these things. >> jon says, that dorthea its the visionary. the couple
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high school sweethearts. you know in the rock world, marriages don't go this way, dorthea. >> i don't know what that means, rock world? >> you don't. we think rock star. >> if you want to live that lifestyle, whatever that may be. like our kids go, you know, everybody wants to go backstage. then they get backstage. if it's like. what? what? what? where is the party? oh that happened 30 years ago. >> it was a good one then. >> a good one. >> the good old dates. >> what is your lifestyle for you, the two of you together, what is your lifestyle? >> i think it is very normal and boring. like most people. take your kid to school. all that stuff. >> reporter: stuff that may seem especially boring to the guy that spent three decades fr ttinghe rock band that bears his name. ♪ a cowboy on a steel horse i ride ♪ ♪ who says you can't go home >> the band
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remain current. they boast 11 platinum albums and worldwide sales of 120 million. ♪ who says you can't go home >> their next album due out in september, this one without guitarist and collaborator ritchie sambora. >> i haven't seen him in three years, he didn't show up for work anymore. that's the truth of the matter. and life goes on. being in a rock band is not a life sentence. >> what does that mean? >> i guess you have other things in your life that you care to do. but it is okay. because you share your art as long as you choose to share it. you know, you don't have to do this for a living. you choose to do it for a living. >> what excites you most about the music snow. >> songwriting to me is, the greatest thing that i am able to do. much more than recording anything or ever performing. >> so surprised. i would have thought you would have said being on the stage? >> the least of my favorite things to do. when i write a
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birth defects before you even know you're pregnant. it is climbing season at the top of the world. natural disasters kept any any one from reaching everest for two years. a group of nepalese guides made it to the top. hundreds more will make the attempt. among them, two americans sharing their experience in real time on social media. here is dana jacobson. >> i have always found climbing to be a selfish pursuit. i love it. but i like being able to tell the stories of it and hopefully inspire or raise questions with people at home. >> adrian bollinger and cory richards always documented high altitude adventures. bollingerum sdmite everest six times while richards photo-journalist for national gee graphing was almost killed in an avalanche on one of the highest mountains in pakistan.
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accomplished climbers are attempting something new. on the tallest mountain in the world. >> over 25,000 feet. i'm pretty sure i'm the highest human on the planet. they're sharing their entire journey as it happens. >> winds up here now. on snapchat. popular mobile app where they're posting under the user name everestnofilter. >> the point of everestnofilter, an unfiltered look at the whole thing. we can't make the pictures pretty. we can't edit the video. it is instant. >> what does that mean? it means we need patience. they shoot everything on their phones. >> we got a heater. and a satellite internet terminal. set it up. get it connected to the satellite. and then sit here and press, retry, retry, retry, on snapchat. until it finally goes. >> each short post adds up to a daily diary viewed for 24
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is look to live and climb above 20,000 feet. >> chopping extra water. >> i'm going to take a shur today. taking a shower is like a day's project. >> when we launched everest no filter. a couple people watching. we are up to tens of thousand of views every snap. >> what's up? >> canned find my sunglasses. we are going climbing today. >> the men have one more training run before making a final push to the summit some time in the next three weeks. >> maybe, maybe, we can send a snap from the summit. >> of course, a dream. so cool to feel good enough up there to actually do that. at the same time, the vast majority of people who attempt to summit everest without oxygen fail. top priority is to come home at the end of the adventure. >> going up is optional. coming down is mandatory. that's rule number one. snapping number two. >> and that's the "cbs overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others, c
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little later. for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler. terror in baghdad. >> this is a residential neighborhood and a sense that nowhere in the capital its safe. >> also tonight it was arson. investigators say some one set the fire -- >> good al mighty. >> that blew up part of the texas town killing 15 people. >> is it safe to take folic acid during pregnancy? dr. jon lapook has the facts behind some troubling headlines. >> i'm morley safr -- >> the end of an era of wit, wisdom and wonder. >> come on. >> "60 minutes'" correspondent morley safr announces his retirement. y
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money? >> no, it's against company rules. >> we'll play for fun. 100 si civilians murdered on the streets of their neighborhood by a terrorist force isis detonated bombs. more than 160 were wounded. most members of isis are from the sunni branch. the attack hit baghdad at a time of political crisis with most of parliament boycotting the u.s. backed government. charlie d'agata is in baghdad. the first bomb ripped through a crowded marketplace in sadr city at its busiest this morning and certain to kill as many people as possible. a young man could be heard shouting that's my dad. that's my dad.
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witnesses said a pickup truck piled high blew up outside a beauty salon. among the victims were brides to be getting ready for their weddings. residents were searching for survivors when isis claimed responsibility for at take. hours later a suicide bomber hit a second shiite neighborhood. this time at a police checkpoint. by late afternoon, as the death toll neared 100. there was another explosion. this its where a third suicide bomber blew himself up, targeting a police check point in western baghdad. they're still washing down the streets. this is a residential neighborhood. there is a sense that nowhere in the capital is safe. especially as this is a sunni neighborhood. some loyal to yoichlts it made no difference the intended target was iraq's security forces. police officer mohammad
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told us, i saw beds on the ground. i tried to help. but they all died. iraqi forces fighting isis for more than two years with help from american air strikes. while isis has been forced to retreat, today's event showed the militants can still strike with lethal force in the heart of the capital. when isis suffers losses on the battlefield they launch spectacular attacks in baghdad. not the only reason the city is on edge. demonstrations are under way in sadr city and risk they will spread to other parts of the capital. one more note on isis, the fbi director, james comey said there has been a steep drop in the number of americans attempting to join the group in the middle east. two years ago he said it was
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many as 10 a month. now, it averages, one a month. tonight, there is a threat of flash floods, hail, tornados from texas to illinois. a tornado plowed through mayfield, kentucky yesterday. injuring nearly a dozen people. jericka duncan is there. >> reporter: as her neighbors picked up the pieces, angie wentfry was in tears, this is all that remains of her home. >> it's just kind of hard to look. >> oh, look at that! look at that! >> reporter: randall reid captured this video at shelby automotive in mayfield. >> didn't look that big. >> until it crossed the road here, we had no idea how dangerous it was. >> holy mackerel there goes that. >> reporter: the twister packed winds up to 140 miles an hour. the funnel scloud spanned more than four football fields wide, destroyed virtually everything in its path for 17 miles.
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>> i really was thinking i wasn't going to make it. >> marty winfrey saw the tornado coming, ran from his home and held on to a tree for survival. >> i saw the tree. the only chance i'm going to have. >> reporter: this wife angie at work during the storm. >> it can all be replaced. it can all be replaced. it any just hard to see it. >> reporter: the space littered with cinder blocks is where the double wide trailer used to be. but the tornado force winds carried that home into the neighbor's house and even twisted this steel foundation around that tree. several times. clean-up efforts are under way. but people here in mayfield say it could take weeks before mounds of debris are gone. the national weather service reports that at least one
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where it was parked. scott, the last time this region experience aid tornado like this, was in 2013. sadly, three people died. >> jericka duncan, thank you. >> looked like a tornado devastated the city of west in texas. three years ago. today, investigators said that the explosion that leveled part of that town and killed 15 people was deliberate. the blast in a fertilizer warehouse registered as a 2.1 magnitude earthquake. manuel bojorquez is on this story. [ explosion ] >> reporter: the massive explosion was first described as a tragic industrial accident. but the fire that ignited it was today labeled anything but. >> oh, my god! >> robert elder with the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. >> the fire was ruled as incendiary, this fire was a criminal act. >> reporter: the april 2013 fire at the west company caused ammonium nitrate to explode. since then investigators sai
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interviews, extensive analysis of the scene, and lab work. which included evidence that was found as far as 2 1/2 miles away. they did not name any suspects. the explosion killed 15 people. 12 of them first responders including phil calvin's son perry. >> i want him to get the maximum penalty. like to see him put so far back in prison that they don't ever see the light of day. who ever it was. >> reporter: i'm standing where the blast happened. the 93-foot-long crater it left behind has been filled. west is still rebuilding after half homes were damaged or destroyed. scott, the disaster called into question, federal oversight of facilities which store dangerous chemicals in populated areas. >> manuel bojorquez there for us tonight. manuel, thank you. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ♪ ♪
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well in campaign 2016, the highest ranking republican in the country today called for unity on the eve of his meeting with the man who has cleave cleaved the party in two. here's major garrett. >> wed into a real unification of our party, which look after a tough primary that is going to take some effort. >> house speaker paul ryan said an alliance with presumptive nominee donald trump will not be rushed. >> this is a big tent party. plenty of room for disputes in the party. >> trump sounded optimistic about the path ahead. >> i have a lot of respect for paul ryan.
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great. if we don't, we will trudge forward like i have been doing and winning all the time. >> at their meeting tomorrow at republican party headquarters, ryan will be looking for assurances trump is a true conservative. today the speaker sat down with house republicans already backing trump. among them duncan hunter. >> they're going to meet. they're going to talk. they're going to got to know each other. tell each other what their priorities are and have a nice hug after that. >> trump reopened the question about releasing tax returns telling associated press it would not happen before the election, and there was "nothing to learn." that prompted this attack from democrat hillary clinton. >> my husband and i have released 33 years of tax returns. so you got to ask yourself, why doesn't he want to release them? yeah, well we are going to find out. >> late today, trump tweeted he would release his returns before the election, provided ongoing
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audits were complete. >> 2012 republican nominee mitt romney a harsh trump critic said it is disqualifying for a candidate not to release tax returns. on facebook romney wrote there is only one logical explanation for mr. trump's refusal to release his returns. there is a bombshell in them. >> major garrett in the washington newsroom. major, thanks. federal civil rights charges were filed against former south carolina police officer michael schleger in the shooting of an unarmed black motorist michael scott. a trial on state murder charges is set for fall. he could get life without parole. >> it was the police shooting of a black man in ferguson, missouri, 2013, that ignited the national debate over policing and racism. this week ferguson swore in a new police chief who sat down with our jeff pegues. >> so help me god. >> reporter: when delrish moss was sworn in az ferguson's new police chief he was blunt. >> if you do the job in a way that disrespects the badge that you hold, i will see to it that you are either removed from
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police service or further prosecuted. >> moss, a 32 year veteran of miami's police department has experience with troubled agencies. he was a teenager in miami during the violent 1980s when he says he was harassed by police. >> it was a white police officer. he told me, you n word don't walk downtown after dark. i had another experience not long after that. police officer gets out of the car, pushes me against the wall starts to frisk me. >> reporter: why would that draw you to law enforcement rather than push you away from law enforce snmt. >> my grandmother has a saying, you can't clean a house if you're not in it. >> reporter: a justice department investigation found that in ferguson, between 2012 and 2014, every person taken into custody for resisting arrest after a traffic stop was african-american. >> the culture -- >> fred watson's case was in a doj report. four years ago he was sitting in
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police officer demanded his id. >> i reached to get it from the back in my pocket. he said put your hand on the wheel. he pulled out his gun. telling me to go out of the car. >> reporter: with his gun pointed at your head? >> yes. >> reporter: watson's case is still not resolved. moss says he will hold his officers to a higher standard. >> reporter: do you expect to clean house? >> i expect to clean house where people need to go. >> reporter: moss knows a new police chief is just one step towards real change. jeff pegues, cbs news, ferguson, missouri. >> tonight we have new information about a doctor in minneapolis who treated prince in the final weeks of his life. jamie yuccas is following the investigation. >> reporter: prince rogers nelson treated by dr. michael schulenberg for an undisclose ed illness and law enforcement want to know if it had anything to do with how the singer died. in a search warrant executed last week obtained by the l.a.
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medical records, documents, prescriptions and medical images from dr. schulenberg's medical office. the document paints the picture of a man in need of serious medical attention the last three weeks of his life. according to the warrant, the sc hcht -- doctor first saw prince on april 7th, the same day prince canceled two atlanta concerts due to illness. the day after the performances on april 15th, prince's plane made an emergency stop. prince had to be treated at a hospital. a week later, schulenberg saw prince again this time giving him a prescription. it is not known what medications schulenberg prescribed but told authorities it could be filled at a local pharmacy. the next day, thursday, april 21st, schulenberg, went to paisley park to deliver prince's test results and came upon a death scene instead. he wasn't the only doctor prince reached out to in the final days. the wy
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kornfeld, renowned addiction specialist, who said prince's representatives reached out to him the day before he died. >> dr. kornfeld felt that his mission was a life saving mission. >> reporter: dr. schulenberg is no longer employed at the medical center. a spokesperson would not tell us why or how he left. according to the warrant, prince's estate manager said the singer dealt with health issues for at least a year. >> jamie yuccas, thanks. a new study about folic acid and pregnancy gets a reality check from our dr. jon lapook. how do you tell more than 900 stories on "60 minutes." brilliantly. and one at a time. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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developing an autism spectrum disorder. well our dr. jon lapook has been looking into this and with us now with a dose of reality. jon, pregnant women are told to take folic acid. >> and that stays exactly the same. there is no doubt that women who have too little intake of folic acid in pregnancy have increased risk of having kids with birth defects. so that recommendation from the government, which is to take 400-800 micrograms of folic acid a day in pregnancy stays the same. nobody is questioning that. >> what do you make of this study? >> this study -- normally we would not cover aster that was this preliminary. an abstract. meaning it hasn't yet been submitted for, for publication to a journal. it has the not been reviewed yet by the scientific community. there are numbers in there that give me pause. for example the rate of autism they report is five times what the cdc reports. that makes me wonder are they
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overdieing anotion. what it showed was women who have high levels of folic acid, it, folate, b-12, soon after delivery had kids who went on to develop autism at a higher rate than normal. now this does not mean that taking too much b-12 or folate causes autism this association. needs more study. and the bottom line here is recommendation stays exactly the same. we do not want will tune misinterpret the headline. should still be taking folic acid supplementation during pregnancy. >> despite the headlines today this study is extremely preliminary and doesn't change the advice to take folic acid. >> check with your doctor when taking supplementation or medication. >> dr. jon lapook with the straight story. thank you, jon. coming up next, the owner could only watch helplessly as firefighters tried to save his house.
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homeowner security camera captured the moment when the canadian wildfire known as "the beast" came knocking. firefighters worked frantically to beat down the flames. the fire tore through fort mcmurray in western canada's oil country last week. the entire town of 90,000 evacuated. tonight, the fire is still spreading, but it is spreading away from towns, some oil workers will return to the jobs tomorrow. the fbi is now looking into allegations surrounding the russian doping scandal. that's accor t
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investigation. on sunday, 60 minutes reported that the former director of drug testing at the sochi winter olympics, knew of four gold medals won by russians who were using performance enhancing drugs. and russian intelligence was involved in the testing. a revolutionary high-speed transit system called the hyperloop passed its first major test today in the nevada desert. lasted all of two seconds. the developer said it was enough to prove that the magnetic technology can work. billionaire elon musk provided the inspiration for transportation and some day it may carry passengers through tubes at up to 700 miles an hour. and we'll be right back.
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come this way. >> this is what the war in vietnam is all about. >> burned the old couple's cottage. fire was coming from here. morley safr's ground breaking report from vietnam on this broadcast in 1965. well today, morley broke another story. he announced he is retiring after more than half a century at cbs news including 46 years on "60 minutes" telling a record 919 sts
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>> suppose you had a few dollars and you had to get from paris to istanbul and this is how you would go. first-class on the orient express. >> he stares down from the podium like some benevolent bird of prey. eyes staring past that great beak. it is all wonderfully choreographed, every gangely movement. >> here we are on board the good ship "dandelahu." >> surely you haven't got any money? >> no, no, it is against company rules. >> we'll play for fun. fun. [ laughter ] >> do you like that one, pal? ♪ ♪ portrait of a 68-year-old hustler and some memories. it seemed a pity to interrupt what so far had been a pretty happy tale.
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the russians are coming. or at least they want to. if you can believe it there is a more remote area at the tip of the archipelago. >> morley, can i ask you a question, please? >> yes. >> is your wife here? >> no, she is not. >> great. >> what is wrong with the men? i thought "60 minutes" was a high-class show. >> i had led a charmed life as a reporter, as an individual, a lot of it is blood, sweat, toil, tears, but a lot of it is pure unadulterated luck. and i have been a very lucky guy. >> and so have we. we will celebrate morley's remarkable work on a special edition of "60 minutes" sunday at 8:00. that's the "cbs overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news coninues. for others check back with us later for the "morning news" and "cbs this morning" from the broadcast center in new
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♪ ♪ welcome to the "cbs overnight news." i'm don dahler. the road to the white house wind up at capitol hill today for the gop presumptive nominee donald trump. the billionaire businessman will sit down with house speaker paul ryan to see if they can find common ground. ryan, the nation's highest ranking elected republican stunned the political establishment when he said he was not ready to support trump's presidential bid. ryan insists his main goal is to bring the party together. >> that means we need a real unification of our party. which, you know, look after a tough primary, that is g t
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effort in. i want to be a part of the unifying process we are at full strength this fall so we can win this election. we cannot afford to lose this election to hillary clinton to pack the supreme the court keep the liberal obama agenda going. we have to be at full strength to win the election. we have to go through the effort and process of unifying. >> major garrett has more. >> several prominent congressional republicans are still straddling the donald trump fence. house speaker paul ryan, ted cruz and to a lesser extent, marco rubio. still other hill republicans have begun the slow migration towards trump. a process he hopes to accelerate. >> i would look to see unity. >> presumptive nominee donald trump said thursday's meeting with paul ryan might create new possibilities. >> i have hey lot of respect for paul. i think we will half a good meeting, i hope. i think he loves this party. he loves the country. heave wants to see something good happen. >> i want to have a conversation
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>> ryan said he was still looking for clarity. >> there are critical principles that we all believe in as conservatives that we want to maurke s ae wellre a rallying around the principles as we move forward. >> representative chris collins one of trump's earliest supporters in congress said ryan's decision not to endorse has had a chilling effect. >> i would admit for a week or so it has frozen some things. they can all be unfrozen this thursday or a week from this thursday. imagine we thought we would still be fighting for ten more weeks. >> ahead of the game? >> ten weeks ahead of the game. that's huge. >> returning to his day job, texas senator ted cruz refused to utter trump's name for offer endorsement. >> there will be time for voters to make the determination who they will support. >> marco rubio, vanquished rival sounded equally vague. >> he is the presumptive ne
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it doesn't change what i said in the past. >> if donald trump is our nominee, it will fracture the republican party. >> meaning rubio is not backing away from this. >> what he is trying to carry out is a scam. >> if we nominate donald trump we will lose the. >> a con artist will never get control of this party. >> still says, he would back the nominee. >> signed a pledge. put my name on it. said i would support the republican nominee. that's what i intend to do. >> trump is focusing on five, six finalists to be his runningmate. priority is finding some one with washington political and legislative experience, but the new jersey governor chris christie is still on the list, proof positive trump know house to play the guessing game. >> trump claims he has a mandate from the vote tires continue speaking his mind. but he has been forced to dial back his comments on several occasions such as plan to ban all foreign muslims from entering the united states. trump says that doesn't apply to london's new muslim mayor. mark films reports. >> whatever or who ever donald trump had in mind when he announced his proposed temporary
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a good bet it wasn't the new mayor of london who is muslim. trump backtracked a little. khan said that is not good enough. sadiq khan won the election for mayor and by the biggest margin any major has ever had. that in which election in which his faith and history as a political activist and human rights lawyer forced him to battle off claims he was sympathetic to some extremist views. now that khan is the mayor of one of the great western capitals, donald trump was inevitably asked if he would be banned like all the rest of the world's muslims. there will always be exceptions, trump told "the new york times." sadiq khan told donald trump what to do with his exceptions. >> i think donald trump has ignorant views about islam. not just about me. i don't want to be the exception to be allowed to go to america. >> this has become a tale of two city. paris mayor, hopped the train to
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london, to congratulate its new mayor. what did she think of donald trump's ban all muslims proposition. not much. >> mr. trump is so stupid, my god, my god. >> not just stupid but wrong. >> you can be a muslim and be european. you can be a paris mayor, and london mayor and work closely together. hope donald trump looks at the lessons that london set last thursday and recognizes possible to be western and muslim and to be friends with mayors of paris as well. >> sadiq khan says the trump position plays into the hand of the extremists by playing into their narrative that the west is an unwelcoming place and is the enemy. and by the way, he has broken with tradition for foreign politicians. he says that if there is a contest between donald trump and
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hillary clinton, he not only backs hillary clinton, he hopes she trounces him. >> for the democrats, hillary clinton just can't seem to shake bernie sanders. he beat her in west virginia primary, 51% to 36%. though sanders has no chance of winning delegates for the nomination he is forcing clinton to spend precious time and money in the primaries. nancy cordes in kentucky and their primary is next week. >> we have won a big, big victorien west virginia. sanders capitalized tuesday on opposition to clinton that runs so deep in west virginia, 43% of sanders' voters said they will defect to trump in the fall if clinton is the nominee. it is a massive shift in a state clinton won by about 41 points in 2008. but this time her record on free trade hurt her. so did this recent slip up. >> we are going to put a lot of coal miners and coal come pans out of business. clinton's repeated apologies did
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>> that is not what i intended at all. >> could run into the problem next week. kentucky the third largest coal mining state in the country. but it is also her next chance to stop a sanders ministreak. >> hello, louisville! >> so she barn stormed the state tuesday and began airing ads here. >> and she is the one who will make a real difference for you. >> the white house has tried to stay neutral in the primary, but, vice president joe biden weighed in tuesday on clinton's behalf. >> i feel confident that hillary will be the nominee. i feel confident she will be the next president. >> sanders insisted clinton is still beatable though she needs to win 13% in the remaining eight state con tetsz. >> let me be as clear as i can be. we are in this campaign to win the democratic nomination! [ cheers and applause ] >> it is easy to see why his supporters are still hoping against hope. sanders has now won nearly as
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the summer olympics in rio are less than 100 days away. the russian team is embroiled in a doping scandal. a 60 minutes report looked at the 2014 winter olympics in sochi, two whistle blowers, russian athletes routinely took performance enhancing drugs including at least four who won gold medals. here's that report. >> reporter: the two now live in this sparse one bedroom apartment some where in the united states. which we will not reveal for their protection. it's far from the cries of traitor and judas back home. the price for believing in the purity of sport.
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>> for me when you have this 100% belief that you are doing something right, you just follow this belief. and let's see what happens. >> yuli's maiden name, and her specialty was 800 meters. for more than five years she willingly took anabolic steroid for strength and blood boosting substance epo for endurance. all directed by her russian coaches and medical staff. >> let me read to you some of the druggize have read that you have taken. testosterone. >> uh-huh. >> turnabolin. >> yeah. >> parabolin. >>
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>> translator: yes, these are all steroids. >> did you think anything that you were doing was, was wrong? >> translator: it's hard to believe you are doing something wrong when everybody around you says it is right. and there is no other way that you are shown. i was an untouchable, a sake red athlete. >> reporter: untouchable meant she could take banned substances without the fear of being caught. performance enhancing drugs put her on track for 2012 summer olympics in london. she met vitali stepanov at a drug seminar. a low level job at the russian anti-doping agency. he was a true believer. >> i want sports to be fair. if somebody wins, i want him, him or her to be a real hero. not a fact one. >> 15 minutes their first date, he got a dose of reality. >> she says i am doping. i am -- all my teammates are doping as well. >> reporter: what do you think? >> i had suspicion. but i was hoping that i am -- here to fix something.
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>> she said that's not what it does. it helps russian athletes to win medals it does testing, fake testing. >> yet some two very different lives equal aid marriage. he now lived with doping at hope and corruption at work. >> there was a situation when i was -- offered a bribe by the vice president of the federation. just like that person comes to me and he says -- this athlete cannot be tested. how much money do you need? and my answer is -- this is what i get paid for. and i don't need any extra money. so she was selected. she must be tested. >> he says he repeatedly informed his bosses about the corruption. only to be told, what happens in russia, stays in russia. fruse
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decision to reach outside russia to the world anti-doping agency. over the next three years he sent 200 e-mails and 50 letters detailing what he witnessed. but they told him they did not have the purr to investigate inside russia. his crusade would eventually cost him his job and drive his wife to file for divorce. >> sometimes i thought he was my enemy. that he wants to interfere. it was not easy. >> i think i have this opportunity to become a taxi driver in moscow. i'll be divorced taxi driver. >> reporter: that's where you were at at that point in time? >> yes. >> reporter: the fight was over. >> the fight was over. i lost. >> reporter: the turning point came right before the london games when yulia was injured.
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lost the protection and tested positive for epo. facing a two year ban she called vitalyi, days before their di -- their divorce would be final. >> he suggested let's tell the truth. people know the whole truth, the way things happen in russia to destroy the system. one has to talk about it. >> after i finished talking to her, you know, i -- i think -- am i going to be able to get another person on my side? after three years of trying. maybe i can get my wife on my side. trying to, you know, clean up sports. >> not only did he bring her to his side. he convinced yulia to take an extraordinary risk and use her phone to secretly record her coach giving her steroid, her team mates, detailing their drug use, and the team medical direct or who told her how to get back on the drug program.
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>> it was total craziness. that's how i held the phone. put the jackets and held the phone this way. >> in this recording, 800 meter runner, maria savanova admitted taking performance enhancing drugs. she won gold in london. she said my coach helps to cover up the tests. there is no other way to do it. everyone in russia is on pharma, the world anti-doping agency steeed the stepanov's to a reporter at the german television knelt work. their tapes became the centerpiece of this dock men fare which aired in december, 2014. and sent shock waves through the world of sports. >> you know, we don't pick who our heroes are. at the end of the day, they stood up. and they did the right thing that clean athlete rights are protected around the globe. >> travis tiger, the ceo of the doping agency has been advising stepanovs. built a reputation taking down some notorious dopers including lance armstrong. >> you hca
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stepanovs have uncovered a defining moment in the anti-doping movement. >> confirmed what a lot of people believed over the years. this is not just a few athletes, obtaining performance enhancing drugs. a system orchestrated by sport leaders to ensure they won at all costs. >> essentially limited to athletics and russia. >> reporter: the outrage sparked by what the stepanov's uncovered. its 300 plus page report detailed what was called "a deep leap rooted culture of cheating that reached the highest levels of the russian government. >> bribes. >> bribes. >> covering up tests? >> covering up tests. >> fake urine. >> fake urine. >> you name it. >> you name it they attempted to get away with it. >> you can see the story on cbsnews.com. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. daddy, i've got to go potty!
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john bon jovi has a new studio album due out this fall. called "this house is not for sale" and putting it together without ritchie sambora. a new project cooking, and disdiscussed it with gail king. >> do you know anything about washing dishes? tell me your method for washing dishes. >> i am not afraid of getting dirty. i am a
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dirty in the kitchen. >> reporter: you may find it hard to believe. ♪ it's my life ♪ it's now or never >> reporter: one of the most recognizable faces in rock music prides himself on his ability to keep a clean kitchen. all part of john bon jovi's mission. john and his wife dorthea opened the second soul kitchen, a restaurant that encourages customers to pay it forward. >> what your intention was and you start it off. >> intention was to feed people in need. then try to figure out a way to sustain that. we wanted people to eat with dignity and people to feel empowered. this was where we ended up here.
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>> what does that mean dignity when you come into the place? why was that so important to you both? >> well, because you are teaching a man to fish instead of giving him a fish. when you come into this restaurant there are no prices on our menu. so if you are in need, you participate. that means busing a table, washing a dish, working in our gardens. if you are here to enjoy a meal and affect change directly, by buying a pay it forward car, you are paying for your meal and someone else's here in the restaurant or going to come tomorrow. and you don't know the difference between who are in need and who aren't in need. >> everyone is having the same experience. >> reporter: the restaurant is part of a bigger center, beat, bringing everyone altogether. they opened it in toms river, new jersey, a town still struggling after it was devastated by super storm sandy. the center also include a food pantry, food bank and teaching kit. en. >> the point is them to be trained so they can go on to get a better job at a restaurant. >> reporter: come in here, learn to make these things. >> jon says, that dorthea its
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the visionary. the couple married 27 years were high school sweethearts. you know in the rock world, marriages don't go this way, dorthea. >> i don't know what that means, rock world? >> you don't. we think rock star. >> if you want to live that lifestyle, whatever that may be. like our kids go, you know, everybody wants to go backstage. then they get backstage. if it's like. what? what? what? where is the party? oh that happened 30 years ago. >> it was a good one then. >> a good one. >> the good old dates. >> what is your lifestyle for you, the two of you together, what is your lifestyle? >> i think it is very normal and boring. like most people. take your kid to school. all that stuff. >> reporter: stuff that may seem especially boring to the guy that spent three decades fronting the rock band that bears hime
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>> the band evolved its sound to remain current. they boast 11 platinum albums and worldwide sales of 120 iomilln. ♪ who says you can't go home >> their next album due out in september, this one without guitarist and collaborator ritchie sambora. >> i haven't seen him in three years, he didn't show up for work anymore. that's the truth of the matter. and life goes on. being in a rock band is not a life sentence. >> what does that mean? >> i guess you have other things in your life that you care to do. but it is okay. because you share your art as long as you choose to share it. you know, you don't have to do this for a living. you choose to do it for a living. >> what excites you most about the music snow. >> songwriting to me is, the greatest thing that i am able to do. much more than recording anything or ever performing. >> so surprised. i woul
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captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, may 12th, 2016. this is "cbs morning news." mr. trump goes to washington. today the presumptive nominee meets with leaders who have been reluctant to rally behind him. a look at what tell take for both sides to call it a success. with news helicopters hovering overhead, police pummel a surrendering suspect. the multistate chase that led up to this moment. two mlb pitchers take their place in history books. one for what he did on the mound, another for what he pulled off at the plate. we're in the middle -- we're
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