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funerals are tomorrow. >> manuel bojorquez in downtown dallas, manuel, thank you. the dallas ambush was motivated in part by the fatal shooting by the police of alton sterling one week ago. today, arrests were made in the alleged plot to kill the officers there. david begnaud was there. >> reporter: scott, police say this was a substantial and credible threat. early saturday morning, police say three young men broke into the cash america pawn and stole eight guns. an officer found one of the suspects inside the pawn shop. the suspect allegedly told the officer he was looking for bullets in order to use with the stolen guns to kill law enforcement in the baton rouge area. now as that happened there was a large protest at tat
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on two police officers were killed in michigan yesterday because the inmate they were escorting had his hands cuffed in front of him. the inmate was able to grab one of the bailiff's guns. they were retired cops, two others were wounded. the fellow bailiff shot and killed the inmate. there are more than the usual security concerns for the republican national convention next week, and jeff pegues is in cleveland. >> reporter: is cleveland ready? >> cleveland is ready. >> reporter: in an interview today, secret service director joseph clancy said his agency is prepared for the convention, but he told us that out on the campaign trail protecting the candidates is getting
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against candidates? >> i would say the candidate threat picture is slightly elevated. >> reporter: even compared to 2012 and 2008? >> yes. >> reporter: so threatening harm to the candidates? >> threatening harm to the candidates and being disruptive. some just want to be heard and are willing to do whatever in terms of jumping over barriers. >> reporter: in june, a man in las vegas was arrested and accused of attempting to kill the republican presumptive nominee donald trump after allegedly trying to grab an officer's gun. in march, secret service agents intercepted another man who tried to reach the candidate at a rally in dayton, ohio, barricades are usually used as buffers between the candidates and the crowds, but now crowds are pushing forward and people seem more willing to breach security. >> so people are bolder than they were in the past so we have to be prepared for
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dallas has the secret service and cleveland police refining their plans. police chief calvin williams. >> we have what if, we have table topped this from day one until yesterday. and everything that can and will happen we have planned for. >> reporter: and they are also preparing for armed protesters. here in the state of ohio you can openly carry some weapons. scott, cleveland police say they are prepared for that and that they will not restrict anyone's constitutional rights. >> jeff pegues, thank you. well, the republican nominee has been the target of a highly unusual opinion by a court justice. >> reporter: just ginsburg spoke fearfully of a donald trump presidency. i don't want to think of that
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everything is up for grabs, she told the associated press. in another interview, she said i can't imagine what the country would be with donald trump as our president. ginsburg also accused him of holding no firm political beliefs. he is a faker with no consistency about him and says whatever comes to his head at the moment. ginsburg offered this thought about the next president, she is bound to have a new appointments to the court. trump called ginsburg's comments, quote, highly inappropriate. he said i think it is a disgrace to the court and says she should apologize, adding i couldn't believe it when i saw it. senate majority mitch mcconnell denying merrick garland confirmation hearings also faulted ginsburg. >> i think justice ginsburg's remarks were totally
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not said them. >> harry reid, the democratic leader, did not comment. >> i am not going to comment on what any supreme court justices say. >> reporter: we have learned trump will announce his running mate friday. one of the cop contenders, pence, and newt gingrich had his meeting suspended today. the senior trump officials insist that had nothing to do with the trump vice presidential evaluation process. >> major, what else do we know about the rollout of trump's running mate? >> reporter: well, for a campaign that has by no means been traditional, it will be very likely traditional. it has not been locked down, but then a weekend worth of campaign rallies and talk shows all trying to build momentum for trump and his newly christened
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campaign trail thank you. today, attorney general loretta lynch shed no light on her decision not to bring charges against hillary clinton. before the house judiciary committee, lynch declined every question about clinton's use of an unsecured e-mail server. lynch said only that she accepted the fbi's conclusion that there was no criminal intent on clinton's part. chairman goodlatte said that it quote, defies logic and the law. 13 days before the convention opens clinton got the endorsement of bernie sanders. >> secretary clinton has won the democratic nominating process. >> he waited five weeks, but when sanders announced his backing today he was unequivocal. >> i have come here to make it
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as clear as possible, as to why i am endorsing hillary clinton. hillary clinton will make an outstanding president and i am proud to stand with her today. thank you all very much. >> in a move straight out of trump's "art of the deal" sanders with held his support for clinton until the democratic platform reflected his positions on the death penalty, the environment and the minimum wage. and until clinton changed her public college plan to look a lot like his. >> thanks to the new proposals that senator sanders and i worked on together for families making less than $125,000 a year we will eliminate tuition at those schools altogether. >> reporter: it's the kind of proposal she used to call unrealistic.
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loyal followers. >> did hillary clinton say what she wanted you to say today explosi? >> she is on the right track, i don't think she would have embraced those policies without sanders. >> reporter: scott, sanders pointed out that none of his proposals have a chance of being enacted without a democrat in the white house. >> thank you. coming up, many are dead as trains collide head on. and later, the fbi has a major announcement in a 45-year-old hijacking mystery. h our detergent. it cleans deep down, where detergent alone just doesn't. daddy, i've got to go potty. progress! tide rescue. the in-wash booster that eliminates odors. find it in the stain remover aisle. your heart loves omega-3s.
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there was a terrible accident when two commuter trains collided head-on today in southern italy. at least 60 were hurt and 22 were killed. seth doan is at the scene. >> reporter: the trains collided with such violent force that the trains were crushed, flung from the track and the debris thrown near an olive grove. rescue crews tried to pry the survivors out, and eyewitnesss compared the scene to a plane crash. i was thrown forward, the survivor, w
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pregnant, said. i saw my mother and father on the ground and my sister bleeding. coffins were brought in and a t triage centewas set up near the crash site as many injured were taken to the local hospitals. near the scene, alessandro mancini spoke. >> it seems it was the last one and we don't have any news. >> reporter: early theories point to human error. one of the trains was supposed to wait for a green light before moving ahead on the single track. you can see workers sitting through the twisted wreckage behind me. scott, more than 10,000 people rode this railway every day, but it did not yet have the auto control and braking features that other lines in italy
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wall street made history today, the dow gained 120 points to close at 18,347, an all-time high, the s&p also closed at a record high for the second straight day. well, shudders went through the internet world today on word that people who share their passwords for subscription services may be prosecuted. but it turned out this had come doctor a federal judge who was expressing his opinion in a criminal appeal.
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netflix can relax. hastings said, we love people sharing netflix. today, the fbi says it is no longer hunting the mysterious hijacker named d.b. cooper, with the leads all drying up. back in 1971 he hijacked a northwest orient airline, then over washington state he jumped out wearing a business suit, a parachu parachute, and a bag with $200,000. some of the money was found but he never was. and there was a development in a long-running mystery. who killed the person. for the first time, they are replacing one of the suspects. mrs. white is out, dr. orchid is in. she is a biologist with a phd in plant
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ople take action against housing discrimination? my friends were told they might be more comfortable in another neighborhood. my co-worker was pressured by her landlord to pay her rent with sexual favors. my neighbor was told she needs to get rid of her dog, even though he's an assistance animal. they all reported these forms of housing discrimination. when you don't report them, landlords and owners are allowed to keep breaking the law. housing discrimination is illegal. if you think you've been a victim, report it. like we did. narrator: if you suspect that you've been discriminated against because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status or disability, report it to hud or your local fair housing center. visit hud.gov/fairhousing or call the hud hotline at 1-800-669-9777. fair housing is your right. use it.
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we end tonight with one of the more moving moments in the president's remarks at the memorial service this dallas. he told the story of a woman would had taken her sons to the demonstration on thursday and was wounded by the gunman. >> the police helped shetamia taylor as she was shot trying to shield her four sons. she said she wanted her boys to join her to protest the incidents of black men being killed. she also said to the dallas pd, thank you for being heroes. and today, her 12-year-old son wants to be a cop when he grows up. that is the america i know. >> and that is the overnight
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this is the "cbs overnight news". and welcome to the overnight news, i'm don dahler. president obama traveled to dallas for a scene that is becoming all too familiar during his presidency. conso consoler-in-chief to the families of the five slain officers. praising the officers but honoring the two men who were shot recently. we must reject despair, the president said, we are not as divided as we seem. >> we wonder if an african-american community that feels unfairly
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police and police departments who feel unfairly maligned for doing their jobs, it's hard to think that the center will hold, and things may not get worse. and anyone, who paints all police as biassed or bigots, we undermine those officers we depend on for our safety when study after study shows that whites and people of color experience the criminal justice differently. so that if you're black, you're more likely to be pulled over or searched or arrested. we cannot simply turn away and dismiss those in peaceful protests as troublemakers or paranoid. but even those who dislike the phrase "black lives matter," surely we should be able to hear
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family. just as we should hear the students and co-workers describe their affection for philando castile as a gentle soul. as a society we choose to under-invest in decent schools. we allow poverty to fester so that entire neighborhoods offer no prospect for gainful employment. we refuse to fund drug treatment and mental health programs. we flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book. and then we tell the police, you're a social worker. you're the parent. you're the
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you're the drug counsellor. we tell them to keep those neighborhoods in check at all costs. and do so without causing any political blow back or inconvenience. don't make a mistake that might disturb our own peace of mind. and then we seem surprised when the tensions boil over. >> manuel bojorquez is for dallas. >> oh, say can you see ♪ ♪ by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ >> reporter: there were five empty seats at the memorial, each holding an american flag representing the officers who were killed. dallas mayor, mike rawlings. >> we realize that our pain is your pain. you want to do what we want to do. honor the lives of these five
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officers. lorne ahrens, michael smith, brent thompson, patrick zamarippa. >> he praised chief brown in the wake of the tragedy. >> he represents not only dallas but police officers, police chiefs, this higher calling across the united states of america. >> chief brown, known for never being at a loss for words today decided to use lyrics from a stevie wonder song to honor the officers. >> we all know sometimes life's hate and troubles can make you wish you were born in another time and place. but you can bet your life times and twice as double that god knew exactly where he wanted you
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to be placed. >> the theme of the service was unity, president george w. bush, who lives in dallas, only a mile from where the attack happened directly addressed the families of the fallen. >> your loss is unfair, we cannot explain it. we can stand beside you and share your grief. and we can pray that god will comfort you with a hope deeper than sorrow and stronger than death. >> he also acknowledged their sacrifice. >> but they went where duty called. they defended us. even to the end. they finished well. we will not forget what they did for us. >> president obama met privately with families of the fallen police officers after the service. those families will now begin the process of burying their loved ones. the first two funerals are on wednesday. manuel bojorquez, cbs news, dallas. the dallas police were not the only
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ambush. two civilians were also wounded in the attack. mia taylor was shot in the leg then rushed to shield her young son from the gunfire. gayle king spoke to taylor and four of her sons about that horrible moment. >> what does it feel like, being shot? away does it feel like? >> i want to say like someone just jabbed you with a needle. like a real sharp sting. >> you knew it was a bullet wound? >> oh, yeah, because it was hot. >> caused you to fall? >> i didn't fall, but kind of buckled. i was like oh, my gosh, i got hit. andrew turned around then and starts to grab at me. i'm already shot so i grab him. >> so at that point you're worried now about protecting andrew. >> absolutely. >> so i looked for my mom. and when i looked for my mom, she simultaneously
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lays right on top of me. all that was exposed was my head. >> you said you were scared and just did what? >> i basically sat there and held my breath. i didn't know what was going on. i was shocked. never would have thought something like that would have ever happened to me, my mom or my brothers. >> it felt like a couple of minutes. it could have been less, just a barrage of police officers came up. one of them asked if anybody was hit. i was saying yes, in a real low tone and shaking my head -- >> because you didn't want andrew -- >> i did not want my son to know i got shot. >> and was that the officer you saw get shot? >> the one i saw was actually against the wall. i saw him get shot. >> and when you saw that, what did you think? >> i started prying, i did not stop praying. >> the officers put themselves in harm's way, didn't they
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one month after the primaries ended and less than two weeks after the national convention in philadelphia, the democratic party is finally united. hillary clinton and bernie sanders took to the stage together at a high school gym in portsmouth, new hampshire. over the past season sanders won 13 states and collected over a million votes. he also spent 13 months attacking hillary clinton as unfit for the white house. but with the campaign on the horizon, sanders was singing a different tune. >> secretary clinton goes into the convention with 389 more pledged delegates than we have. and
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i have come here today not to talk about the past. but to focus on the future. that future will be shaped more by what happens on november 8th in voting booths across our nation than by any other event in the world. i have come here to make it as clear as possible. as to why i am endorsing hillary clinton. and why she must become our next president. it is no secret that hillary clinton and i disagree on a number of issues. that is what this campaign
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been about. that is what democracy is about. but i am happy to tell you that at the democratic platform committee which ended sunday night in orlando there was a significant coming together between the two campaigns. and we produced. we produced, by far, the most progressive platform in the history of the democratic party. our job now is to see that platform implemented by a democratically controlled senate.
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a democratically controlled house. and a hillary clinton presidency. >> i have to say it is such a great privilege to be here with senator sanders. being here with him in new hampshire, i can't help but reflect how much more enjoyable this election is going to be now that we are on the same side. i am confident and optimistic about our future, particularly when it comes to young people. i think america's best years are still ahead of us. so join with us. let's make this happen together and win the election! thank you very much! >>on
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take on all of this. trump wrote on twitter, that bernie sanders has totally sold out to crooked hillary clinton. sanders was not true to himself and his supporters. "cbs overnight news" will be right back. introducing new k-y touch gel crème. for massage and intimacy. every touch, gently intensified. a little touch is all it takes. k-y touch.
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movies. now, his life is chronicled in movies. >> reporter: the images of his performance on stage are almost like those of a humming bird captured in flight. mania and mayhem, frozen in time. in 1986, robin williams was a man who it seemed could do everything but stop. arthur grace was a photographer assigned to cover him for "newsweek" magazine, and not long after grace's cover hit the news stands robin williams asked him to stick around and basically help document his life. >> we just hit it off, got along well together and respected each other. >> if you could boil it down, what do you think it was that made the two of you click? >> we're both children. >> he never once said to me, don't shoot this, or you can't photograph that. or you have done enough. >> never once?
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>> never one time, as long as i knew him did that ever happen. >> so for close to 30 years, grace shot everything. in every waking and non-waking hour. in places far from public view. he captured the calm before the storm. grace says that in the moments before a stand-up orperfmance, robin williams would drift into what seemed like another world. >> before he went on stage he got very quiet, almost sleepy? >> they call it a zen-like state. he just almost fell asleep. he was just looking down, arms down really quiet looking down arms closed. and i'm going should i wake him up? should i poke him or something? and all of a sudden you would hear the announcer say, robin williams, ladies and gentlemen, and as soon as he said that, his eyes opened like a shot. >>
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city, mr. robin williams. >> he went from zero to 60, zero to 100, as soon as they mentioned his name. >> i would like to thank imelda marcos for being here -- >> and after 90 minutes of super human performance, williams' assistant would meet him back stage with a plastic bag to collect his sweat-drenched shirt. robin williams was not arthur grace's first celebrity assignment. as a press photographer, he covered journalists and politicians. he caught journalists like leslie stahl in 1980, there was john wayne in a tank, jacqueline
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but there was mrs. doubtfire, or a gay nightclub owner. in 1996 as "the bird cage". >> you do fussy, fussy, or martha graham. >> or matt damon's therapist in good will hunting. >> and you don't regret meeting your wife? because the pain i feel now? i don't regret a single day i spent with her. >> i never seen robin so focused on a movie? >> in 1997, he was shooting still photos to promote the movie. >> he had to use a boston accent, that was part of it. he was totally into it. he was studying with a dialect coach this his hotel room all weekend. and he delivered one of the great monologues, two pages of script on film that is still remembered.
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been totally vulnerable, known someone who could level you with her eyes. feeling like god put an angel on earth just for you. >> for this role, robin williams got his first oscar nomination and his first win. on oscar night, arthur grace was nearby, snapping everything with a pocket camera. >> what was robin williams like on oscar night? >> otherworldly, i was watching in realtime somebody living out a dream. >> the party ended the next morning at williams' hotel suite. >> and i noticed the oscar was still on the table next to a junior's deli bag that was half open. so that was the last picture i shot, that was oscar night. >> how many pictures do you think you took in total of robin williams? >> honestly, i have no idea, but it has to be in the thousands. >>
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boat in los angeles, thought he and robin would grow together as old men, but it was not to be. >> when was the last time you saw him? >> i saw him six months before he died. he seemed to be quieter. seemed to be -- didn't have the same energy i remembered. >> but you didn't get the sense there was anything wrong? >> no, no, no, not at all. >> we begin tonight with breaking news in the west. the sudden death of robin williams. >> in the days after williams' suicide at 63, arthur grace was swamped with photo requests, but he ignored them all. >> could you look at the photos? >> no, i didn't do anything. not then and there, no. >> why not? >> it's too hard. it's too hard. still. >> still? >> sure. >> now, as a tribute, he has put together his favorites into a
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night. but when do you think robin williams was happiest? >> he was happiest around his kids, really, family life. >> arthur grace captured the robin williams that the rest of the world rarely saw. intimate moments with his children while they were young. like bath time in 1995. a bedtime story with daughter, zelda, and a quiet cuddle with his sleepy son, cody, at the end of the day. >> how will you remember him? >> oh, the most interesting guy i ever met in my life, by far. we shared some incredible times together. and they're not going to be repeated with anybody else. >> of all the photos he took, this one, he says, is his favorite. robin williams at the end of a show in 1986. exhausted, ex
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a second push to legalize the recreational use of marijuana is under way in california. a similar ballot failed in 2010. but a recent poll shows that 60% of voters support this measure. >> the owners here at the higher path say the legalization could boost their business and also generate the much-needed tax base for the state of california. if this passes other states could follow and it would force the federal government to confront this issue. for both sides of this story the stakes are high. >> reporter: the golden state has been a leader in cannabis culture and policy. california was the first state to legalize 20 years ago, now it could be the first a
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>> this measure is about getting drug dealers off the street who are targeting our kids. >> reporter: unlike 2010 when a similar measure failed this measure has drawn big backers including gavin newsome, proponents say whthat the cannas market could generate $7 billion a year. but groups that don't want to enforce it say it comes with a cost. >> in colorado, we have seen the increase in poisonings and increase in car accidents. i think over time as we count those costs they become tremendous and they overwhelm any tax revenue you would get from legalizing the drug. >> if the measure passes in california, the number of americans living in states where pot is legal will more than triple. >> that really helps put pressure on congress to deal with some of the major issues that have come out of the state and federal conflict on
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laws. >> reporter: the california cannabis industry is also pwatching. keith mccarthy runs ease, the app that lets users order medical marijuana on line and have it delivered to their home within a half hour. he sees plenty of growth potential for his business. >> with more demands everything gets better and easier. >> reporter: ease is part of a growing trend. 150 new california businesses have joined the national cannabis industry association. and at a cannabis job fair earlier this spring thousands lined up for a chance to be a part of this budding industry. >> it is certainly being driven by the idea that the california market has the potential to grow substantially in the next few years. >> and that is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues, for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news, and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler.
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a challenge from the president. at a memorial service in dallas. >> can we find the character as americans to open our hearts to each other. because with an open heart we can learn to stand in each other's shoes and look at the world through each other's eyes. also tonight, protecting the gop convention. >> people are bolder today, doing more than what they have in the past. so we have to be prepared for that. >> his appeal is denied. justice ginsburg issues an opinion of donald trump. andethe atmocric race is officially over. sanders endorses clinton. this is the "cbs overnight news".
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>> our sorrow can make us a better country, those were the words of the president in dallas. he eulogized the sisters, but pleaded with both sides. >> we want an african-american community that feels unfairly targeted by police, and police departments who feel unfairly maligned for doing their jobs. it's hard sometimes to think that the center won't hold and that things may get worse. >> the center was where the president hoped to draw both protesters and police. he criticized each for ignoring the truths to be found in the middle. >> and when anyone, no matter how good their intentions may be, paints all police as biassed
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or bigoted, we undermine those officers we depend on for our safety, when study after study shows that whites and people of color experience the criminal justice system differently. if you're black you're more likely to be pulled over or searched or arrested. we cannot simply turn away and dismiss those in peaceful protests as troublemakers or paranoid. >> mr. obama eulogized the five officers but he also brought into the room the memory of the two men killed by police this month who were the reason for the dallas protest. >> but even those who dislike the phrase, "black lives matter," surely we should be able to hear the pain of alton sterling's family, just as we should hear the students and co-workers describe their affection for philando castile as a gentle soul.
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>> as a nation, mr. obama said we ask too much of police and not enough of ourselves. >> as a society, we shoes to -- choose to under-invest in decent schools. we allow poverty to fester so that entire neighborhoods offer no prospect for gainful employment. we refuse to fund drug treatment and mental health programs. we flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book. and then we tell the police you're a social worker, you're the parent. you're the teacher. you're the drug counsellor. we tell them to keep those
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and do so without causing any political blow back or inconvenience. don't make a mistake that might disturb our own peace of mind. and then we show surprise when periodically the tensions blow over. >> the president said we must reject despair. we are not as divided as we seem. manuel bojorquez has more from the service. ♪ oh, say can you see ♪ ♪ by the dawn's early light. >> reporter: there were five empty seats at the memorial, each holding an american flag representing the officers who were killed. dallas mayor mike rawlings. >> we realize that our pain is
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your pain. you want to do what we want to do. honor the lives of these five officers, lorne ahrens, michael krol, michael smith, brent thompson, patrick szamarippa >> the mayor also praised chief brown for the wake of the tragedy. >> he represents not only dallas but police officers, police chiefs, this higher calling across the united states of america. >> chief brown, known for never being at a loss for words, today decided to use lyrics from a stevie wonder song to honor the officers. >> we all know sometimes life's hates and troubles can make you wish you were born in another time and place. but you can bet your life times
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that and twice as double that god knew exactly where he wanted you to be placed. >> the theme of the service was unity. former president george w. bush, who lives in dallas, only miles from where the attack happened directly addressed the officers' families. >> your loss is unfair, we can't explain it. we can stand beside you and share your grief. and we can pray that god will comfort you with a hope deeper than sorrow and stronger than death. >> he also acknowledged their sacrifice. >> but they went where duty called. they defended us even to the end. they finished well. we will not forget what they did for us. >> president obama met privately with families of the fallen officers after today's service, scott, those families will now begin the process of burying their loved ones, the first two funerals are tomorrow.
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>> manuel bojorquez in downtown dallas, manuel, thank you. the dallas ambush was motivated in part by the fatal shooting by the police of alton sterling one week ago. today, arrests were made in the alleged plot to kill the officers there. david begnaud is in baton rouge. david? >> reporter: scott, police say this was a substantial and credible threat. early saturday morning, police say three young men broke into the cash america pawn and stole eight guns. an officer found one of the suspects inside the pawn shop. the suspect allegedly told the officer he was looking for bullets in order to use with the stolen guns to kill law enforcement in the baton rouge area. now, as the burglary happened there was a large protest happening right in front of
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two police officers were killed in michigan yesterday because the inmate they were escorting had his hands cuffed in front of him. the inmate was able to grab one of the bailiff's guns. joseph zangaro and ronald kienzle were retired cops. two others were wounded. a fellow bailiff shot and killed the inmate. there are more than the usual security concerns for the republican national convention next week, and jeff pegues is in cleveland. >> reporter: is cleveland ready? >> cleveland is ready. >> reporter: in an interview today, secret service director joseph clancy said his agency is prepared for the convention, but he told us that out on the campaign trail protecting the candidates is getting tougher. >> a number of threats up against candidates?
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threat picture is slightly elevated. >> reporter: even compared to 2012 and 2008? >> yes. >> reporter: so threatening harm to the candidates? >> threatening harm to the candidates and being disruptive. some just want to be heard and are willing to do whatever in terms of jumping over barriers. to be heard. >> reporter: in june, a man in las vegas was arrested and accused of attempting to kill the republican presumptive nominee donald trump after allegedly trying to grab an officer's gun. in march, secret service agents intercepted another man who tried to reach the candidate at a rally in dayton, ohio, barricades are usually used as buffers between the candidates and the crowds, but now crowds -- now the barriers are being pushed farther out. and clancy told us people seem to be more willing to breach security. >> so people are bolder than they were in the past so we have to be prepared for that. >> reporter: and the attack in dallas has the secret service and cleveland polief
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police chief calvin williams. >> we have what if, we have table topped this from day one until yesterday. and everything that can and will happen we have planned for. >> reporter: and they are also preparing for armed protesters. here in the state of ohio you can openly carry some weapons. scott, cleveland police say they are prepared for that and that they will not restrict anyone's constitutional rights. >> jeff pegues, thank you. in cleveland for us. well, the republican nominee has been the target of a highly unusual opinion by a supreme court justice. here is major garrett. >> reporter: justice ginsburg spoke fearfully of a donald trump presidency.
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possibility but if it is, everything is up for grabs, she told the associated press. in another interview, she said i can't imagine what the country would be with donald trump as our president. ginsburg also accused him of holding no firm political beliefs. he is a faker, the 83-year-old justice told cnn. he has no consistency about him. and says whatever comes to his head at the moment. ginsburg, appointed by bill clinton in 1993, had this thought. ginsburg offered this thought about the next president, she is bound to have a new appointments to the court. trump called ginsburg's comments, quote, highly inappropriate. he said i think it is a disgrace to the court and says she should apologize, adding i couldn't believe it when i saw it. senate majority mitch mcconnell denying merrick garland confirmation hearings also faulted ginsburg. >> i think justice ginsburg's remarks were totally inappropriate and i wish she had not said them. >> harry reid, the democratic
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leader, did not jump to ginsburg's defense. >> i am not going to comment on what any supreme court justices say. >> reporter: we have learned trump will announce his running mate friday. one of the top contenders, indiana governor pence, and newt gingrich had had his meeting suspended today. the senior trump officials insist that had nothing to do with the trump vice presidential evaluation process. >> major, what else do we know about the rollout of trump's running mate? >> reporter: well, for a campaign that has by no means been traditional, it will be very likely traditional. likely new york, although that is not absolutely locked down, senior officials tell us. but then a weekend worth of campaign rallies and talk shows
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trump and his newly christened running mate. >> major garrett for us on the campaign trail thank you. today, attorney general loretta lynch shed no light on her decision not to bring charges against hillary clinton. before the house judiciary committee, lynch declined every question about clinton's use of an unsecured e-mail server. to send classified information. lynch said only that she accepted the fbi's conclusion that there was no criminal intent on clinton's part. committee chairman bob goodlatte said that the decision quote, defied logic and the law. 13 days before the convention opens clinton got the endorsement of bernie sanders. >> secretary clinton has won the democratic nominating process. >> he waited five weeks, but when sanders announced his backing today he was unequivocal. >> i have come here to make it as clear as possible, as to why i amor
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hillary clinton will make an outstanding president and i am proud to stand with her today. thank you all very much. >> in a move straight out of trump's "art of the deal" sanders withheld his support for clinton until the democratic platform reflected his positions on the death penalty, the environment and the minimum wage. and until clinton changed her public college plan to look a lot like his. >> thanks to the new proposals that senator sanders and i worked on together for families making less than $125,000 a year we will eliminate tuition at those schools altogether. >> reporter: it's the kind of proposal she used to call unrealistic. but that sanders has with his loyal followers.
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like 24-year-old mark. >> did hillary clinton say what you wanted her to say today? >> she is on the right track, i don't think she would have embraced those policies without sanders. >> reporter: scott, sanders pointed out that none of his proposals have a chance of being enacted without a democrat in the white house. nancy cordis covering the clinton campaign. thank you. coming up, many are dead as trains collide hea. d on and r,late f theasbi h a major announcement in a 45-year-old hijacking mystery.
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there was a terrible accident when two commuter trains collided head-on today in southern italy. at least 60 were hurt and 22 were killed. seth doan is at the scene. >> reporter: the trains collided with such violent force that the front cars were crushed, flung from the track, debris thrown from an olive grove. rescue crews tried to pry the survivors out, and eyewitnesss compared the scene to a plane crash. i was thrown forward, the survivor, who is eight month's pregnant, said. i saw my mr
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the ground and my sister bleeding. coffins were brought in and a triage center was set up near the crash site as medevac choppers took the injured to nearby hospitals. near the scene, alessandro mancini spoke. >> a very good friend, it looks like he is the last one, we think. and we don't have any news. >> reporter: early theories point to human error. one of the trains was supposed to wait for a green light before moving ahead on the single track. you can see workers sitting and sifting through the wreckage behind me. scott, more than 10,000 people rode this railway every day, but it did not yet have the auto control and braking features that other lines in italy have. >> seth doane, thank you.
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wall street made history today, the dow gained 120 points to close at 18,347, an all-time high, the s&p also closed at a record high for the second straight day. well, shudders went through the internet world today on word that people who share their passwords for subscription services may be prosecuted. but it turned out this had come from a federal judge who was expressing only his opinion in a criminal appeal.
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netflix can relax. ceo hastings said back in january, we love people sharing netflix. today, the fbi says it is no longer hunting the mysterious hijacker named d.b. cooper, with the leads all drying up. back in 1971 he hijacked a northwest orient airline, then over washington state he jumped out wearing a business suit, a parachute, and a bag with $200,000. some of the money was found but he never was. and there was a development in a long-running mystery. who committed the murder in the mansion in the popular board game "clue." for the first time since clue was introduced in 1949, hasbrow is replacing one of the suspects. mrs. white is out, dr. orchid is in. she is a biologist w
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we end tonight with one of the more moving moments in the president's remarks at the memorial service this dallas. he told the story of a woman who had taken her sons to the demonstration on thursday and was wounded by the gunman. >> the police helped shetamia taylor as she was shot trying to shield her four sons. she said she wanted her boys to join her to protest the incidents of black men being killed. she also said to the dallas pd, thank you for being heroes. and today, her 12-year-old son wants to be a cop when he grows up. that is the america i know. >> and that is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." and welcome to the overnight news, i'm don dahler. president obama traveled to dallas for a scene that is becoming all too familiar during his presidency. consoler-in-chief to the shocked and grieving nation. the president spoke at a memorial service for the five officers gunned down in a protest rally last week. the president honored the officers. praising the officers but honoring the two men who were shot recently. we must reject despair, the president said, we are not as divided as we seem. >> we wonder if an african-american community that feels unfairly targeted by police and police departments who feel unfairly maligned for
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doing their jobs can ever understand each other's experience. it's hard sometimes to think that the center won't hold and that things might get worse. and when anyone, no matter how good their intentions may be, paints all police as biased or bigoted, we undermine those officer officers we depend on for our safety when study after study shows that whites and people of color experience the criminal justice differently. we cannot simply turn away and dismiss those protesters as troublemakers or poi
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surely we should be able to hear the pain of alton sterling's family. just as we should hear the students and co-workers describe their affection for philando castile as a gentle soul. as a society we choose to under-invest in decent schools. we allow poverty to fester so that entire neighborhoods offer no prospect for gainful employment. we refuse to fund drug treatment and mental health programs. we flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book. and then we tell the police, you're a social worker. you're the parent. you're the teacher. you're the drug counsellor. wel
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costs. and do so without causing any political blow back or inconvenience. don't make a mistake that might disturb our own peace of mind. and then we seem surprised when the tensions boil over. >> manuel bojorquez is in dallas. >> oh, say can you see ♪ ♪ by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ >> reporter: there were five empty seats at the memorial, each holding an american flag representing the officers who were killed. dallas mayor, mike rawlings. >> we realize that our pain is your pain. you want to do what we want to do. honor the lives of these five officers.
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lorne ahrens, michael krol, michael smith, brent thompson, patrick zamarippa. >> he praised chief brown in the wake of the tragedy. >> he represents not only dallas but police officers, police chiefs, this higher calling across the united states of america. >> chief brown, known for never being at a loss for words today decided to use lyrics from a stevie wonder song to honor the officers. >> we all know sometimes life's hate and troubles can make you wish you were born in another time and place. but you can bet your life times and twice as double that god knew exactly where he wanted you to be placed. >> the
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unity, former president george w. bush, who lives in dallas only miles where the attack happened directly addressed the families of the fallen. >> your loss is unfair, we cannot explain it. we can stand beside you and share your grief. and we can pray that god will comfort you with a hope deeper than sorrow and stronger than death. >> he also acknowledged their sacrifice. >> but they went where duty called. they defended us. even to the end. they finished well. we will not forget what they did for us. >> president obama met privately with families of the fallen police officers after the service. those families will now begin the process of burying their loved ones. the first two funerals are on wednesday. manuel bojorquez, cbs news, dallas. the dallas police were not the only victims of the deadly ambush. two civilians were ao
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mia taylor was shot in the leg then rushed to shield her young son from the gunfire. gayle king spoke to taylor and four of her sons about that horrible moment. >> what does it feel like, being shot? what does that feel like? >> i want to say like someone just jabbed you with a needle. like a real sharp sting. >> you knew it was a bullet wound? >> oh, yeah, because it was hot. >> caused you to fall? >> i didn't fall, but kind of buckled. i was like oh, my gosh, i got hit. and i'm kind of limping. andrew turned around then and starts to grab at me. i'm already shot so i grab him. >> so at that point you're worried now about protecting andrew. >> absolutely. >> so i turned around to look for my mom, and as i looked for my mom she
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basically tackles me to the curb, in the car. all that was exposed was my head. >> you said you were scared and just did what? >> i basically sat there and held my breath. i didn't know what was going on. i was shocked. never would have thought something like that would have ever happened to me, my mom or my brothers. >> it felt like a couple of minutes. it could have been less, just a barrage of police officers came up. one of them asked if anybody was hit. i was saying yes, in a real low tone and shaking my head -- >> because you didn't want andrew to know. >> i did not want my son to know i got shot. >> and was that the officer you saw get shot? >> the one i saw was actually against the wall. i saw him get shot. >> and when you saw that, what did you think? >> i'm just praying. i did not stop praying. >> that night the police put themselves in harm's way, and saved you, you said? >> yes, they did,
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ezy beautiful covergirl one month after the primaries ended and less than two weeks after the national convention in philadelphia the democratic party is finally united. over the course of the primary season, sanders won 22 states and collected more than 13 million votes. he also spent 13 months attacking clinton as a tool of wall street and unfit for the white house. but with the fall campaign under the horizon, sanders was singing a different tune. >> secretary clinton goes into the convention with 389 more pledged delegates than we have. and a lot more super delegates.
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i have come here today not to talk about the past. but to focus on the future. that future will be shaped more by what happens on november 8th in voting booths across our nation than by any other event in the world. i have come here to make it as clear as possible. as to why i am endorsing hillary clinton. and why she must become our next president. it is no secret that hillary clinton and i disagree on a number of issues. that is what this campaign has been about.
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but i am happy to tell you that at the democratic platform committee which ended sunday night in orlando there was a significant coming together between the two campaigns. and we produced. we produced, by far, the most progressive platform in the history of the democratic party. our job now is to see that platform implemented by a democratically controlled senate. a democratically controlled house.
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and a hillary clinton presidency. >> i have to say it is such a great privilege to be here with senator sanders. being here with him in new hampshire, i can't help but reflect how much more enjoyable this election is going to be now that we are on the same side. i am confident and optimistic about our future, particularly when it comes to young people. i think america's best years are still ahead of us. so join with us. let's make this happen together and win the election! thank you very much! >> donald trump had a different take on all of this. trwr
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>> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome robin williams. >> reporter: the images of his performance on stage are almost like those of a humming bird captured in flight. mania and mayhem, frozen in time. in 1986, robin williams was a man who it seemed could do everything but stop. arthur grace was a photographer assigned to cover him for "newsweek" magazine, and not long after grace's cover hit the news stands robin williams asked him to stick around and basically help document his life. >> we just hit it off, got along well together and respected each other. >> if you could boil it down, what do you think it was that made the two of you click? >> we're both children. >> he never once said to me, don't shoot this, or you can't photograph that. or you have done enough. >> never once? go away -- >> never one time, as long as i knew him did that ever happen.
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>> so for close to 30 years, grace shot everything. in every waking and non-waking hour. in places far from public view. he captured the calm before the storm. grace says that in the moments before a stand-up performance, robin williams would drift into what seemed like another world. >> before he went on stage he got very quiet, almost sleepy? >> they call it a zen-like state. he just almost fell asleep. he was just looking down, arms down really quiet looking down arms closed. and i'm going should i wake him up? should i poke him or something? and all of a sudden you would hear the announcer say, robin williams, ladies and gentlemen, and as soon as they said williams, his eyes came open and he was off like a shot. >> ladies and gentlemen, from the metropolitan in new york city, mr. ro
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>> he ran out onto the stage, shot out it like a canon. >> he went from zero to 60, zero to 100, as soon as they mentioned his name. >> i would like to thank imelda marcos for being here -- >> and after 90 minutes of super human performance, williams' assistant would meet him back stage with a plastic bag to collect his sweat-drenched shirt. robin williams was not arthur grace's first celebrity assignment. or his most famous. as a press photographer, grace spent years covering presidents at the white house and on the road. he got politicians running for office. and journalists running to meet denies like our cbs colleague leslie stahl, in 1980, there was john wayne in a tank, jacqueline onassis in
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but there was mrs. doubtfire, or a gay nightclub owner. in 1996 as "the bird cage". >> you do fussy, fussy, or martha graham. martha graham, more that graham, or twyla, twyla! >> or matt damon's therapist in good will hunting. >> and you don't regret meeting your wife? because the pain i feel now? oh, i got regrets, will, but i don't regret a single day i spent with her. >> i never seen robin so focused on a movie? >> in 1997, he was shooting still photos to promote the movie. >> he had to use a boston accent, that was part of it. he was totally into it. he was studying with a dialect coach in his hotel room all weekend. and he delivered one of the great monologues, two pages of script on film that is still remembered. >> you never looked at a woman, been totally vulnerable, known someone who could level you wi
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feeling like god put an angel on earth just for you. >> for this role, robin williams got his fourth oscar nomination and his first win. on oscar night, arthur grace was nearby, snapping everything with a pocket camera. >> what was robin williams like on oscar night? >> otherworldly, i was watching in realtime somebody living out a dream. >> the party ended the next morning at williams' hotel suite. >> and i noticed the oscar was still on the table next to a junior's deli bag that was half open. so that was the last picture i shot and let myself out. that was oscar night. >> how many pictures do you think you took in total of robin williams? >> honestly, i have no idea, but it hasbe to in the thousands. >> grace, who now lives on his boat in los angeles, thought he
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and robin would go through all the pictures together as old men, but it was not to be. >> when was the last time you saw him? >> i saw him six months before he died, in 2013. and he just seemed to be quieter. seemed to be -- didn't have the same energy i remembered. >> but you didn't get the sense there was anything wrong? >> no, no, no, not at all. >> we begin tonight with breaking news in the west. the sudden death of robin williams. >> in the days after williams' suicide at 63, arthur grace was swamped with photo requests, but he ignored them all. >> could you look at the photos? >> no, i didn't do anything. not then and there, no. >> why not? >> it's too hard. it's too hard. still. >> still? >> sure. >> now, as a tribute, he has put together his favorites into a book. >> so you talked about oscar t.
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but when do you think robin williams was happiest? >> he was happiest around his kids, really, family life. >> arthur grace captured the robin williams that the rest of the world rarely saw. intimate moments with his children while they were young. like bath time in 1995. a bedtime story with daughter, zelda, and a quiet cuddle with his sleepy son, cody, at the end of the day. >> how will you remember him? >> oh, the most interesting guy i ever met in my life, by far. we shared some incredible times together. and they're not going to be repeated with anybody else. >> of all the photos he took, this one, he says, is his favorite. robin williams at the end of a show in 1986. exhausted, exuberant, and victorious. >> the cbs overnight news wi
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> >> it's wednesday, july 13th, 2016. this is the cbs morning news. when the bullets started flying the men and women of the dallas police, they did not flinch and they did not react reckle recklessly. and today he'll continue to raise raw racial tensions across the u.s. as three men are arrested in baton rouge the son of alton sterling gunned down by an officer has a mge
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