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>> reporter: a white horse drawn carriage thread procession carrying philando castile's casket. mourners packed shoulder to shoulder in the cathedral. but they wanted to support a community and the request of his mother, valley. >> he is a king and i felt that would be the only thing suitable for him was royalty. >> please, officer, don't tell me you just did this to him. >> reporter: the video streamed live by his fiance on facebook caused national outrage. he had a gun in the car and a permit to carry. the family says he was a victim of racial profiling. the family's pastor agreed. but asked mourners to come together. >> we're not each other's enemy. so, i hope this
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someof the most important business of the republican convention is unfolding right now. the people who make the rules are hearing from dissidents who want to derail trump's expected first ballot nomination. >> obviously we did not stand adjourned for three hours because of a jam here. >> reporter: a printer problem became code for a last minute effort to prevent a messy nomination fight at the convention next week. rnc officials and donald trump stayed huddled behind doors. sean spicer is with the rnc. >> i think we want to make sure we have a sign of unity coming out of this convention. >> reporter: they've b
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to unbind delegates from voting for trump on the first ballot. but tonight they told cbs news they're confident they don't have the votes to prevail. whether the stop trump movement will still get the 28 votes needed to create a minority report, airing gop infighting for all the cameras to see. the long awaited list of speakers did highlight the gop divide. glaringly absent are many of the party's leaders, such as john >> why are you skipping the convention? >> because i'm campaigning for reelection. >> reporter: neither will either of the former presidents bush. those that will be speaking include house speaker paul ryan and majority leader, mitch mcconnell. both have on occasion criticized trump. the stru
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faces its biggest test tomorrow when they meet for a second day. we've spoken with many of the delegates and even those bound to other candidates say the cake is baked and it's time to rally around trump. >> julianna, thank you. when our poll asked voters who would do a better job on the economy, trump beat clinton by 11 points. last month they were dead even. tough times are drawing voters to trump. >> reporter: there was a time when johns town, pennsylvania led the nation in steel production. of good paying jobs have long since left. >> this is a small town. it used to be like a small pittsburgh and it's a hard hit area. >> reporter: welder john works at one of the last remaining factories. his faith in the future has been
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and you're wearing a trump shirt. >> if he does half of what he says he's going to do, it's a boost in the right direction. you can only go forward with him, you can't go backwards. >> reporter: another resident registered republican for the first time in his life and also plans to vote trump. >> we have way too many government regulations. trump talked about i'm getting them out of the way and letting our local industries do what they do best and create jobs. >> reporter: but restoring the former glory is a tough order. the average income is less than half the national average and 44% live in poverty. >> our economy is obviously not recovered from the crisis in 2008, so we got to worry about home, we have to take care of this place first. >> reporter: they have favored democrats in every presidential
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but long dead industries could have their final revenge. johns town, pennsylvania. well, hillary clinton will accept the democratic nomination two weeks from tonight. what will her ticket look like? >> are we ready for hillary? [ applause ] >> reporter: clinton held her own vp tryout for virginia senator, tim kaine in his home state. >> do you want a "you're fired" president or a "you're hired" president. >> reporter: he's the former governor of a battleground state, a member of the senate arms services committee and he speaks fluent spanish. still he faces stiff competition from some of his senate colleagues, all of whom bhmet wh clinton today. tight lipped included jared brown, elizabeth warren of massachusetts, new jersey
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bernie sanders who got a standing ovation after endorsing clinton earlier this week. >> she will be the next president of the united states. >> reporter: clinton has campaigned with the others too but the timing of today's event is intriguing. it's her last big public appearance before she gets over shadowed by trump's vp announcement tomorrow and the republican convention next week. >> now next week in cleveland they will nominate someone who thinks latino out reach is tweeting a picture of a taco bowl. >> senator cane has described himself as boring but that could be a plus in the eyes of the clinton campaign which won't have to worry as much if he's the vp that he will upstage the person at the top of the ticket. >> nancy, thank you. she didn't apologize or take her words back but today supreme court justice ruth bader
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ginsburg says she regrets making critical remarks about donald trump. she said her remarks were ill advised and judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. the cbs overnight news will be right back. i can't believe it has 40% fewer calories than butter. i can't believe it's made with real, simple ingredients. i can't believe...
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hillary clinton faces a new campaign hurdle. road rage has become such a problem that connecticut put this advice in its driver's manual. if you want to wave to another driver, please use all your fingers. well, we were thumbing thr
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here's chris van cleev. >> calm down. >> reporter: road rage caught on a cell phone camera in ramona, california outside of san diego over the weekend. >> if i wouldn't have jumped out of the way, he definitely would have hit me. >> reporter: stone was taking pictures of a car when the driver of an suv almost hit him. nearly 80% of drivers express significant anger, agreggressior road rage at least once in a last year. that's 104 million people and 47% of drivers yelled at another driver. triple-a's tamara johnson. >> the 8 million drivers are admitting to actually getting out of their vehicle and approaching another driver or purposely ramming or bumping their car
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>> reporter: pulling guns or breaking windows have all gone viral. in may, an argument turned into a fight in the streets of houston. then one driver rammed the other's car and took off. >> it affords us a certain level of safety and anonymity. >> reporter: he's a professor at temple university in philadelphia. he spoke to us for cbs sunday morning. what is it about driving that makes people so angry? >> you're trying to get from a to b and you haven't given yourself enough time to do that. so, the trip itself is very stressful. >> reporter: between 2010 and 2014, road rage has been blamed for more than 1700 deaths. when we come back, we'll meet a woman who stopped riot police in their tracks.
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during the protests after a police shooting in baton rouge, louisiana, iesha evans stood her ground. she stepped up after seeing an officer adjust his weapon. >> so, how does it go from that to you are now nose to nose with police officers? >> i'll be honest. i felt the urge
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i needed to see them, i needed to see their faces. >> so, you just walk in the street even though you're told not to and you stand nose to nose and not say anything. >> nothing. >> and what are they saying to you? >> nothing. it was silence. it was a lot of nonverbal communication. >> what did you want your silence to say? >> i'm human. i'm a woman, i'm a mom. a nurse. i could be your nurse. i could be taking care of you. you know. our children could be friends. we all matter. we don't have to beg to matter. we do matter. >> you can see gale's interview on cbs this morning. and we'll be right back with an update on the france attack.
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. back to our top story now monopo. many dozens have been killed in nice, france after a truck drove into a crowd watching bastille day fireworks. here in the paris with the latest. >> reporter: local media are quoting police as
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people are dead after the truck plowed into the crowd watching the bastille day fireworks. 16 of them are in the hospital in critical condition. ambulance services and firefighters are still on the scene to help the wounded. a reporter on the scene said the truck seemed to deliberately drive onto the prom anod where people were gathering for a vantage point to watch the fireworks. local police say an emergency operation is still underway. they've asked people to stay away from downtown nice and they're advising people to stay home and lock their doors. the president is now holding a crisis meeting in paris. the interior minister is on his way to nice where he'll be updated on the situation. >> this is being described as an attack. and our correspondent jeff, is
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in cleveland covering security for next week's convention. >> reporter: according to one u.s. intell official, it certainly is looking like a deliberate attack. however, they are not taking an official stand on that. i'm told there is no official analysis of what exactly happened. in other words, they don't know who's responsible. all focus would be certainly on isis. based on what has happened in the last year in europe. the attacks in paris, as well as brussels. as you mentioned, i'm in cleveland where they're gearing up for the rnc and we'll see how it effects security here, if it does. >> and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues, for others, check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city.
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♪ this is the cbs overnight news. >> welcome to the overnight news. the republican presidential ticket is now set. donald trump, who's running his first campaign for public office, is tapping a life-long politician as his running mate. indiana governor, mike pence. this as a nation wide poll shows trump in a dead heat with hillary clinton. donald trump spoke with mike pence last night and again today as he settled on the indiana governor to bring a low key personality to the ticket. the 57-year-old pence was born in columbus, indiana. and has
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he served six terms in congress and carved out a record of social and economic conservative that tea parties fancied long before they became a force in the gop. he previously endorsed ted cruz. >> i see ted cruz as a principaled conservative who's dedicated his career to advocating the regan ajgenagend. >> reporter: and he previously opposed trump on two big issues. temporarily banning muslim immigration and the transpacific partnership. but he came around to team trump and has been singing his praise since laying claim to the nomination. >> he's a builder, a fighter and a patriot. >> reporter: 86% of voters are undecided or don't know enough to form an opinion. he has not been touchedy
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for a bill that allowed them to deny services s for religious believes. the trump campaign has got to be pleased with the latest numbers. trump and clinton in a dead heat, both with 40% support nation wide. the same poll, just one month ago had clinton up by six points. >> i think this poll is devastating for hillary clinton. i don't think there's any other way to put it because he's opened up a big lead between independent independents. how do we get to the bernie sanders people? how does hillary clinton get to the left of bernie sanders? i think it's in the middle where she's got to work on getting people and this poll really shows
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about this. we have managed to come up with two people, on the republican and democratic side that a majority of americans don't like and even worse don't trust. i mean, how does that happen? it seems to me that the main appeal of both candidates now is that they're not the other candidate. >> so, are her numbers going down? >> over and over i can't vote for hillary, so i'm going to vote for trump. or i don't like trump, so i'm going to have to vote for hillary. it's nobody that's positive here. >> supreme court justice now regrets her scathing public criticism of donald trump. she admitted her comments were ill ill ill
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>> reporter: she has always been someone to speak her mind but her comments about donald trump are unprecedented in modern history. we have never had a supreme court justice lash out at a leading presidential candidate and even her liberal defenders are saying her comments went over the line. >> this is all the more reason why i hope i win. >> reporter: justice ginsburg has made herself donald trump's new favorite target. >> i think i'm questioning her mental capacity. she's been criticized by people that would always be on her side. >> reporter: her comments sparked criticism from all sides. >> ruth bader ginsburg calling trump a faker. >> she told the new york times, i can't imagine what the country would be with donald trump as our president. >> reporter: they scolded the justice. and
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undermined faith in the court. >> we ask them to set their personal views aside. >> reporter: trump may be over reacting and calling for ginsburg to resign but said her comments were inappropriate and could have consequences. >> heaven forbid wewould have a 2000 election replay and there was an election contest that made it to the supreme court, it would be appropriate if motions were filed for justice ginsburg to recuse herself. >> reporter: nominated in 1993 by clinton, she's the court's oldest justice and its leading liberal voice. trump said her comments show her mind is shot. >> i don't see any reason to suggest she's too old for her job or this is a sign of something more than she made remarks she shouldn't have in a few interviews. >> reporter: now on wednesday, justice steven brier was ask
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for his response and he said and i quote, if i had an opinion, i wouldn't express it. the man hunt continue said in and around phoenix. two others were wounded in the shooting spree that's gone on for four months. >> reporter: police try and track down this so-called serial shooter. they're trying it determine if it's one person or a group of people behind these crimes. >> they walked in front of it and into the wind shield. >> reporter: his daughter and grand daughter were shot and killed in his driveway along with their friend, angela. >> 12 bullets in my granddaughter, eight in the other girl. >> reporter: since march, nine people have
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square mile area of phoenix. they released this sketch but not much else. does there seem to be a pattern with the victims? >> there does not. we have not determined a motive. weve haven't found a relationsh between our victims. >> they have been shot at night, many outside of their homes, arriving and departing in a sedan. >> this guy has to get off the street and pay for what he did. >> reporter: nancy lost her twin brother. so, you're still trying to cope with the loss of your brother but you're afraid this could happen to you? >> yeah. they've not only taken my twin brother but my sense of security away. so, they have many other victims along with just the ones that passed away. >> reporter: stephanie ellis's mother hopesus
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the reverend al sharpton will be one of the speakers at the funeral for alton sterling. he was shot and killed during an altercation with local cops outside a local convenience store. it led to protests and a deadly ambush that left five officers dead. >> reporter: cameron sterling is 15 years old and while he's preparing to bury his father, he's thinking about the protests and about that ambush of police in dallas, which in some part was motivated by what happened to his father. his father's death right here at this convenience store in baton rouge, louisiana. what we saw in cameron sterling was a young man far beyond his years. >> i rea
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know, everyone nation wide, everyone in this world to know that alton sterling was a man, no matter what anyone else has to say about him. truly in my heart, i know he was a good dad. >> the individual involved in his murder took away a man with children. >> reporter: i'll never forget that image of you whaling on the side of your mom. >> when i put my arm around her, it's like somebody else had touched me. like i had another hand laying on top of my hand and when i looked over, nobody else was touching me. and at that moment i knew my daddy here. he right beside us. he's standing here as a family together once again. that's when i started crying. i know i can't physically have him back, so i know i had to cry to be like i want mydy
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opportunity to say one thing to your dad, one last thing, what would it be? >> i love you so dearly. sfwlr >> reporter: what is your opinion of police in general these days? >> police in general, all police aren't bad. they all aren't bad. there are some that are bad but all aren't bad. how i feel. i feel all police shouldn't be punished for other police's crimes. the police in dallas, texas, they didn't deserve that because nobody knew if they had kids to go home to. those kids need their parents. >> reporter: people around the country have been protetsisting because of what happened to
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americans suffer traumatic brain injuries. a lot of times they're left in a coma or a persistive vegetative state. one fought back from that. >> reporter: his bowling skills are actually pretty good. >> yeah. >> reporter: especially when you consider what dillen has been through. did you guys ever have a doubt that he'd be back having beers with you guys? >> no. >> it wasn't necessarily a doubt. the reports we were getting from the parents were he shouldn't be alive right now. >> reporter: five years ago, dillen rizzo, then 19 was driving his friend ryan's house to play video games but his car hit a patch of black ice and he spun sideways into a telephone poll. his parents, steve and tracy got the call every parent
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>> the poll seemed to hit him directly in the head and from there he went forward and hit the wind shield and had more damage on the other side. so, he had an impact side and a second impact. >>dillen sat was a big indianitation in the car. >> reporter: they had removed parts of his skull to make room for his head to swell but he slipped into a deep coma. >> i remember standing and not being able to move my feet. it was extremely surreal. >> we didn't know what to think. >> reporter: he was an accomplished track star. he's the one with the "o" painted on his chest. but the accident had done a shocking amount of damage to his brain. he remained in his coma for more than
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he did finally open his eyes but while he was technically awake, he wasn't aware of his surroundings. he had transitioned into a vejitative state. a month later, not much improvement. the doctors said if he didn't break out soon, he would likely stay in that vegetative state for life. >> everyone was waiting and i said we can't come out and tell our family that. i can't even say these words. i can't say it. >> reporter: but this man, not a medical doctor but a researcher brought in to study the case thought dillen's brain might just need more time. >> we were sort of lumping everyone into this vegetative state category. >> reporter: he's a neuropsychocologist at the rehabilitating hospital. and he calls it a rush to judgment. >> as many as
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who have been diagnosed with vegetative state actually retain some conscious awareness. that's a fairly alarming number. >> reporter: he thought dillen just might be one of those cases and given the right therapy might pull himself out of that fog. >> reporter: the addage was the brain is not a muscle. so, simply exercising it is not going to help. >> just follow with your eyes. >> reporter: now there's evidence that if you do rehearsal of a particular behavior, including in a damaged brain, it may well get better. >> you can do it, dillen. >> reporter: he was moved to the pediatric unit where they started working him hard. they helped him stand, tried to get him to walk, eventually eve toop cli -- even to climb stairs.
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>> he never said no to any challenge. any medications, shots, whatever it was. >> reporter: it was two years after the accident when we met dillen for the first time. not in a nursing home but back in his own home. the boy who wasn't supposed to be able to walk or talk took me down to his basement to play foos ball. you've confounded all the experts. you know that? >> i have, yeah. >> reporter: talking was difficu difficult. he certainly could string a few words together. >> i feel great. >> reporter: and you're making progress every day? >> oh, yeah. >> how are the pioneers doing this year? >> reporter: his medical team was pleased but not satisfied,
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they kept pushing dillen to work even harder. today an occupational therapist was helping him make cupcakes. his movements were slow but with help, he did it. >> every day you see something new that he's doing that he wasn't doing before. >> reporter: we watched as he learned to write again too and work on his memory. >> do you remember mary jane's email and her phone number. >> mary jane at g mail.com. >> very good. >> reporter: even when it hurt, dillen was always thumbs up. this past summer, we decided to check in with dillen again. and guess where we found him?
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you real seem to love it. >> i do. >> reporter: back at his high school track where he's a volunteer assistant coach. >> reporter: on a scale of one to 10, where would you put your recovery? >> probably an 8. 8 or 9. i'm doing very well. >> reporter: we went to the ymca with him too where he does weight training at least once a week. when you're watching that,t wha are you thinking? >> it's amazing to see the amount of weight that he can actually lift because it took weeks and months just to be able to get him to lift his right arm. >> reporter: but that's not what dillen is most proud of. what have you noticed is the biggest improvement, you think? >> i can talk much better. before i would just go yeah.
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>> reporter: you can have a conversation now. things happen quicker? >> surely but slowly it's getting better. >> reporter: pretty good to me. >> i'm very intelligent but i want to be more intelligent. that's the difference. >> if you see a question asking when? >> time. >> great. >> reporter: he's the first to admit he's got a ways to go. >> so, this is a really nice improvement. >> yeah, it is. >> reporter: you've done great. tracy, dillen's mom is careful to keep her expectations in check. >> i want him to be able to take care of himself in the future and i know he would love to have a family some day, so that's something i hope will happen for him. >> reporter: just more independent. >> and a girlfriend. he wants a girlfriend. >> reporter: dillen's not ready for a full-time job, he can't ve
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remains a challenge and he needs help managing his medications and his wounds which are still healing. joseph concedes there are parts of his brain that will likely never recover but what dillen's case suggestests is that for some people being in a vegetative state may not be as persistent as it was once thought. >> the evidence is for somebody with a disorder of consciousness, it's not considered permanent until a year and now we know that the small percent age, maybe 15% wil actually recover after one year. >> reporter: his amazing journey has surprised everyone. friends, family and dr. s. the only person not surprised by it all is dillen rizzo himself. you sort of knew you were going to get better.
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if you're traveling this summer, the wait is less than half a ean hour. chris van cleev reports from baltimore airport in washington. >> reporter: their idea is to use these machines to get you to the front of the line as possible. but they see a future where you could show up with no id, credit cards or boarding pass. all you would need? your fingerprint. this is the latest way to beat the airport security lines. >> so, press both thumbs on that black pad. >> reporter: they are a private company using an iris scan or
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passenger's identity and then leave that passenger around the long line of people waiting to have their id's checked by the tsa and right to screening. >> the stres and hassle is a meaningful experience upgrade. what clear has done is not different of what atm machines or easy pass has done. >> reporter: it's different from tsa precheck which allowed them to go through an expedited screening. business traveller. how much time do you think it saves you on a busy day? >> 30 plus minutes. >> reporter: 30 minutes. the time savings come at a cost. $179 a year for clear and $85 for 5 years of tsa precheck. >> i think it's creating one more break between the upper
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not healthy. >> reporter: these kauncons ear check. >> it's distasteful when private companies can horn in on a government operation and find a way to make money from it. >> reporter: all that bimetric data in the hands of a private company. >> it would be an attractive target to try and hack. >> we're extraordinarily focussed on the privacy of our member's data. it is core to our business and our mission. >> reporter: they're not aff affiliate would the tsa but he sees the potential for bimetrics to improve airport security. it's in 13 airports with the goal of 24 by the end of the year. >> that's the overnight news for this friday.
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for some of you the news continues, for others, check back for the morning news and cbs this morning. ♪ breaking news in france. a truck has plowed into a crowd celebrating bastille day. also tonight, ending the surprise. donald trump chooses mikece pen as his running mate as our new poll finds the presidential race in a dead .heat who's voting for trump? you were a life long democrat and you're wearing a trump >>irt. or repter:vi dring while angry. in a new study, eight out of 10 drivers admit doing it. ♪ >> announcer: this is the cbs overnight news. police say many dozens have been killed after a truck rammed
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into a car thin the city of nic france. they were commemorating the start of the french revolution, much like our fourth of july. here on the phone with the latest. >> reporter: local media are quoting police as saying at least 76 people are dead after the large transport trucks plow under to the crowd galthering t watch the bastille fireworks. a crisis center has been set up at a local hospital as well as a psychological crisis center for anyone who wants help. local police say an emergency operation is still underway and they've asked people to stay away from downtown nice. they'red a ed vising people to home and lock their doors. the counter terrorism unit has been put in charge. they say they have
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information of who the truck driver was or what his motives may have been. local media report that people heard shots fired and they published a photo online of the truck apparently riddled by bullet holes. the president cut short a private business to return to paris for a crisis cabinet meeting. the interior minister is on his way to meet with local officials and police to be updated on the situation. >> and we'll have exclusive coverage from nice on cbs this morning. because of the attack in france, donald trump says he is putting off the introduction tomorrow of his running mate, indiana governor, mipence mike this as the poll shows the race tightening to a 40-40 trump tie. trump has taken a 12-point lead among independents.
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untrustworthy. clinton has a 5 point lead in that category. here's our major garret. >> reporter: governor pence landed at a private airport in new jersey and headed to a dinner meeting with donald trump to discuss staffing for the upcoming campaign, thus continuing conversations that rounded out the republican ticket. >> i support donald trump. i think he has the right vision for this country. >> reporter: donald trump spoke with pence last night and again today as he settled on the indiana governor to bring staunch conservativism is and a low key personality to the ticket. he has a law degree from indiana university. he served six terms in congress and
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economic conservative tea parties fancied long before being a force in the gop. >> i see ted cruz as a principaled conservative who's dedicated his career to advocating the regan agenda. >> reporter: and he publicly opposed trump on temporarily banning muslims and the transpacific partnership. but pence came around to team trump and been singing his praises since he laid claim to the nomination. >> he's are eare a builder, a fighter, and a patriot. >> reporter: 86% are undecided or don't know enough to form an opinion. he has not been touched by scandal. but did come under fire for a bill that allowed businesses to deny services based on their religious believes. pence had the law redrafted. >> it's been a tough
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in the hoosier state. >> reporter: reacting to what he called a horrible attack in southern france, trump announced he was postponing the 11:00 a.m. scheduled unveiling of his running mate. and he said on twitter "when will we learn? it is only getting worse." >> major garret, thanks. our cbs news political director and our anchor of "face the nation." is in our cleveland convention news room. what does mike pence bring to the ticket? >> he is not of washington but has washington experience and donald trump said he wanted to pick somebody who could help him get something done in washington. he has strong tied to the social conservative part of the party. so, he helped trump sinch up that unity. and also, unlike somebody like newt gingrich who's a ram bunk chs politician,
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probably not going to cause issues in terms of behavior and staying on message. >> in our poll the vast majority of republicans believe their party is divided. how does pence help heal the breach? >> they see a seriousness about governing. as one put it it, he is a stabilizing pick. which means donald trump has been the attack dog as a candidate. they like the fact that pence is a little more even keeled and that might add balance to the ticket so that they can compete in the fall. >> sort of a roll reversal from usual politics. thank you very much. mourners packed one of minnesota's largest churches for the funeral of philando castile. a police officer shot and killed castile after stopping him for a broken tail light.
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>> reporter: a white horse drawn carriage led the procession carrying philando castile's casket. church officials said they wanted to support a hurting community and the request of castile's mother, valley. >> he is a king and i thought that would be the only thing suitable for him was royalty. that's why i chose that. >> reporter: the video of castile's shooting by an officer streamed live by his fiance on facebook caused national out rage. he had a permit in the -- a gun in the car and a permit to carry. >> you know, we're not each other's enemies. so, i hope that this
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the people who make the rules are hearing from dissidents who want to derail trump's expected first ballot nomination. julianna goldman is in cleveland. >> obviously we did not stand adjourned for three hours because of a jammed copier. >> reporter: a printer problem effort to prevent a messy nomination fight on the convention floor next week. rnc officials and donald trump stayed huddled behind closed doors with leaders of the stop-trump movement. >> i think we want to make sure we have a great sign of unity coming out of this convention. >> reporter: they've been wait interesting the
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meeting to unbind delegates. but today they told cbs news they're confident they don't have the votes to prevail. one question mark, will weather it will still get the number of votes needed to dcreate a minority report, showing gop infighting for all to see. and glaringly absent are many of the party's leaders, like senator john mccain. >> why are you skipping the republican convention? >> because i'm campaigning for reelection. >> reporter: 2012 nominee, mitt romney won't be here, nor will either of the presidents bush. those speaking will be house speakerer paul ryan and majority leader, mitch mcconnell, who have both criticized trump on occasion. the stop-trump
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faces its biggest test tomorrow when the rules committee meets for a second day. we've spoken to many of the delegates and they say the cake is baked and it's time to rally around trump. >> julianna, thank you. when our poll asked voters who would do a better job on the economy, trump beat clinton by 11 points. tough times are drawing voters to trump as john found out in john's town, pennsylvania. >> reporter: there was a time when johns town, pennsylvania led the nation in steel production. that industry and its thousands of good paying jobs have long since left. >> this is a small town. it used to be a small pittsburgh. it's a hard hit area. >> reporter: welder john silk works at
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factories. you're a democrat and you're wearing a trump shirt. >> you can only go forward with him. i don't think crow can go backwards. >> reporter: you've lost faith with the democratic party? >> yes, absolutely. >> reporter: another resident registered republican for the first time in his life and plans to vote trump. >> we have too many government regulations. trump talked about i'm getting them out of the way and let our local industries do what they do best and create jobs. >> reporter: but restoring the former glory is a tough order. the average income is less than half the average. >> our economy's obviously not recovered from the crisis in 2008. so, we got to start worrying about hoerjs take care of this place first. >> reporter: pennsylvania has favored democrats in
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election since 1992. but today the ghosts of long dead industries could have their final revenge. well, hillary clinton will accept the democratic nomination two weeks from tonight. what will her ticket look like? >> are we ready for hillary? >> reporter: clinton held her own vp tryout today for virginia senator, tim kaine in his home state. >> do you want a "you're fired" president or a "you're hired" president? >> reporter: he's the former governor of a battleground state, a member of the senate armed services committee and speaks fluent spanish. still, he faces stiff competition from some of his senate colleagues, all of whom met with clinton at the capital today. the bunch included ohio's jared brown, elizabeth warren, n
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vermont's bernie sanders who got a standing ovation after endorsing clinton earlier this week. >> she will be the next president of the united states. >> reporter: clinton has campaigned with the others too but the timing of today's event is intriguinintriguing. it's her last big public appearance before she gets over shadowed by trump's vp announcement tomorrow and the gop convention next week. >> next week in cleveland they'll nominate someone who thinks latino out reach is a picture of a taco bowl. >> reporter: and they won't have to worry that he'll upstage the person at the top of the ticket. well, she didn't apologize or take her words back but today supreme court justice, ruth bader ginsburg said
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making critical remarks about donald trump. in a statement she said her remarks were ill advised and judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. the cbs overnight news will be right back. plz
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road rage has become such a problem that connecticut put this advice in its driver's manual. "if you want to wave to another driver, please use all your fingers." well, we were thumbing through a surprising new s
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here's chris van cleev. >> calm down. >> reporter: road rage caught on a cell phone camera in ramona, california outside of san diego over the weekend. >> if i hadn't jumped out of the hiy, he definitely would have t he. >> reporter: alex stone was taking pictures of a car when the driver of this giant suv lost it. >> i was scared for myself as well. >> reporter: a new study shows nearly 80% of drivers experience significant anger at least once in the last year. 104,000,000 people purposely tailgated and 47% yelled at another driver. >> some of the most disturbing numbers are the 8 million who are admitting to actually getting out of their vehicle and approaching another driver or
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another vehicle. >> reporter: guns and breaking windows have all gone viral. in may, road rage turned into a fight in the streets of houston and one driver rammed the car and drove off. mike mcclusky is an expert on aggression and a professor on psychology at temple university. >> reporter: what is it about driving that makes some people so angry? >> you're trying to get from a to b and you usually haven't given yourself enough time to do that. so, the trip itself is very stressful. sglr >> reporter: fatal road rage incidents are on the rise. it's been blamed for more than 1700 deaths. >> chris, thanks very much. when we come back, we'll meet a woman who stopped riot police in their tracks.
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during the protests after a police shooting in baton rouge, louisiana, iesha evans stood her ground. she told gale king of cbs this morning that she stepped up after seeing an officer adjust his weapon. >> so how does it go from that to you are now nose to nose with police officers? >> i'll be honest. i felt
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street. i needed to see them. i needed to see their faces. >> so you walk in the street even though you're told not to and you stand nose to nose and don't say anything. >> nothing. >> and what are they saying to you? >> nothing. it was lot of nonverbal communication. >> what did you want your silence to say? >> i'm human. i'm a woman. i'm a mom. i'm a nursep. i could be your nurse. i could be taking care of you. our children could be friends. we don't have to beg to matter. we do matter. >> you can see gale's interview on cbs this morning. and we'll be back with an update on the nice, france attack.
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many dozens have been killed tonight in nice, france after a truck drove into a crowd watching bastille day fireworks. >> reporter: local media are quoting police as saying at least 76 people are dead after
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plowed into the crowd gathering to watch the bastille day fireworks. dozens more injured. 16 of them are in the hospital in critical condition. ambulance services and firefighters are still on the scene to help the wounded. a reporter on the scene said the truck seemed to deliberately drive where people were gathering for a vantage point to watch the fireworks. local police say an emergency operation is still underway. they've asked people to stay away from downtown nice and advising people to stay home and lock their doors. the president is holding a crisis cabinet meeting in paris. the interior minister will meet with local officials and police to be updated on the situation. >> elaine cobb, this is being described as an attack. our homeland security correspondent is in cve
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convention. >> this does not look like an accident and according to one u.s. intell official, it is looking like a deliberate attack. however, they are not taking an official stand on that. i'm told there's no official analysis of what exactly happened. they don't know who's responsible. all focus would be on isis based on the last year in europe, the attacks in paris as well as brussels. as you mentioned, i'm in cleveland where they're gearing up for the rnc. >> and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues, for others check back a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city.
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this is the cbs overnight news. welcome to the overnight news. the republican presidential ticket is now set. donald trump, whose running his first campaign for public office, is tapping a life-long politician as his running mate. indiana governor mike pence. this as a nation wide poll in a dead heat with democrat, hillary clinton. >> i support donald trump. he has the right vision for this country. >> reporter: donald trump spoke with mike pence last night and again today as he settled on the indiana governor to bring staunch conservatism. he has a law
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unionversi unionvers university. he served six years in congress. and he initially endorsed texas senator ted cruz. >> i see ted cruz as a principaled conservative who's dedicated his career to advocating the regan agenda. sfwlr >> reporter: earlier in the campaign he opposed trump on temporarily banning muslim immigration and the transpacific partnership. but he's been singing his praises since he laid claim to the nomination. >> he's a builder, he's a fighter and a patriot. >> reporter: a new poll shows 86% of voters are undecide or don't know enough to form an opinion. pence has not been touched by scandal. but he did come under
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bill that allowed businesses to deny services based on their religious believes. after swift opposition, pence had the law redrafted. the trump campaign has got to be pleased with the latest numbers. the new york times poll shows both with 40% nation wide. the same poll just one month ago had clinton up by six points. >> i think this is devastating for hillary clinton. because now he has opened up a big league among independents. they're the people who are going to decide this race. i keep hearing about democrats worried how do we get to the bernie sanders people? how does hillary clinton get to the left of bernie sanders? i think it's in the middle where she's got to work on getting people and this poll really
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think about this. we have managed to come up with two people here on the republican and democratic side that a majority of americans don't like and even worse, don't trust. i mean, how does that happen? it seems to me the main appeal is that they're not the other candidate. >> so, are her numbers going down? >> reporter: over and over i don't like him but i'm going to vote for him. or i don't like trump, so have to vote for hillary. supreme court justice, ruth bader ginsburg now admits her comments were ill advised. she had a storm of criticism after she called trump a faker who really has an ego and says whatever jump
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>> reporter: she has always been someone to speak her mind but her comments are unprecedented in modern history. we have never had a supreme court justice lash out at a leading presidential candidate. and they're saying her comments went over the line. >> this is all the more reason why i hope i win. >> reporter: justice ginsburg has made herself donald trump's new favorite target. >> i think i'm questioning perhaps her mental capacity. she's been criticized by people who would always be on her side. >> reporter: her comments sparked criticism from all sides. >> wondering why he hasn't filed his tax returns. >> reporter: she told the new york times i can't imagine what the country would be with donald trump as our president. >> reporter: they scolded the 83-year-old justice saying she needs to drop the political punditry and name calling.
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undermines public faith in the impartialality of the public court. >> reporter: law professor may be over reacting but says her comments were inappropriate and could have consequences. >> heaven forbid we were to have a 2000 election replay and there was an election contest between trump and clinton that made it to the supreme court, it would be appropriate if motions were filed for her to recuse herself. >> reporter: nominated in 1993 by president clinton, she is the court's oldest justice and its leading liberal voice. trump, in a tweet earlier this week says ginsburg's comments show her mind is shot. >> i don't see any reason to suggest this is a sign of something more than she made remarks she shouldn't have in a few interviews. >> reporter: now
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had an opinion, i wouldn't express it. >> in other news this morning, the man hunt continues in and around phoenix for a serial shooter who has already claimed four lives. carter evans is outside police headquarters. >> reporter: police try and track down this so-called serial shooter and they're trying to deternal if it's bun purone pera group of people. >> they walked to the front of it and looked in the wind shield. >> reporter: his daughter and grand daughter melilla were shot and killed in his driveway in june, along with their friend, angela liner. >> 14 bullets in my daughter, 12 in my granddaughter and 8n
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other girl. >> reporter: seven people died. police released this sketch but not much else. does there seem to be a pattern with the victims? >> we have not determined a motive in any of these incidents. haven't found any evidence. >> reporter: many shot outside of their homes with the killer arriving and departing in a sedan. >> this guy has to get off the street and pay for what he did. >> reporter: nancy lost her twin brother. you're still trying to cope with the loss of your brother and at the same time afraid this could happen to you. >> yeah. they've not only taken my twin brother but my sense of security away. so, that ihave mey have many ots other than the ones that passed
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the reverend al sharpton will be one of the speakers at the funeral for alton sterling. sterling was shot and killed during an altercation with local cops outside a convenience store. the death sparked protests and a deadly ambush that led to five police officers dead. >> reporter: while he's preparing to build his father on saturday, he's thinking about the protests around the country and about that ambush of police in dallas, which in some part was motivated by what happened to his father. his father's death here at this convenience store in baton rouge, louisiana. we
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years. >> i want everyone to know nation wide, everyone in this world that alton sterling was a good man. no matter what anyone else has to say about him, i know in my heart he was a good dad. >> the individual involved in his murder, took away a man with children. >> reporter: i'll never forget that image of a you whaling on the side of your mom. >> when i put my arm around her, it's like somebody else had touched me, like i had another hand laying on top of my hand and nobody else was touching me. and it was like at that moment i knew my daddy here. he right here. we're standing here as a family together once again and i started crying like i know i can't physically have him back so i know i had to cry to be
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>> if you had an opportunity to say one last thing to your dad, what would it be? >> i love you so dearly. >> reporter: what is your opinion of police in general these days? >> police in general. all police aren't bad. they all aren't bad. there are some that aren't bad but all aren't bad. how i feel, i feel all police shouldn't be punished for other police's crimes. the police in dallas, texas, they didn't deserve that. because nobody knew if they had kids to go home to. those kids need their parents. >> reporter: people around the country have been protesting because of what happened to your dad.
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americans suffer traumatic brain injury. a lot of times they're left in what's called a persistent vegetative state. one young man fought all the way back from that. and here's the story. >> reporter: despite what dillen rizzo may say, his bowling skills are pretty good, especially when you consider what dillen has been through. did you guys ever have a doubt that he'd be back having beers with you guys? >> no. >> it wasn't necessarily a doubt. the reports we were getting from the parents were he shouldn't be alive right now. sfwlrks five year . >> reporter: five years ago dillen rizzo, then 19 was on his way to his friends to play video games but his car hit a black ice and he spun into a telephone call.
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>> the poll seemed to hit him directly in the head and from there, he went forward and hit the wind shield and had more damage on the other side. so first impact and second impact. >> where dillen sat, this big indianitatii indentation in the car. >> reporter: within hour, neurosurgeons had removed part of his skull to make room for his brain to swell but dillen slipped into a deep coma. >> i remember standing and not being able to move my feet. it was extremely surreal. >> we didn't really know what was going to happen. >> reporter: he was an accomplished track star. dillen's the one with the "o" painted on his chest but the accident had done a shocking amount of damage to his brain. he remained in his coma for more
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he did finally open his eyes but he wasn't aware of his surroundings. he had transitioned into what's called a vegetative state. a month later, there hadn't been much improvement. they broke the news thought unless he came out soon, he would likely stay in that vegetative state for life. >> our family was in the waiting room and i said we can't come out and tell our family that. i can't even say these words. i can't say it. >> reporter: but this man, not a medical doctor, but a researcher brought in to study the case thought dillen's brain might just need more time. >> we were sort of lumping everyone into the this vegetative state category. >> reporter: he's a neural psychologist at the spaulding rehab rehabilitation hospital . he warns of a rush to judgment in cases of
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>> 40% of individuals diagnosed with vegetative state actually retain some conscious awareness. that's a fairly alarming number. >> reporter: he thought dillen might be one of those cases and given the right therapy, might pull himself out of the fog. >> the addage is simply by exercising it is not going to help it. >> follow it with your eyes. >> now there's evidence that if you do rehearsal of a particular behavior, including in a damaged brain, it may well get better. >> you can do it, dillen. sfwlr >> reporter: dillen was moved to the pediatric unit where they started working him hard. they helped him stand, tried to get him to walk, eventually even to climb stairs. >> he never said no to any
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to do, any medications, shots, whatever it was. >> reporter: it was two years after the accident when we met dillen for the first time. not in a nursing home but back in his own home. the boy who wasn't supposed to be able to walk or talk took me down to his basement to play fusball. very good. you've confounded all the experts. >> i have. yeah. sfwlr >> reporter: talking was difficult but he could string a few words together. >> i feel great. >> reporter: yeah? >> yeah. >> reporter: and you're making progress every day? >> yeah. >> reporter: and you can tell? >> yeah. >> great to see you . >> reporter: his medical team was pleased but not satisfied. not yet,
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they kept pushing dillen to work even harder. on this day, an occupational therapist was helping him make muffins. >> muffin tin, baking cups. can you find those. >> reporter: his movements were slow but with help, he did it it. >> bell's gone off. >> every day you see something new that he wasn't doing before. >> reporter: we watched as he learned to write again too. and work on his memory. >> do you remember mary jane's email or phone number? >> mary jane@gmail.com. >> very good. >> reporter: even when it hurt, dillen was always thumbs up. this past summer we decided to check back in on dillen again yod guess where we found him.
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>> i do love it. >> reporter: back at his high school track. where he's a volunteer assistant coach. on a scale of 1 to 10, where would you put your recovery? >> probably 8. 8 or a 9. i'm doing very well. >> reporter: we went to the ymca with him too where he does weight training at least once a week. when you're watching that, what are you thinking? >> it's amazing to see the amount of weight he can actually lift because it took weeks and months just to be able to get him to lift his right arm. >> reporter: but that's not what dillen is most proud of. what do you notice is the biggest improvement? >> i can talk much better. before i would just go yeah. it was
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>> reporter: you can have a conversation. things happen quicker in your head? >> a little quicker. slowly but surely it's getting better. i'm good but not that good. i want to be more intelligent. >> if you see a question that's asking when? >> time. >> great. >> reporter: he's the first to admit he's got a ways to go. >> so, this is a really nice improvement. >> yeah, it is. >> you've done great. >> reporter: tracy, dillen's mom is careful to keep her expectations in check. >> i want him to be able to take care of himself in the future and i know he would love to have a family some day. that's something i'm hoping will happen for him. >> reporter: that's the next goal, more independence. >> and a girlfriend. he wants a girlfriend. >> reporter: dillen's not ready for a
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live alone because cooking is a challenge and needs help managing his long list of medications and his wounds that are still healing. joseph contends there are likely parts of his brain that will never recover but what his case suggests is that for some people being in a vegetative state may not be as persistent as once thought. >> for somebody with a disorder of consciousness, not considered permanent until a year and now we know the small percentage, 15% will actually recover after one year. >> reporter: his amazing journey has surprised everyone, frechie, family and doctors. the only person not surprised by it all is dillen rizzo himself. you sort of knew you were going
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it's friday, july 15, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." mass casualty in france. the terror attack leaves dozens dead in nice when a truck files through a crowded street and the driver opens fire. good morning. this is cbs news headquarters in new york. good to be with you. i'm meg oliver in for anne-marie green. a scene of

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