yang: cantu is mexican-american. he grew up in south texas, crazy about comics. while working as a magazine editor, he took a shot at his dream doing a daily cartoon. was it always going to be a latino family? >> oh, yeah, absolutel it was an area that i thought i could write about, a family that i thought i could write about in the comics page where no one else was like that. >> reporter: over the years, latino fans have told him how c-ch it means to them. >> i was at a con last year when some young lady cameme up to and she said, "are you the guy who does 'baldo?'" i'm like, "yeah that's me." and she couldn'telieve it. she pulled out of her bag a sunday comic that had been clipped out of the paper andt said id been on her wall >> her and her dad would read the comics together and her dad had passed away. it meant so much tacher-- the chrs and the connection with her dad and how she grew up she started crying and it was just such a tod hing moment. realized that comic strips can touch people in a pretty significant way. >> yang: because comics have to be quickly

ives in florida, cantu in texas. they collaborate over the internet.ey've onlyet in person about a half-dozen times. the comic strip appears in nearly 200 newspapers across thi country, inc the "new york daily news," the "washingtone post" and uston chronicle. >> i just realized the other day that we've been around for 20 years d there are kids out there who are 18 and 19 years old who have grown up with baldo their whole lives. they've grown up with these characters in the paper every day. >> yang: characters who don't age a day ov the years: frozen in time on the comics page-- and in hector cantu's imagination. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang in richardson, texas. >> woodruff: raised in mumbai, singer-songwriter falu came to the united states to pursue her career in music, which includes a mix of indian classical and american pop-rock. her latest work, "falu's bazaar," was nominated for a grammy this past year for best children's album. in tonight's brief but s spectacula gives her take on finding identity through psic. >> i first startforming wh

the san jose bishop oscar cantu announced today a bilingual vigil for victims, survivors, and first responders taking place tonight at 7:00 at st. mary's parish 11th street in gilroy. >>> the photo the recently surfaced raising questions about how these two teenage murder suspects from the bay area are being treated in rome. they could face life in prison if convicted of killing a police officer. last week city palm reports that the officer was hailed as a hero at his funeral today. truck mourners applauded as the casket of a slain italian police officer arrived for his funeral naples. the mass was held in the same church mario cerciello rega was married just six weeks ago. the 35-year-old officer was stabbed to death friday all investigating the theft of a backpack and a possible drug deal. two american teens from california are under arrest for the crime. gabriel christian gabriel natale-hjorth and finnegan lee elder who police say confessed during interrogation. the arrest warrant details how elder pull out a knife, striking the officer multiple times and that gabriel natale- hjorth denies

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you cantu lly see the smoke at the launch pad. keep in mind if you weren't able to make it out here night, not to worry. wednesdaynd thursdaynight they will still have the apollo 11 launch projection on the washington monument from 9:30 to 11:30 at night, but i just have to say one thing, it is notg ng to actually launch because many people have walked up to us and asked us about this. no. it's going to be sitting right there on the washington monument. we're not making this up. people for some reason have been sitting here over the last twoth hours king this thing's just going to take off. it's not going to happen. live here on the national mall, shomari stone. back to you. >> i hate to say know what, i'm kind of with them. it's kind of the logical thing you want to see. you want to see it go up after all this. >> i think the heat's getting to them. >> shomari, keep cool out there, buddy. where shomari is right now he's got a great view but check out this view. wewant to give you this look at the projection from above. just a sho

agent eduardo cantu understands the american dream, because he says he's living it.grants to get that dream, but says, they need to come here legally, as he did. when we walked into the detention center, you couldn't help but notice the sound of children laughing and playing, moms with their children attached to their hips, unsure of their future. it's hard to look away. there's no doubt there's a crisis, and today we met those at the center of it. >>> i'm norah o'donnell. good night. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm vladimir. this morning we're taking an in-depth look at the migrant trouble along the mexico border. president trump continues to defend the conditions at a string of detention centers. but reporters and members of congress who were allowed inside one lock-up describe hundreds of migrants crammed into foul-smelling cages, women forced to drink from toilets, and children drinking on floors. norah o'donnell was given access to the detention center to see for herself. >> reporter: we have seen still photo