debora patta has more on his upbringing and how it's influenced his comedy. >> can i ask you a questione's portraying a california surfer girl -- >> if you're like from africa, like have you ever had aids? >> reporter: -- or savaging the double amputee track star. >> look at him. no legs no legs but he didn't let that stop him from becoming a killer. >> reporter: he likes to say he was born a crime. his mother a black, his father a swiss, their marriage once illegal during a partied. >> i don't care, i don't care. come tell me. i want your white man. crazy mama, crazy. my dad, you know how the swiss love chocolates, so he was -- >> reporter: the racial tensions of africa infused his humor. so do his roots where he was raised by his grandmother frances. she told us he was always getting into trouble. >> and her and i, man, ah, we have such a beautiful bond and love for each other. we have this thing ever since she hit me. >> come and full of life. come and catch me. beat me again. i didn't even feel it, you know. and then what do you do? you must laugh really. that's trevor. >> reporter:

debora patta is in nairobi. >> reporter: easter was celebrated in churches around the country. only this sunday, police were stationed outside places of worship to protect those who had come to pray. but the heightened security has come too late for grieving families. tears are turning to anger. they want to know why it took kenya's anti-terror crack squad nearly ten hours to get to garissa university on the day of the attack. dr. jane omwenga lost a nephew in the slaughter of 148 students at garissa. >> somebody in government failed. the people in charge of security should be able to tell us what happened, what went wrong. >> reporter: western governments also issue travel advisories about possible terror attacks in kenya. and garissa university sent their students letters warning of a threat but took no additional security measures. >> i am angry, i am very angry. >> reporter: angry, yes. but kenya's foreign affairs minister amina mohamed stopped short of saying who should be held accountable. >> fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper, nobody remembers the 100 saves. p

debora patta is in nairobi with those, and with the gut-wrenching wait for parents who still don't know if their child is dead or alive. >> reporter: this is what the aftermath of a massacre looks like the agonizing wait to identify bodies at chiromo mortuary relatives home hopefor a miracle. it seldom comes. parents who do not find their childrent morgue come here to nyayo stadium in kenya's capital, nyayo stadium. mary waits for her cousin who is studying at the university. the family last heard from him when he sent this frantic text early on thursday morning as masked dpun men forced their way on to his campus. "we have been attacked by al-shabaab," it resident. "please pray for us." they have been unable to reach him since then. >> we are worried. >> reporter: just this morning, another survivor was found at garissa and rushed to the local hospital. cynthia cheroitich hid in a cubbard listening to the sound of her friends being gunned down. she stayed there for two days drinking body lotion to stay alive. when police eventually discovered her she refused to come out. >> i said, "ho

debora patta, cbs news johannesburg, south africa. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening "cbs evening tonight. from all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> linda macdonald is captioning for you in real time. >>> now at 6:00 stanford at the center of an anti-semitism controversy. a student claims a campus group went too far. good evening, i'm veronica de la cruz. >> i'm ken bastida. the student is a candidate for school office and claims she was being singled out for her jewish faith. kpix 5's len ramirez reports. >> reporter: ken, she was asked a question. it is the question. you get different answers depending who you ask. so far the only one talking about it is the student herself. >> it's like a targeting of religion and that's not okay. >> reporter: molly horowitz say she was blind sided by discrimination against her jewish faith in her campaign for student senate at stanford. while meeting with members of a campus group called the students of color coalition she said she was ho

and debora patta is on the story. >> reporter: students were jolted awake by the sound of gunfire as the heavily armed gunmen shot their way past the university's main gate and stormed the campus dormitories. eyewitnesses say the gunmen fired indiscriminately at first before beginning a deadly march from room to room, demanding to know if those inside were muslim or christian. police said some christians were shot on the spot. terrified students tried to escape. >> we were hearing and seeing the gunshots, but we were not seeing the people themselves the people who are shooting at us. >> reporter: some students were taken hostage but it is unclear how many, and many remain unaccounted for, possibly trapped inside college buildings. at least 65 were rushed to the hospital, mostly with gunshot wounds. the somali-based militant group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack. the university in garissa is only 90 miles from the somali border. al-shabaab's islamic extremists have struck kenya before. one of the worst attacks was in 2013 when militants rampaged through the upscal

debora patta, cbs news, kenya. >> rose: a woman was arrested in philadelphia today for trying to join isis in syria and take part in a suicide mission. investigators say 30-year-old posted twitter messages and when asked online if she wanted to join a martyrdom operation said, "that would be amazing." she was arrested after booking a flight to turkey. it is a safe bet louis jordan will not be eating raw fish with his family tonight. he said that's what he lived on when he was stranded at sea for more than two months before being rescued yesterday off north carolina. and jericka duncan reports jordan's remarkable story of survival is raising questions. >> reporter: as soon as louis jordan was rescued, he called his father. >> in late january, the 37-year- old's family reported him missing after they said he set sail for a solo fishing trip. the coast guard says it will be looking at his trip from start to finish, but here's what jordan said. he hit rough waters in the atlantic and his boat capsized. >> i was flying through the air, somersaulting, and the ceiling was the floor. the floo

debora patta traced his comedy roots to south africa where he was born. >> can i ask you a question?er: whether he's portraying a californian surfer girl. >> if you're like from africa have you like ever had aids? >> reporter: or savaging a double amputee olympic track star. >> but look at oscar pistorius look at him no leg but he didn't let that stop him from becoming a killer. >> reporter: trevor noah spares no one. he likes to say he was born a crime. his mother is black, his father swiss it. their marriage once illegal during apartheid. >> i don't care, i don't care! i want a white man. crazy, my mom crazy, you know, and my dad was like, you know how the swiss love chocolate, so he was... >> reporter: the racial tensions of south africa infuse him humor, so do his soweto roots where he was raised by his grandmother francis. she told us he was always getting into trouble. >> such a beautiful love and bond for each other. we just have this thing. ever since she hit me. >> all of his life. >> reporter: 13 years ago his agent says that noah walked into her office as a teenager with b

debora patta is reporting on the growing anger inside the country. >> reporter: easter was celebrated in churches around the country. police were stationed outside places of worship to protect those who came to pray but the heightened security has come too late. tears are turning to anger. they want to know why it took kenya's terror attack squad ten hours to get to the university on the day of the attack. this woman lost her daughter. >> the person in charge of security should be able to tell us as parent as what went wrong. >> reporter: western governments also issued travel advisories about possible terror attacks in kenya. and garissa university sent letters to students warning them of the threat but took no additional security measures. >> i'm angry. >> reporter: angry, yes. the foreign affairs prime minister stopped short of who should be held accountable. >> fighting terrorism is like being the gate keeper. >> reporter: when asked the minister refused to talk about it. >> we lost them. let's bury the dead. this discussion can be another day. >> reporter: this woman can't wait f

debora patta cbs news south africa. >>> there's now apparent evidence that the hijacking by its co-pilot was premeditated. also the flight's data recorder has been rekoshd. prosecutors say andreas lubitz spent time online researching. investigators say he locked the captain out of the cockpit and flew the jet into the mountain. last month's crash killed all 150 people on board. >>> arkansas and indiana have new religious freedom law this morning after lawmakers passed revised bills. governors in both states are applauding the measure and hope they put an end to the uproar. >> reporter: arkansas governor hutchinson signed his freedom bill thursday the second attempt. the first attempt was sent back after businesses like walmart and protesters including the governor's son said it could allow for discrimination against gays. >> that we're able to do this, working together sometimes producing tension but that tension produce as good result. >> reporter: indiana wrote their bills which faced similar if not louder protests. after signing the amendment, governor mike pence tweeted there will be

debora patta cbs news south africa. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," dr.set cigarettes and their effects on teenagers and jan crawford looket as country's biggest stars and actor kelsey grammer joins us in the studio with his new broadway show "finding never neverland." that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. i'm anne-marie green. thanks for watching. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com . >>> from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> developing this morning, a police involved shooting in frankford. the situation that led a police officer to fire his gun. >>> plus new surveillance video released gives police new clues to the hit-and-run in kensington that killed a two year old little boy. >> and looking at some rain and some storms in our forecast. will it ruin the upcoming weekend? it is friday. good morning everyone, i'm ukee washington. >> i'm natasha brown in for erika von tiehl. straight to check on the wet forecast this morning. i certainly had my umbrella this morning. >> good job.

debora patta is in nairobi. >> reporter: for four dares mary nandwa has been looking for her cousin miltonukhwana at the morgue. mukhwana was studying at garissa university when al-shabaab gunmen launched a murderous rampage last week. nandwa is the closest thing mukhwana has to a mother after his own died last year. >> [inaudible] >> like so many families whose children were slaughtered at garissa, nandwa wants answered about the security lapses that allowed the militants to roam the campus for more than 13 hours. [gunfire] the militants struck at dawn. kenya's elite anti-terrorist squad were notified a half hour after the killing spree began but it took them ten more hours to reach garissa what should have been just over an hour trip by helicopter. former conditionian defense force captain simiyu in the werunga has no answer. >> it was a terrible lapse of judgment. >> reporter: by nightfall one killer had been arrested four more lay dead. another was abdirahim abdullah a law school graduate and son of a prominent official. his body was dumped in the back of a van and paraded through the

debora patta is there and spoke with survivors. >> reporter: security forces rush to the university campus but it was too late. the al-shabaab gunmen were already inside the students' dormitories. "i can hear students screaming," he says. daisy achieng heard the screaming, too. she repeatedly heard the attackers single out christians. >> they were asked a few questions from the koran. if you get it correct you're spared. if you get it wrong you're shot on the spot. >> reporter: we found her at this makeshift shelter with the shell-shocked victims of the seejt. at one point she told us she heard a phone ring. it was the mother of one of the students taken hostage. >> he took the phone from her and told the lady that "i'm going to kill your child right now, so it's the last time you're going to hear her voice. so hear me kill her." and i heard a gunshot. >> reporter: by nightfall security forces freed the students. as she stumbled to safety of course she said she saw many of her friends lying face down on the ground. then she realized she had been murdered. >> some had been shot. they had ma

debora patta is there with witness accounts. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. when we arrived in the town of garissa, we saw tents being set up at a local airport. students who fled slept there overnight guarded by soldiers. they'll be taken home today and they tell a terrifying story. these five masked gunmen stormed garissa university at first light on thursday. studented testified how the men stormed from room to room asked them to ide if they were christian or muslim. i saw them fully covered only leaving a slit for their eyes. when i saw that, i ran for my lives. got fellow students, opened two windowsings, got chairs and jumping out. many more were taken hostage. many said to the security forces to try to flush out the armed gunmen. all members of al shabaab, the is lattic-based militant group blamed for the killing spree. a 13-hour siege ensued with running gun battles heard throughout the day. at the end of it all, at least 147 students lay dead. over 70 injured and hospitalized. security has been tightened, but for the students at garissa university it

deborah pata debora patta is tracking it. good morning. >> good morning. they woke up to the sound ofá gunfire and armed men storming their campus. the rampage has left 65 people injured and a mounting death toll. the group has claimed responsibility for the attack. they've done this in the past separating christians and muslims andy witnesses said they went from door to door shooting christians on the spot and it appeared christian students have been held hostage. in the past al shabaab has separated muslims and christians by forcing them to cite verses from the koran. those unable to have been executed. they have also in the past taken responsibility for the siege which left 67 people dead. letters were sent to students at the university warning them of an imminent attack but it appears no further action was taken. a letter was also sent to students at a university in nairobi. it simply advises students to be vigilant. gayle? >> debora patta in johannesburg thank you. >>> hundreds of inmates from a yemeni prison are free today. about 300 inmates were rel

. >> debora patta in kenya, thanks. >>> the team involved in one of america's worst disaster was ordered to leave a safe zone that day. 19 hot shot firefighters from prescott, arizona, died two years ago when a wildfire burned back ober them. the "arz arz republic" quotes the city attorney says the only survivor overheard a radio call where the order to move was given. the survivor denies it. >>> new york city police are trying to find a group of teens allegedly responsible for a dangerous subway prank. the video appears to show a small explosion at a brooklyn station. the teens apparently put a piece of metal on the tracks as the train approached causing a slew of sparks. the transit authority says it caused rush hour delays of more than an hour. >>> down to two and tonight one champion. s with wes plays duke for the ncaa mens basketball title. kentucky, the team expected to be in the final will have to watch at home. lucas oil staid glum indianapolis, where the two candidaters tip off tonight. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. here in indianapolis badger mania is still in full e