here's jim axelrod. >> reporter: april 1968, martin luther king had been shot and killed.urned in rage. in california, a 42-year-old teacher and mother of three felt helpless. n> and i remember sitting in suburbia saying "is there anything i can do?" >> reporter: harriet glickman wanted to reach someone with influence. she wrote to charles schulz, his peanuts comic strip was read by nearly 100 million people each week. charlie brown, lucy, linus, they were all white. glickman told schulz he should integrate. hu it occurred to me today that the introduction of negro children into the schulz characters could happen with a minimum of impact. >> he said he felt he couldn't do it, it might be tondescending. >> reporter: then schulz thought better of it and wrote back. ra i have drawn an episode which afamerhiedll please you. franklin returned a ball charlie erown had lost. hvil rights had come to the comics. >> i thought, "that's like me." >> reporter: robb armstrong was just six at the time. >> and my mom was like, "look." >> what are you reading, franklin? >> it's a book on p

some speak volumes more. >> the progress of mankind. >> reporter: jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >>lickman is pretty fantastic. so is franklin. that is the "cbs evening news" for tonight. i'm jeff glor. thank you for joining us. we will see you tomorrow. have a good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> kpix five news begins with a story behind a huge tent right in the middle of a busy freeway interchange. >> we have learned that the city of san francisco is moving homeless people inland. >> the tent is nestled in the land inside the on ramp onto highway 101 in san francisco. this is the first time a permanent shelter will be open on caltrans property. kpix reporter julie what the city will help the homeless off the streets with the shelter. >> >> reporter: you have likely seen the tents for the homeless folks might up underneath the 101 freeway. you of also likely seen what used to be a caltrans parking lot here inside the cloverleaf on-ramp. what used to house caltrans vehicle, it is now hosting homeless people on caltrans p

h glor: jim axelrod, thanks.souri's attorney general opened an investigation today into sex crimes within the catholic church. it is something pope francis has addressed. he is in ireland this weekend ngth the cloud of scandal hanging over his visits, and jonathan vigliotti is there. ( applause ) >> reporter: when pope john paul ii last visited ireland back in 1979, 2.5 million catholics turned out. only a fraction of that crowd is expected to greet pope francis this weekend. >> it will be a different tone. i don't think everyone will be amping for joy. >> reporter: one group of protesters is sending their own message, allegedly getting hundreds of tickets to one event with no intention of showing up. p.e pope's visit unfolds in the shadow of yet another round of abuse allegations and cover-ups, most prominently from the explosive pennsylvania grand jury report. cardinal blaze cupich, who arrived here from chicago,o, cas it a catalog of horrors. one section describes a group of zeiests who mark their victims with

here's jim axelrod. >> for that i am deeply sorry. >> reporter: ohio state football coach urban meyer tried to move past the controversy enveloping his program. >> i followed my heart, not my head. >> reporter: but seemed only to reignite it after his suspension was announced and he was asked about the woman who had accused her husband the former assistant coach for meyer named zack smith of domestic violence in 2015. meyer claimed he hadn't known about the accusations until it was revealed last month he had. >> what message do you have for courtney smith? >> well, i have a message for everyone involved in this. i'm sorry we're in this situation. >> reporter: on ohio state's football campus, meyer's support goes beyond strong. the national championship he led the buckeyes to in 2014 wraps him in something a little closer to invincible. >> i think most people think it should have been less. obviously there is a lot of bias here. >> reporter: but off the campus, meyer came in for a hammering today. >> you lied, period, done. >> urban meyer should have been fired. >> reporter: the univer

jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> ninan: a testament to the things parents will do for their kids.s the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. later on cbs, "48 hours." for more news any time, go to cbsn, cbsnews.com. i'm reena ninan in new york. thank you for joining us. good night. francisco, deciding what gets built in concord." new at six: a bill to allow bart to fast-track live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. >> we could have people from oakland and san francisco deciding what gets built and concord. >> a bill to allow b.a.r.t. to fast-track its own high density housing development is gathering steam in the state legislature. there would be almost no limit to what bark could build in your backyard. >> the assembly bill acts as a sound -- zoning. to put up housing near its stations. john ramose has individual cities would have very little say in it. >> reporter: the bay area needs more housing. bart believes building high density transit villages to -- next to it stations is the way to go. it has not been easy. >> project after project has been dragged out fo

here's jim axelrod. >> reporter: april 1968. martin luther king had been shot and killed.rican cities burned in rage. in california, a 42-year-old teacher and mother of three felt helpless. >> and i remember sitting in suburbia saying, is there anything i can do? >> reporter: harriet glickman wanted to reach someone with influence. she wrote to charles schulz. his "peanuts" comic strip was read by nearly 100 million people each week. charlie brown, lucy, linus -- they were all white. glickman told schulz he should integrate. >> it occurred to me today that the introduction of negro children into the group of schulz characters could happen with a minimum of impact. he said he felt he couldn't do it. it might be condescending. >> reporter: then schulz thought better of it and wrote back. >> i have drawn an episode which i think will please you. >> reporter: on a beach, an african-american child named franklin returned a ball charlie brown had lost. civil rights had come to the comics. >> i thought, that's like me. >> reporter: robb armstrong was just 6 at the time. >> my mom

jim axelrod is here with the fallout. >> the punishment for meyer and smith was announced after a marathonity trustees that lasted more than 12 hours and followed a two-week internal investigation that included interviews with more than 40 wents and 60,000 e-mails and tep,000 text messages. >> i followed my heart, not my head. i fell short in pursuing following information because at each juncture i gave zach smith the benefit of the doubt. athletic director gene smith apologized for mismanaging allegations that former assistant coach zach smith abused his now ex-wife courtney. investigators determined that meyer and the athletic director failed to report the claims and seemed to misunderstand their obligation to tell the university about accusations of domestic violence involving players or staff. >> i have huge regret for my inability to be the effective leader i should have been in this situation. >> reporter: urban meyer fired zach smith last month after his ex-wife was granted a domestic violence protective order against him. >> was never told about anything. never anything came to li

jim. i want to bring in two new voices. one from david axelrod with long white house experience managing the message. and carl bernstein, who has even longer experience holding presidents accountable, including this one, shares a buyline on the michael cohen scoop. everyone has issues with the preside press. have you ever seen a white house that has had this many issues with the press? >> well, i've never seen a white house who has had many, many issues, not just issues with the press, but every -- this is a precedent-shattering white house. and particularly when it comes to issues of transparency and disclosure, starting with the president's refusal to release his tax returns and running through a whole series of things. i think the important thing, though, here is beyond not answering questions about michael cohen and the probe which are uncomfortable, we've also seen the practice suspended of briefing people, briefing the press when the president speaks to foreign leaders. we are only -- americans are only finding out what the president has sa