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nikki battiste has more. >> i express profound sorrow, and i apologize to the survivors of child sex. >> reporter: harrisburg bishop ronald gainer's apology comes as the catholic church is once again under fire. >> we take seriously both mine and the diocese's obligation to prevent such abuse from occurring. >> reporter: they released 71 names of clergy accuse of sexual abuse of minors in harrisburg going back to 1990. this move comes before the anticipated releasof grand jury investigation expected to name more than 300 priests accused of being sexual predators in six of the pennsylvania's eight catholic dioceses. 66-year-old sarah tell tells the grand jury she was first sexually abused by james mchales 12 , and ither continued for 20 years. >> i was just a happy-go-lucky kid. all of a sudden he started lying down with me at night. it started off with touching and went to intercourse. >> reporter: like so many other cases it fell out of the statute of limitations, but somei sayey. >> what does this grand jury report mean to you? >> it means everything. i went and testified in front

nikki battiste has more. >> reporter: a grand jury has found widespread sexual abuse by catholic priests in pennsylvania. its report also accuses church officials of engaging in a systematic coverup. >> church officials routinely and typically described the abuse as horseplay and wrestling and inappropriate contact. it was none of those things. it was child sexual abuse. >> reporter: grand jurors examined six of the state's eight diocese and identified 301 priests as predators. >> those priests acted as wolves among us even if they were dressed in sheep's clothing. i am sorry for that. >> reporter: the grand jury's nearly 900-page report was compiled over the course of an 18-month investigation. while it's full of damning detail, it's unlikely to result in justice for most of the victims. nearly all of the alleged crimes occurred decades ago. because of the statute of limitations, awe bull two cases are too old to be prosecuted. >> no one should be out of the reach of a law just because they happen to live a particularly long time. if you raped a child, you should be held accountable in

nikki battiste has that report. >> reporter: vatican spokesman greg burke made this statement. >> we express our feelings about these horrible crimes in two words. those are shame and sorrow. the abuses described in the report are criminal. they're morally reprehensible. >> reporter: the statements are in response to two decades of claims. they uncovered decades of sexual abuse by over 300 clergy members preying on more than 1,000 minors. a statement from the attorney general's office says it revealed a systematic coverup spanning decades. still, the vatican added this. >> the holy father wants to put the victims first, make sure they know he is on their side. >> reporter: shaun dougherty helped launch the investigation. he was just 10 years old when the priest began sexually abusing him. >> what's your feeling on the pope's response? >> you pulled a page out of the vatican playbook. name and number. >> the vatican said the pope is on your side. what do you make of that? >> if he's been on my side -- he hasn't been on my side ever. >> you've been speaking in the last hour with others

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nikki battiste explains how church leaders protected the priests, putting children at risk. >> reporter: a trove of documents containing allegations and admissions of sexual abuse was kept locked up in what the church calls its "secret archives," with the only key in the bishop's hands. >> the cover-up made it impossible to achieve justice for the victims. >> reporter: pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro laid out a pattern of atnsistent, decades-long cover- up across the six dioceses. the files contained strategies that were practically a playbook for concealing the truth. among the tactics for church record-keeping, "use euphemisms. never say 'rape '. r y 'inappropriate contact or roundary issues.' even if a priest is raping children, keep providing housing and living expenses. above all, don't tell the police. handle it like a personnel matter, in house." as church officials protected predator priests, careers continued to rise. >> many have been promoted. bishop wuerl is now cardinal wuerl. .> reporter: washington, d.c. archbishop cardinal donal wuerl hiesided over 32 accused

jeff. >> glor: great interview, nikki battiste, thank you.ing up next on the "cbs evening news," americans are killed biking in central asia, and isis has claimed responsibility. and later, thieves in a speedboat make off with sweden's crown jewels. sweden's crown jiewms. it was the last song of the night. it felt like my heart was skipping beats. they said i had afib. what's afib? i knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. i needed answers. my doctor and i chose xarelto® to help keep me protected from a stroke. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. warfarin interferes with at least 6 of your body's natural blood-clotting factors. xarelto® is selective, targeting just one critical factor. for afib patients well managed on warfarin, there is limited information on how xarelto® compares in reducing the risk of stroke. don't stop taking xarelto® without talking to your doctor, as this may increase your risk of stroke. while

nikki battiste reports. >> he asked me what the hell is going on. i told him, "courtney is accusing me that i committed domestic violence. i didn't." >> reporter: ohio state's recently fired assistant football coach zach smith is defending his former boss, urban meyer. >> he looked at me and said, "i swear to god, zach, if i find out you hit her, you're done. you're fired." and i said, "i understand, coach. i didn't, i'm fine." >> reporter: in an interview with espn, smith said they discussed domestic violence ,llegations made by smith's now-ex-wife, courtney, in 2015, and that meyer handled it hoperly. .> i don't think it's his job to investigate, to ask questions, to talk to her. >> reporter: meyer first denied ty knowledge of the 2015 abuse allegations to reporters in y.ly. e> i got a text late last night that something happened in 2015, and there was nothing, unless, once again, there's nothing-- once again, i don't know who n aates a story like that. h reporter: but in a statement on twitter friday, he appeared to acknowledge that he had iown,

ra glor: nikki battiste, who has been leading the way on this story. nikki, thank you.cusing a well-known congressman and potnetially minnesota attorney general of abuse gives her first television interview. and later, american newspapers respond to attacks from aperident trump. respond to attacks from president trump. my body can stil make its own insulin. i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release its own insulin, like it's supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it works 24/7. it comes in an easy-to-use pen. and i may even lose a little weight. trulicity is an injection to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. don't use it as the first medicine to treat diabetes, or if you have type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. don't take trulicity if you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, you're allergic to trulicity, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. stop trulicity and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, a lump or swelling in your neck o

jeff. >> glor: all right, nikki battiste, leading us off tonight from harrisburg, pennsylvania. o kki, thank you. the death toll is up to at least 26 after a highway disaster in the italian port city of genoa today. a bridge more than a half century old collapsed, sending dozens of cars and trucks atunging nearly 150 feet. charlie d'agata has the latest ge this. ws reporter: footage shot from a helicopter shows the sheer level of destruction. out of nowhere, the bridge ahead disappeared, taking everything and everyone with it. this cell phone video captured the moment a section of the bridge collapsed. the balance between life and death came down to a matter of seconds. this green truck managed to stop lufew feet from the precipice. other vehicles weren't so lucky. down below, rescue teams raced to find any sign of life, miraculously pulling survivors faom the wreckage and the rubble. families on vacation, workers e d truckers on what should have been a routine journey. one man hurt in the collapse managed to escape with an injured shoulder. "i flew for about 10 meters," he said

don't short yourself in anything in life. >> that was nikki battiste reporting. >>> coming up next onovernight news," a national park that's in the stars. >>> yellowstone, bryce, and yosemite, even acadia. these well known and much visited national parks seem to get all the attention. but a national park in nevada arguably has something better. anonymity. here's conor knighton. >> great basin national park isn't really on the way to anywhere. head to this remote stretch of the nevada desert, and you could easily spend an entire day wandering the pine by yourself. but if you go home when the sun goes down, you'll have missed one of great basin's greatest attractions. as they're fond of saying, half of this park is after dark. this is what great basin looks like at night. the stars shine so brightly here because this place is so unbelievably dark. >> we're pretty rare. this is one of if not the darkest place in the lower 48. >> reporter: annie gilliland is part of a special team of star gazers at great basin. >> we're the dark rangers, which i do love telling people i'm a dark ranger he

here's nikki battiste. >> reporter: in the early morning hours, this california home was under siege. the focus was 68-year-old robert chain, who prosecutors say made 14 threatening phone calls to the boston globe's newsroom. are e of the peopl al eve 16th,, you in the expletive head later today at 4:00. the call came the same day the boston newspaper published this full-page editorial, appealing to newspapers across the country to condemn president trump's constant attacks on the press. >> because they are the fake, fake, disgusting news. >> reporter: more than 400 newspapers answered the globe's call. alex king bury is on the paper's editorial board. >> the president says things liken am like enemies of the people. that should be deeply alarming to everyone. >> reporter: in another call six days later, chain said, as long as you keep attacking the president, i will continue to threat, harass, and annoy the boston globe. >> with a shotgun, green pants. >> reporter: chain's threats started just six weeks after a lone gunman shot and killed five employeest the "capital gazette" newspap

the report details the shooter's ncnancial problems and odd mphavior, but nikki battiste reports it leaves most important question unanswered: why. >> reporter: stephen paddock committed mass murder for reasons we may never know. >> still incredibly difficult to try to comprehend this senseless act of violence. by all accounts, stephen paddock was an unremarkable man. >> reporter: but the nearly 200- page investigation reveals paddock was in a downward spiral. his 14 bank accounts lost $1.5 million in the two years before the shooting. he paid $600,000 to casinos and spent $95,000 on guns and ammunition. dll, police say, without raising any red flags, as he transported suitcases full of weapons undetected to a suite at the mandalay bay. paock left no note and no stnifesto. >> an interview with his doctor indicated signs of a troubled epnd. >> reporter: paddock's primary care physician described odd behavior with little emotion and that he may have been bipolar. his four-year live-in girlfriend said paddock would not shake hands with people and often wore gloves. she says he was an atheist

cardinal wuerl spoke with cbs news' nikki battiste the night before the report's release. >> during my tenure, we acted very responsibly. we responded very appropriately toth many times removal from ministry, totally and completely. u reporter: pushing up a meeting originally schedule for next week, wuerl met privately today with priests in the archdiocese's advisory group. he also canceled his attendance at a catholic conference next week in dublin, where the pope is expected to appear. over the years, the u.s. catholic church has paid over $3 billion in response to abuse allegations. some are calling on all catholics to stop donating, at least until cardinal wuerl steps down. about 17 million american 17tholic households donate an average of $10 each week, totaling about $9 billion every year. frances samber the survivors' support group snap. >> as a parishioner, it is your right to ask, "where is my donation going?" you have that right to ask that, and you should. >> reporter: now, cardinal wuerl did not celebrate sunday mass here yesterday, and a spokesman told cbs news he wasn't a

nikki battiste is following this. >> reporter: in the early morning hours, this california home was under siege. s e focus was 68-year-old robert adain, who prosecutors say made al threatening phone calls to the "boston globe" newsroom. ug a phone call on august 16, chain told a "globe" , ployee, "you're the enemy of the people and we're going to kill every expletive one of you. i'm going to shoot you in the expletive head later today at 4:00." e e call came the same day the soston newspaper published this fu-page editial, appeang to newspapers across the country to condemn president trump's constant attacks on the press. >> because they are the fake, fake, disgusting news. >> reporter: more than 400 newspapers answered the "globe's" call. alex kingsbury is on the paper's l boorial board. >> the president says things like enemies of the people and keen people call "the boston globe" globe"e"e" newsrsroom repepeatie very words. that should be deeplalarming to eveone. >> reporter: in another call six days later, chain said, "as long as you keep attacking the president, i will continue to th

cardinal wuerl spoke with cbs news' nikki battiste the night before the report's release. >> during my tenure, we acted very responsibly. we responded very appropriately with many times removal from ministry, totally and completely. >> reporter: pushing up a meeting originally scheduled for next week, wuerl met privately with priests in the archdiocese advisory group. he also canceled his attendance at a catholic conference next week in dublin, where the pope is expected to appear. over the years, the u.s. catholic church has paid over $3 billion in response toabuse allegations. some are calling on all catholics to stop donating at least until cardinal wuerl steps down. about 17 million american catholic households donate an average of $10 each week, totaling about $9 billion every year. francis samber is a member of the survivor group s.n.a.p. >> as a parishioner, it is your right to ask, where's my donation going? you have that right to ask that, and you should. >> reporter: now, cardinal wuerl did not celebrate sunday mass here, and a spokesman told cbs news he wasn't going to the s

nikki battiste has details on this. >> reporter: the fatal shooting os joseph santos was captured on this cell phone video. you can hear officer jonathan roselle give commands, before firing five shots, killing the 44-year-old, who was unarmed. >> get down on the ground! get down on the ground! ( gunfire ) >> reporter: lehigh county district attorney jim martin illed it unjustified. >> i have concluded that he did not have to discharge his weapon. >> reporter: the incident happened ten days ago, after callers reported a man acting erratically outside a water park in pennsylvania. >> reporter: santos can be seen here jumping on top of officer roselle's patrol car. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: roselle had been with the south whitehall township police for five months before the incident. >> officer roselle stated to the first responding officer that he thought, "he ( bleeped ) up." >> reporter: data tracked by bowling green state university shows, since 2005, 91 officers have been charged in fatal police-involved shootings, and 32 have been convicted. >> we will fight for joey. >> report

cardinal wuerl spoke with cbs news' nikki battiste the night before the report's release. >> during mye acted very responsibly. we responded very appropriately with, many times, removal from ministry totally and completely. >> reporter: pushing up a meeting originally scheduled for next week, wuerl met privately today with priests in the archdiocese advisory group and canceled his attendance at a catholic conference next week in dublin where the pope is expected to appear. over the years, the u.s. catholic church has paid over $3 billion in response to abuse allegations. some are calling on all catholics to stop donating, at least until cardinal wuerl steps down. about 17 million american catholic households donate an average of $10 each week, totaling about $9 billion every year. >> as a parishioner, it's your right to ask, where is my donation going? you have that right to ask that. and you should. >> reporter: now cardinal wuerl did not celebrate sunday mass here yesterday. and his spokesman told cbs news he wasn't attending the speech in dublin next week because he was worried it w

nikki battiste shows us them aftermath. >> reporter: the tornado touched down on webster's main street ripping up several buildings. >> what can you do? >> reporter: crews started to tear down two of them saturday afternoon after salvaging what they could. during the storm chunks of one of the buildings hit this car. the woman inside suffered minor injuries. >> while we have damage here it could've been worse. >> reporter: thunder storms have swamped the entire east coast since the middle of the week. flood warnings remain in effect in parts of maryland, connecticut and rhode island. >> the last two weeks we have had this warm human pattern. it is set up almost like florida like. >> reporter: in new hampshire a funnel cloud was spotted and lightning struck the roof of the library. sparking a fire that damaged thousands of books. in lynchburg virginia water officials opened up a hole in a dam. water levels forced an evacuation of 150 homes on thursday. the news stream will help lower reservoir levels so officials can make needed repairs. >> yes on the streets of portland, oregon tonight

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victims dating back decades and more than 300 alleged predator priests, some of whom are still nikki battisteboys and girls and the men of god who were resp hid it all. for decades. >> reporter: standing alongside survivors of sexual abuse, attorney general josh shapiro said the grand jury uncovered credible evidence against 301 predator priests who abused more than 1,000 children. >> the time of telling these victims to keep their truth to themselves has ended. >> reporter: the grand jury investigation goes back 70 years and identified predator priests in six catholic diocese across pennsylvania. documents from the diocese' only secret archives form the backbone of the investigation, corroborating accounts of alleged sexual abuse and systemic church cover-up, mirroring a worldwide pattern where abusers are moved from parish to parish. >> we should emphasize that while the list of priests is long we don't think we got them all. we feel certain that many victims never came forward and that the diocese did not create written records every single time they heard something about ac clergy are fro

nikki battiste, cbs news, new >>> we end tonight with a look back 50 years and how a little boy namedn broke the color line in a black and white comic strip. here's jim axelrod. >> reporter: april 1968, martin luther king had been shot and killed. american 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 schultz. his peanuts comic strip was read by nearly 100 million people each week. charlie brown, lucy, linus, they were all white. glickman told schultz, he should integrate. >> it occurred to me today that the introduction of negro children into the group of schultz characters could happen with a minimum of impact. he said he felt he couldn't do it, it might be condescending. >> reporter: then schultz 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

nikki battiste is here with the latest in a series of food scares for that chain.ing. >> good morning. so far there's no evidence that it stretches beyond this one restaurant of chipotle in ohio. one customer suffered serious and permanent injuries after buying food from the store and essentially employees called in sick on sunday and monday. >> my wife yelled at me saying, there are people getting sick at chipotle. i couldn't believe it. >> reporter: kevin white is one of hundreds sick forcing the popular chain to close its store on monday. delaware county health district says the number of calls related to the outbreak has been growing since sunday evening. >> did you eat at the chipotle on saw mill. >> reporter: there were 150 reports by tuesday afternoon. >> right now people are reporting diarrhea, vomiting, muscle aches, headaches. >> reporter: some investors sent chipotle's stock plunging tuesday by as much as 9%. it's been recovering after an e. coli breakout. >> what could this food-borne illness be? >> i can't think of it being anything other than a norovi

nikki battiste spoke with the cardinal. ital in harrisburg, nikki, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. cardinal wuerl created support for survivors and a zero tolerance policy against abusive priests. this grand jury report released just a few hours away, wuerl maintains his responses to abuse cases in the pittsburgh diocese were appropriate. >> if there were allegations, we dealt with them immediately. >> reporter: cardinal donald wuerl believes the pennsylvania grand jury investigation will vindicate the reforms he championed in 2002 to rid the catholic church of abusive priests. about a third of the people accused in this report are from the pittsburgh diocese. some people have called for your resignati resignation. do you have any plans to resign? >> it goes back over 70 years, so i think we have to be realistic and say this, this claim goes back over decades and decades. >> reporter: did you ever remove priests quietly to another -- >> that wasn't -- that wasn't our process. >> reporter: in 2007, after wuerl became

nikki battiste has spent weeks reporting on this scandal. nikki, good morning. >> good morning. u.s. conference of catholic bishops said it is completely saddened, and the pittsburgh bishop has apologized. this is the report, nearly 900 pages long. its findings are drawn from more than 500,000 pages of documents hidden in secret church archives. because some records were destroyed and many survivors are still afraid to come forward, the grand jury believes there are actually thousands of victims. >> the church showed a complete disdain for victims. >> reporter: survivors wept as pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro publicly revealed the contents of the landmark grand jury report for the first time. when you saw the emotion on the survivors' faces today, what did that mean to you? >> it means the world to me to be able to do this for them, to help them have some modicum of healing. >> reporter: victims and their loved ones had been anticipating the release of the report, the most sweeping examination yet of child sex abuse in the u.s. catholic church. >> we've stood up and

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nikki battiste is covering the scandal. >> reporter: cardinal o'malley's admission is more startling because he is perhaps the pope's most trusted adviser on stopping sex abuse. o'malley said he had no idea someone had complained about mccarrick and that he never saw that letter. >> i had the impression that virtually everybody knew about it. >> reporter: father ramsey says he first heard about cardinal mccarrick's disturbing behavior as early as 1986. >> archbishop mccarrick was inviting seminarians to his beach house. there were five beds and there were six people. archbishop mccarrick arranged it in such a way that somebody would join him in his bed. >> reporter: ramsey, now a pastor in new york city, wrote a letter in june 2015 to cardinal sean o'malley who had just been appointed by pope francis to lead a commission to protect children from sex abuse. ramsey wrote, some of these stories were not presented to me as mere rumors but were told to me by persons directlyinvolved. >> the response i got was from his secretary. under our jurisd. >> reporter: cardinal o'malley said that w