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randall pinkston, cbs news, new york. >> nurse practitioners will refer patients to a doctor or hospital if they come in with a condition they are not equipped to handle. >>> all right. let's get a check on the weather. i did not get a chance to go take a little walk outside today. >> and why not? >> busy! >> are you a little busy today? >> yeah, frank's not here. >> don't worry, i walked for you. >> thanks. >> it looks very cloudy outside right now. a lot of clouds around the bay area, even a couple of scattered light shows in parts of the east bay on our hi-def doppler radar. you can see some of that rotating in as it falls apart. even toward the san jose area, you can see maybe a light sprinkle or light showerheaded in that direction. not going to be here for long and i think toward the afternoon, you will see more of this. partly cloudy skies, maybe a little breezy in spots. the onshore breeze returned today. and we have some drizzle out toward the coast. the temperatures now moving into the 50s and the 60s all around the bay area. i think throughout the afternoon, you're going to se

randall pinkston reports. >> reporter: 2 1/2-year-old hannah warren was born without a windpipe.there was no hope of her survival, but now to groundbreaking surge are in illinois, she has a new trachea grown in her own stem cell. >> the tube in her mouth disappear and she was reborn. >> reporter: doctors extracted cells from hannah's bone marrow and grew them around a plastic frame in a lab. within a week the cells formed to grow a new windpipe. the surgeons implanted a new trachea during a nine-hour procedure to increase her life. doctors say unlike donor organs, using hannah's own stem cells greatly reduces the likelihood that her body will reject the implant. >> if you look into the future, this would be the future of organ transplantation. >> reporter: hannah was able to taste food for the first time ever, a few licks of a lollipop. she faces more surgeries to speak. >> our hopes and dreams are those of parents with a hopes after dreams of a them think child, that they get to experience everything that this beautiful world has to offer. >> reporter: hannah has spent her whole

randall pinkston reports. >> reporter: when medgar evers was fighting for civil rights in mississippi get on local news in his home state. his wife. >> your wife was a member of the naacp. was he ever asked to comment on civil rights matters by tv stations? >> in mississippi? >> reporter: yes. >> no, of course not. >> reporter: as the civil rights movement grew, the dominant point of view on wljb. >> these range all the way from blackmail to bribery to threats. >> reporter: evers asked for equal time but was turned down for six years. >> reporter: what kept your husband going? >> his determination to do whaefrl he could possibly do to turn this state and help the nation accept us at citizen extends with full licensed citizenships. >> reporter: evers sued the city of jackson to deseg regate schools. then on wlbt jackson mayor albert johnson criticized evers as outside agitators. he was granted time to respond may 20th, 1963. the setting is different but this is the room where medgar evers made his historic speech at wlbt. it was the first time mississippians had seen a local african am

randall pinkston, cbs news, boston. bangladesh building collapse has now reached more than 500. this morning families continue to look for missing relatives. the eight-story building packed with workers caved in april 24th. an engineer who warned the building was unsafe has been arrested because he was involved in illegally adding three stories to the building. he is the ninth person arrested in connection with the disaster. >>> and the gunman who opened fire at houston's largest airport left a suicide note. carnell moore fired two shots in a terminal at bush intercontinental airport yesterday before he was confronted by a federal agent. earlier in the day he posted a message on a social media website saying he intended to commit mass murder. tiffany craig of our houston station khou reports. >> reporter: it was terror inside terminal b. >> he open-range started shooting. open-range started shooting. >> reporter: kendra and plenty of passengers saw it or heard it and scattered. >> we took off. customers took off. everybody. we had a line. everything took off. we're right there i

randall pinkston, kpix 5. >>> oregon police say there is a prime suspect in a murder in the state. jeffrey boyce is due in a marin county courtroom tomorrow. he was arrested in greenbrae monday night. police say boyce was obsessed with the boston bombings and wanted to seek asylum at the russian consulate in san francisco. oregon authorities say he is wanted for the murder of a woman in winchester bay. >>> today governor brown signed a bill making it easier for state agents to seize firearms from californians who legally aren't supposed to have them. under the bill, $24 million will go towards hiring more agents to confiscate weapons over the next three years. nearly 20,000 people in our state own guns despite the fact it's illegal because they have been convicted of crimes or have been ruled mentally unstable or are under domestic violence restraining orders. >>> it's one headache after another for the new eastern span of the bay bridge. leaders with the metropolitan transportation commission are talking to the vendor who supplied the bolts that snapped on the new east span. those

and the civil rights legacy of medgar evers, randall pinkston shares the very personal history of howevers helped integrate tv news in mississippi making room for african-american reporters like him. >> more blacks are registered to vote now than ever before in mississippi's history. captioning sponsored by cbs

randall pinkston, cbs news, boston. >> at today's court appearance, the two students didn't request bail and they're scheduled for a hearing on may 14th. the other is due back in court on mod. >>> there's nonofficial tonight on the story we've been following. a virginia man charged with assaulting a taxi driver now apologizes for the comment he is made to the driver. remarks involving muslims. just the same, the cabbie wants to assault charge -- the assault charge bumped up to a felony and he wants it prosecuted as a hate crime. the cabbie captured some of the incidents on the cell phone from last friday. >> whatever you saying is recorded. and -- now he's punching me. you punching me? >> do you think it was proper for the united states -- >> you -- now you're punching me right? >> sir, you can also -- >> medical records show that the cabbie suffered a broken jaw. the passenger facing charges didn't want to go on camera but his attorney says his client didn't assault the cabbie. however he does regret the comments he made. >>> a guilty verdict tonight against the man who czar averagely b

randall pinkston reports. >> we're not just interesting in voting so that conditions will be improvedrybody everybody. >> reporter: that was medgar evers in 1962. he could not get on television. was he ever asked to comment on civil rights matters by tv stations? >> in mississippi? >> yes. >> no of course not. >> reporter: few people of color appeared on jackson, mississippi's, main tv station wlbt. his mother recalls how sometimes the screen would go dark even when black entertainers came on. >> we were blocked from seeing successful people of our own race appear anywhere. i can recall my elder son saying to me, mommy, the television is broken again. >> reporter: as the civil rights movement grew the dominant point of view on wlbt was from the segregationist civil council it's currently being studied by the congress. these range all the way from blackmail to bribery to threats. >> reporter: for six years evers wrote letters to the station pleading for equal time and was turned down repeatedly by station manster stermanager edward beard. former mississippi governor said they were most

randall pinkston, cbs news, boston. >> the suspects each face between 5 and 8 years behind bars and $250,000 in fines. >>> this morning president obama nominated hyatt hotel heiress and philanthropist danny pritzker to the commerce department. right now the president is flying to mexico to meet with that country's. the two leaders will discuss immigration, economic growth and how to stop the prarving of illegal drugs into the united states. >>> today maryland will become the 19th state to legalize marijuana for medicinal use. governor martin o'malley is scheduled to sign a number of bills into law, including one to approve marijuana programs. ill patients will be able to get the herb from medical research centers. however, state experts project that the program would not be up and running until 200016. just last month governor o'malley signed a separate bill removing criminal penalties for buying marijuana on behalf of a seriously ill family member. >>> there are more troubles for the overdue and overbucket silver spring transit center. yesterday the montgomery county council met with member

randall pinkston, kpix 5.>> at today's court appearance the two kazakh students did not request bail. they are scheduled for a hearing on may 14. phillipos is due back in court on monday. >>> new at 6:00, a man bold enough to throw bricks at police is getting the book thrown at him. after may day marches last year, jesse nesbitt stood on a building and throwing bricks and other items at police. the bricks missed police but hit a bystander and cruiser. now a year to the day, nesbitt was sentenced to two years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon. >>> tonight we have a clarification on an investigation into the business investments involving members of a bay area church. linda yee is here to explain. linda. >> reporter: allen, we reported on the department of corporation's desist and refrain order that was filed against michael parker and pastor lacy hawkins of the general assembly church. they were accused by the state of violating security laws in soliciting investments from church members. in or first s

randall pinkston explains what's behind the change in correctional thinking. >> reporter: parchman, in the heart of the mississippi delta, is a sprawling 1800-acre prison. its unit 32 once housed 1,000 inmates in solitary confinement, each prisoner crammed into an eight by 10 foot cell 23 hours a day. inmates got out one hour a day for exercise and a shower. >> it's torture. it's the worst kind of torture. i'd rather be beaten or burned. >> reporter: kirby tate, who served nine years on a nonviolent drug charge spent three of those years in solitary confinement, mostly in unit 32. >> you pray to god. you lay in bed every day and pray, "please, let this be the last day." if you're not a psychopathic maniac, they have no business putting you in solitary confinement. >> we should be looking at those individuals that we're afraid of. >> reporter: chris epps opened unit 32 in 1990 when was parchman's second in command, but in 2010, as the state commissioner of the corrections, he decided to close it. >> it has not affected public safety, as far as the citizens of the state. it has not affec

as randall pinkston reports for wjz, doctors in illinois made the new trachea, from the little girl's own cells, giving her a chance to live a normal life outside hospital walls. >> reporter: 2 1/2-year-old hannah warren was born without a wind pipe. doctors in korea told her parents there was no hope for her survival. but now, thanks to groundbreaking surgery at children's hospital of illinois, she has a trachea, grown from her own stem cells. >> the tube in her mouth disappeared. and she was reborn. >> doctors extracted cells around her bone marrow and grew them in a lab. within a week, the cells grew to form a wind pipe. they implanted the new trachea, during a nine-hour procedure, on february 9th. >> just taking her own tissue. >> reporter: doctors say using hannah's own stem cells greatly reduces the chances her body will reject the implant. >> if you look into the future, this will be the future of transplantation. >> reporter: she was able to taste food for the first time ever, a few licks of a lollipop. she faces more extensive rehabilitation and more surgeries to help her liv