tony dokoupil is back to show us the tools to help us remain invisible online. >>> plus on "cbs thisr king's three children in an interview for the first time in a decade, and we'll talk about the evolution of the impact in some cities of animals. i'm brook silva-braga. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com low temperature -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com well, before it was even founded, a french teenager, bienville, scared away a british warship with just a story. and great stories kept coming. [trumpet playing] some make you move to jazz, funk and bounce. some of our stories aren't quite as straightforward. blocked by the saints! [crowd roaring] while others prove that great things can happen... even on a monday night. cause for three hundred years, great stories have started the same way. one time, in new orleans. [crowd applause] it's monday, april 2nd. good morning, i'm kenny choi. >>> this is kpix5 news. >> a live look at the beautiful bay bridge this morning as we get the week started. good monday, it is april 2. >> april is off and running. and it is 4

i'm tony dokoupil.s some explaining to do about this week's deadly midair accident. investigators say, metal fatigue the likely cause of the catastrophic engine explosion. it turns out the airline had been warned about that very danger. and the warning came after a similar engine explosion on another southwest jet. kris van cleave reports. kris van cleave reports there are questions whether the faa and airline acted quickly enough after a prior failure in 2016. investigators continue working on the southwest 737 had an engine blowout in flight tuesday killing 43-year-old jennifer reardan, the ntsb says mother of two was wearing her seatbelt when partially sucked out of the plane. >> my heart is broken for them. >> fire fighter andrew needham rushed to help pull reardan back inside. >> i'm trained for emergency situations. that's just exactly what it was. >> after an eerily similar engine fame year two years ago on a southwest jet when a fan blade broke due to metal fatigue, the manufacturer recommended,

tony dokoupil, cbs news, new york. >> quijano: still ahead, how a major retailer is targeting crime,outside its stores. >> >> quijano: there are more than 1,800 target stores in the u.s., as you probably know, they sell a little bit of everything. but you may not be aware that the major retailer also plays an important role when targeting criminals outside its stores. dean reynolds looked into this. >> reporter: our goal will be to take a photograph of each of the fingerprints that are on this piece of evidence. >> reporter: in the dark recesses of this laboratory near minneapolis experts like rick lautenbach are busy solving crimes. >> what did he get convicted of, then? >> so there were a number of crimes including grand larceny and conspiracy in california. >> the lab uses the latest in digital forensics to nab suspects. >> process those fingerprints and turn those over to law enforcement. >> reporter: turn those over because these pressure chambers and rows of computer monitors are not located in a police department. >> target national investigations center, how can i help you? >

i'm tony dokoupil.here was terror in the sky for passengers aboard a southwest airlines jet bound for dallas. a piece of one of the engines blew off at 30,000 feet and forced an emergency landing. one passenger was killed. michelle miller begins our coverage. >> air force 10 there is a hole in the side of the aircraft. >> copy. there's a hole in the side of your aircraft. >> the message to air traffic control was dire. >> yes i believe captain's side is where it began and that's the engine that went out. >> reporter: nearly 40 minutes into southwest flight 1380 from new york city to dallas the 18-year-old jet was flying at 32,000 feet when passengers say they heard a loud boom. the left engine exploded. shrapnel damaged the fuselage, blowing out a window. one passenger was killed. dallas resident matt trancin said he started to say good-bye to his family. >> my wife is in her third trimester. our first child. so i spent a lot of my time trying to articulate what i wanted my final words to be to my unbor

it's so good. >> reporter: tony dokoupil, cbs news, new york. >> ninan: and if you didn't have time to support independent bookstores today, there's always tomorrow. well, that's the cbs weekend news for this saturday. the news is always on in our streaming news network cbsn at cbsnews.com. i'm reena ninan in new york. thank you for joining us. good night. >>> live from the cbs bay area studio, this is kpix 5 news. >>> problems piling up for toyota as complaints continue to roll in. and now the carmaker is turning to a bay area company to help manage the crisis. >> at a dealership to explain why toyota for a massive legal battle. >> they acknowledged the problems with some of the electrical systems and even did a leak recall in 2014. decimate a recall in 2014. but they say did not fix the problem. now a company is getting involved. she said she was on this busy los angeles freeway when something went wrong with her 2010 toyota previous hybrid. >> it felt like someone pulled the emergency brake. you step on the accelerator and nothing happened. >> a toyota mechanic traced the car proble

tony dokoupil, cbs news, new york. still ahead, how a 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico. goin' up the country. later, gary' i have a motorcycle! wonderful. ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. >>> there are more than 1800 target stores in the u.s. as you probably know they sell a little bit of everything. you may not be aware the retailer plays an important role in targeting criminals outside its stores. dean reynolds looked into this. >> our goal will be to take a -- photograph of each of the fingerprints that are on this piece of evidence. >> in the dark recesses of this laboratory near minneapolis, experts like rick lautenbach are busy solving crimes. >> what do you get convicted of snen. >> grand larceny. >> the lab uses the latest in digital forensics to nab suspects. >> process the fingerprints. turn those over. >> turn those over. these pressure chambers, and rows of computer mo

here is tony dokoupil. >> reporter: hours after legislators in vermont pass aid law banning high capacity gun clips, opponents handed out more than 1,000 of them at the state capitol promising a political hunt for new leadership. >> hoping this will wake up the silent majority of vermonters and get them out to vote. >> vermont governor phil scott expected to sign the new bill which also raises the legal age for gun purchases, expands background checks and bans rapid fire devices known as bump stocks. the law would complete a major reversal for the governor, a republican, who was apparently moved by a foiled plot to shoot up a school in his own state. no state is immune to the risk of extreme violence he said in a statement. if we are at a point where when our kids are afraid to go to school and parents are afraid to put their kids on a bus, who are we? last month. florida also pass aid suite of reforms, bucking tradition of looser gun laws. there are small stirrings of a counter movement there too. >> there is time for a 357 magnum. >> students in florida skipped class to voice their supp

tony dokoupil has details. >>> and in the series "a more perfect union" we're meeting an award-winningrrying on the legacy of a one of literature's greatest icons, langston hughes. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. i'm anne-marie green. thanks for watching. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm michelle griego. and i'm anne makovec, kenny is off this morning. >>> good morning, everyone. it is thursday, april 12th, and you are taking a live look out at the golden gate bridge. it's 4:29. people are getting to work early. i'm michelle griego. >> i'm anne makovec. kenny is not at work this morning. so lucky for him. it is 4:30. and the sky has cleared overnight. >> how rude was that rain overnight? >> i liked it actually. >> i always like it. >> i go to bed so early that it was like 6 p.m. ! >> it was an event for a short amount of time but now it's just a lingering shower. here's a look at san francisco now. it's crisp out there. once you step outside, you will notice the cooler temperatures. yes, today will be cooler than yesterday. 10 are degrees bel

tony dokoupil has details. >>> plus, there's a rare former of eye cancer that you may not know about,roup of friends are each suffering from the disease and they all went to the same university. we'll look at the race to solve the medical mystery. >>> and the ugly side of dockless bikes and scooters. people are leaving them all over the place, including dangerous spots for pedestrians and motorists. that's the "cbs morning news" for this monday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm kenny choi. >>> this is kpix 5 news. >> hire is a look at the bolden gate bring -- bridge. it is april 30, monday. >> let's say hello to neda and john mccaa ln. >> i forgot to set my alarm and i still woke up. >> glad you made it. >> could have been a close one. >> we are starting off with a good look here. >>> around the beaches, it will be windy and cloudy and we will be about 5 degrees below average. we are staying cool but then by the middle of the week, we will rise to above average conditions, warm and sunny. the weekend is already look

tony dokoupil has the video, and a warning, it is offensive to many. >> reporter: this video, obtainedsyracuse university's student newspaper, "the daily orange," is sending shock waves through the school's campus. >> reporter: it was reportedly posted on a secret facebook page by theta tau, a co-ed engineering fraternity with over at,000 members nationwide. syracuse chancellor kent syverud erspended the group on wednesday and called the fraternity's behavior "extremely racist, anti-semitic, homophobic, sexist, and hostile to people with disabilities." >> they are not us, and they do not represent this community. >> reporter: as students protest, a national official for the fraternity called their members' actions "disgraceful," but described the video as a "parody, skit, or roast of the active brothers by a pledge class." they say this still does not ticuse the behavior. this is at least the sixth race- related suspension at the fraternity since 2015, including suspensions at the university of oklahoma, cornell, and just last week at a state school in california. and it's not just rac

as tony dokoupil found out, staying anonymous has its price. >> reporter: back in the 1990s, kevin mitnick five years in prison for crimes related to hacking into the networks of major telecom companies. now he specializes in protecting corporate security and our security, too. >> i love educating the public on what they can do to protect their privacy. >> reporter: he took us through three steps for shopping online without giving up any personal information. step one, buy a pre-paid gift card. why a gift card? >> well, it's an anonymous credit card. >> reporter: step, two buy a new computer. one not already associated with our regular internet browsing. and step three, find a new way to get online. we're going to buy a hot spot? >> a hot spot and a mobile phone. >> reporter: at that point we were almost ready. the mobile hot spot gave us an anonymous internet connection. a fake e-mail address made us unrecognizable to companies, and the cell phone helped us verify the information. google will send a one-time text message. >> this is to the pre-paid phone. >> reporter: in all we invested a

tony dokoupil has the video. and we caution-- it is graphic. >> put your hands on the car or i'm going to shoot you in your ( bleep ) head, you understand me? >> reporter: those are the words of baton rouge police officer shane salimoni, mere seconds olfore he fatally shot 37 year- old alton sterling. >> i'm saying what happened man? hold on. >> reporter: salimoni and officer howie lake had responded to a 911 call about a man making threats outside a convenience store. sterling matched the description. >> get on the ground! >> reporter: the officers say sterling had a loaded gun and was reaching for it. ofe department's investigation tund officer lake, who deployed his taser, had handled the situation appropriately. salimoni-- who fired all six shots from his service glock-- had not. ri was terminated and stripped of his badge. baton rouge police chief murphy paul: >> unreasonable fear within an officer is dangerous. >> reporter: salamoni said he felt forced by sterling to open fire, according to a report from ba

here's tony dokoupil. >> reporter: hours after tgislators in vermont passed the law banning high capacitylips, opponents handed out more than a thousand of them at the state capitol, promising a political hunt for new isadership. >> i'm hoping this will wake up the silent majority of vermonters and get them out to vote and protect their rights. i> reporter: vermont governor phil scott is expected to sign the new bill which also raises the legal age for gun purchases, expands background checks, and bans rapid fire devices known as ksmp stocks. vie law would complete a major reversal for the governor, a bypublican who was apparently moved by a foiled plot to shoot np a school in his own state. no state is immune to the risk of extreme violence, he said in a statement, adding "if we are at a point where our kids are afraid to go to school and parents are afraid to put their kids be a bus, who are we?" last month, florida also passed a suite of reforms bucking a tradition of looser gun laws. set, there are small stirrings of a counter-movement there too. >> the response time for a .357 magazi

tony dokoupil reports, some heavyweights from silicon valley agree. >> for most of the history facebooko was move fast and break things. the same spirit has come to define silicon valley producing some of the richest companies in the world. but those unbridled days may be over not only for facebook. >> so people out here are going to we watching mark zuckerberg's testimony closely? >> 100%. actually, i mean this is the hottest topic right now. >> he is the typical silicon valley success story. >> i will show you the apps we work on. >> 30 something ceo running one of america's top app developers. if you think he is here to tell, lawmakers to back off talk of regulating facebook. think again. >> you most think tech ceos believe facebook should be reg layed more regulation is necessary for silicon valley. >> i believe so. >> he is echoing sentiment heard more and more from ceos at tech companies like uber and sales force. rising earnings have made amazon, apple, facebook and google parent company alphabet among most valuable and powerful in the world. u.s. tech come pans have avoided gove

as tony dokoupil found out staying anonymous has the its price. >> reporter: back in the 90s, kevin mitnibbling spent five years in prison for hacking into the networks of telecom companies. now he specializes in protecting corporate security, and our security too. >> i love educating the public. on -- what they can do to protect their privacy. >> reporter: heap took us through three steps shopping on line without giving up any personal information. stechl o step one. buy prepaid gift card. >> anonymous credit card. >> buy a new computer. >> what different books do you sell? >> one not associated with our regular internet browsing. step three, find a new way to get online. >> we are going to buy a hot spot? >> hot spot and mobile phone. >> at that point. we were almost ready. >> exactly. i will help you. the mobile hot spot gave anonymous internet connection. fake e-mail address made us unrecognizable to company. the cell phone helped us verify the new information. >> google will send a one time text message. >> to the prepaid phone. >> in all we invested $400 on equipment. add to cart. >> ther

i'm tony dokoupil. the latest chapter in the story of the president and the porn star was set in federal court in manhattan. president trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen, tried to convince a judge that his records, seized in an fbi raid, are protected by attorney-client privilege. some of the files deal with a payment cohen made to stormy daniels, who made it a point to be in the courtroom. here's jeff pegues. >> any comment? any comment on the allegations against you? >> reporter: michael cohen was peppered with questions as he arrived at the federal courthouse in lower manhattan. he and his lawyers as well as attorneys for president trump told judge kimba wood that documents and data seized in fbi raids last week are protected by attorney-client privilege and should not be read by prosecutors. so this is what it looks like in lower manhattan outside the federal courthouse. you have dozens of news cameras here. you have print journalists here. all waiting for michael cohen to come out and stormy da

tony dokoupil visited many independent booksellers where he found the rebound is about more than justie to my children. >> reporter: on a thursday night in lagrange, illinois -- >> i'm also a mom, and it's amazing to see a little version of yourself walking around in the world. it's not so great to hear a little version of yourself walking around in the world. >> reporter: -- comedy fans were all but rolling in the aisles, which is good news if you're selling what's in those aisles. that's right. this is a bookstore. >> thank you so much for coming in. >> help me draw the connection between books and comedy shows. >> we host a lot of didn't events. it's good for business but also for community. a lot of times people say you're my entertainment. >> reporter: becky anderson is the co-owner of books which is also a pharmacy that's been in her family for five generations. it's a successful chain and it turns out stores like this are helping people like this professor solving a mystery. he set out to explain why a number of independent bookstore has been growing every single year since 200

tony dokoupil looks at the potential privacy concerns. good morning. >> good morning.eople use genealogy websites to learn more about things like their background. they say they have now become unwilling participants in a de facto police dna database. the cutting edge tools used to crack the case of the golden state killer can be found inside this yellow house in lakeworth florida. gedmatch.com has more than 1 million dna profiles including distant relatives of joseph j. d'angelo, an ex-police officer arraigned last friday. for two decades they have been tracking the golden state killer. about four months ago he uploaded dna of the crime scene to ged match. someone had a relationship with a great, great, great grandfather there. they used a process of elimination to zero in on suspects. >> individuals within that pool of people that fit the criteria, roughly his age, geographic location. >> reporter: police didn't need a subpoena or search warrant because jed match is an open source. they say if you require absolutely privacy and security, we must ask that you do not u

tony dokoupil is at the golden facebook is behind know growth, most peekt don't what do you like abouteing about instagram? >> i like sees pictures of the creators that i follow. >> reporter: she told us she's a daily instagram user, following artists and feeds she enjoys. but watch what happens when she finds out who owns instagram. >> would you be surprised to learn it's owned by facebook? >> is it really? >> yeah. >> oh, my god. >> why are you saying, oh, my god? >> because i've been hearing about mark zuckerberg and slimy facebook. >> most don't know facebook owns instagram and techcrunch editor at large george con steen says that's how facebook likes it. >> they try to keep it as separate as possible. they operate a dirnts office. there's no facebook app. >> how important is instagram to the future of facebook. >> it's the life raft. no matter what happens to facebook, they can hop on instagram and still have fun. >> last year facebook lost almost 3 million users under the age of 25 and posted a 700,000 less. this year the under 25 is expected to shrink again on facebook but keep