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for cbs mornings janet shamlian, topeka, kansas. >>> it's graduation season from coast to coast.millions of soon to be former students receiving their diplomas and heading out into the world. but for some the challenges of everyday life have put graduation out of reach. steve hartman found this story "on the road." >> reporter: we return this week to toledo, ohio to scott high school to see what became of all those seniors who walked into this gym four years ago and got the surprise of a lifetime. >> if you're sitting here in this room today, tuition, room and board, books and fees will be paid for you and you will go to college for free. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: philanthropist pete cadence started this charity called hope toledo for kids like chris roland. chris told me he could have never afforded college. especially after his mom, abina, lost her job and his dad died in a house fire. >> my dad was the closest person i had in my life. >> he was such an awesome fire. he's still going to make him proud. i know he is. >> reporter: four years later the first kids are gr

mark's church in topeka.at kind of spiritual center of the case that she posed and that she still held in to a peak of, kansas that was really powerful to me. and i think there is a long road that leads to brown v. board. but it's still remained in topeka, something that was full of history but also was a living thing. and i think that's when i first encountered the kind of history you find throughout the museum, but also that this case centers in the change in the nation and the change in our world, and to hear her singing, and expressing herself years later, was so powerful. geoff: this is an experience that you know well. you were the first black student integrate the conroe independent school district in texas 60 years ago. what was that experience like for you? annette: very intense. this was obviously, you know, 10 years or so after brown. the school districts across the south were resisting brown's mandate. had come up with the freedom of choice plan and my parents decided to buck the tradition because

topeka, kansas, and the education system. i mean, it is so -- we hold on to these stupid prejudices, we had a civil war, and yet my country, with all the beautiful persons it has, that is respected all over the world, we keep on holding on to what was driven out all over the world last century. people are tired of racism. they're tired of it everywhere on earth. thank you. >> thank you. >> first, i will say thank you for your service. the second thing i will say is that you make a fantastic point which is that the u.s. has been able to export democracy to many places, and there are many nations that look up to us for our system, for constitutional system. yet it is true, i would say, that there still is a chasm in many instances between what i call before law on the books and our aspirations as a country and as a people and everyday process. and partly that's reflection of the fact that -- of something i said before which is that, it's something that frankly the court was concerned about at various times, and that is the abil

tonight janet shamlian introduces us to the woman now running the topeka schools guided by the legacythat supreme court decision. >> i heard you had a birthday. >> reporter: home delivered birthday gifts and cake aren't generally part of a school curriculum. but tow fee coo school superintendent tiffany anderson rarely sticks to a lesson plan when there's a child in need. >> if we don't do it, who will? >> reporter: the district at the center of the 19 54 brown versus education ruling outlawing segregation in schools. >> in the past, they have tried doing separate but equal. >> reporter: is now helmed by its first black female superintendent. >> 70 years later, do you live with the burden of their hope and dreams? >> i think 70 years later, i live with the privilege to help their homes and dreams come to life. i'm standing on their shoulders. >> reporter: high school graduation rates have skyrocketed from near 70% to 91% during her eight-year tenure. she's established morale-boosting programs like graduation ceremonies for students in the nearby state correctional facility. >> so have

i'm in topeka kansas.that story is ahead on the cbs evening news. >>> tonight at 5:00, san francisco's market neighborhood has a new business with the mission. how it's helping young people get the skills they need to enter the workforce. that story and more with ryan yamamoto and myself tonight at 5:00. and thank you for joining us for today's conversation about farmworker housing in half moon bay. we would love to hear what you think and what's going on in your communities. post your thoughts online using the hashtag kpix. cbs evening news is next. local news continues on our streaming service cbs news bay area. i will see you at 5:00. >> and we wanted? >> now! >> maurice: new arrest at pro-palestinian demonstrations palestinian demonstrations on college campuses at the height of graduation season. as president biden prepares to make a commencement speech at a georgia college, the school says it will halt sunday's ceremony

there are reports of a tornado in westmoreland, kansas, in the topeka area, and there is a chance of more flooding like they're seeing across the state after the storms of the last week. al roker is following it all. how bad will be the weather be? >> well, lester, right now, we've got some very serious active conditions. we've got tornado watches, but we've also got tornado warnings now in parts of nebraska and in kansas. we're going to be watching this continually through the evening. the strong storms, we've got at least 8 million people at risk, strong tornadoes, damaging hail up to 2 inches from sioux city all the way down to wichita. baseball to softball-sized hail. tomorrow, the next system comes in. the threats from nebraska to kansas, from hastings all the way down to midland and abilene, could be strong tornadoes as well. again, that 2-inch hail risk all the way to midland, up into dodge city. flood risk from omaha to austin, because lester, we're talking upwards of 5 inches of rain in the next 24 hours. >> all right, al roker. al, thanks very much. >>> now to that shooting

places like topeka, kansas and a lawrence as well as we're going to see that heaviest storm of continue to march its way eastward and the possibility of more severe weather on the way. in fact, you can see the area of severe weather outlook. is bruce potential for more strong thunderstorms developing in these storms going to continue to impact that area. let's of the forecast models show you that front moving eastward again beginning to fall off and then you get a surge of moisture coming up on the south and there you go in the next 24 to 48 hours, we've got another series of storms rolling in. maybe the target of the heavier storms may be severe weather maybe headed toward texas. boy, it is going to be a scary couple of days here across the country's midsection. again, guys, back to you. all right, lauren, thank you. >> 450 homeless families in san francisco will soon receive financial help. they've been chosen as part of a five-year pilot program and study funded by google and local nonprofits. have the families will receive $1000 a month. the other half will receive just $50 a month.

the central plains and on tuesday a large area, maurice, to watch, that is going to include from topeka fort smith, all the way past chicago and milwaukee. >> maurice: okay, we'll be watching. mike, thank you. to the middle east now, israel's military says its troops have recovered the bodies of three israeli hostages from the tunnels beneath gaza. one of them, 22-year-old shani louk. the photo of her contorted body in the back of a pickup truck became a symbol of the brutality of the hamas attack on october 7th. cbs's imtiaz tyab has more. >> reporter: it was during the chaos and horror of hamas' october 7th attack on the nova music festival that all three hostages were killed. that same day, their remains were taken into gaza. >> they were celebrating life in the nova music festival, and they were murdered by hamas. >> the israeli military have identified them as shani louk, amit bouskila, and itzhak gelerenter. the bodies were recovered in a tunnel on thursday night in an operation by the israeli military, who did not specify where in gaza they were found. but over the past week, the

it slides down into topeka into sioux falls.avid, another night with smoke. >> david: dealing with it all over again. ginger zee with us to start another week. thanks, ginger. >>> now to the race for president tonight, and the new move from president biden, taking aim at china, announcing major new tariffs, he says to protect american industry and jobs here. it does come amid new polls in the key battleground states that show donald trump leading president biden in several of those states. let's get right to our chief white house correspondent mary bruce on this move, when it comes to china tonight. and mary, it also comes amid these new numbers. >> reporter: it does, and david, the biden campaign is certainly aware of these new numbers. donald trump now leading president biden in several critical battlegrounds among registered voters, including arizona, nevada, and michigan, where manufacturing is key. donald trump leading in michigan by seven points. and tonight, the president is trying to send a message on the economy, that h

sink into away, and that includes fort dodge, mason city, but look what happens, it sides down into topeka, up to sioux falls. >> david: dealing with it all over again. ginger zee, thank you. >>> now to the race for president tonight, and the new move from president biden, taking aim at china, announcing major new tariffs, he says to protect american industry and jobs here. it does come amid new polls in the key battleground states that show donald trump leading president biden in several of those states. let's get right to mary bruce on this move, when it comes to china tonight. and mary, it comes amid these new numbers. >> reporter: and david, the biden campaign is certainly aware of these numbers. donald trump now leading president biden in several critical battlegrounds among registered voters, including arizona, nevada, and michigan. donald trump leading in michigan by seven points. the president trying to send a message on the economy, that he, too, is tough on china. the president tomorrow expected to announce he is quadrupling tariffs on electric vehicles from china from 25% to 100

citadel on the night of january 30th, the communists fill the tablets themselves in the citadel and in topekaughout the city. they raise this flag, the flag of the communist vietnamese, and for the south vietnamese and americans, that becomes a symbol that must be taken down. we come in. this is about a mile by a mile square. there are these walls. it's a fortress. this is a tough nut to crack. and so it takes how long? it's almost an entire month. this battle here is a brutal urban fight. all warfare is difficult, but urban presents different pro it's. leadership got involved. it went all the way to the top. my dad used to say about leadership. you have to think like a general. you've got to be able to do everything that you're telling everybody else they have to do. yeah, you're setting the standard. that sounds like how we won this part of the tet offensive that that is 100% right. and the infantry, we say, follow me. and that's what the leaders were doing. we then say, hang your flag back, south vietnamese. correct. and then it doesn't hold because we, along with them cannot win that war.

last night's storms ripped through westmoreland about 50 miles per hour through topeka.fficials said 22 homes were destroyed with more than 100 others damaged. former students at a now defunct chain of colleges will have $6 billion of federal student loan debts canceled over allegations of fraud. the biden administration says it is writing off loan debt to some 300,000 people who attended the art institutes. federal officials say the school lied about their job prospects. and on wall street, stocks surged for correction. the dow jones industrial average gained 87 points to close at $37 -- 37,903. still to come, a government task force releases new breast cancer screening guidelines, and work in rwanda to develop a climate friendly approach to help farmers. >> this is "the pbs newshour," from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: donald trump was out of the courtroom and back on the campaign trail today in wisconsin, but the -- with a familiar refrain about undocumented immigrants. >> w

linda brown's father took legal action after she was denied from going to an all white school in topekat was just four blocks from her home. instead, she was forced to take a dangerous walk across railroad tracks and a bus ride to an all black school. >> these are just some examples to demonstrate further the ubiquity, or how pervasive this racial prejudice system was. >> in a rare move, on may 17th, 1954, the supreme court ruled unanimou that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, undoing decades of existing precedent. however, just like after the civil war, there was still a lot of resistance and slow compliance to integrate schools, especially in the south. in fact, it took houston independent school district 30 years to officially desegregate. >> many southern whites are going to try to stall the process of integration. >> i was able to express myself as perkins reflects on the 70th anniversary of brown versus board of education. >> that's another time she's grateful for the progress made to ensure equality and equity for students of all backgrounds. however she

a madonna superfan from topeka, kansas, now holds the world record for her tribute to the singer.8 tattoos. >> oh, of madonna. >> okay, her name is tara barry, and her body work depicts madge from the 80s through today. guinness named barry as the world record holder for the female, with the most body art of the same musician. she beat out the previous record holder, who has 15 tattoos of eminem, barry says she has spent at least 100 hours getting inked and at least $9,000 on her tattoos of madonna, herm. >> mm.hmm. passionate yeah, she likes what she likes. yeah now the one with all the eminem tattoos. yeah >> what's going on there? >> yeah. i don't know why that seems. >> it's a choice. >> okay. good for them. >> love your body is the message that we want to put out there. >> let's take a look at pier 39 this morning. the sea lions are awake right now. they're jumping into the water. currently, we will find mild sunshine on your memorial day. it's a little breezy this afternoon. we'll have those winds about 15 to 25mph. the headline for the week ahead, a warming trend by thursda

. >> topeka, kansas. >> tampa bay, wisconsin. >> today' mom's 85th birthday. >> good morning to our kidsck to "today." nice to have you on with us on a monday morning. i felt a sneeze coming on. >> then what happened. >> craig said look at the light, it will stop at it. i find if you look at the light or sun it will make you sneeze. >> i sneeze when i change temperatures. >> what do you say "today" show viewers. >> i look at the light and it stops the sneeze. >> but you didn't sneeze. >> look at craig, and you won't sneeze. let's get right to your news as 8:00. we're going to begin with the ongoing protests over the israel-hamas war on college campuses nationwide. those demonstrations spilling into graduation ceremonies over the weekend including one at duke that interrupted jerry seinfeld's commencement speech. nbc's stephanie gosk is at nyu, the school holding commencement this week. stephanie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, you know, jerry seinfeld's daughter graduated from duke, his son goes to duke. he got up to give his commencement address, there were boos, followed by d

words spoken this morning in topeka. thank you, officer overish for those remarks and thank you to officer oswald for his service. all too often we forget about the many important roles that our law enforcement officials have within our communities. this extends beyond relationship between police officers and individual citizens. it's about relationships it law enforcement and key institutions in our communities, our churches, our hospitals, our schools, and our businesses. during this national police week and throughout the year, we must remember that law enforcement needs our support and not just during tough times. it's our duty. really, we have the opportunity to be grateful but it's our duty as citizens, as lawmakers, as members of the senate to support our officers, to provide them with resources and acknowledge the incredible sacrifice that's made every day. now more than ever it takes a special kind of person to be a law enforcement officer, whether sheriffs deputies, detectives, local police, tribal police, high