Transcripts For KPIX CBS Evening News With Jeff Glor 20180501

Glor and Shaquem Griffin inspiring a new generation of athletes. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor this is our western edition. Were going to begin tonight with the iran nuclear deal, seemingly in more jeopardy every night. President trump says hell decide his future within 12 days. Today israels Prime Minister tried to give him more reason to pull out. Under the deal, iran agreed to stop its Nuclear Program in return for sanctions being lifted, but the Prime Minister insists iran didnt live up to its end of the bargain. Heres major garrett. Im here to tell you one thing iran lied. Big time. Reporter unveiling bookshelves full of binders, israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today his government had captured tens of thousands of documents proving iran pursued Nuclear Weapons while it told the world it only sought civilian nuclear power. Incriminating charts, incriminating presentations, incriminating blueprints, incriminating photos, incriminating videos, and more. Reporter netanyahu said the material was taken from a secret government facility he called irans atomic archive. Even after the deal, iran continued to preserve and expand its Nuclear Weapons knowhow for future use. Why would a terrorist regime hide and meticulously catalog its secret Nuclear Files if not to use them at a later date . Reporter netanyahus speech comes ahead of a may 12 deadline for President Trump to decide whether the u. S. Will stay in the obamaera nuclear deal. That agreement lifted economic sanctions on iran in exchange for International Inspections of its nuclear facilities. At the white house, mr. Trump said he was keeping his options open. Im not telling you what im doing, but a lot of people think they know, and on or before the 12th well make a decision. Reporter sources say the israelis shared their intelligence with the u. S. Before todays press conference. Mr. Trump said it proved the agreement was a bad deal. And ive been saying thats happening. Theyre not sitting back idly. Theyre setting off missiles, which they say are for television purposes. I dont think so. Tweeted that mr. Trump was jumping on a rehash of old allegations. The president s new secretary of state said this as his confirmation hearing earlier this month. With the with the information ive been provided, i have no. I have seen no evidence they are not in compliance today. Glor major is with us now, as is liz palmer who has been to iran many times. Major to, you first, is there anything at this point that could keep the president in the deal . Reporter something might, that is an announcement from the europeans who are party to this deal, britain, france, germany, that they want immediate negotiations to preserve the underlying deal, but add to it limits on irans Ballistic Missile program and support of terrorism. The white house is also looking for bipartisan, that means democratic support, for this idea in the senate. Glor liz, what is the reaction to all of this in europe and iran tonight . Reporter well, in europe, in a word, jeff, its skepticism. In fact, the consensus is that nothing Prime Minister netanyahu said was at all new. The european signatories to the deal along with russia have said they are committed to staying in, even if the u. S. Opts out, because they think that those rigorous inspections that come along with the deal are still the best way to stop iran from getting any kind of a nuclear bomb. Inside iran, the nuclear deal was the signature achievement of the moderate president , hassan rouhani. He promised it would thaw relations with the west and bring investment. Not only has it not done that, but it is now in jeopardy. He stands to be weakened, and the people who would take over power using the deal against him are the hardliners. Glor so major, back to you quickly on a different subject, a report out tonight that the president s chief of staff, john kelly, called the president an idiot behind his back. What is the white house saying about that . Reporter well, not surprisingly, the chief of staff denied that charge and denied it forcefully, calling it total b. S. Now, kelly has alienated some in the west wing by giving more power to cabinet secretaries, and he has struggled to keep a tight rein on the president s schedule and access to the president. Mr. Trump has at times resented that move by the chief of staff. And, in the end, there have been many rumors about kellys imminent departure. But hes still here. And thats a reality of the trump white house. Glor major garrett, thank you very much. There is a standoff at the Mexican Border tonight, a caravan of Central Americans seeking u. S. Asylum has been blocked for two days at the crossing in tijuana. President trump has tweeted that he does not want them in this country. Mireya villarreal is in tijuana tonight. Mireya . Reporter this is where the standoff is happening. We are standing right in the middle of it. A group of immigrants that have actually set up a tent city are pinned against the border. If you take a look right behind me, past this camp, it is just over that fence. After a monthlong trek through central america, nearly 200 migrants have set up this encampment in tijuana, mexico. Theyre waiting to ask for asylum, despite customs and Border Protection announcing the san ysidro port is at capacity. This womans oneyearold son and several other children are just recovering from a fever and the flu after traveling through mexico on a train called the beast. She is seeking asylum after two of her family members were killed by Gang Violence in honduras, and is part of an annual caravan that started in chiapas, traveled to mexico city through sinaloa and eventually to tijuana. You cant live there anymore . No. Reporter less than a two hour drive away, mike pence talked about Immigration Enforcement today. Weve been watching with great interest the advance of the socalled caravan. Reporter Asylum Seekers like miriam are following u. S. Law. They have to prove a credible fear of persecution in their home country. If they pass that initial interview, they will likely have to make their case to a judge, who decides whether to grant asylum. Last year only four applications from this caravan were granted. The group was largely ignored until President Trump used them to highlight the immigration debate. Our immigration laws in this country are a total disaster. Theyre laughed at all over the world. It became really public after donald trump got angry with the caravaners. Reporter this man is the director of the group that started these caravans back in 2008. He says most people here have little choice but to wait. This is a temporary separation. If they go back to their country, the separation will be final because a lot of them will die. Reporter a mexican immigration official i spoke with off camera tells me this standoff is causing bigger problems for the u. S. And mexico, and this group, as far as he knows, is planning to stay for weeks, months if they have to. Jeff, right now he says this group isnt asking for special treatment. They just want to be seen. Glor Mireya Villarreal for us in tijuana. Mireya, thank you. In arizona today, up to 10,000 teachers marched on the State Capitol as their walkout reached a third day, no classes for hundreds of thousands of students statewide. The Teachers Want higher pay and more funding for education. They average about 48,000 a year, among the lowest in the nation. It has been a deadly day in afghanistan. An American Service member was killed during a combat operation in the east. Two other attacks claimed more than two dozen lives, the worst, a double suicide bombing in kabul where journalists were among the targets. At least ten were killed, the deadliest day for reporters there since 2002. Heres charlie dagata. Reporter reporters rushed to the scene of yet another bomb blast, not knowing they were about to become the next victims. A second suicide bomber flashed police a fake press card before joining the crowd of journalists and blowing himself up. Among the dead, a. F. P. Shah marai, whose poignant images chronicled life and death in his warravaged homeland for 20 years. He started as a driver, but his keen eye and courage saw him rise to the role of chief photographer. Isis claimed responsibility for the attack and has targeted journalists in the past. While the terrorist groups foothold is just a tiny fraction compared to the taliban, both are responsible for a surge in violence thats left hundreds dead in the past year alone. Adding to todays violence, jeff, an attack on a nato convoy in kandahar, southern afghanistan, killed 11 school children. The school was just on the roadside where the explosion took place. Glor charlie, thank you. C turn now to a cbs news investigation of the National Flood Insurance Program. It was founded 50 years ago, and is supposed to help flood victims. We found that is often not the case, including for homeowners in louisiana, devastated by flooding in 2016. Much of the money that should help people rebuild we learned instead goes to the very people fighting against them. Our investigation looks at what many consider a broken system. For the last two years richard and linda brown have been living in a shell of a home. No insulation, drywall, or flooring. All while trying to raise four kids. You cant as a father, you know, look at your kids, and they come home to this, and theyre laying on a mattress. Glor their house in louisiana was destroyed by floodwaters in 2016. At the time, they didnt panic, because they had flood insurance, a policy worth 168,000. To date, they have received less than half that, around 62,000. We pay into this premium, and all i want is just to be fair and we werent getting fair. Glor two years later youre living in a house thats still down to the studs. Yeah. And the kids, they have to live like this. They cant have friends come over. We cant have family come over. Because we live like this. And its hard. Glor the browns decided to fight the National Flood Insurance Program in court. Run by fema, the program is responsible for all flood policies in the united states. Insurance premiums and taxpayer dollars fund the program, about 3 billion a year. But fema doesnt administer all the policies. It outsources most to private Insurance Companies called writeyourowns or w. Y. O. S. They and all of their agents get paid out of the same pot of money as flood victims. Some years up to twothirds of that pot goes to the w. Y. O. S, and the attorneys they hire to fight flood victims claims. In effect, by paying their premiums on time every year, homeowners like the browns help fund the very lawyers fighting them in court. Its like people make money off disasters. The more they can make, the better. Glor a 2016 government report on fema found little oversight on flood spending, showing how one flood victim was charged 87,000 in legal fees just for preparation. The policy limit was 25,000. Gerald nielsens Louisiana Law Firm was hired to fight richard and linda browns claim. Nielsen has been the goto lawyer fighting flood victims for 30 years. Not without upsetting congress. He dealt with sandy victims like they were the perpetrators, enriching himself at their expense. Glor a new york judge called his misconduct remorseless, saying his failure to exercise reasonable diligence harmed armed victims. He required flood victims to verify receipts that would have cost far more than the bills themselves. Can you imagine losing everything that you have ever had in your life, and you paid for insurance. Glor the browns attorneys law firm also represented victims of Superstorm Sandy in court against nielsen. There was no effort to mitigate the costs. In many cases we were asked to have experts reinspect for a third time homes that were totally destroyed. Reporter a Public Information request revealed fema paid nielsens firm at least 29 million for sandy cases alone. Nielsen declined our request for an oncamera interview, and had not acknowledged receiving our questions, so our producer went to his office. Mr. Nielsen, were with cbs news. Glor we caught up with him in the parking garage to ask about his legal fees. I have to go through the ethics council, because some of what you have asked clearly is privileged. Glor later nielsen wrote cbs a letter saying he was acting at the direction of his clients and all his bills were reviewed by the clients and fema. We just want to put our house back together. And we still like this right now. Glor whats your message to the people who could do something about this . Just think about what were going through. Were not asking for much. We just want our house back together so we can be happy again. Thats all. Glor we will have much more of our investigation tomorrow on cbs this morning. Still ahead here tonight, officers shoot and kill a man on his own property, so why does the departments explanation keep changing . And later, a state of emergency is declared as residents escape a large wildfire. Osteoporosis and a high risk fo, so with our doctors we chose prolia® to help make our bones stronger. 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Reporter Jameillah Smiley has seen the body camera video of Police Shooting her son, 20 yearold ricky boyd, right outside the familys front door back in january. So horrible. To have to watch my child get gunned down. Reporter Police Wanted to question boyd about a recent homicide. Minutes later he was dead. Interim police chief mark revenew the day of the shooting. The suspect, he initiated gunfire towards officers. The officers returned gunfire. Reporter hours later, they said boyd had a gun but never mentioned he fired it. State investigators later said it was only a b. B. Gun. Did you ever see a gun that he held in that video . No, sir. Reporter family lawyer William Claiborne says this photo shows a b. B. Pistol lying in a neighbors yard. The body is here, and how far is it from where the body is found to where the gun is found . Approximately 43 feet. Reporter and what explains that . There is no explanation for that. Reporter we went to Savannah Police for answers to their shifting account. They declined to talk about any aspect of the case. Smiley demanded answers before savannahs city council last week. I am prepared to stand here until i get an answer. Maam, the city cannot release the video. The District Attorney has asked that it not be released. They didnt have to kill my son. They didnt have to kill him. Im so sorry. They didnt have to kill him. Reporter the local District Attorneys office is still investigating the case. Jeff, they told us their final report and a decision whether to press charges should be finished by the end of next month. Glor Mark Strassmann in savannah. Mark, thank you. Coming up here, what the cosby jury says did and didnt sway their decision to convict. Their decision to convict. With less of the sugar you dont. Ill take that. [cheers] 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. New ensure max protein. In two great flavors. New ensure max protein. 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The jury that convicted bill cosby of Sexual Assault last week is speaking out for the first time. In a statement today, jurors said they were not swayed by celebrity, race, or the me too movement. One juror told abc that cosbys deposition in which he admitted giving women drugs to have sex with them did seal his fate. Cosby, who is 80, faces up to 30 years in prison. They are the former boy band that catapulted Justin Timberlake to superstardom. Today nsync reunited to receive a star on the hollywood walk of fame. It has been 17 years since the groups last album, but youd never guess it from all the screaming fans there. Up next, Shaquem Griffin has a whole fan club of athletes saying, if he can do it, so can they. It, so can they. Jeff and susan are heading into retirement. And market volatility isnt top of mind. 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Draft, he was just hoping to get picked. Any team that gives me an opportunity to be there is going to get a special player, because i mean, theyre going to really feel for who i am. Reporter but the story of the linebacker whose birth defect left him without a left hand the Seattle Seahawks fifth round selection, Shaquem Griffin. Reporter only got better when not only was he drafted, but landed on the same team as his twin brother shaquille. I think im in a better spot. Reporter they young fans loved watching him across the cruntry. I loved watching you play football in college, and i cant wait to cheer you on in the n. F. L. Reporter just ask julianna linton, a cheerleader from texas double as president of the Shaquem Griffin fan club. He i do competitive cheer with one hand, and he does professional football with one hand. Reporter does it feel that tey for you, if he can do it. I can do it. Reporter or annika emmert, a Soccer Player in st. Augustine florida. Both girls were born with the same condition, amniotic band syndrome, as shaquem. Reporter and both now share Something Else a new favorite football player. Jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. Glor that is the cbs evening news tonight. A programming note, Margaret Brennan appears tonight on the late show with stephen colbert. She might have some news. Im jeff glor. Good night. Well see you tomorrow. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org climbing. A repeal is now kpix5 news begins with the chance to roll back the gas tax as prices keep climbing, a repeal now cruising towards the November Ballot. Critics of that gas tax hike say they have enough signatures to put the question before voters. Now its setting up a showdown. Kpix5s phil matier is live in dublin where drivers have been feeling the pain of high gas prices for months. Phil . Reporter thats right. In places like San Francisco the cars are smaller. The gas tanks are smaller. The commutes are shorter, but when you get into the suburbs where the tanks are bigger, the commutes are a lot longer, this extra gas tax could add up to hundreds of dollars a year and theyre feeling the pain. But the voters are not going to be fooled. Theyre going to fight and take their mon back from you. Reporter with that money back from you. Reporter with that republicans delivered some 900,000 signatures in order to qualify an initiative for the November Ballot aimed at repealing the states new 12 cent a gallon gas tax. With the greatest number of signatures ever submitted for a Citizens Initiative the. Reporter white it might not be the most signatures ever collected while it might not be the most signatures ever collected, pops do show rolling polls do show rolling back the tax is popular, but it would lose money for several transit projects including here in the bay area. It includes freight projects to help the port of oakland. 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