Transcripts For KPIX CBS Overnight News 20240714 : vimarsana

Transcripts For KPIX CBS Overnight News 20240714

Nationalist rally in charlottesville, virginia, turned deadly, the president said this you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. Reporter today, mr. Trump pledged more federal resources to combat domestic terrorism. He also recommended curbing the glorification of violence found in video games and restricting access to firearms for the mentally ill who pose a threat. Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun. Reporter but mr. Trump did not talk about the need to mandate strong background checks on gun buyers which he tweeted this morning and initially supported after the 2018 shooting at a florida high school. And im pissed because my daughter im not going to see again reporter just days after meeting with victims and family members, the president had what he called a great meeting with the nra and backed off his background check pledge. Today, former president barack obama issued a lengthy statement calling for tougher gun laws and in a rare rebuke of President Trump, said americans should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that normalizes racist sentiments. Mr. Obamas Vice President , joe biden, echoed those calls on the president ial campaign trail. Mr. President , its long past time you address it for what it is. This is hatred, pure and simple. And weijia jiang joins us from the white house. The president promised to act with resolve. Any specific policy proposals announced today . Cbs news learned before and after the president s speech, officials here met to draw out a road map to implement what the president outlined, but admittedly, there are very few specifics about what would go into legislative proposals. Norah, we have also learned after the president spoke, nra executives called members of the administration to say they were pleased with what they heard. All right, weijia jiang at the white house, thank you. The game can be rough on skin. Rehydrate and strengthen your skin. To bounce back. And rebound strong. Dove men care sportcare rehydrates and strengthens skin. There were chilling words today from the antidefamation league. The group says the el paso attack was the deadliest at the hands of a white supremacist in the u. S. In half a century. Jeff pegues tonight looks at where hate groups are spreading their message online and what the fbi is doing to prevent the next attack. Reporter minutes before opening fire, investigators believe accused el paso shooter Patrick Crusius posted a manifesto to 8chan, an online message board used by extremists. Last night, 8chan was kicked off its cloud service. But george selim, a former dhs counterterrorism official, said that wont silence hate talk. Theyll find another forum to gravitate too. Theyve been kicked off facebook and twitter and other mainstream channels for the past several years. Theyve gravitated to other places in online fora where there are less rules and its less restrictive. Reporter hate crimes are on the rise, up 9 in americas thift largest cities last year. The problem is growing so acute the fbi last night released a rare statement warning of the continued threat posed by domestic violent extremists and perpetrators of hate crimes. The fbi says it has 5,000 open terrorism cases. 850 of those are domestic terrorism. To prevent attacks like el paso and dayton, the fbi Behavioral Analysis unit meets regularly to try to intervene before there is violence. He has a heightened interest in weapons and explosives. Reporter cbs news attended one session where they discussed the case of a 13yearold boy who had gotten his hands on his stepfathers guns and expressed an interest in School Shootings. It was his mother who tipped off police. The guns consistented of a shotgun, two long guns. Reporter the fbi says that it remains concerned that this weekends attacks could inspire domestic extremists to carry out other acts of violence. And thats a big concern. Jeff pegues, thank you. Theres much more still ahead right here. What caused the worst oneday stock market loss of the year . New and frightening video of smoke filling a plane in midflight. And next from el paso, survivors of the Parkland School massacre on americas gun epidemic and the massive road blocks to change. Ok ill admit. I didnt keep my place as clean as i would like cuz im way too busy. Whos got the time to chase around down dirt, dust and hair . So now, i use heavy duty swiffer sweeper and dusters. For hardtoreach places, duster makes it easy to clean. It captures dust in one swipe. Ha gotcha and sweeper heavy duty cloths lock away twice as much dirt and dust. It gets stuff deep in the grooves other tools can miss. Yknow what . My place. Is a lot cleaner now. Stop cleaning. Start swiffering. 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Young survivors changed americas gun debate. In the conversation today with adriana diaz, they say real change has yet to come. My heart is exhausted. Its so much for all of us to have to keep dealing with this over and over and know that as hard as we fight, it continues to happen. Reporter 19yearold delaney tarr is a parkland survivor turned social activist. Were not here for bread crumbs. Were here for real change. Reporter she helped start march for our lives. The National Movement against gun violence that grew out of last years school massacre. There have been 566 Mass Shootings since. How do you feel when you see these shootings happen again and again when you set out to stop this . We keep shouting into this nothingness because nobody is listening. Lawmakers arent listening. But this is quite literally life or death. Every day we wait is another life lost. Students are sick and tired of planning vigils. These are 15, 16, 17yearolds and theyre experts at vigil plannings. Tarr, Ryan Servaites and trevor wild invited us to their headquarters in florida. Its this mixture of defeat, of anger, of renewed spirit. Reporter when you say defeat, what do you mean by that . Theres this certain level of personal responsibility that a lot of us feel every time we find out somebody else has died at the hand of a gun. Reporter theyve taken that responsibility on the road. Registering 50,000 voters for the midterms and even helped pass a universal background bill in the house in february that stalled in the senate. Right now its up to Mitch Mcconnell to bring that to the vote in the senate and to get it into law. Weve seen so much lack of action, im angry. Im filled with rage. And i would like to see it get done. Reporter they say they wont stop until the violence stops. Adriana diaz, cbs news, parkland, florida. Still ahead what happened after smoke filled the cabin on an international flight. The stock market plunged today as the trade war with china intensifies. The dow lost more than 760 points. Thats nearly 3 . And it comes after china answered the president s threat of new tariffs by letting its currency drop in value. That makes chinese products cheaper and it hurts u. S. Companies. There is breaking news tonight on the korean peninsula. The north fired unidentified weapons into the sea of japan. The launches come as north korea put out a statement lashing out at the u. S. And south korea, which started joint military exercises today. New cell phone video tonight shows the frightening moments on a British Airways flight when the cabin filled with smoke. A lot of smoke. The source is not known. The airbus a321 from london landed safely in spain. Three people were treat forward breathing and smoke. 12 more were hurt going down the emergency slide. Up next how you can help the victims and their families in el paso and dayton. Among the mourners in el paso today was greg zanis, a carpenter who made white crosses for each of the victims. He then left for dayton to do the same. It was a tradition that started after his fatherinlaw was murdered in 1996. Hes made memorials free of charge for nearly 26,000 victims of mass murders and other tragedies, including columbine. Zanis also makes stars of david and crescent moons. Its not about spreading christianity but sharing humanity and comforting families in their time of loss. Ue to lp, we posted s options on our website. Go to cbsnews. Com help. I can tell you from talking to some of the families today, they not only need your help. They need your prayers. Im norah odonnell. Reporting from el paso, texas. Good night. This is the cbs overnight news. The death toll here rose today to 22, including at least seven mexican nationals, 13 u. S. Citizens and one german. Two people, including an elderly woman died of their wounds in the hospital this morning. These are the first deaths since saturday when a gunman opened fire in this Walmart Store right here. Two of the wounded are in critical condition. And late today, the mayor of el paso called it the evil, hateful act of a white supremacist. The death toll from the sunday morning shooting in dayton, ohio, stands at nine with three of the wounded still in the hospital. Two Mass Shootings within 13 hours, and now the fbi is warning there could be copycat attacks. The el paso suspect is being held tonight in the county jail on one count of capital murder charges. More charges are expected soon. In a National Television address today, President Trump condemned racism, bigotry and white supremacy. The mayor here in el paso says the president plans to visit on wednesday. They have had their differences in the past over mr. Trumps criticism of crime in the city. Today, we talked to survivors and relatives of the victims and heard stories of heroism. He just turned 63. We had just celebrated his birthday. Reporter stephanie melendezs father David Johnson was always by her side. And on saturday, he was by the side of his wife and stephanies 9yearold daughter, shielding them from a gunman. My mom and my daughter wouldnt be here if it wasnt for him and what he did. And i couldnt even imagine my daughter. I almost lost her. But your dad saved their lives. He did. Johnson is 1 of 22 People Killed at a walmart in el paso on saturday. Less than three miles from the mexican border. El paso is considered one of the safest cities in america. Last year they had a total of 23 murders. In just one day, that number was nearly matched. Among the victims, new parents jordan and Andre Anchondo who died protecting their 2monthold baby. And as the memorial grows, today we learned more about the heroes and the people they saved. Why did you run toward the danger . Because of the kids. That was most important for me was the kids. Getting them out of there. I didnt want them to keep suffering like they were. I mean, they were crying, and they had seen too much already. A Girls Soccer Team was in front of the walmart selling lemonade. Ray garcia got a call from a father who was too far away to help so garcia told us he raced to the scene pulling several kids and two moms to safety. I got him out of the scene. Came back for one of the moms. Her name is maribel. She was shot in the leg. She couldnt walk. We got her out with a one of the grocery carts. Reporter garcia and maribel latins sons play on the same baseball team. Latin recounted the shooting from her hospital bed. I had to pretend i was dead. And he was right next to me. And he shot eight more rounds, and all i could say was, god, please take care of my children, and please dont let him do anything to my daughter or any of the girls on our team. Latin is recovering in the same hospital near the other woman ray rescued. Her name is jessica garcia. I think you saved my daughters life. Youre my hero. We found jessicas parents norma and don coca at the hospital who today told us what their daughter said happened inside that walmart during those moments of terror. Also inside, their 5yearold and 11yearold grandchildren. That guy set off the fire alarm so everybody could run out and he can see them to shoot them. And all he kept saying was he was taunting them. Im going to get you. Tell be everyone to come out. The hardest to deal with, jessicas husband guillermo has undergone five surgeries and is now in a medically induced coma. Its hard when you see your kids and grandkids and the kids saying, we saw my mommy and daddy got shot and a lady just died right in front of me, grandma. Its hard. Just to see her, she just keeps reliving it over and over. She cant sleep. She shakes. Wakes up. Crying. And my daughter. Its just hard. And they say their daughter jessica is expected to make a full physical recovery. But mentally, this has been so painful for their family. This attack here was the worst on latinos in modern american history. In the words of the sheriff here, the shooter came here to kill hispanics. David begnaud is here with us. David, youve been talking to many members of the community. How is everyone doing . We went to find out. We started at the Catholic Church downtown. There was noon mass. A woman walked up to me and her hand was shaking and she said, i was the pharmacist inside the walmart when the shooting happened. Please tell people that we are strong and we will make it through this. Before we spoke to that pharmacist, we talked to a young man right before he walked into the church. I feel targeted. Reporter javier prado sat down to speak with us right before he walked into church to pray for the victims of the walmart massacre. Hes angry that his community was the target of a mass murderer simply because they are hispanic. I feel shaken up, shocked. Hard to believe that people can actually have that much hate. Reporter that hate has left a lot of people in el paso fearful. More than 678,000 people live here. About 80 are hispanic. Some have roots in the city that go back before texas was even a state. I think the worst thing that we can do as a community is stay in fear. Reporter mary lou trego has lived in el paso for more than 80 years. She told us its the first time in her life she remembers being afraid because of who she is. Its hard to deal with it. I have always felt safe, and now it is disturbing. Do you no longer feel safe . Not as much as i used to. Reporter we met Reuben Torres as he was getting his car cleaned. His family has been in el paso for three generations. Were not all rapists and animals, first and foremost, like what someone has depicted us as saying a couple years back. The president . Yeah, exactly. Hes talking about comments candidate trump made when he announced he was running for president. A short time ago, the mayor of el paso told everyone that President Trump will come to el paso on wednesday. And norah, congresswoman veronica escobar, who is a democrat, said that mr. Trump is not welcome here. David begnaud, thank you for your reporting. Well be right back. Dove men plus care sport care for the pregame for the ballgame for the postgame dove men plus care sport care designed for every position you play this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome back to the overnight news. Im vladimir duthiers. The gunman in this weekends el paso massacre posted his antiimmigrant manifesto to the online message board 8chan. Just minutes before the shooting. That message board has been taken down, but its not the first time it was used by a mass shooting suspect. Jeff pegues has more. Victims from gunshot wounds. Reporter many recent shootings share a troubling connection. The accused killers have left a blewprint for their alleged actions on social media. Like the attack in a pittsburgh synagogue last year in which 11 people were killed. And the massacre in christchurch, new zealand, in which 51 were killed. Nate snyder is a former counterterrorism official in the department of homeland security. You have wouldbe recruiters and provokers who are using these platforms to get to people on a personal level. Reporter the posts are out in the open but difficult for Law Enforcement to spot unless they get a tip before an attack happens. Inside this Conference Room in an unmarked building, the fbi has been working to prevent future attacks. Analysts comb through dozens of recent active shooting cases. Agent Andre Simmons says theyve been looking for patterns. Its not really actroot say that someone just snapped . Not at all. What we found is that all of the shooters in our study certainly planned and prepared. Many shooters spent almost two years two years planning their attack. Reporter fbi studies have found that only 25 of active shooters had ever been diagnosed with Mental Illness and that shooters arent typically loners. 27 had significant online interaction. He has a heightened interest in weapons and explosives. Reporter the fbi tells us they receive three to four referrals a week of people who have landed on Law Enforcements radar. But in the majority of cases, people who see the signs of trouble before Mass Shootings often dont call police. And the motivating factors, are they the same or different . They vary . Usually its a desire for some omnipotent control, and also a degree of desire for infamy and notoriety. Reporter in a rare statement from the fbi, the bureau said the attack i

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