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KPIX CBS Weekend News July 12, 2024

First for spacex. Its great to get the united at to back in the cruise launch business. Savard and later, a squirrelly story, from a pandemicinspired photo shoot. They went nuts, so to speak. This is the cbs weekend news. Weekend savard good evening. Im steve savard reporting from kmov in st. Louis. Anger and anguish with america on edge tonight. Protests erupting in dozens of cities following mondays arrest and death of george floyd in Police Custody in minneapoacul. Then at night, turning to rage. This was ferguson, missouri, rguson, missouri,are still raw where the ll r the shooting death in 2014 of Michael Brown by a Police Officer. This morning, americas newspapers told of the pain, aension and heartache, including minneapolis and st. Paul, which saw its fifth night of violence. We begin there with cbs news chief justice and Homeland Security correspondent jeff pegues. Turned a corner last night. Law enforcement brought in reinforcements to help restore order. This is one of the flash points, though. You can see how they have put razor wire out here, trying to make sure that the demonstrators dont breach this barrier. Clear this area, you will be arrested Reporter Police in the twin cities clashed with protestors bracing for a confrontation. Once again, large crowds filled streets despite warnings from officials to stay home. Demonstrators who defied the curfew were met with volleys of tear gas. gunfire . And rubber bullets. One of those rubber bullets was aimed at a cbs news crew. bleep . News crew. Go. Reporter a sound man was hit, even though he had taken cover on the sidelines of the protest. Fortunately, he is okay. State officials had warned that their response to what they called urban warfare would get tougher. The police are lobbing tear gas into the crowd. People in the crowd are in firecrackers, m80s back. State Officials Say 20 of those arrested had outoftown license plates, from places like iowa, illinois and arkansas. Investigators believe some of the violence hijacking protestors is fueled by far right and left extremists. One example, the boogaloo boys, which are a loosely organized group that are antigovernment and antilaw enforcement. They use the deaths of unarmed africanamericans to spread antilaw enforcement messaging on social media. In one case, a member of the group said about protests in pittgh artoce rs aos in columbus, ohio, police are looking for a man they say was paying people to riot and destroy public property. There has been sporadic violence and arson during protests in new york, where Police Arrested more than 100 people. White House National security advisor Robert Obrien says the extremists pose a National Security threat. Al were going to get to the bottom of this. Militant radicals attacking our police. I cannot breathe. Reporter cell phone video surfaced last monday, the nation has been on edge. It shows officer Derek Chauvin with his knee pressed into George Floyds neck. Chauvin was arrested on friday and remains in custody. This will be another critical week for the twin cities. Derek chauvin will be arraigned and there will be tight security. The other issue th be flapshat tdestructkehis thy on guard, as chaosou. Overwhelms peaceful protest. Jonathan vigliotti is in los angeles. Reporter the National Guard arrived in los angeles this morning after peaceful protests gave way to rioting overnight. The citys iconic shopping districts, from the world famous rodeo drive to the historic grove market, looked like war zones, as thousands shattered windows and looted businesses. Im so angry like, its my life. Hefe, i put everything in here. I think its just rubble rousing and rioting. Reporter buildings were set on fire, along with police cars. As weekend protests ignited across the country, california has become a lightning rod. In neighboring arizona, the Phoenix Police chief put it like this to be clear, the level of criminal behavior we saw last night will not be tolerated. Reporter what is less clear is how officials will ease hnsions. This weekends protests against Police Brutality are also fueled by monthslong isolation and financial ruin. Its placed the entire society, the entire nation, on a collective edge. Reporter marc morial is president of the National Urban edge. This incident in minneapolis was as though someone lit the powder keg of edge that we were thaling with. Reporter scenes like this in new york city, where a Police Officer drove into a crowd of protestors, arent helping, along with mayor de blasios initial defense of the video. Sios now calling for a full initial investigation. Uhe cities that fared the best proved listening may be the strongest weapon against violence. In santa cruz, california, the police chief kneeled in solidarity with marchers, and in flint, michigan, the sheriff asked protestors if he and his deputies could protest together. And were back here in los angeles, on melrose, where you asooted then set on fire. Nearly 400 people were arrested last night, the National Guard deploying a thousand troops to help keep the peace. And the mayor extending the curfew again, beginning tonight at 8 00 p. M. Steve . Savard jonathan, thanks. President trump is blaming the violent protests on anarchists. He also wants those known as antifa, an umbrel resi whitemacists that designated a terrorist organization. Reporter its unclear how this designation as it happened could work since there are no domestic terrorism statutes under federal law. As protests intensified near the white house and across the country, President Trump in a series of tweets sunday praised the National Guard in minneapolis for shutting down radical left anarchists, and then declared the United States of america will be designating antifa as a terrorist organization. The president wants to know what the f. B. I. Has been doing to surveil, to disrupt, to take down, to prosecute antifa, and if they havent been doing that, we need a plan right away. Reporter in a statement, attorney general william barr tiga the violence instigated and carried out by antifa and other similar groups in connection wont aracte is domesticemfolltl my administration will stop mob violence, and will stop it cold. Reporter but some of the president s tough talk and tweets are drawing bipartisan backlash. Lawmakers criticized racially charged posts referencing the most vicious dogs and most ominous weapons, and when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Those are not constructive tweets, without any question. There should be a Unifying Force in our country, and not to fuel the flame. Rter cews ha learned the doing a national address. The mayor of atlanta advises he should be careful with his words. We are well beyond the Tipping Point in america. And my grandmother used to say, if you dont have anything good to say, sometimes you just shouldnt say anything at all. Reporter a top advisor says therher the president speaks the president speaks from the oval office, a white house podium or on social media, he will continue to communicate with the american people. Steve . Savard nikole, thank you. The protests are gathering attention well beyond the United States. Today in several cities around the globe, there were words of solidarity and marches. Senior cbs news Foreign Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer is in london. Reporter over the weekend, weers hit the streets to show solidarity with protestors in america. Were sick and tired and this is the final straw. Were seeing more and more murders. Reporter on sunday, a huge crowd marched from Trafalgar Square to the american embassy. Under the terms of londons lockdown, gatherings like this are strictly against the rules, but thousands of mostly young people decided today was the day to break them. And break them they did. The police largely stood back. The london march borrowed slogans and chants from the antiracist movements in america. In copenhagen, too. Call it out. Just say something. Reporter and in berlin, protestors rallied against racist violence. George floyds death may have taken place far away from here, in america, but it has reverberated around the world. In canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau weighed in. Many canadians of diverse backgrounds are watching, like all canadians are, the news out of the United States, with shock and with horror. Reporter the current riots have swept through american cities, he said, but the cause, the clack racism, is real in canada too. Elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. Savard on a brighter note, e story was made again today when the corporate owned dragon endeavor dropped off two nasa astronauts at the International Space station. Their space craft launched yesterday, becoming the first time a private company has launched people into orbit. Mark strassmann is at the Kennedy Space station. Reporter you are watching a rendezvous in space, 250 miles above western asia. The crew dragon capsule and its crew of two inches towards the International Space station moving at 17,000 miles an hour. Small thrusters coaxed the capsule into alignment. One mer to go. Reporter then, contact. Docking sequence is complete. Truly was magnificent effort by the entire team. The spacex team, the nasa team, and the team across america who was able to pull this off and bring human space flight again to our team, thanks for everything, happy to be aboard. Reporter through two open hatches, astronaut bob becken floated into a space station welcome. Then came astronaut doug hurley completing a flawless trip from florida into space history. Well, everyone, welcome aboard dragon. Reporter on their 19hour flight from earth, the astronauts shut off the spacex capsule. Hadamt evor. It has Touch Display screen. Reporter the capsule has to a flying iph been compared to a flying onone. It turns out we ended up with one stowaway. By this image. Astro young ss. So americas future in space is represented by this image. Two more astronaut as board the space station sent there by a country that is back in the spacelaunching business. Hurley and behnken will spend the next six weeks in the space station, and as long as four months. They can only hope the rest of their mission goes as well as the trip to their new home in space. Steve . Savard a rousing success, mark, thank you. And we in st. Louis, particularly proud of astronaut bob behnken, hes a st. Louis native. We are proud of what he accomplished. Still ahead, more of america on edge, as protests and a deadly pandemic converge. Also, the president ial campaign will it change how americans vote . And later, pandemic snapshots a photographer gets nutty with his backyard squirrels. Rels. Vitamin and supplement brand doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacistrecommendeding . Memory support brand. You can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Savard across this country two crises have emerged protests over george floyd, and the pandemic. The virus is still spreading in several states. The u. S. Death toll now topping 104,000, the most in any country by far. Cbss meg oliver has more. Reporter from brooklyn and atlanta to los angeles ande veml weekend in huge groups. No social distancing. Minnesota mayor jacob frey. Were in the middle of a ofndemic right now. We have two crises that are sandwiched on top of one another. George floyd reporter as protests over the death of george floyd in Police Custody continue, they warn this only fuels the virus spread. If you were out protesting last night, you probably need to go get a covid test this week. Reporter the virus hit minorities especially hard. In chicago, 70 of the deaths were african americans. As andrew cuomo delivered promising news on the declining number of covid deaths today, he pleaded for the violence to stop. Burning down your own struggling businesses, people who are trying to bring back the community, never makes sense. Reporter efforts to combat covid19 have lead to the worst economic crisis since the great depression, with 40 Million People out of work. One more match in a fire storm over racial inequality, dire Health Concerns and economic despair for so many. New york city was planning to begin reopening next week. Its unclear now after days of violence and hundreds of arrests if that plan is in jeopardy. Steve . Savard meg, thank you. Still ahead on the cbs weekend news, how the president ial candidates are testing the limits of virtual campaigning. P. Ask about vraylar. Not all types of depression should be treated the same. Vraylar effectively helps relieve all symptoms of bipolar depression. With just one pill, once a day. Elderly patients with dementiarelated psychosis have an increased risk of death or stroke. Call your doctor about unusual changes in behavior or suicidal thoughts. Antidepressants can increase these in children and young adults. Report fever, stiff muscles or confusion, which may mean a lifethreatening reaction, or uncontrollable muscle movements, which may be permanent. 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Columbia will democtic president ial primaries four of which were postponed from april and may because of the and may becau coronavirus pandemic. Cbss ed okeefe reports, the virus has also changed how the campaigns are finding voters. Reporter there are no campaign rallies, and the rope lines are now virtual. So whats up . Irll me about your situation. Reporter former Vice President joe biden ventured out in public this past week for the firs time since midmarch. President trump continues to make quick, official visits. But, stayathome restrictions tre making Large Campaign events implausible, so the race for the white house has moved online. Back by popular demand reporter it may look and sound like a tv talk show there are, after all, four women lthered together to discuss hot topics. But they are not comedians or former movie stars. They are Trump Campaign surrogates, trying to pump up support for the president. Though the president hasnt made an appearance himself, well known republican figures have stopped by. And the hosts even Sell Campaign merchandise. I feel like qvc. Reporter bidens Online Events are less elaborate, but he is appearing across different platforms. He has held virtual rallies in floridand wisc hello reporter and hosted conversations with democratic governors to stay hardhit by the pandemic. My political hero role model is teddy roosevelt. Reporter the former Vice President is also hosting a podcast with former democratic primary rivals. He has appeared on the video sharing app tiktok, and also launching a show on the video app snapchat. The biden and Trump Campaigns insist these new virtual formats are helping them reach millions of voters they might not otherwise be able to talk to this year. 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