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KCNC CBS Overnight News October 17, 2016

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The motion is not agreed to. Reporter University Background checks have failed in congress. But it could be a whole different story in maine. Where voters will see a very similar proposal on their ballots in november. David trayhan runs maine Gun Rights Organization and opposes i could be charged with a felony and lose my right to own firearms from letting a friend borrow a firearm. For hunting. Reporter yet he is already admitting defeat in part because he cant compete against the millions spent by a Gun Control Group founded by mike bloomberg. His millions go a long way in the state of maine. But if he gets a win here. He can then go to other states. Reporter bloombergs group raised 3. 7 million this year. Compared to just over 420,000 by National Rifle association. While interview. He said this to face the nation in 2014. The vast preponder ans of the public does not want criminals minors or people with psychiatric problems to be able to buy guns. Polls show overwhelming majorities of americans support expanding background checks. So in some states a Ballot Initiative allows voters to decide instead of lawmakers who fear the nra. David farmer, a gun owner who do you think other states can see this, and here are ways to get around the gun lobby . A chink in the nra armor . The power still really does remain with the voters. If they want change you can make it happen. Reporter in 2014, thats exactly what happened in washington state. Where the background check is initiative won. Bloombergs group spent 10 million compared to the nra 489,000. The reason the nra didnt spend more they knew they were going to lose. And thats trayhans fear for november. We are going to be a truly david vs. Goliath fight here. Julianna goldman, cbs news, washington. Gun laws have a shot in the dark to pass. In other countries the efforts have been successful. After a deadly shooting rampage banning certain weapons for civilians. But did that make a difference . Seth doane has a look. It is sad that when you lose your parents, you lose your past. When you lose your child, you lose your future. Reporter Caroline Lawton flung herself on top of her daughter when a gunman started shooting. But it was not enough to save eras life. She was 15. She one american is among the injured in what is described as the worse massacre this century. A lone gunman with a high powered rifle. Reporter the shooting in a cafe in tasmanian town of port arthur happened 20 years ago. But telling the story till makes caroline shake. What is it laike being in a mas shooting . And bang there is another my turn . Reporter caroline was shot. This is me. Reporter on the stretcher. Me on the stretcher. Reporter and did not know for hours that her daughter died. This its what is left of the cav fair where the gunman started shooting. In the end, 35 people were killed. It rocked australia. It came six weeks after a new Prime Minister had been elected. I thought to myself if i dont use the authority of this something, the australian people are entitled to think well this bloke is not up to much. As to the question of gun control laws. Reporter so then Prime Minister john howard, a conservative politician, and close friend of george w. Bush, pushed through sweeping gun control legislation just 12 days after the massacre. The hardest things to do in your own supporters. Reporter the tough new laws banned sale and importation of all automatic and semiautomatic rifles and shot guns. Forced people to present a legitimate reason and wait 28 days to buy a firearm. And perhaps, most significantly, called for a massive mandatory gun buy back. Australias government confiscated and destroyed nearly 700,000 firearms. Reducing the number of gun owning household by half. People used to say to me, you have violated my human rights by taking away my gun. I tell the guy, i understand that. Will you please understand the argument, the greatest human right of all is to live a safe life without fear of random murder. Reporter in the 15 years before the laws were passed. There were 13 Mass Shootings. In the two decades since, there plus, gun homicides decreased by nearly 60 . It is incontestable that gun related homicide have fallen que significantly in australia. Incontestable. It is clutching at straws. John howard simply didnt like guns. Reporter senator david lionhelm left the Political Party in protest over the strict gun laws. He insists they have had little effect. There could have been firearms out of the hand of people with a definite violent potential. But instead, all firearm owners were made to pay the price. I dont think there is any relationship between the availability of guns and the level of violence. Reporter to critics who say you cant say the changes in gun deaths happen because of this legislation . Will i can say that. Because all of the surveys indicate it. Before port arthur, none since. Isnt that evidence . 70 fall in the gun related suicide rates in that evidence . Are we expected to believe that was all magically going to happen . No. I mean. This one is where i keep the pistols and rifle ammunition and rifle bolts. Reporter lawyer, winemaker, greg melleck showed us where he locks up his weapons. If the weapons are in here. Ammunition in there. Locking up guns and ammunition in separate safz is another regulation. As are surprise inspections by police. Melleck had to part with some prized guns in the buyback. How many firearms do you own . Knew you were going to ask me. Should have checked. I dont know. Reporter the answer, two dozen. Which he uses for sport, hunting, and shooting pests on his vineyard. From here down is riesling. I would be very uncomfortable going become to the way it was before where any body could go in and buy a firearm. Reporter really, why . I find it surprising you as an american. Just bizarre the number of people that killed in the united states. You have these ridiculous arguments. People carry guns they can defend themselves. Reporter this is being said by a gun owner, you, some one who shoots for sport. Yeah. I have a genuine reason for using firearms. Reporter from tasmania to living room. The bullet went into my scapula. Reporter we kept asking if there were lessons for the u. S. In all of this. My question is how is it going for you over there . Going for you over there . Ahh. Still sick, huh . Ill take it from here. Im good. I just took new mucinex clear and cool. Ah whats this sudden cooooling thing happening . Its got a menthol burst. Terrible cold symptoms. Ahh this is awkward. New Mucinex Fastmax clear cool. Feel the menthol burst. And clear your worst cold symptoms. Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Extraordinary starts here. New ky intense. A stimulating gel that takes her pleasure to new heights. Ky intense. Bart andom with the 600th episode of the simpsons. The show hit the air in 1989 and hasnt missed a punchline since. The only other scripted tv show with more episode in the can was gunsmoke in 1955. Dana jacobson has more on the television milestone. . The simpsons . Reporter for 2 seasons mustardskinned family of five. Creator matt graening named the clan after members of his family including mother marge, and father named homer. Doh. Doh. Reporter the family its surrounded by a vibrant array of 150 recurring characters. Oh, my god. Someone has taken out of the big rice crispy square. Incompetent police chief. This is death. Reporter a miserable television clown. I am going to shred you look a chris card. Reporter sinister billionaire who happens to be homers boss. Thanks, dad. Reporter the simpsons made Hair Television debut as series of animated shorts that aired during the tracy ulman show on fledgling fox network in 1987. Look, dad. Santas little helper. The cartoons were so popular. With network tv conventions and put an animated sitcom in primetime. All right, dad reporter the show became an instant hit. Executive producer, al gene has been with the simpsons since their primetime debut. Called a dysfunctional family. Criticism at the beginning. Who comes from a functional family. Who comes from a family where everything is perfect. Leave it to beaver. It doesnt exist. Reporter the simpsons generated controversy in the early days. This one has been expelled profanity. Reporter even drawing the ire of president george h. W. Bush. To make American Families a lot more like the waltons and a lot less like the simpsons. A charge to which the shows creators responded. Huh . Hey, we are just like the waltons. We are praying for an end to the depression too. Clear from the start that the simpsons werent your ordinary cartoon. Earlier reviews described the show, wicked. Skewed. Weird. That kid would like, and adults would like because of the content. Since then everybody, writers, animators, everybody worked so hard. Preserving the quality of the show. I think thats one reason we are still around. Why you little. With a knack for incisive pop cultural references. Wow, paul mccartney. Celeb ri team guest appearances. If you play maybe i am amazed backward you will hear a reporter willingness to attack social issues. It wasnt before simpsons went from subversive phenomenon to cultural fabric. The simpsons hasnt had an impact on American Culture so much as it is American Culture. 600 episodes. Also, movie. Books, music, toys, video games. Clothing, every aspect of Popular Culture has been contained within the simpsons culture. . Richard nixon making a come . Back, sort of. His president ial library reopened after an extensive facelift. John blackstone reports. . . Reporter the reopening of the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum marked the completion of a 15 Million Dollar makeover that makes no attempt to hide the 37th president. But the museum tells a deeper story. Using interactive di plays that nixons younger brother ed appreciates. There is technology in here that is far advanced from what we had. Sure. We cant let the Reagan Library get ahead of us, you know. Reporter a replica of the oval office. Familiar place for nixons secretary of state henry kissinger, one of the opening day visitors. When i see the oval office so many memories reoccur. For trisha nixon cox, the museum is the place where the nations history intersects family history. Here you are beside bob hope. Beside bob hope. One of the typical evenings. A typical evening with bob hope, arnold palmer, henry kissinger. Trishas son Christopher Cox was born too late to know his grandfather as president. But he knows the stories. This i famous moments in my grandfathers administration when he met elvis presley. It still lives on in history today. The museum has the gun pressly brought as a gift for the president. People really are astounded that it got past secret service. Reporter there is a room dedicated to nixons historic trip to china in 1972. Are you going onto air force one . Reporter love to go onto air force one. Reporter she remembers it talked of long before he became president. Of course the only thing that had to happen for it to work, he had to be elected president. Reporter and he was. Thats right. Reporter nixon also built a relationship with russian president Leonid Brezhnev who came for a summit at casa pacifica. Brezhnev slept here. All the highlights however lead to the long hallway documenting watergate and resignation. It has to well i think that you put everything in perspective. I think that when you look at my fathers whole life and his whole record, it is really one of great love of country. And wanting to make the world a better place. The past cant be changed. But perhaps the way we look back can be changes. Thats the overnight news for this monday. For some the news continues. The morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im elaine quijana. Women propel Hillary Clinton into a battleground lead. A new cbs poll shows a big swing in the womens vote in 13 key states. A large manhattan of republican a large majority of Republican Voters are standing by donald trump. Also tonight a powerful storm uproots trees and knocks out power across the Pacific Northwest. As haiti staggers from a devastating hurricane. In italy, ancient artifacts smashed by isis rise from the destruction. Outrage in the suburbs, a popular upright walking bear killed in a controversial hunt. The president s touch. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im elaine quijano. With 22 days to go until election. Cbs news checked in with voters in 13 key states that will likely decide the race. Our new Battleground Tracker poll shows Hillary Clinton has widened her lead among women in those states. While donald trump has lost the vote of some republican women. Party leaders to stand behind trump despite his recent problems. Errol barnett takes us through the numbers with our elections director Anthony Salvanto in washington. Anthony whats changed in the 13 battleground states in the last few weeks . Across the states which will decide the election Hillary Clinton jumped out to a sixpoint lead. Tied last month. Whats driving this errol, is a she was up 5 points among women last month. Now she is out to a 15 point lead. Thats a significant change. And, we could be headed for what might be the largest gender gap we have ever seen. Why . This is following what was said by donald trump in the tapes that were released . Donald trump lost support among republican women as well. Goes beyond a bit. 70 of voters feel now that donald trump does not respect women. What could be trouble for him Going Forward are, these moderate and republican women are precisely the kind of voters that he needs now to start winning. Because of this some Republican Leaders have distanced themselves from trump. How do the voters see that . Republican rankandfile would like the party to get behind donald trump. 7 in ten say they should get behind him. Very few want them to push back against donald trump. This is a narrative we have seen actually throughout the year. Where Republican Voters are, dont care very much what their Party Leadership has to say. Lingering email controversy. How is that resonating . Voters say the contents of those emails have made them feel like Hillary Clinton says, Different Things in private than she says in public. And part of that is wrapped up in her low numbers on telling the truth that those continue to be very low numbers for her. The final president ial debate is wednesday. How likely is it to change anyones minds . Most people watch the debate rooting for favorite candidate. Like a sporting event. Where people have a favorite team. A quarter voters Say Something in the debate may change their mind. But it has to be big. 73 say the will not change mare minds. Anthony salvanto, thank you for breaking it all down for us. Elaine. Thank you to our cbs News Elections director. Of course there will be more than Hillary Clinton and donald trump on the ballots. Voters in washington state, california, nevada, and maine will decide on stricter gun measures including widened background checks for gun purchases. Julianna goldman has more on this. Reporter after Mass Shootings in newtown. The amendment is not agreed to. Reporter san bernardino. The motion is not agreed to. Reporter and orlando. The motion is not agreed to. Reporter University Background checks have failed in congress. Where voters will see a very similar proposal on their ballots in november. David trayhan runs maine Gun Rights Organization and opposes the measure. I could be charged with a felony and lose my right to own firearms from letting a friend borrow a firearm. Already admitting defeat in part because he cant compete against the millions spent by a Gun Control Group founded by mike bloomberg. Bloombergs group raised 3. 7 million this year. By National Rifle association. While bloomberg declined an interview. He said this to face the nation in 2014. The vast prepond rans of the public does not want criminals, minors or people with psychiatric problems to be able to buy guns. Polls show overwhelming majorities of americans support expanding background checks. So in some states a Ballot Initiative

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