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KPIX CBS Overnight News April 18, 2016

Ecuador. The president of ecuador says 2500 are injured. Hundreds of buildings destroyed. It hit saturday night, magnitude 7. 8. Strongest to jolt ecuador since 1979. More than 135 aftershocks followed. We begin with manuel bojorquez. Reporter with the day light residents saw for the first time the full extent of the damage. Near the epicenter in the pacific town rescuers dug through crumbled concrete to find lifeless bodies. The quake also claimed lives about 85 miles south in the coastal city of manta where shaken residents surveyed the widespread damage. This desperate worker fried d e with his bare hands to find survivors. Three alive, a girl its dead he said. Last night onlookers cheered as this teenager was pulled from a crushed hotel in the city. This appears to be the moment the quake hit. Customers in this store in quito panicked as shock waves knocked items off the shelves and took out electricity saturday night. People took refuge on the streets of the countrys capital. Quito resident, said he and his family escaped after the quake destroyed their house. Translator in a minute it all came crashing down, he said. Reporter as far as 150 miles south of the epicenter, the powerful quake caused buildings and roads in the city to collapse. First responders search for survivors after a highway overpass buckled flattening cars. Ecuador deployed thousands of soldiers to help people like vanessa santos. Translator she says her sister, sisterinlaw and nephew were killed. It looks apocalyptic. Reporter american brian bare is a freelance journalist in ecuador, his Apartment Building was badly damaged when the quake hit. Terror was my first emotion. I switched from a very casual mood to being in complete shock. Very quickly within seconds. Reporter tonight the state Department Says so far there are no reports of u. S. Citizens killed in ecuador. Officials are working to confirm reports that americans were injured. Jeff, two canadians are among the dead. Thank you very much. In southern japan still people missing after two powerful earthquakes killed 41 people late last week. The u. S. Military is joining relief efforts. Toyota and sony are shutting down factories in japan this week as recovery continues. The road to the president ial nomination runs through new york on tuesday. A cbs news Battleground Tracker poll out today shows donald trump with a wide lead in his home state. If it holds, trump would net the bulk of delegates and add to his overall lead. On the democratic side. Our poll Shows Hillary clinton ten points ahead of Bernie Sanders. Despite a recent losing streak, clinton holds a commanding lead in the delegate count. Juliana goldman has more on this. Reporter Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders kicked their campaigns into high gear ahead of tuesday. Good morning, how are you . Reporter even though he is trailing in new york, sanders isnt letting up. He is still hammering clinton for accepting lucrative speaking fees from wall street. Man if you make 225 in an hour, you maybe dont know what it is look to live on 10 an hour. The vermont senator wants clinton to release transcripts from the speeches. She says she will if every other candidate does the same. Im just concerned about it constantly changing set of standards for everybody else but me. The democratic race getting nastier by the day. Last night, sanders supporters protested outside clintons fund raiser with george clooney. But with her eye on the general election, clinton says she and donald trump can unite her party. Looking at this great diverse crowd that represents brooklyn and new york. Every one of us has been attacked by trump. Its crooked hillary. Shes as crooked as they come. Reporter in addition to stepping up his attacks on clinton, trump continued his assault on the republican nominating process. The fact that you are taking all these people out and wining them and dining them. Nobody does that stuff better than me. I just dont want to do it. Because the its not the tliengt to do. We have a bad system and the system has to change. Reporter sunday, rnc chairman said he went be bullied by trump. I think i have done more tv in the last two weeks than i have in two years. Its because im not going to allow anyone to rewrite the rules of our party. Reporter the Republican National committee will meet next week in florida. Several members say they dont want to consider any changes to the rule making process before the july convention to avoid it looking like the rnc is trying to sway the process. Jeff, latest cbs news battleground poll shows the that more than half of Republican Voters in new york say their partys nominating process is unfair. Juliana, thank you. Well bring in cbs news election director, anthony for republican tuesday in new york whats the key . Well the poll find new yorkers see donald trump as authentic and as electable in november. The biggest key is whether or not he can get over 50 . The size of win matters here. If heave get the bulk of the delegates in new york it would put him back on path to eventually get the nomination. That path leads out to california. Yes, where he is up in our current polls. But california will probably be decisive. Even with a win in new york and win in subsequent states. He still wont get that majority of delegates until we get to california. So then how do things look for the democrats in new york tuesday . Hillary clinton keeps her lead in new york. Bernie sanders leads her on attributes like authenticity. But she leads him big on things like specificity about her policies and plans. Thats propelling her. Either way, jeff, the delegate math probably wont change much out of new york. Because both the winner and loser are going to get delegates. Anthony, thank you very much. Thank you, jeff. The cbs overnight news will be right back. ,,,,,, severe storms in Southern Plains followed heavy snow in the rockies this weekend. Barry peterson is in denver. Reporter across the region, sunday was not a day of rest. It was a day of working to clean up and shovel out. Mike hillham is a fifth grade school teacher. Were you surprised how much snow you got . Very surprised it was a lot. This is probably 18 inches or so. Very, very heavy. Very, very wet. Reporter the worst of the storm now over, this was the chance to get the last of the cars out of ditches. And the storm continued its swath of destruction elsewhere. Flooding the streets of altus, oklahoma saturday night, spawning a number of tornados like this one saturday in kent county, texas. A mall in kansas remains closed after heavy rains cause aid partial collapse of the roof. It was a good news day for air travelers. Denver International Airport is pretty much back to normal. After hundreds were stranded saturday when more than 850 flights, 70 of daily operations, were canceled. This is wet, heavy snow. Its really good for making snowballs. And as for that storm, it is on its way to west texas. Barry peterson. Thank you. For more, wvz chief meteorologist eric fisher tracking the storms. Eric, whats next . Jeff, a lot of rain is the focus over the next 48 hours. Really looking at texas and oklahoma in particular. We have moisture rich air feeding in off the gulf of mexico, banging up against the stalled front. What that means we will see prodigious rain totals over the next couple days. Already seen the heavy downpours today, through tonight, into monday. Moving towards houston. More showers and storms will dic develop into the day tuesday. 4 to 8 inches of rain here from Central Texas into southern oklahoma. Could see some isolated totals up to a foot. Be prepared to take it action. Road closures certainly. Flooded rivers. Pretty dangerous as we head into tonight. Few severe storms likely to pop up around san antonio with large hail. Of a different note. Tomorrow its the Boston Marathon. 120th. Going to be a warm race for all the runners out there. All told, a beautiful day. High temperatures near 70 degrees, cooler at the finish in boston. Jeff there will be thousand of people waiting. Eric fisher, thank you very much. Security will be tight at tomorrow ale running of the Boston Marathon. Some of it invisible to those running or watching. Heres jeff pegues. Reporter on the eve of the marathon the Boston Police department believes it is ready for anything and everything. Officials say there is no credible or specific threat against the event. Still commissioner William Evans is unwilling to let his guard down. You never can, to think, what happened three years ago, who would ever think boston would be a target in the marathon. Reporter in 2013, the detonation of two Pressure Cooker bombs killing three and injuring 260 people. A memory i will always have in mine mind. I had run that race. Finished the race an hour before the bombs went off. To go back there, in my official capacity to see the damage done by the two individual s is something i will never forget. Reporter Boston Police acknowledge it is a soft target to protect 20,000 runners and 1 million spectators there will be 5,000 police officers, lining the 26. 2 route. Surveillance cameras and sensors that can warn of drones which have been banned. Massachusetts state Police Helicopters will be on patrol with infrared cameras which can detect a heat signature. It can zoom in on potential trouble spots. Even 600 feet up. In an underground emergency command bunker the national guard, state police and federal agents share information. And monitor online chatter. In the weak of the isis attacks in brussels, commissioner evans says there is more coordination with federal investigators than ever before. So brussels changed things here . Yeah, it did. It just sort of brought back a lot of emotions over what happened here. Almost three years ago now. But i think, obviously, we got to stay focused on the race and make sure it goes off safely. Reporter the crowds typically get bigger the last two miles of the race. On top of that. 40,000 fans are expected to take in a red sox game tomorrow afternoon. Jeff, complicating the task at hand for police. They expect many of the fans to head here to the finish line as well. Jeff pegues, thank you. Up next, a new crack down on street racing in southern california. And refugees who escaped war and poverty fiend new careers in the kitchen. The cbs overnight news will be right back. I think we shouldve taken a tarzan know where tarzan go tarzan does not know where tarzan go. 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The task force did a test run last september. Gar see ye it worked. While the lapd saw a drop in races during that time they noticed racers taking more risks some times with deadly consequences. In february, street racing led to this fiery crash on interstate 5 that killed three people including 19yearold michelle littlefield. William littlefield is her father. I never dreamed it in 1,000 years that this would happen. Not this way. Reporter nationally, stats on street racing deaths are not easy to tally because different agencies dont always report racing crashes the same way. But Sergeant Garcia says he has seen a sharp increase over the past several years. Is social media egging this on . Social media is fueling this. Provides an jut loutlet to bragt what theyre doing. Reporter garcia, points to movies like the fast and furious series and racers in real life are becoming more violent. This video shows a street racing group attacking a police suv in l. A. Earlier this month. As officers attempted to barack break up a race. We have been finding weapons, loaded pistols. These events are not just for show either. Theyve involve money. Reporter why do this now . We have been able to come up with a strategy that works. We have an obligation to pro tkt their quality of life and safety. That tea what we are here for. Reporter he hopes this new initiative will do exactly that. Chris martinez, cbs news, los angeles. The search resumes tomorrow for the data recorder of the sunken cargo ship, it went down last october off bat ha mathe h. Up next, five major banks have their living wills declared dead on arrival. The irs has processed 105 million tax returns. The deadline to file its end of monday. Except in maine and massachusetts where tomorrow is patriots day. This past week Bank Regulators gave failing grade to five of the countrys biggest Financial Institutions saying their plans to got through potential bankruptcy were not credible. Here to explain, cbs News Business analyst, jill schlessinger, out of the Great Recession and the dodd frank act. What are plans and what they say . Theyre referred to as living wills like a living will we would have, a directive, if we were approaching failure what would happen . The banks are submitting plans to their two main regulators, fed and fdic. What theyre trying to say is if we were approaching failure, how we would get through it without crashing the Financial System or needing taxpayer assistance like we saw when Lehman Brothers failed in 2008. Scary when you hear it. Bernie sanders has been talking about this a lot trying to barack up the banks, taking the criticism for not explaining it maybe in parts. Did any company pass this test . Not exactly. We have three other companies, big companies, goldman sachs, Morgan Stanley, citigroup, all had some sort of deficiencies they have to address. That said. A lot of experts are looking at this saying this is a plan about failure. The banks are actually in much better shape than they were eight years ago. They have more capital. Using less borrowed money. Liquidity, ability to access money is much better the weave shouldnt be so scared. That is falling on deaf ears with the public. When we look at the Publics Trust in Financial Institutions at an all time low of 8 right now. What do the banks have to do now . All are going to have to resubmit or plug the holes that were identified in the plans by this october. Next summer they resubmit altogether. Very weird thing though, we had weak bank earnings, this report, bank stocks were up 7 last week. Jill, thank you very much. Thank you. A plan to cap Oil Production may have fallen apart when iran skipped a meeting in qatar. 18 opec and nonopec nations discussed a temporary freeze on drilling to increase global oil prices. Iran wants to keep ramping up product, now that sanctions have been lifted. Coming up a fresh start ,,,,,,,,war. We close tonight with a story of good taste. A Catering Company giving a chance to some in dire need of a fresh start. Here is jamie yukas. Reporter the chopping, slicing, dicing all precise. A gourmet preparation with no former culinary training. These chefs are refugees, this lebanese immigrant cooked up the idea when she couldnt find humus as good as her grandmothers. We are not cooking food you can get in any other restaurant. Reporter the kitchen partnered with International Rescue committee to give the seven refugees and Asylum Seekers training, employment and chance to connect. The business caters to large parties in new york. Looking for international flare. As a refugee you are always trying to adapt to the country. Theyre cooking what they used to cook at home. We are adapting to what theyre making. Reporter she is preparing potatoes, she fled iraq two years ago bringing little with her but her memories and her recipes. Translator she says her husband was injured in an explosion and she feared for her son. Reporter when you have to leave everything in your home country is it comforting to be able to come here and cook . Translator she says, yes, of course. Arabic food makes me feel like im home. Little english is spoken in the kitchen in queens, new york. Cramped quarters for the head chef, juan suarez deleso. Is food a universal language . It is a universal language. We are connected some how in a way. Reporter a made from scratch business that hopes to have all right right ingredients. Jamie yukas

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