Because i chose to be selfless for a day. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor and this is our western edition. Good evening. We are going to begin tonight with a surprise resignation at the white house. The woman who had perhaps more power than anyone to grant access to the president is leaving. Hope hicks, the Communications Director, had been a top aide to mr. Trump and before that his daughter, ivanka, for years. We get more now on this from White House Correspondent and face the nation moderator d . Rgaret brennan. Margaret, what happened . Reporter well, 29yearold hope hicks is President Trumps longestserving political aide and his most trusted. Hoe white house says she had been considering leaving her hesition for months, and now she wants to take on a job outside of government. So, no comment at all . Ed reporter the announcement came a day after she testified before the house intelligence committee, which is investigating russian interference in the 2016 election. Sources say she told the committee that her work for the r esident required her to tell white lies, but she never lied about russia. She started off with us right from day one. Reporter she has been at mr. Trumps side for the past three years. Now hope hicks is a tremendously talented person. Reporter but tried to stay out of the spotlight herself. This was one of the rare moments she spoke publicly. And thank you, donald trump. Reporter hicks was thrust into it earlier this month when news of her relationship with staff secretary rob porter became public. Porter was forced to resign after his f. B. I. Background check revealed Domestic Abuse allegations by two exwives. She used to be in my real estate company. W reporter the former model started her career working for ivanka trumps Clothing Company and later, the trump erganization. She was one of the first people the president informed of his intent to run for office. I said, what do you know about politics . She said, absolutely nothing. I said, congratulations, youre ldto the world of politics. applause right . She knew nothing. And she was there the first day, and she was fantastic. Reporter hicks remained loyal to mr. Trump throughout some of the rockiest moments on the campaign trail and now works just outside the oval office. Today the president said, i will miss having her by my side. I am sure we will Work Together again in the future. Glor margaret, this is a big change at the white house. S mehat does this mean now . Reporter well, hope hicks is very close to the trump family, so her departure will certainly be felt. Fw she is the fourth Communications Director to leave the white house. This is a job that hope hicks reluctantly took on after the sudden departure of anthony scaramucci. Ind it is a challenging position th any white house, particularly this one, given that President Trump believes that he is his own best publicist. Glor and a lot of turnover here from Communications Directors and others. T the white house concerned about all that turnover . Ng well, theres no replacement yet for hope hicks, but chief of staff john kelly is trying to minimize any kind of disruption it could cause. Now, we have seen, as you said, a lot of departures. Theres always turnover at the end of the first year of an Administration Due to burnout. Just yesterday we saw a close Communications Aide for Jared Kushner announce that hes leaving, but whats interesting about the churn in this white pause is that so many scandals have surrounded the departures of others. For hope hicks, she is the 18th official to leave. Glor margaret brennan, thanks very much. The president gathered members of congress, democrats and republicans, at the white house today and said, its time to end the nonsense and do something about gun violence. Heres chief Congressional Correspondent nancy cordes. Im not into popularity. Im into getting something done thats good. Is reporter President Trump scrambled the partisan divide on guns today, siding with democrats on dramatically expanding background checks and raising the purchasing age for miautomatic weapons. It doesnt make sense that i have to wait until im 21 to get a handgun, but i can get this weapon at 18. I dont know, so im just curious as to what you did in your bill . We didnt address it, mr. President. Why . Because youre afraid of the n. R. A. , right . Reporter Pennsylvania Republican pat toomey. 1 my reservation frankly is the vast majority of 18, 19, and 20 year olds in pennsylvania who have a rifle or a shotgun, theyre not a threat to anyone. Theyre lawabiding citizens. Reporter President Trump also clashed with republicans, including recent shooting victim Steve Scalise when they argued gun owners need the right to carry concealed weapons across state lines. These are people by and large co are helping us stop crimes. These are people who are well trained who actually go out cere and help prevent crimes. G im with you, but let it be a separate bill. You will never get this passed. If you add conceal carry to pis, you will never get it passed. Reporter he was less enthused about a ban on assault yofles. You know, the problem, diane, is that these arent what you walk enter a store and buy, this c where you hand them a gun and hand them some money. Oh, no, you can go into a store and you can buy an ar15, you can buy a tec9. You can buy all these weapons. Reporter those weapons, he ldgued, should have been confiscated from the florida skooter, even if it meant skirting the law. The police saw that he was a aoblem. They didnt take any guns away. That could have been policing. I think they should have taken them away anyway, whether they had the right or not. Glor and nancy, there has been a lot of talk about whether smething narrow happens or something comprehensive if something happens at all. What is the consensus, if any, on the hill right now . Reporter well, there is a bill, jeff, to close one loophole in the background check system, and that bill should come up for a vote some time in the next couple of weeks. But whether Congress Goes beyond that and embraces universal background checks really depends on whether the president does agdeed crusade for it and go up against a gun lobby that has opposed that legislation for years. As for banning bump stocks, mr. Trump said today that he is going to write up an executive order shortly to do it himself. No legislation required. Glor nancy cordes, thank you very much. All of this comes, of course, in the wake of the School Shooting d parkland, florida, that left 14 students and three adults dead. Two weeks after the shooting, students returned to Marjory StonemanDouglas High School today, and adriana diaz is there. Welcome back. Reporter students from floneman douglas were greeted by wellwishers with flowers. For the first time in two weeks, they returned to the school reere 17 lives were lost. Where were you shot . In my. Right here, in my right chest, and then grazed on the back. Reporter before the bell rang, we spoke to samantha grady. What does it symbolize that you and all of your peers are going back to school . Strain. Definitely showing that were overcoming this tragedy. De reporter she joined more than 3,000 students who faced their fears. They were protected by small army of Police Officers and staff. Ce i like how theres a lot of police around here to show that everybody is safe. Reporter students were told to leave their book bags at home because today was about healing. Inside, they were comforted by mfre than 40 therapy dogs and 150 counselors. Tenth grader Nicole Velasquez lost three friends. And walking into that class today and not seeing him was like my heart breaking all over again. Reporter parkland father andrew pollock was also there. He lost his 18yearold daughter, meadow. What was it like being there at school this morning . Im emotional every second of the day. So going there, i like going there, to tell you the truth, because i got to see kids going back to school. Reporter hes lobbied tloridas governor for safer schools and spoken directly to President Trump. And im pissed because my daughter im not going to see ain pe reporter why have you dcided to speak out . I feel obligated to do it as sparent. I feel like its on my shoulders that i cant allow it to happen again. Reporter 95 of the student body showed up for school. The day started with fourth period so students could be reunited with the classmates they were with during the shooting. The day started first with the aedge of allegiance, then a 17 second moment of silence, followed by a recording of the school song. Jeff . Glor adriana diaz for us once again in parkland. Adriana, thank you. Dicks Sporting Goods stores pulled all assaultstyle rifles and highcapacity magazine ammo from its shelves today and vowed it will no longer sell a firearm to anyone under 21. Dicks and walmart say they will not sell firearms to anyone under 21. Walmart stopped selling the weapons in 2015. Dicks offered them at field stream stores. Last year they had sales in the hunting cat for eon the decline. Now just one major now just one major retailer will still sell assaultstyle weapons, bass pro shops, which also owns cabelas. A gun shop caused panic in dalton, georgia. The police say a social studies teacher at dalton high, as you can see in this video, locked himself inside a classroom. They say when the principal tried to open the door, the teacher fired his handgun out the window. Nobody was hurt, but the teacher faces felony charges, including aggravated assault and making terroristic threats. California is bracing for another round of storms beginning tomorrow. Parts of the Sierra Nevada could get a few feet of snow. There could be mudslides in the area where trees and brush have been wiped out by wildfires. In Santa Barbara where mudslides killed 21 people last month, many were urged to sandbag their homes and leave the area. Turning now to sierra, resistence is being wiped out in turning now to syria, bit by bit the assad regime there is wiping out resistance in the western half of the country. Governmentcontrolled areas are in the red on this map. The shrinking rebel portion is in light blue. One of the last opposition hold outs near the capital is ghouta. Seth doane, the only u. S. Correspondent inside syria, reports from governmentheld territory in damascus. Reporter theres a steady stream of patients at this reaterun hospital in damascus. Imis were being told is the victim of a mortar attack. He was just brought in in the ambulance. Dr. Ali ghazi works in the e. R. , often treating civilians who have been caught in sniper attacks or explosions. Its affecting everything. It makes a very big stress on the medical teams. Reporter but he says for the most part this hospital has what it needs. Its a different story only a couple of miles away in the besieged suburb of eastern ghouta. There the rebels are completely surrounded by president bashar alassads forces. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped. Its impossible for us to cross nte line from here in governmentheld damascus to rebelheld ghouta, so we reached a doctor there by phone. We are under siege. We are under siege. Reporter dr. Sakhr told us afs now operating underground otter his hospital was bombed. My patients die, and i cannot do anything to help. Sometimes when i i dont have anything. I cannot evacuate the patients to i. C. U. Due to the continuous shelling and air strikes. This is a very bad situation for me. Reporter again today, no hudical aid came through those humanitarian corridors and dr. Sakhr has little faith it will. They will not send a doctor. They send rockets. Reporter the doctors may be hevided geographically by this conflict, but, jeff, they share a commitment to save lives and a frustration they cannot do more. Glor seth doane who remains the only u. S. Correspondent inside syria. Seth, thank you. Much more ahead on tonights cbs evening news, including the mayor who defied a federal hency. Reporter were here at Oakland City Hall where the mayor is unapologetic. She says shes even willing to go to jail to protect her citys sanctuary status. 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This is a whole new low to intentionally warn criminals that Law Enforcement is coming. Hajust cant believe its happened. She gave them warning and theres 800 we were unable to cate because of that warning. Reporter were here at ukland city hall where the mayor is unapologetic about tipping people off to the recent immigration roundup. She said, shes even willing to go to jail to protect her citys sanctuary status. And were here to find out way. Ay every day as the mayor of oakland i make decisions that are criticized. That comes with the job. Reporter but now youre being accused of protecting people with criminal records. What i did was my job as the heyor of oakland and reflective of the values of the people i represent. Reporter under President Trump, arrests are up 42 compared to under president obama, and while criminal arrests under both administrations were about the erme, noncriminal arrests saw a 334 spike under president plump. Sis afternoon people took to the streets of san francisco. We are one reporter can i ask you a question really quickly . Are you willing to get arrested cre today . R im willing to get arrested esr my community, yes. Reporter 25yearold juan pierto is undocumented. Hes been living here for 17 years. Has your family changed the way theyre living because of the current climate . Absolutely. There is a depression rising in my family. Family members no longer want to go out of their households. And thats no way the live. Reporter protesters dont dsok like theyre leaving any time soon. They have formed a human chain g re. They are locked together and have essentially blocked access to the immigration building. Ice says the deportations will asntinue as planned. It for tipping off her itmmunity, oaklands mayor schaaf says shell do it again. Jeff . De glor carter evans inside oakland for us tonight. Marter, thank you very much. 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According to a new study, pedestrians are dying in numbers not seen in 25 years. Nearly 6,000 were hit and killed by cars and trucks in the u. S. Last year. Leperts say that smartphones and Legal Marijuana may be partly to blame. In states that legalize recreational pot, pedestrian deaths spiked more than 16 in the first half of 2017. Elsewhere pedestrian deaths were down. In london today royal couple watchers were seeing double. Prince william and kate erddleton and prince harry and his american bridetobe, Meghan Markle, made a joint appearance. The british media has dubbed them the fab four. Markle made news voicing support for the metoo and timesup movement. Youll often hear people say, youre helping women find their voices. And i fundamentally disagree with that. Because women dont need to find a voice. They have a voice. Ndd they need to feel empowered to use it and people need to be encouraged to listen. Glor harry and Meghan Markle are getting married in may. William and kate are expecting eeir third child in april. Up next here, six lives are saved as one act of generosity leads to another. [burke] vengeful vermin. Seen it. Covered it. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum not necessarily after 3 toddlers with boundless energy. But lower back pain wont stop him from keeping up. Because at a dr. Scholls kiosk he got a recommendation for our best custom fit orthotic to relieve his foot, knee, or lower back pain, from being on his feet. By reducing shock and stress on his body with every step. So look out world, dads taking charge. Dr. Scholls. Born to move. Were all under one roof now. Congratulations. Thank you. How many kids . My two. His three. Along with two dogs and jake, our new parrot. That is quite the family. Quite a lot of colleges to pay for though. A lot of colleges. You get any Financial Advice . Yeah, but im pretty sure its the same plan they sold me before. 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Each one of them can be traced back to kimberlys act of generosity. Youre like, oh, my god, really . Usx people were saved just because i chose to be selfless for a day. Reporter and this was not s cessarily meant to happen, because, well, its complicated. Brendan thought hed get his friend philips kidney. But that didnt match, and he t ded up with kimberlys kidney. Philip went ahead and donated his kidney anyway, and started a chain reaction. I made a lot of selfish decisions in my life. And i thought that this would be a really great opportunity to alnd of amend those decisions. F reporter it turned out ilips kidney was a match for cotilde ruiz, whose daughter daisy was rejected as her donor, but daisys kidney worked fine for scott rial, and so it went atil a dozen donors and recipients were matched. All of them met for the first time this afternoon. Im going to have a lineage to somebody thats going to be able to live on, you know, and thats more than money and thats more than words. Reporter proving once again that generosity truly is its own reward. Dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. applause glor and one heck of a fantastic legacy. That is the cbs evening news tonight. Im jeff glor. The news continues now on our streaming service, cbsn. Good night. Keep quiet about cheaper alternatives to prescription drugs. Kpix 5 news begins with a gag order forcing pharmacists to keep quiet about people cheaper alternatives. Pharmacists are fighting rules that cost you money. By law, they are not permitted to tell you ways to save. As kpix 5 tells us, several lawmakers want to change that. Reporter these pharmacists want to tell you but they cannot. As a result, there is a industry reaping billions of dollars in profit. Deep inside virtually every pharmacy in america there in the fine print is a powerful tactic known as a gag clause. We call them gag clauses which prevents pharmacists from disclosing to a patient when the cash price is less than the copay. s reporter take copay. Reporter take amoxicillin. A typical copay of amoxicillin would be 20. So the patient is overpaying by over 19. Over 18. You can see just how profitable this venture is. Reporter pbm is short for pharmacy benefit manager. The three largest, expressed scripts, cbs and they negotiate prices. Since these 70s pbms have grown. They have classes for one reason, money. They go directly to the bottom line. They rich the companies and