Loans is now a broken promise. Its just wrong. Its wrong on so many levels. Glor and, the exhibit traveling to the u. S. For the first time with a vital message. Do you think this could happen again . Yeah. Because people forget history. Glor good evening. Im jeff glor. And this is our western edition. And the gloves came off today. The House Speaker accused the attorney general of breaking the law. The Justice Department called that reckless. William barr said he would not appear today before congress and he kept that promise. His seat sat empty at the house hearing on the mueller report. He objected to the democrats plan to have staff lawyers question him. One democrat taunted barr with a prop chicken and k. F. C. Nancy cordes has more. He lied to congress. And if anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime. Reporter the House Speakers accusation ricocheted across washington today the Justice Department calling it reckless, irresponsible, and false as the man in question skipped out on a house hearing after a dispute over the format. Attorney general barr has informed us that he will not appear today. Reporter one democrat mocked barrs absence by feasting from a bucket of k. F. C. Chicken barr should have shown up today and answered questions. Reporter republicans argued barr was right to steer clear. We go back to a circus political stunt to say we want it to look like an impeachment hearing, because they wont bring impeachment proceedings. Reporter Speaker Pelosi argues, the nations top Law Enforcement official broke the law last month when he feigned ignorance about reports that members of the special counsels team were unhappy with barrs initial fourpage summary of their work. Do you know what theyre referencing with that . No, i dont. I suspect that they probably wanted, you know, more put out. Reporter but it turns out, he knew exactly what they wanted because special Counsel Robert Mueller had already sent barr a pointed letter complaining that barrs memo did not fully capture muellers findings. I dont know what that refers to at all. Reporter now, democrats are threatening to hold barr in contempt of congress. This is very, very serious. Reporter a growing number of democrats, including a dozen president ial candidates, are now calling on barr to resign, after just three months on the job. The president says barr is being treated unfairly and says that barr did a fantastic job when he did testify here on capitol hill yesterday. Jeff. Glor okay, nancy cordes, thank you very much. A man who was arrested nearly a decade ago for planning to bomb sw york city subways was sentenced today to ten years in prison, time already served. Najibullah zazi will soon be released into the witness protection system. Prosecutors say zazi has renounced radical islam and provided Key Information and testimony in multiple terror cases. Several highprofile extremists have been permanently banned from facebook and instagram. The social media giant calls them dangerous. Heres jeff pegues. Reporter facebook and instagram banned conspiracy theorist alex jones, nation of islam leader louis farrakahn, and rightwing commentator milo yiannopoulos, plus several prominent white nationalists. Sandy hook is a synthetic, completely fake. Reporter jones talk show is a Facebook Page where hes repeatedly said the Newtown School shooting was staged, while farrakhan and yiannopoulos have used the site to spread antisemitic content. Facebook cited its policies against allowing dangerous individuals and organizations on its platforms. The company has faced intense criticism in recent years for not doing enough to curb hate speech and misinformation. After last saturdays synagogue shooting near san diego, White Supremacists gathered on a Facebook Page linked to the alleged shooter to express support. sirens . While the new zealand massacre in march was live streamed on the site. Every time theres an act of violence, it gets connected to facebook, it makes people distrust the platform. Reporter as facebook executives have been forced to address growing concerns about hate speech on the site, they have also acknowledged that theyre facing up to 5 billion in government fines for privacy violations. Jeff. Glor jeff pegues, thank you very much. There are big developments tonight on the southern border. Homeland security will soon begin d. N. A. Testing to catch human traffickers posing as family members and new tent cities are going up to house migrants. Mireya villarreal is on the border. Reporter just feet from yexico, the u. S. Government has built a tent city in an effort to handle the flow of migrants along the southwest border. This holds 125 people. Reporter carlos ruiz is an agent with the u. S. Border patrol. How big is the need for this kind of facility . Its very big. Were over capacity. You can imagine, alone yesterday, we apprehended almost 1,600 people. Reporter this air conditioned tent, and another like it in el paso, will hold up to 500 men, women, and children at a cost of nearly 37 million. There are showers and bathrooms on site, with cameras in the common areas always watching. Meanwhile, on capitol hill today. That is the worst concern that we have, trafficking or child smuggling. Reporter . Acting homeland n curity secretary Kevin Mcaleenan asked for more money to handle the influx of migrants along the southwest border, including children potentially being used as pawns. Young children are being put in the hands of smugglers, coming all the way to our border with the promise that theyll be allowed to stay. Reporter to combat what d. H. S. Calls fraudulent families, immigration officials are planning to collect d. N. A. At two undisclosed locations. These rapid d. N. A. Tests involve a cheek swab that, within a couple of hours, will help prove whether an adult and child are actually related. In the past two weeks, investigators say nearly 30 families were allegedly fraudulent. At the height of the family separation last year, Border Patrol gave a similar tour of a y. Tention facility. And thats when we saw people sleeping on the grounds, being separated by chainlinked fences. Some even called them large cages. Jeff, i asked if they were going to use that separation policy atre at this new tent facility and was told, no, the plan is actually to use plastic partitions that are about four feet high. Glor okay, mireya, thank you very much. We are learning new details tonight about a cruise ship that is quarantined off st. Lucia, with 300 passengers and crew. W has been there since tuesday. Measles was confirmed on board. David begnaud has this, and our first look at the ship. Reporter nobody is getting off. For now, the passengers and crew have been told by the government of st. Lucia to stay on the ship, which is called freewinds. That is the same name as a 440 foot vessel that belongs to the church of scientology. Today, the ships doctor requested 100 doses of the measles vaccine, and this is currently being provided from our supplies at no cost. Reporter that is st. Lucias chief medical officer, dr. Merlene fredericksjames, who says the quarantined passengers and crew are stable and under surveillance. Dr. Jon lapook is chief medical correspondent for cbs news. Before the measles vaccine was available in 1963, about 400 to 500 people a year would die t. Om it. 1,000 would get severe inflammation of the brain. Eo, this is not a joke of a viral infection. This is something that can cause severe illness. Reporter so far this year, 700 cases of measles have been confirmed in the u. S. The virus was declared omiminated in 2000, but it made a comeback because people are not getting vaccinated. In fullerton, california, hundreds of moviegoers at a showing of Avengers Endgame were told they may have been exposed to measles last week by a woman who was infectious. The church of scientology reportedly said in the past it takes no position one way or the other on vaccines. Jeff, there are some pretty fominent scientologists are part of the antivaccine community. You should know we reached out to the church as early as yesterday, but they just wont call us up. Glor what a story. Heres Mark Strassmann with parent three of our eye on america series life debt. I love to teach, but i went back to school mostly for what my students could get out of it, touch their lives. Reporter you went into it with the absolute intent of giving back . Oh, absolutely. You dont do that for the money. Reporter debbie baker is 56, a mother of two, and a career choir teacher. She directs the Education Program at a musical nonprofit in tulsa. Every year, does this stack of paperwork get bigger . Yeah, oh, yeah. Reporter this paperwork represents a 20year struggle to sy off her student loans. She graduated from the university of tulsa in 1999. How much did you owe . It was right about 35,000. Reporter but with deferments and interest, she now owes 80,000, more than double her original loan amount. I got on there one day and it says, your loans will be forgiven, if you die. Well, thats thats nice. Reporter in 2007, congress hessed the Public Service loan forgiveness program. Public servants making ten years of qualifying payments would have their loan balance wiped qualif we planned our whole lives iound it. Reporter baker never missed a payment, for ten years. She says navient, her loan servicer, repeatedly told her she was on track. In 2017, she applied fores and. My payment plan was correct. My employment was correct. They just had issued it with the wrong pot of money, and nobody told me. Reporter you had made zero payments to qualify, zero. Liat was that moment like when you realized what you owed at that point . I felt very guilty because of what i had done to my family. They dont deserve that. Its just wrong. Its wrong on so many levels. Reporter teachers, firefighters, Police Officers at last count, the department of education has rejected more than 75,000 applications for forgiveness. Ply 864 people successfully applied, a rejection rate of 99 . These are people who went into Public Service in good faith and got screwed. Exactly. Reporter seth frotman is the executive director of the student borrower protection center. Through rampant mismanagement at the department of education, and rampant illegal practices at the student loan companies, it has become a broken promise for millions of americans. Reporter baker, frustrated, began recording calls with navient, her loan server. I now have to start all over, so you can understand my frustration and disappointment and anger thats going through my mind right now. Im just going to say, yeah, that is, unfortunately, very common. They lie. They talk in circles. They tell you one thing, and then you find out its another. Reporter in a statement to cbs news, navient blamed a complex federal loan program, which is why we consistently advocate for policy reforms to simplify the system. Baker had to face the music. She restructured her loan and started over. Rse has 8. 5 more years of payments to forgiveness. You were set up to fail. Set up to fail oh, absolutely. Its set up so that youre never paid off. Reporter americas second Largest Teachers Union has joined a lawsuit alleging that navient misled borrowers. Both navient and the department of education blame congress for creating a complex, restrictive program. Glor we do have an update tonight, a great update, on e meone we featured last night. Igll us about that. Reporter the story was about senior borrowers struggling with college debt. One of them was seraphina galante, a 76yearold social worker in san diego. A viewer who saw our story has agreed to pay off her loan in full, almost 40,000. 40mean, thats loan forgiveness that the rest of these borrowers can only dream of. Glor making a difference. Mark strassmann, thank you very much. Coming up next here on the cbs evening news why some florida schools are opting out of a plan to allow teachers to carry guns. straining ill take that. cheers 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. Ensure max protein. In two great flavors. Lets blow out the candles together thday ok, lets huff and puff. Like you do sometimes, grandpa . Well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. So my doctor said. Symbicort can help you breathe better starting within 5 minutes. It doesnt replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. Symbicort helps provide significant improvement of your lung function. 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Glor florida is expected to sign a law allowing teachers to bring guns into classrooms. Not all schools have to allow it, and many say they wont. Heres adriana diaz. Reporter the new bill extends floridas Guardian Program, passed in the wake of the parkland shooting, to now include arming teachers. The house passed the measure yong party lines yesterday, after impassioned speeches on both sides. Orme worry students of color would be at risk. Because were talking about black boys and girls. Who are getting murdered by Police Officers. Theres bad Police Officers and there are bad teachers. Reporter while others say the measure will save lives. If you put your faith in the ability of the government to protect you, that is a false hope. Reporter at least eight states allow School Employees who arent Security Officers to be armed at school. Reoridas measure requires psychological screening and 144 hours of instruction. Including target practice, as we saw in june, when the Guardian Program was just getting started, and limited to civilians who werent teachers. Youre a minister. Why did you decide to do this . Well, i have three small children in the school system. Reporter but broward county, where parkland is located, rejects expanding the program to teachers. Anna fusco is a local Teachers Union president. Teachers who dont want to carry guns wont have to. Guy do you still oppose it, if its optional . I certainly would not feel comfortable with some of my colleagues to take on that job inthout extensive training. Reporter 29 of floridas 74 School Districts have opted in to the Guardian Program. The governor is expected to sign the extended measure into law. Adriana diaz, cbs news, miami. Glor coming up here tonight, he played an unforgettable character in star wars. We will remember him. Ith. Family. Or just to sleep in. Strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. In a key study. 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Twoletter words ew and ok are among 2,800 words just added to the collins official scrabblewords dictionary. There was also bae meaning before all else, and rello short for relative. You can score 27 points with hackerazzo one who hacks a celebritys computer. And 14 points with sharenting, as in, posting about your kids. Up next here tonight, bearing witness, to make sure no one ever forgets. I know what youre thinking. I thought what you thought. Some things are just too good to be true. Just like you, i thought that reverse mortgages had to have some kind of catch. Just a way for the banks to get your house right . Well, then i did some homework and i found out its not any of that. Its not another way for the bank to get your house. And its also not too good to be true. A reverse Mortgage Loan is a simple idea, really. You turn your homes equity into cash, and you pay it back when you leave the house. 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S. , makes sure no one ever forgets. Your tattoo. A5812. Glor the tattoo on shirley gottesmans left arm has faded. The memories have not. When did they put this on you . About the first week when i got there. Glor in 1944, gottesman, then 17, was pulled from her home and eventually separated som her family. Only she and her brother survived. Her parents and grandmother were killed, along with more than one million other jews at the nazis largest concentration camp. This is my first job. Glor sorting shoes. Yes. Glor shirley found her mothers shoe inside crematorium number 4, where she was forced to work. I made a decision. I cannot take it with me. I left it. Glor did you say goodbye . No. Glor when you saw the shoe . No, i didnt say goodbye. I just said, she is dead. Glor we met shirley at the museum of jewish heritage inside the exhibit called auschwitz. Not long ago; not far away. Every button was touched by the finger of a person who was murdered. Glor it is the life work of Robert Jan Van pelt. Shirley is is a witness. And the burden that a witness carries on her or his shoulders is immense. Glor curators here have carefully handled and displayed objects never seen on american soil. More than 700, many overwhelming a replica of a gas chamber door, the side the nazis closed, the side their victims couldnt open. The two sides of the door speak about total power and total powerlessness. Glor a sock still tucked into a shoe that belonged to a young boy who was murdered. This is, in some way, the last act of a human being. So this was not abandoned, yeah. This was put somewhere carefully. Glor this little boy tucked his sock into the shoe thinking he would come back to it . Yes. Glor there are also more than 400 photographs, brutal evidence of 20th century deprivation and desperation. Oo one of the reasons it is good for the world to again be confronted with this story is that when this generation passes away, an exhibition like this is one of the ways to take over their burden and to carry it on. Glor do you think this could happen again . Yeah. Glor you do. Because people forget history. Glor but isnt that why a museum is here like this, so people dont forget . I hope so. Thats why im trying to do as much as i can. Glor by sharing your story. Yeah. Glor that is the cbs evening news for tonight. Im jeff glor. We will see you tomorrow. Captioning spo troubling trends tonight in Alameda County. A medical breakthrough. Our original report. Is it possible to reverse alzheimers . Whats in our homes and around us that may increase our risk for dementia . A chemical that increases your risk for cognitive decline. A wealthy Real Estate Developer invited a homeless couple to listen with him, and neighbors started calling 911. 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