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Including children walking alone as the political debate over their future intensifies. Diaz deadliest day dozens are killed in myanmar as the Military Opens fire on anticoup protesters. And later, firstinthenation reparations after evanston, illinois approves payments for black families harmed by racist housing policies. Will the country follow . It will help for families like me to be able to pass something on to their children. This is the Cbs Weekend News. From chicago, heres adriana diaz. Diaz good evening. Spring is is about new start, but tonight, theres concern about a covid fallback. New infections are on the rise across the country, even as Vaccination Eligibility expands. More than 35 of American Adults have received at least one dose, and some 19 are fully vaccinated. Cbs Danya Bacchus leads us off in los angeles. Danya, good evening. Reporter good evening, adriana. Here in los angeles, this Fema Mass Vaccine Site is set to close on april 11, just days before the state makes shots available to everyone, raising concerns about Supply Meeting demand. All done. Reporter as the race to vaccinate heats up, so does the push to reopen, and that could spell trouble. Over the last two weeks, infections rising in 44 states. Health experts warn a covid setback could follow. This is not the time to let down our guard. Reporter and spring break rages on in florida. Former president trumps private club, maralago, reopened today after a recent covid outbreak. Meanwhile, republican Governor Ron Desantis is threatening to sue the federal government to allow cruise ships to sail to and from the u. S. By june. We have everything going on, except except the cruise lines because the federal government wont let the cruise lines sail. Reporter the c. D. C. s current order is set to expire in november, this as vaccinations are accelerating. Most states will make shots available to all residents 16 and older by may 1. Progress here but not everywhere. Brazil is in covid crisis, surging infections have its Healthcare System on the verge of collapse. sirens in europe, many countries are locked down ahead of easter. But in californias wine country, a dose of optimism. It is a sense of freedom. Reporter as nearly half of all americans 65 and older are now fully vaccinated, these sonoma seniors finally able to share a glass of wine, a meal. Go out and enjoy my friends and see people that i havent seen in a year . Reporter . And a few laughs. Since all californians 16 and up will be eligible for a Covid Vaccine in the next two weeks, Health Officials and the mayor of los angeles are now exploring options to keep this site open. Adriana. Diaz Danya Bacchus in los angeles, thank you. At least 50 million americans are in danger of Severe Weather this weekend. Nearly two dozen tornadoes roared across the south in the last two days, killing at least six people. Cbs news meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli joins us now with whats ahead. Jeff, good evening. Reporter good evening, adriana. And good evening, everybody. So it is going to be a dangerous evening, and a dangerous night in the Mississippi Valley and especially the tennessee valley. As you can see, lots of ongoing showers and thunderstorms and some Severe Weather. Lets go to the future scprard show you the area that were most concerned about, and that is places like nashville, down to memphis, little rock as we put it in, those showers and thunderstorms form in between a warm front and a cold front and move quickly toward the east. Were going to see rotating supercell thunderstorms, the possibility of a few strong tornadoes and the rain keeps moving over the same area. That means flash flooding is also likely, especially in tennessee. Overnight tonight, the line becomes kind of more linear, if you will. That means straightline wind damage becomes the primary threat, not necessarily tornado, by tomorrow morning, places like atlanta all the way north through the carolinas. Through the day material, the storms will stretch from new york city, south to raleigh, durham, north carolina, and into savannah, georgia as well. Its going to be a rough evening, a rough night, and expect Severe Weather during the day tomorrow. Meantime, its dry as a bone across the west. Exceptional Drought Conditions continue. Adriana. Diaz Jeff Berardelli, thank you. Outrage is growing tonight over Police Body Cam video showing maryland officers screaming at and handcuffing a fiveyearold boy. It happened last year. Cbs Michael George has the story. How old are you . 5. 5 reporter a fiveyearold boy who ran away from his Maryland School is found by two officers. Back at school, the boy continues to cry. And one officer gets in his face. screaming reporter . Calling him a little beast. This encounter happened last january, but the 51minute body camera video was just released friday by the Montgomery County sheriffs office. When the boys mother, arrives both officer encourage her to beat her son. We want to you beat him. Cant beat him. Why . Because im not going to prison. You dont go to prison for beating your child. Reporter she is now suing the Montgomery County police officers, the county and the School District claiming the boy suffered emotional trauma. There is a certain way to treat at a fiveyearold boy. Needing to beat him, like i said, came up at least 15, perhaps up to 20 times. Reporter the video also shows the officers handcuff the child in front of his mother. You know what these are for . These are for people who dont want to listen and dont know how to act. Reporter he was released about a minute later, but over and over again they encouraged the mother to physically discipline her child. All i can tell you beat that. You can beat your child. In Montgomery County, maryland. In front of him and everybody else, you can beat him. And please dont leave no cuts or no crazy cigarette burns, nothing like that. Were good. All right. Meeting adjourned. Reporter the Montgomery County Police Department says it is investigating the incident but hasnt released the findings. Both are still sworn officers, according to the department. Michael george, cbs news, new york. Diaz the Biden Administration continues to grapple with a huge logistical and humanitarian challenge on the southern border. Thousands of migrants are cross into the u. S. , many of them children. Cbs Manuel Bojorquez in mexico spoke to a smuggler and some making the dadangerous journey. Reporter a guatemalan boy, about s six, entering a vast unknowown, Crossing Alall Aloneo the united states, running after he passes the wall. Before crossing with women who were helping her along the journey from guatemala, 16yearold isabel told us her parents back home are too sick to work. Youre looking to work for your family. Si. Reporter the Biden Administration is allowing unaccompanied minors to stay pending their cases and some families with children under seven. But most others are being deported from the u. S. While some have called this a crisis at the border, the migrants weve spoken with say the crisis is in their home countries violence, poverty, exacerbated by the pandemic, and natural disasters. Many along this stretch of the border were looking to turn themselves in to border patrol. Others are hiring smugglers, like this man, to try to evade agents. He spoke with us on condition of anonymity. Even with the risk of being deported they still want to try. Family members in the u. S. Tell them to keep trying, he says. His operation includes ladders to scale the wall, peep holes to watch for border patrol. About 1,000 bucks a try. In six months 80 to 100 people have paid you to get over. Still, others wait. 14yearold alex ajin tecum and his mother, irma, have been in Juarez A Year and three months, hoping for an Asylum Hearing under the trump administrations nowdefunct remain in mexico policy. Why did you leave guatemala . For threats . He knows he could try crossing on his own but wont. You dont want to separate from your mother. They are all they have right now, they say, so for now, they wait. Manuel bojorquez, cbs news, juarez, mexico. Diaz to myanmar now and whats called the deadliest day since the military seized power in a coup two months ago. More than 100 people were killed today. The u. N. Ambassador to myanmar says Security Forces are murdering unarmed civilians. Cbs Roxana Saberi has more. Reporter in cities across myanmar on saturday, scenes of Peaceful Resistance gave way to violent clashes and bloodshed. Security forces reportedly killed more than 100 civilians, making it the deadliest day of demonstrations in nearly two months when the military seized power in a coup, ousting the countrys civilian government. Some protesters burned barricades and fought with homemade weapons. But they were heavily outarmed. Videos posted on social media appear to show the militarys increasing ruthlessness, randomly opening fire on a Passing Motor Bike with one man falling to the ground and two others escaping. This oneyearold baby was reportedly struck in the eye with a rubber bullet. An annual Military Parade Oned is, the countrys top Military Commander defended the coup. He also repeated a pledge to hand back power after new elections, though he gave no details. Amid the growing violence, the u. S. Embassy says its investigating shots fired at its cultural center. No one was injured. The u. S. And europe stepped up sanctions this week on myanmars military, but the u. N. Envoy for the countrys deposed civilian government says the world must do more to stop the deadly crackdown. It will continue without any action, so we need immediately to stop this bloody and this killing. Reporter for now, though, there are no signs of either side backing down. Roxana saberi, cbs news, london. Diaz starting in asia, skylines around the world switched off toay for earth hour, from singapore to hong kong, Nonessential Lights were turned off, including landmarks like australias Sydney Opera House and the eiffel tower. Its an effort to raise awareness about climate change. In pittsburgh today, a happy addition to an allamerican family. A Breeding Pair of bald eagles, together nine years now, welcomed a third eagleet this morning, joining two siblings that hatched earlier this week. The bald eagle population, once on the brink of extinction, has quadrupled in just over a decade. Well have more on the Conservation Efforts and the challenges on tomorrows Cbs Weekend News. Straight ahead, the Illinois Town Making Historic Reparations for generations of discrimination. Also, how the ship stuck in the suez canal is causing downstream damage to the global economy. And later, venice marks a birthday and another plague. Diaz more than a dozen cities from seattle to st. Paul, minnesota, are considering reparations, and this week, evanston, illinois made history, becoming the first city in the country to approve reparations for black residents. In evanston, a levy, majoritywhite college town north of chicago, tina penec will apply for the first round of reparations. This is my grandmother sadie harris. Diaz her grandmother moved here in the 1930s from georgia. Today, at 47, penec just bought her first home. Have housing and discrimination practices from decades ago affected your ability to purchase a home . I would say for a long time i didnt think that i could ownw3a home. Diaz the city Council Voted 81 to distribute 400,000 to at least 16 people whose families faced Housing Discrimination here. Each will get 25,000 toward a mortgage or home repairs. Its the first part of a 10 million plan funded by a Recreational Marijuana tax. Im most proud that weve said yes. Diaz this City Council Member led the effort. Can hyperlocal efforts like this really make an impact, or do you think its going to take federal legislation . So, i do believe that our local legislation is not symbolic alone. While 25,000 is no small change, its certainly not enough, but its life saving for some families. Diaz many here want cash as reparations, not funds tied to housing. But ruth simmons says this first step accounts for a specific injustice against black residents. For decades, the u. S. Government rated many minority neighborhoods, delineated in red, too risky for mortgage lending, blocking many Black Americans from Building Wealth through home ownership. Redlining was outlaud in 1968, but its impact remains. Today, nearly 75 of white americans own their home versus 44 of Black Americans. Professor alin tillery of Northwestern University in evanston, says reparations also address other advantages the government gave to whites. The new deal programspexclud. And then we get to the g. I. Bill, which basically built the white middle class in america, almost none of it went to Black Americans. And this is why black communities are exclusive depressed economically. Diaz reparations have been paid before. In 1988, the government paid Japanese Americans it imprisoned here during world war ii 20,000 each. Penec says evanstons reparations will help build a legacy. It will help for families like me to be able to pass something on to their children. Diaz helping Build Generational wealth. Still ahead on the Cbs Weekend News, the latest on the scramble to free the ship stuck in the suez canal. Diaz the worlds biggest Shipping Firms face a major gamble this weekend over weather to risk waiting for the suez canal reopens. As new satellite images show, the thoroughfare remains blokdz by a massive cargo ship and the cost to trade is adding up fast. Cbs Elizabeth Palmer has more. Reporter the gargantuan ever given remains exactly where shes been wedged since tuesday, blocking the main channel of the suez canal. But there has been a little progress. Dredgers and dig version dug away more than 20,000 tons of sand from around the ships rudder, and its stern did move a little. Suez canal chairman robinhood told journalists at a press conference. Reporter he added there were 321 ships waiting to enter the canal from both ends. This is an expensive traffic jam and its building. Normally, about 50 ships pass through the suez canal each day, carrying 12 of the worlds trade. So every 24 hours of shutdown means 10 billion in lost revenue. The ever given is carrying more than 18,000 containers. Salvage experts hope they wont have to start unloading them to reduce the weight. For now, theyre Pumping Water from the ballast tanks and hoping a combination of more powerful tugs and a high tide tomorrow may, at last, refloat this boat. Elizabeth palmer, cbs news, tel aviv. Diaz next on the Cbs Weekend News, dallas honors An Innocent Man more than two years after his senseless death. Diaz today in dallas, a ceremony for botham jean as the street was renamed in his honor. This is hard. It is really hard to be here. It is bittersweet. Yes, we want everyone to remember botham. We want everyone to forever say his name. But for this sign to be up here, that means hes not. Diaz the 26yearold accountant was shot and killed in his home while Eating Ice Cream by a Uniformed Police officer in 2018. Former officer amber guyger claims she thought she was entering her apartment that night and thought jean was a burgler. Shes currently appealing her murder conviction. When we come back, were going to venice, italy, the city celebrating a historic moment, pandemic or not. Diaz finally tonight, venice, one of the worlds mostpopular tourist destinations, is celebrating a big birthday. But as cbs Chris Livesay found, the usual crowds that help blow out the candles are nowhere in sight. Reporter 16 candles that is, if each candle equals a century. And for the past three centuries, the history of venice has been told through cups of espresso in st. Marks square, at the caffe florian,. Even casanova came here. The florian also just had a birthday, its 300th, making it the oldest cafe in italy. But just like venice, it isnt celebrating. I mean, this says everything, doesnt it . This is the situation were in, he says. All of venice is on top of the tables. Its a disaster. Since the pandemic, venice has gone from one extreme to the other. Tens of thousands of daily tourists, many in cruise ships, used to barrage the city and distress the locals. Once even slamming into a pier. Today, all gone, taking 90 of the citys revenue with them. But in 1600 years of venetians sailing the seas, covid is hardly their first bout with disease. Venice even gave us the term quarantine or quarantena, in italian, for the 40day period sailors had to spend on this island in selfisolation to keep them from spreading the plague. The black death as it was known gave birth in the century century to this haunting doctors mask. So this is like p. P. E. This is like the mask and the gloves that we have to wear today because of covid. Yes, youre right. Reporter quite simply, the venetians have seen it all before. Chris livesay, cbs news, venice. Diaz medieval p. P. E. That is the Cbs Weekend News for this saturday. Later on cbs, the 52nd n. A. A. C. P. Image awards you can also watch on bet, or treme streamit on paramount plus. For those celebrating tonight, happy passover. Im adriana diaz in chicago. Good night. The calls for action are growing louder tonight as large crowds converge in San Francisco to rally against asian hate. The kickoff to High School Football in oakland. This is the first varsity game this season. Coming up, i tell you why this is more than just football. It felt kind of nice outside today, we are going to talk to you about why this is just the beginning and how we are actually going to be getting warmer than this. The forecast is coming up. A bizarre road rescue in the north bay where firefighters had to rescue two men from under the street. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Thousands of people rallied across the bay area, demonstrators is standing in solidarity with the asian community, calling to stop the attacks and end the hate. One of the biggest protests in San Francisco. Wilson walker was there. Reporter today is beautiful, nice and sunny, we started off at city hall, marched all the way around downtown San Francisco. The group that came marching down Market Street loud and on the younger side, not far away at portsmouth and st. Marys squares, two more crowds not quite as loud, and decidedly older. It is heartbreaking to see all the seniors here, usually when we go to things like this it is, you know, younger crowd. It shows that the themselves, the concerns for themselves,

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