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Transcripts For KYW CBS This Morning Saturday 20240622

Underground. Inside the plan to converts the underground subways to concert theaters and art venues. But we begin this morning with your world in 90 seconds. The gunman charged in the Charleston Church massacre should have never been able to buy the gun. A startling admission by the fbi. According to the fbi, background check error allowed dylann roof to buy the gun used in the attack. Meanwhile the Confederate Flag was removed in front of the state house. The Greek Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to back the governments new bailout program. The next move belongs to the euro group. This is going to be a very physical deal. Involving more than 21 million americans. U. S. Office of Personnel Management chief Katherine Archuleta resigned. The pope was greeted at the airport with a color display. Donald trump doubling down. Were housing people from all over the world that other countries dont want. Atticus finch a racist . Thats from the New York Times. All that hes on deck and the ball boy went down. And all that matters. The Womens National soccer team met one taylor swift, capping off a whirlwind week after a world win. On cbs this Morning Saturday. They were with star wars fans in san diego. The new movie was directed by the great j. J. Abrams. They were excited until they realized that j. J. Starts for jarjar. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend. We have a great lineup for you today including keller a magician. They stopped it temporarily for the first time in decades and theyll be right here. And hes worked at restaurants and bars since he was just 7 years old, but now hes all grown up and owns his own restaurant and is the biggest in the big apple. Last year he was watching dishes and now hes one of the hottest acts in music. Well speak with him about his throwback sound and well speak with him in our saturday session. Our top story this morning. A starting development in the case of the Church Massacre in South Carolina. The fbi has confessed to making a series of mistakes in the background check on dylann roof. Good morning. Good morning. They call it heartbreaking. It was human error that would allow dylann roof to buy the gun that would kill nine people in charleston. Were all sick that this happened. Those words from fbi director james comey who now admits that his agency is responsible for allowing the South Carolina Church Killer to illegally purchase his mass murder weapon. We wish we could turn back time comey said. By law dylann roof had to wait three days before buying the hand gun, time for the fbi to run a background check. That check involved a drug charge. They kept on digging but called the wrong agency in South Carolina. Had they discovered the right one they would have discovered roof had admitted to possessing the drug which should have disqualified him from buying the weapon. As the fbi waited to hear more about the background, the mandatory threeday period lapsed allowing roof to purchase the handgun, killing nine people praying at the ame Emanuel Church in charleston. Reverend Anthony Thompson whose wife had died said before i wasnt angry. Now i am angry. Daniel webbster at the Johns Hopkins center for gun policy and research. In the vast majority of cases, three days is enough time. We need to set up a system that is flexible enough because youre not going to really impede the vast majority of sales through the process. Despite this case of human error, webster says on average more than 500 time days someone is identified and denied as think try to buy a gun. The day dylann roof bought his, the fbi processed more than 30,000 background check. Vinita . David begnaud, thank you. Dylann roof often posed holding the Confederate Flag. This morning it no longer flies at the State Capitol in columbia. Omar villafranca is there. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The flag coming down is front page news across the state. It had flown on the grounds for more than 50 years but now its a part of history. As thousands cheered them on the South Carolina state honor guard marched solemnly toward the flagpole and then rolled and folded the flag with precise precision. How does it feel to be a south carolinian . Today . Big day in South Carolina. Watching that flag come down felt like a huge weight was lifted off the state. Governor nikki haley presided over the ceremony surrounded by lawmakers and family members of the state nine. No one should drop by and feel they dont belong or feel pain. That was the difference. We needed to take away a symbol that was causing pain. Reporter within a few hour a crane had taken down the flagpole and surrounding fence. Some could not let go. What theyre doing with anything having to do with Confederate Heritage or symbolism or history and vilifying it. Reporter but for those who turned out to watch history, friday was a step forward. I have marched and i have marched and my son says but you all march and nothing happens. Something happened. Reporter denise coral was there in honor of her mother who was par of the massacre. She would be very happy. She would say, thank you, jesus. Reporter the flag is now at a state museum in a climate controlled room inside an acidfree box. It wont be on display until next year. Anthony . Omar villafranca in columbia South Carolina. Thank you, omar. Negotiators of greece are in brussels this morning. The greek Prime Minister won the backing of parliament for a reform plan that calls for higher taxes and deeper pension cut bus he faces a rebellion in his own party. Jonathan vigliotti is in london. Good morning, jonathan. Good morning. Greeces Prime Minister admitting today to making major mistakes during the negotiation process with international creditors. He called the talks a mine field and said the latest bailout proposal was the only way of survival. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras said yes to a reform package many consider identical to the one he said no to last week. In a saturday morning vote tsipras convinced them to seek approval. 251 voted in favor 367892 against the package which calls for higher taxes and spending cuts. Many of those who voted no were part of tsiprass left party. It comes less than a week after they imposed similar reforms. Yesterday they called on lawmakers to reject the measures. Now they say this debt has to be paid by me. I dont like it. I dont like it at all. Reporter tsipras said the new deal includes vital debt relief and it was the countrys last chance to avoid bankruptcy and stay in the euro. The proposal will be studied by finance ministers this afternoon. Meanwhile the Greek Economy remains on the ropes. Banks have been shut down for two weeks and the atm withdrawals have been rationed. They warned parliament of it. If there is no onity michl then we will have a very big problem, he said. The proposal must now win approval from european officials before formal negotiations can begin. The deadline for a new bailout is tomorrow. If it crumbles european leaders may take the unprecedent move of forcing greece out of the euro. Vinita . Thaerng you. Overnight with learned the information of guards may be at risk. They have former and active addresses. The National Guard says it does not believe the data will be used unlawfully and says its unrelated to the hack at the office of Personnel Department. At first the federal government said only federal employees were targeted. But the administration then said the number was much bigger. As a result Katherine Archuleta, the embattled head of Personnel Department resigned. Julianna goldman has more on that. Good morning. Good morning. Katherine ar chew let ta has insisted she would stay. In fact, last month she said if theres anyone to blame, its the perpetrators. But after calls from both democrats and republicans she needed to be fire she told the president a new leader was needed. Given the challenges facing opm right now, a new manager with a specialized set of skills and experiences is needed. White House Press Secretary josh earnest said friday the president was briefed on the full scope of the cyber intrusion over the last few days. When the breach was first revealed in june the administration said 4. 2 million current and federal workers were affected but those numbers quickly ballooned and this week officials said the hackers believed to be from china accessed the personal information of 21. 5 Million People including anyone who had submitted government background checks their families and friend friends. Fbi director james comey called it a treasure trove of information. Social security numbers, addresses, fingerprints health and financial histories. We didnt ask you to come read statements. We want to know why you didnt encrypt the information. Jason chaifetz was one who grilled archuleta and called for her to be fire. He said the Administration Needs to get to the bomb of how the breach happen and protect the tens of millions of people affected. One of the ongoing problems is they still havent fixed the season. Were still feeding the beast. Were pouring information that we know its not is to cure. Its not an easy fix, but they even got to get it right away. Bess colbert will be replacing Katherine Archuleta. Now, vinita officials wont say whether the president s personal information was compromised the breach or how much credit monitoring and i. D. Theft for more than 22 Million People will cost the government. Staggering numbers. Thank you. A typhoon is battlering china this morning with winds up to 100 miles an hour. Almost 100 Million People were forced to evacuate from coastal areas. There were no reports of injuries. Talks between the major world powers and iran over its Nuclear Program have been extended again. Secretary of state john kerry has more meetings today with his iranian counterpart in vienna austria. The diplomats have given themselves until monday to reach an agreement. Margaret brennan reports from vienna. Talks resume as they head into their third weekend. Theyre shtetled back and forth to meetings around the clock as they try to get through hurdles. One of them is sanctions that bans iran from buying weapons. Tehran wants the sanctions lifted. Russia and china agree. The u. S. Fears that doing so will allow iran to stabilize the already volatile middle east. Now secretary kerry is trying to find a way to keep that from sinking the entire nuclear deal and its clear how important this deal is to the obama administration. No secretary of state has spent this much time outside the country on a Single Mission in more than 30 years. Anthony and vinita . Margaret brennan reporting from vienna austria. This morning in bosnia people are honoring those from the massacre. Bill clinton is among the dignitaries in the ceremony to remember the 8 thoup menned a and boys who were killed after they overran the city. This morning they through stones and rocks at the man at sightte. A man from michigan is going to spend the rest of his life in prison p. He was sentenced by a detroit federal judge for 45 years for what the judge called horrific crimes. Dean reynolds was there for the sentencing. The once renounced cancer doctor wept uncontrollably as he begged for mercy. Apologizing as he said from the bottom of my heart and he inflicted needless suffering on 500 patients. I stand before you so ashamed of my actions, cried fareed fatah. I dont know what more i can do to express my sorrow and shame. From the rows of victims came the sounlsd of muffled sons. Fatah, who issued more than 3,000 chemo treatments said sin had entered him. The judge said it wasnt complicated complicated. The sin was greed. Fatah pounced on every opportunity. Its why he told healthy patients they were sick. Why he told sick patients they were dying, while he told dying patients there was hope. U. S. Tone barbara mcquaid. Do you think it was a highly sophisticated fraud . I do. He lieder of then. He lied to his patients. He lied to his colleagues. He actually falsified a stay on the work he was doing and the treatment he was giving. Hi was able to fool many people who were very bright because he was very bright. Monica lives in pain from bone cancer. Now that its over does it lift your treatment . I dope note long term what his treatment will do emotionally and physically. Has it lifted . Yes. Hes behind bars. The judgelet matly handled down a sentence of 45 years in prison. While some victims thought it was too light. Prosecutors say its highly likely fareed fatah will spend the rest of his life behind bars. For cbs this Morning Saturday, Dean Reynolds detroit. A deadly crime wave has erupted in milwaukee. The city has had at least 48 murderers so far this year more than double last years rate. Aid ya nay dias has the story. Reporter in two milwaukee neighborhoods thursday evening memorials for the citys latest victims of gun violence. Juan cameron shot to death by his 13yearold cousin. Another for 14yearold tehrik akbar gunned down friday by a 15yearold. Theyre two of ten people shot and killed in this city in just the last week. Thats his basketball . Yeah. His mother made a shrine for her son. Its a hard one, a really hard one. Reporter Milwaukee Police chief edward flynn heard the gunshots that killed him at the fireworks show. He was there with 75 other police officers. What goes through your mind when you were right here. What goes through my mind in all that is holly is what is a 15yearold doing with a gun. Its a toxic mix of overwoeming juvenile system, a Large Population of teenagers in poverty and gun laws that allow people to carry weapons, allow guns to be resold without back ground checks and dont require reporting of stolen guns. Right now the community recognizes its more dangerous to get caught without their gun than with it. Theyre certainly taking advantage of it. Reporter the sound of gun fire has become so common here that police said 80 of gunshots dont even get reported. For cbs this Morning Saturday saturday, aiddriana diaz. The Washington Post says the president is going to prison. Partly. Mr. Obama stands to be be the first sitting u. S. President to visit a federal prison. The Detroitdetroit Free press says General Motors is about to recall vehicles because of rear lift gate concerns. Theyre operated by gas struts which may give out forcing them to fall. The recall affects 2007 to 2012. The Los Angeles Times reports nasa ha putz a price tag on its failed Spacex Mission to send supplies to its intr nation at smags. It will set taxpayers back about 110 million. Spacex has a 1. 6 billion contract too flial dozen mischs to space. The lemaunondon telegram asks reporters to refrain from using serena slam. She does not want the pressure. Shes one win away from collecting another grand slam thanks to the wins. Keep in mind the mens finals are tomorrow. You know whats interesting. She lost to her in 2014. So this could be interesting. Star wars fans got a chance to reunite with harrison ford. The 78yearold who played hans solo made his first public appearance since crashing his airplane back in march. The scenes in the last one, he par tase palted in the panel and said hes very fine. He got very emotional, the original. Coming up a heros welcome for team usa. The womens world soccer team, winners of the world cup get a classic ticker tape parade right here in new york. See how their incredible day turned into a wild night. And Police Investigate a daredevil who took one of the steepest hills in los angeles by driving in reverse. Youre watching cbs this Morning Saturday. Coming up after nine years and more than 3 billion miles, the spacecraft new horizons is nearing pluto. And some young chefs are headed to the white house. Wait till you hear one of their dishes. Youre watching cbs this morning s from the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia. This is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Good morning everyone, im nicole brewer. New, this morning, Bucks County Police are investigating route 413, state road bristol. Only one car was involved in the crash but threefive people were injured. They are being taken to the hospital. And police have closed that intersection, while they investigate. Now, lets get check on this fabulous forecast, justin, you brought some nice weather, man im impressed. Thats what i do. Perfect timing for the weekends, looks like we wont see any shower or Storm Chances coming up through the rest of the weekends. Still waking up to little bit of cloud cover over south jersey, disturb and over the northern midatlantic, steadier showers dc on southward, but elsewhere, we will see the clouds really thin out. We go mostly sunny by midmorning or so. It will be warm day humi

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