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>> there will be plenty of vote tires make the determination. >> trump whose views buck gop ideology can only find luke warm republican support on capitol hill. thursday, trump will meet with paul ryan who withheld his endorsement and mitch mcconnell. >> do you share some of your colleague's anxiety about what donald trump means to your party as presumptive nominee? >> he's won the nomination. the old-fashioned way. he got more votes than anybody else. and we respect the voices of the republican primary vote ears cross the country. >> new york house republican and ally chris collins is trying to change minds. holding weekly meetings that from its the tick tight victory. >> we are bringing people along. ulgts >> do you have people who are curious and want to be persuaded and curious and reluctant? >> we have some of everything. >> interviews with nearly a dozen congressional republicans showed gradual begrudging movement toward trump, scott. that evolution driven more than anything else by surveys today showing trump neck in neck with hillary clinton in the pivotal states of florida, ohio, and pennsylvania. major garrett on capitol hill. thank you. there is an important development in aster we brought you last month. victims of lead paint poisoning had told us they had been trekd out of millions of dollars in settlement money. today, maryland's attorney general sued several finance companies and he sat down with one reporter. anna werner. >> the set of circumstances makes my blood boil. >> reporter: for attorney general brian frosh, the conclusion is clear. >> it looks to me like sophisticated and very aggressive folks targeting the most vulnerable peoplen our society. people who are poor. people who are cognitively impaired. people who are young and unsophisticated. >> he is suing access funding and entities alleging they duped at least 74 victims of lead point poisoning in baltimore. people like crystal linton, suffered lead poisoning as a child and left functionally illiterate to. safe guard her future she received a $630,000 structured settlement guaranteeing monthly checks for 40 years. but after getting fliers from companies, promising quick cash, linton sold her future payment stream then valued at $40 #,000 for just $66,000. some of it to access funding. >> do you feel like you understood? >> no. >> how it worked? >> no. >> you don't know how you signed away your money essentially? >> no. >> reporter: just look that her money was gone. >> it hurts. >> it was exploitation in its worst form. >> reporter: the attorney general says $17 million in payments to victims vanished. now through the lawsuit, he is trying to get their money back. >> what would you say to people who say, hey, you know what, these people are adults. they made their own decisions to sell these settlements that's life. >> sadly that may end up being the case for many of these people. >> reporter: attorney earl nesbitt with national aassociate yags of settlement purchasers and represents some companies in court. >> it is very unfortunate what happened in maryland. but it would be a mistake i think for anyone to judge the entire industry or every transaction by what happened in an isolated place involving a particular funding company. >> do you trust when the industry says, well it its only in maryland? >> i would be astonished if it were only happening here. >> we reached out to principals from access funding but have not heard back tonight. in previous court filings, the company called the attorney general allegations incorrect. and the company send it made disclosures, volunteer sales approved by the courts. the company claims that it lost money in its two years of transactions. >> anna werner with the exclusive. thank you very much. still ahead -- breaking news tonight in the death of prince. and -- >> let me ask you this. where its the weed at? >> dupe deo deadly you wanna see something intense? new pantene expert gives you the most 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pacs of the bargain brand combined. cascade. triple a is out today with a sobering report on driving high. deadly crashes are up where weed is legal. four states plus d.c. allow marijuana for recreational use. medical marijuana available in 20 more. kris van cleave has more on this. >> it was not on my radar. what it took to put on my radar was the death of my 23-year-old child. >> reporter: nearly three years since mary gaston's son blake was hit and killed at a washington intersection by a driver high on marijuana. >> he was laying in the middle of the intersection on the ground, had a massive head injury. so he was bleeding out. >> reporter: in 2012, washington became one of first states to legalize marijuana. now a study by aaa found the number of fatal accidents involving drivers who recent leap used pot more than doubled between 2013 and 2014. >> why do you drive around smoking? you know that its not a good idea, right? >> yeah, i do. >> reporter: the study found currently there is no reliable test to determine the amount of marijuana in the blood stream that lead to impairment. jake nelson aaa foundation director of research. >> biologically, marijuana and alcohol are different things. trying to establish a .0 # a .08. >> this dash-cam or video shows a speeding driver cutting through traffic struggling to maintain his lane. >> let me ask you this. where is the weed at? i will give you one chance to answer me honestly? >> officer, honestly, to be honest i smoked and just finished smoking my marijuana. >> a 2015 federal government report, found crash risks with drugs like pot are influenced by age and gender. scott more than a dozen states are kidding measures to legalize marijuana. >> kris van cleave. thank you. we'll be back in a moment. late today, detectives investigating the death of prince returned to his paisley park mansion outside minneapolis. the cause of his death has not been determined though opioids were found at the scene last month. a search warrant today reveals that a doctor who saw prince the day before he died had prescribed medications for him. after a 60 minutes report this past sunday, the world anti-doping agency says it is expanding its investigation of doping at the olympics. a whistle blower told 60 minutes that four gold medals were won by russians on steroid at the 2014 winter games. russia's track team could be banned from the summer olympics. coming up next -- a rock star puts his heart into feeding the soul. ♪ who says you can't go home ,,, ♪ who says you can't go home >> john bon jovi never left home to. day he showed gail king his new project to help his jersey shore neighbors. >> things like this old kitchen aren't a part of the usual rock star fodder. >> soul kitchen is brain child of bon jovi and his wife dorthea, it allows diners to pay for their meal by making a donation or volunteering their time in the kitchen. one hour of work earns a three course meal. >> when you come into the restaurant there are no prices on our menu. if you are in need you participate. that means busing a table. washing a dish. working in our gardens. >> people are coming in. choose from a men to. sit at a beautiful table. everyone has the the same experience regardless how they got there. >> you walk into the building uh yo instantly feel a since of wow. i want to eat here. >> it just looks like another restaurant. you have off to understand those in need don't have the opportunity to go to a restaurant. that is a luxury. ♪ it's my life ♪ it's now or never >> reporter: known more for guitar skills than culinary skills, bon jovi can occasionally be seen working in the restaurant's kitchen. >> do you know anything about cooking or washing dishes? >> an expert in the field for washing dishes. >> i'm not afraid of getting dirty. all soaped up and down and dirty in the kitchen. >> reporter: although bon jovi has been focussing on his charities he has not abandon his music. ♪ oh we're halfway there at 54-year-old rocker releasing his 14th album later this year. what excites you most about the music that you are doing? >> songwriting to me is the greatest thing i am able to do. much more noon recording anything or ever performing. performing is third on my list that i care to do. >> it is. >> really just to get the songs heard by people. >> oh, my gosh. >> now for john bon jovi it won't just be his music that will bring people together. gail king, cbs news, toms river. >> that's the "cbs overnight news" for this wednesday. for some the news continues. for others check back with us later for the morning news and of course, cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. welcome to the overnight news. i'm michelle miller. the summer travel season right around the corner. a lot of travelers are already dreading the long lines at the security check points. the transportation security administration is blaming the strong economy. and insisting there are many more people taking to the skies these days. but the people who run the airports insist the tsa is to blame. and they're looking for alternatives. new york city's three major airports are threatening to gift tsa the boot. and hire their own security screeners. san francisco and kansas city already use private security. and the busiest airport in the country, atlanta's hartsfield jackson is threatening to join the list. it is the irony of flying. planes are the fastest way to travel, but wait times just to get on board keep getting longer. airports complain tsa staffing isn't keeping up with increased traffic. >> flit toyou had to get to thet two hours early to get through the security line. >> not only unfortunate, but unacceptsable according to the port authority of new york and new jersey. in a letter to the transportation security administration it says the patience of the flying public has reached a breaking point. we can no longer tolerate the continuing inadequacy of tsa passenger screening services. >> because the lines are so long. i missed my flight. put me on the next flight. >> reporter: the port authority says it might implement a plan already under consideration in atlanta and seattle where officials could hire outside help. contracting with private security companies. >> we're looking at all the options including, we are going to investigate, what it would take to privatize. looking at air ports thamt have -- >> the tsa is working to decrease passenger wait times by using canines to expedite screenings, asking kong regs to approve overtime pay and speeding up the hiring process to bring on new officers. >> we are working very hard to improve our ability to move people through. training more people than we trained people before, on a w k weekweek basis. in new york, at least, things are getting worse. the port authority says that from march to april, jfk reported 20 minute waits at the security gate 253 times. a year aget was only ten times. even if the port authority does decide to hire private screeners, they went be on the job this summer. north carolina's governor is not backing down in the feud with the federal government over the state's new bathroom law. it requires people to only use restrooms and showers corresponding to the sex on their birth certificate. omar villafranca has the story. >> the department of justice gave the state of north carolina until monday to three out the law. north carolina sued the doj accusing them of overreaching. that didn't sit well with them. >> this is about the dignity and respect that we acord our fellow citizens. >> u.s. attorney general loretta lynch hit north carolina's law hard monday afternoon. likening the bill to segregation era policies. >> this is not the first time we have seen discriminatory responses to historic moments of progress for our nation. we saw it in the jim crow laws that followed the emancipation proclamation. >> don't go there there is no connection. >> governor pat mcroar restruck chak. rhetoric and unrelated to tan issue on whether a male or female should use a male bathroom. >> monday, north carolina's governor, and secretary of public safety, filed a law suit against the department of justice. calling their attempt to reverse the law a baseless, blatant overreach. >> as a result of their decisions we are moving forward. >> the department of justice, responded with a federal suit of its own. aimed at the state, the governor, the department of public safety and the university of north carolina system. under the law, people are required to use restrooms and changing facilities that match the gender on their birth certificate. since it passed in march, complaints have poured in from around the country. ♪ baby we were born to run >> reporter: several major artists cancels, and corporations slammed it. >> madeline goss is a tar heel state native. >> this makes a laughingstock out of our state. this is north carolina, we love everybody. >> on monday, the university distanced itself from the governor in a letter to the doj saying, we believe that the university has at all times acted in compliance with federal law. interesting note, while covering the governor's press conference yesterday inside the governor's mansion, i asked to use the restroom. the staff directed me to the only restroom available to the press, it was the ladies' room. donald trump ran unopposed in yesterday's primaries in west virginia and nebraska. his next major battle is trying to convince the republican establishment to back his campaign. major garrett has the the story. >> congressional republicans have come to accept donald trump will be their party nominee. acceptance isn't scum for the. and a long way from cooperation. a series of capitol hill meetings with trump this week will try to solve that. one sign will be whether hois speaker paul ryan retains his slot as chairman of the national convention. >> he is the nominee. i will do whatever he wants. with respect to the convention. >> house speaker paul ryan unlikely to endorse trump thursday but will try to build a bridge he and house republicans can eventually cross. >> i dent know him. and i've kept a distance from all of the candidates because of my position. we just need to got to know each other. >> meeting trump at republican national headquarters and the party chairman, priebus and will meet with house and senate leaders. the same day, dozens of house members will meet with trump staff, part of an awkward courtship. who walks with and who walks away from trump. official. david norcross has seen the party come together. >> hillary clinton is the great unifier. >> defeating the nominee, has motivated numerous gop mega donors, like ken langone off to join from. >> i'm all in. i think he will do a hell of a good job. >> marco rubio, said previously stated reservation as but trump remain. adding he does not want to be considered for vice president. more republicans are slowly shifting to trump citing this example from a gop convention. >> one of the persons running for delegate last saturday. i understand the difficulty. i would rafts have a fender-bender than a train wreck like hillary clinton. >> trump named chris christie head of a potential white house transition team. christie took a lot of heat for endorsing trump. and labored in obscurity for months. the patient has the paid off. >> trump cannot math matically clinch the nomination until primaries on june 7. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ♪ ♪ everyone loves how they feel in dark clothes. and to keep those darks from fading... there's woolite darks. it's free of harsh ingredients, keeping dark clothes looking like new for 30 washes so your love for dark clothes will never fade. woolite darks. i use resolve pet foam. spray it on evenly. rub it in. and then i vacuum. it's like i have a brand new carpet. and, rigby is enjoying it as well. the battle against the islamic state in iraq and syria is personal for a catholic priest from france. father patrick degau, spent his life documenting genocide. the latest the face of the yizidis in the iraqi city. laura logan has the story. >> reporter: this is what is left of the ancient yizidi city of sinjah. isis sees the yizidis as devil worshippers and their policy here was total annihilation. what you are looking at is 1,000 years of civilization reduced to rubble in 15 months of terror. last november, some 7,000 kurdish peshmerga soldiers backed by heavy u.s. air power pushed the islamic state out of here. the kurds said they killed 300 terrorists in the two-day offensive. this its whs what it takes. there its nothing left. any direction you walk all you find is more destruction. one street after another. an entire city literally in ruins. we walked the shattered streets of the yizidi heartland. who was on his fourth trip to iraq. he told us what isis didn't destroy, kurdish forces leveled as they fought their way in all. haw i asked the peshmerga, the only we to make them go out. only way to make isis go out is destroy the city. >> reporter: only way to defeat them. >> reporter: the father has been studying the mind and method of mass murderers like hitler most of his life. he had come here to investigate the genocide of the yizidis by isis. an organization more sophisticated than he expected. >> not able to manage terrorism, genocide, in same territory. hitler it took for him a long time before doing all of that. and, yizidis they did so quickly. >> reporter: does the speed frighten you? >> yeah, frightening. there is a kind of science of terrorist war on genocide. a science. >> reporter: the islamic state stormed into the city in august 2014. they murdered at least 5,000 and kidnapped thousands of others. as the they cleansed the land of yizidis. father dubois said their strategy here was unlike anywhere else. those who could fled to sinjah mountain where images of their desperation reached the world. in part prompting the first u.s. air strikes of the war. so you see. >> reporter: evidence of the isis killing machine lies, father dubois said, in the city's remains. which building is this? >> administration. where they put the yizidis. >> he brought us to what is left of the main administration building. >> be ginning of genocide. first step. >> in this building. >> here, isis rounded up men, women and children. >> they say to the people. don't worry, we bring you to administration. they accept. >> why they don't think they will die? >> that's why they come. >> begins a selection. a permanent selection. >> father dubois said they're registered, separated and ordered to hand over money, jewelry, cell phones. isis had a plan for everyone. >> the. >> brent: was -- >> this girl she is beautiful. she will be sold to be a sex slave. they have the sense of futility. a person is only to be use ford something. >> each person has a purpose. >> a purpose. >> if they have no purpose, what happens? >> they kill them. >> reporter: wherever we went in sinjah, kurdish some jerz came with us. they said there were hidden bombs all over the city. and father dubois used them as the a guide. >> where are they take us? >> the tunnels. >> one of the tunnels. >> reporter: isis owned this ground for 15 months. transforming it into a fortress with tunnels under the city. the send trance to one was inside this house. with isis still around two miles from here, the soldiers were tense. what we found surprised us. >> that's incredible. just looks like a there mall house. >> yes. >> there were mountains of dirt in every room. whatever they took from the ground, they kept inside these walls. so american drones wouldn't see a tunnel being build. this particular tunnel goes to the home of the islamic state emir of the city. basically top guy in charge here. whenment its he hand his inner circle, his bodyguard would hide underground here with him during the bombings. out on the street. father dubois was approached by survivors desperate for answers about family members missing. >> there are mass graves across the region. and we hatch been to some of them. at this one, east of the city, where kurdish officials marked off the site. there were human bones scattered in the dirt. it is believes, that they were caught by isis and killed here. >> impossible to know hong it's been here. >> no, we don't know. only, a doctor can say. >> and in this mass grave, he was told some 80 yizi dim. women were excuted. >> yeah. >> how do they know this? >> we know this. we can find bones and everything on the ground. >> there is half a skull there. two skulls there. >> wow. >> and here too. >> extermination site. >> at every site we viltz itted, his team foet greats and filmed the evidence. and recorded gps coordinate soetz thso they could come back. his lead investigator has been at his side helping to locate killing feels like these for years. as they carry out their investigation in yizidi towns and villages. father dubois is not asking eyewitnesss to recall what they saw more than 70 years ago like he did with the holocaust. this time he is interviewing survivors with the horror still fresh in their minds. how does that change your investigation? >> it is contemplated different. because the change now is to stop the genocide. to try to carry the voice, to make people conscious. the killing machine is alive. >> so do you foeel a sense of urgency then? >> urgency. and immense tragedy or so, to have the conscience that the world doesn't wake up more now than in '42. >> for the yizidis, there is no holier place than the temple of laleish, about 100 miles from sinjah. they believe in one god and seven angels. an ancient religion that over time has adopted elements of many faiths. as long as the yizidis have been persecuted why do you think, they're a peaceful people? >> yeah, it is a people who refused to assimilate. so it was like a pocket of resistance inside this islamic world. >> their faith is passed orally from generation to generation. they have no sacred written book like the bible or koran. which is one of the reasons isis has condemned them to death or sexual slavery. when yizidi women are rescue or escape from the is lambic state they come here to the sfrng that flows under the tellable to be cleansed. now, the yizidis are landless in their own land. there are nearly 200,000 living in refugee camps about 120 miles northeast of sinjah in kurdistan, where father dubois spends most of his time, piecing together a picture of what happened to the yizidis of sinjah. recorded over 400 hours of testimony so far. more than 80 men and women. most of which we caution you is disturbing to see and difficult to hear. and he allowed us to sit in with him on his second interview with nazrine 2,1. still terrified of isis after more than ape year under their control. she covered her face. >> the wife would hold down my hand as the husband raped me. she 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protested against the university policy in harvard yard. >> hear her harvard. >> they feel like their voices haven't been heard in the decisions friday. i think there is something to be said for single sex organizations. >> harvard's dean is targeting what the college calls discriminatory membership policies. starting in 2017 members of unrecognized single gender social organizations will not be eligible to hold leadership positions in recognized student organizations or athletic teams. and not receive endorsement letters for fellowships from the college. harvard officially broke ties with final clubs. in 1994 after all groups refused to admit women. harvard class of 2018, says her membership in a women's only social club has been crucial to her development. >> it really break is my heart that that opportunity would not be available to women who will be here in two years. last fall, two clubs opened their doors to women. >> not a real social benefit for everyone when certain people are able to enter the spaces and others left out. >> a harvard said harvard college students participating in activities are more likely to be sexually assaulted than participants in any of the other organizations. class of '78 is a member for life of the all-male fly club. >> i think the target all along has been the well established men's clubs. unfortunately and unconscionably! ral dama collateral included the women's clubs, fraternities and sororities. >> membership in the single gender clubs and fraternities and sororities is not made public and hard to get an idea how many it would,,,,,,,,,,,,,, parts of the industrial midwest have been turned into economic waist lanste lands as companies close. on the south side of chicago, the town of pullman is enjoying a renaissance. adriana diaz explains. >> reporter: these boarded up ruins are bleak reminder of pullman's grand industrial past. but now, something unexpected is sprouting. when you were making calls to establish this facility people were look you want to what? and do it where? >> a lot of head scratching, yeah. >> reporter: about who would want a farm of all things in pullman of all places. >> there is no soil here. >> he is ceo of gotham greens which runs the nearly two-acre, $8 million green house on a roof of a factory in the heart of pullman. >> he says the facility is the largest of its kind in the world. it outsmarts the seasons. controlling thing that bedev betraditibetrdevil farmers. since it opened last year, four dozen employees work year round growing 10 million heads of greens and herbs annually. growth that he hopes spreads to economy. >> we want to be in areas that we can create jobs and bring back manufacturing small scale manufacturing. >> was it hard for you when you were looking for work? >> oh, yeah, very hard. there is nothing out there. >> reporter: erin gomez lost her factory job last year out of work for months before she got a fresh start here. >> if it wasn't for this, i do not know if i would be working now. >> my great grandmother worked in the pullman company laundry. >> reporter: green house supervisor mike mcmahon is proud third generation product of pullman. >> south side of chicago is a major untapped resource people are starting to realize. >> reporter: urban farming scan be risky. while similar ventures have failed. pruri hopes staying local will breed success. solar power, recycled walter and only supplies to stores within an 80 mile radius look this whole foods. >> this produce is better than what is grown in conventional farm. so much fresher. >> let us costs more than most you will find in the store. $4 a package. but it makes it to plates at places like the pullman cafe within hours not days. it is enough to please lorain brochue on the local gardening club. >> flavor, crispness. tender. as opposed to something designed to travel. >> reporter: is this something the neighborhood needed? >> absolutely. adriana diaz, chicago. >> that's the "cbs overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back a bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning. cbs this morning. from t t tad it's wednesday, may 11, 2016. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, may 11th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." an off-duty hero stops a killer on a stabbing spree, trapping shoppers in a massachusetts mall. two people are dead this morning. police say it could have been much worse. severe storms sweep through kentucky leveling homes and leaving several people injured. this morning, there's more wild weather on the way. bernie sanders had a big night, winning west virginia. the delegates still don't add up in his favor, but the senator says he's in it to win it. and it's no surprise -- steph curry took home the mvp award, but he won it the way no

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