Transcripts For KYW CBS Overnight News 20160517 : comparemel

Transcripts For KYW CBS Overnight News 20160517

If you were a hippie in the 60s, you need to know. Its the dawning of the age of aquarius. Yeah, and Something Else thats cool. What . Osteoporosis is preventable. All osteos preventable . Right on if you dig your bones, protect them. All cbs cares cbs news has learned that an amtrak engineer was distracted by radio transmissions just before his speeding train jumped the tracks in philadelphia one year ago. Eight people were killed and more than 200 were hurt. Transportation correspondent kris van cleave is following this. National Transportation Safety board investigators now believe the deadly amtrak crash was caused by engineer brandon bostians loss of awareness. He told investigators minutes before the derailment he heard radio traffic between a dispatcher and engineer of a philadelphia commuter train hit by a rock. The dispatcher asked him a couple of times if he needed medical attention, bostian said. They went back and forth a few times. As train 188 approached the commuter train, bostian said i blew my trains whistle. Concerned with confusion on the radio that they may have personnel on the ground. Bostian told investigators the incident got him thinking of a coworker in california injured in a train collision and had glass impact his eye from a tractortrailer. He accelerated the amtrak train going into the curve hitting 106 mild an hour before slamming on the brakes, but second before the train left the tracks. All those things put together created an environment where he lost situational awareness. Former ntsb chair, mark rosenkirk. Like you driving down the beltway, you are in deep thought or listening to something and you were supposed to get off on an exit and you missed it. You, you really are, dont realize where you are at that moment. Reporter bostian told investigators he was concerned for his safety moving through the area where the commuter train had been struck. Scott, tomorrow the ntsb is expected to renew it call for technology that could slow a speeding train. Kris van cleave reporting from los angeles. Thank you. There seems to be no end to the long security lines at airports. At chicagos ohare airport, look at this, 450 people missed their flights yesterday. More than 100 of them had to spend the night on cots. The tsa doesnt have enough screeners. At least two airlines are exploring the idea of hiring extra people to speed up the lines. To date Supreme Court punted on one of the biggest cases of the term. Whether obama care can require religious groups to offer contraception coverage through their insurance plans. Youll recall there is a vacancy on the court. To date justices apparently did not want to risk a 44 tie which would have led to different laws in different states. So they sent the case back to the lower courts to explore a compromise. Some republicans owe posed to donald trump are trying to recruit someone to run against him as an independent. Here is Major Garrett on how that is going. I just think running third party, doesnt feel right. The long shot effort to mount independent campaign fizzled further today when john kasich one of the last on the list of potential candidates ruled it out. A Third Party Candidacy would be viewed as, kind of a silly thing. I dont think it is appropriate. 2012 nominee, mitt romney asked kasich to kid a run. Part of a recruitment effort led by bill crystal and Eric Eriksson to stop donald trump. Republican chairman ryan priebus dismissed the idea. A suicide mission. You are changing throwing out eight years of the white house and throwing out potentially generations on the Supreme Court. Reporter obstacles for a run are daunting. Organizers would need to acquire 880,000 valid signatures to place a candidate on the balloten all 50 states. The deadline in texas has passioned. The antitrump forces worry about the billionaires philosophy and personal character. Those concerns were magnified that trump used false identities in the 1980s and that he can be crude and demeaning to women. Conservatives fear trump is an easy target for democrats. This was president obama yesterday at rutgers university. In politics and in life, ignorance its not a virtue. It is not cool to not know what you are talking about. Conservatives opposed to trump say they need 100 million to wage an independent campaign in a few key states. Scott, there is no sign gop donors who have given 1 million to an antitrump super pac have any stomach for an even costlier endeavor. Major garrett. Thank you. Hillary clinton isnt having any free run to the nomination. Bernie sanders favored tomorrow in kentucky and oregon. But it wont change the inevitable. Clinton is only 144 delegates short of clinching the nomination. Heres nancy cordes. Time people stop listening to republican propaganda. In kentucky clinton blasted the gop and likely nominee. Trying out her trump impression on jobs. His answer, im going to create them. Theyre going to be great. I know how to do it. But im not telling you what it is im going to do. She did not do her best Bernie Sanders. Though he is the one who could beat her in two states tomorrow. And is laying the ground work in puerto rico. The people of the United States cannot continue a colonial tight relationship with the people of puerto rico. Clinton can afford to lose a few more states. But she cant afford dischord like this. Recount. Recount. Over the weekend, sanders supporters disrupted the convention, protesting delegate rules and booing speakers. We need civility in the democratic party. It is a sign democrats are going to have some of their own struggles with unity. Recognizing that clinton its going to be tide up with these primaries for a while, the biggest super pac supporting her announced to day, scott, they would begin airing ad against donald trump this week. Nearly a month earlier than they had planned. Nancy cordes for us tonight. Thank you. Cancer patient has received the first penis transplant in this country. And, what are the odds that everybody could walk away from a crash like this. The cbs overnight news will be right back. This pimples gonna aw comon. Ver. Clearasil ultra works fast to begin visibly clearing up skin in as little as 12 hours. And acne wont last forever. Just like your mom wont walk in on you. Forever. Lets be clear. Clearasil works fast. Everyone loves the way dark clothes make them feel. And no one wants that feeling to fade. Thats why theres woolite darks. Its free of harsh ingredients, keeping dark clothes looking like new for 30 washes so your love for dark clothes will never fade. Woolite darks. 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The first of its kind in this country. A man who lost his penis to cancer has received a new one. It is a Major Development especially for veterans who suffer genital injuries and our dr. Jon lapook is here to explain more. Jon, you spoke with two of the surgeons who did this. Why did they take on the case . Well it was interesting. One of their young doctors went down to walter reid and he observed some Wounded Warriors who had genital injuries. And this group does hand transplants. They thought, you know what we really should do something for these people. There are 1300 Wounded Warriors who have genital injuries. In addition to that. 2,000 men a year have cancer of the penis and that may or may not end up with injury to the penis. What do you know . Thomas manning, 64yearold from massachusetts. He lost his penis is a part of treatment for cancer of the penis that he developed in 2012. Ever since that, he has been telling his doctors. Is there anything you can do. If there is anything you can do at all. I want to be part of it. He is doing very, very well. In fact, a 15hour surgery. More than 30 doctors involved. And the surgeons i just speck to they expect him to leave the hospital some time next week. This has been done successfully one other time in south africa. Dr. Jon lapook, thank you, jon. Well, winter makes a come back in late spring. Well show you next. On this late spring day, caribou, maine, got 4 1 2 inches of snow. A record this late in may. But it wont last. The high is expected to be in the upper 50s tomorrow. Now have a look at this. Sebastian alvarez captured a frightening ride on his cam when a skydiving plane had engine trouble and went down in a vineyard in central, california. There is no fire, relax. Everybody out. The plane flipped over. It had been too low for any of them to jump out. All 1 people walked away. At the white house today, president obama presented the medal of valor to 13 Police Officers. Among them, Gregory Stevens who stopped a mass shooting in garland, texas, after he subdued two gunmen. And philadelphia Sergeant Robert wilson, who was shot and killed in a store robbery, his grandmother accepted the medal for him. And well be right back. We end tonight with the next generation of aerospace engineers. Chip reid reports from Mission Control in arlington, virginia. Reporter if you are wondering what in the world made these students so happy . Well, actually it was out of this world. It happened in the blink of an eye. Here it is again. In slow motion. A Tiny Satellite being launched today by astronauts on the International Space station. 13yearold rebecca helped build it off the awe really excited, it is of in space. Reporter now saint thomas moore Cathedral School in arlington, virginia, the First Grade School in the nation to put a satellite in orbit. The main payload is a small camera which will beam photographs become to earth using an antenna that fifth grader felix pelligrin helped build. We dont control where it take is a picture. Take is a picture every 30 second. He gets to be on tv too. You are expecting Cool Pictures . Oh, yeah. Reporter teacher Emily Stocker says supposed to be a one to two year project. But because of set backs, explosion of an unmanned space station bound rocket in 2014 it took a sometimes agonizing four years. What do you think is the most important thing they learned . What we didnt plan on teaching was perseverance it would take to get the project completed. We are still not done. Reporter still not done because theyrewaiting for the satellite to send a signal with the first photograph from space. And how nervous are you about whether you are going to hear a signal . I can put it into one word. Arghh reporter that is space talk for please phone home. Chip reid, cbs news, arlington, virginia. Thats the cbs overnight news for this tuesday. For some of you the news continues. For others, check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im scott pelley. Announcer this is the cbs announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the cbs overnight news. Im michelle miller. It is another primary day on the road to the white house. Republicans in oregon will go to the polls, although donald trump is now essentially running unopposed. For the democrats it is oregon, kentucky. Although Hillary Clinton holds a big lead in the delegate count over Bernie Sanders, she is taking no chances. Nancy cordes reports. Reporter Hillary Clinton a big last minute investment in kentucky. Time and money. Hoping to pull off a win in one of two states. At a pair of churches, courting the africanamerican vote. And rallies. Her delegate lead is so large she can afford to lose all of the primaries from here on out through the primary season. But her campaign is worried that that would send her sort of limping into the Democratic Convention in july. Sanders has now won a pair of contests in a row with upcoming state the Clinton Campaign knows they have tough states ahead of them. In nevada, sanders supporters over the weekend showed unity is still going to be a challenge for this party. They disrupted the states Party Convention because they felt that the rules for allotting delegates were unfair. The Clinton Campaign isnt wildly successful. Wildly confident she will be successful. Though she won here by 35 points eight years ago. For the republicans, donald trump cleared the field of political opponents, but his latest battle is against two of the nations biggest newspapers. The New York Times and the washington post. Major garrett has the story. Reporter Donald Trumps feast of Opposition Research and nagging questions, unreleased tax returns, alleged mistreatment of, and decades old pr stunts. Team trumps response to all of this look away. Look away. Nothing to see here. I have been working for donald trump for six weeks. Im using words he uses. Not the person on that tape. It is, no basis in fact other than, some allegation. Reporter Donald Trumps convention manager, Paul Manifort defended his candidate after the release of this audio. Whats your name again . Jon miller. Yes, thats correct. By the way, i am sort of new here. What is your position . Sort of handling pr. More than 20 years ago, trump frequently acted as his own Public Relations flak, jon miller or john baron in the 1980s something he admitted in Court Documents 1990. Mr. Trump is the real life inspiration for ironman. Who am i . Im his publicist, joey pepperoni. Trumps alter ego is already a late night punchline. His pr impersonation was one of trumps tough business tactics. A documentary says trump acting as john baron threatened a lawyer representing undocumented polish workers who sued him for back wages. I think one thing for sure, donald trump has rewritten the traditional playbook in politic thousands. By traditional, he means standard of conduct and transparency. Another example, trumps refusal to release his tax returns. I wouldnt be surprised if people dont care. The the New York Times published his front page story sunday with interviews from women who worked with or around trump, who said he could be crude, suggestive, and demeaning. Supporters said the allegations will phase and trump will repair historically high unfavorables among women. He is going to go out and make his case. Tiff there are any particular issues with women. Im sure he will answer them. People have not expected purity on his part. What theyre concerned abut, theyre deeply concerned about is this somebody Strong Enough to take on washington . Trumps inner circle know the stories can be dangerous. If they make trump the issue instead of his promise to shake up washington. For the foreseeable future the battleground of this campaign. Reality of trump or the promise of change. Off many in the Republican Party along with top gop Campaign Donors are slowly getting in line behind trump and his candidacy. But others are looking around for a third party candidate. Julianna goldman has that part of the story. People part of this effort tell us, three, four weeks are make or break. If they can raise the money or get on state bal lots. First and foremost, they need a candidate. So far no one has agreed. It is a suicide mission. Issuing this warning to fellow republicans work being hind the scenes to draft an alternative to donald trump. Not only changing and throwing out eight years of the white house. You are also throwing out potentially generations on the Supreme Court. Underground movement led by conservative figures, eric 6 eriksson and bill crystal intensified over the last few weeks. This is such an exceptional year. Worth trying. Conducting polling, reaching out to donors and candidates. Heres what i know. Donald trump is a phony, fraud. Sources involved, say mitt romney reached out to Governor John Kasich and ben sass. Advisers to both say theyre not interested. Sources close to conversations tell cbs news the door hasnt closed completely. You are going to make it or you are not. Others floated a businessman, mark cuban. He told the washington post, i dont see it happening. It is some where between reality and bs at this point. Washington post reporter, ed okeefe says mounting independent bid risks further dividing the Republican Party. Going to take too much work. Going to cost too much money. All it is going to result in is becoming a footnote in American History as the person who tilted the race to trump or clinton. As far as getting on the ballot. Deadlines like in texas have already passed. Others are a

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