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WBTV CBS Overnight News March 1, 2016

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Whats going on within the party . Well if there was a wall between the Republican Party and donald trump it is 10 feet taller. In conversations with republican strategists and staffers on the hill theyre at wits end about what it would be look to have donald trump as the party nominee. What they pointed out in his be trying so carefully not to offend anyone and call anyone a bigot when asked about the kkk and White Supremacists. Suddenly he got politically correct. What they think, republicans i talked to, he was trying to not offend any southern voters. So in super tuesday, tomorrow. What house and Senate Leaders are worried about, what is it going to look like in the fall when they and colleagues have to respond to every in sendcendiary thing he says. They were thing how they could take the nomination away. Or put a Third Party Candidate in if he became a nominee. Slip a Third Party Candidate in there. Hard to tell if theyre more unsettled about being tainted by trump or the fact there is not much they can do to stop him from the nomination. Thank you very much, john. In ohio today, a 14yearold boy opened fire on classmates in a School Cafeteria north of cincinnati. Two students were shot. None of the injuries is life threatening. The suspect ran, but was caught nearby. There is no word yet on the motive. In virginia, the funeral is tomorrow for the Prince William county Police Officer who was gunned down on her first day on the job. Today the prosecutor said he may seek the death penalty. Here is justice correspondent jeff pegues. Reporter 28yearold ashley guchlt in guindon just beginning a new career as a Police Officer her first day in uniform would be her last. Hold your traffic. Shots have been fired. Reporter saturday night she and two other officers were responding to a Domestic Violence call at this home. As officers approached the front door they were shot. Guindon rushed to the hospital. Pronounced dead a few hours later. The two other officers are police say 32yearold Ronald Hamilton opened fire on the officers with a rifle. Hamilton a Staff Sergeant in the u. S. Army is also accused of killing his wife, crystal hamilton in the home. The couples 11yearold son managed to run to safety. According to the army, hamilton worked in it at the pentagon joint chiefs staff center and served in iraq two years. Prosecutors say hamilton had a previous runin with the law but would not release details. Prince William County prosecutor, paul ebert. Sad, sad, sad. An example of an officers worst nightmare. Officer guchlt indindon in her High School Yearbook wrote, live for something rather than dying for nothing. Guindon, the 14th Police Officer killed in the line of duty so far this year. Scott, 11 of 14 were killed by gunfire. A number that has risen same time last year. Jeff pegues. Thank you, jeff. Turning overseas isis has been losing ground on the battlefield but striking back with a series of bombings in and around baghdad the past two days. More than 100 were killed. Most at this park it place in a shiite neighborhood. Isis is sunni. The other main faction of islam. The u. N. Said today the ceasefire in syria is holding for the most part. A hotline set up by the u. S. State department for sear ynz to report violations has been ringing off the hook. The civil war left many of syrias cities in ruin. And Elizabeth Palmer got rare access homs, a city that once had as many residents as philadelphia. Now just a fraction. Reporter after four years, and mega tons of explosives, the syrian army finally took back but several rebel units escaped into the suburb of alwar where they tried to make a last stand. In the end though the violence was too much. Under siege and outgunned, the rebels caved in and agreed to talk. Theyre just out of sight at the end of that road. The syrian army wouldnt allow us in. But nay do allow the women out to get medical care and to shop for food. Whats changed . Now there are formal negotiations going on with the government they tell me. Life has improved. The siege has ended. And our electricity and water are back. Supplies are flowing in too, though every single box is checked by the military. And every canister of gasoline probed for hidden weapons. But now what . In december, six busload of rebels and families struck a alwar to opposition area farther north. That leaves about 1,000 left. Stuck. Still trying to hammer out the terms of their defeat. There have been several of these, call them stalemates, call them minitruces across the country in the last couple of years, scott. They dont always go smoothly. Some are more successful than others. But in the end, they all most certainly save lives. Elizabeth palmer in the syrian capital damascus for us tonight. Liz, thank you. Off the label said 100 Parmesan Cheese. But it was 100 wrong. There is a new warning about a contraceptive implant used by hundreds of thousand of women. And the best of america. Right back. If you love cheese, this news was pretty unappetizing. Some parmesan contains wood pulp. Then last friday an executive at pleaded guilty to selling cheese that had no relation to what was on the label. Look. Reporter you would think when fda investigators found castle cheese marketing 100 Parmesan Cheese it was actually problem. The product that they were marketing which was on the label was not what they were selling. Reporter the u. S. Attorney brought the case against the company after an fda inspection in 2012 found the parmesan was a mixture of cheaper cheeses. Like swiss and cheddar. And in one case, an unknown ingredient. Advertising it as parmesan and romano and putting Something Else so supplier could make more money. Consumer. This was fraudulent in your view . Yes. Reporter we found fraud might not be the worst of it. These fda record show finished unrefrigerated room which could cause back tear yer bacteria to thrive. The Company Found listeria in its production area ten times. But castle continued to produce and sell its cheese to stores like target and walmart without testing it. That might be troubling enough. If we didnt also find record from the Pennsylvania Department of agriculture which inspected castle around the same time as the fda. Those record tell a very different story. In june of 2012, state inspector David Trotter wrote the plant continues to be in excellent condition. I appreciate the plant management and the quality work they do. His glowing reviews continued until august 2013 when he left the department of agriculture for a new job. Director of Quality Control at castle cheese. Im with cbs news. We asked trotter to explain declined. Castle cheese is no longer on the market. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2014. The fda will be rolling out new food safety regulations, the fda tells us designed to get state and federal inspectors on the same page. Jim, thank you very much. Well, chris rocked the oscars last night. Him . If they nominated a host. I wouldnt even get this job. So you would be watching Neil Patrick Harris right now. Chris rock roasted the oscars last night on the issue of diversity. All of t t acting nominees were white. And rock pointed out thats happened many times in the past 88 years. Neilson says the 34 million oscar viewers were the fewest in eight years. George kennedy won an oscar in 1968 for his role in Cool Hand Luke and fikts chur inxture in all four airplane movies and showed off his comedic side in the naked gun. He was 91. The fda is iesh ugh the strongest warning abut assure, an implaktable permanent contraceptive device used by 750,000 women. Some come plaend of chronic pain and bleeding. The fda ordered the manufacturer, bayer to conduct a safety study and stopped short market today president obama presented the medal of honor to a 36yearold navy seal from ohio. David martin has his story. To call edward buyers a combat veteran doesnt come close. Reading your uniform correctly. Five bronze stars, two purple hearts. Correct. How many combat tours have you done . I have none nine combat tours. In 2012, member of seal team kidnapped by the taliban. As they approached the building the point man saw they had been detected. He saw a guard come out of the door. He shot him. And we started sprinting toward the door. Nicholas czech went in first. He was shot and died. Second personin. Entered into the room. I saw another enemy standing there with a weapon. I shot him. I saw a person moving across the floor. Didnt know whether or not that person was the american hostage or, if he was an enemy. So i moved down toward him. And i was able to get on top of him. When he heard dr. Joseph call out from another part of the room. Thats when high shot the person i was on top of. Jumped off him. And on to the doctor, three or five feet away. Why did you jump on the doctor . We did that. We are in body arm ore. Want to protect him from any other potential threats. When i did that. I realized there was an enemy within arms reach. And so i was able to hold him against the wall, by grabbing him around the throat. And that was, gave enough time for our teammates to get in there and to take care of that threat. When you say take care of the threat . How did that work . Our teammates came around and, they shot him. Reporter you were holding him by the throat against the wall . Correct. Yes. Reporter when it was over. Five taliban. One navy seal, Nicholas Checque laid dead or dying. The doctor was shaken but alive. How long did this took a minute to go in and take care of all we talked about. Reporter a lot of action going on in a very confined space. Thats the nature of this job. Close quarters combat. Reporter takes longer to tell it than it did to happen . Yes, it does. Reporter now a medal of honor to go with five bronze stars and two purple hearts. Other minutes of close quarters combat edward buyers saw in his nine combat tours. One thing for sure, he will never tell. David martin, cbs news, washington. 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 overnight news. Hi. Welcome to the overnight news. Im demarco morgan. Super tuesday, the biggest day of the nominating season. A dozen States Holding primaries or caucuses that will go a long way determining who heads the Major Party Tickets in november. Cbs news Battleground Tracker those Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Holding commanding leads in most super tuesday states. For trump the news is even better. The choice of half the voters who said theyre likely to vote republican. Ted cruz and marco rubio are way back. Scrambling to stop the trump steamroller. Major garrett reports. Reporter better or worse, marco rubio discovered his inner donald trump. The instinct to hurl insults. Grab attention see what happens. It is a successful model. For trump one potential downside it obscures a more important conversation about trump. Republican party. He doesnt sweat his pores are clogged from the spray tan. Marco rubio got more personal in trump. He is calling me, little marco. He is taller. 62, which is why i dont understand his hand are the size of some one, 52. Have you seen his hands . You know what they say about men with small hands . You cant trust them. Reporter this weekend the gop frontrunner continued his own attacks on rubio pointing to his performance in the february 6th debate. So i am looking at little marco. I say man there is something happening with him. He is like melting. Reporter trump campaigned and face nuded new questions about making space for White Supremacists. In the past trump retweeted messages from White Supremacists and from world war ii, fascist dictator benito mussolini. And over the weekend hesitated when asked about david dukes endorsement and hate groups generally. I know nothing abut david duke or White Supremacists. I dont know what group you are talking about. You wouldnt want me to condemn the group i know nothing about. I didnt know he endorsed me. David duke endorsed me. Okay. All right. I disavow. Okay. Rivals were quick to pounce. Waffling dangerous to the gop. How are we going to grow our party with a nominee john kasich said trump must explain. Donald trump refused to disassociate himself and condemn White Supremacists. Every day it is another thing. Ted cruz took to twitter. We should all agree, racism is wrong. Kkk is abhorrent. Trump also picked up the endorsement of alabama senator Jeff Sessions in what can be interpret to a blow to cruz. Cruz invoked sessions name in the fight against rubio and comprehensive immigration reform. As for the democrats Hillary Clinton is carrying serious momentum into todays vote. The latest cbs news Battleground Tracker shows clinton has a big lead in three key supertuesday states. Georgia, virginia, and texas. And she still riding the wave from decisive win over Bernie Sanders in saturdays south nancy cordes on the cam pran trail in fairfax, virginia. Poll numbers help explain why increasingly clinton is turning atention away from Bernie Sanders, training her fire instead on the republican candidates. I want to debate who ever they put up. Because heres what theyre saying. Theyre selling the same snake oil. Trickle down economics. Clinton changed focus after her South Carolina blowout. Tomorrow this Campaign Goes national. She won the africanamerican vote by 72 points. On face the nation, sanders didnt sugarcoat it. We did really, really badly with older africanamerican voters. I mean we got decimated. Reporter he must compete in seven more southern states. Latest cbs news Battleground Tracker shows him trailing clinton by 24 points in texas and 28 points in georgia. Voter there said clinton is but they viewed sanders as more principled and honest. Secretary clinton does it, a little bit differently. A distinction he tried to draw in oklahoma city. If you are going to get paid 200,000 for a speech. Must be a pretty damn good speech. If it is a such a good speech, you got to release the transcripts. Let everybody see it. Reporter clinton campaigned in nashville with scandal actor tony goldwyn. A camera caught the candidate reaction when he told her about the latest trump controversy. Kkk, he didnt know who david dukes was . Oh, thats pa thet tick. Sanders shared that sentiment. Tweeting, americas first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hate monger who refuses to condemn the kkk. Clinton retweeted it. Some supporters say we like mr. Trump because he tells it like it is. It is. Even as clinton pulls ahead in the delegate count, he is poised to notch his best fundraising month ever. Pulling in 36 million in february. The irs says a massive data breach may have compromised the Tax Information and Social Security numbers to more than 700,000 filers. Thieves hacked into the get transfer program which lets you check your Tax Information online. Jan crawford reports. Somebody was trying to claim a refund using my Social Security number. I knew something was wrong. Not even virginia tax attorney wayne zell was protected from hammers who he says stole his identity. I got a form earlier this week, stating that somebody had recovered my efile personal identification number. I dont have an efile personal identification number. Reporter the irs data dump the latest in a series of disclosures. Cybercriminals accessed some 114,000 taxpayer accounts. Three months later, the number grew to 334,000. This month the irs says as many as 724,000 victims. The irs is frankly not doing enough to protect us. Steve weissman is an expert in Identity Theft. The fact it

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