Transcripts For WCBS CBS Overnight News 20160311 : compareme

Transcripts For WCBS CBS Overnight News 20160311

Brought to you by guthy renker. We have a major story now on our investigation of this countrys largest Veterans Charity. Americans donate hundreds of millions of dollars each year to Wounded Warrior project. Expecting that the none knee money will be used to help some of the 52,000 veterans who were wounded in iraq and afghanistan. But cbs news revealed that much of the money as much as 50 was being spent on lavish parties and employee meetings. Now, the two top executives of wwp have been fired. Correspondent chip reid and investigative producer Jennifer Janisch broke the story. And chip has the latest. Chip. Scott, Wounded Warrior project, chief executive officer, Steven Nardizzi, and chief operating officer al giordano were fired by the board this afternoon here in new york. With a gift of 19 a month you can join Wounded Warrior project. Reporter by appealing to americas generosity, Wounded Warriors project raised more than 1 billion in donations since 2003. 300 million in 2014 alone. But while the money was pouring in, it was also flowing out. On lavish employee conferences. In 2014, 26 million. Lets get a Mexican Mariachi band in there, the logo, put them on every Staff Members desk, get it catered, have a big old party. Eric millette was a Staff Sergeant when he took a job with Wounded Warriors as motivational speaker. After two years he quit. Ill be damned if you will take hard working americans money, and drink it and waste it instead of helping brave men and women who gave you freedom. To walk this face of the earth. Reporter more than 40 former employees told cbs news that of control. These two former employees were so fearful of retaliation, they asked us not to show their faces. It was extremely extravagant. Dinners, and alcohol, and just total access. For a Charitable Organization serving veterans all this expense on expensive resorts and alcohol. What the military calls fraud, waste, and abuse. Reporter former employees told us excessive spending began when Steven Nardizzi took over as ceo in 2009. They point to the 2014 annual meeting at Luxury Resort in Colorado Springs as typical of his style. Reporter to make a grand entrance. Yes, come in on a segway. Come in on a horse. Reporter nardizzi defended the charitys spending. If your only fixation is spending the most on programs, you can run a lot of programs, spend a l, and have them be ineffective. Reporter many donors were outraged over allegations that a little over half of donations went to help wounded vets. Fred and diane kane raised 325,000 with golf tournaments. I feel like im representing all of these people that have donated over the years. All of these seniors over 65 that, that have sent them 19 a month. All the people on fixed incomes. If nobody is going to talk about this right now, and it has the to be then it has the to be me. Reporter are you done with Wounded Warrior project . Yes, except for my motion of trying to see change there. Sources tell the cbs news the board received a financial audit. There are discussions under way about retired senior military officers considered to take over well be following up on this this important story. Chip. Thank you very much. In another important story in the south. Rising floodwaters have killed at least five people including a 6yearold boy in louisiana. The storms wont break until saturday. David begnaud is there. Reporter bossier city is underwatt tire night. This woman seen floating down street on an air mattress one of dozens of evacuees in the area. 3,500 homes are under mandatory evacuation. But some residents are unable to get out. We can put some more in here if we need. Rescue crews are searching this area helping families get to higher ground. Neighbors are pitching in. Are not flooded. Yet. Across the red river from shreveport, over 20 inches of rain has fall in in this area. Washing away sections of highway. National guard. Captain mike carmen. 30 years i have been here. Probably epic. Probably the worst. And, with what we have coming in, probably going to be more. Reporter among those rescued. Young, old and furlegged. Swepten from the rivers, these large carp could be seen swimming all over sidewalks. It is all part of an historic weather pattern. Pushing tropical moisture into louisiana, arkansas, tennessee and texas. It is causing severe thunderstorms and excessive rainfall. Never seen before in month of march. Just come very fast. Very sudden. Reporter back in bossier city, steven hamm worries what comes next. Everyone is prepared for a complete, total loss at this point. Not many of us on the street have flood insurance. Because this never happens in this neighborhood. Never. Reporter more rain is expected. The good news, only abut an inch forecasters say. The threat of rain starting to diminish. Rivers. Floodwater has to go stom where. From tennessee, to gulf of mexico, scott, the rivers will rise. And it will be record setting. David begnaud, david, thanks. The cbs overnight news will be right back. Many people clean their dentures with toothpaste or plain water. And even though their dentures look clean, in reality theyre not. If a denture were to be put under a microscope, we can see all the bacteria that still exists on the denture, and that bacteria multiplies very rapidly. Thats why dentists recommend cleaning with polident everyday. Polidents unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99. 99 of odor causing bacteria. For a cleaner, fresher, sounds of birds whistling music introducing new ky touch gel cr me. For massage and intimacy. Every touch, gently intensified. A little touch is all it takes. Ky touch. Theres moving. And theres moving with move free ultra. 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Contributor and former deputy director, michael morel sees no reason to doubt the documents authenticity and say they will undermine isis to conduct attacks in the u. S. And countries. Western intelligence has their hands on these. You cant send those people back to conduct an attack. Because you know theyre going to be, theyre going to be picked up soon as they cross the border. Each form has 23 blocks, name, alias, date of birth. Marital status, country of residents. Education, profession, phone number. One block asks fighters to choose a position to apply for. And according to analysis of one batch of documents. 120 of 1700 recruits, volunteer ford suicide missions. There are said to be at least ten americans on the list. One of them, douglas robert, the alias for an illinois man, Douglas Macarthur mccain was already known to western intelligence and since been killed on the battlefield. The guys that you didnt know. Thats the value of this. It puts new people on your radar. Reporter the documents are 2 years old. Some are duplicates. Some encrypted. Not clear exactly how many active fighters have had their identities blown. Thousand. David martin at the pentagon. David, thank you. There is an alarming new study we will have that next. The cdc says one in three americans has a blood sugar level that raises their risk of diabetes. Tonight, dr. Jon lapook on prediabetes. Researchers estimate half of all adults in california have prediabetes or diabetes. 46 of all adults. 33 of young adults 1839. The rates are very high. Surprisingly high. Researcher susan babey coauthored the report. We are very concerned about the rates among the young adults of developing type ii diabetes which sets them on path for some serious complications in the future. Complications include blindness, heart and Kidney Disease and premature death. Without intervention, about 70 of those with prediabetes eventually develop diabetes. With intervention it doesnt have to progress to the full blown disease. Dr. Jacqueline lonier with Naomi Berrie Center at new york presbyterian. Through diet and exercise, regular activity, watching carbohydrate intake. 52yearold paul healy diagnosed in 2010. Then diabetes. Since then he changed his diet and lost 32 pounds. Part of what happened when i was diagnosed is i was really in denial about it. So, it took me a while to really get my blood sugars under and learn to to say no. Reporter the cdc estimates 90 of those with prediabetes dont know they have it. A blood test can make the diagnosis. That is crucial because more than half of the time, diet and exercise, can prevent prediabetes from progressing to diabetes. What are the symptoms of prediabetes . Im feeling perfectly fine. There arent any. Get a blood test. Get the test. Jon, thank you. In mexico, a billboard really delivered its message. Have a look. With high wind. Howling yesterday, the billboard, 100 feet tall, weighing a ton crashed into a number of cars. But there were no serious injuries. Up next a koala is made famous by 60 minutes. Blinds to gos cellular shades are as beautiful as they are energy efficient, insulating your home in warm weather and cold. Right now, take 25 off hundreds of styles and colors just in time for winter blinds to go. Blinds for life. E mighty Philistine Army stood on the hill above the men of king saul. As the giant goliath moved in for the kill, young david reached into his bag and slung one of his stones at goliaths head. Who will stand up for you . E e blinds to gos cellular shades are as beautiful as they are energy efficient, insulating your home in warm weather and cold. Right now, take 25 off hundreds of styles and colors just in time for winter we dont often end with murder mystery. But with the suspect still at large, we asked John Blackstone to get us the facts. Reporter other animals at the Los Angeles Zoo may have witnessed the crime theyre not talking. The victim, killarney, 14yearold female koala mauled to death. The suspect on zoo security cameras is well then to authorities. Most everyone else in los angeles. As p 22. The Hollywood Mountain lion. Zoo director john lewis. What we know at this point it is circumstantial, but he was in the zoo the night that the koala disappeared. Certainly would be capable of doing it. Murder and you seem to be the defense attorney for the accused. I dont know if ive see it that way. And reasonable doubt. There could be. Bobcats. Coyotes. One Mountain Lion lives in griffith park. More than 4,000 acres of wild land preserve in the middle of los angeles, which include the zoo. P 22 may have had at least one prior. We feel pretty confident that he had taken a raccoon at one point and fed on it. Wild animals dont know this is a zoo. Absolutely. Koala bears are adorable and have a place in all the publics heart. Of course, mountain lie yn he doesnt see it that way. P 22 has never been known to bother a human. If he is guilty at all it is only for doing what comes naturally. John blackstone, cbs news, los angeles. Thats the overnight news for this friday. For some of you the news continues. Little bit later. For the morning news. And cbs this morning from the Broadcast Center in new york announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the cbs overnight news, im michelle miller. The republican president ial contenders squared off in miami for the final debate before next weeks nominating contest. Five state will cast ballotss including winner take all primaries in florida and ohio and could boost john kasich who leads in the polls but could spell doom for marco ruby who trails donald trump in his home state by 23 points. Heres some of what the candidates had to say. Saudi arabia was making 1 billion a day. We were getting virtually nothing to protect them. We, we are going to be in a different world. We are going to negotiate real deals and bring the wealth back to our country. We are 19 trillion. We are going to bring wealth senator rubio, will that be enough to save Social Security. No. The numbers dont add up. When i ran for the senate in 2010, i came out and said we will have to make changes to Social Security. Everyone says thats the end of your campaign. In florida you cant talk about that. People know it is the truth here in florida. Fraud is not enough. Lets wipe out the fraud. But as you said it wont add up. You gave the numbers. Second point is on foreign aid, hear that all the time. I am against any wasting of money on foreign aid. Less than 1 of the federal budget. Numbers dont add up. Bottom line, we cant continue to tiptoe around this and throw out, i am going to get rid of fraud, abuse. Be more careful how we spend foreign aid. Deficit you are going to have to make up. Heres the thing if we do not do it we will have a debt crisis not to mention crisis in Social Security and medicare. Both parties have taken far too long to deal with it. One of the major issues barely been asked in any of the debates. We better deal with it or we will have to explain to our children why they inherited this disaster. As the president what i will do for seniors at or near retirement. No changes. Every benefit protected to the letter. For younger yurkers, we need to gradually raise the retirement age. And change benefit, so it matches inflation, instead of exceeding inflation. Dana, we need how to have for younger workers, a portion of your tax payments are in personal accounts. A 401 k , you own, you control that you can pass on to your kids and grandkids. I had a plan in 1999 to save Social Security. Not only to have Social Security for young people, and give them private accounts. More 18yearolds believe they have a better chance of seeing a ufo than Social Security check. We have a lot of seniors who are i have a plan to fix it doesnt require, raising the retirement age. If you had wealth throughout your lifetime. When the time comes for you to be on Social Security, you will still get it. It will be less. For those who depend on that Social Security, they will get the full benefit. Dont have to monkey with retirement age. How do i know that . I have done this all before. This is not a theory. Do you have to take on entitlement programs. You dont have to cut them. You need to innovate in the 21st century. Not only did we have of a balanced budget in washington, but when i went to ohio we were 8 billion in the hole. Now 2 billion in the black. Credit is strong. Up 400,000. I want to go back with the same formula to beat the insiders again. Ive will get it done. This country will be much donald trump has two Campaign Events today. Another in chicago. Some of Trumps Campaign stops hatch degenerated into raucous affairs with angry protestors sometimes for their own safety. Julianna goldman reports. Rakeem jones punched in the face escorted out of Donald Trumps rally. And cell phone videos show jones being thrown to the ground and tackled by police. 78yearold john mcgraw was arrested and charged with assault. He spoke to inside edition as the he was leaving the rally. Yes he deserved it. The next time we see him, we might have to kill him. Reporter confrontations some become common in trump rallies. Bye, bye. Go home to mommy. Go home to mommy. Last week, ramie goers, surrounded, shoved this demonstrator. Others show supporters, spit and the audience gets a warning. This is a peaceful rally. In order to notify the officers, please hold a rally sign over your head, start chanting, trump. Reporter trump rarely urges restraint. Am i allowed to rip the whistle out of the moult. Like to punch him in the face. If you see some body getting ready to throw a tomato. Knock the crap out of them, seriously. Just knock the hell. I promise you i will pay for legal fees. Not just trump protestors. My shell fields, reporter for breitbart said earlier this week, Trumps Campaign manager grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me down. She even tweeted a picture of a bruise on her arm. The campaign called the accusation totally false. A reporter from the washington post, standing near fields confirmed her account. For last nights incident. Spokesperson called it unfortunate but beyond their control. Encourage that behavior and dont discourage supporters or protesters from exercising their First Amendment rights. Bernie sanders, hillary clin have clinton have Campaign Events today ahead of the primary tuesday. They pulled no punches at the last debate. Nancy cordes reports. You have a very important primary year in florida. In sunny florida today, sanders and clinton showered voters with love. We are going to make investments in the port. Reporter florida is nearly a quarter latino. Last night both candidates vow to be lenient with undocumented immigrants. Yes, no, can you promise tonight that you wont deport children who are here. I will not deport children or family members, either, jorge. Can you promise not to

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