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Was billed as a protest. That was before six police spherdz were arrested yesterday in connection with the death of freddie gray and charged with a number of crimes, including murder and manslaughter. The speed of the arrests after a week of rioting in baltimore seemed to stunt city, and certainly changed the tone of the rally today to something that felt more like a celebration. We have two reports from baltimore tonight beginning with mark albert. No justice no peace reporter the march began with hundreds and grew to a demonstration of several thousand. Parents even brought their Young Children as police and National Guard calmly watched. Eugene puryear told us he is guardedly optimistic after the surprise arrest of six officers. We still have to go through the trield. We have to get convictions so it wont be a full victory until they bang that gaffe expel say guilty. Reporter after grays arrest police and prosecutors said officers ignored his pleas for medical help. He suffered severe spine injuries as the van drove to the police station. Police have admitted officers violated policy when they did not put a seat belt on gray. Thats what they do. Reporter Reginald Ross says baltimore officers had never put a seat belt on him in the many times hes been in a police van. Its known in baltimore and elsewhere as a rough ride. I know to grab the seat belt. I know to hold on. Reporter you know to hold on to the seat belt, even though youre not wearing it . Yeah, thats the only way to stay still. Reporter the only way to stay safe . Yeah. Reporter Dondi Johnson sr became a paraplegic in a van ride and later died. After a week of demonstrations against Police Brutality Christine Forbes today brought her sevenyearold granddaughter to the intersection of the most violent clashs. You hope that this intersection, the scene of violence and demonstration become love and peace. Love and peace. Yeah. Reporter even though all of the demonstrations today have been peaceful, the governor has now thursday the highest number of National Guard troop deployments yet 3,000 now along with another 1,000 state troopers and other police from baltimore. Jim. Axelrod mark albert reporting for us tonight in front of baltimores city hall. This case is the first major test for baltimores top prosecutor who has been on the job less than four months. As Wyatt Andrews tells us, among her challenges is proving that what happened to freddie gray in that van amounts to murder. I heard your call for no justice, no peace. Reporter prosecutor Marilyn Mosby made a compelling public gais caseagainst the six baltimore officers but as she moves into court to prove the charges she will have work to do. I dont believe she has a slamdunk pass to conviction. Ben herbst says the toughest case to prove is against the officer who drove the van in which freddie gray was fatally injured. Officer Caesar Goodson is charged with seconddegree depraved heart murder, a charge that requires the state to show goodson injured gray on purpose with extreme disregard for grays life. Do we know that the officer made extra actions that showed a depraved heart . I dont believe we do at this point. Reporter extra actions like slamming on the brakes . Yes. Reporter four of the officers including goodsoon space faceinvoluntary manslaughter charges because they did not react to his injuries. Defense attorneys are likely to argue that police didnt know gray dying and cant be blamed for his death. Attorney Michael Davey represents officer brian rice. No officer injured mr. Gray, caused harm to mr. Gray, and they are truly saddened by his death. These officers did nothing wrong. No justice no peace reporter for the people marching in baltimore, the case against the police is a major point of discussion, including what happens if the officers are acquitted. This is baltimore resident Louis Hammonds the city is going to be in an uproar. Everybody is going to be irate. It doesnt matter what color you are black white whatever yellow, red whatever. Everyones going to be upset because everyone feels let down by the system. Reporter for now those charges have helped bring a relative sense of calm to baltimore because timely theres explanation of what happened. But that explanation is a long way from guilt and its clear the police will have a strong defense. Jim. Axelrod Wyatt Andrews in baltimore. Wyatt, thank you. Tension between Police Officers and African Americans have dominated the headlines in Many American cities for months now. Take cleveland, where the city is dealing with two highprofile caseinvolving Deadly Police shootings. After the baltimore riots clevelands mayor now says his city is preparing for the worst. Heres dean reynolds. Reporter Cleveland Police officer Michael Brelo is on trial for manslaughter in the deaths of Amalissa Williams and timothy russell. In 2012, their car backfired and officers said they thought the victims, who were unarmed were shooting at them. Police fired 137 rounds, including 49 by brelo, who was accused of shooting even after the victims had stopped moving. Last year, a justice deparment inquiry found more than 600 cases of Excessive Police force in cleveland from 20102013. Im very much angry. Samarria rices pain is still fresh from the death of her 12yearold son tamir, who was shot by a white officer last november. Shots fired. Male down. Black male. Reporter a security tape showed him waving what turned out to be a toy pistol. When his 14yearold sister went to his aid police tackled her repeatedly. An investigation of the shooting has gone on for months, but no charges have been filed. What do you think is the holdup . I really dont know. I need an indictment immediately. It is an openandshut case. Its five months later. I dont know what theyre waiting on. Reporter do you think theres a Police Problem or a race problem . Its a race problem with bad Police Officers. Let me just say that. Because all Police Officers are not bad. Im aware of that. Reporter in the trial of officer brelo summations are set for next week. There is no jury, so a decision from the judge to either acquit or convict could come a week after that. Dean reynolds, cbs news, cleveland. Axelrod now to news of a mostspecial delivery in great britain. Prince william and his wife, kate the duchess of cambridge have a new baby girl. Still unnamed the royal infant awayed in at eight pounds three ounces when she was born at 8 34 a. M. London time. Meers mark phillips. Reporter a sleeping princess, not yet 10 hours old when she left the hospital with her parents. It may be a while before any prince charming arrives to wake her, but if she had opened her eyes she would have seen what will bake familiar site hundreds of people looking at her. It was a day of carefully oh, straight royal drama in so far as any natural birth can be orchestrated. The duchess had avoided the relentless eye of the worlds press when she arrived just after 6 00 in the morning london time. A little over two hours later the news was out. It was the girl the family were rumored to have wanted. God save the queen reporter news of the birth had been tweeted first by this thoroughly modern royal family, although the traditional official notice was placed by the front gate of Buckingham Palace as well. By that tiernlg the whole world knew, include the new princess big brother 21monthold prince george, whose father had left his mothers side to go pick him up. Its only the third time george has been expose to the cameras himself, although he seems to have picked up some of the royal tricks of the trade. George had been sent back home by the time his little sister had her turn in front of the lenses. This princess with no name is a special prince ness a lot of ways. Shes number four in line as an heir to the throne, and a new law means that no son born in future to william and kate will be able to jump ahead of her. The name game is the next mystery. The bookmakers have been making odds for months. Alice is the red hot favorite six to four. Reporter the smart money isnt on diana says royal author robert hartman. I think the name Princess Diana is so emblematic of so many things it would almost be putting an unfair burden on the child if she was named that. The saga end here at kensington palace, where william, kate, and the kids will spend a couple days before heading to their country home and they hope a little piece and qiet. Charlotte and alice still have the shortest odds with the bookies for whatever that means. Axelrod mark, thank you. It is fight night in america after months of hype, Floyd Mayweather jr. And Manny Pacquiao will finally lace up the gloves and get after it in las vegas tonight. As carter evans tells us, even in a town known for throwing big money around, the dollars involved in this fight are stunning. Reporter if the crowd energy at the weighin was any indication, the intensity of tonights fight will be off the charts. Reza yazei says it will be a onceinalifetime experience. What else better than going to the feist century with your son. Reporter but like most of the fans filling the nearly 17,000seat arena, his tickets werent cheap. 10,000. Reporter apiece . Close. Were in the middle level. Reporter youre not in the nose bleeds. No. Reporter but you paid through the nose. Even before the first punch is thrown, this fight is expected to smash records says l. A. Times sports wrierd bill dwyer. The amount of money being thrown around here is almost beyond anybodys comprehension but so is much of boxing. The matchup is supposed to generate 400 million through ticket sales spongsorship and payperview buys. Theyre expected to split a purse of at least 300 million. If the money on tickets and merchandise isnt enough, theres always the sports book. Mayweather say 2 favorite. What that means is you have to risk 2 of your dollars to win one of mine. Jay road runs the m. G. M. , and expects people to bet up to 80 million. Do you think youll see firsttime betters. Oh, yes. Reporter the fight will likely break even more. Records when it comes to betting. The undefeated mayweather is the oddson favorite and people are getting their bets in now. Carter evans, cbs news, las vegas. Axelrod gas prices are up nationwide. This is not unusual for springtime as refiners change over to summer blendz but the hikes this year have been especially sharp. Gas sup57 cents a gallon since january, according to a. A. A. Jericka duncan has more. Reporter nationally, gas prices are up for the 18th day in a row. Are new yorker vince oral uses an app to find the cheapest prices. I get ton the prices. They are so volatile, though. Reporter californians pay at least a dollar more than the national average. An explosion at a refinery in torrance and shutdowns at several other refineries are partly to blame. Oil Industry Expert denton cinquegrana. Outside of california, there are only a hand full of refineries that can make californiaspec gasoline outside the united states. Reporter the price of a gallon is 2. 61 least 20 cents higher than it was a month ago. Denton cinquegrana says there is no need to panic. Why are you so confident gas prices wont continue to increase like they did in 2008 . Theres plenty of crude oil to be refind. Refiners are motivated to run right now. Ening 2008 we had very strong demand. 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I wont cry i wont cry axelrod if somebody tapped you on the shoulder more than half a century ago and told you this song youre writing is going to end up in the library of congress, what would you have said . I would have said there is a god. To think that my childrens childrens childrens children would look at that one day and say, wow, grasm did that. Its a good feeling. Stand by me jim that was just about six weeks ago. Stand by me was covered more than 400 times by everyone from john lennon to otis redding to muhammad ali. Still ahead a friendship forged in disaster. How an american is helping a family in quakestricken nepal. Thank you mom, for protecting my future. Thank you for being my hero and my dad. Military families are thankful for many things. The legacy of usaa Auto Insurance could be one of them. Our worldclass service earned usaa the top spot in a study of the most recommended Large Companies in america. 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Tonight he shows us something very special thats been found. Reporter when Californian Spencer Dickinson came to nepal he never expected to wind up picking through rubble in kathmandu. Or to be calling the sankhu family his friends. You okay . Yeah, youre lucky yes. He had come to climb mt. Everest on a budget and bought boots from a shyshiner who invited him home. He introduced me to his family. They made me tea. They made me lunch. When the first quake hit i fell to the ground. I was traversing across a steep path, and, you know, i thought it was altitude messing with my head. I thought i was dizzy. Reporter ultimately, he was unharmed and evacuated by helicopter. On his way back to kathmandu he found himself wondering about that family who sold him those boots. He found the home hed seen just two weeks ago flattened. I was shocked they were still alive to be honest. Reporter the shahis had not lost their hospitality and offered him tea and snacks. 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