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CBS Evening News for 2018-02-28

This program is 29 minutes long

• Commercials

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  12:00:00 am — 12:00:15 am

• Preview/Introduction

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  12:00:15 am — 12:01:13 am

  The gatekeeper to the presidents is out. Hope Hicks Communications Director resigns one day after admitting she told white lies for her boss. Also tonight, the president says he will step up on guns. It's time to stop this nonsense. It's time. In Florida, Stoneman Douglas students return. Welcome back. In Georgia, a teacher is arrested after firing a gun in his classroom. A big city mayor under fire for tipping off illegal immigrants to ICE raids. What I did was my job as the mayor of Oakland. T...

• Anthony Scaramucci / Hope Hicks / President Trump

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  12:01:13 am — 12:04:36 am

  Good evening. We're going to begin tonight with a surprise resignation at the White House. The woman who had perhaps more power than anyone to grant access to the president is leaving hope. Hicks had been a top aide to Mr. Trump and before that, his daughter for years. We get more now on this from White House correspondent and Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan. Margaret, what happened? Well, twenty nine year old Hope Hicks is President Trump's longest serving political aide and his most...

• Pennsylvania / Steve Scalise / Trump / Diane

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  12:04:36 am — 12:07:13 am

  The president gathered members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans at the White House today and said it is time to end the nonsense and do something about gun violence. Here's chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes. I'm not into popularity. I mean to getting something done. That's good. President Trump scrambled the partisan divide on guns today, siding with Democrats on dramatically expanding background checks and raising the purchasing age for semi-automatic weapons. It doesn't make...

• Parkland, Florida / Nicole Velasquez / Samantha Grady / Andrew Pollack

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  12:07:13 am — 12:09:37 am

  All of this comes, of course, in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 14 students and three adults dead. Two weeks after the shooting, students returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School today. And Adriana Diaz is there. Students from Stoneman Douglas were greeted by well-wishers with flowers for the first time in two weeks. They returned to the school where 17 lives were lost. Where were you shot? In my here. Chest and then grazed on the back before the bell ran...

• Wal-Mart / Dicks / Cabela

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  12:09:37 am — 12:10:26 am

  Dick's Sporting Goods Stores pulled all assault style rifles and high capacity magazines from its shelves today and vowed it will no longer sell a firearm to anyone under 21. Referring to the Florida school shooting, the company said, quote, Our thoughts and prayers are with all of the victims and their loved ones. But thoughts and prayers are not enough. Dicks had already stopped selling the weapons at its main stores after the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012, but offered them at thirty five field ...

• Dalton, Georgia /

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  12:10:26 am — 12:10:50 am

  A gunshot cause panic today at a high school in Dalton, Georgia. Police say a social studies teacher, as you can see in this video, locked himself inside a classroom. They say that when the principal tried to open the door, the teacher fired his handgun out the window. Nobody was hurt, but the teacher faces felony charges, including aggravated assault and making terroristic threats....

• Washington /

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  12:10:50 am — 12:11:12 am

  We do have an update tonight on that Hazmat scare that topped our broadcast last night. Preliminary tests have turned up no toxic material inside an envelope that was opened yesterday at Joint Base Meyer Henderson Hall outside Washington. 11 people had said they felt ill and three were taken to the hospital last night. They were later released....

• Damascus / President Bashar al-Assad / Ali Ghazi

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  12:11:12 am — 12:13:33 am

  Turning now to Syria. Bit by bit, the Assad regime there is wiping out resistance in the western half of the country. Government controlled areas are in the red on this map. These shrinking rebel portion is in light blue. One of the last opposition holdouts near the capital is Ghouta. Seth Doane, the only US correspondent inside Syria, reports from government held territory in Damascus. There's a steady stream of patients at the state run hospital in Damascus. This, we're being told, is the vict...

• Commercial

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  12:13:33 am — 12:14:04 am

  Much more ahead on tonight's CBS Evening News, including the mayor who defied a federal agency. We're here in Oakland City Hall, where the mayor is unapologetic. She says she's even willing to go to jail to protect our city's sanctuary status. We're here to find out why. Until today, they were stranger. But now they share an unbreakable bond. Six people were saved just because I chose to be selfless again....

• Commercial: amazin

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  12:14:04 am — 12:14:20 am

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• Commercial: Prevnar 13

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  12:14:20 am — 12:15:20 am

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• Commercial: Nalchik Soroush / Cheik Suarez / Doescher

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  12:15:20 am — 12:15:49 am

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• Commercial: Deli Fresh Ham / Oscar Mayer

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  12:15:49 am — 12:16:06 am

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• San Francisco / Juan Peirto / Libby Schaaf / Juan Pierto

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  12:16:06 am — 12:18:47 am

  The battle over sanctuary cities has exploded into a public feud between the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the mayor of Oakland, California, now. It started when the mayor tipped off residents about a federal roundup of people living in the U.S. illegally. More on this from Carter Evans. This video shows one of the 150 undocumented immigrants being arrested in a multi-day targeted sweep throughout Northern California, including Oakland, where Mayor Libby Schaaf publicly warned ...

• Commercial

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  12:18:47 am — 12:18:55 am

  Coming up here, marijuana may be linked to a rise in pedestrian deaths....

• Commercial: super poligrip / super poly

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  12:18:55 am — 12:19:23 am

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• Commercial: Patrick / Tylenol

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  12:19:23 am — 12:19:38 am

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• Commercial: AARP

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  12:19:38 am — 12:20:09 am

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• Commercial: Trivago / Blue Beach Hotel

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  12:20:09 am — 12:20:38 am

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• Commercial

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  12:20:38 am — 12:21:08 am

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• Commercial: Coricidin HBP

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  12:21:08 am — 12:21:23 am

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• Commercial: ShelterBox / American

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  12:21:23 am — 12:21:56 am

  This has really affected people's lives. ShelterBox been exposed claims that a company working for the county extorted money from poor people to throw them in jail if they didn't pay. Frankly, it is un-American. Now those extorted split a 14 million dollar settlement. That means thousands of residents are eligible for a money going door to door and they may not know it. You really need to get the word out there. And time is running out. News Channel 5 investigates Wednesday at 10....

• White House / Golden State Warriors / Steph Curry / President

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  12:21:56 am — 12:22:28 am

  The NBA champs are in Washington to play the Wizards tonight, but the Golden State Warriors did not visit the White House. President Trump withdrew the customary invitation in September after a superstar, Steph Curry, said he didn't want to go. Today Curry said he has no regrets. Rhetoric and hate and kind of just general this day from. From the top trying to be divisive. I think that has had the opposite reaction that they got intended. So the White House, the team yesterday visited the African...

• US /

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  12:22:28 am — 12:22:57 am

  There is danger afoot. According to a new study, pedestrians are dying in numbers not seen in 25 years. Nearly 6000 were hit and killed by cars and trucks in the US last year. Experts say that smartphones and legal marijuana may be partly to blame. In states that legalized recreational pot, pedestrian deaths spiked more than 16 percent in the first half of 2017. Elsewhere, pedestrian deaths were down....

• London / Prince Harry / Prince William / Kate Middleton

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  12:22:57 am — 12:23:36 am

  In London today. Royal couple watchers were seeing double. Prince William and Kate Middleton and Prince Harry and his American bride to be, Meghan Markle, made a joint appearance together. The British media has dubbed them the Fab Four. Markle made news voicing support for the metoo and time's up movements, too. You'll often hear people say, well, you're helping women find their voices. And I fundamentally disagree with that because women don't need to find a voice. They have a voice. They need ...

• Commercial

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  12:23:36 am — 12:23:43 am

  Up next here, six lives are saved as one act of generosity leads to another....

• Commercial: Farmers Insurance

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  12:23:43 am — 12:23:59 am

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  12:23:59 am — 12:24:07 am

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• Commercial: Nick / Scholl

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  12:24:07 am — 12:24:37 am

  Nick was born to move. Not necessarily. After three toddlers with boundless energy, lower back pain won't stop him from keeping up. Because it a doctor shows kiosk, he got a recommendation for a best custom fit or thought to relieve his foot near lower back pain from being on his feet by reducing shock and stress on his body at every step. So look out, world dads taking charge. Dr. Scholl's....

• Commercial

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  12:24:37 am — 12:24:52 am

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• Commercial: Jake / Perry

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  12:24:52 am — 12:25:24 am

  We just got married for all under one roof now. Congratulations. Thank you. How many kids? My two. His three alone with two dogs. And Jake. I knew Perry. That is quite a family. Quite a lot of colleges pay for a lot of colleges. You get any financial advice? Yeah, but I'm pretty sure it's the same plan they sold me before. Your situation is totally changed now, right? How about a plan that works for five kids, two dogs and Jake over here. Great. That would be great. That okay with you, Jake? Get...

• Commercial: FDA / Dale / Samora

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  12:25:24 am — 12:26:53 am

  Despite all of the things you do to get a good night's sleep, I can feel as if they get undone while you lie, they're restless. Sound familiar? Maybe you should talk to your doctor about Belsomra, a prescription medicine for adults with insomnia who have trouble falling or staying asleep. Belsomra is an FDA approved sleep aid that works differently because it targets and inhibits the action of a rixson, a neurotransmitter in your brain that is believed to play a central role in keeping you awake...

• Commercial

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  12:26:53 am — 12:27:04 am

  Tennessee lawmakers take the first step toward arming teachers and a storm five alert as heavy rains trigger fears of flash floods. Our live team coverage is next....

• Chicago / Brendon Flaherty / Kimberly Cooper / Daisy

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  12:27:04 am — 12:28:58 am

  We end tonight with a math lesson, a fun one and heart warming. Dean Reynolds shows you the result of multiplying a single act of kindness six times until today. Kimberly Cooper and Brendon Flaherty were strangers, but now they share an unbreakable bond. What do you say to someone who is hard to come together with? Say thank you very much for giving me the freedom of being able to live my life the way I want to live it up to a machine, you know, 10 hours a night. Kimberly's kidney now lives in B...

• Good Night

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  12:28:58 am — 12:28:58 am

  That is the CBS Evening News tonight. I'm Jeff Glor. The news continues now on our streaming service, CBSN....