Gunmen attacked a college in Kenya, killing 15 people and wounding 29 others. Students had received warnings about a possible attack but security did not take preventative measures. Meanwhile, al Qaeda in Yemen was able to release prisoners from jail due to the security vacuum caused by rebel uprisings. Nuclear talks with Iran are extending past deadlines but both sides claim slow progress is being made.
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This Morning from CBS News, April 2, 2015
1. This Morning from CBS News, April 2, 2015
Kenyan college attacked
Gunmen attacked a college campus in northeast Kenya early today, opening fire in dormitories and
killing at least 15 people and wounding 29 others, witnesses said. CBS News correspondent Debora
Patta reports it appeared that some Christian students were being held hostage in one of the dorms.
Patta says students at Garissa College received letters about a week ago warning them of a possible
attack, but it seemed no preventative measures were taken by security services.
Prison break
As Saudi-led airstrikes continued hammering purported Shiite rebel locations across Yemen, the
security vacuum created by the rebels' uprising has reportedly enabled al Qaeda's powerful affiliate
in the country to release one of its key members -- along with everyone else -- from a prison in the
southeast.
Slow progress
The Iran nuclear talks in Switzerland are likely to extend 24 to 48 hours past Tuesday's deadline,
meaning the negotiations could drag on until the end of the week. CBS News correspondent
Margaret Brennan reports both sides still claim that slow progress is being made. But after blowing
past the self-imposed deadline, there appears to be little pressure to get anything done immediately.
Durst to court
Millionaire Robert Durst is set to return to a Louisiana courtroom today. The real estate heir faces
felony drug and weapons charges following his arrest for alleged murder last month. Durst is wanted
in California for the 2000 killing of his good friend, Susan Berman. As CBS News correspondent Erin
Moriarty reports, if Durst's lawyers' recent filings are any indication, they are planning an all-out
legal battle to get him out of Louisiana.
Duke noose
2. Duke University is condemning the latest apparent act of racism on campus. Students protested into
the night, as authorities investigated who hung a noose from a tree on campus this week. CBS News
correspondent Jericka Duncan reports on how this is just the latest racially-charged incident to rock
the North Carolina school this year.
Model for Ferguson
The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has wrapped-up three days of meetings in
Ferguson, Missouri, as it works on a plan to tackle the discriminatory policing practices detailed in
its searing 100-page report last month. The department does have one potential role model for
reforming Ferguson. It's looking at the successful turnaround of a similar size police force in East
Haven, Connecticut as a template for reforms in Ferguson. Here is what happened there.
Flakka
Police in south Florida have seen a growing number of cases of bizarre and uncontrollable behavior
linked to a street drug called flakka, one of the newer chemicals in the booming category of
synthetic or designer drugs. The immediate and long-term effects of flakka can rival some of the
strongest crystal meth and cocaine.
Food incubators
Entrepreneurs looking to get a leg up in the food industry may seek a new pathway to success. Food
incubators are popping up in commercial kitchen spaces across the country. CBS News
correspondent Chip Reid reports from Union Kitchen, an incubator in Washington, D.C.
Walmart's pay hike
Walmart's highly publicized pay hike is a victory of sorts for its 1.3 million employees, but American
taxpayers will foot the bill for the large subsidies that will still be needed to compensate for the
discount retailer's low wages. That's the finding of a report that calculated that this month's increase
to at least $9 an hour for Walmart workers won't be enough to get many of them off public
assistance. Walmart gives CBS News MoneyWatch a different interpretation of the data.
Guitars from ruins
Detroit has more than 70,000 abandoned buildings. Among them is an old Cadillac plant that houses
piles of wood. Where others see trash, Mark Wallace sees buried treasure. CBS News correspondent
Chip Reid reports Wallace started making guitars out of Detroit's reclaimed wood a year and a half
3. ago. He not only enjoys making the instruments but also playing them.
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