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>> reporter: most of them elderly. >> 10 to 15 minutes from the time the water came over to the water flooded their homes. >> reporter: and once it flooded their homes, all bets were off? >> all bets were off. it was just survival at that time. >> reporter: two years later, hurricane florence landed the one-two combo. >> it really boggles the mind, right, that this same thing can happen again. houses are underwater. >> reporter: breanna goodwin, a community organizer here remembers 24 inches of rain. >> it was almost this feeling of being shellshocked. i see the water. i see the flooding. but is this real? >> reporter: lumberton learned the hard way twice. today's hurricanes can target communities far from the coast. gavin smith, a professor at north carolina state, studies the impact of climate change on natural disasters. >> not only the storms are becoming more intense, slower moving and water laden, but the
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populations are changing. and the people that are moving into these hazardous areas may not fully understand the impact. >> reporter: warmer oceans fuel storms. our warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, and storms now routinely drop 10 to 15% more rain. storms like matthew -- >> up on the roof. >> reporter: which i covered back in 2016. >> finding shelters for people gets harder when buildings have no power and no water. >> reporter: eight years later, there could be a lot more lumbertons going forward. in roughly 30 years, future storms could cause flood damage to more than 19 million properties coastal and inland. and only about one quarter of them would hae flood insurance. >> we literally lost everything. >> reporter: hurricane flooding ruined sheila moore's lumberton house twice. she had no flood insurance. church groups rebuilt her home both times. you redid the whole house after matthew, and along comes florence.
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>> another one. >> reporter: what was that like? >> it was devastating too. >> reporter: even years later, lumberton's only partially recovered. physically, psychologically. >> you don't feel safe. you know that there is something that can destroy your home, and that's just not a very easy feeling to have. >> reporter: it's a sea change. today's hurricanes menace more than coastlines. for "eye on america," mark strassmann in lumberton, north carolina.
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the world's most famous high-wire master is returning to new york city today 50 years after making history at the top of the world. martha teichner spent the day with philippe petit. >> the red lean is the wire. we know it's 20-feet high at the top of the two posts. >> reporter: on wednesday and thursday, philippe petit will walk across a high-wire in new new york city, the world's largest cathedral. those specks down there, philippe petit and me. >> my love for magnificent places and my love for walking on a tightrope and sharing with an audience my passion has not changed. >> reporter: he's walked this space many times before. but this week's walks will not
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really be about here and now. they'll be a celebration of that other walk, the one he spectacularly took 50 years ago on august 7th, 1974. between the twin towers, a quarter of a mile up. >> there is somebody out there on a tightrope walk. >> i can see a photograph, and immediately, that pulls me into remembering, remembering not only with my brain, but with my body. >> reporter: he crossed back and forth eight times in 45 minutes. for the oscar-winning documentary "man on wire," he wanted this music. by eric sati.
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>> the first opening is a piece of music that is made of suspension, is made of silence. it's made of hesitation. it's made of nothingness. >> reporter: just like his dance in the sky. >> i had conserve my sense of rebellion and my sense of poetry. >> reporter: he was impish, playful, and a bit cocky. when the nypd hauled him off to the station. >> why did you do this? >> when i see a beautiful place to put my wire, i cannot resist. >> reporter: philippe petit was charged with trespassing and disorderly misconduct, a colossal understatement for what he called his coup. the charges were later dropped. >> in france, when you rob a bank, it's a coup. wat you say in america, the caper. >>. >> reporter: for months, petit
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performed in the streets of new york to finance the stealth operation. he and his accomplices skulked around, sneaking into the still unfinished world trade center, plotting how to get their equipment inside. and how to string a wire between the towers. using a bow and arrow. so this is the very one? >> yep. >> reporter: did you like all that trickery? >> oh, i love it. it is always high. >> reporter: overlooking where the twin towers used to be. so it's interesting to know that the twin towers was actually 30 stories higher. i stop in the middle of one of my walk, and i sit on the cable. i was able to look and to marvel at what i was looking at. i'm thinking nobody in the world had ever walked so high, and nobody has seen what i am seeing. >> reporter: and nobody would
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ever again. >> i was actually walking right >> reporter: after the destruction of the twin towers on 9/11. >> inside my heart, they're not gone. and that's what you do when somebody you love dies. you carry them with you and they're still alive in some way. >>. >> reporter: philippe petit is 74 now, about to turn 75. he lives in upstate new york and has a high-wire in his backyard. he likes to say age means nothing to him. his performance on wednesday will be by his count his 100th public walk. rehearsing for it, his concentration is ferocious, his preparation fanatical, as if his life depend on it, which it does.
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>> there is no fear. why should i make a mistake if i put my michigan entire mind and body into feeling myself being alive. and even if really, i know my body is slowly refusing to get my brain's order, still i will have the joy of rediscovering the magic of balance every day by practicing. this is the actual historic one would say legendary cable that i used between the twin towers and it was very long, so i cut it. >> reporter: walking it half a century later, he is still the rebel poet. still defying anybody who says no, you can't. >> excellent. >> absolutely perfect on the first try. okay. >> that was martha teichner reporting. in lighter news, there is a new must-have feature in
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bathrooms across the country. here is kelefa sanneh. >> reporter: architect stephanie goto has designed galleries, restaurants, and homes all over the world. in all of them, there is one room she never overlooks. >> it's a place of spiritual repose. >> reporter: a bathroom, she says should be effortless and elegant. >> people understand by seeing my work that there is a real attention to detail. >> reporter: in every room? >> in every room. and so i hope that their expectation is that i will be thinking about the bathroom as in detail as everything else in their home. >> reporter: increasingly, that means not just the toilet, but -- bidet. >> it's a life-changing. it's something that i can't live without. >> reporter: according to a recent you gov poll, nearly half of americans have or would like to have bidet at home. they're saying hi. i've never been saluted by a toilet before. >> reporter: the idea behind a
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bidet is simple. instead of wiping, washing and drying. bidets are common in asia, but only just catching on here, helped along by the great total toilet paper panic of 2020. that seems like an extreme reaction to say there is no toilet paper at the supermarket. i'm going to install a bidday at my house. >> you would think so. however, toilet paper ran out in 2 1/2 weeks. and then everyone began to look for the alternative, and the alternative became the bidet. >> reporter: the corporate leader of strategy at toto. the total leader in bidet sales. is it an acquired taste. >> the first time oh, that's press nice. >> reporter: here's how it works. >> this is a occupancy sensor. >> oh, i see. >> this knows if you're there or not. it will then allow you to press the buttons to allow the wand to work. >> reporter: the world's most popular bidet is toto's washlet
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which starts at $350 and attaches to a conventional toilet. other versions are more luxurious. >> you can actually turn on features here that will allow you to oscillate and pulsate the water. >> oh. >> reporter: when made us wonder, how is the water pressure. >> there it goes! oh, my gosh. >> heated seats too, heated seats. >> reporter: toto's top of the line bidet celebrated by dj khalid is neorest. does that mean expensive? >> no, that means rest. it just happens to be expensive. >> reporter: what am i looking at for one of these? >> around $20,000 list price. >> $20,000? >> $20,000. >> a $20,000 toilet. okay. that was kelefa sanneh, and this is "cbs news roundup."
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we take you now to the waters off south florida where some teenaged girls are taking a bite out of science by taking part in a study of sharks. here is elaine quijano. >> watch your head, watch your step. >> reporter: on biscayne bay, these middle and high schoolers are about to come face-to-face with some of the ocean's top predators. genesis jackson has never seen a shark up close. >> sharks are my favorite. >> reporter: why? >> they are amazing. they're beautiful. they're powerful. >> are you guys excited? >> yeah. >> reporter: >> let's go! >> reporter: students are joining university of miami researchers as they catch, tag, and release sharks. >> it feels very extraordinary to be able to be that close to these beautiful animals.
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>> so we know what we're doing? >> yeah. >> reporter: katherine mcdonald heads up the program called fins, females in natural sciences. she is studying how sharks live and produce in their ever changing ocean home. pollution and warming waters are altering where sharks migrate, feed and give birth. affecting ecosystems. >> so tagging is an opportunity to better understand how sharks use habitat use. today we're using mark-capture tags which will tell us if we ever see that shark again. >> bait thrown from the back of the boat lures sharks in. the team quickly takes measurements and tags the dorsal fin. >> one, two, three! >> reporter: mcdonald has a suspicion about this shark and performs an ultrasound. it reveals this black tip is carrying three shark pups. >> she is confirmed pregnant, guys. she is carrying pups. >> it was amazing! >> reporter: why?
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>> i got to touch a shark. >> the dream for all of us is they see science as a realistic and accessible opportunity for themselves. >> reporter: an unforgettable lesson about a sea of possibilities. elaine quijano, cbs news, biscayne bay, florida. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." for some of you, the news continues. for others, tune in later for "cbs mornings." and follow us 24/7 at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm erica brown.
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hello and thanks for staying up with us. i'm erica brown in new york, and here are some of the top stories on "cbs news roundup." kamala harris' new running mate tim walz goes on the offensive right out of the gate. the justice department says it has disrupted a plot to assassinate american political targets, including donald trump. and tropical storm debby lingers over the southeast, drenching communities with torrential rain and flooding. the new democratic vice presidential candidate tim walz is now under pressure to get his message out to american voters as soon as possible. the minnesota governor was we rest vealed by kamala harris as her running mate tuesday in front of an enthusiastic crowd in pennsylvania. cbs' skyler henry reports from washington. >> reporter: vice president kamala harris hit the stage with minnesota governor tim walz in philadelphia, officially introducing the former high school teacher and football coach to the nation as her running mate. >> in 91 days, the nation will
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know coach walz by another name, vice president of the united states. >> it's kamala harris. good morning, governor. >> reporter: harris made the call to the two-term governor tuesday. >> it will be a privilege to take this across the country with you. >> reporter: >> these guys are creepy, and yes, just weird as hell. that's what you see. >> reporter: sources close to the selection process tell cbs news it was walz's leadership experience and rapport with harris that pushed him to the top of the list. they embark on a five-day swing through battleground states with stops in michigan wednesday. >> when elected, we will govern on behalf of all americans. >> reporter: the trump campaign wasted no time, calling the new harris-walz ticket dangerously liberal with ohio senator j.d. vance taking that message to philadelphia voters tuesday.
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>> tim walz's record is a joke. he has been one of the most far left radicals in the entire united states government at any level. >> reporter: the republican vice presidential nominee is set to deliver remarks in detroit wednesday, hours before harris and walz make a campaign stop in the city? skyler henry, cbs news, the white house. four milwaukee hotel workers are to be tried under felony murder charges in the case of a man who died while being restrained. 43-year-old d'vontaye mitchell died from suffocation and the effects of multiple drugs prosecutors say. the four hotel employees are accused of holding mitchell face-down for up to nine minutes. according to the complaint, one of the employees told investigators mitchell was having trouble breathing and pleaded for help. the justice department is charging a pakistani man for a murder-for-hire plot against u.s. government officials and politicians, including donald trump. sources tell cbs news intelligence about the alleged plot prompted the secret service to ramp up security for the former president.
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cbs' nicole sganga has details. >> reporter: the complaint accuses pakistani man asif merchant allegedly tied to iran of orchestrating a plan to assassinate government officials on u.s. soil. one of those officials former president donald trump. >> law enforcement officials received a tip, and then reportedly used a range of tools and tactics to catch him engaging in criminal behavior. >> reporter: the complaint alleges merchant travelled to new york in april, contacting a potential business partner to assist him with rounding up hit men. instead, that individual alerted the fbi and began working with investigators as a confidential source. the confidential source accompanied merchant on scouting missions to new york city clubs, potential recruitment spots, and shelled out $5,000 to undercover agents posed as would-be assassins. >> while we still don't know the
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level of connection this individual had with the iranian regime itself, what is clear is that iran has a long memory. >> reporter: iran has long vowed to retaliate against trump and other top u.s. officials after they ordered a drone strike in 2020 which killed qasem soleimani, the head of the powerful quds force. last year national security adviser john bolton spoke to "60 minutes" about the iranian plot against him in 2022. >> so what exactly was the plot against you? >> the revolutionary guard sought to procure either my kidnapping or my assassination, not directly by a revolutionary guards member, but by seeking a hitman who would carry out the job either in the u.s. or abroad. >> reporter: merchant was arrested last month within days of the attempted assassination of former president trump at a rally in butler, pennsylvania. but investigators have found no
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evidence of any connection. nicole sganga, cbs news, washington. tropical storm debby is slowly making its way up the east coast, dropping record rainfall and flooding communities. cbs' manuel bojorquez starts us off from the storm zone. >> reporter: in monks corner, south carolina, north of charleston, a tornado from tropical storm debby tore through businesses and turned over cars. >> one gentleman said shopping carts were flying in the air around him, and he jumped on top of a young lady to protect her from the glass. >> reporter: debby brought heavy wind, rain and flooding to charleston where mayor william cogswell extended monday night's curfew until wednesday. >> we especially don't need nia hoos driving through the water and causing damage to property. >> reporter: at least 9 inches of rain have already inundated the city, and another 8 to 10 inches are forecast through friday. charleston was a ghost town. >> busy, busy. >> reporter: except in this
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spot, where man who goes by abdul was behind the cash register at this convenience store where he has worked for 27 years. >> nearly every storm i'm open. nobody opens, just me. >> reporter: after making landfall as a category 1 hurricane on florida's west coast on monday, debby brought flooding to georgia. >> i'm cristian benavides in savannah, georgia, where some roads remain closed. while flooding did not reach the historic levels that officials warned about, the heavy rainfall still left some residents picking up the pieces. >> my first instinct was to check on my kids. >> reporter: a single mother of four was sleeping while tropical storm debby pummelled her neighborhood. her roof caved in after this tree was uprooted by the storm. family belongings in her living room and kitchen are ruined, and her apartment is uninhabitable. >> for my kids, all i know is to put a smile on my face and we're going to be okay.
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>> manuel bojorquez and cristian benavides, thank you. there is a new hamas political leader to replace the man killed in a presumed israeli assassination last week in tehran. yahya sinwar from gaza is accused of being the architect of the devastating october 7th attacks in southern israel that killed around 1200 people, mostly civilians, and took around 250 hostages. his promotion is seen as a show of defiance from the group's hard-liners, despuyten months of liz attacks. straight ahead on "cbs news roundup," we'll look at the new vice presidential candidate tim walz, where he is from and where he stands. stay with us. small businesses are the heart of america. but you don't have to go it alone. as the nation's largest nonprofit resource of expert, business mentoring. score has helped millions of entrepreneurs build their businesses, for free. get the connections, education and guidance
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vice president kamala harris and her running mate minnesota governor tim walz head out on a five-day campaign swing through the battleground states today. the newly minted vp candidate went from the army national guard to the schoolhouse to the hill to the governor's mansion. ed o'keefe who tim walz is and where he stands. >> reporter: a quip from tim walz two weeks oahu about former donald trump and j.d. vance grabbed democrats' attention. >> these are weird people on the other side. they want to take books away. they want to be in your exam room. >> reporter: and it caught on. >> by the way, don't you find some of their stuff to be weird? >> reporter: born in nebraska, the 60-year-old governor born in nebraska has marvelled at the interest in him. >> i don't know if every high school geography teacher expects to be in this position at some point. >> reporter: he also coached the football team. he first ran for congress in 2006, concerned about the iraq war. >> our troops deserve a plan to win the peace. >> reporter: he represented a
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southern minnesota district that strongly backed trump in 2016, and developed a bipartisan reputation that got him elected governor in 2018. critics blamed him for a flat-footed response in 2020 to violence sparked by george floyd's murder in minneapolis. >> this has obviously been the most difficult week in minnesota in recent history. >> reporter: a series of police reforms, including a ban on chokeholds followed. more recently, he signed bills expanding school meals programs. [ cheering ] banning conversion therapy for minors, and protecting abortion services, even visiting a woman's health clinic in minnesota with harris. he and his wife gwen have two children, including a daughter conceived through ivf. >> governor walz out at the state fair with my daughter. >> hope. >> reporter: who co-stars with him in some of his most popular videos. >> we're going to go get food, a corn dog? >> i'm vegetarian. >> turkey then. >> reporter: when harris called walz tuesday morning, he initially didn't answer because the call came up as no caller
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id. she called again. he accepted by the end of the day the two raised nearly $20 million. another sign of enthusiasm for the new democratic ticket. ed o'keefe, cbs news, st. paul, minnesota. there is a lot more
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the streets of the bronx. breaking, known here in the states as break dancing. there are men's and women's division, and they'll engage in battles based on everything from technique to personality. a look back at the birth of this new olympic sport. ♪ >> reporter: it came to life in new york city in the 1970s. at house parties, the streets, and the playgrounds of the bronx. for breaking to be what it is today, do you think it had to start when and where it started? sole soul of it. you're looking at people who come from struggle. most of the things that mean a lot and really hits your heart are things that come from being resilient and making something out of nothing. >> richard cologne, known by all
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crazy legs is part of the breaking scene. >> you used hallway buildings or to practice you use your gym at school. you have to walk up to people and say hey, are you this person, oh, you break, you want to battle? and you take it right there on the concrete or you go inside the ten meant building hallway, and you do your thing. that's also how you got your name out there. >> reporter: as later depicted in the 1984 film "beat street" which crazy legs took part in, the mix of dance, gymnastics, even martial arts was a way of representing your neighborhood for some. for others, a way out. >> the cool thing is a lot of people who came from being a stickup kid or a violent background who became dancers, if you developed your craft, you spent left time doing nonsense which would eventually take you out of that lane.
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>> reporter: for a teenaged crazy legs, the draw was both competition and creativity. >> when you came up with something visually dynamic, it became the thing. from the moment i did my version of a back spin, which add centrifugal force to it, it catapulted me to a whole different level. and all these people wanted to do that move. >> reporter: your competing with yourself as much as you're competing with others? >> absolutely. and we weren't even teenagers yet. for us to be that dedicated, i find that one of the most amazing things. >> reporter: and while it was dominated by men, he says it wasn't exclusive. >> at this rate, there was never a limitation on anyone being a part of it, male, female, black, white, latino, whatever. you just had to be good. there was this one girl named janet from the bronx, janet soto. and when we had real battles, she was on the front lines with us. >> reporter: the breaking scene intertwined with the early days
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of rapid hip-hop. ♪ which helped propel its growth. >> that riding to a beat if that beat hits you in a way that really takes your soul on a ride. the people who are watching you start to feel what's going on within you. >> reporter: as a member of the group rock steady, one of the first known by mainstream media, crazy legs was very much a part of breaking's wider appeal. >> we were literally marketing our names, and that's what led to the popularity. >> reporter: national attention like this spread in life magazine. >> that was feeling like you were on top of the world. >> reporter: would help bring breaking well beyond the boroughs of new york. on the west coast, topper carew, a young filmmaker was just starting out. >> i heard about this thing that kids were doing with no resources, and their stage was the street. >> reporter: he was enraptured, sparking his 1983 documentary "breaking and entering." >> it felt right.
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it felt like something i should record. i'd done blues musicians, jazz musicians, but all of the sudden there was this new phenomenon in my life. >> reporter: carew using his platform to give the kids breaking one of their own. his film encapsulating its moves and culture. >> now i call this breaking thing a form of group dancing. i call hip-hop root music. it is rooted in an experience that comes from the bottom. >> it's evolved so much even in the last 40 years. >> it is so powerful and infectious. that it has become a part of the cultural fabric of this country. you know, it's from, yo, concrete to the olympics.
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>> reporter: blows your mind. >> it's mind blowing. >> reporter: dana jacobsen in paris. the women's breaking competition starts friday, the men on saturday. "cbs news roundup" will be right back. can your pad absorb everything and stay fresh? always flexfoam can. it's the only pad made with a flexible foam core that locks in blood and sweat while the top stays dry. keeping you up to 100% leak and odor free. see what foam can do for you. everybody wants super straight, super white teeth. they want that hollywood white smile.
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>> reporter: they're back in black and white. >> i want to see one so bad. ♪ back in black ♪ >> yes, i'm excited. i haven't seen obviously pandas in years. >> this is a very exciting time for the zoo. >> it's a very exciting time for the zoo. no other species embodies that conservation mission as much as giant pandas do. >> reporter: the new bears on the block include yun swan, who loves to push back with a bundle of bamboo. >> he is a foodie. >> he willful loves his bamboo. >> reporter: and he's got roots here. his mother was born at the san diego zoo in 2007, and his grandma is a local legend. she was the zoo's first panda, and lived here for over 20 years. yun swan is joined by 4-year-old
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female shrinkin bao. why do you think people are so drawn to giant pandas? >> i always try to resist just saying they're incredibly cute. but they're incredibly cute. >> they're so cute. >> reporter: the first pandas to make their home in the u.s. arrived in washington, d.c.'s national zoo in 1972, a gift to first lady pat nixon after a historic visit to china with president richard nixon helped establish diplomatic relations between the two countries. >> i think panda-monium is going to break out right here at the zoo. >> reporter: from then on, 50 years of panda diplomacy helps boost the panda population and their popularity. millions of adoring fans watching every tumble, snow day, and birth. china owns the pandas and typically leases them out for ten-year terms at $1 million a year per pair. with increased tensions between
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beijing and the west, the chinese had appeared to pull back the bears as their leases expired. >> yeah, of course i want the pandas back. >> reporter: but after chinese president xi jinping suddenly signaled a thawing of the icy panda relations, more pandas are now expected back at american zoos. and with the san diego zoo's long history with the bears, it's a natural first stop for the pandas ' encore tour it's hoped the two pandas will usher in the next generation as they usher in an era of
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it's we it's wednesday, august 7th, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." >> welcome the next vice president of the united states, tim walz. >> the democratic ticket now

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