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upload news footage of donald trump or the president giving the speech almost directly head-on and within five minutes spit out something they didn't say. >> oh, they have. >> reporter: like this deepfake viewed more than 131 million times after elon musk reposted it on his social media platform x. >> i was selected because i'm the ultimate diversity hire. >> reporter: or this deepfake appearing to show president biden calling for a draft. >> to invoke the selective service act. >> reporter: or these deepfake photos of trump tackled by police outside his new york arraignment. of course, that never happened. >> it's spreading the same bad buy lyes that we've seen before. it's just doing it faster. >> reporter: fuentes fears deepfakes could make a real difference in battle ground states like arizona are where
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biden beat trump by roughly 10,000 votes in 2020. to expose the dangers of deepfakes -- >> accountability really is the big deal here. >> reporter: fuentes, a democrat, hosted hands-on training sessions for arizona election officials like dana lewis. >> the sessions showed us how easily and quickly trusted data can be manipulated. >> reporter: lewis needs more than a thousand poll workers in arizona's third largest county. >> as soon as we start entering information into the google tool bar, it is already starting to look what we want. that is ai, folks. knowing that we're taking to it the one millionth level when it comes to people influencing our elections or trying to disrupt them, i think we are already there. >> i have apple sauce for brains as well. >> reporter: like this deepfake appearing to show president biden's office dropping out of the race days before he actually delivered it. >> swift, callous and brutal. >> reporter: the earlier deepfake video of the president on the draft prompted one republican state representative in arizona to take action. >> imagine if you had something like that that took out that was a slightly better quality. you'd have people in the streets with their guns.
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it would be extremely destabilizing. >> reporter: but to regulate deepfakes, first alex needed help to finding one. well, you did go to the expert. >> i did go to the expert. >> you did use chatgpt to help write part of this legislation. >> i did. >> reporter: and you kept that a secret until the end, right? >> mostly secret. >> reporter: even from arizona governor katie hobbs, until after she signed it. >> see, i would never say these things. >> reporter: and if politics these days doesn't look like anything you've seen before, arizona's top election official says it may be because you're catching on. >> i think everybody has a role to play in making sure that if these technologies get abused, that abuse doesn't result in damage to our democracy. >> reporter: and we kept hearing the same thing from all of the elected officials we spoke with, that it's ultimately up to all of us, not the government to decide for ourselves what's real. it goes back to that simple principle. you can't believe everything you see. >> that was the real ed o'keefe
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all right. the olympics in paris are wrapped. the olympics in los angeles are still four years away. so how about a trip to hawaii for the olympics of hula. lee cowan reports.
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♪ >> reporter: it was one of those predictably perfect sunsets on the big island of hawaii. along with the swaying palms came the swaying hips of hula. guests here at the waikoloa beach marriott were treated to it all. the performance, the pork, and the poi. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: yet, the tourist experience of this polynesian spectacle can't begin to capture the deep meaning behind each of those ancient movements. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: at its core, hula
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is about story. long before written language, hula's chants were the living archives for people's history and traditions. >> it's storytelling in hawaiian. it's a way for us to express all these stories from ancient times through moving our hips, moving our feet, through hand motions. >> reporter: kiki kama-lie-ka-lu-hea-moto was born in hilo on the windward side of the big island. her twin passions, surfing and hula, were both born in hawaii. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome. >> reporter: this past year, kiki put surfing aside to set her sights on a high-stakes competition that some call the olympics of hula. are you excited or nervous? >> now i am more excited than nervous. i think a month ago if you asked
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me, i was more nervous than excited. >> reporter: this is the merrie monarch festival. every spring for the past 61 years, two dozen or more of the best hula schools from all around the world come here to hilo to compete in two categories. there is traditional hula and modern hula. the whole town comes alive for the week-long celebration. there is a grand parade. there's hawaiian crafts and hawaiian food. but make no mistake. the merrie monarch is less about a party and more about honoring hula with the dignity and reverence it has so long been denied. ♪ ♪
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>> reporter: hula has certainly been through a lot. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: cultural appropriation and movies and tacky dashboard decor are the most recent indignities. >> when people ask, what do you do, i wouldn't say a hula teacher because nine times out of ten, oh, you do the hula, do you wear a grass skirt, over and over. but i would say within the last decade or so, there has been a shift. >> reporter: patrick makukane grew up in hawaii. he copeted in the merrie monarch himself, in fact, back in the day. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: he says interest in hawaiian traditions is growing. he now teaches it in his own halau, that's a hula school, in san francisco. for his decades long effort to preserve hawaiian culture, it was among the scientists and artists awarded the prestigious macarthur foundation genius
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grant last year. >> not bad! >> i know how important hula is to my life and the community in which i built and how transformative it is, but how did they come to understand that? ♪ ♪ >> reporter: perhaps what they understood is hula might have been lost to history all together. for generations, christian missionaries called it a pagan ritual and banned its performance in public. it was the last reigning king of the hawaiian kingdom, king kalakaua, who brought the tradition back. and that earned him the nickname merrie monarch. it's why he is so honored here. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: gen z hawaiians like 18-year-old tehani kekua wela seem especially intent on
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living out their heritage. >> as we act out those scenarios and stories of the past, we are also connecting to ancestors of hawaii and of this place. so i feel that power, that mana, >> some of you look like you're half sleeping. yeah, wake up. welcome to practice. >> reporter: that is tehani's and i canny's hula teacher. kasie is a master teacher, or kuma in hawaiian. circumstances we don't care if you're tired. you can't look like you're tired. >> reporter: she is tough, reich any mentor would be. >> you are using all parts of your body. sometimes it's slow, sometimes quick. it is very physical. >> it's a lot of up and down movement with my legs. my legs are always sore. >> reporter: kiki is also competing solo for the title of miss aloha. >> being by myself up there and knowing that i have to use the
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whole stage, even though it seems short, when you are dancing it's, feels like forever. >> reporter: the fact that we were able to witness any of this was pretty remarkable. kumas are fiercely protective. of their halau, especially when outsiders like us come calling. >> i think there are parts of hula that are definitely very sacred. there are certain things we don't talk about and we don't share because those are held for people who are practicing the tradition of hula. >> reporter: it took a little bit of convincing, but we were finally permitted to see the real spirituality of hula, like kiki and kasie offering a silent prayer of gratitude before picking the tropical treasures that would adorn their heads and necks during the competition. are they hard to find? >> not on this island. >> reporter: the morning of the performance, that support and that care continued. >> i know that we are going to keep going strong no matter how
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old we get, no matter where we go. we will always have hula to come back to. ♪ ♪ >> kiki and tehani's halau did well, but not well enough to win. but that didn't seem to matter. what they had done what has always been done on these islands. honoring people and a place in ways that thankfully today now appear to be timeless. [ applause ]
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climate change is not only fueling more powerful storms, it's also creating longer and more dangerous mosquito seasons. the insects can carry diseases like the west nile virus, malaria, and yellow fever, and fighting the bugs is now an urgent mission. dr. celine gounder paid a visit
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to the mosquito hunters in new york city. >> reporter: around the pond in cassina park queens, new yorkers escape the summer heat. but among the trees and marshes, public health teams are hunting for the pests of summer. accident occur zurina ucould have straps on a bulky pack to kill mosquito eggs. a coworker lays overnight traps for adult mosquitos and delivers his haul to the public health lab for testing. you're transferring those to the a tube. and then from there they get sorted by species of mosquitos. >> when we find the positive sample for west nile or anything else, we can then increase our mitigation and control efforts. >> reporter: this >> reporter: new york city's health commissioner. >> a lot of these viruss are moving further and further north. >> reporter: so we're sort of
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becoming more tropical or subtropical. >> i'm no weatherman, but that's probably my best guess. >> reporter: insect hunters start their work during cooler months count:00 hibernating mosquitos in dark, damp places like this abandoned military fort in queens. that helps focus where to center mitigation efforts. west nile first came to the western hemisphere in queens in 1999. longer, hotter more humid summers make for longer mosquito seasons, opening the door for more west nile virus infections. carol wallach was infected in the summer of 2022. >> i had fever that night. i passed out at urgent care, was taken to the hospital. >> reporter: in addition to a fever, she had a rash, severe nerve pain and trouble walking. >> i think it took close to two weeks before they knew what was wrong with me. >> reporter: two years later, wallach still has limited use of her left arm and cannot drive a car. she wonders about other lingering effects of the virus. >> it's an awful disease, and i
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am one of the very fortunate ones because i'm still here. >> reporter: and now very scrupulous about using insect repellent during mosquito season, which lasts until the fall. for cbs news, i'm dr. celine gounder in new york. >> reporter: and that's today's "cbs news roundup." for some of you, the news continues. for others, tune in for "cbs mornings" and follow us online 24/7 at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs news broadcast center in new york city, i'm shanelle kaul. hello and thank you so much for staying up with us.
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i'm shanelle kaul in new york, and here are today's top stories on "cbs news roundup." vice president kamala harris promises to reveal her economic campaign platform just days ahead of the democratic convention. the kremlin sends more troops to the kursk region in russia to confront a stunning week-long ukrainian incursion. and a police officer is facing murder charges, accused of shooting a pregnant woman suspected of shoplifting. the pace is heating up on the campaign trail along with the battle of words. former president donald trump and vice president kamala harris are filling up their calendars ahead of next week's democratic national convention. trump is working to regain the spotlight, planning campaign stops in north carolina and pennsylvania, two battleground states later this week, while harris is set to unveil her economic agenda on friday in north carolina. cbs' skyler henry has more from washington. >> hello, los angeles!
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>> reporter: minnesota governor tim walz addressed a labor group in l.a. as he made his first solo campaign stop for the democratic ticket. >> i'm proud to be on the ticket, working with vice president harris, who we all know we want to call the next president of the united states. >> reporter: on friday, vice president kamala harris is set to roll out her economic campaign platform during a speech in north carolina. the democratic nominee is expected to announce she will make tackling inflation a priority if she wins in november. >> vice president harris grew up in a middle class family, picked up shifts at that mcdonald's as a student. i keep stating this to make a contrast. can you picture donald trump trying to make a mcflurry. >> reporter: during a conversation with elon musk on x that was delayed by technical issues, former donald trump railed against harris for
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unveiling a promise he unveiled in june. >> all of the sudden she said there will be no tax on tips. i said that months ago. >> reporter: trump is wrapping up his campaign schedule with a rally slated to focus on the economy before rallying supporters on saturday in northeastern pennsylvania, two days before the democratic national convention kicks off in chicago. skyler henry, cbs news, washington. >> and speakers scheduled for the democratic national convention include president joe biden and former presidents barack obama and bill clinton, as well as former secretary of state hillary clinton. the convention kicks off on monday, and we of course will bring you full coverage on your local cbs news station and cbs news streaming. russian forces pounded a region in eastern ukraine tuesday while ukrainian troops held down a large area of russian territory they seized in a surprise offensive. ukraine says it now controls more than 70 russian towns and villages across nearly 400
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square miles of terrain, an area almost as large as dallas. cbs' holly williams has more. >> reporter: it's the biggest foreign incursion into russia since world war ii, and for vladimir putin and the russian army, it's a humiliation. russian soldiers taken captive in their own country, a former super power, and driven blindfolded into ukraine. more than two years after putin ordered his military to invade ukraine, a war that's killed at least tens of thousands and perhaps many more, ukraine says it now controls nearly 400 square miles of russian territory. the ukrainian soldiers launched their surprise attack a week ago. and moscow claims it's now repelling their advance. but it's russians evacuating their homes, more than 100,000 of them, some now forced to live in tents. "let them feel what we feel,"
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said this ukrainian man, who lives near the border. "let them live in our skin." throughout this war, ukraine has launched aerial attacks on russia while armed russian troops have used ukraine bases for their assault. but this is the first time ukrainian forces have gone on the counterattack inside russia on this scale. for the ukrainians, it's leverage. russia's occupying around 20% of their country, and they want it back. "russia needs to be forced into peace," said ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy. "russia broad war to others, and now it's coming back home." holly williams, cbs news, london. . a police officer is facing murder charges, accused of shooting and killing a 21-year-old pregnant black mother suspected of shoplifting. a grand jury indicted the officer on tuesday for firing a single shot through the woman's
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windshield as she was trying to drive away. cbs' tom hanson has a report and the body camera video. >> out of the car. they said you stole stuff. do not leave. >> reporter: body camera video shows blendon county police officer approach takiya young in her car last year. another officer orders to get out. >> get out of the car. get out of the car. >> reporter: instead, the 21-year-old rolled forward toward grubb, who fired a single bullet through the windshield into her chest. a grand jury announced grubb is being charged with multiple counts of murder, involuntary manslaughter and felonious assault. >> we're not passing on any judgment on whether officer grubb acted properly. we haven't seen the evidence. >> reporter: before the shooting, surveillance cameras recorded young inside the store where police suspected she stole bottles of alcohol. young was at least 25 weeks' pregnant at the time of the shooting. the daughter she was expecting
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also died. >> he didn't never have to pull that gun on her, ever. it wasn't called for. >> reporter: today young's grandmother called grubb a bully with a badge. >> i want to see connor grubb pay for what he did, because it was wrong. it was wrong for her to take her and her baby out of her like he did. >> reporter: and the county police chief said the department is taking disciplinary action. cbs news reached out to grubb's attorneys. they said he is waiting in county jail until his arraignment tomorrow where he is expected to plead not guilty. tom hanson, cbs news, new york. president biden is now declared an emergency order for puerto rico as tropical storm ernesto barrels across the caribbean toward the island. the storm is said to become a hurricane and expected to pass northeast of puerto rico, dropping as much as 10 inches of rain and maybe more. ernesto then turns north to bermuda, possibly as a category 2 or even 3, and could make a
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direct hit on bermuda by saturday. police in texas are investigating a frightening scene. a highway crash that ended with two toddlers in the road wearing nothing but diapers. officials in the coastal city of freeport say it appears the children were thrown from a jeep that flipped over multiple times. remarkably, there were no serious injuries. straight ahead on "cbs news roundup," there is some good news for people using weight loss drugs after the results of a new study into cancer and dementia. 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 you need with score. we're ready to help.
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it found that by 2050, cancer cases among men worldwide will increase by 84% and cancer deaths will increase by 93%. much of that will be due to an increase in population, but you can also reduce your risk with lifestyle choices like not smoking, limits alcohol, exercising, and watching what you eat. meanwhile, there some good news. a separate study shows that weight loss drugs like wegovy and ozempic can lower the risk of developing certain obesity-related cancers and even help you quit smoking. dr. jon lapook has more. >> reporter: stylist madison van comben enjoys surprising her clients with new nail designs. >> i've always been creative. i've always loved to draw and paint and create. >> reporter: but then komen says she surprised herself how easy it was to quit videotaping after she started the weight loss drug last october. when the nicotine craving
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started to go away, were you surprised? >> yeah, i was addicted for 13 years. >> semaglutide leading to trials in humans. >> these drugs are working to reduce craving of food. but it was discovered sort of i guess was accidentally that it also decreased craving for other things? >> yeah, so it is pretty complicated, and we're still learning about it. >> reporter: dr. michael weintraub, my colleague at nyu langone health prescribes gl 1 agonists for type 2 diabetes. patients with type 2 diabetes who use the drug found in ozempic and wegovy had a reduced desire to smoke. the authors caution more reach is needed. >> there are effective medications for alcohol use disorder, smoking cessation.
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largest employer, this tyson pork plant, just shut down. >> none of us picked this. and i just want everybody to be okay. because i know how hard this is going to be for a lot of people. >> reporter: if it's this hard for joe, think of the nearly 1300 other employees, most of them living in, but no longer working in this city. if you're going to find a new path forward, sometimes it's not here. >> absolutely. you have the power. make sure that you find the right opportunity that's going to benefit you and your family. >> reporter: the reality in perry is that the right opportunities left a long time ago. the meat processing plant's not modern enough for the company. upgrades would simply cost too much. rachel whacker runs the county development alliance. >> maybe we were hoping for a mir occasional at first where we with just turn off the lights on
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june 28th and turn them on with a new user. and that's simply not the case. >> reporter: and they're not alone. this is one of those one factory town stories. 25% of the people in perry were old enough to work in the pork factory do work in the pork factory. if you add in their family and the people they support, that's about 60% of the town impacted. this is not new. youngstown, ohio was once a thriving steel city of 140,000 in the '70s. >> 5,000 employees at one time were gone. >> reporter: the mills closed, and today the population is less than half of what it used to be. ohio was hit hard again in 2008, this time in wilmington when a shipping hub closed. 42% of the working age population lost their jobs. then in 2009, down in louisiana, a chicken plant, which employed more than a third of the town shut down in farmerville. back at perry, iowa, people like
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nacho calderon are learning from history. his last day driving to work may lead to his first day driving for work. >> reporter: trying to be a truck driver or a garbage driver, something like that. >> reporter: driving the garbage trucks this town still needs requires a commercial driver's license. the community college is giving these trucking classes away for free to give the workers a shot at staying in town. how do you feel? it's not just you, it's the people you work with as well. they don't have cars. >> reporter: nacho is still looking for work. joe has this advice. >> and take control. >> reporter: he found a job running maintenance for an apartment complex out of town. >> what i feel like is a great opportunity. and i just -- i want that for everyone. >> reporter: a hopeful wish for friends who lost their jobs.
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>> reporter: austin makereff is in the groove. >> it keeps me very present. i'm always in the moment. >> reporter: his twists, scrunches and ties transform into perfect pockets for a tie dye kaleidoscope of colors. >> it's controlled chaos. >> reporter: his intricate works can take up to 30 hours to create. >> so this is what it looks like super wet. when it's dry, it's going lighten up a lot. >> oh, man! >> reporter: makereth releases a handful of shirts online every week. they sell for hundreds to tho thousands of dollars. >> they usually sell out within a couple of seconds, like 30 seconds. >> reporter: what? how does that make you feel? >> i'm extreme lip grateful. >> reporter: back in 2017 he was recovering from substance abuse. a roommate brought back a tie dye kit. he says it saved his life. what was it about tie dye that
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grab you'd? >> in the very beginning, you don't really know how it's going to turn out. so you're waiting an entire day essentially to open it up. and you're just so excited to see what it's going to be like. and it's kind of like this dopamine rush. i always equate it to christmas morning. >> reporter: oh. that rush goes way, way back. >> this is a very long history, and longer than we can know. because the thing about fabric is that it disintegrates. >> reporter: simon alexander is an artist and the author of the book about the art of tie dye which she says the is thousands of years old. did different cultures tie dye in different ways? >> each tie dyes in a way that reflects their own materials and aesthetic references. >> reporter: alexander the great mentioned beautiful printed cottons in india in 327 bc. and some of the earliest known pieces come from peru.
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as for tie dye's popularity in the united states, simon alexander says it took off in the 1950s and 60s for a few reasons. >> one was the invention of cold water fiber reactive dyes, which meant that people were really able to tie dye at home much more easily. >> reporter: that and woodstock in 1969, which saw performers like janice joplin and joe cocker dining dyed designs. so what's the appetite for it these days? >> oh, everybody has been going crazy for it. >> reporter: at tipsy tie dye in new jersey, siblings and co-owners kevin and katie tagg host events where you tie dye and imbibe. >> we tie dye in such a way that our design will be set. we just have to color it all in. >> golly, the possibilities are endless. and you can't do it wrong. >> reporter: for austin
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makareth, who has been able to make tie dye his full-time job, he is just enjoying the colorful ride. >> there is sometimes dyeing a piece until 6:00 in the morning. even in those moments i'm not upset that i'm having to do that. it's more so i got to get this done. this is going to be a cool piece. it's totally going to be worth is, you know. >> a colorful story from nancy giles. stay with "cbs news roundup." we'll be right back.
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