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>> reporter: she plans to get an attorney to investigate. i mentioned that station has received other similar reports since that story broke. >> if the same thing happened to me, you bet! i think any mother or parent out there would be thinking the same thing. >> after all these years! >> they have no idea why. remember, this, as you heard, the hospital closed in 1979. trying to investigate why this happened and even prosecute people is a long shot but if people can continue to be reunited, that can be important. thank you for starting your morning with us. we always appreciate seeing you. >> absolutely. we have so much more in the next hour of "new day" which starts right now. ♪ running from flames. take a look at these new pictures we are getting in. hundreds of homes threatened by a wildfire in drought-stricken southern california. new documents. the 73-year-old tulsa deputy who
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shot an unarmed man releases paper work he says proves he was properly trained. plus. >> try to unbuckle her. i will try to pull her out. >> reporter: two new jersey police officers called heroes for pulling an unconscious woman from a burning car. what she need to know about her students? you will not believe these answers. they really jolt you. we are talking to the teacher in just a bit. this is cnn breaking news. >> always so grateful to have your company this morning. i'm christi paul. >> i'm joe johns in for victor blackwell. official in malta say 700 are feared dead after a boat cap-sized off the coast of
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libya. a joint qu operation is under way. we are told 49 have been rescued but 23 bodies have also been recovered. barbie nade, auru of "the balda beast" is joining us now. >> reporter: the distress call came in at 11:30. this boat, one of the larger vessels for these migrants coming to italy to europe by way of italy, they sent out a distress call and the italian coast guard alerted mernlts in the area. we understand when the people on the boat saw the merchant ship, they rushed to one sized of the bode and that contributed to this cap-sizing of the vessel. it was dark out. the water was very cold and seas were rough and a lot of people simply went underwater. we understand from the coast guard they are seeing either bodies in the water.
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23 have been picked up already. they came by europe last week along, more than 25,000 and the boat seized when the usual the season time when people come hasn't started yesterday. >> 9 pope was calling for greater international efforts to help italy cope with this issue because we understand that italy is really taking care of most of the rescue efforts here, 90% of them. why is this happening? >> reporter: we have desperate people coming from africa and traveling weeks, maybe months, before they even get to the port of libya. this is all handled by human traffickers, people who first trafficked them by land and then you got these traffickers that just smash millions of people into the port and put them on boats and sometimes, 500 and as
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this one, 700 people. they charge 8,000 a europe for the dangerous voyage. if they make it or not doesn't matter. once they get to italy they are put in refuge camps and many make their way up into europe. the italians do what they can to take care of them and offer medical service and give them clothing or food and most don't want to stay in italy but they want to join up and move france. a lot of them would like to go to the uk or germany or france. >> thank you for that. we will stay in touch. we also have breaking news we want to share with you out of southern california this morning. more than 300 firefighters are racing right now to battle a raging brush fire. >> the fire broke out around 6:00 last night near corona, california, an hour outside of l.a. and forced the evacuation of 300 families. >> any time we have structures
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and life and property is a priority. it is serious. >> i'm actually quite squared right now for my family and don't know what to do. if i need to get back and start planning evacuations or what. >> there's some new housing developments. if it goes further the other direction there is a lot of new housing. >> this is an example of what the drought has done to these fuel conditions. normally, this wouldn't burn in this type of area. >> right now, the wind is creating fuel from the fire so we are seeing an aggressive critical rate of spread. >> we have got hundreds of firefighters from 14 crews on the scene joining us right now is captain mike mueller of the riverside county fire department. captain, do you have any idea how this thing started? >> we don't. the cause is still under investigation but we do have cal fire law enforcement on scene trying to determine that as soon as we can. >> you were talking about the fact that this area hasn't been touched by fire in decades.
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how is that complicating efforts for all of you? >> well, it hasn't been touched in decade. this is a dam basin area and this vegetation is so thick, one, it's making it hard for crews to access it, but, two, the fuel in here is so extreme, it's producing critical fire conditions. >> you're getting a lot of people out of their homes. where are they going right now? >> we actually have an evacuation center in the city of norco called riley gym that is being staffed by the red cross right now. >> how are your resources holding up? they were talking about that drought and how that is affecting the way you can fight this. do you have enough resources? >> we do have enough resources. we have additional resources responding it relieve the crews on the line right now. and we have ordered additional aircraft that will be up this morning. >> thanks so much there, captain
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mike mueller from riverside. we really appreciate you and we will be checking back with you. >> best of luck to you and the crews there. do stay safe. >> ivan cabrera, are things going to get worse out there before they get better? they say they have got enough people in resources to put this thing down. >> we look at three things and we are talking about conditions that could be much worse but we look at temperature, we look at moisture, and we look at wind. i think one of those components is going to be an issue today and that is the wind. the moisture very low because of the drought and current paernts and we wipatterns. let's reset here. 300 acres impacted with only 15% containment. the winds will gust later on this afternoon as we get heating and talking about winds. dr dry kns persist despite the marine layer but not penetrate
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to riverside. we heat the air, relative humidity 25% is very low and not good for firefighting efforts. as the temperatures go down at night that is helpful but by this afternoon the low 80s. not low 90s but certainly that would be terrible. but low 80s is bad enough when talking about firefighting efforts. as far as any rainfall, no, it's not going to happen. we are dry and not looking at any rainfall the next couple of days so we will have to watch for dry conditions. we have been mentioning how fire creates its own wind patterns. any time you have air rising you have to replace that. some of that air replacing the air that is rising is gusty and wind speeds forecasting 25 miles per hour and that could be from 7 to 10 times stronger so that is what they are having to deal with here. the topography, fire likes to climb. we are talking about hilly terrain and the fire will
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continue to climb on up so those are the conditions they are dealing with today. not terrible. could be better. but i think the wind is going to be the issue today. >> i think you could call that challenging for sure. thanks, ivan cabrera. a lot of people are wondering are we now seeing a possible defense strategy for the tulsa reserve deputy, the one who pulled his gun instead of his taser? and the man died. cnn that a newly released training records that could help him. plus dramatic body cam video shows one officer's life or death judgment call after a murder suspect charges at him. you'll see that play out.
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roll on your stomach. now! >> we want to share new information with you this morning on this deadly shooting that was recorded by a police body camera. cnn has obtained new documents that could shed light on the training of reserve deputy had before mistakenly shooting a man. robert bates said he pulled out his gun instead of his taser and killed harris. focus on the training he received. the records released by bates' lawyers including his training hours and gun qualifications and reviews from other officers. polo sandoval thab readihas bee through the documents that the attorney released. has cnn been able to personally authenticate them? >> reporter: that is something we are trying to do. it verified the authenticity of these documents.
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seven days after the story broke, they do appear to certify robert bates' training but, at the same time, they are also raising several questions. i want you to take a look at some of the documents released by robert bates' attorney yesterday. these documents seem to show that bates actually went through at least one taser training class over six and a half year period. bates attorney supplied the documents and says the states only requires one hands-on class on these tasers and then bates firearm qualification records. some records are still missing from the sheriff's office. tulsa county's office say they bates passed a training during those dates in question. a closer look at the records show bates took 34 training classes within a 48-hour period in late 2013. why so many in such a short
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amount of time? his lawyer says bates could have been trying to cram in these classes for certification before the end of the year. but, again, cnn has independently requested these documents from the tulsa county sheriff's office. they can't provide them because they are a part of the ongoing investigation. we tried to go to a place that obtain the documents but they say bates would have to sign off on a release or a court order would have to be issued before they can release the documents. at this point, neither one of those has happened. >> one thing that stands out there are several records that are still missing. is that correct? and what is the attorney saying about it? >> reporter: right. bates was the first to admit to that. we mentioned some of the documents are still missing for the entire sheriff's office at this point for those crucial dates but really the attorney for this reserve deputy did say they wanted to release what they had in response to some of this
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reporting from one of the local publications there that claim that bates lacked the appropriate training and that any documents that were, in fact, put out there, three published were qaufalsified. sheriff's office is denying those claims at this point. it's very crucial for us to be able to verify the authenticity of the documents we have in hand. >> absolutely. polo sandoval, thank you. great work. >> a lot to think about there. eric harris family is still working through the in you information while they are dealing with saying good-bye. they had a viewing ceremony yesterday in tulsa. his son says he believes the officers involved are trying to cover up the shooting. he is commanding justice and a memorial is scheduled for later today for eric harris.
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kidder confronting the suspect who is actually rushing toward him and demanding that officer kidder shoot him. >> get your hands up! get your hands up! get your hands up right now! [ bleep ] stop! stop right there! i don't want to shoot you, man. i don't want to shoot you! [ bleep ] shoot you, i'll shoot you. >> no you won't! no you won't! >> get back! get back! get back! >> shoot me! >> get your hands out of your pocket now! not going to do it. >> shoot me! shoot me! shoot me! >> stop right now. back up! [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] back [ bleep ] off! get down on the ground! >> subject is running.
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subject is running. >> get your hands out. you understand that? >> if that doesn't tell you what police officers face on the street, the officer admits there were some tense moments as you can see there, but, ultimately, reveals why he never pulled the trigger. listen. >> he got towards my face right as i lost balance. i'm thinking at this point if he goes to attack me, i will to use deadly force. law enforcement officers across the nation deal with split-second decisions between life and death. i wanted to be sure i used deadly force. >> for him to make the judgment call he did shows great restraints and maturity. this video footage eliminated all doubt that this officer would have been justified if, in fact, it came to a shooting. we want to bring in cnn law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director tom
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fuentes. now, tom, i understand you had been in some sort of a similar position as this gentleman is as you were watching the video. help us understand the thought process you have when you're confronted by somebody like that. >> well, you're trying to make a judgment about the entire situation, the entire threat that the person poses, and in this case, this officer who happened to be a marine corps veteran who served in iraq which probably gave him a little more confidence that he could maybe wait that extra split second and still be successful if the individual did draw and fire on him. i think that is the problem in this thing is you are talking about probably less than a tenth of a second for the time it would take for that individual to pull something out of his pants, pull a pistol out, let's say, and take a shot at that officer, the officer may only get one shot and may not even get that and it would have to be good enough to stop that person or he could be easily killed in
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nap it's a very difficult situation and in this case it worked out well for the officer. he could have ended up being killed also. >> tom, you know, we have spent leach the last several months talking about police officers' actions and a lot of people questioning, but this one being questioned, i think, for other reasons. how is it that more scenarios don't end up like this? >> they do. this happens all the time every day across the country. police officers face, shoot, don't shoot, decision making scenarios and unless they shoot somebody and it gains the know ryity of some the recent cases you don't hear about the successful outcomes. in this case we had a body cam or you wouldn't hear about this either. nobody gets killed and no one in this country would have known what that police officer faced and what decision he made during that split-second if we didn't have the body cam. >> you mention the body cam. what is interesting about this
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story too is apparently the officer revealed this body cam was given to him by one of his relatives. is that rare? do you think we need to see more of these cameras? >> hopefully, it's not rare that wives love their husbands and vice versa but, yes, personally buying is probably is rare. i said when i was a street cop years ago i would have thought about wearing a body camera tooth and nail but now, i would buy my own. now you do have these, you know, intense studies and don't forget, if that officer had used deadly force and if he didn't have the body cam, not only is his life in jeopardy, his career is in jeopardy. that could be the last day he works as a police officer, depending what happens in that split-second scenario. >> no doubt about it. as many questions there are still are, body cameras at least help to answer a few. tom fuentes, thank you for your perspective. thank you.
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there is tough terrain there that is preventing them from gaining the upper hand. also right now, rescue crews are searching for possibly 650 plus migrants after their boat cap-sized in the mediterranean. they were apparently heading to italy from libya. crews have pulled 23 bodies from the sea and including children. rescue teams have been able to save 49 people so far. the survivors say there have been as many as 800 on that boat. earlier, the u.s. had wanted the sanctions lifted in phases but now president obama says there should be a system to reinstate sanctions if iran doesn't stick to its end of the deal. let's bring in cnn correspondent
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sunlen. what else did president obama say about this? >> reporter: president obama wants his negotiators to get creative as they head into the next round of nuclear talks this week and really underscoring how precarious this deal actually is. one of the biggest areas of contentions are over sanctions. there seems to be two differing narratives how quickly sanctions will be lifted. iran saying they should be lifted on day one once the deal is signed. usa saying they should be lifted gradually as iran complies with the deal. the president, though, he has been recently downplaying these discrepancies over timing, over how fast the sanctions will be lifted. he says more important now is something called a provision, how sanctions will be reinstated if iran violates the term of the deal. here is what he said at the white house this week. >> our main concern here is making sure that if iran doesn't
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abide by its agreement, that we don't have to jump through a whole bunch of hoops in order to reinstate sanctions. that is our main concern and i think that goal of having in reserve the possibility of putting back and applying forceful sanctions in the event of a violation, that goal can be met. >> reporter: those key details need to be worked and negotiators head to vienna for the next round of nuclear talks with iran. joe? >> reporter: senator marco rubio at the summit in new hampshire apparently made some remarks about iran. give meese some sense of what he was talking about. >> reporter: yeah. republican presidential candidate marco rubio, senator from florida, trying to play up his foreign policy credentials on the new hampshire trail. he spoke he doesn't think this is a good deal and says it's troubling and he basically said he believes it's the option
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between military force and potentially a nuclear iran. >> i am not sure -- for war. i don't want there to be the need to use military force. but a nuclear iran is an unacceptable risk for the region and the world. >> reporter: and many republican candidates on the campaign trail have been talking about this deal. they don't believe the united states should have entered into these negotiations with iran in the first place. many of them believe the economic sanctions were working. joe, we will likely hear a lot from them in the days ahead. >> that just continues to be a source of controversy. thanks so much for that, sunlen serfatie. hillary clinton is set to make her way into new hampshire tomorrow. before her arrival you know that a lot of her gop rivals should shots at her during a two-day summit in the crucial state there. ted cruz along with scott walker, wisconsin governor, were among the headliners that took
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the stage. athena jones is in new hampshire with more. >> reporter: good morning, guys. for the most part, the candidates and not yet candidates speaking at this summit here stuck to conservative talking poise. we heard a lot of criticism of president obama and of hillary clinton who, as you know, is the only person on the democratic side to have officially thrown their hat in the ring. >> as i was coming up, i was a little bit startled because i swore i saw hillary's scooby-doo van outside. i know it's not that because i'm sure you don't have any foreign nation paying speaks, right? >> i doubt the presumptive nominee for the other party has shopped in the last 18 to 20 years. >> reporter: hillary clinton will be here in new hampshire on monday. senator rand paul made some of the interesting remarks of the summit. without naming names he criticized some of the other republicans in the race for being too supportive of military
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solutions to the world's conflicts. as you mentioned something else that could be a major theme of this next campaign season, senator paul was unique among the speakers in talking about his vision for the republican party and how it needs to expand beyond its traditional base to be successful in 2016. >> the one thing i'd like to leave you with is i'd like you to think about how we are going to move forward and how we are going to win. and i think we need to stay true to principle. i don't think we need to dilute our message but i do think our message needs to be carried to new people. we need to talk -- we need to talk to business owners and we need to talk to the workers. we need to talk to rich, poor, white, black, brown. we have got to get out there and go places we haven't been going. >> reporter: a big weekend here in this first in the nation's state and it's only the beginning. >> that's athena jones in new
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has more. >> reporter: a police cruiser takes off speeding down a winding wooded road. a private citizen just tipped them off to a driver who was swerving all over the place. around the bend, smoke is already coming out of her car. a 2006 is now flipped upside down but the driver is inside and knocked out cold. her horn is stuck on blast. the two officers, mark and ricky" realize they need to get her out of there and fast. >> try to unbuckle per. i'll try to pull her out. >> reporter: they can't can the star starting to burn and her seat belt has her trapped inside. >> got a knife? >> reporter: two minutes later the officers are struggling and the smoke is only getting thicker. they have to use a knife to cut off her seat belt. they are finally able to pull
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her limp body from the wreck dragging her to safety. less than 30 seconds later, the smoke is now billowing and you can see flames. the officers try to revive the woman across the street. >> can you hear me? >> reporter: just a couple of minutes later, a small explosion. the car now fully engulfed. why did you want the public to see this video? >> most importantly is because if it wasn't for the citizen interaction by calling the police of an erratic driver, this individual who is driving would have -- it would have been a fatal motor vehicle accident. >> police tell us the driver was charged with having an open container in the car and driving while intoxicated. but she is okay which is the good news. thanks to christy duffy with our affiliate wpix. twenty years after home-grown terror attack in oklahoma city, officials say home-grown terror is still a threat. frank keating will weigh in
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related attacks on the u.s. could another oklahoma city bombing happen today? let's ask a member who remembers the carnage of that day so well. former governor frank keating. i know your city is holding a memorial today to remember the victims from that attack. what is going on in your mind right now? >> well, i think, joe, everyone has conflicted emotions. i repeatedly think to myself on a day like this, i wish it had never happened and i wish it had never happened, i wish it never had happened, but it did. i think oklahoma city showed itself to be extraordinary. i mean, there was no active looting and 302 damages were destroyed or damaged. no one had to pay for anything who came in many of thousands of rescue workers from the urban rescue teams from fema. i remember early on in your
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point and your introduction, some of the tv stations said it was a middle east terrorist events. i remember saying we have a lot of muslim americans in oklahoma city are fine citizens and let's don't jump to conclusions. well, the guy who it did looked like me. mcveigh was as evil as they come. we wish and wish and wish it had never happened. >> certainly something like this changes a country and it changed the united states. but there in oklahoma and in oklahoma city, how did the local community change after the bombing? >> well, oklahoma has suffered oil busts and i think everyone had their chin on their chest. we had just had some tough economic news and when we saw how well people handled this, the professionalism, the police department, the fire department, the national guard, as a matter of fact when the fema teams came, james leawood who was president clinton's very capable
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fema director, told the fire chief he was in charge here and the fema people would follow him. that rarely, rarely, rarely, if ever, happens. the feds always thinking i'm a former fbi or u.s. attorney and the like and think we will control the scene. they didn't to that here because it was so handling so competently. 302 buildings damaged or destroyed here and no active looting and money was raised to put every child through college who lost one or both parents. 170 children who lost one parent. the good news that came from this was very positive spiritually morally, it was an uplift to the community. now we have the oklahoma city thunder. that's a big deal and a lot of that renaissance, if you will, came as a result of some of the rebuilding here in oklahoma city. >> do you think we have the kind of domestic intelligence now to root out more individuals who
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might perpetrate an oklahoma city bombing? >> it's hard to say. your comments at the outset mcvey was angry about what happened two years before this incident and that was the event down in waco, texas. are there people that harbor grudges. i can't imagine somebody that will destroy 19 children's lives to make a political statement. radical islamis and we have radical people who have a chip on their shoulder and want to make somebody hurt and suffer, but the fbi and the justice department no longer have the wall between national security and criminal investigations, and the fbi has people prevent crime, and that's a different cultural shift. we're in good shape and a much better position to protect and defend ourselves, but you never
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know, people can slip through the wire. >> information sharing prevention, important things we hear out of washington when we hear about fighting terrorism, even domestic terrorism. thank you for joining us today on "new day." >> thank you, joe. another city still marked by the scars of terrorism is boston. preparations are underway for marathon monday two years after that deadly attack at the boston marathon finish line, tens of thousands of runners are is that corrected to participate in tomorrow's big race, and security tight and safety precautions are high definition cameras along the course, and thousands of police officers will be out, and spectators that want to be at the finish line have to be screened, and backpacks and costumes and strollers have been banned this year. what i wish my teacher knew.
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wanted to tell her, and these kids' responses are so candid. teachable moments all over this thing. one response was i wish my teacher knew i do have friends to play with, or my reading log is not signed a lot because my mom is not around a lot. let's talk to the woman behind t the question. thank you so much for the project and for talking to us, and you are calling it a reality check, and i am calling it a wake-up call. what is your thought? >> absolutely. this has been eye opening. i really have been able to understand my students more and understand where they are coming everyday when they come to school. >> i was reading demographics about this, and i think a lot of
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people may not know, and joe and i didn't know this either, most of your students are primarily hispanic, and 70% of children live in poverty in denver, and 90% were on a free or reduced lunch. >> i think there is not a lot of awareness about the realities our students face, and we have so many students in denver that face these same challenges, and while these notes are poignant and heartbreaking, their stories are not rare. i hope that's a message that can come through with all of this. >> was there one particular, one or two, that stuck with you and was there anything that encouraged you to even reach out to that child? >> you know, all of them helped me to reach out to the kids.
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some of them were like i wish my teacher knew i want to learn more about dinosaurs, so i can give them more dinosaur books. the ones that really stick with me are the ones that are saying i wish my teacher knew how it's affecting me that a parent is not able to be with me or a parent is not able to be present in my life, and those are heart wrenching because there's not a lot of things i can do about it. >> have parents reached out to you since this project started? >> yeah, i was on the phone yesterday with parents, and i am getting e-mails from them, and a lot knew this was happening, and a lot are glad that the community in our classroom is getting shared. >> you have a new project. tell us about it. >> yeah, so many people have
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reached out, and they become aware of some of the needs the kids face, and they said how can i help. we are starting a hash tag, #bookharves #bookharvest, and it is just get your old books and get them to these kids. children that live in poverty don't have access to books at home, just having access to books at home can start to level of playing field for them. >> i come from a family, a long, long line of teachers, and you all i know kind of take on a parenting role these days in some aspects as i have heard, so thank you for what you have done, you started conversations not just in the classroom but with parents at home and with
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their kids, too. best of luck and keep in touch, okay? >> thank you so much. i hope the message can get out there. >> #bookharvest folks, let's get it started. thank you and take care. thank you so much for starting your morning with us. the next hour of your "new day" starts right now. running from the flames. hundreds of homes threatened by a wildfire in drought stricken california. >> and republican attacks on hillary clinton. would less attacks be on her if she was not the only democratic presidential candidate. >> this is breaking news. >>
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