the prime minister is trying to erase his past behavior. >> dana: he was supposed to start speaking at 2:15. he was about 40 minutes late. they are figuring out what they were going to say. taking some questions in english and then he's speaking in french. we'll give to it shep now. >> shepard: continuing coverage as the canadian prime minister justin trudeau apologizes for images surfacing of him in black face at a 2001 arabian nights costume party and now at two other events. he says he's sorry, embarrassed and he didn't realize the pain that it causes people of color when people of privilege wear black face. the questions are continuing in english. let's listen. actually, still in french. he's alternating as canadian politicians almost always do. this is surfacing at a very difficult time for the canadian prime minister as national

elections are just weeks away. he admitted in the beginning that he work black face at that arabian knights party and then another time at a high school talent show and that was it. now a video has emerged showing him in black face on a third occasion. he says it's from the early 90s. this is all just weeks before the election. trudeau is in a tight race with conservative opponents. the polls show them neck and neck. trudeau says he's sorry, he's embarrassed and didn't realize how hurtful the wearing of black face is to people of color and he's asking for forgiveness. whether the people of canada and his liberal party will grant him that forgiveness and another term of prime minister is a matter for future reporting. today a full-on mea culpa. the prime minister saying i'm from privilege. his father a prominent politician as well saying that

there were lined spots. i consider myself an ally to people of color but i've made mistakes and i'm sorry. he's asking for forgiveness. this has been continuing throughout the afternoon. now they have gone back to english. let's listen. >> just wondering when you first told your campaign staff that there are these images of you out there that could be embarrassing if they were to come out in an election campaign. did you know about this in 2015? did you know about this before then? when did you tell those people? >> as i said, i was embarrassed. particularly given the person that i've become and the leader that i try to be. to fight for people's rights and defend people against intolerance and racism. i didn't want to talk about it with anyone. i'm not that person anymore.

i'm someone that understands the deep hurt caused by actions like that to people who live with discrimination every day. when we found out that "time" magazine was looking for a picture of that event, i told my staff. but ultimately the call is mine on when to talk to people, when to act on things. the buck stops with me and i take responsibility. >> you had a privilege upbringing. you went to good schools. your father was prime minister and an internationalist. i'm wondering if he knew you did this in high school a peering in black face, and what he thought about it and if he didn't know, what do you think he would have thought about it? >> my father raised me to try to defend people's rights. one of our family mottos has

always been provide counter weights. it's the way he gave for why he chose to go to ottawa in 1965 when all the power tended to accrue towards quebec city and the quiet revolution. he said no, we need to provide counter weights. if you're strong, go where your strength is most needed. that's the way he raised me and i certainly have tried to use the privilege that you talk about, the opportunities that i've had in my life to put them in service of people who didn't have the kinds of opportunities that i have. that's the kind of leader and the kind of prime minister i've tried to be, the kind of man i've tried to be. certainly the kind of parent i've tried to be. in my conversations with my kids, difficult conversation i had this morning about taking responsibility for your actions. learning from your mistakes.

this is certainly something that i think my father wouldn't be pleased with how i behaved, but perhaps would feel that taking responsibility for things is important. when i think of the conversations that i had with my kids, i recognize that there's too many canadians that morning had to explain to their kids what those pictures were of their prime minister. and what kind of society we live in and the world we need to live in and how things have evolved. but at the same time, i regret deeply parents that had to have difficult conversations with their kids that were uncomfortable and hurtful because of my actions. >> shepard: the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau. john roberts is live from the white house. a mea culpa at minimum.

>> yeah, what you saw there is a reflection of his personality. i grew up in canada. his father was prime minister when i was a young boy. he is, as you've seen other politicians, they try to explain it, rationalize it, some people try to deny it. he's trying to absorb all of the blame, all of the shock on himself to say i'm saying that i'm very sorry about this, i didn't know, i was a child of privilege. with privilege comes a blind spot. forgive me and go on. it's important that canadians do forgive him. october 21, there is an election. as you pointed out, the race is tight and has the conservative party at 35%. the liberal party at 34%. unlike here in the united states where we vote for the president, the leader of the party that wins the most seats in parliament becomes the prime minister. so trudeau was seen above andrew

sheerer ago the better leader. whether this changes that remains to be seen. this may be something that he can weather and maybe something that he can't weather. he's had a very diverse background in terms of things that he's done. he was the son of the prime minister, margaret trudeau hanging with the rolling stones for a while in the 1970s. that was his mother. he was a teacher in vancouver. he was a camp counselor. he was a snowboard instructor for a while. as to whether or not he can remain as the prime minister, we will see. this really does damage his image that he has fought to build, which is a champion of multiculturalism and diversity. so shep, any other politician this wouldn't look good. but he may be able to absorb it based on his personality. he's got a lot of people in canada that like him, a lot that don't like him. we'll see where this goes from here. >> john roberts at the white

house. more on this throughout the day. here at home, president trump reportedly made some sort of promise to a world leader, a promise so concerning that a whisted blower took action to report it. the top democrat investigating that complaint says the trump administration may have tried to keep that information from congress. the intelligence community's inspector general, michael atkinson testifying on capitol hill in a closed door hearing. according to the post, the whistle-blower filed a complaint with atkinson's office a little more than a month ago, august 12. the post cites two former u.s. officials and reports one of them told the paper the promise came during a phone call. fox news has not confirmed the post reporting and we don't know when or with whom this phone call took place. but in the weeks leading up to august 12, we have confirmed that president trump spoke on the phone with three big-name world leaders.

the chinese president xi jinping, emmanuel macron and the russian president, vladimir putin. the president says he realizes people could be listening in and knowing all of this is anybody couple enough to believe that i would say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on a heavily populated call? i would only do what is right anyway. only do good for the u.s.a. the house intelligence committee chairman, adam schiff of california says inspector general atkinson determined that the whistle-blower complaint is credible and urgent. should be transmitted to congress. the acting director of national intelligence, joseph mcguire, has refused to hand over details about the complaint to the committee. mcguire's office says it doesn't legally have to because the

complaint is about somebody outside the intelligence committee. schiff said the justice department is withholding the information from congress, the justice department. he says he does not know whether the white house also played a role, though there's reporting that it did, because the committee hasn't been able to get an answer on that. catherine herridge reporting for us live from washington. catherine? >> chairman schiff said the inspector general did not disclose the content of the complaint but it met the criteria to be shared with congress. >> the inspector general made exactly those determinations, found this was within the jurisdiction of the national intelligence, that it was an urgent matter and it met the statutory requirement that's it dealt with a serious or flagrant abuse, violation of law or other misconduct or misuse of resources. >> today's closed door session with the inspector general atkinson sets the table for

public testimony from the nation's intelligence chief, the acting dni, joseph mcguire. experts say there's a legal question over mcguire can share intelligence that involves executive communications. schiff says the justice department is ininvolved and indicated the administration may be as well. >> i don't know whether the white house is directly involved because we can't get an answer to that question. we know they're making some claim that a privilege may apply. well that narrows the category who may be intervening here. >> shep, that testimony from mcguire is scheduled for a week today. >> shepard: catherine herridge live in washington. thanks. legal analysis on this matter coming up at the bottom of the hour. next though, how many times have you heard there is no cure for the common cold? well that could soon change because some scientists appear to be on to something quite big. the break through that could stop your sniffles as reporting

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>> shepard: researchers in california say they may be on their way to finding a cure for the common cold. the solution? get rid of one single apparently unnecessary protein inside cells. this is all according to scientists at stanford university and the university of california at san francisco. they were able to target one protein which stopped the virus from spreading. one of the reasons it's so hard to find a cure, there's more than 150 known strains of the virus that causes the common cold. researchers say there's still a lot more work to be done before they can actually have a cure, but that this is a very important step. they also say the same process worked to stop viruses associated with asthma and polio. canadian prime minister justin trudeau still speaking and trying to clean up the controversy after wearing black

face years ago calling it racist and wrong and apologizing. he just spoke at a campaign event in winnipeg after three separate instances of him watering black face. susan li is live with us now. susan? >> shep, i've interviewed justin trudeau twice. the first time was at the u.s. chamber of commerce in washington d.c. and then after winning election in canada. last year as well at the economic club of new york. in my discussions with him, i found him to be very serious especially when it comes to economic issues and he was very serious when it comes to gender equality and racial diversity as well. we know when he was elected his cabinet was historically the most diverse given that 50/50 to men and sikh indian members as well and he chose me as a minority female to host these events when there's more distinguished individuals he could have chosen speaks to the

direction and his belief in the equality. but it comes at an inopportune time for justice department when we have an election october 21. unlike u.s. elections, you have a short time to campaign. 40 days. of course, his opposition is taking advantage of this. his opponent neck and neck and questioning his authenticity with the rest of canada today. >> shepard: thanks, susan. and word from the feds that a lot more people have gotten sick from vaping and the startling new facts and teenage vaping. what happens to kids that say they'll quit and the researcher that says the surge in vaping last year was the largest he's ever seen with any substance in history. our 18-year-old was in an accident.

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>> shepard: the feds opening a criminal investigation as the number of people getting sick after vaping jumps again. the food and drug administration says investigators are looking to suppliers, not the people that do the vaping. the centers for disease control and prevention reports that its now confirmed 530 cases up from 380 a week ago and more than half of the patients under the age of 25. the outbreak has -- is also believed to have killed seven people. the feds say they still don't know exactly what is causing the illnesses. jonathan serrie reporting from atlanta home of the cdc. jonathan? >> hi, shep. what makes this investigation so difficult is the patients got their vaping products from multiple sources. some of these patients are too

ill to speak with investigators and others are reluctant to discuss what exactly it was they were vaping. listen. >> as of now, there's no consistent single product, e cigarette or vaping product that is associated with these illnesses. but in many and now probably most cases, they are associated with the inhalation of thc. >> typical stops include cough, shortness of bright, diarrhea, fever and fatigue. the symptoms can come on quickly after vaping. >> unlike traditional cigarettes when it was difficult to communicate the harms of smoking, you may in 20, 50 years may develop lung cancer. now there's consequences that are happening rapidly. >> susan mellow is one of the authors in the journal natural

of american medical association. she says an increasing number of high school students are being exposed to secondhand aerosol products. this goes beyond children that are actively vaping. shep? >> shepard: what are the feds telling folks that used to smoke cigarettes, quit smoking and now vape? >> yeah, there's a lot of people in that position. they should talk to their doctors about alternatives. the cdc is clear what they shouldn't do. >> we don't want you to go back to smoking cigarettes. you may want to talk to your doctor about health concerns that you have and certainly if you're having symptoms with the use of the products you're using right now, talk to your doctor. >> and completely separate from this investigation into illness, public health officials say children and nonsmokers shouldn't even try vaping

products because many of them contain highly a ductive product. >> shepard: e cigarette use has doubled since 2017. that's according to the new england journal of medicine. 1 in 412th graders reported vaping in the last month. 1 in 4. that's compared to one in five tenth graders and 1 in 11 eighth graders. a new bipartisan group of lawmakers launched a caucus to stop teen vaping. after this after the state of new york banned the sale of flavor e cigarettes. and we have the principal investigator for the new study. richard, thank you. what are the headlines? >> you did a good job summarizing them. vaping among teens, nicotine

vaping, is increasing again from 2017 to 2018, which was last year, we saw the largest increase we've ever seen for any substance in the last 44 years that we've done the survey. this year, 2018 to 2019, yet again, another increase in every grade that we track; 10, 11 and 12th grade. >> shepard: as you look at it in the aggregate, is there a determination as to how it is that regulations or otherwise could stop kids from doing this? >> yeah, that's a good question. so as you know, on the table right now, it's a flavoring ban. we asked two years ago in the survey, we asked kids why you vape. we gave a list of options. the second most common reasons was, they liked the flavors. the most common reason is because they were curious, which is what you'd expect. the third is they were bored. so flavoring ranks up there why the kids say they're vaping.

and i think if we moved away from the flavoring vaping products that are out there, kids would have much less interest. they might be curious, try vaping once or twice but lose interest and do something else. >> shepard: certainly everyone wants to keep this away from children. but adults that smoked for many years say if you make me vape the tobacco flavor, i have a better chance of going back to cigarettes because that flavor has been eliminated from my life and i'm glad it has. so a lot of people that have used this may for better reasons are concerned. >> yes, that's right. it's really a difficult tight rope to walk. so the flavoring ban doesn't, as you note, ban e cigarettes or vaping at all. it just bans flavors. there's unflavored vaping out there. if people insist the only reason they'll stop smoking is they can only vape mango or fruit

flavors, this ban there have a negative effect on them. >> shepard: thanks, richard. he was part of this study. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> shepard: we've been following the developments in houston. there's breaking news. the flooding is epic and some there are calling it historic. water rescues underway all across houston and associated press is reporting in the last few minutes that rescuers have gone in and rescued more than 1,000 people in the flooded areas. continuing coverage on this coming up. i switched to miralax for my constipation. stimulant laxatives forcefully stimulate the nerves in your colon. miralax works with the water in your body to unblock your system naturally.

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leader. "the new york times" just reported in the last 15 minutes or so that the whistle-blower detailed a series of actions. it reports michael atkinson, the inspector general reported as much as a briefing. he refused to say if it involved the president. atkinson said the complaint was credible and urgent. generally speaking whistle-blower complaints deemed as much must be turned over to congress. the office of the director of national intelligence reports that it does not have to turn this complaint over because it relates to somebody outside the intelligence community. specifically reportedly the president. let's go to jeffery cramer now. managing director of the berkeley research group and a former assistant attorney and prosecutor. good to see you. >> hi, shep. >> shepard: whistle blows sees things, hears things. decides that it's urgent.

goes to the inspector general. the inspector general deems it urgent and credible. how is it that that complaint would not have to be turned over to the congress? >> it should be. what you just listed, the first couple stops in the process. it's really written in black and white. the inspector general gets a complaint as mr. atkinson did here, he determines if it's credible and urgent, which he did. he forwards it to the director of national intelligence who has seven days to investigate on his or her own and then turn it over to congress for their investigation. what happened here that stopped the process, mr. mcguire went to the department of justice and got guidance that he did not have to turn it over to congress, which is what thwarted the process. hence mr. atkinson, the inspector general, did basically an end run to go to congress and let them know this was going on and there seems to be a

violation of the process. >> shepard: now what can congress do to get this information? >> they've started it. they start a behind-door hearings with mr. atkinson who gave some information, but appropriately so didn't give everything. then i believe there's hearings next week where they'll bring in mr. mcguire. it will be interesting to see the affordable care acting director of national intelligence can give more information. seems to be and you just couched it, if the guidance from the department of justice is that mr. mcguire did not have to go to congress because the person who may have violated the law was not under the purview of the intelligence community, that basically makes it -- the president is immune from congress ever knowing about what happened. that defeats the point of the law. doesn't matter whether it's republican in office or democrat in office. the law is the law. in this case, mr. atkinson followed it. mr. mcguire did not. >> shepard: so the department of

justice is suggesting the president is above the law? >> mr. mcguire doesn't have to go to congress because the person that violated the statute is not under the purview of national intelligence. you can say that is the president. now, mr. mcguire and mr. atkinson don't have to agree whether it's urgent or needs to be brought forth meaditely. at this point, you have to bring it to continue so they can determine which of the two views, mr. mcgator's view or mr. atkinson's view is correct. >> shepard: that's the separation of powers. investigation -- >> exactly. >> shepard: this was originally put into place, this rule, this law, to protect whistle-blowers so people looking out for the greater good that saw problems within government, goes against the people that they would have a safe place to make a report.

>> exactly. you can extrapolate whistle-blowers to any of the things that we see in the healthcare area, the prescription pill area, the finance area and certainly in government. but for whistle-blowers, the population would be much less informed on very key items. and the government isn't except from whistle-blowers. one could argue it's the exact opposite. a healthy skepticism of the government is vital. >> shepard: feels like whether this thing makes it to congress in a very expeditious matter aside, this information exists and it's coming out? >> shepard: i think one way or another it is. may be behind closed doors. certainly could be some information that shouldn't be in the public domain. that's fine. congress needs to have a role here. there's three branches of government. we're witling down to two.

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>> shepard: breaking news hand continuing coverage out of houston where water rescuing are happening all across the city. associated press now reporting rescuers have saved or evacuated more than 1,000 people in the area. new reporting from the houston chronicle now telling us that governor abbott has issued a state of disaster in 13 counties across texas. effects of the storm continue in houston. officials across the city were reporting high water across many roads, inside the city and monitoring water levels in several bayous. city services including those in at least two airports, local transit authority, hospitals and ambulance services have been affected by heavy rain and at

least one hospital in one small town has been forced to be evacuated. it was not a windstorm but a rainstorm. some locals are calling it historic flooding. waters than the big hurricane that we saw unfold. rick reichmuth has more. >> so this is what was tropical storm, like eight hours. the problem is, made landfall, hasn't moved much. this is the last 48 hours and continuing to see the rain in the same spots. you can see the one band that lined up with is very dark reds on the radar picture. you can see to the north and east of houston. right there, some of that brought over five inches of rain an hour. right now we have one spot that has seen over 43 inches of rain, shep, from this storm right here in the last three days. that puts it in the fifth largest or most rainfall from in

hurricane or anything across areas of texas in history. an incredible thing that you can have a storm that was never a hurricane, a category five or anything like that but causing all of this damage. the worst is to the east of houston and over towards beaumont. those areas are saying this is more rain than they had from hurricane harvey. you saw what happened with harvey. the thing with harvey, it was wider spread and the more populated areas. this is further off to the east. the worst of it has sagged to the south of houston around galveston, but you can see the areas here that are under the flood advisories. as far as additional rainfall, could see 4-6 inches to the east of the houston area that will still cause problems for the most part by tomorrow. shep, what an incredible storm to have a storm that snuck up on

us. models were putting out intense rainfall but not 40 inches. >> shepard: and much less for louisiana. >> yes, for sure. overall, the storm will wind down a little bit. a lot of the precipitation will go away. you can see this from other storms in the north. that's what we have left there across parts of texas. >> shepard: rick reichmuth. thanks very much, a stark warning from iran. the country's foreign minister is threatening an all-out war if any countries strike tehran following the attacks on the oil facilities. that's what he told cnn in an interview saying it would cause a lot of casualties. yesterday mike pompeo said the assault was an act of war. they put the global energy supply at risk. president trump says america will impose significant sanctions on tehran. officials say drones and

missiles that hit the world's largest oil processing facilities were fire inside iran. but iran claims houthi rebels were behind the strikes. the question is should the u.s. military get involved. jonathan hoffman says the department is providing president trump with military options for any u.s. response, but that no decisions have been made. president trump says he doesn't want war. iran says the same. in this attack, nobody died. i'd did it not target anything american. the saudis have their own military, much of its equipment bought from the united states. we've sold them 56 combat aircraft with cruise missiles and bombs, patriot missiles and awacs planes and blackhawks helicopters and tanks. in fact, the white house over ten years has notified congress

of proposed sales totalling $139 billion. so what now? rich edson reporting live from the state department. rich? >> shep, secretary state mike pompeo is returning from the region. he says he's going to present the president when he returns to washington with the information that he's gotten from being there about how the united states should proceed. he spent the last couple days in saudi arabia in the united arab emirates before leaving abu-dhabi this morning. he responded to the iranian foreign minister and that there would be all-out war if there was an attack against iran. >> i was here on an act of diplomacy while they're threatening all-out war. we want a peaceful resolution to this. >> pompeo says the u.s. and its regional allies have determined that it's abundantly clear that iran is responsible for the attacks from this past weekends on saudi oil infrastructure and that the fingerprints of iran's

ayatollah put the global energy supply at risk. iran has denied responsibility for this attack. zarif says iran doesn't want military confrontation though he says iranians won't blink to defend their country. iran says the iranian government refuses to negotiate with the united states unless the trump administration rolls back all the sanctions that they have put on since leaving the iran nuclear deal last year. the administration is going in the other direction with officials, even the president saying there will be more sanctions against iran. shep? >> shepard: no word on how the united states plans to respond? >> right, shep. the pentagon and administration officials say they're considering this. much of this depends on what mike pompeo brings back to the white house when he returns here to washington from his trip to the region. you also have the pentagon saying a u.s. forensics team is still in saudi arabia, will be there for some time investigating all of this.

and then the international component to this. the united nations says they have a team on the ground in saudi arabia doing the same. shep? >> shepard: thanks, rich. urgent and just in, prosecutors are now accusing an american citizen, a man from new jersey, of working on behalf of hezbollah terrorists and scouting targets a tack inside new york city. they announced the indictment saying the suspect joineded me what in the mid 90s and came to the united states legally where he became an american citizen. prosecutors say he secretly kept working for his terrorist buddies and carried out surveillance here in new york. scouting out targets including the empire state building, times square and the statue of liberty and checking out bridges and weaknesses and how attacks could do the most damage. we don't know how investigators

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>> shepard: police in arizona say they busted an illegal vaping operation and that they discovered more than 1,000 cartridges that could be related to the problems across the country. they also found a stockpile of guns and cash in the home in phoenix. trace gallagher has more.

trace? >> shep, we talk about the 1,000 plus thc vape cartridges found in this home. that's critical. some of them could be connected to people around the country getting sick. investigators also found 8 jars of narcotic distill late with a value of $300,000. the narcotics could be thc, opium and et cetera. they found a bho manufacturing lap and that is how you extract the thc from the marijuana. thc is what makes you high. the bottom line here is authorities say this was a prolific drug lab that could have been providing dangerous vaping products to who knows how many people. here's the maricopa sheriff. watch. >> this is very timely as we recognize nationally and locally how devastating these chemicals and drugs are to the safety and quality of life for our youth. >> the way it worked was, the

deputies got a tip about the drug house, surveilled it a few days and finally served the warrant. >> shepard: there's the vaping products but they're also making edibles. >> right. they model the snacks after cheetos and sour patch kids by different names. obviously marijuana infused snacks are a concern to police. they found 300 pounds of marijuana in the house meaning they had the means to produce more vape products and snack food. the suspects are identified as 23-year-old tucker recreation and 23-year-old colby stephens. both are in jail on felony drug charges. two brothers from kenosha, wisconsin were charged in a massive counterfeit thc vaping

cartridges. they were selling cartridges for $15 each. they said they thought it would be a good business opportunity. shep? >> shepard: trace gallagher live. seems you can make milk from anything these days. the old school cow milk is best for your kids. that's according to four of the country's biggest health organizations including american academy of pediatrics. you need to avoid giving plant based milk to children under the age of 5. they say start with whole milk before moving to skim or 1%. doctors say giving kids a taste of the healthy stuff when they're young creates good habits. if you have ever walked into an animal shelter, you know that they're filled with pets waiting for somebody to adopt them. for some, shelter life is permanent. a man in kansas is making it his mission to help a dog find her

forever home. this is queen. she's a 3-year-old terrier mix. she's been waiting in an animal shelter outside kansas city for more than 400 days. a guy named scott poore overseas a clothing brand that brings awareness to animal adoption. he decided to move in to the shelter to help queen stay positive until she gets adopted. >> she's gentle, loving. the last couple months she started losing hope. that's what motivated me to do this. i won't let her lose hope. >> she was losing hope. scott says queen is a perfect example of how some animals are just forgotten and he's hoping to show people just how friendly she is. i'm not sure how she told this guy that she was losing hope. but he seems to know it. he's there taking good care. that seems cool, doesn't it? i bet queen gets some phone calls. after our reporting here, we'll

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