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known as greening. it appeared in the u.s. in 2005 and increasing threat to florida's entire citrus industry. profits are razor thin for growers like johnson. >> we are always constantly looking, a way to cut cost, or you know if the fruit market is not this can we make it. >> what is gone on in your eyes i can see? >> just emotional time. i am fourth mere. to give that up would hurt me. >> florida and oranges have been synonymous. >> dpid you have your glass of florida orange yus? >> this state produces more oranges than any country in the world except for brazil. production is plummeting. in 2004, florida produced 240 million boxes of oranges. this season, that number is going to drop to 70 million. because of greening. that's why researchers are looking at every possible option
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>> fruit are smaller and lopsided. michael rodgers with the university of florida. >> they're not harvesting as much fruit as they used to. spending three times the money to got that crop. and the crop is much smaller. so, the profit margins have dropped dramatically. researchers are feeling desperate. this is effective but expensive. many farmers are having a hard time keeping there are 130,000 acres of ghost orchards. abandoned and left to the weed. as profits have dropped. steve johnson has diversified, branching into other businesses. >> greening is not going to kill -- >> might kill the trees but not going to kill our spirit. >> reporter: mr. johnson looks at greening like a terminal illness. something he has had to learn to live with. so, norah, here is what he is
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? music ? new k-y intense. a stimulating gel that takes her pleasure to new heights. the battle for the white house is being fought at rallies on the airwaves, internet, and even at your front door. but one of the oldest forms of the election eeering, the bumme sticker is alive and well.
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>> so you have a fine car? >> reporter: it has been said americans have always kidded their cars extensions of their personalities. so it does seem that cars and politics were made for one another. >> as early as there were cars there were ways of decorating your car to support your candidate. so where we are is in t storage area for political history. >> harry ruben stein head political history at national museum of american history in washington, d.c. >> before the bumper sticker which begins in the 1940s, you end up with the kind of metal piece that can weather the storm. looks like a classing bumper sticker. this one happens to be from 1928. >> reporter: then came world war
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technology. includi including, day-glo colors and adhesive paper. it wasn't long before somebody put them together. forest gill, of kansas city, missouri. >> he put the idea of the bright colors and the sticky paper together. to come up with a bumper sticker. >> mark gilman his son-in-law. and chairman of gill's studios. now located in kansas. >> his innovation was to make the ? ? >> reporter: america's postwar love affair with the automobile guaranteed that the traveling billboards got around. but tourist attractions not political campaigns were the original users. america speaks at the polling booths. >> reporter: 1952, the first real bumper sticker presidential election. >> general eisenhower.
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eisenhower/stevenson. ike/adlai. >> this is sort of a play on adlai stevenson and his worn out shoe. they kept using it, he is working so hard to win your vote. then obviously the republicans also use it as an attack on him. today there are thousands of bumper sticker producers. gill's studios is one of the bigger ones. in an election year, this one 15 million of those political. just a wide range of candidates for, for congress, for sheriff. gill prints whatever message a customer wants. positive or negative. the company has no political agenda. >> feel free to look through. all kind of. >> absolutely. >> that is definitely not the case for the people who commission them. >> not so sure i am going to put them on my car.
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about what might happen. >> reporter: how toxic is this year's presidential race? that anyone of these little punch lines, david ellis is selling outside his westport, connecticut home. could be a 3 x 10 invitation to vandalize somebody's car. automotive free speech can have consequences. >> i have the right to -- in may about the south carolina tow truck driver who refused to tow a disabled woman's car because she had a bernie sticker on it. he says, no you are a bernie supporter. i was like, really? he said, yes, ma'am walks away. >> something came over me. lord said get in the truck and leave. >> how many items of political memorabilia do you think you have? >> several thousand.
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no respect. compared to all of the other political swag out there. >> that's james cox who ran for president in 1920. and his vice president may not be recognizable there, but franklin d. roosevelt. tallahassee florida stockbroker john clark paid $12,000 for this button. but what about his bumper stickers? >> bumper stickers may be $5, $10 if very rare. this is my -- my collection of them. >> reporter: he has hundred of them anyway. >> barry goldwater. >> reporter: the odder the better. >> symbols, au for gold. h 20 for water. so. goldwater. >> once free, now you have to pay for bumper stickers. mainly so that campaigns can scoop up your name, phone number and e-mail address.
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good for something else. >> do you ever have an informal correlation between the highest number of bumper stickers and who wins? >> well i can say that -- every, every winner, since we have been making bumper stick terersstick winner has used the most bumper stickers. who is ahead. according to this totally unscientific method of figuring it out. with o year. trump, is at 800,000. to quote a terrible cliche -- only time will tell. meanwhile, our vote for best bumper sticker any way is --
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justin timberlake opened up a can worms when he post aid selfie casting an early ballot a voting booth is against the law in tennessee and a lot of states as well. ben tracy has a snapshot of the political controversy. ? black and white ? >> reporter: justin timberlake always seems ready for his close-up. but this side-eyed selfie could have gotten jt jail time. taking photos in polling places in tennessee is forbidden. timberlake posted his pic on instagram after voting in
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you. the problem though isn't hearing, it's seeing. while 19 states allow you to share a ballot box selfie, at least 18 others have laws that ban it. in some states the laws are unclear or allow for pictures of mail-in ballots. >> a lot of the rules were written before there were cell phones. >> an expert in election law at uc-irvine. >> what are the reasons for these bans? >> the idea actually goes back to the, to the sook rhe secret ballot. people are not going to bribe you. you can't prove. vote buying and vote coercion. >> reporter: in the social media age, the ballot selfie seems inevitable. for some, a picture isn't even enough. >> that's one in the bank. >> some states are changing their laws to allow selfies. in illinois they set up a selfie booth to give people a legal spot to take their shot. but that idea is not good enough
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michigan for its law that bans ballot selfies. >> any time there is a law that is written that infringes upon our rights, we should challenge that as citizens. >> reporter: as for justin timberlake, don't worry he is not being locked up. the tennessee secretary of state's office actually seems to be enjoying the publicity saying we are thrilled justin can't stop the feeling when it comes to voting so much that he voted early in person and is promoting voting to his millions of fans. but just to be safe, if you snap a ballot selfie, you may just want to keep it to yourself. for cbs this morning, ben tracy, los angeles. and that's the "overnight
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monopoly. campaign 2016 edition. trump puts a hotel on pennsylvania avenue. >> this building is an historical landmark, a true american original. >> while clinton eyes a house three blocks away. >> we cannot stop for a minute. >> also, tonight, on the trail of russian hackers. he was a target. >> do you believe they were state sponsored. >> absolutely sure. >> flying high? a commercial airline pilot is busted in the cockpit. >> a tiny bug is raising the price of breakfast. and threatening to put citrus growers out of business. and, an unusual 12-step program. >> i'm morgan, and i'm a racist.
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>> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." hillary clinton turns 69 wednesday. and if the polls hold she has a very good chance of getting her birthday wish. the real clear politics average of major polls gives her a better than 5 point lead over donald trump. he is up about one point since their final debate one week ago. a cbs news analysis indicates today, clinton would have 18 more electoral votes than she needs. but of course we still have 12 days to go. early voting is already under way in 33 states. so, let's bring in our campaign correspondents, nancy cordes and major garrett. nancy, what can we say about early voting so far? >> reporter: we can say the clinton campaign is pleased with what it is seeing here in florida, in north carolina and
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where democrats appear to be voting as a greater share of the electorate than they were in 2012. the opposite however is true in ohio and in iowa. two other battleground states, it's not entirely surprising. those were always the two battleground states the clinton campaign knew would be the biggest challenge for them. >> major, a dustup about trump and women. after this interview last night with trump supporter newt gingrich and megyn kelly of fox news. >> you want to go back through the tapes of your show. you are fascinated with sex and you don't care about public policy. >> me, really? >> that's what i get out of watching you tonight? >> you know what, mr. speaker, i'm any not fascinated by sex. but i am fascinated by the protection of women and understanding what we are getting in the oval office. >> major, what was trump
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>> well, scott, trump invited the speaker of the house, newt gingrich to his hotel opening in washington, picked him out of the crowd. congratulated him on the contentious interview. called it amazing. and said we don't play games, do we, newt. in the interview at the end, kelly said to the speaker you have anger management issues to work out. gingrich tweeted he had no anger management issues to sort through, only media bias issues. >> nancy, these races seem to narrow as election day nears. where is it getting closer now? >> kind of a mixed bag. i can tell you the clinton campaign at this point is focussing much more heavily on those early voting statistics than they are on the polls. they're watching county by county. the entire schedule is actually influx next week. they're watching to see which counties could benefit from a visit it by secretary clinton. >> trump's leading in ohio, major, how its his fund-raising going? he once said he would spend $100
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>> well, trump has spent $56 million at least through september. republicans i talked to say it would be easier for them to fund raise for trump and republican party if trump would be conspicuous laying down cash in the closing days. one fund raiser, if trump put down $25 million, we could match that. no sign trump is going to do that. if that money isn't raised, it could be deleterious for trump and also, republicans running in close house and senate races. >> major garrett, nancy cordes thank you very much. we are following a very close battle for control of the republican-led senate. the democrats need to add five seats. or, just four if clinton wins. and tim kaine becomes president of the senate. one gop seat in serious jeopardy is in indiana. and dean reynolds is there. >> thank you very much. >> evan bayh, two term senator retired six years ago and wants back in. >> i'm running -- >> his republican opponent, three term congressman, todd
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>> evan bayh cast his vote for obamacare after ignoring the pleas of tens of thousand of hoosiers. >> laura allbright political scientist at university of indianapolis. >> todd young, basically attacks him on that. says look, a lot of hoosier voters are dissatisfied with affordable care act. evan bayh gave you this. obamacare is helping young try to hold the seat for the g ocht p having mike pence on the ticket helps too only so much. though trump is comfortably ahead of hillary clinton in the state, young seldom mentions him. >> reporter: have you endorsed him? support him? going to vote for him what? >> i want change like most hoosiers. this is indeed a change election. >> reporter: you support the republican ticket for president? >> i'm a republican. i'm a republican.
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will not continue the failed policies of barack obama on the ticket. so -- >> that's who. >> yeah, that's mr. trump. >> but unpopularity at the top of the ticket is not solely a republican problem here. these ads opposing bayh sign off with a photo of clinton. >> reporter: we also asked senator bayh for an interview but he was out of the state, scott, raising money even at this late date. for his campaign. >> dean reynolds, thanks least of the worries for a regional airline pilot who was accused of trying to fly drunk this morning. kris van cleave is following this. >> reporter: delta connection flight 4574 arrived in salt lake city hours behind schedule with a different pilot at the controls. after police in rapid city, south dakota arrested 38-year-old russell dusak on suspicion of drinking. tsa officers noted he smelled of alcohol, and called police. he failed a breathalyzer test and officers, removed him from the cockpit.
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picture inside the rapid city airport as passengers waited for information. they had to call in a replacement pilot. our pilot was drunk. >> we saw a police officer board. barbara larson was on the flight. >> i will be really anxious when i get on more flights. woulding, you know, you know, where the pilots and co-pilot has been the night before. >> reporter: drunk pilot cases are rare. according to faa ten pilots last year fund to have blood alcohol concentration of .04 or greater. in august, two united pilots were busted suspected of being intoxicated as they prepared to fly 141 passengers from scotland to the u.s. also that month. john mcguire, american airlines co-pilot pleaded no contest to charges he was drunk when removed from a detroit to philly flight in march.
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the russians have been raising cane, breaking into the computers of the democratic national committee and clinton campaign chairman john podesta. how did they do it? well charlie d'agata has been turning up clues from an investigative website called bellingcat. which was also hacked by russia. >> reporter: debris scattered for miles when the malaysian plane was shot down over ukraine in july 2014. investigative website, bellingcat the first to conclude pro russian separatists fired the missile that's when the group landed squarely in the cross hairs of russian hackers. one of bellingcat's
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you hope you get a fish. >> called spearfishing. he told us that's how the russians attacked bellingcat. >> get fake e-mails from google or whatever, look like from google or whatever, you click them they steal information. >> they look legit. >> at first glance. >> reporter: which should be a short link, and instead looks like this. put in your password. boom they got you. >> reporter: fearing a trap, instead toller and colleagues sent the suspect e-mail to one of the top cybersecurity teams in the u.s. threatconnect. they discovered that the russian hacking group, fancy bear, had used the same spearfishing technique against bellingcat as the the dnc as well as the hack against clinton campaign chair john podesta. many used the same e-mail
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u.s. investigators agree, this series of hacks originated in russia. what's less clear is whether the cyberattacks were approved by the kremlin after the fact, or part of an orchestrated campaign. bellingcat's contributor in moscow, roslan laviv believes they were. >> i started receiving phone >> reporter: you got phone calls and death threats? >> yes, yes, many of these. >> reporter: after his reports exposed government deception, his onlines accounts were hacked, his pass passport, personal photographs, address and home phone number posted on line. the attackers not only hacked his computer, but they bypassed his security backup, by hijacking his cell phone as well. he told us, only russia's secret service has that kind of capability. >> reporter: do you believe they
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>> absolutely sure. >> reporter: absolutely sure? >> are you worried for your safety? >> sometime i am worried about my safety. it is our life. we must, battle for our future. >> reporter: battle for your future. >> yes. so, it's no -- we don't have another choice. only this. >> reporter: investigators we spoke to said there is every indication that russian hackers will try to disrupt the u.s. election and blamed for undermining elections in neighboring ukraine. >> fascinating story. charlie d'agata in our london newsroom tonight. charlie, thank you. >> today the pentagon called abrupt halt to demand california national guard troops returned the bonuses they received during iraq and afghanistan. auditors have found that thousand of those bonuses should not have been paid. but the defense secretary said today, that many of the soldiers didn't know it. and shouldn't suffer. jan crawford following this. >> reporter: nothing is more important than ensuring our service members are treated with gratitude and respect. defense secretary ash carter interrupted a nato meeting in
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>> i have ordered the suspension of all efforts to collect reimbursement from affected california guard members. that suspension will continue until i am satisfied that our process is working. >> reporter: after 9/11, the california national guard was under pressure to send troops to fight overseas. they used bonuses and student loan forgiveness to help fill ranks in high demand units for those about to deploy. they gave the program to others abuses. a manager was sentenced to 30 months in prison for doling out $15 million to ineligible soldiers. the pentagon says some soldiers should know they didn't qualify. the government demanded money back from more than 10,000 guard members. repayments can total upward of $15,000 plus interest. >> when they were hitting me up
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have sleepless nights. >> reporter: robert richmond served in afghanistan and iraq and survived three ambushes when he didn't pay back his bonus, the guard reported it to credit agencies and ruined his credit score. >> felt like betrayal. depressing. absolutely unbelievable they would do this to these people that spent so much time serving their country. >> reporter: the pentagon says it is still possible some soldiers will have to pay the money back. but they will lean in favor of the soldier if there is any doubt. scott, a nationwide audit shows other states nay have had problems like this. in far fewer numbers. >> jan crawford in the washington newsroom. jan, thank you. some day men and women around the world will be paid the same. but a new report says, we're not likely to live to see it. the world economic forum says that at the present rate. pay equity won't happen for 170 years. in the u.s., women aran bout 2/3
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a tiny insect is crushing florida $10 billion citrus industry into pulp. david begnaud is there. steve johnson is fourth generation citrus farmer with 600 acres in central florida. >> it's not a job.
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>> reporter: it is in jeopardy because of this bug from china which carries tree disease greening. it can kill a citrus tree in three years. looking, is there a way to cut cost. take money out of our pocket. i'm fourth generation to be here. to give that up would really hurt me. >> reporter: infected trees produce oranges, smaller, misshapen and fall prematurely. the citrus industry is a $10 billion business in florida. next year's harvest is predicted to be one of the lowest on record and that's because 90% of the orange groves statewide are infected with greening. florida's oranges mainly used to make juice. prices have jumped nearly 19% since greening was detected 11 years ago. >> fruit are smaller and lopsided. michael rodgers with the university of florida. >> they're not harvesting as much fruit as they used to. spending three times the money to got that crop.
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so, the profit margins have dropped dramatically. >> reporter: researchers here are trying everything, gene splicing to create tolerant trees, experimental high,000 groves with netting and keep pests out. oranges have given way to weeds on 130,000 acres of ghost orchards. steve johnson isn't walking away. >> i get this, greeng is not going to kill that. not going to kill our spirit. brink because of a tiny bug threatening to squeeze every drop of life out of it. david begnaud, cbs news, florida. coming of right up. a harrowing commute aboard a
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the train with smoke. passengers kicked out windows to escape. some of them were treated for smoke inhalation. today before the sun rose, a star was attacked on the hollywood walk of fame. donald trump's star. a protester smashed it with a sledgehammer and then posted the video online. earlier this year, an artist put up a wall around the star to protest trump's mexican border plan.
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,, we end tonight with a new treatment for disease that has afflicted this country since its birth. john blackstone now on curing racism. one step at a time. >> i'm morgan, and i'm a racist. >> something usually unspeakable. >> i'm bonn yo. am >> a conversation starter at racists anonymous. participants in the multiracial group try to become more aware of their own biases. >> that means that if an arabic person gets on a plane and i automatically think terrorist. >> their goal is to abolish racism from their communities by first eliminating it from themselves. >> often we don't even realize we are being racist.
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meetings at his congregational church in sunnyvale, california after watching town after town getting eaten up by hate and violence so often born out of prejudice. >> black lives matter has made a wonderful impact in so many ways. but this is a different approached. >> reporter: focused on the individual. >> right. instead of talking about other people's racism to say it is me. >> reporter: the revelation comes in the smallest instances. >> there are a number of black people and some of them have and somehow i just can't remember those weird names. and i am very, i feel very bad about it. >> you night want to use unique or different. because i don't think the mother would like you to say her child has a weird name. where did you get shaniqua? >> morgan has been a participant from the beginning. >> i hadn't considered myself a
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discussions, it started me thinking, maybe there is a little bit of raise m in everybody. and that i -- i was one of them. >> the reality is that -- the -- the white experience in america, the black or brown experience in america, are so radically different. that there is no way that the person who is white could even understand what's happening to the black person except it is so i think people are -- coming to a place of -- discovering. >> let's have the group hug here. come on. come on. >> in a nation searching for answers it is a small step. but a step in the right direction. john blackstone. cbs news, sunnyvale, california. >> that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back a little later for the morning news and
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york city, i'm scott pelley. welcome to the overnight news. i'm michelle miller. police in rapid city, south dakota were called to the airport on the reports that the pilot of a small commercial jet was drunk in the cockpit. salt lake city when it finally took off. the allegedly drunk crew member was not at the controls. kris van cleave reports. delta connection flight 4574 arrived in salt lake city hours behind schedule with a different pilot at the controls after police in rapid city south dakota arrested 3-year-old russell duszak on suspicion of drinking. tsa officers noted duszak smelled of alcohol, called police.
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and officers removed him from the cockpit. darren farmer posted this picture in rapid city. tweeting delta had to call in a replacement pilot because our pilot was drunk. >> we saw a police officer board. >> barbara larson was on the flight. >> i will be really anxious now when i get on more flights. wondering, you know, you know, where the pilots and skoe pilot has been the night before. >> reporter: drunk pilot cases are rare according to the faa. to have blood alcohol of .04 or grart. in august, two united pilots were busted suspected of being intoxicated as they prepared to fly 141 from scotland to the u.s. also that month. john mcguire, an american airlines co-pilot pleaded no contest to charges he was drunk from a detroit to philly flight in march. >> there has been a lot of talk
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e-mail accounts in the united states. but one hacker group has taken aim at moscow as well. charlie d'agata has that story. >> reporter: all 298 on board were killed. the investigative website, called bellingcat the first to conclude that pro russian separatists fired the missile and that's when the group landed squarely in the cross hairs of russian hackers. >> you get the fake e-mails they whatever. you click them. they steal your information. >> reporter: they discovered that fancy bear had used the same spearfishing technique against bellingcat as the the dnc as well as the hack against clinton campaign chair. many used the same e-mail service in moscow. bellcat's contributor in moscow believes they were.
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calls with death threats. >> reporter: you got phone calls and death threats? >> yes, yes, many of these. >> reporter: after his reports exposed government deception, his onlines accounts were hacked, his pass passport, personal photographs, address and home phone number posted on line. the attackers not only hacked his computer, but they bypassed his security backup, by hijacking his cell well. he told us, only russia's secret service has that kind of capability. >> reporter: do you believe they were state sponsored? >> absolutely sure. >> reporter: absolutely sure? >> are you worried for your safety? >> sometime i am worried about
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it is our life. we must, battle for our future. >> reporter: battle for your future. >> yes. so, it's no -- we don't have another choice. only this. defense secretary ash carter is jumping into the fray. the money was to go to troops with specialized skills or those whose units were getting ready to deply back to the war zone. but some managers gave out millions to just about anyone who reenlisted. carter admits many of the troops knew or should have known they weren't eligible. but he is putting the brakes trying to get that money back. jan crawford is outside the army national guard readiness center in arlington, virginia. >> nothing is more important than ensuring service members are treated with gratitude and respect. >> reporter: defense secretary ash carter interrupted a nato meeting in brussels.
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process is working. after 9/11, the california national guard was under pressure to send troops to fight overseas. they used bonuses and student loan forgiveness to help fill ranks in high demand units or those to deploy. but the guard also gave the payments to others and the program was rife with abuses. a manager was sentenced to 30 $15 million to ineligible soldiers. the pentagon says some soldiers should know they didn't qualify. the government demanded money back from more than 10,000 guard members. repayments can total upward of $15,000 plus interest. >> when they were hitting me up with collection letters i would have sleepless nights.
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and survived three ambushes when he didn't pay back his bonus, the guard reported it to credit agencies and ruined his credit score. >> felt like betrayal. depressing. absolutely unbelievable they would do this to these people that spent so much time serving their country. in iraq, coalition troops close the noose around mosul. gunmen are retreating from the villages that ring the city and using civilians as human shields. inside mosul, thousands are trying to flee. executions. holly williams reports from irbil. >> reporter: those unconfirmed reports of atrocities in mosul include killing 50 police officers and the murder of 70 civilians in a village near the city. 10 miles from mosul these kurdish forces have the town surrounded. >> on the second hill.
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nearby village. where they lived under isis for two years. they deprived us of everything, said this man. there was only praying. getting up, praying, and that's it. around 9,000 people have fled their homes since this offensive began according to the u.n. with around a million civilians still trapped under isis inside mosul. but there are fears already that isis fighters could use the exodus to escar terror attacks. at this camp, housing some refugees from mosul, they separate the men on arrival to interrogate them. these men told us they welcome it. because they fled here to be safe. but ahmet who came from the city to the south is accused of being an isis fighter. he admits that his father and
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national intelligence director, james clapper says it is time for the united states to admit to itself that north korea is a nuclear state. he says they have got the bomb. and they have no intention of giving it up. adriana diaz just got back from north korea. >> reporter: we spoke to an adviser, u.s. election and how sanctions target their nuclear program. making an effort to open to the american media. they onto took us to places they wanted us to see. so we didn't get a full picture of life behind the curtain. though what we did encounter surprised us. the streets of pyongyang are busier than ever. road that used to be carless,
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so patriotic traffic cops maintain order. as we were driven around, we saw a whole neighborhood on the rise. and a skyline dotted with cranes. north korea's economy shrank last year, but this looks like a place that is expanding. not a country crippled by sanctions. the purpose of the sanctions is to squash us, but we cannot surrender said this man. we have to defend our lives, and our nuclear program. that nuclear program is why in march, the u.n. imposed their harshest restrictions against north korea in decade. the result -- yet another nuclear test in september. the fifth so far. economist helps advise policy. he was selected by the government for our interview. were the sanctions simply ineffective? >> we have abundant natural
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nuclear technology. nuclear threats made by the u.s. that caused this. >> do you think, hillary clinton or donald trump is likely to improve relations? >> the question is whether a new president is willing to abandon hostile policies he told us, your presidents all sanction us and we just grow stronger. it is a claim they want us to believe. but the average person here earns over $1,000 a year. less than half what they made in the 1980s. they're staying afloat thanks to china. and its appetite for commodities like coal. china bought 60% more coal in north korea in august than april when sanctions took effect. they're taking advantage of a humanitarian exemption in the law. it is that loophole secretary of state john kerry wants to close. >> it is obviously being abused? why, the greatest amount of coal and revenue historically has just passed between china and north korea.
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to any new u.n. sanctions. they oppose north korea's nuclear program but have so far been unwilling to go as far as western powers want. they fear an economic collapse could send millions of refugees across the border. and possibly u.s. troops now based in south korea also to their doorstep. you can expect much hype higher prices for orange juice, florida's $11 billion a year citrus attack under attack. 90% of the orange groves are infected with a disease that kills the trees. florida. >> reporter: researchers believe they're close to creating a tree resistant. here is a tree that is diseased. a good example. you can see right through it. starting to thin. the fruit coming off here is, smaller and misshapen. another example of disease, the fruit is prematurely falling from the tree. steve johnson has walked and worked his family citrus grove since he was a boy. >> not a job. not a business.
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>> a way of life in crisis because of the tiny bug. it carries a disease from china, known as greening. it appeared in the u.s. in 2005 and increasing threat to florida's entire citrus industry. profits are razor thin for growers like johnson. >> we are always constantly looking, a way to cut cost, or you know if the fruit market is not this can e make it. >> what is gone on in your eyes i can see? >> just emotional time. mere. to give that up would hurt me. >> florida and oranges have been synonymous. >> did you have your glass of florida orange juice this morning. >> this state produces more oranges than any country in the world except for brazil. production is plummeting. in 2004, florida produced 240 million boxes of oranges. this season, that number is going to drop to 70 million. because of greening. that's why researchers are
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to try and combat it. >> fruit are smaller and lopsided. michael rodgers with the university of florida. >> they're not harvesting as much fruit as they used to. spending three times the money to got that crop. and the crop is much smaller. so, the profit margins have dropped dramatically. researchers are feeling desperate. this is effective but expensive. many farmers are having a hard time keeping up. there are 130,000 acres of ghost orchards. abandoned and left to the weed. as profits have dropped. steve johnson has diversified, branching into other businesses. >> greening is not going to kill -- >> might kill the trees but not going to kill our spirit. >> reporter: mr. johnson looks at greening like a terminal illness.
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americans have always kidded their cars extensions of their personalities. so it does seem that cars and politics were made for one another. >> as early as there were cars there were ways of decorating your car to support your candidate. so where we are is in the main storage area for political history. >> harry ruben stein head political history at national museum of american history in washington, d.c. >> before the bumper sticker which begins in the 1940s, you end up with the kind of metal
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storm. looks like a classing bumper sticker. this one happens to be from 1928. >> reporter: then came world war ii. >> they're bright. >> reporter: along with it technology. including, day-glo colors and adhesive paper. it wasn't long before somebody put them together. missouri. >> he put the idea of the bright colors and the sticky paper together. to come up with a bumper sticker. >> mark gilman his son-in-law. and chairman of gill's studios. now located in kansas. >> his innovation was to make the bumper sign, self-sticking. ? ? >> reporter: america's postwar love affair with the automobile guaranteed that the traveling billboards got around. but tourist attractions not political campaigns were the original users. america speaks at the polling booths.
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real bumper sticker presidential election. >> general eisenhower. >> reporter: eisenhower/stevenson. ike/adlai. >> this is sort of a play on adlai stevenson and his worn out shoe. they kept using it, he is working so hard to win your vote. then obviously the republicans also use it as an attack on him. today there are thousands of bumper sticker producers. gill's studios is one of the bigger ones. in an election year, this one company prints 40 million. 15 million of those political. just a wide range of candidates for, for congress, for sheriff. gill prints whatever message a customer wants. positive or negative.
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>> feel free to look through. all kind of. >> absolutely. >> that is definitely not the case for the people who commission them. >> not so sure i am going to put them on my car. at least not yet. i think i am a little nervous about what might happen. >> reporter: how toxic is this that anyone of these little punch lines, david ellis is selling outside his westport, connecticut home. could be a 3 x 10 invitation to vandalize somebody's car. automotive free speech can have consequences. >> i have the right to -- >> you might have seen the story in may about the south carolina tow truck driver who refused to tow a disabled woman's car because she had a bernie sticker on it. he says, no you are a bernie supporter. i was like, really? he said, yes, ma'am walks away.
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lord said get in the truck and leave. >> how many items of political memorabilia do you think you have? >> several thousand. >> reporter: not only are bumper stickers inflammatory, they get no respect. compared to all of the other political swag out there. >> that's james cox who ran for president in 1920. and his vice president may not be recognizable there, but franklin d. roosevelt. tallahassee florida stockbroker john clark paid $12,000 for this button. but what about his bumper stickers? >> bumper stickers may be $5, $10 if very rare. this is my -- my collection of them. >> reporter: he has hundred of them anyway. >> barry goldwater. >> reporter: the odder the better. >> symbols, au for gold.
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pay for bumper stickers. mainly so that campaigns can scoop up your name, phone number and e-mail address. gill's studios noticed they're good for something else. >> do you ever have an informal correlation between the highest number of bumper stickers and who wins? >> well i can say that -- every, evy making bumper stickers, every winner has used the most bumper stickers. who is ahead. according to this totally unscientific method of figuring it out. with orders of 2.3 million this year. trump, is at 800,000. to quote a terrible cliche -- only time will tell. meanwhile, our vote for best bumper sticker any way is --
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justin timberlake opened up a can worms when he post aid selfie casting an early ballot in tennessee. a voting booth is against the law in tennessee and a lot of states as well. ben tracy has a snapshot of the political controversy. ? black and white ? >> reporter: justin timberlake always seems ready for his close-up. but this side-eyed selfie could have gotten jt jail time. taking photos in polling places in tennessee is forbidden. timberlake posted his pic on instagram after voting in
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you. the problem though isn't hearing, it's seeing. while 19 states allow you to share a ballot box selfie, at least 18 others have laws that ban it. in some states the laws are unclear or allow for pictures of mail-in ballots. >> a lot of the rules were written before there were cell phones. uc-irvine. >> what are the reasons for these bans? >> the idea actually goes back to the, to the concept of the secret ballot. people are not going to bribe you. you can't prove. vote buying and vote coercion. >> reporter: in the social media age, the ballot selfie seems inevitable. for some, a picture isn't even enough. >> that's one in the bank. >> some states are changing their laws to allow selfies.
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booth to give people a legal spot to take their shot. but that idea is not good enough for joel crookston. he is suing his home state of michigan for its law that bans ballot selfies. >> any time there is a law that is written that infringes upon our rights, we should challenge that as citizens. ? can't stop the feeling ? >> reporter: as for justin timberlake, don't worry he is not being locked up. the tennessee secretary of state's office actually seems to be enjoying the publicity saying we are thrilled justin can't stop the feeling when it comes to voting so much that he voted early in person and is promoting voting to his millions of fans. but just to be safe, if you snap a ballot selfie, you may just want to keep it to yourself. foth
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captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, october 27th, 2016. 12 days until the presidential election. this is the "cbs morning news." polls, donald trump took a break from the business of politics to promote his other business. >> this building is a historical landmark. a true american original. >> donald trump is the poster boy for everything wrong with our economy. >> while hillary clinton was tearing him down, a vandal was tearing up trump's star on the walk of fame.

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