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. hearty, our profession is hearty. >> this is not just a black issue. >> our system is totally rigged. >> this is the real story. >> good morning and welcome to "sunday today," i'm willie geist. we've got a lot to talk about this morning after a difficult week in this country. we'll do that in just a moment. and later we'll spend an afternoon with misty copeland at the prestigious american ballet theater. the face of american ballet talks about the joys and the
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weights of being historic. >> i'm a ballerina and that's why i'm given the opportunities i'm given. i'm a part of giving people hope that you don't have to fit into this mold of what, you know, society has cut out for you to be in order to succeed. then, vacationing with a purpose. morgan radford looks into the rapidly growing industry of voltourism. >> more than just i sat on a beach and got drunk for a week. now i'm making a difference. plus, a week where violence and death played out in real time on video for the country to see again and again. harry smith has a look at how someone with a smartphone and a facebook account can change the way we see the world. and we have another strong crew assembled around the table this morning. we'll talk with them in a moment, first some headlines. black lives matter protests will be held across the country. police fired smoke bombs at demonstrators blocking
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interstate 94 in st. paul, minnesota, last night. prominent organizers were among several activists arrested last night during a largely peaceful protest in baton rouge. shots were fired last night outside police headquarters in snoe san antonio, texas. a suspicious person was spotted at a parking garage near police headquarters, but a search of the garage turned up nothing. a shocking death broadcast live on television. 29-year-old bull fighter victor barrio was gored to death, the first matador to die in the ring in spain in more than 30 years. another man was killed saturday in one of spain's many bull runs. sydney shawnenburg, whose work inspired the film "the killing field" has died. the killing field tells the
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gripping stories of the fall in 1975. he was 82 years old. and lynn manuel miranda, the man who created and starred in "haim," took his final bow last night. it was the toughest seat of the year, but secretary of state john kerry, jennifer lopez, jane fon da, speck lee among others found their way in. in an end of an era tweet, miranda posted a photograph of the ponytail he's worn throughout the run now cut off. by the way, miranda and jennifer lopez will be here tomorrow to perform their new song "love make the world go round," a tribute to the victims of the orlando nightclub shooting. all right, let's step over to the table to join our group with a lot to talk about. leslie morse writes about
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culture, music, race, good to have you here this morning. elise jordan served in the bush white house and adviser to kond co rice. and our outstanding correspondent on the road following the clinton campaign, breaking news of her own, she got engaged. good week for you on that. >> congratulations. >> that's for sure, thank you. >> we've got a lot to talk about. alton sterling shot to death early tuesday morning in baton rouge, louisiana, 37-year-old father of five. then on wednesday, castile shot to death, and then on thursday
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night, officers helping protect protesters of those shootings in dallas kill ed brent thompson, married a fellow officer just two weeks ago. plus, dallas police officers patrick zamarripa, michael krol, lorne ahrens and michael smith. dallas morning news, eye with a tear drop and the headline "this city our city." let me start with you, that editorial talks about understanding each other, stopping and listening, that we still live in a divided, segregated world. put all these pieces together, what did you see as you watched first the videos we saw of police shootings and deaths, then the deaths of police officers? >> i'm still processing this. i mean, this is meek. i mean, it makes sense in that i understand the actual details of what seemed to happen according
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to what we know, but the more this happens, the more confusing it gets, because this is centuries of us trying to live together and not being able to. it's hard, because policing has its own requirements, having, you know, being a good citizen is a whole other thing, and when those two things run up against each other, the tension that comes out of that is bad and dangerous, and i think that one of the things that for me is really interesting that i think might be beginning to happen, despite the atmosphere around what happens this week being extremely toxic, is people thinking about how to talk about this, and it can't just be black people speaking up on behalf of themselves.
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it has to be white people talking to each other about empathy and about understanding what day to day life is for not just black people, but gays and lesbians, atmospherically, psychically. hillary clinton saying about -- asking for empathy among white people for black people is interesting, that was new. it felt new to me, anyway. that's been the thing i've noticed about this, which is that in this time, trump is sort of fomented white people -- or the conversation about whiteness and rallying white people and seeming to exploit or being accused of exploiting this sense of white disenfranchisement.
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such a thing is possible, and so you have this atmosphere now that just seems really charged, and i think what has to happen is, somebody has to both unite -- i mean, somebody who's capable of doing leadership, maybe -- not necessarily nationally, but connecting all this stuff and getting us to talk about it. it will be interesting to see how this incident is -- these two incidents, and then the tragedy on -- in dallas, sort of gets people to come together and talk about this in a way that is productive. >> president obama was in the unique, somewhat strange position of being overseas when this took place and had to step to a podium three different times to address something that had happened in this country, and you mention a leader
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stepping forward to take a stab at explaining what's happening and trying to unite. here's president obama's attempt this week. >> i firmly believe that america is not as divided as some have suggested. you know, the legacy of slavery and jim crow and discrimination didn't suddenly vanish with the passage of the civil rights act or the voting rights act, or the election of barack obama. that things have gotten better, substantially better, but that we've still got a lot more work to do. >> i thought that was an important message, because a lot of people out this weekend saying this is 1968 in america, riots in the streets, some of the press we saw, coverage of newspapers saying civil war, things like that. i think the president in that moment was trying to turn down the temperature. >> i think that's right and part of why he's cutting his trip short in spain. he wants to come back, he wants
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to continue to try to calm all of the concerns, the heated rhetoric right now. this is a very personal issue for this president. we saw this in the wake of trevon martin and the wake of fergus ferguson. police departments all across the country have enhanced their training. thousands of police officers now wear body cameras, but if you look at the statistics, actually more people are getting killed in police involved shootings and more police officers are getting killed, so this is clearly still an issue that's so complicated and hard to get. >> it's interesting, you have
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both sides, african-americans who feel under siege by police and the other side police believe they have targets on their back because of some of the rhetoric out there in politics. you've worked on these issues, rand paul was strong on reforming the justice system and working on police. what do we see from a policy point of view to stop this? >> i blame politicians for having gotten to this point with our big government incarceration system. the united states has more men and women behind bars than any other nation in the world. we spend billions of dollars incarcerating our own people, and i'm sorry, the clinton era crime reforms were terrible, mandatory minimum sentencing and the laws on crack cocaine and putting people behind bars for these drug-related offenses, nonviolent, has destroyed families within the country. it is the most pressing issue to undo those modern day jim crow laws. >> from a policy point of view, that's something different than we saw in a traffic stop,
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someone pulled over for a taillight. how do we change policing in those moments? >> i don't actually know from a training standpoint how you do that, but i think prolonged and frequent exposure to people who aren't like you is part of it, and not to perceive -- this is sort of -- what we're talking about in a lot of ways is pathology, it's a pathological -- i mean, what we talk about when we talk about unconscious bias is a kind of pathological misperception of the person around you. or the idea that if you're pulling someone over and that person happens to be black, he could be more dangerous than another motorist that you'd be pulling over. i don't know what the actual solution to this is, except having -- being around people who aren't like you. for police officers it's
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particularly tricky and this is why i don't know what the solution is from an actual police training standpoint, and this is what these task forces are tasked to do. to get at this problem. and i know -- i mean -- >> i think it speaks to this issue of community policing, which to some extent can sound like a squishy term. charles ramsey, who's the head of the police task force, also police commissioner in philadelphia, really made that a focus in philadelphia. it did change things. it did improve crime statistics there, but it takes time. >> dallas, too. dallas is just a model in the nation for what they've done to demilitarize their police force and it's a problem across the board in so many cities across the country there's been an influx of money from homeland security. we saw in ferguson with humvees. why are we policing in our own country with these tools that are weapons of war? >> chief brown, who the country
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got to know in dallas, he was up front and has been up front in use of tasers, community policing, all these things we ask police forces to do, they've begun to do that and still we're left with this situation. quickly want to mention serena williams yesterday. i know you watched the match. she won her 22nd grand slam. >> happened yesterday. >> in the modern era. >> don't we need to start talking about serena as one of the three, four, five greatest american athletes, male or female, of all time? >> yes. i think that's beginning to happen, but it took this for it to begin. i mean, she's going to be 35 soon, this is her 22nd major, tied with stephie graf. based on the way she played yesterday, when everything is working for her -- great returner, can get to any ball, but if she can't get her racket on the ball, there's no point.
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there's no rally. serena's going to win. >> defying age. if you turned 25 you were done, she's about to be 35 and still winning majors. >> she's going to win two or three more, four more, five more. >> what i love about yesterday, she then went on to win a doubles match with her sister. >> absolutely incredible. >> amazing. >> all right, guys, stay with me for the highs and lows of the week, including the kevin durant career choice that turns the team with the best record in history to an nba fantasy squad and why his decision got some hot and bothered. and life as an ongoing ralph lauren commercial. taylor swift and the squad you'll never be a part of put gp sunday morning to you. anthony slaughter here for you.
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together, figured out how to fly a ship for five years traveling $1.7 billion and hitting it's plan mark to within one second. >> incredible. >> those are the real cool guys and gals of nasa. >> i love this story. it's such a fantastic piece of news in an otherwise dismal news week. >> you saw how much better taylor swift's 4th of july was better than yours. she summed the squad to her rhode island home where there was model splashing captured by the paparazzi and tom supporting the i love t tank and the couple's shot that had blake lively at center sitting on the lap of ryan reynolds. it read the gaze as a cry for
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help or a budding romance. >> do you believe in the romance. >> too over -- >> no, this is promotional. i don't -- for tom hiddleston. >> i'm upset i didn't get an invitation. >> we didn't make the cut this year. the next high to the win total of the defending western conference champion after kevin durant signed with them this week. k.d. leaving oklahoma city to create an unfair borderline system. he joins reigning back to back steph curry and as it did when lebron left cleveland, the chorus of people that know what's best for professional athletes reprimanded durant for chasing big money and easy championship rings. none of us would ever do that, would we? free will. >> it's his life. if he wants a ring, let him get a ring. >> thank you very much. >> this can only be good for the nba. the next low goes to donald
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trump's tolerance for the common mosquito. speaking at a rally, the presumptive republican nominee for president made clear where a trump administration would stand. >> the democrats, oh, there was a mosquito. i don't want mosquitos around me. i don't like mosquitos. i don't like those mosquitos, i never did. >> you're coming around. >> he really should not campaign in the deep south. it's going to be rough. >> i love how he says i never did. the boston taxi driver that returned a suspiciously large amount of cash left in his cab. he dropped a man off and realized the passenger left a bag. when he opened the bag hoping to find id to return it, he found stacks of cash, lots of them. $187,000, he brought the money to a police station where it was returned to the owner who gave busy a reward of $100 and he
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gave him another ride to the hotel. you got to give him a stack. >> to be clear, this was a homeless guy's inter tense. >> it's true. >> this happened to him before. there was another -- >> that is the good samaritan. >> the final low goes to the crime rate in the town of st. ann on this anthony. eric estrada was sworn in. he'll focus on protecting kids from online predators, a mission he's taken on several times. the police chief expects estrada to stay on the force for two to three years. here is hoping larry wilcox will join the force, too, so ponch and john can ride again. ♪ ♪ >> i have a ♪ i don't want to lie down. i refuse to lie down.
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happy sunday morning to you. it's beautiful, as we take a look outside. it's a little cooler than it was this time yesterday morning. we appreciate you joining us, hoping you are warm inside your home. anthony slaughter has a check of our forecast. >> you took the words from my mouth, and we didn't talk about it. it is cool this morning. we have 40s across the north bay. had to grab a jacket this morning because it was that chilly. we have clear skies at the coastline. no fog in san francisco. we have areas of clouds and fog moving around the bay area. it will move out quickly. there are 40s in napa. 50 in santa rosa. look at the tri-valley this
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afternoon, into the mid 80s. look at santa cruz, up to 81. it will be warm in spots but cool at the coastline. san francisco today, 69. there will be a wide range of temperatures. summer in the bay area living up to its fullest. >> i was just in europe and people are like, when is the best time to visit san francisco? not summer. anthony, thanks. we want to bring you to a developing story. a woman kidnapped for ransom. her son received a text demanding money and threatening his mother's life. investigators say when he went to look for his mom, she was gone. her dog was dead. police say there was no sign of a forced entry. officers have arrested four people who they believe are
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responsible for the kidnapping. the primary suspect and his accomplices. neighbors tell us they are in disbelief. >> i don't believe it. i'm hoping they find her alive. because she was just too nice of a person for something to happen to her. >> she was last seen here at seafood city market where a co-worker dropped her off after work on june 29. police are hoping someone may have seen something that can lead to her safe return. now to a protest in san francisco against police brutality. it brought traffic to a standstill on the bay bridge. the black lives matter demonstration on the fremont street exit was cleared by 6:30 last evening. by then, all the damage was done. look at the backup on the bridge as people tried to get into the city.
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wow. the protesters attempted to get on the bridge itself, but officers were able to stop them. >> i'm just tired of police officers killing african-american men and females. >> we have to do something for them to turn their heads and see we're serious about what's going on and wanting it to stop. >> earlier in the day, protesters blocked essex street on ramp to the bay bridge. coming up, it was a nice of celebrating past olympians in the south bay, including the first female u.s. gymnast to earn a gold medal. we will have your top news and weather.
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my next guest is an absolute living legend of comedy, and he'll tell you all about it if he ever gets you cornered like he often does. please welcome from the '90s, jerry seinfeld. how are you? are you as surprised by your success as the rest of us? >> yeah, i am a little, because there is a dullness about me. you know, everybody else in our business is so pushy and needy and desperate, and i think people like that i -- don't fall asleep. don't. >> i'll tell you what will help you to not sleep, if you stop talking for a bit. >> that is martin short playing his clueless celebrity interviewer with guest jerry seinfeld this week on the nbc show "maya and marty."
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do yourself a favor and watch the full interview on line. it used to be, now the little girls see missy copeland, the power house dancer who made history one year ago when she became the first african-american female principal dancer in the american ballet theater. the young girl who grew up shy and quiet in a busy los angeles house full of brothers and sisters has made herself heard around the world and changed the face of ballet. ♪ >> it's been a year now, congratulations on your anniversary. >> thank you. >> principal dancer, has the reality of it lived up to your dreams? >> yes, it's been an incredible first spring season. i was aware i was black, but i wasn't aware of the deep rooted
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history of the lack of diversity, lack of african-americans in top companies. wow, is it going to happen for me? hasn't happened for 75 years, why would it happen to me, and at the same time it gave me even more of this, like, fire. i am carrying so many people with me and i can do this. >> watching missy copeland soar across the stage, you'd think she's been dancing since she was in diapers, but while most of the world's elite dancers start training well before kindergarten, missy didn't discover ballet until the age of 13, and she did it in a setting a long way from her current home at new york's famed lincoln center. she got her start at the boys and girls club in california. >> i was always interested in movement and there was always music around my house, so i naturally would move to it, so i decided i would audition for the dance team and the teacher pushed me into taking this ballet class.
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it was the first thing i felt this connection with, and the fact that i didn't have to use my voice gave me comfort and strength in a way i had never seen before. >> when did you know that ballet was going to be your professional life? >> it probably was when i entered this competition when i was 15 years old. then i won the competition, and it was the first time, but i was offered a full scholarship with san francisco ballet, so i decided to go there for the summer and i think that was the first time it was like a shock. i was the only black girl in my class. i don't remember any other black people there besides my roommate. that's when it really became on my radar at that point. >> did that make things more difficult for you, did you feel an outsider in the world or did you block it out? >> i never felt an outsider at all. it was the first time i felt i was a part of something that was
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inclusive. i never connected with anything my entire childhood. i felt these were my sisters and my brothers i was surrounded by and we all spoke the same language. >> so abc sees you at age 15 and what's the next step from there? >> i turned down abc's offer the first time. >> you did? that's pretty bold. >> at the end of the summer it was another big shock, they ended up offering me a contract with a studio company, and i spoke to my mother, she was like i really think you need to come home and finish high school, so i turned them down again. >> you did? turned them down twice. >> i came back the following summer and they offered me the contract again and i moved here. >> in 2007, misty became the second african-american female soloist and first in two decades. from there, misty's rise began. she toured as a dancer with prince. she graced magazine covers, and
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she wrote two "new york times" best selling books. >> you know, when i was promoted to soloist, it was just a dream come true. then i think it was six or seven years that i was a soloist at the company and had the moment, maybe this is it for me and being a soloist is enough. >> which is pretty good. >> it's incredible, it really is, but i felt like i can't stop here. you watch ballets, and i say this often, you're not looking at the first girl in the line on the side, you're looking at the ballerina in the center, and i think that's everyone's dream, and why they train so hard. yeah, i don't think that ever left me. >> in 2015, she became that ballerina at the center when american ballet theater promoted her to principal dancer. misty was named one of "time" magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, she was a
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subject of a documentary, appeared on broadway, signed a list of endorsement deals, including with under armor, who created a now famous commercial that's been viewed more than 10 million times. she even has her own barbie doll. you enjoy the celebrity aspect of it? >> i don't -- i just don't think of myself as a celebrity. >> you are. go ahead. >> it was really wild, i don't think anyone in the company or in the dance world -- we were all kind of shocked. i'm a ballerina, and that's why i'm given the opportunities that i'm given, you know, i'm a part of giving people hope that you don't have to fit into this mold of what society has cut out for you to be in order to succeed. >> having broken the ballet mold herself, misty is hoping to help others like her with a line of dance wear called egal, french for equal. >> it kind of came up when i was going through this time where i
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had gained a lot of weight and i went through puberty really late in life, and my bust had grown, and i was like i'm going to create dance wear that people who aren't stick thin can wear, but also people that are thin can wear, and eventually a plus-sized line, so it's finally coming to fruition. >> one of the things i think you've done is help ballet break through to an entirely new audience of people who may not have had access to ballet or thought it was for them. maybe some elite. >> it's incredible to see the audience change over the past four years. like a completely different audience. i have, like, the cleaning lady in the metropolitan opera house come up to me and say, oh, my gosh, i just saw the light outside and it's amazing to see all these different faces and different colors. that's what this is about. >> what's it like to have a 13-year-old girl come up to you and say i'm into ballet because of you as a young 13-year-old girl yourself thought the same.
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>> i was once that girl. loma herrera was that for me. to be able to share these things with the people that inspire you, it means so much more than they probably realize to us. >> misty says she learned how to move as a kid by feeling the music that was playing in her house. her favorites were aretha franklin, anita baker, and mariah carey. the new line of dance wear comes out next month. to hear misty talk about body image, from weight to skin color, check out our web extras at today.com/sunday. and the next time we get together two weeks from now, we'll spend time on the water with nick woodman, the surfer who became a billionaire by dreaming up the now ubiquitous gopro camera. coming up, exotic vacations without the beach chairs and fruity ching
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as you pack up the family this summer and head out on vacation, how would you and your kids feel about arriving at your sunny destination and getting right to work? morgan radford looks into the booming business of voluntourism and some of the questions around it. >> bathing in the sunlight, dancing on the deck, and cocktails by the pool. that's what you think of when you think of a caribbean cruise vacation. not this. these vacationers are digging a little deeper. they are part of a growing trend called voluntourism, volunteering plus tourism. >> more than just saying i went and sat on a beach and got a tan and got drunk for a week. now i'm making a difference. >> 1.6 million people make a difference like this each year, and that fact has now caught the attention of big names in the hospitality industry, including carnival, sandals resorts, and even the ritz carlton. in florida that means helping
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save sea turtles. >> hold your hand out. >> guests help out by painting stakes to mark the endangered sea turtles' nests. >> got to hold them and play with them, even saw them walk out to the ocean. >> sandals in jamaica is jumping in, too. since 2009, more than 17,000 volunteers have taken part in their reading road trip. >> when they see somebody come in and taking time from their vacation, person they would probably have never interacted with before, chances of these kids seeing a tourist is one in ten. the fact they are taking time to spend time with them, it's awesome. >> attracted couples like tim and miranda taylor. >> i like working with children and things like that, so he surprised me and booked this for us for our honeymoon. >> seeing where they interact with the kids helped me cherish
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qualities in her and something you don't see in our generation. >> carnival is designing a specialty cruise liner for what they call impact travelers. >> millennials who tend to think kind of globally first and how do i make a difference, but it's also people who have traveled a lot and they say, you know what, next time i travel, i'd like to do something a little different and make a difference. >> for $499, passengers can choose to do service activities in the dominican republic. onboard they spend two days taking classes and learning about the home country before they arrive. once they dock, three days volunteering in some of the country's most challenged neighborhoods. travelers can teach english at local schools. or in people's homes. >> what is your name? >> my name is -- >> oh, my name is morgan, thank you for asking. nice to meet you, randy.
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>> for the more hard core volunteers like 78-year-old joanne, they can build cement floors in low income neighborhoods. >> this is so hands on, and you're so, you know, directly in touch with the people, it's really quite remarkable. >> my hat and my gloves are off to you. >> some say it's as much about learning as it is about teaching. >> you feel like you're making a difference? >> definitely, because the conditions, it's really bad, and the dirt floors, there's diseases and mud and it's raining. yeah, it really makes a difference. >> but critics say that's precisely the problem with voluntourism, it helps the volunteers more than the locals. >> one of the challenges is people want the cultural experience of direct contact with individuals, and it's hard to imagine that being really effective on a short-term basis. it's hard enough to be effective on a long-term basis when you're
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in the country, even if you know the language, even if you've studied the culture. >> but the locals we spoke to, like the women who run this small recycled paper factory supported by carnival volunteers, say it's changed their lives. carnival says they've made a real impact, a success in part due to local partnerships. >> me, myself, being from here, living here, we really want this to happen. we want it to work. if it works, and it is right now, it can be replicated somewhere else in the world, and that's the goal. >> a goal to change travel and the way each of us see the world. >> morgan radford reporting. next on "sunday today," violence caught on smartphones and streamed live on social media. harry smith with a look at how a pair of videos shook the
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the police shootings and deaths of two african american men were captured in graphic video. in one case the aftermath was streamed on facebook with an officer's gun still on the victim. harry smith on the impact of video in the way we now see the world. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: whatever we thought was normal has long been disposed of. rare are the weeks and the days now when our sensibilities are not shaken to the core. one horrific scene follows another. the dust from which doesn't even
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settle. our simpympathies, empathy, emotions are being stretched. it's painful. sorrow. we're seeing real life and real death in realtime stuns, horrifying scenes captured on cell phones and streamed live or uploaded within minutes. we were eyewitnesss to the death of philando castile this week. his girlfriend diamond reynolds describing it all. >> he was just getting his license and registration, sir. >> reporter: there were several angles of alton sterling's death. it almost reminded us of an episode of "cops" and in dallas several phones focused and made it almost scinema. there are more cell phones than people in america now and truly, we have entered a new era in media when it seems like there isn't anything we can't see.
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the gate keepers are gone, everyone is a reporter and the rest of us can't turn away. there is a truth to these images that is undeniable but what about judgment, what about circumstances? or does that still even matter? of course it does. the question we in the news business must ask ourselves is what is sensational and what tells the story? sometimes an image can be both but will you still believe it if you can't see it? >> and harry smith joins me live. harry, i was struck this week as so many people were by diamond reynolds, philando castile who lifted her phone and began streaming live. she became a journalist. >> reporting her life of such tragic consequences and the
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thing that to me is we carry these things around all the time, right? we record so many things that are basically inknockous that only maybe our friends care about and here it is, now that we have these, now that these are open and constant that we can see things we've never seen before and some people have the presence of mind to say, maybe even my life is in danger at this moment and the only thing that's going to keep me alive is this phone. >> you said the gate keepers are gone. the filter is off. is that a good thing? >> so marshall, the medium is the message. this is the medium now that's on all the time. we live in a world of which what are the rules? where are the laws? where are the restrictions? we're almost in a censorless place. >> we in the press ourselves are working through that, as well. harry smith, thank you.
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movie. >> loretta lynch will travel to capitol hill to explain the decision not to prosecute hillary clinton over the e-mail server. we predict around hour seven the attorney general will wonder why she didn't lead in the laugh to bathroom of the plane. also on tuesday, hillary clinton will hold a fundraiser at a performance of the broadway phenomenon "hamilton." tickets start at 27$2700 and gop to $100,000. as we told you, "hamilton" creator gave his final performance last night but we predict even greater box office success with his replacement. gary. he has not thrown away his shot. stay tuneed to nbc this morning for "meet the press" where check todd looks at a nation divided. thanks for spending part of your
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from nbc bay area, this is today in the bay. >> it is it your sunday morning. we're taking a look at the sun shining as we look towards san francisco. what should be a lovely sunday, a little cooler than where we were at this time yesterday. good morning. thanks for joining us. meteorologist anthony slaughter has a look at our forecast. >> it's cooler this morning. we have a warm-up in store, especially by this afternoon. the next few days we will be toasty. we're talking 90s returning to the bay area. get out and enjoy. here is a shot from san jose. the olympic trials happening. wonderful way to start off the day, 57

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