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also follow brian on twitter at dinsmoredesk. deadlocked jury. former illinois governor rod blagojevich found guilty on one count and a mistrial on 23 others. now prosecutors say that they are prepping for a retrial. we will have the latest. police beatings caught on tape outside after nightclub in denver. the officers were suspended but now there are allegations of a police coverup. the two men are live in our studio and they will tell us exclusively what really happened. race controversy. dr. laura calls it quits after using the "n" word 11 times in five minutes on her radio show. >> turn on hbo and listen to black comic and all you hear is [ bleep ]. >> that's -- >> i don't get it.
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>> why she says her rights were violated. "early" this wednesday morning, august 18th, 2010. captioning funded by cbs very good morning to you. i'm erica hill. >> i'm harry smith. good morning, everybody. on a wednesday, this is a story of the little boy who has been missing in the pacific northwest coast. no real leads. the police are at their wits' ends. spicer is a friend of the stepmother. she has finally spoken to people.com. we will talk to the investigator out there who has been on the police department. they have insight about it and we will have that for you. >> also ahead this morning, if you think your teenagers are just ignoring you, they may actually be having trouble
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hearing you. a new finding, one in five kids suffering some form of hearing loss. this is a rig size in the last 15 years. we are going to take look at what y. first, though, we do want to get to the big news of the day. just one count out of 24 after 14 days of deliberations. that's all the jury in the corruption trial of rod blagojevich could agree on. cbs news correspondent barry peterson is in chicago this morning with the latest. good morning. >> good morning. blagojevich once said learned he talks too much. one reason he says he didn't testify in his own defense at the trial. but after the verdict, he was the mouth that roared. ready to glad hand the crowd waiting at his house, ready to attack the prosecution. >> the government threw everything but the kitchen sink at me, on every count except for one, every charge except for one, they could not prove i did anything wrong, that i did break
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any laws. >> reporter: it was one hold-out juror said to be a female retiree from the chicago suburbs who spared blagojevich from being convicted of trying to sell president obama's old senate seat. >> she had such different views. that's the way she thought. >> reporter: after three weeks of increasingly tense deliberations, 11 jurors were ready to convict blagojevich of a political corruption crime spree. on vote after vote, they kept coming up with one juror short. >> it is always frustrate when had don't accept your logic as being logical. >> reporter: the hold-out juror said there was no smoking gun. even after listening to fbi undercover recordings. >> i've got this thing. and it's [ bleep ] golden. and i'm just not giving it up for [ bleep ] nothing. i'm not going to do it. i can always share chute it. >> reporter: patrick fitzgerald
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was boastful when blagojevich was indicted. >> conduct would make lincoln roll over in his grave. >> we were about to get ready for retrial. no further comment. >> reporter: a retrial could come at the height of the november election season and reach into the white house with possible testimony from former illinois congressman rahm emanuel. now white house chief of staff or higher. >> likely going to see rahm emanuel, jesse jackson jr., perhaps even barack obama. >> low bigger than just me and my family. this is a fight for the very freedom we as americans enjoy. >> reporter: blagojevich says that he will appeal the one conviction that could see him put in prison for up to five years. as for the prosecution, they say that the 11-1 vote gives them confidence that they will win next time around. barry peterson, cbs news, chicago. >> joining us exclusively, also from chicago, rod blagojevich's
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attorney. we heard the prosecution saying they are feeling confident after what we heard from the jurors 11-1 in their decisions on the other 23 counts. looking forward to this retrial, how are you feeling about it? >> i feel great. 11-1, we have to look at the numbers. the one juror i heard talk about 11-1, they said specifically they were hung 11-1 on the other counts, a much stronger split. and what's interesting is that they didn't talk at all about what the number breakdown were on the aller to counts. there were a total of 24 counts. i think we are missing a lot of the story as to exactly what the breakdown was for all of these counts. we feel great because as we have always said, the governor did nothing wrong. and they could not prove it at all. and here we have another $10
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million to $30 million of a retry after man they could not prove their case the first time. we can't pay for health care. we have two wars. people are dieing on the streets of the city of chicago and not putting any federal money towards that but want to retry the individual they cannot prove their case on. >> let's look at this. you mentioned the senate seat. senate seat. the juror said was the most obvious of the count. looking for this, does any of this change your strategy as defense? will you this time put the former governor on the stand? >> a lot of that is determined by how the government proceeds. if they want to try this case, and they want to try it the exact same way they tried it the first time, we believe that they did not prove their case. the reason why we did not put on the governor to testify like he chose not to testify as well, did not put on any evidence, is the government did not prove their case whatsoever.
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>> you did request president obama, obviously, the first time around. that "was rejected. we heard from a number of legal minds that said they expect your request to perhaps try for that a second time, rahm emanuel. are any of those plans in the works at this point? >> certainly. when the judge determines a trial day we will renew our motions that we have the first time. particularly with president obama. nothing has changed. they claim that this was a bribery and extortion to sell the senate seat. who was governor blagojevich supposedly selling the senate seat to? it had to be barack obama. president obama. and if that's true be wouldn't the jury like to hear what this supposed extortee has to say? he had been on record that nothing wrong happened and he was not engaged in any negotiati negotiations. this completely shows governor blagojevich did not wrong. the jury, i would think, would want to hear what the president
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has to say. >> well, we will all be hearing a lot more as this takes that move towards the retrial. appreciate it. aaron goldstein, thanks. joining us now from washington, cbs news chief legal correspondent jan crawford. good morning. >> good morning, harry. >> excuse the expression but going into this trial, i'm sure the prosecutor said this is going to be a slam dunk. we heard the language used over and over about abe lincoln rolling over in his grave. one out of 24 counts. that's not a very good batting average. >> this is a huge setback. something patrick fitzgerald could never have imagined in his worst nightmares. i thought his face was telling and incredibly subdued. this is not what they expected. they have to start all over again and we can see the former governor gloating about it. >> is it possible blagojevich is really only guilty of being a
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blow-hard and in terms of the actual log here, the -- he may not be prosecutable? >> well, you know, certainly i think the prosecution really failed to prove as we saw yesterday, a great sense of overconfidence by the prosecution because they never were able to show that he was a criminal. he was just a bad governor. they thought that the juror would be shocked by the tapes. we saw how profane he was. what they really showed was he was a profane loud-mouthed guy. jurors in chicago are not surprised by politicians that talk that way. the defense kept it simple. follow the money. they were never -- prosecution was never able to show that that money went in his pockets. >> also interesting that in dashes especially on the one aspect of this prosecution, this whole business of pay-for-play and getting the senate seat, you have one juror who sat there and said i don't get it. i don't see what you all see. this is also a little bit of a -- a lesson for everybody in
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how juris prudence works. >> it takes one. you have to get all 12. checks put in place for a good reason. you know, i mean, we don't know as -- as mr. goldstein said, we don't know how they split on some of the other counts. that split is important. if it was 11-1 on all those the prosecution would feel much more confident going forward. we don't know that right now. certainly the jrs can talk to the press. this is a real issue now going forward for the prosecution. the defense should feel -- i think we saw it in that interview, that erica did, defense is feeling pretty confident now. >> they do feel strong. all right. jan crawford, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. lot more to get to this morning. not just blagojevich. other headlines. jeff glor standing by at the news desk with those headlines. >> good morning. we have more now on a deadly confrontation in texas. a man with a trailer full of explosives opened fire outside of a police station. his motives are unclear but some
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officials are calling it suicide by cop. cbs news correspondent donn teague is in mckinney, texas, this morning with details. don, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. there were students registering for classes at a nearby college at the time of the shooting. considering there were so many rounds fired, it is amazing only the gunman was shot. why did 29-year-old patrick sharp attack police tuesday in mckinney, texas? it is a question authorities are still trying to answer. >> why he elected to do this, i don't know. >> reporter: according to reports sharp resigned from his local manufacturing job several days ago. his roommate, who was away on vacation, says he's in shock. he says sharp was fine and dandy two days ago. sharp parked his truck and trailer in front of the police station and then set the vehicle on fire to draw out police. >> he was than trying to keep this secret. he got out in the position where
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he was actively engaging, not just any building, it was the entire police department of the city. >> reporter: sharp ran across the street to a vacant field and opened fire from a sniper position. firing more than 100 rounds from two adult rifles at officers, the building, passing cars, and a nearby college where students were locked down. inside the burning truck, ammunition was set off in the blaze and sending four bullets flying in all directions. >> gunshot after gunshot. >> reporter: matt payne was driving by and shot this video with his cell phone. he saw the gunman shooting. >> he wasn't down in tall grass hiding or in the trees. he was right out in the open. >> reporter: sharp was killed after police returned fire. the only casualty in an attack men to kill many. it is good news the improvised bomb sharp had in his trailer didn't explode. obviously if that bomb had gone
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off, the situation here would have been much worse. don teague, cbs news, mckinney, texas. south carolina mother shaquan duley will be rained today on murder charges. the 29-year-old woman confessed to suffocating her two young sons. duley initially told police the toddlers drowned when her car crashed into a river monday. the police say she was distraught because she was jobless and out of money. the police say a flight attendant on a southwest airline flight took a screaming baby away from her mother. when the flight from dallas arrived in albuquerque monday, authorities stepped in. they have been told that that distraught mother tried to calm her baby and slapped the 1-year-old girl. that's when the flight attendant removed the baby. the police did not find any obvious signs of physical abuse on the child but praised the flight attendant for taking action. >> i think it was a solid move on the part of the flight attendant to take custody of the
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child. it calmed everybody down. >> reporter: the incident win i returned to the parents. an iowa company announced a massive egg recall this morning in connection to salmonella poisoning. 228 million eggs were involved in that recall by wright county egg. they were linked to 200 illnesses in june and july in colorado, california, minnesota. the eggs were sold under 13 different brand names. a new study finds that yankees legend lou gehrig may not have had lou gehrig's disease. the baseball hall of famer was diagnosed with aals. lou gehrig was said to have been hit multiple times in his career. he may have had cte, a similar but different illness. he was cremated so scientists say they will never know for sure. it is a whole new version of
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a wing and a prayer. this is from argentina when overing the weekend a wing on a plane came off in mid air. the pilot was able to deploy the parachute. look at that. on the back of his plane after it happened. the plane eventually just drifted back down to earth. the pilot walked away unhurt. 15 minutes past the hour
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>> that's your latest weather. >> the era of dr. laura is about to end. she is pulling the plug on her syndicated radio show after having used the "n" word repeatedly during a tirade with an african-american call i. cbs news core elaine quijano has the story. >> i want to regain my first amendment rights. >> reporter: after 30 years conservative radio talk show host dr. laura schlesinger told
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cnn's larry king she is stepping down from her program when her contract expires at the end of the year. >> i want to be able to say what is on my mind and in my heart and what i think is helpful and useful without somebody get angry and special interests group deciding that this is a time to silence a voice of dissent. and attack affiliates and attack sponsors. i'm sort of done with that. >> reporter: the announce many comes a week after the 63-year-old radio host was widely criticized for repeatedly using the "n" word on the air. >> i'm having an issue with my husband. >> reporter: an african-american caller raise ad subject of race. that led schlesinger to bring up a double standard when it comes to using the "n" word. >> turn on hbo and listen to a black comic and all you hear is [ bleep ]. i don't get it. >> reporter: a day after her rant dr. laura publicly apologized saying she was trying
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to make a philosophical point, not trying to offend anyone. she says she's not retiring and hopes to speak her mind more freely on her website. elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. coming up, she has been called the mystery woman in a case of kyron horman. she breaks her silence and dean fend's kyron's stepmom. mom. >> stay with>> stay us. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. ♪ think fast, go slow ♪ now i know ♪ freedom is all that i need [ female announcer ] ladies, raise your spoons. now there's nothing left standing between you
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ents who were good morning. it's 7:25. in the headlines, about 3100 patients who were vaccinated at sutter health clinics are being told they should get revaccinated. the original vaccines for hepatitis, polio, pertussis and our diseases may not be effective because they may have been improperly stored. sutter says the questionable vaccines are not a health threat. caltrain is asking its passengers if they prefer service cuts or fare hikes. the commuter railroad is holding public meetings this evening at its main stations in san francisco, san jose, gilroy, an at its headquarters in san carlos. decisions on budget issues are expected in october. a zero tolerance crackdown on drivers illegally using cell phones continues today. the chp and local police in the bay area started the
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school commute and longer wait times at the bay bridge, unfortunately. backed up beyond the first overcrossing so at least 10, maybe 15-minute wait to get on the bridge. there haven't been any stalls or accidents. just a lot of people heading into san francisco. all right. here's a look at 880 through oakland. the commute past the coliseum, nice and quiet towards downtown. and even a little sluggish now in your silicon valley ride. westbound 237 kind of slow and go, stop and go even, towards zanker road. that is your traffic. for your forecast, here's tracy. >> hey, thanks, elizabeth. our forecast today, here we are along the coastline, ocean beach we got some cloudy skies out there. minimal sunshine for now but we have some sunshine, areas of sunshine in the forecast later on today. what does that mean? that means that not expecting the entire coast to clear out. but there will be some breaks of sunshine. conditions along the coast highs in the lower 60s. mid-60s around the bay. mid-80s inland. and cooler temperatures for the weekend.
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an awful lot of enthusiasm, don't you think? >> i do. >> we'll find out what that's all about when we get outside. >> we can channel that. >> i could use it. welcome back to the "early show." >> it seems pretty much every teen you see these days, and plenty of adult, but lots of kids always seem to have those would it ear buds in. they have an mp3 player, an ipod with them, constantly pumping music. now there's a report suggesting that maybe, just maybe, loud music could be taking its toll. we are seeing a huge increase in hearing loss among teens. we'll take a look at why and how you can stop that.
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it is irreversible. >> also, for the first time, americans owe more on their student loans than they do on credit cards. >> that's sobering. >> got that? more student loan debt than credit card debt in this country. just happened. that massive debt has led to a staggering default rate. if you or your child is having trouble paying back student loans, our rebecca jarvis has advice about how you might even be able to cut your payments in half. that's coming up in just a bit. now to the latest on the search for kyron horman. the so-called mystery woman in the case, a good friend of kyron's step mom, is now breaking her silence. cbs news correspondent bill whitaker has more. >> reporter: dede spicher lived with terri horman for a period of 11 days after kyron vanished. in an interview with "people" magazine she defends her friend's innocence saying she doesn't believe she's involved in the 7-year-old's disappearance. in my heart, i really don't.
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in all my years i haven't seen anything that believes she's capable or motivated in any way to do something like this. spicher claims police wanted her to tell them terri did it. adding, i told them everything i knew over and over again, but i didn't tell them what they wanted to hear. >> they're both presumed innocent. nevertheless they both engaged in suspicious behavior. >> reporter: last week investigators distributed new frie flyers that included photos of spicher. her home has been searched, called before the grand jury and allegedly helped horman by getting an untraceable cell phone. >> terri horman is a suspect. dede spicher at least a person of interest. >> reporter: spicher says she and terri have received death threats. the day kyron disappeared, spicher was on a gardening job, but her employers claim they couldn't reach her for three hours. she told friend she never left
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the site. >> she didn't have her phone with her. when she got back, she realized she had a text. but she was never missing. >> reporter: kyron's birth parent claim pitch isser is being uncooperative and withholding information. investigators are still checking out her story. bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> joinings us now in portland is attorney bruce mccain, former captain with multnomah county sheriff's office. thank you for being with us again. appreciate it. >> thank you, harry. >> latest talk, terri horman's friend dede spicher tells people.com that her friend terri did nothing wrong. that she herself never left that property the day of kyron's disappearance. what is your reaction to all of this information? >> well, it's interesting that dede spicher would tell her story to "people" magazine but yet she's unwilling to tell it to the local community here. the words she used, by the way, if a way kind of put herself in a bind because she's claiming
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she never left this 38-acre parcel she was gardening on that morning and yet she knows terri horman was not involved on the same morning, which would be impossible for her to prove. the big issue here is that dede spicher initially, when she first popped up on the public radar, she distanced herself from terri horman saying she's cooperating and has nothing to do with terri, et cetera and now she seems to be joined at the hip as a part of the terri horman fan club. >> right. is there something in this that indicates something -- was she not contactable, a three, four-hour time period where people couldn't get ahold of her? >> on the day kyron went missing. the key timeses are in that midmorning area. the people that own the property she was gardening at indicated they could not find her from anywhere from an hour and a half up to three hours, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. dede is claiming i never left the property, i was there the whole time. the problem is she apparently
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has no one to corroborate that particular story. it's her word against other credible witnesses. that's the problem here. the key thing would be whether or not she's going to say that same story to the grand jury. >> right. if people.com had called you for advice on what question to ask her, what question would you have asked her? >> this may be part of the deal of not asking any tough questions but i first would have said, ko you have anybody to corroborate your idea that you never left that property? i would have asked her about the disposable cell phones, if she purchased them, used them, and why? what she and terri horman spoke about when she stayed with t
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years. that means 1 in 5 teens is affected. why the jump here? dr. jennifer ashton joining us with the details. is it as simple as saying all those ear buds constantly if your ear, volume jacked up, is way at your hearing? >> we don't know. there are -- there's a lot that we don't understand about why teens have problems with hearing. there can be genetic factors, due to certain med kags, due to childhood infections or prematuri prematurity, but one of the controllable exposureexposures, will s environmental. it's these ear buds, listening to mp3s or ipods at high decibels for prolonged periods of time. that's the only theory that can account for this -- >> it's dramatic to see 30% over 15 years. how exactly does music being loud if your ear, how does that
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kill your hearing so significantly? >> you have to understand what happens to sound waves goes through the ear. as sound hits the outer ear and transmits the inner ear it goes through a series of bones and tissues and nefrves and targets the inner air with hair fibers that transmit hearing to the impulls in the brain. they think one time or prolonged, those hair cells can be damaged and not be able to transmit those nerve impulses to the brain. >> so basically kills that. how loud is too loud? >> you have to put it on a baseline for comparison. we measure sound in units called decibels. normal conversation is around 60. loud traffic in a city could be 85. these mp3s and ipods can get up to 120. >> what do i do if i notice
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there are problems? >> first of all, this study found impartment in high frequency, meaning people could not hear certain letters or whispers. those are subtle signs. if people need to raise their voice for your teen to hear them, that may be one sign. if they have difficulty understanding someone at arm's length or three feet away, that's another sign. when they take these things out of their ear and they have pain, ringing, buzzing in their ears, that's a clear sign that volume is too loud and they need to turn it down. then there's things like noise-reducing headphones that can really help. when you put these in your ear, erica, you can hear this volume -- >> i can hear it right now. >> i can't hear you. >> but i can hear your music. dr. jennifer ashton, thank you. another thing that's important is to get your kids' hearing tested. worth giving it a shot since you can't reverse this loss. >> you only have two ears.
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>> take good care of them. just ahead f you want to cut your student loan payments in half, great advice this morning, because the last thing you want to do is default on those loans. stick with us for that. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. "cbs healthwatch" sponsored by restasis. talk to your doctor about restasis cyclosporine ophthalmic emulsion.
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the reason you don't want to default is there are huge consequences to this. the bank, the lender, can garnish up to 15% of your wages. they can take back your tax refunds. they can even keep you from getting new professional licenses and getting work in the future. >> wow. that is -- so this is -- >> it's significant. >> if have you a stubt loan -- >> you don't want to default. >> now, if you're having difficulty paying back, what should you do? >> first thing you want to do is contact the lender. whether it is a private lender, the institution where you're attending school, let them know your circumstances. sometimes they can defer your payment terms for up to three years. especially when it comes to federal loans. on top of that, you can change your repayment schedule. make sure you talk to them about all of those alternatives. remember, pay off the highest interest rate loans first because those are the ones costing you the most. >> now, how difficult is it? sometimes students have a loan over here, a loan over there, a loan over there. is it difficult to consolidate loans? >> it's actually easier than
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people think. it's a very good option for people who just want one payment and they also want to cut their monthly payment. many cases consolidating loans can cut your monthly payments up to 50%, cut them in half. >> how would you not do that? i mine, vuld you would have to that. >> you should consider it. you want to go to loanconsolidation.ed.gov if they're government loans. with private loans you have to consolidate under a private lender, wells fargo, chase are some of the banks that do it. >> lot of kids heading off to college. parents are saying, i can't believe how much this costs. if you need to get a student loan, what's the best thing to do? >> first, look at federal loans. generally speaking, the terms are better for the people who are borrowing. students and their parents. so, the stafford loan, perkins loans. if you're looking for a private loan, again, finaid.org as well as bankrate.com talk to students about good places to go. >> rebecca jarvis, cutting it in
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it is 7:58. time for news headlines from cbs 5. aski'm julie watts. republican sam blakeslee will the new senator in district 15 from southern santa clara county to santa barbara county. the state assemblyman from san luis obispo beat democrat john laird in yesterday's special election. blakeslee will replace republican abel maldonado who vacated the seat when he was appointed lieutenant governor. cell phone yappers, beware, a crackdown on drives illegally using -- drivers illegally using phones continues today. police began the special enforcement last week and wrote 900 citation. they are on the lookout for drivers who are texting or talking on hand-held phones. caltrain is seeking input
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from passengers on how the commuter railroad can balance its budget. fare increases and cuts in service are being considered. public meetings are planned this evening. and at san jose, gilroy, san francisco and it headquarters in san carlos. traffic and weather right after this. when you spend fifty! unlike other stores, we don't make you come back to save. earn jcp cash... ten dollars off when you spend fifty who knew shopping could be so rewarding?
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good morning. a live picture of the south bay or generally we can see some of our traffic sensors. slow and go out of downtown san jose. our cameras positioned near the 880 interchange and actually if you are using 101, injury crash northbound 101 in redwood city. so we may start to see some delays through that stretch. right now, 17 minutes is your drive time. northbound 280 if you're coming out of downtown and heading up towards cupertino. pretty slow and go through milpitas if you are using that silicon valley ride on 237. that is your traffic. for your forecast, here's tracy. >> hey, thanks, elizabeth. forecast for this morning, boy, we got clouds out there, take a look. low clouds out around the bay this morning. that will hamper the opportunity to see a whole lot of sunshine early and could also hamper our temperatures today. temperatures today not as warm as yesterday. mid-80s inland, mid-60s around the bay and the lower 60s for the coast. we are expecting some sunshine along the coast, a few areas of sunshine, cooler weekend also expected.
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[ applause ] ♪ it is almost a deafening roar this morning on the plaza. >> i have no idea what you said. >> you have no idea what i said because they are so loud. >> what did you say? >> i said it's almost a deafening roar. >> close. you know who these people are? there's a great festival called the fringe festival. [ applause ] >> i think they may be a part of it. >> people see me and they think fringe. right? that's kind of, it goes without saying, they see me and --
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>> they are here to see their leader. take me to your leader. >> something like that. >> welcome back to "the early show" with your leader harry smith. i'm erica hill. >> dave price is still off today. on his honeymoon. amazing. you want your kids to think of you as a friend. >> can you come to me. >> tell us your problems. >> right. >> share. >> you still need to tell them what to do. >> yeah. >> therein lies the issue. can you be the friend and the parent? should you go for the bff role, which we see more parents go after. we'll have an eye on that. our doctor will help us with that. a difficult balance. a surveillance videotape that's burning up the internet. lots of people are outraged over what looks like a case of excessive police force. we'll talk about that. it happened in denver. now the mayor is asking the fbi to investigate. we're doing to speak with the two young men who were involved
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in that. >> first, though, we do want to get to jeff glor. he's standing by at the news desk with a check of the headlines. jeff, good morning. >> good morning, everyone. prosecutors in chicago are promising to retriformer illinois governor rob blagojevich. jurors convicted him on one of 24 counts, failing to reach a verdict on the rest. in chicago this morning, barry, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. a lot of posturing today. the prosecution saying it's gearing up for a speedy retrial. blagojevich saying he will appeal that one guilty count. after the courtroom drama, blagojevich was holding court with supporters at his home and labeling his prosecution persecution. >> it's about a government prosecutor out of control and the jury on 96% showed there was nothing. >> reporter: well, not exactly
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nothing. it was one holdout juror, said to be a female retiree from the chicago suburbs who spared blagojevich from being convicted of trying to sell president obama's old senate seat. >> to me it was obvious we were going to end like this from the beginning basically. >> reporter: in fact, after three weeks of increasingly tense deliberations, 11 jurors were ready to convict blagojevich of a political corruption crime spree. but on vote after vote, the six man, six woman panel kept coming up one juror short. >> i respect their decision, because i think it was based on how they looked at the evidence. >> reporter: evidence that included fbi undercover recordings. >> and i, i'm not giving it up for [ bleep ] nothing. >> reporter: this morning in an "the early show" exclusive, the defense attorney told erica, they are eager to clear his
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name. >> who was governor blagojevich supposedly selling the senate seat to? it had to be barack obama, president obama. if that's true, wouldn't the jury like to hear what this supposed extortee has to say? >> reporter: it could be a while before they can get this thing organized, but it could be bad news for democrats if this alleged corruption trial of one of their own by some chance unfolds during the november midterm elections. jeff. >> all right. barry peterson in chicago. thanks. texas investigators want to know why a man named patrick gray sharp staged a bizarre attack on a please station. this happened in mckinney, texas, 30 miles north of dallas. he filled his truck with explosives, went to a police station, set fire and started shooting. a witness caught it on video as he drove by. he told harry he saw the man firing from trees near a college
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campus. >> i don't know if he saw me, but he was turned my direction when i looked at him. at that same time he was turning away to turn his gun on one of the college campus police officers. >> sharp was killed as police officers fired back. no one else was hurt. a police is trying to skate board himself to video stardom. smooth skateboarding moves. it's becoming a youtube hit. that priest is hoping to encourage more young people to attend church. 5 minutes after the hour. speaking of rolling, you may not know lonnie quinn is an expert rollerblader himself. to the building every day. >> rollerblading, yes. skateboarding, absolutely not. i look at the skateboarding priest and i'm thinking, would that be what we call a holy
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roller? look at the crowd here. lots of interesting faces. there's a huge theater festival in though. what's going on. >> this is the fringe festival. there's 197 shows going on from all over the world. >> really. not only is new york city sort of the mecca for broadway but independent theater groups from all over come here to do your thing. let's talk about weather out there. here are the weather headlines. the way i see them, what i've got for you, it's a
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how do you discipline your children and be their friend. it's a dilemma played out in living rooms and the tabloid as michelle miller reports. >> reporter: in hollywood, parent-child relationships can run the gamut from friend to manager to party pal. dina lohan took best friend parenting to a new level, often hitting the party scene with daughter lindsay, who just finished her second stint in jail and is currently back in rehab. >> maybe she shouldn't have been out there so much and lindsay would be on a straighter path. >> reporter: in contrast, country music star taylor swift is by most accounts a well adjusted 20-year-old. >> my mom, you're my best friend. >> reporter: she acknowledged her close relationship with her mom andrea at this year's grammy awards. but striking the right balance between friend and disciplinarian goes well beyond hollywood. >> do you know where the line is
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drawn? >> i'm learning it. i don't know if anybody ever knows. >> when some parents become more of a peer to their child, i think that's where you run into trouble. >> that's part of the role of parenting. you have to be friends with your kids or your kids won't respect you. they won't respect your rules. >> reporter: rules most parents try to follow. maintaining the respect of a child without losing a friend. michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> joining us now early show contributor jennifer hartstein, a child and adolescent psychologist. good to have you with us. >> thanks. >> it seems to me there's a shift on becoming besties. i'm bffs with my kids. >> i think in families there's a lot more in common. kids are watching the same shows as parents, listening to the same music. there's a lot more playing field evening. as a result there's a fine line
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crossed. it's good to be friends with your kids but best friends, it's dangerous water. >> it's tempting. parents feel like they will come to me and tell me everything and it will hope. >> you're never at the same level as your kids. there is a power differential. i don't ask my friends to buy me the dress from the store. i ask my friends to talk to me about the problems i'm having in my life. i don't ask my friends to tell me what to do all the time as i might ask my mom. there's a diva boundary. once you cross it, it's hard to go back. >> it is possible to be a friend and disciplinarian to your child. how do you know when you're crossing that line? >> it's a difficult thing. take a step back and ask yourself why am i wanting to be my child's friend. why do i want this friendship? do i need something from my child, do i want something from them. is it giving me something more than them. >> also want to know, do my kids
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ask for guidance? am i offering information or going and solving it. the last thing, we want to think about, what's your own relationship like with your parents. if your dad was sitting down and watching the baseball game and offering you a beer at 15, you may want to repeat that. it may not be the best option for kids. it teaches them the wrong thing. >> also, does it give you better access to your child to be this close as a friend with them? >> the belief would be yes. i think that although you may be getting all this information, you may not want all that information. it may be too much information. then you're going to be not sure what to do. i think it's important to set the tone for open and honest communication and do fun things together but not necessary ask for everything. >> there's certain things you can do to foster that part of your relationship. >> right. we talk about this all the time. one of the things you want to think about, where is there a safe place to talk tower kids? where is a safe place can you have that together? can you watch shows with them and talk about it? always important.
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lastly, you want to know who they hang out with, know their friends, their friends parents. >> the beauty is if you can strike that balance, which is a daily struggle, it could set you up for a great relationship down the road as you get older. >> absolutely. that's the key. >> thanks for being with us. for much more, including blogs, photos, logon to the "the early show" show. was there a cover-up? we'll speak to the victims when we return. this is "the early show" on cbs. on parenting" sponsored by microsoft office 2010.
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25-year-old shawn johnson on the ground being arrested by police when his friend 24-year-old michael de herrera immediately called his father, a sheriff's deputy for advice. it was then that another officer grabbed de herrera and slammed him to the ground, repeatedly beating him with a metal club. >> many times a small section of a video does not tell the whole story. and that's what we have in this case. >> the officers contend the two men were severely intoxicated and started an altercation that was not seen on the tape. >> doesn't explain and doesn't show the actions of the complainants triking one of the officers. that's a big factor if why they were arrested. >> reporter: the city's independent investigator calls the police report purification and a cover-up. he says the officers should be fired and not suspended for three days. >> the only way they were justified is if the officer believed the complainant was
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about to strike him. from the video that does not appear to be the case. >> and joining us now exclusively are shawn johnson and michael de herrera and michael father anthony. good morning to you all. >> good morning. >> you got kicked out of the club, right? >> yes. >> was there an altercation? did you have an altercation with the police? >> i did. not in the beginning. this is an altercation with them when they were attacking me on the street. the first altercation i had was just with the bouncer after i had been removed. outside the club he struck me in my face twice. there was an officer standing there, in uniform, off-duty, who did not intervene. i realized this wasn't going to end well for me so i took off and i woke up in the street. >> you see your friend being beaten up so you get on the phone and call -- let pe rephrase that. you see your friend being arrested by police at which point you call your father, who spent his entire life in law enforcement, is that correct? >> yes, that's correct. >> what did you hear on the phone? >> michael was screaming on the phone, dad, they're beating up
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shawn! dad, they're beating up shawn. i said, who's beating up shawn? then i hear sirens in the background so i figure some law enforcement is wherever they're at, they're going to get him help. then the next thing i hear is drop the phone, obscenities, i hear a thud and michael wasn't talking anymore so i knew he had been hit. then i had an open line for seven minutes just hearing the beating. the last thing i heard is we have to get rid of the phone, they're recording us and then the phone went dead. >> you heard them say that? >> yes, me and my wife both heard that. >> your contentious is you can hear the police say, we have to get rid of the phone. >> at that time we didn't know it was the police, but we heard them. then both their phones disappeared. >> you spent your entire life on the job. they're in a bar scene, kid gets kicked out. people can get riled up, be in a confrontation with police. is it possible -- because the police contend -- there's stuff on the tape you don't see that
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exacerbated this situation. is it possible these kids were in the wrong somehow, from your perspective? >> i don't think so. i think the officers messed it up from the start. instead of diffusing the situation they escalated the situation. >> did you -- did you ever fight back? i mean, from the tape that we saw, we see no resistance on your part. >> no, not at all. >> right. and did you try to fight back with the police were trying to subdue you? >> not with the police. i remember when i woke up in the street, i was already in handcuffs. there were two officers on top of me and somebody was grinding into my ankle. there was to way for me to fight back. i was yelling. i remember even yelling, someone call the police. can someone call the police? i could see all these people around. one of the officers said, question are the f-ing police. then i yelled for them to stop because michael was on the ground, unconscious but they were still beating him. i remember yelling, his dad he's a sheriff. stop. please stop. but that's the only resistance. >> your son offers no
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resistance. he's just talking on his cell phone. you see that tape of these guys treating your son the way they did, what goes through your heart and mind? >> it makes me sick. it makes me sick that something like this would happen to a good son. he's never been in trouble before, never been in an altercation and for him to be calling for help and be treated like this, it's crazy. >> right. i'm trying to, you know, parse through this, because the denver manager reviewed the case and found no evidence of excessive force. the fbi is finally being called into this. does looking at it from -- just looking at the tape, and you say there's more tape that shows -- >> yes, there's clearly better video. our lawyer has it. it hasn't been released, but it clearly zooms back in on michael while the beating is taking place. he's clearly unconscious, not resisting and they continue to hit him. i believe i was told 45 times. 14 times with a staff.
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we have an accident there. justin with the kcbs phone force says traffic is jammed beyond loveridge. one of those cars involved in the accident may be leaking fuel. so may take a while to clean that up. also, very slow along the peninsula. redwood city traffic slow and go back towards marsh. you can see from our sensors some speeds under 40 miles per hour. so 2 80 might be a good alternate. that is your traffic. for your forecast, here's tracy. >> hey, thanks, elizabeth. coit tower, here we go, got cloudy skies and a few breaks in there. a few breaks of blue sky. forecast for today, a mix of sun and clouds around the bay. highs in the mid-60s. some sunshine, especially inland. mid-80s. and a few areas of sunshine with some clouds for the coast. similar conditions in the forecast thursday and friday. cooler weekend saturday and sunday. monday and tuesday, a lot like today. ,, ,,,,
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we're very happy that ourfriends from the fringe festival have joined us this morning. welcome back to the "early show," everybody. >> good to have you with us this morning. just ahead, the remarkable actress and screenwriter emma thompson joining us in the studio. we'll be chatting with her in just a bit. her beloved character nanny mcphee is back on the big screen. she's a fascinating character. emma thompson also wrote her. she's agreeing with everything we say. the little secret, she can't hear a word we're saying right now but we'll only say nice things, i promise. right, harry if. >> of course. we all know the dangers of drinking and driving. what about dogs and driving?
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is that a potentially dangerous combination? i think so. it turns out having an unrestrained pet in your car is a real danger. we're going to show you why and what you can do about it. also, we all remember the classic commercial where's the beef? >> yes, of course. >> where's the beef, right? >> what's her name? >> what is her name? >> sara peller. something peller. i'll think of it. >> that's pretty good that you got that much. >> nice. >> we're asking where's the beef again because there is no beef. katie lee will be here. we'll cook up amazingly beefless burgers. we'll do burgers with shrimp and sausage. >> first, though, lonnie -- where's lonnie? there you are. >> right there. >> lonnie quinn is here with another check of the weather. good morning. >> you know what, guys, i always thought that theater people were nighttime folk, you know, staying up late, doing the show. we have a lot of theater people
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you know, i was referencing a ballet troup before. you can't see them but very graceful looking. speaking of graceful, erica, over to you. >> lonnie, thanks for lying. two-time academy award winner emma thompson is the first to win awards for acting and writing. she brings both into play with reviving the nanny mcphee in the new family comedy "nanny mcphee returns". >> listen to me very carefully. i'm going to explain to you the way i work. when you need me, but do not want me, then i must stay.
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when you want me but no longer need me, then i have to go. >> how could anyone possibly want you? >> it's an odd thought, i grant you, but there it is. >> and here she is. emma thompson, good morning. >> good morning. >> you had your premiere last night. >> yes, i'm fine, though. fine. is this the gin i asked for? >> i hope et cetera the right blend for you. >> oh, thank you. >> nanny mcphee returns, such a fun movie. i have to say, i loved it. for anyone familiar with nanny mcphee, a different family, so she's returning but not to the place -- >> she's like james bond, basically. >> she can be anywhere at any time. >> nanny, 00 fanny. >> shaken not stirred. >> yes. i can tell different kinds of stories because she's short of like a guy -- she's a stranger who rode in from out of town and sought something out. i got overexcited and thought, i could tell any story.
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>> so this story is really kid versus kid in this respect. there are five very important lessons that nanny mcphee has to teach them. are those lessons you find important to your own kids or just -- >> you know, the lessons i use is a structural thing. when she says she learned how to share nicely, they're sharing with a goat, a cow and an elephant. there's something slightly subversive about toes lessons but she's giving the children the confidence to understand that they -- most of the time they can solve their own problems because they've got the now. sometimes they need a little help. maybe a bit of transport. maybe an idea. a tiny bit of magic, but most of the time they can sort it out on their own. >> which is a nice lesson for today. we talk about helicopter parenting and parents swooping in and doing everything for their kids. >> disastrous. if you remove risk from a person's life, you remove the
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possibility of them becoming independent. >> that takes the joy out of it. >> even a little fall down the stairs, you think, i'll remember not to -- but if you never get a chance to make those mistakes, you just don't learn. you're much more likely to have a much worse accident later on in life. >> and to not be able to recover from it and to be a lot miserable. one of the things that struck out to me in the film is the way nanny mcphee's appearance changes but it's never referenced. what's that about? >> i referenced it in the first movie. this time around -- we played them but we cut them because it didn't seem to matter. what's so interesting is you talk to children and they have -- they all have different attitudes to it. mostly they think it's because the children are changing. because i thought, how interesting is that psychologically? you have someone that changes on the outside but not on the inside. everyone who changes on the inside sees her differently. so, is it to do with what's in your heart? is it to do with your emotional state? and i think that if you consider
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what we love is always beautiful, then, you know, that's a very interesting lesson, i think. it's an unspoken lesson, it is. >> it is beautiful. and how she does become -- she looks more like emma thompson. she looks like a beautiful woman as' posed to a woman with warts and hair growing out of the warts. >> most children prefer the ugly version. >> why? >> because it's so much more interesting. charming and funny and much more exciting than me looking just like me with a bit of lippy and a spot of mascara. >> it must have been fun for to you put on all that makeup and -- >> it is fun. sometimes i forget. ewan mcgregor was on set and i started flirting with them. people came up and said, emma, you're still in the nose and the warts. >> and you have this large tooth protruding. >> yes. no, i didn't get many dates. >> well, you can still try. what's great is you're not done. we mentioned you're writing --
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the book is out, actually, for "nanny mcphee returns". >> it's a diary as well a story of the film. it's two different thing. it's quite a new thing. no one has ever done that before. i thought children might be quite interested in that. >> which is great. i know coming up your reworking "my fair lady" and tackling peter rabbit so we're looking to those things and looking forward to you coming back. >> thanks, erica. >> thanks. i've had a lovely time. now i'm going back to bed. >> sweet dreams. "nanny mcphee returns" opens nationwide on friday. now here's harry. >> how many times have we all said that? new in 2008 there were 6,000 fattalities and accidents, listn to this, caused by distracted drivers. we're focusing this morning on a distraction not often talked about and that is pets. a new study by the aaa finds that only 17% of dog owners who drive with their pets use pet restraints of any kind. that causes distractions equal to talking on cell phones or
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texting. can you imagine? christie hyde of aaa is here. good morning. >> good morning. >> how surprised were you at the results of the study? >> we were very surprised. we see people driving with pets in their car but we were shocked that two-thirds of people admitted to driving while being distracted by their dog. >> how can driving with an unrestrained pet cause an accident? >> one of the easiest ways is distracting you. it takes two seconds of looking way from the road and your chances of being involved in a crash is doubled. you can pet your car, but it can also get in the brakes or pedals. >> do they believe it's as dangerous as texting or a cell phone? >> i think any time you are looking away from the road, you're at risk. it doesn't matter if you're attending to your dog or texting or attending to your mp3 player.
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if you're looking away from the road, you're in danger. >> i'm going to look right into these stats. your study says 2 out of 3 driver owners admit to engaging in distracting activities with their dog while driving. like what? >> we see a lot of thing. what was surprising, it's only 1 out of 3 admitted toing doing but when we started saying, do you pet your dog? feed your dog? play with your dogs? you see 2 out of 3 being distracted. 50% are petting their dog. most people also said, we put our dog in the backseat so you're reaching behind you and -- exactly. and another scary thing is 1 out of 5 ride with their dog in their lap while driving. >> that can't be good. >> no, it's very dangerous. not only is it distracting to you or it could get into the pedals but if you're in a collision, the air bag deploys, the force is devastating to the dog as well as the human being. >> that's something to think
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about. you think, i love my dog so much, i want the dog with me wherever i go. you could be in a fender-bender or need to put on the brakes. if the dog is unrestrained, it could be harmful to the animal and quite harmful to you. >> your dog can become a flying projectile. if you have a ten-pound dog and you're in a crash at 50 miles an hour, that dog will be thrown with the force of 500 pounds of force. if you have a lab that's 80 pounds and you're only 30 miles per hour, you're looking at 2 ,400 pounds of force that dog would be thrown. so, anything in its path. not only would the dog be devastated but any passengers, children, the driver. that would be devastating injuries you're looking at. >> right. so if not for your own we well-being, for your pet's well-being, you need to think about how often you put the dog in the car. should we start an oprah-like pledge to make sure people don't drive either with a pet in the lab or whatever? >> you know, we all -- so many people consider their dogs part
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of their family now. i mean, i don't have kids. i think of my dog as my kid. i'm not alone in that. we alleges buckle our seat belts, put our children in child passenger seats. >> always. >> there are easy to use, affordable products out there that can restrain your dog. our partner that we worked on the set has a lot of them. easy to use. >> we'll take a look. >> thank you very much. do appreciate it. want to go over to erica who's over on the other side of the plaza for some ideas about that. >> harry, thanks. i'm with "early show" correspondent and resident veterinarian dr. debbye turner bell. you have advice and safety products for us to keep the dogs and the drivers and everyone else on the road safe. >> absolutely. now we know what we know about the dangers of a dog being a distraction as well as the chances of being in an accident, what might happen, so i have some products that can help you keep you and your pet safe. >> you always want to have some sort of a barrier. this is a barrier between the backseat and front seat, which my dog loves to sit in the center console like this. >> if you put them in the
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backseat and let them roam free, they want to come in the front with you. it's important to have a barrier. this cuts down on the distraction factor of a pet. this is not help with the safety of the pet in the event of an accident. >> keeps them from climbing into your lap. and just hooks onto the two seats, right if. >> yes. this is front seat and backseat. if you have an suv or station wagon where there's a cargo area and you have a big dog in the cargo area, it's important to have a big barrier, big gate barrier back there to keep the animal from jumping over the backseat into the passenger area of the car. >> or flying should something happen. flying through the car. >> i have to acknowledge poor lizzy crying for her mommy. we'll be right there. it's important to get one that fits your vehicle. now there are a lot of vehicles that are made pet-friendly that come already fitted. >> you can order it as an option when you get your car. >> yes. get the accessory made for that model you have. >> if not, you can also buy one. you also recommend -- we talked
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about this, but seat bet belts can be key. talk to us about the restraints available. >> if have you a dog in the car, they had need to be restrained. if it's a big dog you need to put them in a harness that attaches to the seat belt. make sure you have the right size for your dog. >> i have an 80-pound dog. so it's like the chest of the dog? >> on the chest. >> sitting up. and then it has a hook here that then tethers into the seat belt. >> and this little guy, who's a little upset -- >> before we go to our little guy over here, let me show you how this one works in action. if you open the door here, you can see we have abby here who's a little tangled up. >> abby can move a little bit. >> can stand up and sit down, which is fine. >> not time to get out yet. >> but tethered to the seat belt. if you stop suddenly, abby doesn't come flying true the car and injuring herself and you. >> another option is something like -- we took our poor friend away for some comfort. this is sort of a booster seat.
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>> this is a booster seat. let me see if i can take lizzy back. she's upset because her mom is not nearby. >> and we ran out of treats. >> you have a small dog that can sit in here comfortably. the seat comes with a tether that then attaches the dog to the seat. >> and they can seat up a little higher as well which we know dogs like. >> that's right. but they can't then fly away or become a distraction. >> lastly and quickly, carriers are important. get the right size for your pet. how do you secure this in your car? >> you can buy a restraint system to restrain it to your car or pet-friendly cars have the anchors in the back where you can tether it to the back. >> like an anchor for your car seat. >> restrain the carrier as well as the pet. >> we'll get this one some love. thanks as always. for more on that aaa study and a closer look at products, logon to our website, earlyshow.cbsnews.com. >> announcer: this portion of "the early show" sponsored by new wisk.
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fight stains with science. if you had your fill of hamburgers this summer, "early show" contributor katie lee is here with some nontraditional burger creations that don't use any beef. >> that's right. no beef. >> how are you? >> i love, love, love burgers. don't get me wrong. >> i know. >> but by this point in the summer i've had so many it's time to jazz them up. i brought you three nonbeef burgers today. >> i like it a lot. >> the first one we're going to do is a shrimp burger. >> way to go. and the shrimp season is open again down in the gulf. get yourself some gulf shrimp and make some gulf shrimp shrimp burgers. >> fabulous. i have a pound of shrimp peeled and deveined. half i coarsely chopped. that goes into the bowl. the other half i put in my food processor, turn it on and get it smooth. it's almost like ground beef. that's what we're going for here. pop the top off. >> you have two kinds of toection tours working there. >> exactly. this will make it stickier, like
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a beef mixture. put that in there. >> what else? >> with some eggs to hold it all together. and then some scallions for fla flavor and color. panco bred crumbs to make it nice and fluffy. salt and garlic. you get that nice and mixed up. you'll form them into patties like a burger. cook them in a skillet. about three minutes on each side because shrimp doesn't take very long to cook. i have a nice bun. we're not using any just normal buns today. we're making everything a little different. then my favorite part of this burger is the topping. it's an old bay mayo. old bay, you know, you traditionally cook sea fod like a shrimp boil. i mix that into the mayonnaise. we have some tomatoes and some avocado, which i love. i could eat avocado just --
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>> avocado with tomato this time of the year is life-changing. >> and it's a delicious burger that's going to impress everybody. >> that's really good. >> i love that. >> i reich like it a lot. >> going to take a bite or too big? >> i'm going to wait. you said this would knock my socks off. >> a portobello mushroom burger. this one is so, so good. i marinated my portobello mushrooms in a mixture of olive oil and some spices and wore chester sir sauce and this will go right in the oven. i forgot the most important part. the carmelized onions. they go on top. >> then in the oven. >> and a piece of cheese. i love my cheese. >> you do. >> in the oven. i'm going to pull out some that are already done. >> look at that. how about that? >> look how good these look. >> very nice. we have to get scooting along. >> we make a little mayo. this is the key ingredient. a portuguese muffin.
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if you've heard of one, they're so, so good. put one on here. it's a little hot but i got it. and on to the muffin. you tell me what you think. >> this is it. this is a life-changing experience? >> life-changing portobello mushroom burger. what do you think? fingering licking good. >> that is life-changing experience. that's really good. >> this is good for vegetarians. for the ka italian sausage, on the grill with sausage and peppers, as we need our chibata roll. open that up, put a little mustard on it, provolone cheese on top. >> i'm glad you didn't ask me to cut that -- >> i'm never asking you to cut anything again, harry. put it on there. there's this mixture of onions and peppers onto your roll. oh, it's already on the burger, harry. >> we're going to put it on two times. >> you like double. >> that looks good. >> corn, potato salad and your
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it is 8:55. good morning, everyone. i'm julie watts with your cbs 5 headlines. a man shot and killed during a confrontation with burlingame police this week reportedly has a history of mental illness. police shot 20-year-old edgar aristondo monday night after he reportedly attacked them with a knife. since 2008 two men have been shot to death outside jelly's on pier 50. the lease expires and local police want it closed. paul shin devine faces fraud and other charges. the apple employee is accused of exchanging secrets for a million dollars in kickbacks. apple has filed a civil suit against the former employee,
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spill in the area, missing things up with the morning commute. you can see how slow it is westbound highway 4. at the bay bridge toll plaza, still got kind of a long wait here, as well. still backed up beyond that first overcrossing so it's improved, about 10 minutes to get on the bridge. we are also hearing about muni delays inbound muni delays near the van ness stations. heading into san francisco muni delays. word of a new accident westbound 580 approaching the 680 interchange so slow approaching tassajara. that is your traffic. for your forecast, here's tracy. >> hey, thanks, elizabeth. here's a look from our mount vaca cam. and love it! it is a gorgeous view of blue skies, clouds well off in the distance. but all that sunshine is expected to be part of our forecast today especially inland. inland location mid-80s, your highs. mid-60s around the bay with a mix of sun and clouds. and the lower 60s at the
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