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good mor ninggood to morning to our viewers in the west- in the west. it is it is monday, july 9, 2012. welcome to welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadc st - broadcast centers. i' pre ide& t opprebamaside chant ollenbamages challenges rep bli& ansprep in ublicongcansress in congr on re y oneare more year of bush era tax cuts, but cuts, but not for the wealthy. and and tens of millions of americ ns - aare mericoolcansing are cooling off as a de deadly heatwave breaks. sou rces sources tell cbs news the sup supreme court is more divided than i than it's been in 70 years after last mo nth' lasst month's health care ruling plus, plus, roger federer's pwim bled wion wmbleindon win comes with a surpri surprise twist thanks to one lucky lucky bet. and and i'm gayle king. officia ls s ofayficials say natalie wood's death n- death in 1981 may not have been an an accident. and and we'll remember ernest borgnin , w- bhoorgnine, who spent 60 years in hollyw od - hand ollynevewoodr and never stopped pwor king wo untrkinilg until his death this weeken at- weekend at the age of 95. but but first, as we do every
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morning , wemorning, we begin with a look at today's today's eye opener. your wo rld yoinur world in 90 seconds. >> we >> we ought to protect and keep tax taxes low for middle class famili s a- fnd gamiliveies and give them a chance. >> a >> a new battle brews in was ing- wton.ashington. >> >> president obama with the call to to extend some bush era tax cuts, b ut n cuot fts, or but not for everyone. >> >> we have the fiscal cliff coming. coming. we ht ta tes tax rates for another year. >> >> suffocating. it's li ke i itt's's like it's pounding on you. >> >> relief after triple digits. >> >> explain the heat. one one word summer. >> >> one of the deadliest w in a long wa - in a long war in afghanistan. >> six amer >>ican six american service members have be n k- hilleave dbeen killed by a roadside bomb. bomb. >> >> it's di s discuss afghanistan's future. >> >> oscar winning film star ernest ernest borgnine has died. >> he >> he endeared himself to a generat generation in "mchale's navy." >> peop le >> people seemed to like what i do. do. what mo re what more >> rea&
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p>> great white shark has been spotted on both coasts. in some in some cases getting far too close or- close for comfort. >> i >> i jumped up. i ra i ran down and i said get out of the of the water! >> only >> only minor injuries after slipp ng - sfromlipping from a tight rope. >> nasa >> nasa has released some spectacula - spectacular spectacular spectacular panoramic images from t >> >> look out. >> >> thought he was under attack. >> it's >> it's federer again. >> a ndy >> and andy murray's moment must wait wait as great britain's draught stretches another year. >> the supp >>ort the support has been incredi ble. incredible. so so thank >> n & >> on cbs this morning. >> i >> i'm getting closer. welcome to welc ome to welcome to cbs this morning.
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preside nt o prbamaesid'sent obama's ready to draw a lineon- a line on extending the bush era tax tax cuts. tha that line would cut off people ear earning $250,000 >> the president will make a pre formal proposal today to extend middle class tax cuts for one more year. as bill clinton reports, he is sending an political and economic message. bill, good morning. >> good morning and good morning in the west. this is all about changing the subject and getting the campaign moving again. the president today will ask congress to extend tax cuts for people making less than $250,000 a year as opposed to mitt romney republicans who would and like to extend all of the bush tax tax cuts. the whit the white house started to lay the framework for its tax cut argument on sunday.ying that they're saying president obama el wants to help the middle class while mitt romney and the republican party are just out for the rich. >> the one thing he has flushed out is to take the bush tax cuts, which disproportionately impact millionaires and
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billionaires and add to them. their primary aim is to give taxionaires - breaks to the very wealthy. >> but republican leaders are trying to paint a different trying picture. they support extending all of they support the tax cuts for middle and cuts for upper class families. >> we ought to keep those rates exactly the same for at least a year. something that governor romney . supports because he believes that will stimulate the economy and provide certainty out there cert in the job market.ess >> reporter: in 2001 congress narrowly passed the bush tax years. cuts, effective for only ten years.dent when that time came congress and president obama cut a deal to to extend the tax cuts for two more years. ye that deal runs out at the start if of next year. if the cuts take place, that could send the economy into another recession. >> we've got the fiscal cliff coming at the end of the year. what we ought to be doing is extend the current tax rates for another year. >> reporter: today's announcement comes as the president deals with three months of sluggish job growth. in recent weeks, he's begun to
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feel increased pressure from hisis own party to change his economic message. >> he's going to have to say to something more than we are making progress. it's slow progress.ress, it's i was dealt a bad hand. now, he's got to be a bit bolder. >> reporter: the obama campaign hopes this announcement coming in just about two hours will get people's attention. the president goes to battleground states in the days to come. he'll campaign on this tax cut for the middle class. it's aimed at drawing a sharp contrast with romney, who, by the way, is doing very well. his campaign raised $106 million in june alone. er charlie, erica.plant >> bill plant, thank you. ed rendell is also the former s chairman of the democratic national committee. he has a new book called "a nation of wusses." let governor, welcome. let me start with what the president will do today. do you believe it's good believe t politics to do this and also d eco good economics?this? >> well i think it's good politics politics, clearly. take it to the congress show the congress isn't reacting.
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is i is it good economics?rd in fair nsz, it doesn't bring n't that much money toward bringing down the deficit.don't >> they cannot afford politically to do that. >> but that's where the money d is. >> there's some democrats who >> some wa wanted to extend it up to $1 million. >> it's a little easier to make the case. if you're making $251,000 and have three kids in college, that hardly qualifies as rich these days. it's always difficult to draw the line, but $1 million has a great sound to it. sound >> this campaign coming out of >> chicago for the president has empha emphasized romney's wealth and - talked about vacationing and howhow many many houses and swiss bank accounts. there are some who say that it looks like an attack on the wealthy and that's not good e we politics. g >> yeah i think people rememberhink peo that fdr and jfk were very wealthy people and did a lot to help working people. i think more importantly is to attack what mitt romney has done in his career the things he did
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at bain, the fact he has money in swiss bank accounts. mor that's more pertinent than it is than i just to say he's wealthy. big deal that he jet skis or whatever it was he was doing. big deal. underst people understand it's a vacation.va but i think to draw the contrast of outsourcing, things like that, that's obviously working. you look at the battleground states and the polls there. it's clearly working.work >> so the bain capital stuff is king working, you think. >> i think it's working now that they've got it in the right n frame.hat they don't call them a federal r pyre. it's not over the stop. the ads are beginning to top. resonate particularly with the white, blue collar workers. >> what happened to the idea suggested by president clinton that this ought to be about the future not the past. what democrats should stop beating upwould do on romney. >> well, i think campaigns go in phases. during the summer you're tryingphases to define your rival, you'r particularly someone like mitt
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romney, who the american people doeblt t don't know enough about. come the convention, it's the convention speeches, the debates debates, who's going to get americans back to work.s those are the things that matter. matter. >> here's also the question. independents don't like to see a shrill campaign. that's where the election will be decided.ree. >> i agree. two places. turn out of the base and independents. risk if it's a big risk if you go over the to the top. that's what i see. >> and t >> and president obama's campaign is at risk of doing that? that?>> a >> a little bit. they're better than they were out of the chute. i think they're getting the etting right pitch and the rights message. you see it's working.wo >> what about the criticism cri that's coming from within the democratic party? look time to move on. doesn't look like you have a ave a handle on the economy. t >> first of all, it's okay for the president to go back and say, remember when we were losing 750,000 jobs a month?
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now we're gaining jobs. bu that's okay. of the key point of pointing the oes he finger at someone else, people pare getting tired of that.he presi >> does the president need to get more specific?ople people have criticized mitt romney about what he would do in what h a second term. >> remember back in october, the president laid out a jobs bill presiden that was very specific. had about 11 specific points a number of which the republicans had already approved of in certain aspects. he's got to hammer that. people understand it puts people to work. that creates orders for manufacturing factories and things like that. so he's got the best short-term solution for getting the economy the moving. he's got to hammer that.ot to ham i think that's what the fall is going to be all about. >> we've got more political questions, but you just gave us a perfect segue to our next t coast segment. f thank you, governor rendell. gett this morning, a massive coldsive
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front is pushing in from canada canada but the heatwave left its mark.ave l >> those two weeks of scorching scorchi ptemperatures now being blamed d for at least 46 deaths. the weather has also damaged roads and buildings. seth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica and charlie. that's right. that scorching heat may have triggered a massive transformer fire according to utility rding officials here in new york over the weekend. t you can see behind me where that fire scorched the side of the scorched t 16-story building. luckily, there were no injuries. the underground transformer burst into flames torching a nearby car as temperatures as tem hovered around 100 degrees in ees in new york city this weekend. >> you know this heatwave is heat w about as unusual as they get. we have had every single state in the lower 48 hit 90 or 100 00 degrees because of this heatwave. that's unheard of.of. >> reporter: the triple-digit peratu temperatures that gripped much of the east coast and midwest d are finally starting to drop.
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but the blistering heat has nation's taken its toll on the nation's infrastructure. >> there's a pretty violent jerking motion. >> reporter: phillip snapped this photo of his flight in d.c. on friday. in the trip was delayed for three hours after the plane's wheels sank into the melting tarmac.nto the >> the pilots went out. went they were kind of chuckling thate because of the heat the plane had sunk several inches into thees into asphalt. >> reporter: from madison to minneapolis roadways buckled under the scorching sun. it was so hot in maryland the metro track expanded forcing f three train cars to derail and a triggering big delays. >> it's hot, and it wasn't very it well organized. >> reporter: as temperatures >> as rose, so did crime in cities like chicago and new york where there have been more than a dozen murders in the past six days. stil still, homicides are on track here to reach a record low this
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year. across the country, the sweltering heat shattered more than 2100 temperature records since july 1st and we're only three weeks into summer. folks here on the east coast and in the midwest are expected to get a bit of a break today. as you well know on the west coast, temperatures are only getting higher as another heatwave hits this country. temperatures already near 100 nation. degrees, expected to be closer to 110.ery much. >> seth, thank you. this morning, the taliban is taking taking credit for a bombing in eastern afghanistan that killed six american troops.tr that attack in wardak province outs just outside the capital, was it one of a series of roadside bombings that killed 29 people on sunday. >> there's also growing anger nger over newly released video showing taliban forces executing a woman who is accused of adultery with two taliban taliban commanders. [ speaking foreign language ]
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>> that woman was 22. this morning secretary of state clinton is in mongolia after afa attending this weekend's afghan aid conference in japan. margaret brennan is traveling with the secretary and reports the u.s. is putting conditions tance to on that assistance to afghanistan. >> reporter: dollars and diplomacy are the focus of the are the new u.s. strategy in afghanistan as military engagement comes to an end. secr secretary of state hillary clinton told the conference here in tokyo that security should be measured by jobs and economic conomic opportunities. on both fronts afghanistan is far from success. there were more than 200 coalition force deaths in 2012 lence i and violence is increasing. afghanistan is only capable of generating a fraction of its l needs. financial needs. its main export is still opium. of that's why much of the tokyo conference was spent discussing how to attract private investors
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cut and cut back on corruption. aid dollars helped educate more than 8 million children and d roads build roads and bridges. those are the success stories. hamid karzai leaves tokyo with $16 billion in aid pledges to be through paid through 2015. the u.s. is still afghanistan's bu top financial supporter, but secretary clinton says new dollars will have strings also wan attached. she also wants private investors to put money to work in a corrupt country that ranks the fourth >> t most corrupt. i >> that must include fighting gthening corrption, improving governor answer in, strengthening the rule of law, increasing access to economic opportunity for all afghans, especially for women. >> >> reporter: american dollars will continue to flow into as t afghanistan, even as a the last troops roll out in 2014. pthe worry is that all that depe dependence on aid has left afghanistan too vulnerable to stand strong on its own.
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for cbs this morning, i'm margaret brennan in tokyo. kofi annan met with assad this morning. they agreed on a plan to end the a 16 months of escalating violencend the throughout the country. in a tv interview broadcast roadcast yesterday, assad said annan's assad s peace plan should not be allowedwed to fail. and said t he also said the u.s. and others are undermining peace talks by supporting syrian opposition opposi groups. >> it's part of the conflict. they give the offer and political support to them to stabiliz create this. >> assad says he believes the majority of syrians support him and he will not step down. cbs news has new information about supreme court's health onth care ruling last month, a historic decision that has left the court deeply divided. as first reported on sunday chief justice john roberts n didn't want to be the only one
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to switch sides at the last only minute. >> when he changed his mind he he changed joined with the liberals to instead uphold the law. and then he tried furiously with f a fair amount of arm twisting f a i'm told to get justice anthony kennedy to come along. kennedy sometimes sides with the conservatives, so he would have cons been roberts' best hope.ts best on this issue of federal power, of fed kennedy was firm. the conservatives refuse aed to rm t even engage with roberts on joining his opinion to uphold the law.y sat they sat out writing their own r own opin opinion. they wrote it really to look like a majority decision my sources say. because they hoped roberts wouldthat rejoin them to strike down that mandate. kennedy was relentless until the end, trying to get roberts to come back.ion roberts did not, so the conservatives conservatives' decision became a dissent. some people believe that you would have to go back nearly 70 go years to see this kind of n,
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tension, almost bitterness, i think you could say, that now exists among the justices. >> and jan crawford with more of her her inside information on that ich when she first brought it to us last week as we were learning about how that decision came down and how the switch happened for chief justice roberts. we have pictures of two frightening encounters of great white sharks over the weekend. on saturday just 150 yards off of cape cod, look at this picture. kayaker turns around to see, oh hi there. the fin is a great white. the kayaker started paddling a lot quicker and got away safely. on that same day another great white took a bite out of a kayak near santa cruz california. the kayaker was thrown into the water but did survive. it's time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. britain's telegraph says a vie us could cut off internet access thousan today for hundreds of thousands of computers.ng
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the fbi took over the hacker's server servers and realized if it they turned them off, the victims would lose online access. the servers were finally shut off at mid night because they were expensive to operate. the "new york times" reports on an explosion of cell phone surveillance. cell carriers reporting they eillan responded to 1.3 million demands for subscriber information from law enforcement agencies last ast year year.year. at&t says those requests have tripled in the past five years.years. the financial times looks att questions over mcdonald's sponsorship of the london olympics. the international olympic committee faces growing pressure from health groups. they say with a worldwide obesity crisis the games should not be linked to a fast food fas chain. and a study in the wall babi street journal finds babies who dogs w live in homes with dogs were look healthier and had fewer ear infections. researchers suspect dirt and bacteria from dogs can build
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for more than 0 years, natalie wood's drowning was considered an accident. now authorities say they don't know what happened. this morning we'll show you how new evidence uncovered by 48 hours is changing this long-running mystery. and roger federer leaves wimbledon with his seventh victory while andy murray leaves with the admiration of millions of his british countrymen. >> everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at wimbledon. the support has been incredible. so thank you. >> we'll take you back to sunday's historic men's singles final on "cbs this morning."
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>> time for the news headlines. five people are recovering after they were shot outside a theater at jack london square. three of the victims are at children's hospital. no one has been arrested. investigators to try and to find the cause of a fire that damaged a home in east oakland this morning. cal trained as an experiment going on this week, they are testing a system to provide real time information about train schedules. the system is expected to be up and running by the end of the year. big changes in the weather after the break.
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and mass-transit delays. apparently there are several cal trains running behind schedule. checked the web site or call ahead if you want to use them this morning. art is good systemwide. we're just getting word of a fog advisory on the coast through daly city as you make your way toward specific up. dense fog across the golden gate bridge. >> high pressure is strengthening overhead, compressing the marine air. we will see more of that the next couple of days. it looks like clouds will break up revealing plenty of sunshine. 80s and low 90s in inland, triple digits might return on wednesday. cooling off on thursday and friday.
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in real time, this is what happened. you see everybody -- >> that is no ordinary weather delay. a very loud clap of thunder sent players running at the twins/rangers game in arlington, texas, yesterday. the boom was so loud, it actually shook the television cameras. the game was held up by rain for 46 minutes. welcome back to "cbs this morning." you feel that one in your bones. >> like incoming fire didn't it? there's a surprising development this morning in the case of natalie wood. the investigation was reopened eight months ago, 30 years after she died off the coast of los angeles. as bill whitaker reports, the l.a. coroner's office changed the cause of death from accident to undetermined. >> it's one of hollywood's most enduring mysteries, what really happened the night actress
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natalie wood drowned while boating off catalina island. >> if you don't like this has been changed to undetermined or unresolved, that means it's not over. >> it was thanksgiving weekend 1981. wood and her husband, actor robert wagner, were enjoying the holiday on board the "splendour" with friend and fellow actor, christopher walken. at daylight, wood's body was found floating in the water. investigators called it an accident. speculating she had fallen and hit her head while trying to secure a dingy alongside the larger boat. >> i believe that robert wagner was with her up until the moment she went into the water. >> sparked by an interview, los angeles sheriff's detectives reopened the case last november. they gave no details, only saying they were contacted by persons with additional information about the incident. >> the information was received made us want to look at the
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case. >> the captain said late that night he heard wagner arguing with wood. >> the fighting went back to the back of the boat and then it was quiet. >> the coroner's office refuses to comment on the investigation but changing the cause of death from accident to undetermined leaves the case even more mysterious than when it started. for "cbs this morning," bill whitaker los angeles. >> 48 hours has covered this story extensively and broken news open over the past year. correspondent erin moriarty is here as well as john miller. he's a former deputy police commissioner in los angeles. >> good morning. >> what does this mean and what will it change? >> realize this investigation has been going on almost eight months. they were hoping to end it this month. it really doesn't change a lot. what it does mean is that there is new credible evidence. it's enough to give investigators reasonable suspicion that natalie wood's death was not an accident.
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but there is not enough to say what it was. there's certainly not enough to say there was homicide. there's been a real change in the narrative. back in 1981 everyone said you know, there was rough seas and broken glass. she took the dingy. we noticed she was missing. we called the coast guard. the broken glass came from a fight. as soon as you hear there's a fight on board, then the few bruises that were found on her body suddenly become more ominous. there is reasonable suspicion, there's not enough to take this to actually say there was a homicide. >> is there a new theory of the case, john? >> there is a new open mind to what was fairly closed theory about the case because everybody had matching stories at the time. now that the stories have split in different directions robert wagner, in his book told a different story than he told police. the captain of the boat is
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telling a different story than he told police. where christopher walken is on this, we don't know as we sit here. but i think that really opens it up. the back end of that thought, though, is how could you make a case out of this? it's nearly -- it's a huge challenge. this is being done by sheriff's homicide. they're very competent people, a lot of experience. but even by the darkest version of this narrative, you don't have anybody saying i saw anybody either beating anybody up or throwing anybody off a boat. what you do have is the captain saying there are things that could have been done. we could have gotten on the radio sooner called for help faster, used the searchlight to look for her. it was robert wagner who directed me not to which is a different story than police were told. >> questions -- not so much of what robert wagner might have done to natalie wood but what he didn't do.
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trying to bring charges, it's been 30 years. the statute of limitations bars most of these lesser charges. you'd need first or second degree. i think it would be very difficult. >> correct me if i'm wrong, back when this was reopened in the late fall started talking about it again, was it robert wagner who said he was not a suspect. >> right. >> given what you two have laid out here why is there so much interest to reopen? is it because of the high-profile nature? if there's not enough for a conclusion, the why comes up. >> i don't think they knew when they opened it up what they would found. even when he said he wasn't a suspect, they now want to talk to everyone on board because now it's undetermined. but i think there is a lot of public interest. i think that as the stories have changed, we see this all the time on 48 hours, one case looks resolved one way and then after 30 years, people start telling the truth or a different story,
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and some cases get reopened. >> have we heard from chris walk en other than what he said to authorities at the time? >> there was a playboy interview. his changed a little bit too. he said that the coast guard was called right away. on the second interview, he did not say that. his story changed a little bit between what he told police and what he told playboy interview. he has not, as far as i know spoken to anyone recently. >> thank you very much. emotions run high at wimbledon. roger federer came back to win his seventh title there. but it was the local hero andy murray, who won the hearts of the crowd. we'll have that story from london on "cbs this morning."
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one game said it all. powerful tennis. serena williams completed a two-year comeback from surgery winning the women's singles and doubles at wimbledon. meanwhile, roger federer is on top of the tennis world again after a first grand slam victory in two and a half years. >> he beat andy murray to win a seventh wimbledon title. as charlie d'agata reports, it was a tough loss for a homegrown favorite but a goodwin for a good cause. >> i'm getting closer is how andy murray put it as he reached the finals and unable to break the home field disadvantage here at wimbledon. yet, his defeat has meant a big victory for one worthy cause. for a few moments it looked as if andy murray might just pull it off. [ applause ] >> he took the first set against roger federer, expectations rose
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in the crowd holding court in the royal box. prince william's wife kate and her sister pippa middleton, prime minister david cameron and soccer star david beckham. but across town one brit found himself on the edge of his seat and rooting for federer. >> i found my -- quite divided at that time. >> he's the head of marketing for the charity and had big money riding on the match. thanks to a donor who bet in 2003 at odds of 66 to 1 that federer would one day win seven wimbledon titles. the donor died in 2009 but promised his betting slip to the organization which tackles poverty worldwide. >> finding myself cheering on the points for murray and it was hard to be rooting for him, my heart was saying murray but my head kept coming back to $155,000. >> much needed money that would go towards helping starving people in west africa.
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>> $155,000 for the charity basically means that we can feed 10,000 people for a month. >> back on center court, the rains came. and when the roof closed so did andy murray's chances of winning. federer flipped the switch back to flawless and powered his way to take three sets in a row. winning the tournament for a seventh time equaling the record set by pete sampras. for murray this year's dream ended in tears. >> it's not going to be easy bim going to try this. everybody talks about the pressure of playing at wimbledon, how tough it is. the support has been incredible. so thank you. [ applause ] >> federer proved he's not only a master of the back hand but of the back handed compliments. >> he's done so well over the years. been so consistent and to me it
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shows that he cares so dearly about tennis, about the tournament and he'll at least win one grand slam. >> murray's outpouring of emotion came as a surprise for somebody who has a reputation for being a bit cold. but the brits love a good cry. as one writer put it murray may have lost it on the court, but he won the nation's hafrt. for "cbs this morning," i'm charlie d'agata at wimbledon. not that it's not great for federer. you couldn't help but pull for murray there. >> you were. i didn't have any idea. the impression was he was -- did not have that deeply felt sense of connection to this tournament because of the way he played and then to see him play so strongly and then there was a moment and then to see this remarkable emotional connection. >> yeah. anybody who wasn't rooting for him before, definitely has a soft spot now. >> a new national hero and
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>> there's no crying this baseball. apparently, no rule against fighting between parents. really? this happened in i can't gentleman after a little league championship. some fans got into it in front of the parents and one league administrator calls this "about the most disgusting i've ever seen in little league." ya think? talk about setting a fine
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example. anyway. >> spoken like a true parent. >> thank you charlie. i know you're equally outraged. >> yeah. microsoft -- >> want to know what they're fighting about. >> it does matter chris licht. you're right it doesn't. their fighting is ridiculous. >> he is right this time. should we talk with micro toft? >> yes. >> big cover story in vanity fair. >> used to be cool. something went wrong over the past decade. >> we'll speak with a reporter who says bureaucracy is turning the software giant into a high tech afterthought. >> before we get to that it's time for "healthwatch" with dr. holly phillips. >> good morning. in today's "healthwatch," coffee and skin cancer. coffee may taste good and get you going in the morning. now a new study says it could lower your risk of developing skin cancer. researchers from harvard analyzed data from a long running study of over 100,000
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people. women who reported drinking more than three cups a coffee a day had a reduced risk of getting the most common form of skin cancer. men had a 9% lower risk compared with those who drank less than one cup a month. researchers aren't sure what the mechanism is but caffeine reduces inflammation and may block tumor formation. growing information may say there may be health perks to drinking a cup of joe. diabetes, heart failure, did he men ha and stroke. the good news about coffee just keeps pouring in. it may be hard to believe, but that coffee bug we love so much may also be good for our health. i'm dr. holly phillips. cbs "healthwatch" sponsored by v8 v-fusion plus energy. could have had a v8. let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural
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room with a look at what's coming up at 8:00. >> did he say our gayle? welcome back charlie rose. >> thank you so much. >> nice to have you back. >> good to be back. >> guess who is back? chris licht say hello to your family and friends in our viewing audience. chris licht is back too. the gang is all here. jennifer wiener is in the house.
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>> metering lights have been on now for more than an hour but the backups are not as bad as they were earlier their only jammed up to the end of the parking lot. elsewhere, southbound 880 approaching mallory avenue, a crashed blocking one lane so it is pretty slow heading towards that accident scene. 883 oakland is not that bad right now just a bit sluggish towards downtown. >> drizzle out towards the coastline with things a little bit tampa outside. cloudy skies outside but the promise of more sunshine in the afternoon. 80s and low 90s in the valleys, '70s and '80s around the bay. the next couple of days we cranked up the temperatures, triple digits by wednesday cooling down on a thursday.
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♪ nasa is set to release the stunning photos from mars. it's a panorama of the red planet snapped by the mars rover. you can see the crater there that's millions of years old. it's 8:00. welcome to "cbs this morning." guess who's back? charlie rose. >> happy to be back. >> you weren't at mars were you? >> no, i was not. it's hot up there, i hear. >> share as much as you want about your vacation. >> i feel bad. i mean i feel good. great to be back. forgot how to talk. that's what happens when you don't talk much on vacation. >> go ahead. >> the great thing about vacation, it makes you realize how much fun there is to be had in life a. b, you think how can i make these two things happen a great work, passion for work and passion for vacation at the same time. >> yeah. >> that's called balance and
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combinations or something. >> when you figure it out, let us know. we're glad you're back. we're glad you're back. it's 8:00 and charlie is here. >> and i'm with erica hill. microsoft, as you know, is the world's largest software company. the creator of windows has lost its leader 147 to apple, google and facebook. >> it's really no accident. in a scathing article on vanity fair he writes about microsoft lost decade. >> he's with us this morning. we're pleased to have him here. what's the problem at microsoft? >> in the most simplest terms, microsoft lost its way. >> we know that. that's the consequence. >> right. but what happened was you had a company where everybody was making millions solely from the rise in stock prices and when that changed, when the stock hit a wall, they had to figure out, how do we keep people motivated, keep people going what they've done is created a
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company more like a ge more like an auto company. and the idea of being incentivized to develop products just isn't there anymore. you've got people who are incentivized to climb the corporate ladder and to compete with each other in terms of you know getting the next bonus and the culture just doesn't have that infusion of dynamic moving to the next step. >> there's this thing called the stacking system which you talk about here which jack welch famously used very well at ge but it doesn't work according to what you found out? >> no. >> at microsoft. >> the thing is that nothing can be grafted from one company to the next. every company has a different culture. everyone has different requirements, different needs. >> could you explain how that works? when i read it i thought this has to be wrong. >> yes. >> this stacking system. >> exactly.
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the way that works is let's say the four of us work in the same division and we have a boss. you have a boss. >> we do yes. >> that boss sat down and said it doesn't matter what kind of job you're doing, one of you is great, two of you are mediocre and one of you is terrible and i, as your boss have no choice because my boss says i have to rank you that way. and so -- >> what if two of you are great? >> it doesn't matter. >> it does not matter. >> jack welch as he defines this, it was an interesting quote, the bottom 10%, you owe it to them to say, you know you don't have a great future here and make a shift. i mean that's a responsibility to tell them why and what's happened rather than saying to the other guys you know -- >> then you get the probabilities. what's the -- sure there may be 10% throughout the whole company. what's the probability that 10% breaks up evenly unit to unit to
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unt. if you have a 10 person unit what's the probability it will break up? >> in erica's introduction she used the word scathing. did you mean for it to be scathing and did you have a hard time getting people to talk to you? >> it's very funny because i don't start off like that. >> scathing. >> i read online somebody said scathing article i thought, really? yeah it is a little rough. >> steve is not going to be inviting you to lunch any time. >> she means steve palmer the new ceo who follows bill gates. >> right. i didn't have a lot of trouble getting people to talk to me because it was interesting, the main issue was getting somebody to return your phone call. a lot of people did, and once they did, they really opened up and it was -- it was not from the position of you know i'm griping about microsoft, it was
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more from the position of resigned acceptance. >> did you talk to bill gates? >> i did not, but he's not really been a significant force inside the company in terms of management for several years. >> is part of the problem with the company that it seems to have lost focus? because for so long it was the software giant. trying to do too much? >> absolutely. >> and not doing any of it well? >> the easiest way to point that out is that who was competing with microsoft? it depends what division you're talking about? xbox competes with sony. business to business they compete with ibm. computers, ipads -- phones pads, they compete with apple. on search it competes with google. every one of these is a completely different awesome, unrelated business. and so when you have something that the standard is is it
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technology? will microsoft, we'll try it you've gone so thin you've gone so disparate that it's very hard to keep your focus. >> and in many cases it's been a game of catch-up. is there an answer? does microsoft need to cut its losses and focus on one thing? >> microsoft needs to figure out what it wants to be when it grows up. and in truth you have several companies inside one big company and it happens fast. they should be broken up. >> microsoft should be broken up that's an antitrust company. >> no, i mean from a corporate strategy question. >> here is the point. all of those companies are in each other's business now. they're all in social networking now. they're all in search now one way or another. microsoft now has bing which is actually getting good reviews. >> but it doesn't matter because it's costing them billions and it's not -- micro -- bing is
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their search engine competing against google. >> right. >> google keeps growing into the number of customers it has. >> what should microsoft focus on. >> what they do well what they have. >> what's that? >> servers, operating system software, business to business. nobody does it like them. getting consultant business to help set up corporate operations. they can do devices, which is a completely different area but they need to free it of the over arching corporate problem that you have when you have so many different companies together. >> i'll say this quickly. the irony of all of this is they used to laugh at ibm as you point out. ibm has been able to regroup and become very successful. microsoft has to somehow learn that lesson now. >> apple did it too. apple came back. >> so there's hope in time for microsoft? >> you said they're just not
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cool anymore. there's something to be said about being cool. thank you. >> thank . fromion from action movies to sitcoms, ernest borgnine did it all. we'll visit a restaurant where they left him so much they made him part of the decor. wow. this is "cbs this morning." we'll be right back after the break. i am you and you are me if you want
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square pants. borgnine endured an unusual kind of recognition from a new york city taco shop in 2009 sunday morning's bill geist talked to borgnine about his career and the devotion of his fans. >> reporter: the tortilla flats restaurant might look like another taco joint, but inside is something of a borgnine shrine. >> we really tried to preserve the legend of ernest borgnine. >> i say earn any, you -- >> jean manbury. >> we're the ernest borgnine of restaurants. we're an unassuming restaurant. ernie liked that. >> ladies and gentlemen, good evening, everybody. welcome to the 17th annual ernest borgnine night! >> reporter: the special ernest borgnine night is an annual
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event. here they exalt the man all year long. >> here's a photograph of ernie sitting where i'm sitting. >> reporter: there's the hallowed ernie booth. >> this is the original coat worn by ernie in the sitcom "the psingle guy." >> one day that garm meant will be as sacred and reveered as others. >> reporter: actor director john turtoro and his son amadeo are ernie owe fish she owe nad does. >> we're all ernest borgnine fans. >> one of his wives was a famous broadway singer. who was it? >> reporter: on borgnine night there were ernie trivia questions. >> is it going to be ethel orlize za or lize za minnelli?
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ethel? >> congratulations. i'm just a fat little man. a fat, ugly man. >> reporter: there was a look alike contest but since no one looked like ernie at all, it became an act alike contest. >> i'm still a fat man. fat, ugly man. >> i'm ugly. i'm ugly. >> reporter: no one acted like ernie either. the winner somehow was this matched pair of fellows from london. >> keep me alive! >> reporter: so what does ernie, aged 92 living in beverly hills, make of all of this stuff? >> i said i think that's absolutely marvelous. >> reporter: were you shocked? were you surprised? you didn't know what this was all about? >> yeah why me you know? why not? the very first time i walked in i walked in unannounced and there was a great big hush.
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oh, my god, he's here. and we proceeded to get pretty stiff. >> reporter: he's now made 200 films and counting. >> what's the sense of retiring? retiring to what? what are you going to retire to? an easy chair? remember this one, "escape to new york." >> reporter: in his more than five decades of acting he has worn many hats so to speak, often playing sadistic villains. >> this is where i played the biggest baddy i've ever played in my life. >> reporter: and he sometimes played the flip side too. >> how's the skipper doing? >> reporter: who could forget rolls like lieutenant commander quentin mchale in the tv hit "mchail's navy."
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now there's a whole new generation of fans that know him as the voice of mermaid man in sponge-bob squarepants. >> i'm back to my old self again. >> reporter: really? did you ever sign an autograph, mermaid man? >> oh, absolutely. >> at the theater in hollywood, a celebrity studded crowd gathered for the 28th annual academy award ceremony. >> reporter: fans might be surprised that ernie won an emmy for his role in the movie "marty" back when movie stars were movie stars. >> i was up against jimmy cagney, frank sinatra, "man with a golden arm." james dean in "east of eden." and spencer tracy. >> reporter: and it was presented to you by whom? >> grace kelly. >> reporter: he reflects on the moment at oscar time. >> it meant that my peers held
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me in esteem and i'll never forget that. and so when it comes time for the academy awards i have mine up there up above the television. i sit my big fat easy chair, i've got mine. fight for it. >> everybody, say hello to ernest borgnine in person. >> reporter: ernie called tortilla flats thrillingly assembled. >> i'll have a drink with all of you. >> reporter: on borgnine night it just doesn't get any better than that. >> if my water breaks tonight i'm going to name it ernie. >> ernie, ernie, ernie. >> somebody who died at 95 had such a great life. he got acclaimed, who was respected for what they did and had a good time. >> and was still working up to
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the end. i love that. i love too, that people love him so much. >> i like the way he embraced all of that with the we love ernie nights. >> the night he won the oscar night, james dean jimmy cagney. >> presented by grace kelly. not too bad. >> when we come back war v parker is a retroeye wear company is a company that's very hot, hot hot. we'll meet the guys behind this venture. we'll wave back to you. when we come back. i love it when people wave. >> hello. this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by citi thank you cards. for a relaxing vacation. ♪ ♪ sometimes we go for a ride in the park. maybe do a little sightseeing. or, get some fresh air. but this summer, we used our thank youpoints to just hang out with a few friends in london. [ male
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>> five people are hurt after somebody opened fire outside a movie theater in jack london square in oakland. the shootings happened about 930 last night on washington street. all the victims are in stable condition expected to survive. jury selection begins in a suit against honest riser convicted for murdering his wife at his home in the oakland hills. now, and wrongful death suit on behalf of the couple's children. today, pg&e is unveiling a new inspection tool that will detect dense corrosion, and cracks inside a large natural gas pipeline.
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southbound 880 approaching mallory avenue and another one on 680 byte pepper ann road. backups behind both of those scenes. the golden gate bridge is not too bad. we have a dense fog and advisory and a little bit of drizzle. cal train is experiencing anywhere from 15-20 minute delays. >> plenty of fog this morning although we see sunshine in some of the valleys. clouds right here looking towards mt. diablo. more sunshine in the afternoon. upper 80s and low 90s by the afternoon. inside the day you will find mostly sunny skies and '70s and '80s out in the day. triple digits on wednesday cooling off on thursday and friday.
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it's talk between friends. >> when can you go without a bra? >> every time i go home i take the bra off. free at last. free at last. they are free at last. >> they are, our friend lisa cue droe and country superstar lien riems. >> "the talk" live on cbs. >> hello, nashville, tennessee, you look good this morning. welcome back to cbs this morning. jennifer winer knows how to connect with her female fans. nine best-selling books that sold 11 million copies. 11 million copies in 36 countries. >> her new volve is about a young writer with big dreams. she's here in studio 57. >> thank you for having me.
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>> this is number ten for you. >> lucky number ten. >> what is it that you have found? you have this thing with women. you write something and they 11 million copies. >> it's funny, somebody at one of my readings said you write what i i think. at first i thought that's the nicest compliment. what's wrong with me that i'm saying what people say but no better than to say. i'm missing a filter. >> that's worked out for well for you. >> my missing filter has provided me with a living. >> here we are with number ten. it involves a tv show. the tv show, tell us about the tv show. i love the titles of your book. the next best thing. >> good in bed. >> we'll talk about that later and the research you did for that. >> i had a development deal. this happened to me. i had a development deal with abc. wanted to write a show about a
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big girl who goes to -- she goes to miami. she wanted to be a chef. but she's the star. she gets the guy. she gets the jokes. she gets the clothes. she's not funny best friend. she's not the side kick. she's a star. she has a wonderful grandmother. and so my heroine goes to hollywood, the show gets green light and things start going downhill. >> and then they change everything. >> they change everything. >> you write about when you get the call that it's not going to go on. did that happen to you that way? >> i found out my show was cancelled on the internet. >> no one called to tell you. >> they called me five minutes after it was on deadline. it hurt. it did. it was painful. >> i would think that would hurt. this is the thing, how does that get out? when it's all comfortable. i always wonder how does this can feel shl stuff get out?
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>> you're many the room going over the testing. the top secret testing where they have taken your pilot to malls across america and shown it to women and ie pad's off, iphone's off. and two seconds later it's on deadline. i don't know who's doing it. but deadline. >> did you decide -- was there something about you that you saw that something was missing with women? somebody said about you, i almost forgotten how good it feels to read a book about strong women who can still afford to break down and cry every now and again. she's not a skinny mini. >> nope. >> she has some flaws. are you talking about your own life here? >> absolutely. they always said when i in creative writing classes. write the book that you don't see on the shelf, that you want to read. i said, i was 28 years old. first book been through this terrible break up. i said i'm going to write a book where a girl is a lot like me
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and the guy is like satan. i had a dysfunctional family. my mom came out of the closet at 55. as a proud, gay lesbian woman. it was a shoerk. we were all shocked. >> i'm shocked, too. and i don't even know your mom. >> my brother was in college, right. he goes home to do his laundry. he goes to my mother's bathroom to look for nail clippers. finds love letters from a lady called me at work and says there's a woman living in this house. i think she and fran are in love. so i call my mom and i'm like what's going on. she said that's my swim coach. i'm like it's not an olympic year. like what's the deal? i'm gay and i'm in love and we're living together. click. there i am at my desk at the philadelphia inquirer. >> did my mom just say that. >> exactly. >> did she support your career. you get this book, good in bed.
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>> every time i go home i say i'm worng my novel. i'm finishing my novel. she lays her hand across her forehand and says oh yes, your novel. she didn't believe i was writing a novel. so when i -- they say the happiest day is when you get to tell your mom it's being published. not so true when the book's called good in bed. mom, you know that novel you never believed it was happening? she burst into tears and gives me a hug. we're both crying. she said what is it called. she said what is it called? i said good many bed. >> she said good and bad? >> no. she said how much research did you do? >> i'm durous about that. >> i had toni morrison as one of my writings professors in college. it took me half a semester to get the courage to look at her.
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she said a lot of sex in this story. you ever had any? pass. >> i refuse to answer on the grounds that it may not incriminate me. what did you personalize? >> it's a limit complicated right now. i have kids. >> cliff note version. >> two daughters live in philadelphia. i have beautiful girls. they are smart and funny. one of them wants to be a writer. the other one wants to go on "the bachelor." we're talking about that. she pulled my highest heels out of the closet and she said i'm like she wants to try my shoes on. i said what are you doing? she says i'm going to wear these when i go to be on "the bachelor." she's 4. not happening. >> where is she getting her desire for "the bachelor" from? >> sadly, i have a little problem. i will admit it. i'm a "bachelor" addict. i live tweet every night.
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it's a fairy tale. i'm a sucker. >> before we let you go. she was a great influence for you. talk to us a little bit about that. what did you get from her? >> she was one of the writers. i remember being 12 years old and finding the book crazy salad some things about women. there was an essay about breasts. i'm reading this and thinking we're allowed to talk about this. this is okay? we can talk about our bobs. then i thought this is how i want to write. these are the stories i want to tell. i don't want to pretend i'm a guy. i don't want to talk about what's kwoets unquote serious or acceptable. these are the stories i want to tell and she made that possible for so many of us. >> she really did. >> and now some would say that you make it possible too. a lot of women read your stuff. >> they do. and i would love to be a role model that kind of way. >> in a way of shameless grovel in the book the next best thing when she got her big break she did interviews on good morning america and today show. >> the star.
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>> i'm just started. next day we wish you would say cbs this morning. >> we would be happy. >> you guys are first on my list. >> it is shameless begging. thank you. >> i'm happy about that. thank you. thanks so much. >> her name is jennifer weiner. her new book number ten is "the next best thing" it's on sale at your favorite book place. war b. parker is called the netflix of eye wear. the ceo's will show us their vision for making the world a
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innovative fashion brands around. sorry. we were just sharing a little frivolity before we went on the air with the one and only charlie rose. go ahead. >> business model includes donating a pair of glasses for every pair. david gilboa and neil blumenthal join us now. this is a great idea. welcome. >> thank you for having us. >> how did it come about? how did two young guys say here's a business snoo. >> we love glasses. we think they're a great fashion accessory. we couldn't understand why they're so expensive. technology that's been around for 800 years. it didn't make any sense to us that glasses would cost more than an iphone. >> there's no tech breakthrough. >> they're just plastic. i went this past weekend to buy a pair of glasses. i had the frames guys. by the time i got my lenses it came to $542 with $100 off. it doesn't make sense.
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a little piece of plastic with stuff in it cost this is much. >> you're at wharton business schoolworking together and you think, okay. what do you do with that information? >> we are literally in the computer lab talking and one of our friends had this idea to sell glasses online and the light bulbs went off. we thought this is a powerful idea. prior to business school i had run a nonprofit distributing eyeglasses in a developing world and i knew that it didn't cost that much to manufacture glasses. we thought what if we could design the frames we love use the best materials out there, but then sell them direct to consumers through warby parker.com and bypass the middlemen. bypass the optical retailers, bypass the licensing companies because it was all under our own brand. >> we got to try on the glasses first, though. that's why i was thrown by your idea. i want to try on the glasses first to see if they go with the shape of your face. >> that was the hardest thing for us to figure out. would people buy glasses online. we thought is there a
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technological solution? we found this facial recognition software where you could up load your photo and virtually try it on. we thought, would we buy just doing that? >> no. >> then we came up with an idea to do home try-on to select five pairs of frames, we'll ship it free of cost with no obligation to buy and five days to try it on at home. >> voila. >> and the response to that was terrific? >> so we were full-time students, we launched out of our apartment and we ended up getting featured in gq and vogue. then we hit our sales targets in three weeks and sold out of inventory and were staying up all night answering e-mails and phone calls. trying to make sure we graduated from business school at the same time. >> what's happening today in style and fashion end of glasses? >> i think glasses are having a fashion moment where people really are recognizing that they are a powerful form of self-expression. it's one of the only things you
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wear on your face and the type of glasses say who you are as a person. >> what do your glasses say about you, that you're wearing? please explain. >> all our glasses right now are acetate frames which are a little bit bolder and really -- >> won't admit it. but he uses this color to bring out his eyes. >> that is what i was thinking. that is what i was thinking. it is. >> take somebody like steve jobs. he was almost defined by those glasses were efficient, simple basic. the design obviously appealed to him. >> right. we wanted to make glasses affordable so people could own more than one pair. right now people in the u.s. tend to buy a new pair of glasses every time their prescription expires, every couple years. we think at $95 people can afford to own multiple pairs and you can wear different pairs with different outfits for different occasions. when you're in different moods. so we really wanted to turn glasses into a real accessory.
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>> they are. >> somebody is asking about the quality of your glasses versus the quality of those that they go to their optometrist to get. >> we use the exact same kind of premium materials, custom acetates, titanium. >> where are they manufactured? >> so we have a global supply chain where -- >> starts where? >> a lot of the raw materials come from an italian-owned family, frames in asia and the lens work done in the u.s. >> don't most of the glasses, guys, come from the same place? >> yeah. >> give me the numbers on that. there are maybe how many choices, but they're all made at the same place, are they not? >> what's crazy. it's a big industry about $17 billion a year. there's one company in particular that dominates it. a company that has -- they out right own oakley ray ban. they have licenses to call the big fashion brands like ralph lauren, chanel prada.
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they outright own the retail chains. pearl vision. >> that's the thing, charlie. depending on where you go you're paying x amount of dollars for the same glasses. what you also do in addition to your cool name of warby parker i love the name is that for every pair of glasses that are bought, then you donate to other people that don't have the -- that cannot afford glasses, true? >> exactly. one of the things that was important for us is to create a company that we were excited to come to work to every day. we recognize that there are hundreds of millions of people that don't have access to glasses. that has a profound impact on the ability to learn in the classroom and earn an income. we thought how can we -- we thought it was the most changeable way was to contribute a pair for every pair that we sell. we try and do that in a thoughtful way. we partner with this nonprofit called vision spring that trains low income men and women to start their own businesses giving eye exams and selling glasses in their communities. >> i love everything about it.
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i can't wait until you do the progression lenses fellas. >> thank you. >> putting it on the table. do with it what you will. thank you. congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> pleasure to have you here. for more than a week now, firefighters have been burning down houses in new york city to learn how to today's homes and furniture actually burn. we'll go inside
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there's more than one way to put out a fire. new york city's fire department is working on a series of experiments. >> they call them controlled burns. as michelle miller reports, it's to help i am proch their firefighting tactics. >> ignition in five, four, three, two, one. >> this isn't your average fire
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drill. it's a controlled burn of an abandoned roadhouse on new york city's governor's island. decked out with modern furniture to provide fuel for the blaze. cameras and computer equipment track what happens inside and out. >> each one of these lifl points is measuring a temperature so we can measure temperature floor to ceiling to see how it grows. >> what will that tell you in. >> that will tell us temperatures where it's safe for the firefighters to come in, what they are exposed to. >> in the past decades, firefighters have had less time to fight fires from within a home. homes are burning faster and hotter than ever. modern advances like weatherproof windows, pressed wood furniture and synthetic carpeting made it more dangerous for those fighting back the flames. >> so this couch here is what? synthetic? >> yes. this is a synthetic couch like anyone would have in their home. >> fire eats that up?
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>> fire eats that up. >> more quickly? >> yes, it will spread faster across that sofa release more energy. that means the firefighters have to be more innovative. >> engineers are trying to give firefighters more time inside buildings fully engulfed in flames. precious minutes that could ultimately save lives. >> 30 years ago, fires took 20 minutes to flash over oren gulf an entire area. today that critical point can be reached in as little as four minutes with temperatures jumping sharply from 250 to 1500 degrees in as little as ten seconds. a process we witnessed firsthand. >> we have flames out the window. so this room now has flashed over. we have flames from floor to ceiling in that room. >> in the real world, the danger facing firefighters became frighteningly clear in 2007 at a furniture store in charleston south carolina. in a matter of seconds a 42,000
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square foot showroom erupted in a flashover. nine firefighters lost their lives. >> a lot of people think that firefighters just show up and break everything and put the fire out. they have to think a lot more today. >> with these tests, researchers hope to find new ways to fight fires faster, while reducing the risk for the men and women whose job description is to step directly in harm's way. >> for "cbs this morning," michelle miller in new york. it's good to see they're doing things like this. >> for sure. they'll be ready in the event they're needed. >> are you a good shopper? >> yeah. >> do you need to ask that question, charlie rose? >> i'm a good sale and bargain shopper. that's why i'm excited about the glasses. i really am charlie. i bought some bootleg glasses in china. i'm not proud of it. but i did. to know -- >> why am i not surprised in. >> i like a good bargain. your local news is
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>> gunfire erupted in oakland's jack london square, sending five people to the hospital. police say somebody opened fire in front of the regal cinemas on washington street. victims are all in stable condition. police have made no arrests. an oakland man is recovering from minor injuries after his house caught fire this morning. he was cut as he climbed through a window to get out. the cause is under investigation. today, cal train starts testing its predictive arrival departure system which will tell passengers it there train will be on time and when it will arrive. by the end of the year, real
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time information will be available at the station or on line. the heat is on in the bay area or its soon will be >> we will crank up the temperatures over the next couple of days. clouds are going to part as we head to the afternoon. high pressure is building in and that will cranked up the temperatures. some of the numbers even today will be on a hot side. '70s and '80s around the bay. we will not get rid of the fog entirely. patchy fog at the beaches will keep the temperature's down. we will check out your time saver traffic, coming up next.
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>> here is a live look at one of the time saver traffic cameras at the bay bridge toll plaza where things have really thinned out. almost no delay right now heading towards the pay gate. here is a look at the nimitz through oakland, at the northbound lanes pass the coliseum are very sluggish towards downtown. an earlier wreck is now cleared and we still have cal train delays of 15-20 minutes.
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