>> mitt romney wrops up a three-day overseas tour. >> his presidential campaign still trying to recover from another gaffe. >> as mitt romney was leaving that monument, his traveling press secretary dressed down reporters trying to ask those questions. >> [ bleep ] this is a holy site to the polish people. show some respect. >> he had a sort of evil or diabolical presence to him. >> james holmes, the accused colorado movie theater gunman, formally charged with 24 counts of first degree murder, two for each victim. >> 116 counts of attempted murder. >> from india, a massive power failure has hit northern and eastern regions of the country. officials say 600 million people are without electricity. >> ultimately, the issue is not whther assad will step down. but when. and that will happen. >> missy franklin! is it gold? yes!

>> i had a blast with it. it was so much fun. >> they are all saying it's ok, it's ok. >> it's not ok. >> china. two olympic games in a row! >> a swimmer in massachusetts is recovering from a shark attack off of cape cod. the man was bitten in both legs. >> the proposal was on the scoreboard at center, but she was off getting beverages. >> all that -- >> did you breast feed? >> gosh. you're so annoying. >> barack obama's own story. >> let me finish. let me finish! >> don't scream. >> and all that matters. >> you cannot control the big dog. he goes where he wants to go and says what he wants to say. >> are you referring to me or bill clinton? >> there is nothing like the thrill of seeing team usa triumph in an internet headline, and then waiting to see it confirmed on nbc seven hours later. i mean, the suspense. captioning funded by cbs

republican presidential candidate mitt romney heads back to the u.s. today. he made one final speech in poland's capital this morning. >> critics are still focusing on controversial comments that romney said while in israel. jan crawford is covering the romney campaign in warsaw. >> reporter: romney spoke here earlier today and his remarks were full of praise and admiration for the polish people and their struggle for liberty. and then he went to see memorials dedicated to honoring that struggle. >> in a turbulent world, poland stands as an example and a defender of freedom. >> reporter: in warsaw, romney continued to suggest that if elected president, he would be a stronger defender of america's allies. >> i believe it's critical to stand by those who have stood by america. it is for us in this generation and beyond to show all the world what free people and free economies can achieve for the good of all.

>> reporter: he had a receptive audience for that message in poland when tensions escalated after president obama told medvedev he would have more flexibility in his second term. romney was invited to poland by a solidarity legend, who after their meeting endorsed him and implored him to win. he also met with other officials and greeted crowds that spilled onto the streets. >> beautifulment. >> reporter: but his warm welcome was overshadowed by comments at a fundraiser before leaving israel. talking to major donors, he described as what he sees as cultural differences between israel and the palestinian people that made israel more economically successful. a spokesman for palestinian leader mahmoud abbas called the comments racist. the white house saw an opening

to criticize romney. >> one of the challenges of being an actor on the international stage, particularly when you're traveling to such a sensitive part of the world, is that your comments are very closely scrutinized. and it is clear that there are some people who have taken a look at those comments and scratching their head a little bit. >> reporter: you're starting to see the frustration spill out. after romney visited the tomb of the unknown soldiers, reporters were asking about the palestinians and their reaction. his press secretary told them to be quiet and respectful. the questions persisted, and in the end the spokesperson told the reporters to shove it. he later called and apologized and said his comments were inappropriate. at the summer olympics this morning, vincent hancock won a gold in skeet shooting. and the performance of one

chinese swimmer is raising questions. >> the u.s. now has 18 medals take the lead over china with 17. but they have nine gold medals. the u.s. has six. japan is in third place with 11 medals, followed by italy and france. mark phillips is watching all the action from london and joins us now. mark? >> reporter: good morning, gayle. well, what would an olympics be without a doping scandal, and it seems we've got one. it involves a chinese swimmer whose results for some are too good to be true. it wasn't just that she won, it was how she won. yeshiwin's time was quicker than the men's winner, ryan lochte. one of the most respected swim coaches in the business, american john leonard, was quoted every time we see something unbelievable, history shows us that it turns out there was doping involved. ye herself credited chinese

training methods. it's an old argument. the london games have set up the most exhaustive drug testing program ever. all medal winners will be tested for 240 banned substances. but the dopers, if that's what they are, always seem a step ahead of the doping police. while controversy swirled around the pool, there was some american success in it. teenager missy franklin won gold in the 100 meter back stroke, and with her parents cheering from poolside, is looking like the future of u.s. swimming. >> just seeing my parents. i mean, it means the world to me they could be here. and i know that god has given me so much. for them to be here, and and them to watch and be with me and experience it, it's so special. >> reporter: it was an american one-two, with matthew grievers and nick fillman winning gold in the men's backstroke. but it was the bust in gymnastics where the u.s. team who qualified first finished a

disappointing fifth in the finals. the team event was won by, guess who, the chinese. and to finish on another controversial note, some american athletes have been complaining about not being able to promote their own sponsors because of an olympic rule that only official game sponsors can be show caycased here. >> the olympic ideal and the olympic reality are now different. >> remember when the olympics used to be about amateurs? that was the ideal then. now it appears to be about competing sponsorships. if we can digress and go back to the sports, michael phelps is poised on the cusp of history. if he wins his two events today, he'll become the most medaled olympian in history. he currently stands at 17. >> mark phillips, thank you. now with us, bill roden, sports columnist for "the new york times." first the chinese swimmer. what did you think of that? >> well, i think as mark was saying, this wouldn't be the

summer games unless you had a doping controversy. i'm always you're innocent until you're proven guilty. and i'm thinking about this, and i'm thinking maybe lochte needs to swim faster, you know. [ laughter ] >> but that's a problem. >> well, he swam pretty fast. >> well, maybe he swims not fast enough, obviously. [ laughter ] >> but, you know, we always look to these games through a u.s. centric prism. so of course it can't be that this young 16-year-old just turns out a great performance. it's that, you know, something had to be wrong with this, you know. >> give her the benefit of the doubt until we know otherwise. well said. >> yeah. >> how about michael phelps? do you give him the benefit of the doubt as well? >> well, you have to. but, you know, the issue we have in the united states is that we are marketing. we are best marketers on the planet. you know, which is why you have a lot of athletes complain about not being able to promote their sponsors.

and, you know, michael is in a kind of a terrible predicament in that, you know, you heard missy franklin, she was just so happy because she won. well, everybody is expecting phelps to win. so there's almost no joy. because if he wins, he's only doing what everybody is expecting him to do. so today is a huge day. if he does not win, and win kind of overwhelmingly, these two events, it's one thing, charlie, one thing for them to say, he is the most medaled person. but are they going to be saying he is the best swimmer in the world. and i think that's the thing. if he doesn't turn out a dominating performance today, we'll be saying, well, yeah, he's won more medals but he's not the greatest swimmer of all time. >> we'll be saying he had a great olympics in china. >> yeah. oh, gosh. he won a bronze. >> a bronze is still not a bad thing, bill. but i heard the phrase yesterday for the first time of phelps fatig fatigue. could that possibly be true? >> well, by the way, hey, gayle. >> hey.

>> you know what? yeah. but i think what -- i think that fatigue is that he's been carrying on his shoulders this whole mass of this weight of having to be not just great but just greater than imagination. you know, and i think a lot of times, particularly our athletes, because they are so hyped up, by the time they get to say the olympics, they are fatigued. they are just weary. and i think you're seeing ryan lochte have the same type of thing. it's one thing to be saying, oh, he is a good swimmer. but now all of a sudden you are expected to not just be good but great every time out. so, yeah, i do. i think that phelps is weary. but guess what? he's made a lot of money. come on, get over it. you know, suck it up. >> yeah, yeah. >> one last question here. >> i know that's harsh. >> would you be -- >> these are the olympics. >> would you be advising athletes to stop tweeting? >> it depends on what -- if i'm

their coach, absolutely. just cut it out. you had the u.s. soccer goalie get into a controversy. >> hope solo and brandy chastain, yeah. >> and how ridiculous is that? you know, she's telling brandi chastain how to do her job. in other words, don't criticize us. get onboard. brandi chastain is doing her job, basically offering a critique. and you've got our goalie twittering while she is supposed to be focusing on winning a gold medal. which, by the way, they haven't done. at least brandi chastain can say, well, you know what? we won the gold medal. you have not yet. so win something first. >> all right. thank you, my friend. colorado prosecutors threw the book at james holmes on monday. the alleged gunman in the aurora massacre was charged twice for each of the victims. 142 counts in all. >> we also heard from holmes in court for the first time.

he said one word, yes, when an upcoming hearing. as john blackstone reports, the courtroom was packed. >> reporter: with their wounds still bandaged, some of the victims of the theater shooting entered the colorado courtroom to see the accused gunman formally charged. this time, cameras were barred from the courtroom. but holmes seemed the different from his first appearance a week ago. maryellen hansen said she had to be there. >> it made me very resentful and angry that he would do this to so many people. >> reporter: hansen's niece is ashley mozer. she was shot in the neck and is paralyzed. she had a miscarriage, and her 6-year-old daughter, veronica, was the youngest person killed in the shooting. >> ashley is -- it's going to be a long recovery. ashley is very aware of what's going on right now. i think at this time, she has to receive it in little bits and pieces of things because it is such a shock. >> reporter: to keep the option

of pursuing either the death penalty or life in prison, prosecutors filed charges under two different state laws. the result is that for 12 deaths, holmes faces 24 charges of first degree murder. and 116 attempted murder charges for the 58 who were wounded. when told he could face the death penalty, holmes had no reaction. >> he had a poker face on the whole time. >> reporter: what was that like to see someone who has done so much harm to your family? >> he just seemed so cold blooded. very indifferent about human life. >> reporter: but the resilience of human life has also been seen. one victim has been released from the hospital, and one more off the critical list. a new report that may come out later this week, congressional republicans put much of the blame for the fast and furious gun tracking operation on five federal officials. as first reported by cbs news,

fast and furious tried to track thousands of guns from the u.s. to drug cartels in mexico. hundreds of weapons were lost, and some ended up at crime scenes. the report says that the former director of the tobacco and firearms had the opportunity to shut down the operation but did not. syria's government has stepped up its assault in aleppo. opposition troops are claiming a number of victories outside of the city, but casualties are growing and hundreds of thousands are fleeing the city. charlie dagata filed this report from inside syria. >> reporter: what's clear is that the battle for aleppo is raging on. what is less clear is who's winning. syrian state television said that syrian forces had recaptured the southwest part of aleppo. but what we've heard from a former colonel who defected just last week and is helping to coordinate the rebel effort there is that the rebels are holding strong. in fact, he says that they are making progress, going neighborhood by neighborhood. only finding resistance at

certain areas like government buildings and bridges. and then they are prone and vulnerable to snipers being hemmed in by heavy bombardment. but the rebels did score a victory just northwest of aleppo. they overran a government outpost, and they captured something between eight and 10 tanks. a lot of trucks with ammunition and weapons desperately needed weapons. and more importantly it also opens up a strategic supply line, potentially between turkey and aleppo that they have been fighting for. now we've heard a series of explosions in this area. residents here have suggested that it was in retaliation for overrunning that government outpost. but what we heard from rebel forces, what it actually was, was the those very tanks being used against the syrian army. time to show you some of the this morning's headlines from around the globe. a report on india's second giant

blackout in two days. power grids collapsed in northern and eastern india, leaving 600 million people without electricity this morning. monday's similar power outage affected more than 300 million indians one of ireland's most beloved authors died yesterday after a short illness. she sold more than 40 million books worldwide during her career. several of her books, including "tara road," were bestsellers in america. youtube is ready to invest more money on special channels. youtube's owner, google, has already spent $150 million to start new online channels. some are drawing viewers and advertisers so google will invest another $200 million to upgrade and promote them. and a new shark scare this morning. a swimmer says he was bitten on the legs on monday. sun bathers on the shore saw a

large black fin in the water with him. doctors say he will not lose any limbs. that's good news. another dangerous heat wave is hovering over the heartland. heat advisories and warnings will be in effect all this week in eight different states, including arkansas, oklahoma, and louisiana. we've already seen record high heat and dangerous droughts across the country. david bernard is the chief meteorologist at our miami station, cbs 4. david, hello to you. two questions. how bad will it get, and when will it end? >> it's hard to believe it will get much worse than it's been for most of the summer. let's start by looking at where the hottest temperatures are going to be today. and again, it's across the midwest. dallas, 106. we're going for 109 in oklahoma city. look at little rock. 108. now the heat at this time is not reaching chicago for now. only 86 there. st. louis, boy, has it been a rough summer. temperatures around 103. now a real key component of this

drought is soil moisture. how dry is it out there? and when we take a look at this map, that's going to indicate that the same areas where we're seeing the most intense heat right now, where this heat wave is really going to be centered, that's where the soil is the driest. where you see the colors in orange and red. and that's important for a couple of reasons because when you get that low soil moisture, it promotes too things. high temperatures and low rainfall. and it just creates a vicious cycle. and those two things feedback on one another. and until we get a big change in this weather pattern, guys, i don't think that these high temperatures and drought conditions are going to improve that much. >> well, you said it best at the top, david. 109. that is bad. that is bad. >> pretty bad. >> thank you, sir. in tucson, people there are still cleaning up following a strong weekend rain storm. the rain and flooding that followed washed away roads and stranded several cars. more than dozens of homes were damaged, and three people had to be resqued by helicopter. the bad news more rain is

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>> we will start off with a live look at the nimitz through oakland. completely cleared out with no signs of the earlier accident. elsewhere we're starting to see some real delays coming through the altamont pass. all lanes are back open on westbound 205 approaching grant line road. at the bay bridge the metering lights are on but the delays are only to the end of the parking lot. >> lots of sunshine right now, a few patches of fog out at the coast line. the temperatures are going to get caught in the valleys. '50s and '60s right now although santa rosa is at 49 degrees. by the afternoon, as high as 94 in livermore. mid-80s toward san jose, 74 in

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i declare the sport of the summer dressage. the grateful interplay of man and beast. but legal. i've been a lifelong fan of dressage ever since a month ago when i learned that the romneys own a horse who is in london for these olympics. >> i have to tell you, this is ann's sport. i'm not even sure which day the sport goes on. >> mitt is jazzed. he just doesn't know that much about the sport. when is it on? what's it called? what's the horse? whis that woman always hanging out with me at the breakfast table? >> welcome back. dressage. >> got it. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning."

>> for years now, new york city mayor michael bloomberg has led efforts to restrict everything from indoor smoking to shug sugar-filled sodas. critics call it regulation run amok. the latest, he is targeting hospitals and baby formula. >> good morning. yes, it is baby formula. the citywide initiative is called latch on nyc, pushing moms to breast feed by limiting access to baby formula. and it's only the latest in a series of health initiatives by the mayor. first, it was transfats. then smoking. then sugary drinks. now new york city mayor michael bloomberg is going after the baby bottle. >> most of the public health officials around the country think that this is a great idea. >> reporter: beginning appropriately enough on labor day, 27 out of 40 new york city hospitals will keep infant formula under lock and key, encouraging more moms to breast

feed. mothers won't be denied formula, but those who want it will have to hear about the benefits of breast feeding. >> a mother has enough pressure on her just having a new baby and giving birth the first time. she shouldn't have to worry about explaining her choices to anybody. >> reporter: the american academy of pediatrics recommends that mothers breast feed exclusively for the first six months. in new york, 90% of mothers start out only breast feeding. but by the time the baby reaches two months, that figure drops to 31%. >> we encourage breast feeding. so what we try to do is to educate our parents. >> reporter: flushing hospital is participating in the latch on nyc program. >> we certainly want what's best for the babies. we want to prevent them from being ill and being admitted into the hospital. no one wants their newborn baby to be sick. >> reporter: in the past, critics have lampooned the mayor's health initiative, and

this time some moms think he's gone too far. >> i don't think it should be something that, you know, that is legislated by the government, obviously. the mother should have that choice. >> reporter: but bloomberg says that mothers will still have that choice. >> if they can do it, that's great. if they can't, they can't. our job is we're not making anybody do it. we're suggesting. and the same thing with full sugar drinks. >> reporter: under the program, participating hospitals will also enforce the requirement to provide formula for medical reasons only. keep track of the number of bottles used monthly, and stop handing out free formula. and instead of formula ads, many moms will see this, a poster promoting the advantages of breast feeding. >> all these things add up. everything helps a little bit. >> reporter: more initiatives could be coming. bloomberg told reporters monday he's always looking for new ways to improve people's health. >> the fact that 8.4 million people in new york city are living three years longer, and

you don't think that's something to brag about, i don't know what else to tell you. >> jeffrey klugger is joining us. here is the question. breast feeding is good for you? >> absolutely. >> some children may not do it easily. >> definitely. >> the mayor says you have a choice. >> right. >> he is just pointing out the benefits of breast feeding. what's the problem? >> well, the problem is that when women have just given birth, they are in a uniquely susceptible, uniquely suggestible and fatigued position. so they don't necessarily know that if formula isn't offered to them that they have the freedom to ask. there's nothing wrong with making the default position breast over formula. but when you make the default, the woman must ask, rather than the option being offered to her, i think then you make -- you add one more hurdle in the difficulty of -- >> so if you said to the new mother, formula is available, if breast feeding is not for you, you'd be happy. >> absolutely. i think that makes a real difference.

between this and the soda ban is that in the case of sodas, you're only hurting yourself. in the case of secondhand smoke, in the case of breast over bottle, there's a second person involved. the baby's involved. so it is important for health officials to take a look at this. >> but we just heard the mayor say, jeff, he is always looking for ways to keep us healthy. >> right. >> and some people aren't doing the right job in their own lives in keeping us healthy. so do you think that this is an overreach on his part? >> well, the question always becomes how far have we overreached. we embrace the idea of food and drug administration keeping our foods pure and safe. we embrace the idea that there are electrical standards your house has to meet before someone is allowed to live in it. so for the state to step in and say these are the guidelines, is a very good idea. to mix metaphors a little, when the guideline becomes too high a speed bump, i think that's when it becomes intrusive. so if this new policy is finessed just slightly, i think it will be spot on. >> new york city, by the way, is not alone in this.

you have massachusetts and rhode island both outlawing sending new moms home with baby formula. it used to be that they sent new moms home with a little welcome packet. and it's interesting, jeffrey, because one of the reasons that they say they are doing that is not to promote the commercial interests of the baby formula providers. but then the question becomes, well, you send patients home with clar tin. you send patients home with multiple other drugs. >> that's true. >> if this is about commercial interest, then shouldn't there be a blanket rule? >> yes, there should. and i think it would be a good idea to look at that in that situation. certainly doctors as well are no longer allowed to give branded merchandise to display on their desks in order to influence patients. again, i think it's especially important here because when you have come out of the hospital -- and this is the case with fathers too, but of course they haven't gone through what the mothers have gone through. you're sleep deprived. you're facing an overwhelming

new responsibility. you're highly suggestible. if you put a mug in front of mother and it said simmilac or whatever else it is, that is probably the brand that woman will use for the next two years. >> and there are two big ones, enfamil and similac, and it's the kind of thing that we will likely be hearing from these companies on. we reached out to them for comment and haven't heard from them yet. but we likely will hear from them because in a time like this where companies are trying to make more sales, where the consumer has pulled back somewhat, they are going to make the argument that this is a problem for their business, and they might even attach it to jobs. >> sure. absolutely. and that's a legitimate concern. but, again, i think the issue becomes making it clear to mothers that we are behind whatever choice you make. if the woman feels that when she's in the hospital that there's any judgment attached,

that -- "the new york post," it's a famously provocative newspaper, but the way they framed it is that a woman will get a talking to if she requests formula. that's clearly not the case. but if the woman even feels resistance or judgment associated with her requesting formula, that's a problem. and that's unfair. >> yeah. >> talking to never good. >> never good. >> it is a risky it is a risky combination,

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in today's health watch, dangerous heat. as we told you earlier, this summer's latest heat wave is temperatures to a dozen or more cities in the midwest. it could even reach 109 in oklahoma city. it's happening at the same time that many schools are starting their football practice. >> those first few days on the field can be dangerous. just last week a 15-year-old collapsed and died after football drills on new york's statin island. cheryl atkinson talked to two families who lost their sons in the heat. >> reporter: florida high school football star was already 16. he had an athletic scholarship

from notre dame. a 6'3", 280 pound powerhouse. last summer on his first two addai practice in stifling heat, eye see a collapsed and died. >> i just don't understand how this happened because, you know, my son was in the hospital prior -- the year prior. he was hospitalized for heat exhaustion. >> with the same coaches? >> yes. >> at the same school? >> yes. i still don't understand how do you allow it to happen a second time. >> days later georgia high school football star d.j.searsey succumb to a grueling three addai practice schedule at a football camp. the last time his parents saw d.j. alive it was in this photo a fellow player texted to his mother's phone. carlton was d.j.'s dad. >> one of the kids had taken a picture of our son laying on the floor and he told us that you need to check on your baby. but we still hadn't heard from the coaches. no one even when we tried to

call the coaches, no one would answer the phone. >> later they learned he'd also collapsed after practice the night before and allegedly got no medical attention. authorities in both cases blame other conditions, not the heat. isiah had a sickle cell trait and they claim d.j. had another condition. the parents disagree. today they're announcing lawsuits. at least 78 football players in the u.s. have died from heat-related causes since 1975, seven last year alone. attorney benjamin crump represents isiah and d.j.'s families. >> the nfl, the ncaa have more guidelines, more protections to protect adults than high schools have to protect children and that's simply not acceptable. every doctor has said these deaths are completely avoidable. these children are dying because people aren't watching the

signs. >> reporter: experts say if heat victims are immersed in a cold bath within 10 minutes of collapse, they all survive. michael ferrara says all states should adopt guidelines from the national athletic trainers association. >> the first five days of football practice or of any practice for that matter, there's a maximum of two hours and no equipment except for a helmet in the sport of football. >> reporter: only seven states have adopted the safety guidelines which include having an athletic trainer and an ice bath on site. >> there's no win that's worth the life of my child or anyone's child actually. he paid the ultimate price. >> i just wish i had my son here, you know? >> reporter: georgia passed the safety guidelines only after d.j.'s death. >> nice and slow. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," sharyl attkisson,

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>> good morning everyone. the man charged with kidnapping and killing in morgan hill teenager has a court appearance today san jose hall of justice. it is a plea hearing although a plea is not expected. prosecutors believe he murdered 15 year-old sierra lamar although no remains have been found. berkeley city council members will consider a plan not to close the main post office. the facility has been operating for 97 years but the financially troubled post office trend to,,,

>> it is a great commute so far at the bay bridge. basically no delays right now. the metering lights remain on. let's go to the maps a week and show you we are dealing with smaller incidents around the bay. slow on highway 85 as you approach highway 17. sluggish on 280 heading out of downtown san jose but the nimitz is just party to get a little bit slower. >> we do have a couple of patches of fog out towards the coast line, otherwise looking good. russian hill is disappearing into the clouds there. 67 degrees at fairfield, 64 in

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♪ > i' i'm really glad that you're asking me these types of questions. >> why is that? >> it's important that you know exactly what you're getting. >> do you think she's ready to be president? >> i don't think she's going to be ready on january 20th but i think she has the smarts to get there eventually. >> bottom line. >> high risk. >> high reward. >> you shouldn't have told me that. >> why not? >> i've been risk taker all my life. >> i remember that movie "high risk high reward."

"game change" shows us what it takes to check out a potential vice presidential candidate. it's 8:00. i'm gayle king. >> i'm charlie rose. mitt romney will have to choose his running mate sometime in the next six weeks so we can be sure some potential candidates are going through the vetting process right now. >> jason zengerlee is a contributing editor for "gq" mag a zone. >> how are you. >> this was a description. it's like having a colonoscopy except they use a hubble telescope on you. i thought, yikes, did it hurt? >> i was uncomfortable, i would put it that way. they ask for everything from your tax records to your college transcripts, your s.a.t. scores, that stuff is somewhat uncomfortable. where it gets really uncomfortable is some of the personal questions. >> like? >> have you always been faithful to your wife? >> and the answer was? >> yes.

even though i could answer the questions comfortably, it was still uncomfortable. have you ever paid for sex are there any sex tapes. >> no. no. >> do you think people tell the truth on all these questionnaires? >> i think -- i think the -- it's built on a good faith assumption that you're going to tell the truth because i think the belief is the truth will eventually come out. pthe campaigns do this vetting because they don't want to be caught unprepared. they want to know everything there is to know so when it does come out they're prepared to respond. so i think that, you know, there's no -- there's no -- there's no way to force these people to tell the truth but i think the hope is that they will because if they don't it's going to come back to bite them. >> how do they ask the questions? are they uncomfortable when they're asking? what is it like? >> it's very matter of fact. it's almost the way a doctor would ask a question, i think. there's no -- there's no sort of hint of the awkwardness on their part. they're just there to get the facts. my vetter for the story was a

lawer named ted frank. i think you saw in that "game change" clip. he vetted sarah palin. that was his experience. he asked the questions very matter of factually. >> is it different from the kinds of things that you prepare for for a confirmation hearing than what you're asked to produce for a confirmation hearing? >> it's similar. it's more invasive. >> in terms of the personal aspect? >> just in terms of the thoroughness of it. i think it's very similar but it goes even further. it's really like nothing else in politics. we know much more about the vice presidential candidates than -- we don't know but the campaigns know much more about it than you ever do about a presidential candidate. the presidential candidate manages to avoid this process. it's the vice presidential candidate that goes through it. >> dick cheney has suggested that perhaps the sarah palin process was less than perfect. >> it's a little ironic coming from cheney since he picked himself in 2000. the palin process in hindsight was less than perfect. his is something ted franks says in my story. he did it. he said that they found

everything there was to be found and they gave that information to the political people in the mccain campaign. they thought the high risk, high reward scenario. they weren't caught unaware such as trooper gate. >> the pregnancy. >> they knew that bristol was pregnant. the mccain people thought it was still worth doing. it's a question of whether the vet was unsuccessful. >> what would be interesting here is to have -- you can't do this, is to find out how certain presidential nominees have disqualified certain potential vice presidential nominees and on what base zblis yeah. you're never going to find that out because the dwsh it's guarded with such secrecy. no one would agree to the vetting process if they suspected this would leak out. you only go into it with the assumption that it's going to be kept confidential because you really are opening up your entire life to them. >> do you know if they've changed the vetting process after they went through sarah palin? i was reading that after every

candidate once they learn something, then the rules change. >> yeah. that's a problem with the vetting process. you're always vetting for the last problem and you're not really aware of the one that's going to come down the pike. i think with sarah palin there was always the assumption before this that if you were up for vice presidency you probably knew a fair amount about the world, it would be -- you could assume that they knew something about current events. now there will be a current events question on these vice presidential -- >> i would assume there would be a lot more. of all the kinds of questions that got sarah palin in trouble would be questions they wanted to make sure they had a firm grasp on. >> i think that's exactly right. >> do we know anything about romney's vetting process so far and who he might be talking to other than he's announced marco rubio? >> no. beth meyers, who's one of his long-time aides, she's running it. they're keeping it very quiet, very hush hush. i think there's a lot of speculation as to who's on the list but there's nothing official from the romney campaign about it. that's the way these things have been run in the last 12 years. you pick someone who has a lot

of, you know, trust from the candidate and they're in charge of it. >> this reminds me, we had a segment does the cia have someone who can determine whether somebody is lying. whether you include somebody like that there. almost as a personal lie detector test. you're suggesting you think people always tell the truth because they believe in the confidentiality of the process? >> yes. i think you have to. ambition is a strange thing, but i think that you can't -- you can't assume that your lie is going to, you know, not get caught at some point. >> there is in history a story, a man who became president and some of the powers that came to be. the king makers came to see him. is there anything in your record that would disqualify you we should know about. he said, let me go in the other room. he went in the other room to think about it. he came back later and he said, no, nothing. he was elected and he was later disqualified and embarrassed by whatever they turned up. >> why do you suppose that the process is so rigorous since

conventional wisdom says they don't pick a candidate based on the vice presidential choice. >> it's damage control. if you pick a terrible vice presidential candidate that could harm you. i think sarah palin is the cautionary tale there. you're trying to not do any damage. that's what the vetting process is really about, making sure you don't, you know, pick someone who's going to blow up later on. >> finally, what was the hardest question for you to answer. >> i didn't remember what my s.a.t. scores were. >> that was it? that was the hardest question for you? >> he's got a much cleaner life. >> you're doing okay. so if the opportunity presented itself, i guess, jason zengerlee, you could pass.

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nbc edited nbc edited out of those opening ceremonies a dance tribute to the victims of the 7/7 london subway bombings. they ran a ryan seacrest interview with swimmer ryan phelps. >> why would you do that. >> nbc sports issued this statement saying our program is tailored for the u.s. television audience. >> if everything in the olympics happened for the u.s. audience,

instead of a parade of nations, 99% aren't in america, don't show us all 200 countries, give us the all lebron parade. instead of just 007 picking up the queen, why not have ram bow sto ranbo storm the place and pick up some american royalty. that's what i'm talking about. seriously. >> seriously. he has a way of putting it in perspective. how many times have you seen somebody on the street texting or talking on a smartphone with their head down? they can be a serious danger to themselves and certainly to others. >> the latest government figures show pedestrian deaths in america rose by 4.2% last year. injuries shot up 19%. seth doan is here to show us what officials are doing to stop it. good morning. >> good morning to you. >> injuries to distracted walkers have quadrupled in the past seven years according to emergency room numbers. that's likely a low estimate. because either patients don't admit a cell phone was involved

or doctors don't include that sort of detail on hospital reports. safety experts say distracted walking is a growing problem. >> as a nation we send 12.2 million texts a month in 2000. by 2009 we send 135 billion a month. so many it seems we barely have time for anything else. so we multi-task. or at least we try to. posted online reveal that could mean walking into fountains or upstaging a reporter's live shot. then there are the far more serious missteps. this video shows a distracted man talking on his cell phone near a philadelphia area train station. he stumbles and falls under the tracks. luckily no train was approaching at the time. more than 1100 people wound up in hospital emergency rooms in the last year for injuries caused when walking and using a cell phone or electronic device.

>> if you are yo' on the phone, if you're text messaging, if you're browsing the internet, our research shows that increases your risk by being hit by a car. >> reporter: proifr david schibel shows the problem. they can gauge response time and human error when crossing the street and texting. >> what's happening in our brains when we're texting and walking? >> walking actually involves a fair amount of complexity. our brain has to work hard to walk safely, especially near traffic. our brain also has to work hard to text message. it has to think about what you're reading, how to respond, ow to type. brains can only handle so much. if we give the brain too much to do, mistakes can happen. >> reporter: that's what fortly, new jersey, police chief found. his suburban community located outside of new york city, 40 pedestrians have been struck by vehicles already this year. >> people are texting on their

cell phones and their ipods and they're not paying attention. >> reporter: so this spring the chief dusted off an anti-jay walking law that's been on the books since the 1950s. he told his officers to hand out $54 tickets to deter people from crossing the street illegally while texting. a number of municipalities have tried other methods. a no texting ordinance at crosswalks in idaho. painted crosswalks in delaware. padded lamp posts in london. there's even an iphone app that displays the road below but that doesn't do much for peripheral vision. >> looking up and she's in the middle of the street. >> she's shading her phone to see better. she's really putting herself at risk. >> reporter: we asked the professor to show us what worries him at a busy new york city intersection. >> all of us think that we can handle it, that we can text and walk at the same time. can some of us? >> good question. we do think that we're good at crossing the street and texting.

our research suggests that it doesn't matter how experienced you are. even the most experienced text messagers in our study made mistakes when they're distracted in crossing the virtual road. >> oh, my gosh. i think you need to try that again. >> now those of us who text receive on average more than 40 texts a day. and i'm guilty of this. i'm not just the reporter, i'm totally guilty in this distracted texting. >> i can relate. >> i can think of the number of times each day you walk down the street and you see somebody that doesn't see you and they're walking right at you. >> absolutely. that's one of the things the professor said. we can look up when we cross the road. we're looking at traffic but if we're still texting, we're not really paying attention. our brains are not really engaged. he said, think of it like a glass of water. you're thinking about the weather, the emotion involved with the text and then crossing the street and a driver comes and it just overflows. >> so this is a serious injury question? >> absolutely. >> i thought you said it well in

the piece, seth, when you said everybody thinks you can do it. rub your head, do it at the same time, walk and chew gum. the thing that frustrates me about this, it is 100% preventible. it doesn't have to happen. >> put down the phone, right. we all do it. we're always, always zblsh should we encourage conduct or by law? >> charlie, i know. i'm very weary of nanny state. i think ultimately it may have to be a law. we are not going to change. >> that's why i was asking about the number. is it an alarming rise in the number of injuries? >> it is. >> yeah. >> quadrupling. >> cars when people are distracted by doing it. we know that. >> a lot of the experts said it's like with cell phones, for a long time we knew there was a problem with driving and cell phone use. people weren't keeping track of the numbers. now people are starting to report. >> all right. to be continued for sure. thank you, seth doan. d.l. hughley is famous for speaking his mind and making us laugh. does he text and walk at the same time? i'll bet he has. he's here to tell us why he

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now, some people are saying that the reason michael phelps isn't doing so well is because he let himself get too out of shape. now, i just have to say, i've been watching the olympics. if that guy's out of shape, i've been dead for five years. >> good point. >> yes, he does. telling us everything about the olympics, maybe too much. >> we'll show you how social media is throwing a monkey wrench into the london games. your local news is next. we'll take a look at the olympic games as we continue watching the festivities in london and understanding our performance in this extraordinary spectacle, young people coming to london to try to find out, are they the

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>> let's get you caught up with some of the bay area had lines. in about an hour the man charged with kidnapping and killing sierra lamar returns to court. antolin garcia-torres was arrested in may. prosecutors do not expecting to enter a plea. sierra lamar disappeared from her home this past march. three men have been shot and killed in the past two days in visitation valley. two of the murders happened yesterday afternoon. on sunday, another man was shot and killed. police believe they all may be

gang-related. if fire breaking out this morning at a popular barbecue restaurant in berkeley. the damage is minimal at everett and jones. the cinderblock construction prevented the flames from spreading. the exact,,,,,,,,,,,,

>> a heavy commute right now through milpitas, west down 237. a lot of brake lights leaving milpitas toward san jose. the problem might be northbound 101 in menlo park. elsewhere, let's go towards the san mateo bridge where you can see things are looking good in both directions. we have really not seen any major back up at the bay ridge all morning. an easy commute into san francisco. >> lots of sunshine around the bay area today and looking good over san francisco. more sunshine as we had through the afternoon. 67 in fairfield, 56 in santa rosa. this afternoon, some hot 90 showing up in the valley.

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." a doctor at washington university in st. louis is making a very important transition from doctor to patient. dr. lukas wartman was diagnosed with cancer after dweegt his life to studying the disease that had no known cure. so, a group of doctors got together and convinced wartman to try something that had never been done before. >> i don't know that i'm a special doctor or a special patient or a little bit of both. i'm a leukemia doctor studying leukemia who has also been battling the disease for now

almost a decade. that last year in medical school, i was diagnosed with acute leukemia. my doctors were all optimistic that the leukemia had been cured by the chemotherapy alone, but at the end of my first year of oncology fellowship, i started having kind of the same symptoms again but was treated with chemotherapy and the leukemia promptly went into remission again. the next two years was feeling pretty good. and then last summer, i just started again. >> my league, tim ley, called me on the phone and said lukas has relapsed, we've got to figure out something to do. and we both very quickly agreed, you know, we need to think about if we can get him into this study and actually sequence his genome. >> and it took me a second to answer "yes." >> genetic sequencing essentially means that we take a very close look at the information that's encoded in

every one of our body cells. we all have the genome. these collections of dna basically encode who we are and how we work. so, this is a technique that we've applied. and in the last few years, to try and understand what goes wrong in certain types of cancer. and if we can figure that out for every patient, it may give us some clues as to how best to treat that particular patient. do they need a bone marrow transplant? do they simply need a different type of chemotherapy? we actually found a gene that was turned on way, way more than it should have been in a normal cell, about 800 fold more than it should have been. and even more excitingly, one of my research associates, a guy named malachi griffith, actually found out that there was a drug that we could possibly use to turn that gene off. >> i had been very fortunate and my last bout of leukemia to have been in the right place at the right time, so, in that way, i

guess i'm special. >> and we welcome dr. lukas wartman and dr. john dipersio, one of dr. wartman's physicians. thank you for coming here. how do you feel? >> i feel okay. i'm still pretty fatigued, is my main complaint, but otherwise, i feel generally pretty well. >> and about your future, you say it's unchartered waters. >> yeah. i grow more optimistic by the day, as i'm able to work more, get back in the swing of things, of doing the research that i do, and hopefully, i'll be seeing patients again soon. >> it's an extraordinary story of a man who has dedicated his life to cancer research. and in the very speciality that he has, he discovers that he has the disease. >> that's right. >> remarkable. and today, we find that, and it's a story of science, that

science now offers possibilities that you might not have imagined when you began your medical studies, for sure. >> yeah, this technology wasn't available just ten years ago when i was finishing up medical school. >> tell me about genome sequencing and where it might be leading us in medicine. >> well, i think that it's still at the discovery phase, because we're not used to handling hundreds of millions of data points. so, normally, when you diagnose a patient, you get a few bits of clinical information, you prognosticate or you assess the prognosis of the patient and then proceed with therapy. in this case, the discovery platform is almost infinite. there are literally billions of bits of information generated, so you have to unravel the discovery platform and move forward. it's going to be complicated. >> okay, but let's understand why there's excitement about this. i mean, this was a huge front-page story in "the new york times," and the medical community knows about it.

leukemia is one of those places where there's breakthrough. >> so, we think we're making progress. we're understanding the genetics and genomics of leukemia, and we started probably -- we had a little bit of a head start over other tumors because tumors are accessible in the bone marrow and the blood, so we could access them. and we asked them specific and pointed questions about what the genetics and genomics were, and we actually set out to answer these questions using very complicated and technically challenging platforms, including dna sequencing, and -- >> and as a medical technique, genome sequencing will soon cost about $1,000 within several years. >> it's still expensive, but it may be less expensive in the future, in the order of several thousand dollars, but the challenge will be the informatics analysis, the handling of all this information which will have to be automated for this to be cheap in the future. >> how fast could we have the capacity to make this kind of thing available? >> well, i think in two or three

years, even without all the money in the world, it's going to happen that we're going to do extensive genomic analyses of most patients with cancer. >> of any kind. >> of any kind. >> am i going too far to say that we are on the precipice of developing ways to treat cancer that we have not had before and offering hope to millions of people over the next five years? >> yes. >> i'm going too far or not? >> you're not going too far, but we have to be careful. this is going to be still for the next few years a work in progress. there's a lot of information and work that has to be done to figure out what all these mutations mean and how to intervene. >> obviously, this is dramatic, because your research and you're living with the disease, you know, that you were studying. how did you -- tell me about the emotion of all that. >> it's hard to describe. i mean, my life is just really

wrapped up and wrapped around leukemia, and there's no kind of separation now between my personal life and my professional life. so, in a way, it's surreal still thinking about myself having this disease, just because i kind of tend to think about taking care of patients, doing research, and that's really what i want my focus to be, rather than thinking about my own, you know, problems or my own prognosis. >> and what's the best thing that your prognosis might be? that you would eradicate leukemia as a disease that you're living with? >> mm-hmm. >> and is it bigger than 50/50, do you think? >> right now? >> yeah. >> for myself personally? >> mm-hmm. >> it's hard to say. i really think that we're in unchartered waters, using a novel therapy that hasn't been tested in other patients with my disease.

so far, the transplants has shown that i have an indication that i could perhaps be citing the tumor, so i think everything is -- >> it's a good sign. >> yeah, exactly. so, we're cautiously optimistic, but it's too hard i think to pinpoint an exact number. i mean, there still is a pretty serious threat that the leukemia could come back. >> and yet, at the same time, you're one of the pioneers of where we might be in terms of leading in cancer. >> yeah, so, he may actually be part of how anyone's recurrent leukemia's treated in the future. god forbid it's his own, but anyone's, so we want to keep lukas around because he's going to be contributing to our understanding of this disease and better treatments in the future. >> thank you for coming. extraordinary stuff. thank you. >> thank you. >> good luck to you. >> thank you. d.l. hughley is here in

studio 57. he says america has a dope problem.,,

♪ hey, d.l. hughley truly is the king of comedy. his unapologetic point of view has made him one of the most popular comics of tv, radio and film. his brand-new book is called, well, "i want you to shut the *bleep- up: how the audacity of dopes is ruining america." d.l. hughley is here in the studio. hey, d.l. hughley. >> hey, girl. you look lovely in that green. >> thank you very much. i'm thinking it's a catchy title, but did you have to go there? >> sure. >> of all the titles, why that one? >> because that's what i say at home when i see somebody sounding off. like when i watch tv and they go, why doesn't this dude just shut up? and plus, i just wanted to see

if i could get you to say it on national tv. >> yes, and you cannot. but see, you raise an interesting question, that you sit and you look at tv and say why don't they stop talking, but you also say there's a difference between disrespect and disagreement. >> sure. >> so, when you use language like "shut the "f" up", that's not disrespect and disagreement. it sort of goes against what you want to do. >> it's a conversation i had with myself as the title of the book. when i'm having dialogue with somebody, i'm certainly respectful of their opinions, but if they go somewhere, i'm not uncomfortable going there, too. i think what tends to happen is people feel so secure and so certain that they're right, so therefore, you must be wrong. and so, they feel inclined to disrespect you because they feel on some levels superior to you. >> but at an early edge, d.l., you said that from the time you stepped on the stage with a microphone -- >> right. >> -- it for you was like breathing. it's sort of like the light showed up in your life. >> absolutely. >> you knew you were at home on stage because why? >> because you know, coming from where i came from, and i think this is a typical story, i feel

bad for the cats that used to have a lot of money and girls, because i knew that i would do something, and i just waited for that call. and when i picked up the microphone, i instantly knew this is what i had been waiting for my entire life, and it was deja vu. i think it saved my life. i'm in love with comedy. >> because? >> because -- >> because? >> i imagine, in some cultures, if something saves your life, you're indebted to it forever, and i think that's what comedy did. >> here you are in fifth grade -- >> right. >> clearly, you got in a little bit of trouble. >> a little bit. my mother's calling out right now, a little bit? >> but your teacher changed your life. >> yeah, yeah. >> you said you learned how to learn because he -- what did he say? >> he said never be -- i was, you know, i think i had a typical experience where you were supposed to be seen and not heard. >> yes. >> and you would always hear just do as "say and not as i question, don't ask why. and that was drummed into my

head because i was a bit of a smart mouth. and i was in the midst of -- he was saying something and i started to ask a question and i said, oh, i'm not supposed to ask why. he said always ask why. and that's probably the way i look at the world. >> you also pride yourself, too, on always telling the truth. and one of the truths you said in the book -- i read it and i went, oh, he can't possibly mean this -- what you said about bullying. you were bullied as a kid. >> yes. >> and you believe that bullying is actually a good thing. >> i don't believe it's a good thing, i think it's a thing that exists and you have to adjust to it. >> but you said it's not really a bad thing. good things can come out of bullying, you said. that's where i lost you. >> well, you're a woman, i imagined i would. but the poem, my head is bloody, but i am enbowed, that is about having a turmoil and standing through it. what the problem is, is that we don't learn that we can stand up for ourselves. every person, whoever you are, is going to have a fight, physical, emotional. you are going to have to get through something or someone. >> mm-hmm. >> whether you want to or not.

women would like to have the world be a nice, gentile place. it isn't. >> i'm well aware, yeah. >> you have to lose to win, you have to understand who you are and what capacity you have, and nobody teaches you like that, teaches you you that. >> you even take that into politics. you say, for instance, president clinton could probably give good advice to president obama. how so? >> look, he was defeated, a young governor, was defeated, came back and won again. let me tell you something, it takes stones to get fired from your job and still come back to work the next day. like, he was impeached and acted like nothing ever happened. and i think that he had to a greater or lesser degree been bullied and seen what kind of capacity he had. i think that president obama is a good man, hasn't -- when joe wilson called him a liar -- >> he lied during the state of the union address. >> i think that a person who had been bullied would have

understood what that moment called for, i do. >> and what should he have done, in your opinion? >> the president of the united states said i am elected as the president of the united states of america. you don't have to respect me, but respect the office. remove him from the premise. i believe bullies look for weakness and try to exploit them, and his presidency became different then. they believed they had a point of attack. >> you also, you said you also credit your dad to some extent, even though you didn't have a good relationship with your dad. >> he was my father. like -- >> he was your dad, but you said you didn't have a close relationship with him. >> well, it's hard to be comfortable with a man who doesn't know how to get close to you, but he was a man i respected and do respect greatly. >> how did he influence you to become the father you are today? you have three children. >> yes. i love my sons and my children and am more affectionate than he was, but i believe that he taught me, gave me the greatest lesson in the world -- stand up for yourself and work harder than everybody else. and i think that there are certainly a lot more people that

are a lot more talented than me. i defy a person to work harder. >> you certainly do that. the author of your book, d.l. hughley, "i want you to shut the *bleep- up: how the audacity of dopes is ruining america." very interesting, very well done. >> thank you. >> very well done. >> thank you. >> thank you. the new olympic motto may be faster, higher, stronger. twitter, almost sounded like the kanye west song. we'll look at the problem of social media at the summer games on "cbs this morning." [ female announcer ] with swiffer wet

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his twitter account suspended after complaining about nbc's coverage of the games. bigad shaban is in london with a look at the brave, new world of social media and sports. bigad, good morning. >> reporter: charlie, good morning. twitter, like the olympics, is about bringing a diver's world closer together, but this olympics, the first since twitter exploded in popularity, has been marred by thoughtless twits. swiss soccer player michelle morganella was booted from the games for this nasty tweet, calling koreans a bunch of mongaloids. this came after his team was defeated. now his olympic dream, like his twitter account, is no longer available. he clearly didn't talk to voula papachristou before hitting the stand. the athlete now regrets a tweet she sent before the opening ceremony, writing "with so many africans in greece, the west mile mosquitos will be getting

home food!" now she's watching the olympic games from heir living room. as for the fans, they garner little apathy. >> they're supposed to be sportsmen, the best of the best, and being accountable for what you say is part of being a role model for the world. >> reporter: americans have had their own twitter troubles. superstar goalie hope solo refused to apologize for tweets she directed at soccer legend brandi chastain. solo was upset by chastain's commentary on a broadcast. they say they must come to terms with the 140-character reality. >> the truth about twitter and facebook and blogs and the web is that you can't control speech for information anymore, and that's what the ioc and governments and networks and businesses have to learn. >> reporter: and it's another just the olympians who have to watch their social media use. fans have unleashed a torrent of texts and tweets and typing thumbs that at times have

clogged london's mobile connection, interfering with the games themselves. so, organizers have urged spectators to also take it down a notch. and there are more than 10,000 athletes here in london for the games, and the international olympic committee is urging all of them to communicate with fans via social media. they've even released guidelines to make sure that dialogue is respectful, but some countries like greece, perhaps wanting to avoid any more controversy, has banned athletes from logging on to share anything personal. >> big yad, thank you very much for joining us. here's an interesting thing to me, there's not an issue of control here, there's an issue of what people are saying. >> it's an issue of decorum, manners. you know, i think -- >> unacceptable conduct. >> unacceptable conduct, when they say take it down a notch. d.l. hughley was saying he used to use twitter to be lighthearted. now people use it for everything. not good. >> that does it for us this day. up next, your local news. we'll see you right back here tomorrow on "cbs this morning." ,

>> good morning everyone. two medical marijuana dispensaries are closing today in san francisco. the vapor room has operated since 2004. it also offers free yoga class is and counseling. hope net has been in business since 2002 and both clubs are closing under big-time pressure from the federal justice department that warned of landlord of property seizures or prison sentences. in monitor is finding oakland is making little progress in reforming its police department but he is found issues that

could lead to the city losing control of the apartment. the monitor is troubled that some photography and photographs posted at police headquarters had been defaced in a racist manner. he is also concerned about the department's handling of the occupied protest. >> a beautiful start to the day with lots of sunshine around the bay area. a gentle breeze blowing and you will need that breezed by the afternoon because it will be hot away from the coast. the ridge of high pressure will remain in place for the next few days. 94 degrees in livermore. the next couple of days, staying hot in the valleys and we will look at the traffic coming up next.

>> your drive along the peninsula just got busier on southbound 101 by holly street in san carlos, an accident blocking the left wins. 280 is not that bad. through the oakland of the nimitz is slow pass the coliseum but overall, not a bad drive time. if you're heading towards the richmond center fell bridge, west down 580, they just cleared an accident approaching the toll plaza.

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