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laughter ] >> thanks for watching kpix 5 news this morning. your next local update is 7:26. captions by: caption colorado c comments@captioncolorado.co m welcome to our viewers in the west. welcome to "cbs this morning" cbs. kenya says the battle rages on this morning. charlie d'agata is at the scene. >> we talked with former president bill clinton about kenya, iran and hillary clinton in 2016. and there are new details on the air force one flight that carried jfk back from dallas. and graham nash on 50 years of rock 'n' roll. >> we begin with morning with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. kenyan officials insist this is a mop-up operation. they are still holding out. >> the battle for control of a
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kenyan mall continues. >> the fourth day in that standoff marked overnight by bursts of gunfire. >> the kenyan foreign minister says two or three of the attackers were american. >> in this position we have a young man. >> president obama will address the united nations general assembly this morning. >> the question hanging over the meeting is whether the president will meet face to face with iran's new leader. >> firefighters battling a fast-moving wildfire east of l.a. >> the fire is there. >> vice president biden to colorado hit hard by recent flooding. >> hillary clinton says she's thinking about 2016 but she's not in a hurry to announce anything just yet. >> do you think she'd rather be today, she can do both, president or grandmother? >> a cherokee girl at the center of a high-profile custody battle has been returned to the couple
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who are asiped to adopt her. >> bam. a $400,000 bam boarlamborghini is split in half. >> the driver unharmed. >> shaquille o'neal has bought a minority share of the sacramento kings. ♪ sacramento ♪ >> and "all that mattered." >> turns out it wasn't the patch or hypnosis that got president obama to quit smoking. >> i hasn't had a cigarette in probably six years. that's because i'med of my wife. >> always something going on in new york city. opening day at the united nations. everybody agrees that it's not as much fun without berlusconi. >> this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." good morning, norah. >> good morning. >> we begin this morning with the battle to win control of a nairobi mall. it is in its fourth day. gunfire and explosions e erupting inside the building
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this morning. >> kenyan security forces are making a final push to clear out al qaeda-linked militants. the country's foreign minister says two or three americans are among the attackers. at least 62 people are dead in the siege, including a woman who was more than eight months pregnant. charlie d'agata is at the scene in nairobi. >> reporter: day four and the seenl still feels like a standoff. all morning we've seen more kenyan troops arriving more paramilitaries widening the area around the mall securing that perimeter. there's been gunfire coming from within the mall. all indications that despite assurances from the kenyan authorities this siege is not over. this grainy photo from a mall security camera is the first image of the attackers since the siege began on saturday. as kenyan police know the wrakts about remaining militants they're not telling. they insist they have the crisis
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under control. they're combing throgh the four-story shopping complex? a clearance operation to hunt down any remaining militants. the group behind the attack somali terrorist organization al shabaab, insists that the siege is still under way. fighters are holding their ground and they're still holding hostages. kenyan government officials say they now know the group responsible if for bloody siege that's left at least 62 dead and 200 wounded is made up of foreign fighters including americans. >> from the information that we have, two or three americans. i think so far one brit woman. woman. that's the information we have. young men, about between maybe 18 and 19. original arab origin but based in the u.s., in minnesota and one other place. >> reporter: witnesses to survive the mall massacre said some of the fighters looked foreign and included at least
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one woman. british security sources say it's possible that woman is the white widow dubbed so by the british media, the widow of a suicide bomber who attacked london's transit system in 2005. she's thought to have left britain years ago. adding to the many mysteries around this crisis although kenyan authorities say that all the hos tanls have been released we simply haven't seen any new ones in the past couple days. the red cross, as many 65 people remain unaccounted for. for "cbs this morning," charlie d'agata, nairobi. >> our senior correspondent john miller is here former deputy director of national intelligence. good morning. >> good morning. >> why is this taking so long? >> that's not an accident and that's not being driven by authorities. that's being driven by the terrorists. had they gone in charlie, and blown up themselves as suicide bombers after exhausting their ammunition on the first day, this would have been a one-day story in a far-away place, especially here in the west.
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the idea of going in and borrowing basically the tactics and procedures from the mumbai attack, which last toledo day, and stretching it out means they not only hold hostages and hold ground, the key is they're holding world attention. they are global focused for four day, and that's the real goal. if they can stretch this to five they will do it. >> our dean reynolds has been reporting from outside minneapolis, minnesota, right here in the united states where there's a jihadist pipeline, where the fbi says more than 20 americans have gone over to mogadishu. as early as 13 weeks ago they believe or 13 days ago. why is that happening that the u.s. is a recruiting ground for this group? >> well this is something that we discovered in the fbi back in 2009 going into 2010. there was a young man named schirra ahmed, a suicide bomber in somalia, and when it turned out he was a u.s. citizen from minneapolis, that took everybody
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by surprise. we started peeling back the layers and we found a network of fund raisers, of recruiters of travel arrangers who had started this pipeline and it's been going on since. it's been real engagement by the minneapolis police department, the police in st. paul the u.s. attorney's office there and a number of other cities to engage the somali community and get tho this counternarrative. >> the next obvious question seems to be if there's such a strong group to recruit from in the united states, are we concerned about them carrying out attacks at home? >> the real concern is they get trained over there, as suicide bombers, trained in tactics and shooting and that i ear under the radar, meaning we don't know they got there and that they find their way back and that is a concern. the you look at the security yesterday here in penn station, some of the things my old counterterrorism bureau under mike downing was do you think in los angeles yesterday, you know in the back of their mind they're thinking is there a companion piece for a domestic attack from the same element?
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>> a new element that may be developing is whether some of these terrorists in kenya were women. as charlie reported the white widow. what about that? >> that would be a surprise but it wouldn't be a first. this was a technique pioneered by the chechnyans where they used the women in their burqas and baggy clothes to smug until explosives, long weapons and so on. these were people whose husbands were killed in the fighting and who were told that you, too, can be martyrs and rejoin your husband in paradise if you die for the cause. >> john miller thank you. president obama says the u.s. is providing law enforcement and other help for kenya. the president is about to address the united nations general assembly. one of the big topics there is iran and a possible start of new relations. will the leaders meet? bill plante is at the u.n. good morning. when the president speaks to the u.n. this morning he'll condemn that terror attack in kenya and
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call on the you know what i'm sayings to pressure syria to give up its chemical weapons and warn of consequences with if they don't, and he'll discuss iran's nuclear program. look, what everybody here is waiting to see is whether he'll meet with iran's new supposedly moderate president. white house officials have said repeatedly that there's no meeting scheduled with iranian president ahsan rouhani, but that doesn't mean none will occur. a meeting would have symbolic and historic value as the rhetoric between the two nations softens. last year at the u.n., no such meeting was even close. the iranian president then mahmoud ahmadinejad, was a hard-liner on the nuclear issue, and president obama left no question as to the state of the relationship. >> america wants to resolve this issue through diplomacy, and we believe that there is still time and space to do so. and that's why the united states will do what we must to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. >> reporter: mr. obama started this year's diplomatic effort
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monday, his first day in new york. he met with the nigerian president and attended a meeting with civilian leaders in developing countries. for his part the newly elected iranian leader who protects an image as a moderate is on the charm offensive in the lead-up to this year's meeting. when he arrives in new york monday, his office tweeted a picture of quote, president rouhani making his way to manhattan. and last week in an opinion column published in "the washington post," rouhani wrote, "rather than focusing on how to prevent things from getting worse, we need to think and talk about how to make things better." there's a history here of unplanned meetings between world leader is in the halls of the u.n., but when a u.s. official was asked about president obama and president rouhani meeting by happenstance, he said look i don't believe anything would happen by happenstance in relationship this important. but even if there is a meeting, don't expect any immediate result. there are too many unfinished
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issues between the two countries. and beside secretary of state kerry is meeting with the iranian foreign minister later this week. norah, charlie? >> bill thanks. the president will also speak today at the clinton global initiative. former president bill clinton is hosting that meeting in new york. norah and i spoke with mr. clinton yesterday about iran, the terror attack in nairobi, and other issues facing the united states. let me begin with kenya. first the personal. we've learned that someone close to the family the clinton global initiative family was killed showing you that terrorism is indiscriminate. >> yes. we -- we lost one of our employees in our health access program, which works on keeping the world safe from malaria and building health systems around africa. she actually worked in tanzania and i saw her just a couple
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weeks ago when i was there. but she was nine months pregnant, just a couple weeks away from delivery. so she and her baby's father were walking in that mall in nairobi because she wanted to have the baby in kenya. she thought that would be best. and they were both killed. >> a great sense of the tragedy that happens. do you believe if you look at terrorism today, taking on dimensions that would bring it here to our shores? >> it's been here once and we've had some homegrown action but i think -- with al shabaab, i think that they clearly were targeting kenya because the kenyans had gone into somalia to try to stop al shahab spreading to kenya. it appears to me that the kenyan government has been quite resolute and done a good job. and i know that president
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obama's administration supported them in their efforts. and i think this has been kind of a long-term deal. we have to go on with our lives, plan our lives, and do our best to stop these things before they start. and answer appropriately when they do. >> let me turn to what's happening here at the u.n. general assembly meeting. what's the risk for the president of the united states meeting with the president of iran, just meeting with him, to have some conversation not an agreement, but a conversation? >> i think there are lots of things going on now that the rest of us don't know. and the president is calculating and is required to calculate whether the benefit, which would be enormous in terms of the atmospheric sustaining these two people meeting and talking, would more likely trigger positive future development or more likely compromise the
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iranian leader with his own conservative s conservatives. and also we don't know enough about exactly where they want to go. do they really want to get in the position where they're not ever going to have nuclear weapons, which is what they say? or are we being basically diverted? i think it's just a decision we have to lead with the two principles, with the president and the iranian president. but clearly there's a thaw going on and they're rethinking their positions, and we ought to do what we can to explore it. we ought to get caught trying because we have nothing to lose by getting caught trying. >> in fact, the israeli prime minister believes that no deal is better than a bad deal with iran. this could be a trap. do you agree with prime minister netanyahu? >> i just don't know. that's why i think we need to
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let the people who have responsibility for decisions -- in general, no deal is always better than a bad deal. but i don't know enough about what options are available, and my guess is we're well away from a deal. this is a question of if we should start talking now, should there be a conversation at the top or should there be other conversations which lead to a meeting. >> we'll have much more of our conversation with bill clinton throughout morning. former president talks about hillary clinton's potential bid for the white house, and he responds to a report of problems and his global initiative organization. that's ahead. >> only seven days remain for congress to reach a budget agreement and avoid a government shutdown. senator ted cruz offers a pill that would strip out provisions tying health care to the debt ceiling. >> i believe nothing is hurting the american people more, nothing is hurting the economy more, nothing is damaging jobs more than obamacare.
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>> but the fill bulser strategy is creating a rift among republicans. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell opposes a shutdown even if it means keeping money for obamacare in place. senate majority leader harry reid says he has the votes to pass a spending bill without stripping funding. says any bill out obamacare is dead on arrival. showdown continues in the senate. a massive earthquake in pakistan this morning as kill at least 30 people. the 7.2 magnitude quake was centered in a remote area of western pakistan. local officials say at least 30% of the houses in one district were flattened. people ran out of their homes into the streets to escape flattened buildings. the wake was felt in karachi and new delhi. homes east of los angeles could be threatened this morning by a wildfire. fans are burning in the an san gabriel mountains above azusa.
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a wind shift could send the fire toward a group of condos. they sit in a canyon less than a mile away. this morning the fire is only 5% contained. in colorado eight people are confirmed dead this morning after last week's flooding. others are still missing. more than 2,000 homes are damaged, destroyed along with many bridges. joe biden said the government shutdown would not impact release efforts. >> they will not shut down even if the congress doesn't fund the federal government in a continued resolution. so i promise you, the president and i and the men standing behind you are going to stay focused on this. as i said when the cameras leave, the help is going to remain. >> fema is offering nearly $20 million for victims to repair their homes or find other places to live temporarily. some of this morning's headlines. "the washington post" says a crackdown on the muslim
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brotherhood could grow. an egyptian court banned the islamist group on monday. therhood supporters have been killed and thousands arrested since president mohamed morsi was ousted in july. the chicago tribune says two suspects were charged this morning in last week's shooting at a park. it left 13 wounded. police say the suspects in their 20s played a significant role but neither is believed to be the sheer. "usa today" looks at retailers cutting back on hiring this holiday season. an employment firm predicts a drop of more than 50,000 positions from last year. part of the reason a decline in consumer confidence. the los angeles times says there may be a slight rebound in illegal immigration. a new study finds the number of undocumented immigrants went up slightly between 2009 and 2012. last year 11.7 million immigrants called the u.s. home. that approaches an all time high of 12.3 million in 2007. and florida sun-sentinel
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looks at the eight-day ordeal of men rescued at sea. a wave capsized their 16-foot boat. for more than a week they clung to its hull. the coast guard came to . good morning. headed out the door, we have a cold front moving in our direction that will bring a couple of passing clouds. some cooler temperatures, those winds are going to be picking up this morning. you see some. clouds there in the distance. overlooking san jose, and looking northward, looks like we are going to see more of those clouds as they pass by just mainly some high clouds slipping through. temperatures will be cooler today, plan on some 70s in the valleys, 60s and 70s and breezy inside the bay, and windy toward the coastline in the 60s. next couple of days cooler through the week. >> announcer: this national weather report sponsored by macy's.
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our conversation with former president bill clinton continues. he talks about the role hillary clinton has taken on. >> i mean you know, she was senator from new york with a good record, secretary of state with a very good record. i think that her work here will remind people of her domestic interests and what she can do. >> plus how life is different with both clintons out o government. a father gives up his parental rights before his daughter is even born. he turned to his cherokee heritage in hopes of winning her
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good morning. towards san jose downtown it's backed up right now. if you are traveling northbound 280, there is an accident involving a couple of cars, a motorcycle approaching bird avenue and we can see the delays as far back even beyond 101. outside here is a live look at the nimitz. no delay so far through oakland. everything is cruising right along past the coliseum. bay bridge toll plaza different story backed up almost into the maze. that is traffic. here's lawrence. >> if you go outside right now you can see the clouds, that's the cold front that's moving through the bay area making for a very nice sunrise this morning. the temperatures now in the 50s and the 60s and fairly mild by the afternoon. the winds will be kicking up. it will be about five to 10 degrees cooler today compared to yesterday's highs. 60s at the coastline. and windy. next couple of days the coolest of the week.
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♪ this is a funny moment. neil patrick harris was previewing what was coming up on the show. and watch closely the guy behind him. >> jimmy fallon presents the award for lead actor in the series michael j. fox and -- >> that is a writer for the semis, this name is paul greenberg. i'm surprised he didn't notice. someone should have told him. what kind of an operation are they running? [ applause ] the emmys, they should have the best people running it. so unprofessional. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour a child custody battle that reached the supreme court. a father claims his heritage gives hip the right to keep this
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4-year-old girl. we'll show you why she's back with her adoptive parents this morning. plus a lawsuit brought by michael jackson's family will look at an e-mail that could decide a billion-dollar case. that's ahead. more now with our conversation with bill clinton, he and hillary clinton are working together these days. they both faced a lot of speculation about the presidential campaign. we asked him about where the former secretary of state talked about her future. >> your wife hillary clinton said for the first time that she is going to take her time deciding whether to run for president. do you think her work here at the clinton global initiative could be a steppingstone, a foundation for a future run for president? >> yeah but i don't think she needs that. but, i mean she's been a senator from new york. with a good record. secretary of state with a very good record. i think that her work here will
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remind people of her domestic interests and what she can do with a fair initiative. but she feels as i do we've worked very hard to keep this whole thing out of politics. with the democrats not getting involved. so i don't think so. i think it's a natural fit for her to come to work here. because when we met long time ago, before you were born when we met, hillary was already really active in government organization. not me i just cared about politics. she was a walking ngo. so it's kind of fitting we're coming full circle here but i don't think it's part of her calculus. >> go ahead. >> she said you are spend are month time together. and watching movies together and taking long walks. >> yeah. >> and so how is life different now? >> you know it's funny, for a
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dozen years give or take she was a senator and then secretary of state. and we basically had the weekends, except when we didn't. so we were together about half the time maybe a little less or not. and now, you know hillary is on a constant self-improvement project. you know she's always trying to improve me. i've having to get improved more regularly. >> how is she trying to improve you? >> well, you know she just -- i'll be all the time to sort of tone up my exercise program, do this or do that. but we have -- we have so much fun. we still have a lot of fun together. >> she can do both of these things, clearly. >> what's that? >> i'll tell you now. do you think she'd rather be today, she can do both -- president or grandmother? >> if you ask her, i think she'd say grandmother. but have found it's best not to
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discuss that issue. >> sounds like chelsea may have influenced you? >> i'm just trying to -- my goal to live to be a grandfather. it's out of my hands. >> and the human side of the president. >> it is. and we'll have much more on the 4-year-old girl baby veronica back with her adoptive parents. she's at the center of a three-year custody battle involving her biological father. it went all the way to the supreme court. elaine quijano is with us. >> good morning, we sat down with her parents, matt and melanie capobiancos. they told us how they were there and raised her for the first two years of her life.
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while dustin brown said he misunderstand stood and never meant to sign away his parental right. it's a heart wrenching case. late monday evening, veronica's biological father dustin brown handed the child over to her adoptive parents, matt and melanie capobianco. it's a four-year battle that began shortly after the south carolina couple began the process of adopting veronica in 2009. her unmarried biological mother gave permission for veronica to be adopted by them. as a cheerky, she cited a federal law, protecting native-american being separated from their families and tribe. >> the only people that can really give you your history your ancestry is your family. >> reporter: the south carolina supreme court ruled in brown's favor and since 2011 veronica
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has lived with him and his wife robin. >> i want everyone to realize that she's happy. she's very happy with us. >> reporter: but the capobiancos appealed. this past june the united states supreme court ruled against brown because he gave up his parental rights. but a south carolina finalized the adoption. and he tried to appeal in oklahoma where he's raised her for the past two years. the oklahoma court brought the two parties to mediation but when the talks broke down the court dissolved its order on monday paving the way for veronica's return to the capobiancos. cherokee nation todd humbry who has been aiding brown's fight said the return was peaceful as he spoke to a group of brown supporters. >> it's a bad day for the cherokee nation. it's a bad day for native
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children everywhere. but more importantly, this is a bad day for the brown family and for rer ronica. >> reporter: hambree has suggested that brown will continue to fight for custody while the capobiancos who declined our request for an interview released a statement through their spokesperson saying their long legal nightmare has finally come to an end. they will likely head back to south carolina and once again resume their life with veronica. >> she's not coming to strangers. she knows us we love her. we'll take good care of her. we'll just try to get along and do what's right for her. >> the cherokee nation attorney general said veronica packed a bag of clothes and toys to be taken. >> elaine thank you. in los angeles, closing arguments begin today in the michael jackson wrongful death
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trial. ben tracy looked at some of the key evidence from the high-stakes lawsuit. ♪ >> reporter: michael jackson was expected to make $400 million from 50 farewell concerts in london dubbed -- but jackson died just before the show began. his doctor conrad murray gave him sedatives to sleep. the jackson is suing aeg, the concert promoter they claimed aeg hired murray and pressured him to make sure michael jackson was ready for rehearsal, despite his fragile health in that in an e-mail, the agent wrote about murray saying we want to remind him it's aeg, not m.j. who is paying his salary. we want him to understand what is expected of him. jeff gottlieb is conferring the
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trial for the los angeles times. how important is that e-mail? >> it could be the single most damaging piecing of evidence that the jackson family has. the battle in the case is who is murray working for. >> reporter: aeg's lawyer say jackson himself chose murray and their agreement to pay the doctor $150,000 a month was really in advance to michael jackson but they were aware of the singer's health issue. this is it concert producer sent messages calling jackson a trembling basket case who might embarrass himself on stage. the ceo randy phillips responded we have a real problem here. the new trial included testimony from jackson's son prince and former wife debbie rowe. she claims the addiction to painkillers began when he was seriously burned while making a pepsi commercial in 1994. >> does this seem like a fair
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complex case for the jury to wrestle? >> i think it's a complex case. we've been here four or five month and there's a lot of evidence that we have to go through. >> reporter: and there's a lot at stake. the jackson family wants damages that could total more than $1 billion. for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, los angeles. and a new study says we might be able to reverse one of our basic emotions. fear. that's next on "cbs this morning."
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university of southern california. good morning, and tell us about the study. >> hi good morning, charlie and norah. it's a very important study. the study noticed that when mice got a certain infection, they weren't afraid of a cat. they would walk up and get eaten by a cat. they thought it was information in the brain. the group at berkeley found that if the infection went away it retained that nonfear of the cat. and that's important because what it's telling us infection can change the hard-wiring of the brain and that's an important observation. >> and -- go ahead. >> this back tear taxoplasma is the one that women are warned that they shouldn't touch kitty litter when pregnant. t talks about disease, right? >> yeah a third of the people are infected with toxoplasmosis.
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we always hear that john was diagnosed with cancer and they changed. their personality changed. well, all of a sudden, we start to have an explanation. >> it's a reality, is it not, a lot of things that we're learning from the brain come from either accidents to the brain or disease and how it changes the brain? >> yeah i mean listen. it's very important. this is why our president, president obama announced a $100 million initiative to start to map the brain. this is the next frontier. we need to sort to understand it and take it head on. we need to focus on things like infectious disease and vaccines because it does affect all of us. and there are associations of people with toxoplasmosis. and people more likely to die in a car accident have this infection. these are important observations. >> and how do we understand that? >> well, i think what it means
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now, we got to pay anticipation and understand the mechanism in humans. mice we got lucky there's one particular we could observe and we saw how it changed. humans are very complex, whether an infection or disease, not just the organs that it's around, but it affects the whole body, all of us. we need to understand that and put that in a way going forward. >> so, doctor, just to say that do you believe that some of these bacterial infections or viral infections are connected to psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia? >> i think they're related. to see how they're associated they're probably not in everybody, we can actually over heim hit the root cause of these good morning. headed out the door, we have a cold front moving in our direction that will bring a couple of passing clouds. some cooler temperatures, those winds are going to be picking up this morning. you see some of the
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clouds there in the distance. overlooking san jose, and looking northward, looks like we are going to see more of those clouds as they pass by just mainly some high clouds slipping through. temperatures will be cooler today, plan on some 70s in the valleys, 60s and 70s and breezy inside the bay, and windy toward the coastline in the 60s. next couple of days cooler through the week. one man visited more than 200 countries without a plane. we'll find out where he wants to go next. graham hughes joins us right here in studio 57. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." >> announcer: ""this morning" morning rounds" sponsored by v8 fusion therapy. could have had a v8. need a little kick? ooh! could've had a v8. in the juice aisle.
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your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald good morning, everyone. it's 7:56. i'm michelle griego. oakland police are trying to piece together a violent night in the city. this shooting at a home at 82nd avenue and rugsdale street was just the beginning. police say two 17-year-olds shot at the house and a car at about 10:20 last night. no one was injured. but police say the two teens sped away from the scene and crashed into a car at church street and bancroft avenue. someone in that car was killed. and police detained the two 17yearly suspect. >> stay with us. we'll be right back.
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approaching bird. it's been cleared but traffic is really delayed through the area. 101 also very sluggish this morning coming into san jose. let's take a live look outside. here's a live look at the nimitz freeway. so the delays are not enough to impact the drive too many but we are getting there. obviously it's a bottleneck northbound past the coliseum. and expect traffic headaches once again. oracle openworld over by the moscone center in san francisco. shut down between 3rd and 4th. there's traffic. here's lawrence. >> a cold front now swinging through the bay area. in fact, we are going to see some cooler temperatures. the winds likely to pick up as we head throughout the morning hours. by the afternoon, a little blustery out toward the coastline. out we go toward the golden gate bridge. got some high clouds moving up above. the temperatures now running in the 50s and 60s. so a mild start to the day. but by the afternoon, you will notice these numbers going to be about 5 to 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. still 70s in the valleys. 60s and 70s and breezy inside the bay. windy toward the coast. cooler tomorrow, then warming up on the weekend.
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♪ ♪ it is 8:00 a.m. in the west. welcome back to "cbs this morning." soldiers in kenya are still hunting the last of the terrorists inside nah roby's westgate mall. charlie d'agata is there. former president bill clinton says there's nothing wrong with his foundation's finances. graham nash has spent 50 years making music. this morning he'll tell us what went wrong with crosby stills nash and young. first, here is a look at today's "eye opener at 8":00. there's been gunfire, all indications that despite assurances from the kenyan authorities, this siege is not over. the battle to win control over a nairobi mall is in its fourth day. >> are we concerned with them carrying out attacks at home.
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>> the concern is they get trained over there and they're under the radar and they find their way back. >> if we can resolve the issue of iran's nuclear program, that can serve as a major step down a long road towards a different relationship. >> what everybody here is really waiting to see is whether he'll meet with iran's new president. >> clearly there's a thaw going on and they'rery thinking their positions. >> only seven days remain for congress to reach a budget agreement and avoid a government shutdown. the cherokee nation attorney general says veronica packed a bag of toys and clothes before he left her biological father to be taken to her adoptive parents. i'm happy for you. proud of you, too. >> thanks proud of you, too and happy for you. >> you just read that off a k card. i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnells. security forces are fighting to
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secure the mall in nairobi this morning. gunshots can be heard inside. more than 60 are dead in the four-day siege. >> the kenyan government says it's close to taking control. the al qaeda linked militants who claim responsibility say they have the upper hand. charlie d'agata is at the scene in nairobi. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, gayle, norah and charlie i.'s clear this is still an ongoing crisis. kenyan authorities say they've sent in a bomb disposal unit. now we believe the militants inside are seven or eight in number. all we see is a grainy still shot taken from security cameras inside the mall. we must point out that even that picture is at least a day old. the foreign ministers confirm that two or three americans are suspected to be among the attackers. al shabaab, the somali group that has claimed responsibility for this attack says their fighters are still fighting and
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they still have hostages. on that note the red cross says 65 people remain unaccounted for. charlie, norah and gayle? >> charlie d'agata, thanks. minutes ago president obama addressed the united nations general assembly focusing on the middle east peace process, iran and the crisis in syria. >> the evidence is overwhelming that the assad regime used such weapons on august 21st. u.n. inspectors gave a clear accounting that advanced rockets fired large quantities sarin gas at sivevillians. these rockets landed in opposition neighborhoods. it's an insult to human reason and to the legitimacy of this institution to suggest anyone other than the regime carried out this attack. >> president obama will also talk about his health care law today with former president
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khin. his ninth annual clinton global initiative begins this morning in new york. the gathering brings together world leaders, high profile ceos and celebrities to tackle global issues. we spoke with president clinton about the organization and its recent reports of problems. >> we're clear at the clinton global initiative. this is the first year that your wife, hillary clinton, former secretary of state and your daughter chelsea clinton are co-hosting. what's different this year? >> well first of all, we're having a good year. we've got more members coming in. we have more really interesting new commitments. we're going to have a lot of impressive progress reports. that's important to me because when i agreed to start this i said i don't want to just have another meeting. i want people to commit to do something. and i want us to check. it will be more and better i think and will be focused on how do you mobilize people to actually get done what you want to do and a lot of our
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commitments will feature that will feature big partnerships, kind of the thing we need more of in washington big partnerships, people walking across lines. >> this is a sprawling philanthropic organization. and you have helped hundreds of millions of people. however, as you know there have been reports of financial mismanagement and infighting. >> which have been clearly disapproved i might add. >> no deficits? >> no. there was never a deficit. we did have a rough year in 2009 because of the financial crisis. but we've always saved enough operating money for a whole year. so we never ran a deficit. >> and the reports that chelsea was coming in to clean things up. >> chelsea came in -- first of all, chelsea has been working around the foundation for two or three years now. and she did suggest something that i warmly embraced which is that we have a review of where
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we were, which is typical for a new organization at age ten. several years of our first decade we were the fastest growing foundation in the world. >> is this a reminder that when you've got fund-raising for the foundation and clinton global initiative and some people are doing both that it's important to be both transparent and rigorous in the accounting. >> absolutely. >> so the impression doesn't develop? >> absolutely. we are transparent. i believe in transparency. if you are transparent, then you have to depend on the good faith of people looking at your documents. >> you and i were on stage at dave davas when you announced this the clinton global initiative. >> yeah. >> what has it not done that you believed it could do? >> well, it's grown bigger faster than i thought it would. but i think we just have to keep working on it. one of the things we started
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doing last year that we'll do more of this year is to give more progress reports on the commitments already made, and i'm hoping if we hold progress reports on an equal footing with the initial commitments, that maybe that will attract more interest. that's the only thing i thought would happen that hasn't. otherwise cgi itself has affected more lives in more countries than i ever thought it was. >> it's a metric of accountability? >> yes. >> it's interesting to hear him talking about chelsea's involvement. he did mention she wanted to bring in an outside group to look at the books and suggest changes. she's play ag big role. >> indeed. i was struck by the earlier part of this conversation we've had this morning when we talked about mrs. clinton and what he said about her and he said i was only interested in politics. i think that's still his primary interest. he's constantly on the phone with members of congress
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finding out what the latest intelligence is, what's happening in the political end of the world. >> hillary clinton when she was at ngo was more interested in helping people -- >> he seemed very relaxed. it was such a wide ranging interview. i love when you said to him will it be president or grandmother? it almost looked like he was choking on his drink of water at that particular time? you covered everything and he was very comfortable in answering anything you had to say. i was wondering about the issues raised about the money of the foundation. >> we posted online he gave a full throated defense of a long-time personal aide. there's been scrutiny raised and he spoke of one of his former aides. we have more of that online. >> i was going to say that the idea of being a grandmother i think she has expressed time and time again, it's something she really looks forward to. >> yes. but chelsea is not talking about it. stop talking about it mom and
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dad. >> she'll have some say in that. moving on. long before anyone owned one of those minivans volkswagen had a very small bus. the rolling symbol of '60s counterculture is heading down a road of no return. michelle franzen has more on why they're putting the brakes on one of its most famous models. >> for most it was the driving spirit of their youth. for others it's an enduring relic long past its prime. but for all its charm, volkswagen will stop producing the pill-shaped fans after december 31st. that's when brazil, the only country where the bus is still being produced will start requiring air bags and anti-lock brakes in all new cars. >> volkswagen rather than bring the bus up to that standard have decided to stop selling it there. >> that will mean the end of the road for a vehicle first
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introduced in 1950. >> without the volkswagen bus you wouldn't see the popularization of kind of a mass market people mover like a minivan. it's something that is almost universally appealing. it makes people smile when they see them. >> reporter: in the u.s. the buses sometimes resembled art projects on wheels. others are immortalized in actual works of art, like the one in this bob dillon album cover. in "argo" it was a hero farerying trapped american embassy employees to safety. the basic design is not changed much through the decades a testament to the vehicle's sound engineering and functionality. >> it resonates pretty broadly. every segment of car guy this the world loves a volkswagen bus. >> reporter: it was the second car model introduced by volkswagen after the beetle. since then some ten million bus phaves
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been sold worldwide. for "cbs this morning," michelle miller, new york. >> are you sitting at home going i want a volkswa from belize to bulgaria to micronesia to mozambique graham hughes has been there and done that. we'll learn how he went to every country on earth without flying. >> we're getting out the map. plus all that mattered on this
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ago today. exact skblgt"60 minutes" exact premiered on edd on krs. >> good evening. >> harry reasoner and mike wallace presented a candidate look at the election police brutality and a film by artists. the show's creator and executive producer was the late don hewitt. he and i host of legendary television journalists would make "60 minutes" one of the highest rated most award-winning television programs of all time. >> and he calls you iman forgive me his words not mine a lunatic. >> you saw lance armstrong inject dpo. [ laughter ] >> the 46th season of "60 minutes" premieres this sunday night only on cbs. magical moments. >> it was.
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>> good to see bradley and morley's face. nearly 50 years an president kennedy's assassination, we're learning what happened on air force one that day. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by lifestyle lift. find out how you can light up your life.
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hi. argentina. we're in paraguay. chile. >> graham hughes went to 22 counts without the help of an airplane in 2009. he set out for the epic journey from his hometown in liverpool, england. more four years later he reached it all on a shoestring budget. graham hughes, you're on "cbs this morning." yea! got to be the friendliest place. >> you know what i thought was
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so cool about this you did it all and you didn't get one frequent flier miles? >> i know. >> so you did this because, why? >> i did because no one had done it before. it was to set a new guinness world record. no one attempted it as far as i know. everybody's done invention in the world but there's still some out there. >> you did it on a shoestring budget, how much money did you have? >> it worked out to $10,000 a year, my visa were a huge expense. saudi arabia cost $250. >> where did you stay? >> i stayed with local people. >> you called it couch surfing. >> couch surfing. didn't really cost me anything. instead of staying at hotels that would have cost a fortune, i stayed with local people. and it gave me an extra dimension. also traveling on public transportation that was cheap. you got to hang out with locals.
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>> did you pack lightly? >> i did. i actually got my backpack in the green room. it's this big. i only have one pair of trousers and shoes. >> the guy has the coolest passports number one, afghanistan, saudi arabia, iran. were you arrested twice along the road. you were a bad boy, were you? >> no i wasn't. first time i was in cape verde. and employed some fishermen to take me over there. i was greeted by the cape verde authorities that knew i was coming because my mom had sent a fax telling them i was coming. they thought i was trying to get into -- >> what was the favorite place and most disappointing? >> my favorite place, the one that sticks in my mind. i love egypt and bolivia and thailand. i went to palau in the pacific
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your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald. good morning, everyone, i'm frank mallicoat. a 75-year-old man is dead after teens fleeing a shooting rammed into his car in east oakland around 10:00 last night. police say the two 17-year-olds have been detained. 49er fan recovering this morning after he was beaten up in the candlestick parking lot after sunday's game. police say he was attacked after he allegedly unzipped his pants and was about to urinate in a stranger's car. five straight victories have put oracle team usa back into contention. the first time to nine points wins the america's cup. traffic and weather coming
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good morning. problems in the san mateo bridge. and i just saw a tow truck going through this. there is a stalled box truck approaching the flat section of the span so westbound 92 very busy now leaving hayward. eastbound traffic though looks good. we are still watching the fatal crash eastbound 80 by lagoon valley road. they are in the process right now of picking up the cones and
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re-opening lanes. in the meantime, traffic is back up to north texas. westbound is also busy as well through vacaville. and this crash coming in southbound 880 approaching highway 92 that's in hayward. traffic is jammed from 238 and beyond the accident scene. we are seeing slow sensors all the way down towards the dumbarton bridge. that is traffic. here's lawrence. >> did you see it? a cold front now moving in overhead. look up to your skies, you will see some of those clouds in the distance. otherwise not a bad start to the morning. there's a helicopter on the back of that yacht, can you believe that? they will be trying to race the america's cup but the winds are going to be picking up. 50s and 60s right now. by the afternoon some 70s showing up in the interior valleys. 60s and 70s inside the bay and windy toward the coastline. next couple of days, the temperatures will continue to cool down. then warming up on thursday and friday. looking like a gorgeous weekend.
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♪ ♪ getting to the point ♪ . welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour it may be the best known and most somber mission ever for air force one. bringing home president kennedy after that fateful day in dallas. author chris jones is covering new details about the flight. he's in our toyota green room. he'll show us what he's learned about the people on the aircraft that day. plus graham nash he tells anthony mason about the ups and downs of crosby still, nash and young. the san francisco chronicle looks the a new law passed in california. it lets teenagers delete embarrassing online posts.
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awe if a minor in that state makes the request. south carolina is the state newspaper says the winner of last week's $400 million powerball jackpot is a man from the columbia area. he wants to remain anonymous. he said he went out to buy hot dog buns. the convenience didn't have any. instead, he bought $20 worth of powerball tickets. it's the second time playing the lottery. >> his wife sent him to get hot dog buns and there weren't any in the store. "usa today" says burger king is rolling out its new french fries today. they're calls satis -- fries, why? 20% less fat. we turn to history, november 22nd mark 50 years since the asass -- assassination of robert
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kennedy. in a moment we will talk with author chris jones. but first a look back at the day that changed the nation. it was 12:30 p.m., central time a friday november 22nd 1963. excited spectators lined the streets of downtown dallas hoping to catch a glimpse of the young president and his glamorous wife. but seconds before a limousine would go over a railroad overpass gunshots erupted. >> there's been a attempt on the life of robert kennedy. >> walter cronkite broke the news. >> president kennedy has been given a blood transfusion at parkland hospital here in dallas. >> reporter: as doctors worked frantically to save him a crowd quickly gathered outside anxiously awaiting any news. >> from dallas texas, the flash
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apparently official, president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. 2:00 eastern standard time. some 38 minutes ago. there was a great deal ofs did belief at first that the president had even been shot and even more disbelief that he was dead. 1:26 p.m., vice president lyndon johnson left the hospital for air force one soon to be sworn in as the 26th president. 20 minutes later, police arrested lee harvey oswald following a brief struggle. 28 minutes later, a wife -- white hearse carrying the coffin left. 2:20 p.m., the long journey home was about to begin. chris jones say writer at large from "esquire." his peace is called "the flight from dallas." welcome.
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>> thanks charlie. >> how many people on the plane are still alive? >> just a handful. four or five as far as i could tell. >> and they're the source for what happened on the plane? >> some but there's lots of original documents, there's new audio, there's all sorts of information out there. >> what's the most interesting thing you discovered? >> the whole flight was a fascinating thing. i really like the human element of that for me it's a way to take that story that's so big and abstract something with jackie sitting in the back of plane with the casket literally beside her still covered in her husband's blood. that's an amazing scene. >> at the end of the day, jackie kennedy lost her husband and the country lost a president. there was a lot of conversation whether jackie kennedy should be president when lbj was sworn in. some said leave her alone. others said she wants to be
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here. talk about that exchange. >> yeah she was in the bedroom. one of kennedy's principale guys was saying no i'm not going to get here. and johnson she wants to be here. johnson said no she wants to be here. it was important for johnson to show some kind of seamlessness in this erupt transition. >> she's covered in blood because she said i didn't want to clean my clothes. >> she was besieged many times. no, i want them to see what they've done. >> you have small details throughout the story that we didn't know before. tell us about those. >> i mean it goes down to sort of the small details like the photographer that took the famous picture of lbj getting sworn in. him running off the plane with the film. literally the only proof of this event in his hands. to the fact that johnson was the only one eating to the fact that jackie had her first scorch.
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>> who did the president talk to on the phone in the plane? >> all sorts of people. in constant contact on the ground setting up meetings. it was very important for him, bipartisan setting up meetings with the cabinet, members of the senate. >> and in writing about this too, it was an incredible time for him to show that the country was in firm hands. >> exactly. but there was this two-hour period when this plane was in the air -- >> that nobody knew. >> nobody knew what was going on. two worlds that johnson is the president. >> the conversation between bobby kennedy and lbj, the two of them never seemed to have gotten along that well. i love that part in the article. >> this is one of the subjects of debate. i can't answer this question but johnson does call bobby, after brief condolences asked him about the swearing-in. where's the oath? bobby kennedy is saying why are you asking me this? the debate is whether johnson was doing it on purpose, whether
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it was the chaos of the day. >> there was a call to the president's mother. >> there was a call to rose kennedy. johnson doesn't know what to say. rose clearly wants to get off the phone. there's another phone call where johnson and lady bird called governor conley. >> i remember many stories from jack pawlenty who was in that picture. chris jones, incredible piece. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. for the first time in its 59-year history, a woman is now the top commander at the u.s. air force academy. lieutenant journal michelle johnson is taking over. jan crawford was with her. >> good morning. it's a career that has taken her all over the globe, and now, she's landed in colorado springs. we went out and visited with her during her second week on the job and she is just a force of
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nature. i've got to tell you, she's had this remarkable life story. and now facing big challenges including that growing problem of sexual harassment in the military. >> carry on! >> lieutenant general michelle johnson has lived a life of being a first. the first woman to join the air force academy, 36 years after she enrolled here to be the first female as a cadet wing commander. >> people say why do you want to do it? the same reason you want to do it. >> did you hear that from fellow cadets? >> everybody. people couldn't imagine that mix. look at this this is inspiring. >> reporter: johnson always has been a woman who sees no obstacles. growing up on a farm in iowa she was a state champion in track and star basketball player. but she wondered what was beyond her midwestern horizons. >> used to go in low buildings on a farm. hog house, if you will.
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my dog and i would climb to the top and i could see the horizon of the earth out there. i thought that's a big world out there. >> reporter: at the academy, johnson excelled and today remains the college's second leading scorer in basketball. she was a rhodes scholar and embarked on a career that was refueling tankers. and she even reported to two presidents george w. bush and bill clinton carrying top secret codes. johnson is now responsible for nearly 4,000 cadets, and high-profile cases in the service academies and also against officers some who led sexual assault prevent programs. when you have officers who have been charged with sexual assault
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who are responsible for preventing it i mean what kind of message does that send? >> it's hurtful. all the leadership in the air force has said how hurtful that is. it's not right. we can't have it. >> sexual assault say crime. >> reporter: johnson tackled that issue the first time she spoke to the cadets. >> when you cross that line there's a lifetime of human cost on both parties and that's what we need to be aware of. >> reporter: her words carry weight. meetinging with flight ininstructors and lunch with the cadets, she comes across as engaging and approachable. she's been here and she's been through it. the worst of it. as a cadet in late 1970s, johnson class, the second to include women was 12% female. it wasn't easy. what would you hear most often? what's something that really stands out in you, an experience that you had? >> you know you shouldn't be here. why have you come? >> reporter: other cadets would tell you that? men? >> yes.
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there were faculty, too, who just couldn't wrap their brains around it. >> reporter: you've obviously broken a lot of barriers as a woman. you have ever personally experienced sexual harassment? >> i've had people question me and challenge me but i wouldn't say in terms physically that way. there have been things along the way, it hasn't been institutionalized. it hasn't been someone who is abusing authority. it's been somebody block headed. i'm not going to say that doesn't happen. >> reporter: johnson considers herself fortunate. that's her attitude across the board. she's also a mother of 10-year-old twin boys. her husband retired from the military to be home with them. now she sees her mission as educating the next generation of military leaders, young men and women. now when you watch johnson in action and you talk to her, you get the sense that she's almost indomestic inable. but she said she faced her biggest challenge after the twins were born. she started having trouble with
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her vision she went to the doctor and she was diagnosed to her shock with multiple sclerosis. she says her symptoms are minimal. she is able to manage it and she doesn't mind talking about it. charlie, norah, gayle, i think her approach to m.s. is in many ways reflective of her approach to life. she said you can't quit before you absolutely have to. you have to stay positive keep the hope and you just keep going. >> that's what she does very well. great story. thank you, jan crawford. he created one of
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and roll life." anthony save sat down with him. >> while it's 50 years, he's definitely not slowing down. >> reporter: from the hollies -- ♪ are you thinking ♪ >> reporter: to crosby still nash and young. ♪ teach your children well ♪ ♪ >> reporter: it's been quite a ride for graham nash. >> i got to the end of the manuscripts and i looked down at the pages and i said wow, i wish i was him. >> reporter: he grew up a working class kid in manchester england, where alan clark became obsessed with the everley brothers and decided to form their own bands. the hollies took the british charts by storm in the '60s then followed the beatles to america in the british invasion.
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♪ marrakesh express ♪ >> reporter: but 1980 nash became frustrated with his group, he fell in love with joni mitchell and went to laurel canyon where he said cass elliott of the mamas and the papas who introduced her to david crosby who introduced him to stephen stills. >> it seems there was something in the water? >> i don't think it was in the water. >> reporter: nash was traveling in morocco when he wrote a new song called "marrakesh express." >> you brought that to the hollies? >> yes i did. >> when i brought it to david and stephen, they were oh i know what to do. ♪ >> reporter: crosby, stills and
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nash first sang another in joni mitchell's house. >> whatever we had as vocals were born in 40 seconds. >> reporter: crosby came from the birds. stills from buffalo springfield. ♪ we've got to stop children what's that sound ♪ >> reporter: their union created one of rock's first supergroups and they're debut album was an immediate sensation. but to tour they needed another member. their label recommended neil young. >> your reaction to that? >> i didn't see the need because we'd already kind of perfected this three-prong beautiful sound, so why did we need to screw with that? ♪ getting to the point ♪ >> reporter: nash relented and the group would only play its second live gig at woodstock in 1969. ♪ sometimes is hurts so badly i must cry out loud ♪
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>> reporter: but csny now had too many eagle too manile egos. you write it's like in a vacuum >> it's like four bottles of nitroglycerin, while you're walking everything is fine until you drop one. >> and you walked out two days in a row [ bleep ] you -- >> it was the ego and fame and the power and the money it started to spiral downward. >> reporter: in the middle of it all, joni mitchell broke up with nash in a telegram. >> western union. >> what did it say? >> if you hold sand tightly in your fist it will run through your fingers, love jon. >> and you knew? >> it was over. it was a devastating time for me, like i said -- so?
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♪ >> reporter: crosby stills nash and young fractured but never officially broke up. ♪ >> reporter: nash says the band is like a mother ship that in between other projects, they all come back to. ♪ ♪ she helps me with my suitcase ♪ >> reporter: now 71 nash is on a solo tour. a rock 'n' roll survivor who's made it through in part he says because of his native temperament. >> that sense of being english of it's going to be all right, it will be all right tomorrow. >> i imagine that attitude was pretty valuable in the middle of some of the troubles you went through with csn? >> absolutely.
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i always kept my eye on the music because that's all that's going to last. ♪ before i go to whom it may concern ♪ >> nash has been inducted into the rock 'n' roll hall of fame not once but two times for crosby stills and nash in 1997 and for the hollies in 2010. >> man, you do this so well. >> it's so much fun. >> exactly what i was thinking. >> the best part is watch oeg >> watching this woman watch the story. >> gayle knows every song. >> i love the songs, the music, but i didn't know the back story. >> that's what you get. >>
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your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald hi, everyone. good morning. 8:55 on your tuesday. i'm frank mallicoat. get you updated on some bay area headlines now. two 17-year-olds have been detained after a deadly accident happened overnight in east oakland. police say the vehicle may be connected to a shooting nearby. a 15-year-old boy recovering from being beaten at candlestick's parking lot after sunday's 49ers game. police say the boy had been drinking when he got into a stranger's car, then the boy allegedly unzipped his pants and was about to go to the bathroom inside the car. that's when he was punched and kicked. 29-year-old from fresno was arrested in that car just a couple of blocks away. and a shareholder claims pg&e management used money that should have gone to pipeline
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safety. instead they gave bonuses to themselves. the suit says pg&e executives put profits over safety leading to the deadly pipeline explosion several years ago. starting out with a cold front moving overhead as we speak. you can see some of those clouds outside as we speak as well as we have that cold front that will move through this morning ushering in some cooler air and some winds going to be gusty at times especially toward the coastline and breezy inside the bay. temperatures will be in the 70s in the valleys. you will see 70s and 60s inside the bay 5 to 10 degrees cooler yesterday. warming up toward thursday and friday. your "timesaver traffic" is coming up next.
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good morning. they are still looking to clear a stalled box truck westbound 92. this would be across the san mateo bridge. so it is a little slow going leaving hayward heading towards the peninsula. much better news. traffic canceled in vacaville. all lanes back open eastbound 80 by lagoon valley road the scene of a fatal crash. for a while traffic was backed up in both directions but things are improving. and caltrain is running at reduced speeds in san mateo after a truck hit the overcrossing.
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