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the day off. >> thanks for watching everyone. >> take care. good morning to our viewers in the west. it is monday may 12 2014. this video to show what they are demanding to release the hostages. >> clippers owner donald stering breaks his silence. what he's in his explosive comments. >> but we begin with our "eye opener," your world today in 90 seconds. >> we got to go i'm not stopping. >> sprng storms tear through the midwest. >> several twisters touch down in nebraska.
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>> and tornadoes race through an area near kansas city. >> meanwhile snow blanketed parts of colorado and wyoming. >> a wildfire in the texas panhandle forced at least 700 people in their homes and at least 1,200 more are in danger. >> the leader of boko haram said he'll release more than 200 school girls in exchange for their prisoners. >> it's a terrible mistake and i'll never do it again. >> both say donald's racist comments were wrong but both are saying they're not ready to give up the team. >> i'm fighting for my 50%. >> and victory in a referendum which could see two regions pledge loyalty to moscow. >> gun fire opening on crowds.
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>> and a grand reopening of the washington monument. >> an iowa police officer nearly getting crushed by a falling tree. >> all that -- >> a high-scale rescue from the top of the sydney opera house. police say the man was simply drunk. >> and the parents of newborn twins born holding hands. >> i started tearing up immediately. >> if anyone believed marco rubio was on the fence about running for president, his latest interview leaves little doubt. >> she's going to have to answer for her failures. >> and the st. louis rams the nfl and espn proved they are not concerned about whether there are gay thoughts on michael sam's head. they are only concerned about whether he's ready to use that head to smash into other people's heads. we did it everyone!
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welcome to "cbs this morning." good morning, nora. >> good morning, charlie. >> we may be getting our first look at some of the hundreds of school girls kidnapped in northeast nigeria. their captives released a video this morning. it shows dozens of girls in veils praying at an unknown location. >> in the video, the head of that islamist terror group, boko haram, says it is willing to exchange the girls for prisoners. deborah, what could this mean? >> our source tells cbs news that this video is a coded message to confirm that informal contact has been made with the organization, that they are ready for a prisoner swap and
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that back channel negotiations may be under way in some form. in the video the abducted school girls are talking clearly to show proof of life. the leader says he is ready to swap the girls for boko haram militants being held in nigerian jails. this confirms the government has a twin strategy, a rescue mission on the one hand and on the other, a dialogue committee possibly to negotiate with boko haram. boko haram's campaign of violence appears to have intensified since the abductions. these are images blown up. it's believed the girls are being held somewhere in the dense area. this marketplace was looted and
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burned to the ground. security in the area remains extremely tight. boko haram is demanding a pure islamic state, often killing christians who refuse to convert. for the parents of the missing school girls, this video will come as some relief. finally this might be confirmation that the girls might still be alive. norah? >> we're hopeful there. thank you. >> and a powerful spring storm is causing a second day of weather chaos. the northern plains are seeing heavy rains and strong winds. the storm is also bringing tornadoes that have caused severe damage in nebraska. vinita nair is in nebraska.
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>> parts of the state also saw record rainfall. more than 100 miles across the state of nebraska were affected by the weather. >> big time tornado, guys. >> oh that's huge! >> large, violent tornado. >> a slew of powerful tornadoes touched done in nebraska sunday causing widespread damage across the state. winds gusting more than 100 miles an hour proved to be too much for these power lines, snapping them in half. this driver was barely able to get out of the way as they came crashing down. throughout nebraska as many as 20,000 people were left without power late sunday night. in seaward county the picture was the same. torrential rains and blistering winds causing flash flooding in areas. the surge of severe storms that rolled through here leveled houses buried cars and tore down trees. the full scope of the damage is
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not known but people are already picking up the pieces of their crippled community. later today the governor intends to tour the most damaged parts of the state. charlie, the good news here is despite the mangled scenes like the ones you see behind me there are no fatalities and so far only two reports of injury. >> thanks. tornadoes also tore across ports of kansas. this twister was across kansas city. megan glaros is tracking the severe weather threat that continueses this morning. >> good morning and good morning to our viewers in the west this morning. we are looking across the great lakes at a risk for tornadoes, large hail and damaging wendsinds. the highest winds will be in
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illinois ohio and wyoming. as much as 12 to 24 inches of snow on the ground by the afternoon. the west coast looking pretty good pretty dry but very hot, 91 in los angeles, 80 in san francisco and temperatures will soar into the 70s, even for seattle and portland. >> megan, thank you. >> a wildfire still out of control this morning already burned dozens of homes in the texas panhandle. the fire broke out north of amarillo. thousands of people are out of their homes this morning. >> reporter: at least 75 homes have been destroyed and approximately 1,500 acres of land have burned since this wildfire sparked late sunday afternoon, but authorities still haven't been able to fully assess the situation. >> we don't know the extent of the damage. we don't know if they're completely burned partially burned. we haven't been able to get in to evaluate. >> the primary goal was to evacuate homeowners.
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while over 2,000 people have been impacted by this fire no loss of life has been reported. schools in the frich area will be closed today as fire crews from all overs texas panhandle and new mexico work to put out the fire which is currently 75% contained. there's no word yet on what caused the fire. for "cbs this morning," omar villafranca, dallas, texas. >> we're hearing from donald sterling sinces first the nba banned him from the nba for life. he apologized but insists he is no a racist. ben? >> reporter: sterling says he was baited by his girl friend to make those racist comments. as for why it's taken him so long to apologize, he says he's too emotionally distraught to
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speak sooner. in his interview with anderson cooper, donald sterling takes responsibility for his racial comment. >> i mean, i love my league i love my partners. am i entitled to one mistake? it's a terrible mistake and i'll never do it again. >> reporter: he tells cooper he may not fight a ruling that could force him to sell the team. >> at the end of the road what do i benefit, especially at my age? >> reporter: wife shelley sterling spoke with barbara walters. >> is donald sterling a racist? >> i have never heard him say racial things. i don't know. it was horrible when i heard it. i mean it was just degrading and it made me sick to hear it. but as far as a racist i don't really think he is a racist. >> it bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. >> reporter: on the recording sterling can be heard chastising
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girl friend v. stiviano for posting social media pictures with magic johnson. he has since reached out to the hall of famer. did you apologize to him? >> well if i said anything wrong, i'm sorry. he's a good person and he -- what am i going to say? has he done everything he can do to help minorities? i don't think so. but i'll say it you know he's great. but i just don't think he is a good example for the children of los angeles. >> reporter: if sterling knows any hope of staying at the l.a. clippers, it lies in the hands of 29 nba onwners who will vote on his future with the league. >> the people who are going to decide my fate i think are not the media and not the players union but the nba.
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if the owners feel i deserve another chance, then they'll give it to me. >> reporter: now it will take the votes of three quarters of those nba owners to force a sale of the team. shelley sterling says she's plans to fight it. the nba said if a controlling interests in a team are terminated all other owners interests are also terminated. shelley's lawyers called that interpretation self-serving and invalid. >> thank you. the u.s. secret service is on the defensive again this morning. a new report claims that misused government resources to protect within of one of its own. bill plante is at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the leaders of the secret service insist in this case they have nothing to be embarrassed about. the incident happened nearly three years ago, and it involved
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the special investigative unit that sometimes works with those who protect the president. the unit goes by the code name prowler. over the july 4 holiday weekend in the summer of 2011 they were isn't here to rural murland to check on marge sulk sullivan's assistant, who said she was having difficulty with neighbors. at the time the president was at camp david. >> this is one of those black marks that makes you scratch your head. you have to ask if there is a leadership culture that needs to be ripped out at the secret service. >> the scandals have been stacking up at the secret service since 2012. that's when agents assigned to protect the president during an overseas trip to colombia brought prostitutes back to the
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hotel. the next month sullivan apologized to congress but argued it was an isolated incident. >> i'm confident this is not a cultural issue, not a systemic issue. >> reporter: sullivan left the agency last year was and replaced by julia pearson. last year see -- she reassigned agents after an incident where the agents were drinking overseas. ralph basham is a former secret service director. >> we are a very close-knit tight organization. we take care of our people. you know, it would not be the first time that that happened. >> reporter: well current secret service officials vehemently deny there was anything wrong with that service mission.
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sullivan told cbs news "i believe the response was appropriate." it has been referred to the homeland security inspector general. >> the first vote on the referendum. separatists in both regions claim more than 90% voted for self-rule. clarissa ward is in donetsk, ukraine, with the insurgents' next move. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. supporters of the pro-russian separatist movement are calling this a sweeping victory. the kremlin has weighed in as well and said that the views of the people must be respected, but the ukrainian government and many in the international community have called the vote a farce and illegal and have warned that it could further destabilize the situation. at polling stations across eastern ukraine, lines stretched
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as long as five city blocks as thousands of supporters of the pro-russian separatist movement waited patiently to cast their ballots in favor of independence. the referendum did not appear to meet international standards. many polling stations had no booths leaving voters to cast their ballot at an open desk. we saw one older woman vote twice. some of the people waiting in line were clearly too young to so the, like 16-year-old nazia, who told us she feared the government in kiev. who do you feel closer to? >> putin. putin is closer to us. >> reporter: there were pockets of violence. ukrainian forces shut down a polling center and began firing their weapon killing at least within one man. it was the latest of clashes with the military here that for
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many here have strengthened the call for independence. i have three grandchildren, i don't want that sort of thing to happen here. i don't want my children to die. the crowd echoed their approval. not everyone in eastern ukraine supports the pro-russian rebellion and many here boycotted the referendum leaving those who voted yes to declare a sweeping victory and prompting many to wonder what will happen next. and many people here are wondering what will come next. the pro-russian separatist leader has already said they will start to build their on military and their on political bodies. that has many thinking the country could be breaking apart and that will will be more violence. >> thank you. an interim director takes over
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at the phoenix veterans hospital. eric shinseki has ordered a review at all v.a. medical centers. on "face the nation" be robert gates said shinseki is committed to doing the right thing but he does need to dig through the v.a. bureaucracy. >> my own view is the problem is below the secretary and i think it's really important for him to delve into this and then if there are real problems, then to hold people accountable. we can't wait for a congressional investigation and findings and so on. this needs immediate action and i'm hopeful that secretary shinseki will take that action. >> shinseki a retired four star general rejects calls to resign over the scandal. >> chaos and gunshot next to the famed movie studio this morning. police went to a night club on a
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disturbance call. officers say they heard shots and saw somebody emerge with a gun. that's when they opened fire. the club was hosting a deejay competition. >> and remembering the victims of the horrific hot air balloon tragedy in virginia. what investigators are high pressure expected to send those temperatures soaring today, getting very hot the next couple of days. out the door with we go. we've got mostly clear skies to the coastline this morning. got that high pressure ridge and offshore ridge combining. the air sinks, starts to get on the hot side. plenty of 80s inside the bay and 90s beginning to show up in the valleys. near triple digits as we get into wednesday. cooling down the temperatures, more fog next weekend. >> announcer: this national this national weather report
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everyone. it's 7:26. i'm frank mallicoat. here's what's happening around the area. a baby recovering after nearly drowning in concord. the infant ended up in the family swimming pool last night. family members, police tried to revive the child until paramedics arrived. confused commuters could be getting on the golden gate bridge by mistake. the last san francisco exit was moved up # s s 1,000 feet. it's already caused at least one accident. keep your eyes peeled. and the 49ers are battling joe montana over parking at levi stadium in santa clara. montana's company plans to build a big development across the street. the team has threatened to block montana's big hotel project if he doesn't acquiesce. we've got your traffic, weather and much more coming up after the break.
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good morning. another accident in oakland. this time in the opposite direction. the commute direction. northbound 880, you do have an accident blocking at least one lane. as you can see it's suddenly slow to the oakland coliseum. changes causing some confusion this morning. this is an accident captured by our reporter on scene, foot looking two lanes approaching the golden gate bridge toll plaza and the westbound 80 at highway 4 there's an accident blocking lanes t. remains heavy. that's traffic. we've got a lot of sunshine to the coastline now. temperatures going to be getting hot the next few days t. is crystal clear out over the bay. that big ridge of high pressure going to crank these temperatures up, maybe the 90s this afternoon, inland, 80s in the bay. 70s towards the coastline. could see near triple digit heat as we head in towards wednesday.
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the washington monument is back in business. here's a look from our nation's capitol this morning where the nation's tallest structure finally reopens today nearly three years after suffering heavy earthquake damage. we gave you a special look friday. the $15 million restoration project. an investor donated half the money for the repairs. that's a beautiful view if you make it to the top. >> i heard tickets went on sale in 15 minutes. people said i want to go there. >> how long you do think it would take to walk it? >> half an hour. >> half an hour? >> it depends if you're running it or walking it. >> i'll see you in a half hour. norah, wait for me. welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour it could be a year and half before the government puts new rules in
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place to deal with drones. now some of the faa worry that may not be soon enough to prevent a disaster. we'll look at the close call raising questions. plus vladimir putin on ice. he racked up impressive stats in a weekend of hockey. but was he playing a little too good? that's ahead. the "washington post" is looking at news if jeb bush is running. he's said to be a very private person. the former florida governor suggests he'll decide later this year. meanwhile florida republican marko rubio says he's ready to be president. "usa today" says wages are likely to climb this year. with unemployment dropping the limited supply of workers will force pay hikes. one economist predicts an average raise of about 3%. "the wall street journal" says the fcc may revise plans as soon as today for regulating broadband internet.
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the changes will prevent companies from dividing web traffic by speed. last month they came under heavy criticism saying it would allow companies to pay for faster delivery. a hero mom tells cbs boston that her young son mattered more than she did. christina said when fire broke out in her suburban apartment wednesday, schu knee through was only one way out. she jumped from the second floor with her 18-month-old son. her son was not hurt but she injured her back and may be paralyzed. the last victim of a hot air balloon crash has been located. friday's fiery crash killed a pilot and two passengers. the th found yesterday in doswell, virginia, about an hour of richmond. mark albert has more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. many here at the university are still grieving the loss of two members of the women's
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basketball team staff who were killed. u were honored at yesterday's commencement. the balloon burst into flames after striking a power line and crashed into nearby woods. all three on board were killed. >> you could hear them screaming, please, dear good sweet jesus, we're going to die, oh, my god, please help us please help us. >> reporter: it was a kickoff for the mid-atlantic hot air balloon festival but it was quickly cannescellednescelledancelled. >> there was like a pop and debris began falling to the ground. >> based on the witness count he did everything he could in his power to saving his passengers' lives and his own. >> i want to begin this invocation with a moment of silence. >> reporter: on sunday they remember fourth degree 4-year-old jenny doyle, the
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assistant head coach of the university of richmond's basketball team and 24-year-old natalie lewis, the director of basketball operations. they both died. lewis was engaged to be mair and in a statement her family said we are stunned and saddened beyond any understanding over what has happened to our beloved natalie. flowers were left inside the athletics department in her memory with a note signed "spider nation." they t national transportation safety board will issue a preliminary report within ten days. they're seeking records on the balloon and the veteran pilot. a new health warning is out for women this morning. the city shows the rate of cervical cancer in the u.s. is more than 50% higher than previously thought. it's even more common in older women. good morning, doctor. >> good morning. >> this is a huge revision. why were these numbers so off the mark? >> well the study actually
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looks at removing the women who had hysterectomies performs in the united states from the population of women in which rates of cervical cancer are detected meaning all the women who had hysterectomies were removed from the denominator number, therefore making rates of cervical cancer higher. in plain english are the rates higher than we thought and why? >> well, the rates are higher among certain groups than we thought previously and the reason is that many women in the u.s. have hysterectomies, about 20%, and so those women duchb have their cervix removed, and so their rate of developing invasive cervical cancer then is less decreases. >> those groups are older and black women. >> the study looked at age as one specific risk factor for cervical cancer and having hysterectomies. both of those things increase at
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that age. >> which age? >> 50 to 65 was really the group and they noticed a second peak in women over the age of 70. >> what about african-americans? >> they were higher in that particular group, but, again, that was probably because the rates of hysterectomy were higher and we know that african-american women do have higher rates of hysterectomy related to fibroid surgery, so it's not completely you know unknown that african-american women do have higher rates of hysterectomy. >> and cervical cancer is called by hpv. >> it is caused by hvp. >> sexually transmitted disease. >> sexually transmitted disease that we actually screen for in the office. it's recommended that women between the age of 30 and 65 have paps plus hpv testing.
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>> what should change? >> women of a certain age should make sure to come in and get annual checkups. risk assessments should be done for every patient. do an individual risk assessment. has she ever had an abnormal pap smear, has she ever had hpv. those sorts of things should go into continued monitoring of the individual woman for cervical cancer. >> thank you. >> thank you. we're learning more this morning about a near collision between a 50-seat passenger plane and a drone. it was such a close call that federal officials say that the pilot actually believe thad the plane had been hit. jeff pegues is looking into the growth of the drone industry and the risk in midair. he's at reagan national airport which is of course outside washington, d.c. jeff, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. for the first time the faa is revealing details about the march 22nd incident. it's serving as a cautionary
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tale of the highlights of dangers of unmanned aircraft systems more commonly known as drones. the faa says the incident could have been a disaster. there are more drones in the sky than ever. most of them fly only a few hundred feet off the ground. but in late march near tallahassee regional airport, a us airways pilot recalls he nearly hit one as he was coming in for a landing. >> he said it was so close to him hoe thought he hit it. >> reporter: it was small but big enough to cause a serious problem for a commercial jet liner. we all know that the miracle on the hudson aircraft was brought down by geese in the engines. imagine a metal and glass object especially the big lithium battery. the results could be
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catastrophic. >> that's why the aa currently puts limits on unmapped aircraft. it won't be official for another year and a half. there's concern that's not enough. >> they're probably at any one time in the national airspace thousands of drones being flown on a daily basis. >> reporter: he run as drone manufacturing company selling mostly to farmers who want to key an eye on their field. >> i believe that the faa is under extreme pressure to release guide lines for commercial use of uavs and to get on top of the technology. >> reporter: while the faa is considering some exemption for some, they're looking at how to regulate the drones. they also want drone makers to develop technology that can detect a plane in the airspace. norah? >> all right jeff. thank you. and he's locked in a
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a truck driver -- look at this -- had a wild battle with strong winds in kansas. one of the trailers is on the verge of rolling over but the driver makes a great save. look at that turned right and getting the big rig off the road. >> man, he can dry. >> i was going to say, on the backs of trucks they say "how am i doing? call this number." someone should call and say good job. russia's team flopped this
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summer at a the olympics. vladimir pew tib was on ice and did much better. it's a performance that's part of a pattern. charlie, good morning. >> good morning to you. considering the crisis in ukraine and the blame russia is getting for causing it the russian president has his hands full. but if anything it's business as usual in vladimir putin's world. pot putin took to the ice with the kind of confidence with the only confidence when you know you simply cannot lose. he stacked his team with former pros, but it was putin's performance, specially wide open with not one but two hat tricks six goals and led to 21 of his opponent s opponents. >> we have no winners and no losers, he said. it's a friendly game it's show. that show is a part of a long
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weekend flexing mushing. military and otherwise as they celebrated missile day. rows of missiles and tents russellruss rustled through. declaring it with us now part of a motherland. state media made a big deal of putin's big shtick noting it was one of the latest of the 60-year-old's triumphs. the judo champion bareback horseback riding nailing the butterfly in the ice cold lakes, all parts of putin's personal agenda of tough guy. gone are the days of the previous president's drinking. his $50 billion gamble on the
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winter olympics that paid off. >> despite international criticism over eye crane, president putin's ratingset at home hit 85% although that may have charged recently as sanctions begin to take a toll. >> he's quite a showman. >> a friendly game where his team wins 21-4 and he gets two hat tricks. ment. high pressure expected to send those temperatures soaring today, getting very hot the next couple of days. out the door we go. we've got mostly clear skies all the way to the coastline this morning. we've got that high pressure ridge and those offshore winds combining. it starts to get on the hot side. 70s near the beaches today. a few plenty of 80s inside the bay. 90s in the valley. hotter near triple digit as we get into wednesday and cooling down the temperatures. more fog next weekend.
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this is a kpix 5 5 morning update. good morning. it's 7:56. i'm michelle agree django. an infant is in stable condition after a near drowning at a people's swimming pool -- family's swimming pool. someone called 9-1-1. family members were trying to revive the child. then police took over until paramedics arrived. if your commute takes you to the golden gate pay extra attention. things have changed. construction crews have moved the last san francisco exit up by # ,000 1,000 feet. if you miss it you have to drive all the way across the golden gate bridge. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment.
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coliseum. the accident is approaching the 5th street exit and a big rig is blocking the slow lane with a broken axle. expect big traffic tieups this morning. here's a live look at the golden gate bridge. things are flowing smoothly between san francisco and marin county. northbound 101, they've moved up the last exit out of san francisco so causing confusion for drivers and 1/2 one lane blocked. big delays. that's the latest from here. here's lawrence karnow. temperatures starting off cool. numbers in the 50s mainly. by the afternoon we're going to see hot temperatures. high pressure overhead. the clear skies all the way to the coastline, some 90s showing up in the valleys. 80s inside the bay. some 70s near the coastline. i think the next couple of days near record heat, maybe near triple digits by wednesday, foggy skies next weekend.
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good morning to our viewers in the west. it's monday, may 12th 2014. welcome back to "cbs this morning." more real news ahead, including a video that may show the kidnapped nigerian school girls for the first time since they were taken. first, here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> a source tells cbs news that this video is a coded message. that they are ready for a prison swap. >> in addition to the tornados and the strong winds, parts of the state also saw record rainfall. >> in this interview, sterling says that he was baited by his girlfriend to make those racist comments. >> i'm wrong. if the owners feel i deserve another chance then they'll give it to me.
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>> supporters of the pro-russian separatist movement are calling this a sweeping victory, but the ukrainian government and many in the international community have called the vote a farce. >> in los angeles, chaos and gunfire at the universal city walk mall early this morning next to the famed movie studio. >> the washington monument is back to business. it reopens today. >> the faa is examinering some exceptions for some industries and how everyday hobbyists use drones. >> if anything escapades on ice just really shows it's business as usual in vladimir putin's world. >> just a friendly game where his team wins 21-4 and he gets two hat tricks. >> that's what you can do when you have power. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. nigerian officials say a new
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video showing kidnapped school girls are under way. the kidnappers released this video this morning. >> it appears to show some of the girls for the very first time since last month's abduction. it also shows boko haram's leader saying he would swap the girls for prisoners. debora patta is in nigeria and says they may negotiate with them. people in the middle of the country are dealing with rain wind and snow. a wildfire destroyed 75 homes in the texas panhandle. thousands of people are being told to evacuate near lake meredith, north of amarillo. it is snowing hard in parts of the rockies. some parts of colorado and wyoming received more than a foot sunday. and the storms brought tornados to kansas missouri and nebraska. several nebraska towns were damaged. the tornado threat continues this morning. meteorologist megan glaros of cbs station wbbm is tracking conditions for us. megan, good morning. >> good morning to you.
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yes, it is this big clash of air masses that's really the problem. you have very warm and muggy air in advance of the cold front and bittery cold air with enough snow to really cause issues across parts of the west. as those air masses collide you get a risk of severe weather which extends from the great lakes all the way down to the mexican border. tornados, large hail damaging winds. we're talking about missouri up through illinois wisconsin and iowa. those storms rev up in the afternoon but we're also looking at new on the back side of the system and not a small amount. we are looking at the potential for as much as two feet of snow in some areas and they can't even take solace in skiing in colorado because at this point most of the ski resorts are already closed. charlie. >> megan, thanks. donald sterling says he does not deserve a lifetime ban from pro basketball. in his first public comments since the nba ban, the los angeles clippers owner
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apologized for using racially charged language but he told cnn's anderson cooper that his girlfriend baited him to talking that way. >> i'm apologizing and i'm asking for forgiveness. am i entitled to one mistake after 35 years? i mean i love my league i love my partners. am my entitled to one mistake? it's a terrible mistake and i'll never do it again. >> why wait so long to apologize? it's been a couple of weeks. >> that's a very good question. i just -- i'm so emotionally distraught. and the reason it's hard for me very hard for me is that i'm wrong. i caused the problem. i don't know how to correct it. >> meanwhile, sterling's wife shelly, tells abc that she will fight to keep her share of the team. the nba says if the owners take away the clippers then shelly
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sterling loses any right to the framplgize. this morning russia says it respects the rule of the people after a vote in two east ukrainian provinces but the kremlin does not plan to annex those provinces. more violence was at a polling station in donetsk on sunday. one man was killed. the vote was organized by pro-russia rebels. they claim 90% support independence from ukraine. ukrainian government and the west call that vote illegal. and there is new doubt this morning in the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. a senior navy officer tells "the wall street journal" that underwater pings detected five weeks ago may not have come from the plane's black boxes. those were captured after another set of pings officials believe came from the plane. >> many families have not received compensation from the airline, but malaysia airlines has received $200 million in insurance money.
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peter reports in the current edition of "fortune" magazine that such a massive payout could be a windful for a carrier. peter greenberg is here. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> how can they have a crash and they make money? >> it happens all the time. this first came to light for me back in 1979. american airlines flight 191, the worst aviation disaster in u.s. history, within three hours of that disaster american airlines received its largest profit in history because they bought the plane back in 1972. they had written it down in book value for seven years. at the time of the crash it was worth $26 million. that's the payout they got. they actually described it later on as an involuntary conversion of a aircraft but it came in as a profit. this goes on and on. pan am in 1988 received a payout of $9 million. even the u.s. miracle on the hudson plane a $22 million payoff within 72 hours of the loss of the plane. >> in the case of malaysian flight 370 where we still don't
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know really what happened how complicated will that be for the families? >> not complicated at all, which is the bad part of the story. they're governed by the montreal convention which was established claims up to $175,000 and that's only limited unless you can prove negligence. the problem here is there is no plane, there is no evidence and there's no way to prove negligence. this may be a situation where the insurance companies don't have to pay off at all. >> peter what about the families? >> families have to wait a long time. there's no provision in any state law in the united states for the awarding of prejudgment interest in wrongful death cases, so there's no real incentive for the insurance companies to settle. historically they never do it quickly. in chicago, families waited six and seven years. in this situation there have been some payments made to the families for basic housing and food and accommodations but those aren't the settlement payments. that comes later. >> there's no way to expedite the process for the families? >> no because there's no
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incentive for the insurance companies to do it. >> is there any way to create incentive? >> it has to know legislated. >> it could be terrible to say that the insurance companies may be hoping that we don't find out what caused this crash? >> there's whole insurance with the loss of plane. they get paid off in 72 hours. >> is that because of law. >> that's the way policies have been written. then there's liability insurance, that's wrongful death. but you have to prove negligence to get a big payoff. in the united states in the average payoffs are between $3 million and $5 million per case. in malaysian air, it could be $175,000 spread out over a number of years. last there's war risk and terrorism insurance. if there's no plane and there's no evidence war risk and terrorism doesn't get paid off and you can't litigate negligence because you can't prove anything. >> and how do they decide how much families get paid? does geography matter? >> it matters a lot. a dc-4 was sliced in two.
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interestingly half of the plane fell on the virginia side half fell on the d.c. side. virginia had a cap on how much you could collect. d.c. didn't. so it all depended on literally where you fell. >> thanks peter. >> still no answer that's what's so mind boggling to me. still no answer in this crash. thank you, peter greenberg. former secretary of state, hillary clinton, said no one had a bigger influence in her life than her mom. in an kpermt from her new memoir she remembers dorothy rodham and the lessons that she learned. >> having her so close became a source of great comfort to me especially in the difficult period after the end of the 2008 campaign. i'd come home from a long day at the senate or the state department, slide in next to her at the small table in our breakfast nook and let everything just pour out. mom measured her life by how much she was able to help us and serve others.
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i knew if she was still with us she would be urging us to do the same. never rest on your laurels, never quit never stop working to make the world a better place. that's our unfinished business. >> and she says no one did more to shape the person she became than dorothy rodham. she passed away in 2011. it is being published by simon and schuster that's owned by cbs. chelsea clinton said the same thing about her grandmother, the influence that they are grandmother had on her. >> i think we'll hear more and more about how difficult it was for her to face the consequences of the 2008 election. >> yes. and she says she was down in the dumps, that's my word using that down in the dumps and how much her mother really helped her during that period. that was interesting about how she would come home and pour her heart out to her mother by her side. also talking about unfinished business, of course.
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>> which leaves that question. >> very nice. it's now 8:10 closing in on 8:11. ahead on "cbs this morning" the creative genius behind "king of the hill" and "beavis and butthead." how a new tv comedy is attracting big names in high beautiful sunny skies around the bay area. all the way to the coastline it's going to be nice and clear. we've got some sunshine, the offshore winds are blowing. that means it is going to be warm in many spots today and getting hot in some of the valleys. these temperatures topping out near the coastline up into the 70s. you'll see 80s inside the bay. 90 degrees in concord and 92 in fairfield. could see records fall, going it get near 100 degrees by wednesday.
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he was paid a record $125,000 for his appearance. that's nearly $1 million in today's money. >> i get it. elvis and frank sinatra. >> i'd like to be in that room. they seemed to have a good time charlie, that rat pack. >> it was a fun time for them. >> they seemed to do okay. of high school graduation speakers. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." >> always keep people in your life who don't quite understand what it is you do. it will keep you humble. you're never as important as you think you are. >> announcer: this portion of
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increase the bottom line. manuel bojorquez takes us along for a boat ride and a taste. >> reporter: these california wine makes are hitting the waters of charleston, south carolina, in search of wine. six months ago gus ta voer gonzalez and jim dykes sank six bottles of their cabernet solve ig nonto the bottom of the harbor. it's an experiment in aging, whether wine stored under water can age faster than on land. >> people are desperate for ready-to-drink really fine wine. they don't want to wait five years. >> reporter: they were inspired partly by stories of those who were shepwrecked and picks this water at 65 degrees. if this experiment works, they're hoping it will give their wine a key advantage in a $34 billion industry. >> if we can change the way an
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entire industry thinks about aging wine, i think that would be a game changer. two dierchers worked for hours to locate the wine in the murky water. >> you must feel like a kid on christmas morning right now. >> no question. we're very, very excited to pull this up and see. >> feechbl they spotted the first case. it's taken all day to locate and retrieve the seven cases, but now comes the real test. dyke gonzalez and two sew moll yeahs tested it one aged on land, one under water. their last experiment was success. the underwater wine tasted as if it had aged two years than on land. but this time they found their harbor aged wine actually tasted younger. >> kind of slowed it down made the wine more youthful. >> reporter: dyke and gonzalez
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said it's difficult to predict ageing of wine under water such as temperature, water, weather. >> we're not sure what factors to what but we're keen on figuring it out. >> reporter: some might look at this as a gimmick. what do you say to them? >> it's important that you see the different in the two wines and almost everybody does whether it's in the aroma, taste, and definitely color. there's something there. we'll try to figure it out. firefighter "cbs this morning," manuel bojorquez, charleston south carolina. >> what's interesting is they ee trying to find new answers. >> right now they're going never mind. we'll try something else. >> actually they say it was younger.
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>> warby parker is this a kpix 5 morning update. i'm frank mallicoat. time now 8:25. let's get you updated on some headlines around the bay area. a baby is recovering after nearly drowning in concord. the infant ended up in the family swimming pool last night. family members trying to revive the child until paramedics arrived. confused commuters could be getting on the golden gate bridge by mistake. it was moved up a thousand feet. drivers who miss it have to go across the bridge and come back and pay toll to get back to the city. the 49ers are battling joe montana over parking area at levi stadium in santa clara. montana's company plans to build a big hotel development across the street. that could take parking spots away from the 49ers. they don't like that. the team has threatened to
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on may 16, barbara walters will make her last debut on "the view" so we thought we'd take a look back at some of barbara's moments. >> i'm barbara wawa. >> if you were a man, i bead all over you like butter on beans. >> and now please welcome barbara walters. >> what an honor it was to see my groundbreaking career in journalism reduced to a cartoon character with a ridiculous voice. >> oh. i'm sorry. we're huge fans and you've always been a personal inspiration to me as a news anchor. >> well, but i'm a real news anchor. >> you're a co-host on "the
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view." >> that's a fair point, yeah. >> barbara has a great sense of humor. friday is her last day. >> do you tlirng will be a few parties for barbara? >> i think will be a couple. well deserved too j welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour have you ever wondered why glasses are so expensive? i'll go first. yes. the men behind warby parker say they don't have to be. the co-founders are in our toyota green room today. we'll take a look at how they're making them cool and affordable and why they're moving beyond online sales. plus mike judd the creator of beavis & butthead wasbegan his career as a silicon worker that. ee ahead. the britain telegraph says
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short men live longer. they're more likely to carry the longevity gene. of those under survey those under 5'2" had the best chance of reaching old age. the hewn chronicle says a high school student was allowed to bring a cheerleader. he broke up with his girlfriend and tweeted a cheerleader. if i get 10,000 retweets will you go with me. she didn't wait to say yes. this is great story. he's not even a star football player. he rides the bench, his girlfriend brook up with him and he was like take that. >> good for him. >> i think so. el innordegren went to night school at rollins college in florida. she earn add bash lower's degree is n psychology and got straight as. elin said a lot of things happened after she went back to school.
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>> today, nine years later, i'm a proud american and i have two beautiful children. but i'm no longer married. and it was right after i had taken communication in the media i was unexpectedly thrust into the media limelight and i probably should have taken more notes in my class. >> colleges around the country are celebrating the class of 2014. a wide wage of leaders offered advice for graduates this weekend. their speeches range from the practical to the inspirational to the out of this world. >> i'm in a weightless environment, so maybe i should give this speech in a different orientation orientation. >> always keep people in your life who don't quite understand what it is that you do. it will keep you humble.
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you're never as important as you think you are. >> education is still the key to real and lasting freedom. it is still true today. so it is now up to us to cultivate that hunger for education in our own lives and in those around us. >> so let me be clear. america needs you. it needs each of you if it hopes to remain what it is and what it needs to be. we are and have it within us to remain exceptional. but you've got unlimited. so only one thing. don't listen to the cynics. >> i want you to be fearless. idecisive.
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i want you to make the decision right now that when you fail and you fall to your knees, i want you to remember the power of you and want you to get back up on your feet. >> at the end of our lives, we may simply ask ourselves a question. did i make a difference? my wish for each of you is that your answer will be yes. >> i love graduation speeches. >> i love you in glasses. >> what did you say about these glasses the other day? >> we have that librarian thing where we want to see her put her hair up and take off her glasses and spin her head. our subject must be glasses. >> do you two need some time alone. i wear glasses every day or often and you never say nothing about my glasses. you want me to put my hair up
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and spin around and say, hey, charlie. >> your library book is overdue. you need a fine. graduate students decided to sell glasses online. today warby parker is the most innovative. it awards over 100 styles at beginning, get this $95, yes, that is with the lenses and for every pair of glasses sold the company donate as pair to charity. >> the company is also expanding beyond its five online roots. david gilboa and nathan are the co-founders. i say bless you, my child. you recognize these. these are the prestons. so when i first heard about this, i thought, there's no way you can do it. but you all said glasses should not cost more than an ipad and you decided to disrupt the industry and disrupt is a word
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you like to use. >> we love an old industry where margins have gotten big and we found a way to design our own glasses and manufacture them and thanks to the internet go direct to the consumers wart by warbyparker.com. these are like $1,000. i'm pretty blind. these glasses are about $150 $175. why are these glasses so expensive and these not as expensive. what's the key? >> simply we cut out the middle man. the technology behind the glasses was admitted over 800 years ago. there's no reason glasses need to cost several hundred dollar. we create our own brand, design right in the house. we have no middle man. we sell directly through our website and pass the savings on to consumers. >> this is so interesting.
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look. sought ka a company that lesley stahl did a piece on, they own so many glasses. >> there's massive concentration in the industry and most consumers don't realize that if you walk into a store like sunglass hut and lens crafters, that those are all owned by the same company that probably owns the store that you're standing in that probably holds the vision insurance that you pay for those glasses. >> they own all of it. >> yes. >> they make them and use their own brand name. >> exactly. >> where do you make your glasses? >> we produce the frames both in china and then in italy. we cut tej glasses in new york ohio and texas. >> but now you plan to do more brick and mortar stores. how come? >> we found that customers want it. for us it's sort of like this triple play in that it elevated the brand because people walk into the store and help experience the brand. it helps raise awareness because we've done it in neighborhoods
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like soho or meat pack district where tourists come and then they're incredibly profitable for us because we end up sells so many glasses. it goes to show you if you create a beautiful piece and beautiful experience you'll sell. >> one of the core values of your company that i really like is inject fun and quirkiness in everything you do. light right there on the wall. let me hear something fun and quirky about you. i'm talking to you. >> so when each of our employees start, we have them stand up and tell us one fact about themselves and so one of mine was that i ran the norkew york marathon in a flamingo costume. it was a suit i wore the night before for a halloween party. >> and you like hall & oates. >> i do.
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big fan. >> say it with pride. don't look down. say it with pride. >> thanks for disrupting the eyeglass industry for those of us that are four eyes. we appreciate it. and he skured the office workplace. now mike judge is now funding beautiful sunny skies around the bay area. look at alcatraz. we've some sunshine. it is going to be warm in many spots and getting hot in some of the valleys. these temperatures topping out even near the coastline into the 70s there. you'll see 80s inside the bay, 90 degrees in concord and 92 in fairfield. could see records fall in the next couple of days. near 100 degrees by wednesday.
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the new hbo series lauchbed the next google. anthony mason sat down with the co-creator, mike judge. anthony, good morning. >> good morning, norah. for his first nonanimated tv series, mike judge is going back to his roots. before becoming a success elf writer and director jum was an engineer working in the same industry where the next billion-dollar idea is just an algorithm away. the new hbo series "silicon valley" is a comedic look at the culture of tech. >> let's think different. don't think different. >> reporter: and the often overlooked industry of billionaires. >> we wanted to start this series out kind of showing exactly what to me is fascinating about this world is that these guys who are
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introverted programmer types are suddenly making a ton of money and they suddenly want kid rock in their backyard and they can make it happen and see how awkward it is. >> and how awkward they are. >> yes exactly. >> it's amazing how the men and women always separate. >> the show's co-creator is familiar with them and their language. he worked as a palo alto programmer after college and physics. >> do you think it's different than when you were there? >> i think it's a little different. the tech is different. the personalities are very similar. the cultures are similar for the most part. >> reporter: judge didn't someday in silicon valley for long. he found another calling. an machlgs his beavis & butthead were a break outhit.
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"rolling stone" calls the troubled teens the voice of a new generation. >> reporter: why do you think u it resonated so much? >> i'm not sure. i was just kind of tapping intoe those teenagers are everywhere. >> reporter: with the rev any he received including king of the hill, judge moved to live action feature films. but the first, 1999's office space starring jennifer aniston didn't draw big numbers at the box office. >> how did you feel about the initial reaction? >> i bummed out. up to that point beavis & butt-head show was a big hit and
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king of the hill was a big hit. i thought, what does he think he's doing live action for. >> "office space" ultimately found its audience. they took it from cult classic to certificate finally hit and ""entertainment weekly"" named it amongst the top 25 fill films in the last 25 years. >> my first official purchase. >> reporter: it center on a small startup company. >> i don't think people think of most engineers as funny. >> no, and they're really not. >> are you dressed like steve jobs. >> oh, am i? >> i think the challenge of this actually yields really interestinging funny stuff and there really is a lot of funny absurdity to this world. >> reporter: reviews for this show have been strong, but this first season has not been without its challenges. >> it was very sad but you ended up losing a cast member in the
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middle of this. >> yes. chris evan walsh which came as a shock to us. >> i cannot guide you until you give me something to guide. sort of the breakout character for us. he was just a brilliant interpretation. yeah it's really sad on many levels. >> what did i buy? >> judge said the show's characters including venture capitalist based on welch aren't anyone in real life but cameos feature google executives like eric schmidt, and silicon valley derives mump of its future at the peculiar practices of big tech. did you find that there was a lot of curiosity in silicon valley as to what you were up to? >> yeah. >> do you think they were worried? >> maybe. >> should they be worried? >> they have so many billions i
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don't think they worried about hollywood too much. thank should be worried about what they think of us. >> hbo has already renewed silicon valley for the next season. it's begun filming last month. >> it's a new one for me. >> it's interesting. judge actually thought about doing this show back during the tech bubble back during the late '90s but, of course the bubble broke and he abandoned the whole idea. it's an important part of our country. that ice why i started watching it. i thought, do they really live in houses like that and live like that? they do. >> it's tough making comedy
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is this a kpix 5 morning update. i'm frank mallicoat. it's 8:55678955. let's get you updated. an infant in stable condition this morning after a near drowning accident at a family swimming pool in concord. emergency crews rushed to the home in the east bay after a caller said an infant had drowned last night. family members trying to revive the child until paramedics arrived. if your commute takes you near the golden gate bridge, pay extra attention because things have changed a bit. construction crews have moved the very last san francisco exit up by a thousand feet. if you missed it, you're going to have to drive all the way across the golden gate bridge, pay the toll and come back. >> how about the weather. it's beautiful out there. >> gorgeous start to the morning. lots of sunshine to the coastline. going to stay that way today and the next few days. going to get hot in spots.
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we'll see high pressure overhead and the offshore winds blowing clearing out your skies. looking beautiful over san francisco. that ridge of high pressure going to dominate our weather. could bring us record breaking temperatures into the next couple of days. so by the afternoon, starting to get hot in some of the valleys up into the 90s there. we'll see plenty of 80s even inside the bay as high as 84 in oakland, 89 in san jose, 88 in redwood city and 79 degrees san francisco and 75 in pacifica. maybe some 80s near the coastline, upper 90s getting near 100 degrees and some of the hottest spots by wednesday. on thursday a much needed breeze likely to return. the temperatures much cooler, more fog over the weekend. we're going to check out your traffic coming up next.
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good morning there was an earlier crash in downtown san jose. even though the accident's cleared it's backed up from 101 to wolf. that's where the heaviest delays are. and outside a huge traffic jam coming up northbound 880. the delays begin right around 92 and continue up to your downtown oakland exit. the drive time is so long, 73 minutes from 238 to the maze. be careful. have a great day.
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wayne: i get to pick a box i get to pick a box! jonathan: it's a diamond ring! (screaming) wayne: bringing sexy back to daytime. jonathan: it's a trip to the bahamas. (screaming) - this is so crazy! - “let's make a deal” coming up let's go! jonathan: it's time for “let's make a deal.” now here's tv's big dealer wayne brady! wayne: hey america, welcome to “let's make a deal.” i'm your host wayne brady, thanks for tuning in. this is super deal week. we're not just making deals, we're making super deals. get it right. if one of our traders wins the big deal of the day they are eligible to play for the super deal where they have a one in three shot of winning an additional $50,000 in cash. these people came ready. are you ready? (cheering) who wants to make a deal? three people, let's go! with the lederhosen. you, lady. kalynn? ralynn? come
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