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wait. >> better start practicing. >> i know. thanks for watching. good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, june 11 2014. welcome to "cbs this morning." a tea party takedown. house majority leader eric cantor voted out of office sending shock waves through washington. >> and president obama loses his patience after another deadly school shooting. >> plus fake fedex trucks police cars and school buses all filled with struggled drugs. >> but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> this is a miracle from god. [ cheers and applause ] >> a stunning political upset in virginia. >> house majority leader eric cantor defeated by tea party
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darling dave brat. >> this wasn't even close. >> voters apparently angry over immigration reform. >> i know there's a lot of long faces here. obviously we came up short. >> we got shots fired. >> there's still no motive for a deadly school shooting in oregon. a high school student killed a classmate and himself. >> our levels of gun violence are off the charts. the country has to do some soul searching about this. >> iraq's second biggest city taken over by islamist militants. >> questions expected for chuck hagel at a house hearing about the bergdahl exchange. >> millions saw this ad during last night's nba finals game and it calls for the redskins to change its name. >> native americans call themselves many things. the one thing they don't. >> shelley sterling's attorney
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will ask a probate court wednesday to help expedite the sale of the clippers. >> a scene in texas a 4,000 square foot home is colleging to the edge of a cliff. >> and richard dunn shot this music music video. ♪ all by myself ♪ >> the motorcycle jumps right over an airplane. >> what a stunt. >> we don't want you trying this at home. >> and all that matters. >> let's just say you had the 40 million. who is to say you would be a happier or better person? >> i think i might be a happier person. [ laughter ] >> on "cbs this morning." >> women i'm not kidding, tramp on street k, white, young, o you get to work with rose every day. what's he like? >> he's very good. i'll leave it at that. >> this morning's "eye opener"
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presented by toyota, let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." good morning, norah. >> good morning, charlie. what a stunner. >> the political stunner or gayle's dress? >> that, too. >> a political earthquake shaking up things across the country. eric cantor lost his congressional seat in a gop primary vote last night. >> as i said it was a stunning defeat for republican leaders and a triumph for tea party activists who supported the challenger dave brat. nancy cordes is on capitol hill where almost nobody expected this result. >> reporter: this is unprecedented. eric cantor was considered a shoe-in. he was the second most powerful republican in the house. he outspent his opponent 40-1
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and still lost by an astounding 11 points. >> obviously we came up short. >> reporter: the stunned house majority leader kept his concession speech brief. >> it's disappointing, sure but i believe in this country, i believe there's opportunity around the next corner for all of us. >> reporter: cantor was batten by a little-known economic professor namd dave brat who spent $122,000 to kantor's $5 million. >> dollars do not vote you do. >> reporter: brat campaigned for cutting spending and against comprehensive party reform. cantor himself was one of the treat party's earliest and most vocal backers. >> rather what the tea party acronym stand for, it's taxed enough already. >> reporter: but cantor angered
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some by backing legislation that would grant legal status to some immigrants brought to the u.s. as children. >> it's an issue of decency. >> one called it an apocalyptic moment while the chair of the democratic national committee said it's clear the gop has redefined far right. >> this is truly a political earthquake. >> reporter: but virginia political export says his defeat may have more to do with his own ambition. >> everyone knew for years he wanted to be speaker of the house. unfortunately for him it's caused him to plim flopflip flop and go back and forth a a lot. his image became buzzfuzzy because he tried at times to be all things to all people. >> reporter: and house republican leadership already top republicans are jockeying for his position as house majority leader and for his
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title as heir apparent to speaker of the house, john boehner, who many respect will retire sometime in the next couple of year. >> cbs political director john dickerson is in washington this morning. good morning to both of you. frank, why didn't eric cantor see this coming when other republican establishment members did see it coming and fought it back? >> right now there are 230 house republicans who are waking up praying they do no have the eric cantor's pollster. honestly, i'm one of them. we republican pollsters suck. we have no ability to be able to analyze the electorate. his pollster told him 12 days ago he was going to win by 34 points, and then he loses by 10. number one, he didn't even see it coming. >> mitt romney's pollster told him he was going to win. >> it was pollsters. there's something -- you have to be able to analyze who is actually going to vote and who is going to participate but it's
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deeper than that. this is also about this anti-washington mood that still exists. if the candidates come home and spend time in their districts and campaign hard like mitch mcconnell did, like lindsey graham did these are people who survived very tough primaries, down in texas, the texas senator. eric cantor never thought he had a problem so he wasn't as much back in his district. he was out helping republicans all across the country. >> this has huge implications john. a top republican said to me last night this means immigration reform is 100% dead. is that how you see it? >> yes, although it was 99.5% dead because even before this you had a lot of -- in february i talked to a house leadership aide and they said look the chamber of commerce wants immigration reform lobbyists want immigration reform but they can't primary a member of congress. what they were saying essentially is sthe don'tthey don't
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have the power the grass roots have to put a challenger up against a sitting member of congress. that fear of a challenger is what keeps members of congress nervous and from doing anything bold or different than what their constituents want. that was the fear in february. now we've seen a race where even if you've got the power and the money of the majority leader and you've been in congress for seven terms, you can still get walloped by a grass roots candidate. and this was a true grass roots candidate. he wasn't just propped up by a bunch of elites claiming to speak for the tea party. this was a person who grew right out of that district. >> so what is does it mean for the republican party and for president obama after the mid-term elections? >> you had eric cantor who had a very good relationship with joe biden, had open lines of communication. i think for the gop it's going to be very dangerous now for a republican to talk to democrats, as it was democrats to talk to republicans a few years ago, that this is a blow for conversation this is a blow for some sort of cooperation and i think it's bad for the country,
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not just bad for the republicans. >> i'm curious about what it means, though for the mid term and for the 2016 presidential race. if immigration reform is dead totally dead, what does it mean for the republican party's efforts to regain a standing with hispanic voters? >> it's going to be very tough. when mitt romney used the phrase "self-deportation," that was the end for a lot of latinos. the challenge for the gop to appeal -- not just to latinos but middle age women in suburbs who see how republicans relate to other groups and that's hough they -- how they decide does the gop care about them. >> are we making too much of one election here in terms of the republican party? >> well that's what we do so yes, we are. but, charlie, we're not the only ones. members of congress and those running in 2016 are going to take lessons from this too. the lesson is do not get too far from what your base wants. so i think -- >> that's not a new lesson. >> no it's not a new lesson but
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some people got it two or three feet away. now it's going to be two or three inches at best. there has been a back and forth in the republican party about how much the noise from the activists really matters. and this is a big win for the activists. and in 2014 there are a lot of candidates that have won by listening to those activists, so-called establishment candidates who have won by appealing to tea party voters. in 2016 what will be interesting is what are the tests that show you are a candidate of principle and there will be a real fight to show i am more principled than you are and that tends to push parties to their most extreme areas because everybody's trying to be more principled than the other. that's part of what caught mitt romney up in the primaries last time around. >> and it's part of what americans are fed up with. i think this is such a great loss, not just for virginia but for the country. eric cantor had the ability to negotiate. he had the ability to sit toe to toe and make concessions and make agreements. maybe that hurt him in the primary but that's exactly what
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we need in washington and now we're losing it. >> and as norah said to me he was a pipeline to wall street too, and raising money. >> and he was a pipeline to americans to just wanted people to get things done and we've lost that leadership in washington. >> thank you both. very interesting. >> and police in oregon are searching for a motive this morning after a deadly school shooting outside portland. cbs news confirms the gunman at reynolds high school was a male student. he shot and killed a freshman before apparently taking his own life. brent weisberg is in troutdale, oregon where a teacher's actions are being called heroic. brent, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. today was supposed to be the last day of school for students here but now the campus will be closed indefinitely as authorities piece together what exactly happened here and why. the gunfire began at 8:00 a.m. wednesday morning at reynolds high school, less than a half hour east of portland.
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the chaos was captured on police scanner reportings. >> all we have at this point is possibly wearing a flak jacket. original report said black and red helmet. >> 14-year-old freshman emilio hoffman was found in the gym's locker room. >> i met with emilio's parents this afternoon. they want you to know that emilio was a great kid and he was loved by all. >> reporter: multiple police units quickly arrived on scene. students filed out with their hands in the air, including this student who heard two of the gunshots. >> we all ran into the weight room hallway and hid and locked the doors. there was a bunch of gunshot everywhere. >> reporter: the suspect was a student at the school. his body later found in a nearby rest room. he apparently took his own live. pe teach esh todder todd rispler was
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hit but not injured. >> it feels so personal. i know we will get through this. we have a very safe school district. we'll become even safer. >> and late yesterday the portland police bureau said its officers would be increasing their presence at city schools throughout the metro. they say that will happen for the remainder of the school year. >> brent, thanks. >> there have been at least 74 school shootings in the united states since the attack in newtown, connecticut, 18 months ago. one gun control group is keeping count. president obama said in a chat "we should be ashamed of that."
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>> we're the only developed country on earth where this happens and it happens now once a week. the country has to do some soul searching about this. this is becoming the norm and we take it for granted in ways that as a parent are terrifying to me. >> the president also admitted his effort to pass stronger gun laws had failed. he said change will only be possible when the public demands it. >> an investigation continues this morning after one of the deadliest friendly fire tragedies in the afghanistan war. five american troops were killed monday in southern afghanistan. a b-1 bomb are mistakenly dropped an explosive on their unit after a taliban ambush. four of the dead are now identified. 22-year-old justin clouse of washington is remembered as quiet leader. 25-year-old justin helton of ohio was engaged. 24-year-old scott studdenmund
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was a trained sniper and aaron toppen of illinois was 19 the youngest of three children. >> in iraq where american troops left more than two years ago, insurge engtsjge ents are making a comeback this morning. holly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. americans fought and died in the struggle for control of mosul, but now the city has fallen to islamic extremists another disaster for iraq's government which continues to lose its grip on power across entire swaths of the country. islamic extremists overran mosul, easily overpowering government forces despite their u.s.-supplied weaponry. some iraqi soldiers reportedly dropped their guns and ran. the militants already controlled parts of the surrounding province where these propaganda
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videos show them using roadside bombs. mosul is crucial to iraq's oil industry and prime minister nouri al maliki called for peace. this started out as an al qaeda affiliate. just across the border they're e broiled in syria's bloody war where they've carried out executions in the name of islamic law. even al qaeda has condemned this group for excessive violence. the group's fighters come from across the middle east and also include hundreds of european muslims. their goals is to establish an islamic state.
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isis is straddling syria, iraq and is moving fighters across the borders. this civil war has helped to breed a new generation of islam being ex islamic extremists. >> the ball gets rolling tomorrow at the world cup in brazil. we go to brazil outside the stadium where the opening game will be played. elaine, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. brazil has had seven years to prepare for the world cup, a chance for this country to earn some respect on the world stage, but the deadline is practically here and at stadiums like the one behind me there is still a lot of unfinished business. brazil has poured more than $11 billion into making the world cup a success. but in the 12 cities where the
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matches will be played construction delays have meant a last- last-minute rush to prepare airports roads and stadiums. crews in sao palo were still working to get the stadium ready in time to host thursday's match. getting to the stadium will be a challenge. the streets are notorious for major gridlock. just days before kickoff, a monorail under construction and behind schedule collapsed, killing one worker. american professor chris gaffney lives in rio de janeiro. he's been studying the country's cup preparations and its attempt for transformation. >> people love the world cup as a world event but the fifa event is new to brazil and has generated a lot of disenchantment.
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>> reporter: at this protest in sao palo activists protested against the spending. this activist says working class fans can't afford the sky high ticket prices to home team games and in the long run most brazilians won't benefit from the new stadium. >> some people are losing their houses losing their lives and in the end we're not even automobile toable to watch the game so i think the message is this is not for you. >> reporter: on tuesday night, brazil's president delivered a nationally televised speech defending the game. sheep she said despite the protests and strikes, every brazilian should support the national team as it prepares to play its first match tomorrow. >> coming up we'll sea breeze cranking up. lots of sunshine coming our way
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search area today to try and find the cal student. 23-year-old co good morning. it's 7:26. i'm frank mallicoat. here's what's happening around the bay area right now. crews are expanding their search area today to try and find the cal student, 23-year- old cody matthews, who disappeared after he was dropped off at his family cabin last week. he was last heard from on friday. measure to raise the minimum wage in san francisco is going on the november ballot. the plan announced by the mayor ed lee and the coalition for fair economy would raise the minimum wage in stages beginning with $12.25 an hour by may of 2015. san jose's now closed century 21 movie theater is a landmark. the original dome on winchester boulevard closed in march after 50 years. traffic and weather coming up after the break.
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heading to the bay bridge toll plaza, you'll be waiting for a good half hour or so just to get on the bay bridge. the metering lights are turned on at 5:45. and we're starting to see some delays around the berkeley curve as you come along the eastshore freeway and westbound 580 jammed through the 24 interchange. san mateo bridge starting to slow as well from the san mateo bridge toll plaza and all along the flat section of the span on westbound 92. looks good. foggy across the golden gate. 10-minute delays on the daly city bart line. that's your latest "kcbs traffic." here's lawrence. all right. some patchy fog around the bay area this morning. the sea breeze heads back. looks like going to be sticking around for the next couple of days. clouds over san francisco, although it's broken just a bit. we have fog and it's going to pull back to the coastline today leaving lots of sunshine but cooler weather behind. still you will see some 70s and some low 80s well inland. about 75 in san jose. 62 and cool and breezy in san francisco. cooler tomorrow then warming up over the weekend. ♪ ♪
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♪ all by myself don't want to be all by myself anymore ♪ he was truly all by himself at mccarron airport friday so richard dunn decided to make a music video. why not. he shot the entire thing on his smartphone. it showed him prancing bought the empty terminal and lip syncing to celine dion's "alls about bimyself-- all by myself." >> why is he at the airport by himself. >> maybe his missed his flight.
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>> or maybe he wanted to make a music video. >> coming up hiding in plain sight. rolling down american highways to keep millions of pounds of narcotics on the move. >> plus our legal analyst jack ford is here in studio 57. he's all by himself, too. we'll be waiting for you, jack. the fallout from schools and unions across the country. that's coming up. >> it really is a big, big story. this is going to have a big impact on education. >> but first, time to show you some of this morning's headlines. europe's taxi drivers are protesting the app uber. those drivers claim uber has an unfair advantage because it's not subject to fees and regulations. cab drivers in los angeles demonstrated on tuesday. >> politico says the house unanimously passed a bill making
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it easier for veterans to receive medical care allowing them to seek treatment outside the system. the senate is expected to vote on a similar measure tomorrow. >> the "huffington post" says toyota is repeating a recall of over 2 million vehicles. most were recalled last year to fix front passenger air bags. this includes the 2003 and 2004 corolla, the corolla matrix and tundra sequoias and lexus scs are also being called back. >> and "usa today" says hillary clinton is backing away from a statement she and her husband were dead broke after his presidency. the former secretary of state said tuesday she understands other people's struggles. the clintons' bottom line is now a conservative talking point
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the jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. republicans yesterday had a field day with her suggestions that she and her husband had some serious money problems when they left the white house. like a lot of former politicians, hit the speaking circuit to bring in the cash. since leaving the white house 14 years ago, the clintons have pulled in more than $100 million, simply by giving speeches. >> the most important thing to keep growing the economy. >> what are the hard choices we're going to take? >> reporter: on top of that another $30 million to $40 million in book contracts and royalties. all that money has come into sharp focus after mrs. clinton was put on defensive about her income. >> we came out of the without not only dead broke but in debt. we had no money when we got there and we struggled to piece to the the resources for mortgages, for house, for chelsea's education. it was not easy. >> reporter: republican critics pounced saying what's dead broke
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to the clintons isn't what ordinary americans face. and that debt was owed mainly to lawyers. there was whitewater that looked into the company's failed real estate investment in arkansas. then the monica lewinsky scandal. >> there is no comparison to presidents in other times. >> senate disclosure forms reveal the clintons owed almost $11 million in legal fees. after leaving office mr. clinton got to work paying off the debt, eventually earning more than $500,000 a speech. high-powered friend pitched in donating thousands to clinton's legal defense fund like actors rob are the de niro and writer steven keen. >> by 2002 the clintons had less than a million dollars in debt and by 2004 they had put it
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to bed entirely. >> reporter: mrs. clinton is speaking right now in chicago. but political analysts say the criticism that she's out of touch is going to be hard to make stick. >> lawyers for clippers owner donald sterling and his estranged wife faced off in a los angeles courtroom this morning. morning. the issue, is donald sterling competent and can shelley sterling sell the team against his wishes? donald sterling called the league a band of hypocrites and bullies. last night during game three of the nba final, the commissioner said the legal battle over selling the team is now a private matter. >> the next step for the league is to frankly stand back and allow this dispute between donald and shelley sterling to play itself out. >> donald sterling's attorney
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tells cbs this morning his client will fight for his rights. >> mr. sterling reached out to them to try to resolve this and mr. silver kicked him in the pants. i think he's saying if people are going to be kicking me around, i'm going to fight back. >> donald sterling was banned following racist remarks. shelley sterling said she alone owns the trust. she negotiated a deal to sell to steve ballmer for $2 billion. >> i'll be happy with that drama is done. >> enough already. >> enough already. the country's two largest teachers unions are vowing to fight this morning. a los angeles judge ruled tuesday that tenure and other job protections for teachers in california are unconstitutional and the case could have a ripple effect in other states looking to change the way educators are hired and retained. cbs news legal analyst jack ford is here. good morning. >> good morning. >> what exactly did the judge say here? >> what's interesting is this
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decision came from a court, not at the bargaining table or legislatures where you've seen this battle offerver tenure taking place for years now. the judge said look you're not just entitled to access to education, you're entitled to a quality education. a judge looked at the tenure rules here and basically concluded that the tenure rules interfered with the ability of these students to get a quality education. >> what were the students arguing about? they're not getting a quality education because of tenured teachers. >> the vast majority of teachers are good tallented teachers but what do you do about those that aren't? senior rules controlled layoffs and ultimately the judge concluded it was almost impossible to remove an unqualified teach person said it took two years to as many as ten years to do it could cost $250,000.
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the judge said having that it disproportionately affected low-income and minority students. >> i thought it was interesting the judge cited brown versus board of education, saying separate but equal, in that the laws in this case impose a real and aappreciable impact to their fundamental right to education. >> brown versus board of education said you can't be equal and separate. the judge's conclusion was the tenure rule interfered with students getting a quality education. it's not binding on anybody yet. it has to work its way through the appellate process here and then it could be binding on california, but it will be
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influential. others will be taking a look at this saying should we take this approach, too? >> really interesting. >> sorry, folks, i dominated that conversation. i was just so interested. >> all relevant and pertinent. >> all right. your eyes may be tricking you on the road. these legitimate looking trucks are up to no good. how cloned vehicles are hauling real illegal drugs. that's next on "cbs this morning." ♪ i can't wait to get on the road again ♪ if they see that dinner's gonna be good they'll wanna eat it right away. and country crock makes sure your mashed potatoes will be creamy and delicious every time. it stirs in easily, to give mashed potatoes that rich buttery flavor and smooth, creamy texture. no wonder your family loves it. welcome to crock country. where good habits are delicious.
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newest tool for mexican drug traffickers to move their drugs into this country. last year the border agents stopped over 2 million bags of cocaine from coming through. now it's hard to tell because of their cars. anna werner in the battle over cloned vehicles. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the goal for drug traffickers is
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to bring their drugs north. now they're using a more creative method to track the load up the highways and it's one you'll never see coming. when they seized this truck last week it looked dead on. they found drugs in the flatbed. it's what's called a cloned or fake vehicle and while it may seem unusual what i cbs news found may surprise you. the story started back in 2007. as a police officer in the little town ofin texas looked like a texdot truck. what did the truck look like? >> like a typical texdot truck from the plates to the stickers
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insignia. but the license plate belonged to a school district so sergeant jorge medina stopped it. >> as i walked up to the truck, it left. >> reporter: he gave chase and the truck crashed. >> it flipped over and black bundles fell out. >> reporter: the drugs. >> that was the drugs. >> reporter: since then people like this sheriff have been on the lookout. what kinds of vehicles have you seen? >> if you can think of it and name it, we have stopped it. >> reporter: traffickers will seemingly fake any vehicle to transport their drugs from a cloned at&t service truck to a u.s. semi. this halliburton tanker didn't come tain oil at all. and if you're planning for wide
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distribution of your product, why not go for walmart. how good are these fakes? >> some of them are excellent. >> reporter: they've cloned fed ed trucks police cars even a school bus. >> they also have dummies so if it passes by you would not see it. >> correct spelling is essential for those who doan want to be caught. this truck was labeled border patron. >> that's a common vehicle in our area except for what says border patron. someone's got a season of huense of humor as well. >> reporter: so when an ambulance flies by you have to
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wonder too. when they pulled one over they found even a patient. >> border pa trone. >> i think that have to go to school. >> it was more that than a sea breeze cranking up. the fog is back in parts of the bay area. lots of sunshine coming our way by the afternoon and already sunny over san jose. but the temperatures will be cooler into the afternoon. that low pressure center approaching the coastline will help to drop the temperatures over the next couple of days. still comfortable in some of the valley, 77 in concord, 75 san jose, 62 in san francisco. temperatures cooling down tomorrow, warming up on friday and for the weekend. ahead, the first government study of its kind in a decade on fish. finding the healthy balance while keeping mercury off your dinner plate. that's coming up right here on "cbs this morning."
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your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. good morning. it's 7:56. i'm michelle griego. >> today searchers will expand the area where they are trying to find a missing cal student. 23-year-old cody matthews was dropped off at his family's cabin west of lake tahoe last wednesday. he hasn't been heard from since friday before he set out on a hike. matthews had been staying at the cabin alone and his personal belongings are still there. lawyers for raymond "shrimp boy" chow plan to ask the court to release him on bail today. he was arrested as part of the corruption case involving state senator leland yee of san francisco. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment.
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good morning. if you are a silicon valley driver westbound 237, it's unusually heavy right now. it's up to 20 minutes almost 20 minutes in those westbound lanes. it's between milpitas and sunnyvale 880 and 101. no earlier crashes just a lot of congestion. also, westbound 580 you will notice through the livermore valley, very slow. it's slow through north flynn to santa rita and then picks up a little bit. there were a couple of earlier incidents. and 10-minute bart delays from downtown san francisco to the east bay. that's your latest "kcbs traffic." here's lawrence. >> low clouds and fog sweeping back onshore today with a stronger sea breeze outside. looks like some cooler temperatures again and out over the bay now we have some patchy fog. a little sunshine in between. looks like the pattern is changed a bit. high pressure weakening. we have that low approaching the coastline. so that's going to actually deepen the marine layer a little more toward tomorrow. temperatures this afternoon a lot of 70s and low 80s inland. about 50s and 60s cool fog toward the coastline.
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good morning to our viewers in the west. it's wednesday, june 11 2014. welcome back to "cbs this morning." more real news ahead including bob schieffer on a tea party triumph. the number two house republican is knocked out of congress. first today's "eye opener" at 8:00. this is unprecedented in modern history. eric can aretor was considered a shoo-in. >> do not get too far from what your base wants. this is a big win for the activists. >> the campus will be closed indefinitely as authorities piece together what exactly happened and why. americans fought and died in
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the struggle for the gulf but now the city has fallen to islamic extremeistextremists. there's no reason the department could not the provide a notification to congress 30 days before the transfer. i have the authority and the responsibility to determine whether detainees can be transferred to the custody of another kuncountry. >> i take that responsibility, mr. chairman, damn seriously. brazil has had ten years to prepare for the world cup, but there is still a lot of unfinished business. drug traffickers are using this more creative method to transport their loads up these highways, and it's one you'll likely never see coming. you were very excited about kim and kanye. >> i can't wait enough. >> you said you can't wait. i don't know how to break this to you. it's already happened. i'm charlie rose with gayle king and anothernorah o'donnell. the tea party's flying high this morning after a shocking upset in have avirginia's primary. house majority leader eric
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cantor lost his congressional seat last night, a stunning defeat for one of the most powerful republicans in washington. >> the winner is dave brat a college proef backed by tea party activists. he called his victory a miracle from god. that disaround richmond is heavily republican. >> with us host of face the nation bob schieffer. bob, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> bob, is this the case of a congressman who lost sight of his district and paid too much a attention to washington, or is it much more? >> i'm not even sure it's about either of the candidates in this race, charlie. what this is about is the deep and widening divide in the republican party. and it is still deep and it is wider than we had expected even though right after the government shutdown a lot of folks on the tea party side of the republican party kind of lost their luster. this was something that especially those on the the
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establishment side had really hurt the party, they thought. but they are still there and this is the latest example. reports of the death of the tea party as mark twain once said about his own death being reported were greatly exaggerated. >> so define bob, the difference between the fight for the rewran party. >> well, the people on this side of the party are very very frustrated. and they are not -- they don't see compromise as the way to settle things. they don't see making deals with democrats as a way to solve things. they kind of have an idea they want very very low taxes. they absolute areally do not want any kind of immigration reform and they don't see much way that any of what they want is going to get done by making deals with the other side. what they do want is not nearly as clear as what they're against and they're basically against everybody in the establishment and in elected office right now.
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it's going to be very very difficult now for speaker boehner. i think -- i think you'll probably see a very conservative person run now for eric cantor's place in the republican leadership in the house. they may even try to just take on boehner himself directly. that would not surprise me. >> the word is immigration reform is now dead in congress. do you think that too, bob schieffer? >> i think it was already dead. but i think it's even deader if that's the way to put it. i don't think there's any chance now that you'll certainly not see anything this year and this may be the first indication it won't be much happen next year. republicans at the national level and national republican candidates understand the republican party, if it's ever again to elect a president, has to find some way to appeal to hispanics. but most republican congressmen in their districts do not have a very large hispanic vote.
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so voting against reform at the local level and the congressional level is very easy for these republican congressmen. but, again, it just underlines this deep divide in the republican party right now. >> bob schieffer, do you think -- am i the only one that sees dave brat and eric can aretor look a lot alike? do they look alike to you? >> i hadn't really thought about that. >> look at them side-by-side. >> what we have here gayle, we have something that brings new meaning to the fierceness of faculty and poll it particulars because the guy, the democrat now, who is going to face brat in the general election is also a professor at the very same university. >> bob, remember -- >> in have avirginia where this challenger is coming from. >> remember, newt gingrich was a former professor, too. >> but both from the same university.
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haven't had that before. >> bob schieffer, always great to have you. thank you so much. and tomorrow night is game four of the nba finals, but last night basketball viewers in some of america's biggest tv markets watched some football drama. a california-based nateive american tribe made its case for the washington redskins to change the name it has used since 1933. chip reid is it at the team's home stadium, fedex field, in maryland. chip, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning. you know the fight over the redskins' nape has been going on for decades but it picked up steam over the last year and really got going after nba team owner donald sterling made racial comments about african-americans. mao now the tribe that paid for this ad hopes it brings more attention to the issue. the highly produced 60-second ad features an array of native americans and ends with this message. >> native americans call themselves many things. the one thing they don't.
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>> in my circumstanceles the r" word is as bad as the "n" word. >> reporter: the chairman of the wi win it ton nation. his tribe paid to run the ad that ran in seven major markets during tuesday night's nba finals. he is hoping to bring renewed attention to the campaign to rename the washington redskins. >> i think we can use it as a catalyst to bring the awareness of sports fans to the feelings of native people about the mascots. >> reporter: but it's a complicated issue, even within the native american community. "sports illustrated" writer general jenny vorentes spent months covering the story. >> opinions vary across native americans for a lot of different reasons, but the one thing that the team and the nfl will say in that team name debate an overwhelming majority support the name. and that was one thing we found to not be true. >> reporter: we reached out to both the nfl and the washington
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redskins. the league told cbs it has no comment on the ad or the issue. and redskins team representatives did not respond to our request for a statement. but last year team owner daniel snyder said he will never change the name of the team. and in a letter to fans he called it a badge of honor. on may 23rd of this year redskins president bruce allen responded to a letter from 50 senators urging the nfl it to change the name with a letter of his own claiming a majority of native americans do not find the name offensive. in march team owner daniel snyder tried to lower the temperature on this issue by creating a foundation to benefit native americans. his critics say it's a nice gesture but they still want him to change the name. gayle? >> all right, chip, to be kind for sure. thanks a lot. ahead on "cbs this morning," comedian dave chappelle tells david letterman about
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in our in our "morning rounds" fresh advice on fish. the federal government says women who are pregnant or breast-feeding aren't eating enough seafood. 21% of expectant moms don't eat any. >> the recommendations are 8 to 12 ounces per wam. that's two to thee serves. but because of the mercury levels some fish are off limits. dr. rebecca brightman is the assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and fwingynecology at mt. sinai hospital. good morning. >> i like your title. >> thank you. >> so why is it important for pregnant with women to eat the fish? >> it's really important for women to have fish and in the past we've typically warned women there are certain fish to
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avoid. we've told them they can have fish but we've never encouraged it. the interesting thing that's now developed the fda and epa came out with recommendations that women should make sure they have fish and they should have 8 to 12 ounces of fish per week. >> because what does it do for you. >> the fish contains, the fish they're recommending women have contain omega-3 fatty acids and they're very important for fetal brain development, cognitive development, development of vision and things like that. >> i think this is so critically important because brain development is one of the most posh things in young children. it will stay with them for the rest of their life and fish is the best source for these omega fatty acids, right? >> fish is fantastic. it's a great source of lean protein and other newt reasons as well. so i think it's just a super food for women to have and i think they should incorporate it into their diet. >> and young children too, the fda recommendation. >> the fda recommendation for young children and really adults and individuals of all ages because there are so many healthy benefits. >> so what do we need? >> so the recommendation is in
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pregnancy 8 to 12 ounces of fish per week. >> what kind? >> these fish include very common fish, salmon shrimp, pollock, cod, and there's a whole list on the fda website. there are it fish we encourage women to avoid during pregnancy and those fish include typically king mackerel shark, tilefish and swordfish. >> they are high in mercury. what does mercury do that's dangerous for the child? >> mercury is a known neurotoxin so in excessive quantities -- if a woman has a little tuna fine. a small tuna sandwich is fine during the course of the week. if they have excessive amounts of mercury, it can impair the developing brain of a fetus or young child. >> is dover sole anywhere on the list? >> i had think it's on the okay
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list. i hope so. >> you are specifically talking about pregnant women and children and you mentioned briefly shouldn't we all be eating more fish? >> we all should and it's really important to realize really more attention placed on the fact omega 3s are important to incorporate in our diet. they have cardio protective effects. they impact mood. they can improve skin and almost every organism including vision. >> thank you doctor. >> thank you. >> we're all fish lovers here. >> me too. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> the chappelle show was the place to go for cutting edge comedy. >> ding, continuing, ding, ding, ding. i quit! >> then the host walked off without saying good-bye. dave chappelle talks with david letterman about giving up television and $40 million. that's next on "cbs this morning." >> announcer: cbs "morning rounds" sponsored by breathe right. don't let a stuffy nose get between you and your sleep. it's your right to breathe right.
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comedian dave chappelle did something unthinkable in 2005. he stunned his fans when he suddenly walked away from the hit tv show and a $50 million contract. >> chappelle disappeared for several months rarely spoken about why but now he's returning to his stand-up career in his first late-night television
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appearance in six years. he talked with david letterman about the sudden end of chappelle's show. >> listen here it is. technically i never quit. i'm seven years late for work. >> reporter: at the height of his career, he walked away from it all. the move stunned the industry. >> are you tired of talking ak it? >> i don't talk about it. >> he has signed a contract for a full season in 2004. >> i'm rick james [ bleep ]. >> but midway through taping season three he left and fled the country. >> you lived in south africa for an extended period of time. >> well no. i was -- i was there for two weeks. >> reporter: it was a confusing and unexplained exit leading to a series of rumors. >> it was like living in the corner of perception/reality.
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you know what i mean? and, like, it's a weird place to be. when everyone thought wesley snipes was in jail, i saw him at a party. >> reporter: most puzzling of all, he left behind a $50 million contract. >> there's not too many people that don't think i'm crazy. so, okay. fine. i don't have $50 million or whatever it was. but say i have $10 million in the bank. the difference in lifestyle is minuscule. the only difference between having $10 million and $50 million is an astounding $40 million. >> you signed a new contract with comedy central? >> no. >> reporter: i sat down with him in april of 2004 four months before he re-signed his contract with comedy central and just over a year before he would leave. >> after all these years i get an opportunity to do a show and comedy central says do what you want. and it was overwhelmingly successful.
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>> in the past he'd hinted at a conflict of interest with the network. in his conversation with letterman, he remained vague about the reasons behind his departure. >> my friends were trying to make me feel better but no one's been through that. it's nice but they'd be like at the end of the day you still have your sbegintegrity. great. i'll go home and make the kids some integrity sand witches. it make no sense at all. >> his only regret now seemingly the money. >> you had the $40 million. who's to say you would be a happier or a better person? >> i think i might be a happier person. >> he's so hilarious. i hope he comes back. i still don't understand why he left and walked away. >> i'm not sure he does either. >> i don't think that's ever been addressed. it just got to the point he said he couldn't take it and he didn't want to do it anymore. >> but what's he been doing? >> hanging out. >> making integrity sandwiches. >> you heard him.
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>> okay. summer p >> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. good wednesday morning, everyone. it's 7:26. here's what's happening. crews are expanding the search area today to try and find the cal student 23-year-old cody matthews who disappeared after he was dropped off at his family's cabin last week last heard from friday. the measure to raise the minimum wage in san francisco is going on the november ballot. the plan introduced by mayor ed lee and the coalition for fair economy would raise the minimum wage in stages beginning at $12.25 per hour by may of 2015. san jose's century 21 movie theater which is closed is a city landmark. it closed in march after 50 years. got your traffic and weather coming up after the break. stay there.
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good morning. we're getting first reports of an accidents in a rough spot dublin interchange approaching the dublin interchange westbound 580 by el charro and it was already pretty backed up as you can see here through the livermore valley. the drive time already up to 36 minutes from the altamont pass into pleasanton. again that accident just coming in blocking one lane. out to the bay bridge, you're
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still stacked up for 25, 30 minutes on to the bay bridge. that's the backup behind the pay gates. the metering lights were turned on a couple of hours ago. bart is recovering, five- to ten-minute delays downtown san francisco to the east bay. here's lawrence. >> low clouds and fog sweeping onshore today. looks like temperatures will again be cooler. a little gusty in spots. partly cloudy skies over san francisco right now. we have seen some winds gusting over 30 miles per hour into fairfield today so a strong sea breeze developing. you see that low just to the north? that is going to be moving a little closer the next couple of days and that's going to ramp up the marine layer. it means more fog and low clouds and cooler temperatures. still this afternoon, we'll find some 70s and low 80s well inland. 62 and breezy into san francisco. 75 in san jose. and 50s and 60s along the coastline. even cooler for tomorrow. then we'll slowly warm things up for the father's day weekend coming up.
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a dramatic scene this morning. a luxury home sitting on a cliff starting to fall into the water. a large piece of the home broke off last night. witnesses heard a huge crash. the crack was spotted a year ago. the homeowners were ordered to move out two weeks ago. i can't believe they didn't move out sooner. >> someone had to order them out? bye-bye house. welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up this half hour a new documentary looks closely at american soldiers on the front lines in afghanistan. the director sebastian younger is here with us and we'll talk about the troops and how the
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case might be affects of bowe bergdahl. weasele'll celebrate the oldest lighthouses. that's ahead. a new coca-cola drink will go on sale in the uk. it's called coca-cola life. the soda is sweeterned with stevia, which has a third less sugar and a third fewer calories than classic coach. the beverage hits stores in november. fordbes says amazon will expand connecting people to babysitters and expert. just like amazon is doing with grocery delivery. "usa today" says the faa approved the first commercial drone to fly over land in the united states. oil giant bp and a drone maker are using the unmanned aircraft to survey activity as alaska's largest oil feed in the country. the wall street judge
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reports on how to use technology like a teenager. most use messaging apps and 91% post a picture of themselves on social media. the lesson for grownups you can use a picture to express a thought. >> yes, you can. you really condition. >> you're good at that. >> right back at you, norah. when michaela dio competed in the swimsuit pork of sunday's pageant social media just lit up. she was praised as an average woman and not a bag of bones but while dio midnight not be supermodel skinny she's far from average as a size 4. most american women wear sizes 12 to 14. i think i was a size 4 in sixth great. you're right. average is not size 4 in this country. >> what size are you norah? >> it depends. it depends.
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>> i'm a 12. >> okay. new york come says the fda is raising a big stink over the way cheese has aged. last night the agency back tracked on a ruling that seemed to indicate wooden planks were not sanitary enough. wooden planks are an essential part of the age progress says. more than a third of the country's cheese makers use wood. popular tourist destination is feeling strained. catalina island is 22 miles off the coast of southern california. that's where john blackstone shows us the water is drying up as the visitors are pouring in. >> reporter: catalina island is an island known as the island of romance. lot are in love with it these days. more than 8,000 tourists are expected to visit it. >> we've had the best year. >> that's good news or bad news? >> bad news.
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>> the bad news is catalina is running low on water. there's no escaping california's severe drought even in a place surrounded by water. >> water, water, not enough to drink. >> reporter: he says it's the driest it's been here in 123 years. residents and businesses could be forced to cut water use in half. mandatory rationing is set to begin in july with a 25% cut. >> if someone exceeds their allotment they'll get a restricted flow by 50%. >> you're going to get tough. >> we have to. >> it could be a sign of things to come for other parts of california. catalina businesses are being forced to use less water just as tourist season is reaching its busiest. this woman manages this hotel. >> how are you going to cut 25% water usage?
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>> unfortunately we're going to have to remove the guest robes out of the room. that will lessen loads of laundry. we're probably not going to be giving out beach towels anymore. >> this woman worries there may not be enough water to wash dishes. >> we'll go to plastic silver wear, paper plates and do whatever it takes. >> do you think customers will understand if they're having fine dining on paper plates? >> i think they will. we'll get really nice one. >> touristing is looking very nice but they would love to see a few rain clouds on the horizon. >> this is a real issue in california, the drought. >> it makes us see how we take water for granted. >> absolutely. >> cannot do that. >> absolutely. many think of war as combat. but as the new documentary shows, it's also about brotherhood, service, and
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sometimes even bore dom. >> the film follows students stationed outside of afghanistan. they share what it's really like sharing overseas and coming home again. >> i felt like there was this hate for me because i did send. although i would have done everything the exact same thing, i still would feel this way. that's terrible thing of war. you do terrible things and then you have to live with them afterward. >> he's embedded with the soldiers and experienced nearly everything they did. welcome. >> thank you. >> how might this film inform us interms of the kinds of stresses that bowe bergdahl experienced?
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>> all front line troops are prone to stress. i don't know what led to bowe bergdahl's stress. they say his unit was raggedy and ill-disciplined. the soldiers i was with looked raggedy too. they weres we dill palestinianed. that's the norm out there. >> one of the criticisms of bergdahl's platoon wore cut-off t-shirts and bandanas. you've been embedded. >> the military brass likes to equate military force with discipline. there's no cob. >> when thing that surprised me is you have one guy who says i love a fire fight. there's nothing like a bullet whizzing past his head. another with a camera on his face, what is he going to say? job well done?
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i don't think so. >> that guy who was worried about god also loved fighting. you know some of them are quite traumatized by war and a lot of them missed it and wanted to go back. that's why returning vets are in a complicated position. >> is afghanistan different? >> it's enormously different. it's almost unrecognizable. there's many in school a third of them girls. the city has really developed and the lowest casualties in 30 yeerps. >> that took but in terms of terrain and war and how war impacts you. >> you know, i didn't cover iraq iraq. afghanistan is the longest war i've been involved in. i think being in small bases sort of surrounded getting shot ought, i think it's a real psych lock cal
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logical stress. >> i'd like to know about you, sebastian sebastian, how did it affect you? did it affect you? >> it affected me a lot. i wouldn't say a mess but i was halfway there. i was emotionally shaken up but i miss it a lot also. >> what do you miss? >> i miss the connection, the brotherhood. i really became part of the platoon, the adrenaline the meaningness of what you're doing and the inkedably tight bond. they were sleeping almost literally shoulder to shoulder for a year. >> kour contributions are so important because so few people understand what war is like. we watch movies we don't watch documentaries. we read about things. we don't feel it. i love it. you say this is what war feels like. what do you want people to know about what it's like on the ground? >> i think people see soldiers as sort of victims of the process. and soldiers hate that. they signed up voluntarily and
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also with great eagerness and many of them miss it when they come home. we have to understand how that works. >> that's a very good point. i've interviewed many, many people who have come back, including you, and also they talk about the comradeship. that's what it's all about. that's what they're fighting for. that's what their mission is. >> you get two very intense drugs. you get adrenaline and human connection. once you get exposed to those, it's hard to understand that. we have to understand that when these guys come home. >> and what can possibly substitute for it. a high app deep bond. >> that's right. >> another powerful piece from sebastian younger. nice to see you again. when we come back jim axelrod with a sailor's friend in the night for 2 1/2
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falls to the turf. but he's okay. he got up and argued again. >> what if he was and then recovered. what if he -- >> i think he's a faker. he's a faker. >> guys can hit you in the right place and take your breath away. >> okay mama gayle. >> tony, you agroorks right? anybody, anybody. okay. moving on. a beacon on the new jersey coast -- why would you fake that? >> because you get more time and attention. >> all right. a beacon on the coast marks a major milestone. the lighthouse at sandy hook harbor is the oldest standing. jim, good morning. >> it's not just america's oldest standing lighthouse. it's america's oldest lighthouse still in operation.
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the lights went on here back in 1954 254 years ago today. sandy hook lighthouse than historian tom hoffman. >> how many steps have you got here? >> you've got 95 on this staircase. >> he's been giving tours here since 1975. >> how many times in 35 years have you claimed to the top? >> maybe 2,000 to 3,000 times. it keeps me in shape. the original stairmaster. >> reporter: no one is more knowledgebling or proud or its past. >> this older lighthouse is older than the country. >> it is. it was built before there was a united states of america. >> reporter: held by the british during the american revolution it's gone from them keeping oil lambs to billion fully operated by the coast guard.
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its mission has never changed. guiding ships heading into the u.s. >> people talking about statue of liberty being the first image they would have saw. this would be the first thing you saw. >> you're on the atlantic ocean and you're approaching the edge and you see the tower. that's this lighthouse here. >> today it's a protected national landmark and for visitors like brother and sister sharon and alan patterson, a part of their family history. >> i'm the great great granddaughter of charles w. patterson and the great great niece of sarah patterson johnson. >> siblings served as the keep oers f the lighthouse for 25 years making sure the lighthouse never went up. >> they would take oil up to the
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light house in a role i don't think females took on during that time. she was going up also. >> reporter: in an age of gps technology technology, the need for lighthouses themselves may soon follow but never their place in our history. what else in our culture that predates the revolution. >> that's what's nice about this lighthouse. you've heard the old saying if you take care of it it will last forever. i think the sandy hook lighthouse is a good example of that. >> much of what you see behind me wasn't here 250 years ago. the beach was 150 feet away but drifting sands since then have built a natural barrier. no threat of erosion. so this lighthouse should stand a couple of centuries or more. >> occasionally lighthouses come
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up for auction and you can buy one. >> yeah. are you think about getting this one? >> i was going to say, how much does one of those cost? i i'm trying to buy an apartment in new york before buy a lighthouse. >> oh, you and hillary. >> i'm going to get you back. i'm going to get you back. >> zing zing zing. tomorrow on "cbs this morning," ben tracy with tc comedy powerhouse chuck lowery the producer behind big bang theory and "two and a half men." how he went from selling door heat shields are compromised. we have multiple failures. are those thrusters burning? that's a negative. what's that alarm? fuel cell two is down. i'm going to have to guide her in manually. this is very exciting. but i'm at my stop. come again? i'm watching this on the train. it's so hard to leave.
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today searchers will expand the area where they're good morning. it's 8:55. i'm frank mallicoat. here is what's happening around the bay area today. today searchers will expand the area where they are trying to find a missing cal student. 23-year-old cody matthews dropped off at his family's cabin west of lake tahoe last wednesday. he hasn't been heard from since friday before he set out on a hike. matthews had been staying alone at the cabin and his personal belongings are still inside the cabin. lawyers for raymond "shrimp boy" chow plan to ask the court to release him on bail today. he was arrested as part of the corruption case of leland yee in san francisco. nice to feel the cool marine air at the coastline inside the bay. a little gusty in through the delta today but the sea breeze will bring some cooler temperatures. patchy fog right now over coit tower. we are going to see lots of blue skies in toward the
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afternoon away from the coastline. but plenty of fog toward the beaches. and some cooler temperatures there. 50s and 60s toward the coastline. even inside the bay, you will see low 60s into san francisco, some mid-70s and sunny into san jose. 78 in livermore. you still may see some temperatures in the low 80s into antioch and brentwood. 74 napa valley, 75 santa rosa. looking out over the next couple of days, low pressure approaching the coastline. that will ramp up the marine layer. that means more fog and low clouds, probably some drizzle along the coastline for tomorrow morning. and then on friday we start to warm things up as the low begins to move east. looks like lots of sunshine and some warmer weather over the weekend. we'll check out your "kcbs traffic" when we come back. safeway understands you got to make every dollar count these days. that's why they have lots of ways for you to save. real big club card deals, the safeway app and gas rewards. this week, sweet and juicy prima peaches are just $.99 a pound. tender rancher's reserve ribeye steak
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unfortunately, cup of our slowest drives is still -- one of our slowest drives is 880 in oakland. a slow crawl from 238 just past your broadway exit heading into downtown oakland. a couple of earlier accidents or stalls have been cleared including this one westbound 580 at livermore. there was a crash approaching el charro. traffic still very heavy though from north flynn even though lanes are no longer blocked. similar story in san francisco, southbound 101 after cesar chavez. an accident just cleared out of lanes. still heavy though coming off of the bay bridge. skyway all the way through southbound 101. still jammed up and clearing a little bit at the bay bridge.
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