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go. >> monsoonal. >> yes. >> thanks for watching. >> enjoy your day, folks. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, july 16th 2014. welcome to "cbs this morning. " lightning, wind and rain slammed several states leaving thousands without power. israel ramps up air strikes and warns tens of thousands of palestinians to get out. holly williams is on the scene in gaza. and 20 seasons of greatness. an all star tribute to derek jeter. >> but we begin with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> in all my 85 years, this was a doozy. >> a severe summer storm slams the east coast. >> producing heavy rain and dangerous wind flash flood
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warnings and watches are posted from delaware to maine. >> meanwhile, idaho, two inches of rain, over a foot of water making the area's main roads just impassable. >> they are urging residents to leave their homes from what they describe as air strikes continue. >> nearly 200 palestinians have died in the attacks so far. >> they will identify certain areas and they will attack them. >> i kind of prefer a home office. >> is she or isn't she making a white house run in 2016? jon stewart tried to drag it out of hillary clinton. >> do you have a favorite shape for that home office? >> number 2, derek jeter. >> in his final all-star game the captain was the star of the show. getting a huge ovation. >> you remember every time you put your uniform on because trust me it goes quickly. >> people reported dead from a powerful typhoon packing
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93-mile-an-hour winds. >> hershey is raising prices. cocoa prices are soaring. the average increase will be about 8%. >> all that -- >> a pilot in alaska nearly landed his pontoon plane on a whaler. >> president obama got a rare chance to drive a car, even if it was a virtual drive. >> -- and all that matters -- >> a first for the fdny. a female firefighter is joining the annual fund-raising calendar which up until now has been all male. >> -- on "cbs this morning." >> i'm very sad that you're not going to be on tv anymore. >> what? >> i'm sad about that. >> this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." we've got a great show but last night a great night with derek
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jeter. >> a good send-off for him. >> we begin with the weather. many of you in the west face another hot, dry day but severe weather is impacting millions of americans in the east. more thunderstorms and heavy rain caused widespread flooding in several states. thousands lost power. >> lightning hit several new york skyscrapers, including the new one world trade center. don dahler is near the george washington bridge where a storm caused a nightmare for drivers. >> reporter: good morning. and good morning to our viewers in the west. traffic is moving pretty well now but yesterday it was an absolute mess. it came to a screeching halt because of water flowing onto the busy roadways all caused by a severe weather system that pummeled this area. >> this flood is crazy. >> reporter: it was a day-long deluge that rocked the northeast tuesday, bringing up to four inches of rain to parts of the region. the powerful system brought a nonstop barrage of lightning and thunder. some even took direct aim at new
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york city's empire state building. on the city streets, the relentless rainfall brought traffic to a standstill, including this three-hour backup at the george washington bridge. >> we didn't realize why it was backed up until we got to this one area an underpass, and it was, you know up to the bottom of everyone's car flooding. this is bad. >> reporter: traveling underground wasn't easy either. water poured into several new york city subway stations. across new jersey the cleanup has already begun after powerful winds knocked down trees. >> i was listening to see if my daughter was crying and she was. then when i went up the stairs i could hear wind rushing down my hallway. >> reporter: it caused similar destruction in massachusetts where tornado warnings were issued. >> it was windy. i actually just said i kind of like a good thunderstorm and all of a sudden it just -- a huge bang and the whole house shook. >> reporter: trees blocked roads and pulled down power lines, even for those who lived in the
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area their whole lives, the damage was unbelievable. >> in all my 85th years, this was a doozy. >> reporter: it's been drizzling on and off, but heavier rain is expected later this morning. utility crews are already on the ground trying to restore power to some 13,000 customers. charlie. >> don, thanks. another storm cluster caused flash flooding in eastern idaho. heavy rain and quarter-sized hail slammed the city of recollectionrexburg tuesday. meteorologist eric fisher of cbs station wbz is watching the severe weather across the country. eric, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. and good morning to our viewers in the west. still tracking a lot of stormy weather out there, especially along the east coast. the samesystem we've been dealing with. heavy rainfall d.c. new york up toward boston. nor flash flooding for today. we could be looking for another 1 to 3 inches in spots. this is all going to move out to
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sea and our attention will turn a little farther to the west. the front range, texas panhandle, into oklahoma, severe weather threat this afternoon and this evening. damaging wind gusts and hail likely and very heavy rainfall. in fact over the course of the next few days these thunderstorms are going to percolate, redevelop and bring a lot of rainfall especially across the southern plains where much of oklahoma arkansas and north texas looking at 2 to 5 inches potentially. it's beneficial rainfall in a drought but could also cause some flash flooding concerns. in terms of high temperatures still very hot in the interior of the west. seattle up to 86 portland 90 degrees and boise up to 98 this afternoon. >> eric thanks. more than 120 people are stranded right now on a casino boat off savannah georgia. they have been stuck all night on the ship's maiden voyage. it ran aground on rocks. the coast guard is waiting for high tide before trying to rescue everyone. this morning the toughest water use restrictions in california history are in place. the new rules come in response
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to the historic drought. homeowners can no longer wash driveways and sidewalks. sprinklers without a shutoff nozzle are also banned. violators can be fined up to $500 a day. and more extreme weather across the pacific this morning. a deadly storm is forcing hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes. typhoon rammasun is pounding the philippines. it shut down the capital of manila this morning. 17 million people live in that region. seth doane is in beijing tracking the system that could hit china by the weekend. seth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this is the strongest storm to hit the philippines so far this year and of course filipinos remember that damage caused by the typhoon that struck the philippines late last fall so today they were bracing for the worst. this typhoon, called rammasun a thai term for the god of thunder, lashed the philippines
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today with 90-plus mile per hour winds. the capital manila was spared the worst of it but more than 370,000 people in six provinces were evacuated. families crammed into makeshift shelters. ahead of the storm, residents tried to reinforce roofing and strengthen flimsy homes. some areas received months worth of rain in just hours, and residents were forced to navigate floodwaters. heavy winds knocked down trees, blocking roadways and causing blackouts. the typhoon, nicknamed glenda blew ashore as the equivalent of a category 2 hurricane. there were no immediate estimates of damage in this country that sees roughly 20 storms and typhoons each year. >> reporter: there are still some lingering concerns about
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the storm surge as the typhoon heads offshore and out into the south china sea, where it is forecast to pick up strength and target here in china later this week. charlie. >> seth, thanks. this morning israel is preparing for major air assault on parts of northern gaza. rocket attacks between israel and hamas militants are intensifying after a proposed truce collapsed yesterday. holly williams is in gaza where tens of thousands are being told to clear out for their own safety. holly, you just had your own scare. >> reporter: good morning. just a short while ago, palestinian militants launched a rocket very close to our position here from the open field behind me. our cameras were rolling as it happened and it made an enormous roar as it passed overhead. that follows a night of heavy israeli air strikes after palestinian militants rejected a
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cease-fire proposed by egypt. both sides have now resumed their attacks. the cease-fire plan is dead unleashing another wave of violence. in southern gaza two men were killed by a direct hit on their car. more than 200 palestinians have lost their lives in israeli air strikes. officials here say most of them were civilians. this morning families fled a neighborhood after the israeli military warned it planned to bombard the area. we've all gone mad, said this man. for god sake end this conflict. i don't know who's worse, the jews or the arabs. yesterday israel suffered its first death during this escalation. a man hit by a rocket while delivering food to israeli soldiers near the border with gaza. palestinian militants have fired more than a thousand rockets into southern israel but many of them have been shot down by
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the country's iron dome anti-missile defense systems. in gaza they have no defenses. israel says it's destroying rocket launchers and command centers used by the militants, but in reality many of the targets are homes. the united nations says more than 500 houses have been razed by israel's air strikes. fawzy barhom is a spokesman for hamas. >> why does israel have to stop fighting first? why is it up to them? >> because they became the warfare and targeted civilians. >> reporter: but as usual in this decades-long conflict both sides blame each other. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, said yesterday that his country has no choice but to expand its offensive here in gaza. charlie. >> holly thanks.
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bashar al assad was sworn in this morning at the presidential palace in damascus. the beginning of his third term in office comes with his regime still waging a civil war. he vowed to fight terrorism until security is restored to all of syria. a high-profile immigration activist is free this morning. jose antonio vargas is a pulitzer prize-winning journalist. he was taken into custody yesterday at a texas airport for being in this country illegally. anna werner is tracking developments from dallas. good morning anna. >> reporter: good morning. vargas traveled to mcallen texas, last week in solidarity with the immigrants who have been detained there, but after he arrived, he says he was surprised to learn that his immigration status could become an issue when he returned to the airport. jose antonio vargas knew he was taking a risk by trying to fly out to los angeles. a friend who went to the airport with him on tuesday captured
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this exchange with a border patrol agent at the security checkpoint. >> do you have a visa? >> no, there is no visa. >> reporter: moments later he was taken away in handcuffs. vargas 33 has been living illegally in the u.s. since he was 12 years old. >> thank you, chairman. >> reporter: a prominent activist he has testified before congress and travels the country speaking about immigration issues. at most airports he says tsa agents only check the name on his travel documents. but at mcallen a 20-minute drive north of mexico border patrol agents also review the immigration status of departing passengers and there are checkpoints on surrounding highways. vargas spent the weekend publicizing his predicament, writing an article for politico and giving interviews. shortly before he was apprehended he tweeted this photo of his filipino passport and a copy of the u.s. constitution and directed his
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15,000 followers to other twitter accounts for updates. supporters said his experience highlights the plight of undocumented immigrants in south texas. >> now the nation is going to know that we are trapped and we've always been trapped here. >> reporter: despite his visibility and notoriety, vargas told "cbs this morning" in 2012 that immigration officials seemed unconcerned about his case. >> most people in my situation haven't been encountered by the government. there's 11.5 million of us right? and most people have not been encountered and so i'm not even in their database. >> reporter: on tuesday, that finally changed. well, the department of homeland security says vargas was processed at a nearby border patrol station, then after consultation with immigration and customs enforcement, he was given a notice to appear in front of an immigration judge later, then released on his own recognizance. new developments in the case of the georgia toddler found
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dead inside his father's suv. the child was trapped on a sweltering june day. this morning the lawyer representing the mother leanna harris, is blasting the meade i don't for judging her lack of emotion. the statement says leanna's every word action and emotion or failure to cry in front of a crowd is scrutinized for some supposed hidden meaning, end quote. leanna harris is not charged with a crime. cbs legal analyst rikki klieman is with us. good morning. >> good morning. >> what do you make of this statement? >> i think the lawyer is doing a really terrific job here. this is a tactical decision. he decided that he had to go out front and say, hey wait. what if you were a parent and you lost your child and you were truly innocent. how horrific would this be for you? so he has two audiences, the public, potential jury pool and he also has the media. now, the downside to it is that it creates a new news cycle.
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we're talking about it today. and i know here we tried to give both sides of the issue, but on certain other stations and of course in social media, people can blast people. >> interestingly it did not mention the husband and father. >> it did not, but that doesn't affect me. i think that this is time for mr. zimmerman, who by the way has an excellent reputation to do what he needs to do for his client. and he wants to push it out there, push it back against the media that has taken odd actions or perhaps suspicious actions, labeled her guilty labeled her a baby killer, when she could have been totally innocent. think of what that would do to you if you were a parent. >> if you were leanna's lawyer what would you be advising her? stay in the spotlight or out of it? >> she needs to stay totally out of the spotlight now. i'd debrief her and i also ask if she would take a private
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polygraph, a lie detector test under the attorney/client privilege. if she passes that lie detector test i go running to the prosecutor and say, hey, wait a minute, let's look at this. i polygraphed her, i've listened to her, she's telling the truth. and i think that you should cut her some slack. >> because she's at danger of being complicit here? >> he'sshe's in danger of being suspected of being complicit so she's either going to become a defendant or a witness in this case. >> rikki, thank you very much. 20 people aboard a south african airways flight are injured this morning. two critically after severe turbulence. this photo tweeted from inside the cabin shows a gapeing hole in the ceiling right above a passenger. the flight from johannesburg handed safely in hong kong. time to show you some of the morning's headlines. janet yellen wraps up two days of congressional hearings this morning. she testified yesterday that the
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fed might raise short-term interest rates sooner if the labor market improves quicker than anticipated. "the new york times" says newly released documents showed general motors for years avoided answering questions about a defective ignition switch. the defect is at the center of the recall of millions of gm vehicles this year. documents reveal for the first time that gm refused to answer safety regulators' questions about car crashes linked to the defect. gm's ceo mary barra testifies before a senate hearing tomorrow. the san jose mercury news looks at the new partnership between apple and ibm. the two former rivals will work together to create business apps. they will also sell iphones and it pads to ibm's corporate customers. the first apps will be available in the fall. politico says the fcc is giving americans more time to voice their opinions on net neutrality. a controversial fcc proposal would allow internet providers to charge companies to deliver their content faster. a surge of comments overwhelmed the fcc's website before last
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night's deadline leaving the agency to extend it to midnight on friday. the fcc hopes to make a decision on the proposal by year's end. the "l.a. times" says nasa believes it's coming close to find an earth-like planet orbiting a distant star and sounds of alien life. top scientists said larger and more advanced orbiting telescopes will help them make that discovery. when asked if the u.s. government would let everyone know if e.t.s are out there, nasa's top scientists said of course we would. >> of course they would. >> i certainly hope so. >> me too. it's 7:19. ahead, hillary clinton enters the lion's den with jon stewart. a lot of clouds outside if you are headed out the door. we have seen some heavy drizzle approaching the coastline. and even a couple of sprinkles outside with the monsoonal clouds sweeping overhead. towards san francisco, mostly
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cloudy skies there. a hi-def doppler radar is seeing showers overnight. most of that beginning to settle down a little bit but still a chance of more showers throughout the day today. temperatures are going to be in the 70s and 80s inside the bay. 60s along the coastline. very muggy today, tomorrow return to normal. just some patchy fog in the night and morning hours. this national weather report sponsored by toyota. let's go places. we port sponsored by toyota. let's go places.
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crude oil leak after small fire he chevron oil r good morning. it's 7:26. i'm frank mallicoat. here's what's happening around the bay area right now. fire crews dealing with a crude oil leak after a small fire at chevron oil refinery in richmond happened around 2 a.m. no injuries have been reported. woman accused of manslaughter in the death of a tech executive aboard his yacht is due in a santa cruz courtroom this morning. investigators say alix tichelman is a high-end prostitute and injected forrest hayes with heroin last year and left him to die on his yacht. >> $500 a fine for water wasters because statewide water use actually rose slightly in the months of may even though the governor called for 20% reductions. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment.
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good deal. traveling southbound 880 out every oakland into san leandro you are looking at a traffic jam now. there are two separate accidents one at 98th another at hegenberger. you can see the delays now go beyond the oakland coliseum. they are growing. the accident just reported -- two accidents were just record within the last 10 minutes but you can see speeds are below 25 miles per hour. also, at the bay bridge the metering lights remain on and you are stacked up through the maze and a couple of earlier crashes slowed things down on the eastshore freeway. that is traffic. here's lawrence. >> all right. we are looking at a lot of clouds around the bay area again this morning both high and low. some heavier drizzle toward the coastline. and very damp out there on the roadways, as well. hour hi-def doppler radar has been tracking some of that monsoonal moisture. so yeah, a chance of some sprinkles continuing, muggy today. 70s and 80s inside the bay and the valleys. a little cooler in the next few days.
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now that marijuana is league in washington state -- you know they made it league. now that it's legal there, a new service is offering to deliver it to your home. deliver marijuana to your home. yeah. yeah. their motto is if it's not there in 30 minuteses, i mean like what is time anyway dude. >> well back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour big, slow and ugly. pthat is what safety experts say should be on your mind when you buy a used car. we have results from a first of its kind safety tests. plus trouble at the kennedy compound. we'll look at the suspected intruder. police say he was looking to meet a different famous figure. that's ahead. former secretary of state hillary clinton sat down last night with another important
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political player daily show host jon stewart. he gave many chances to spell out her future. she might have let something split slip. >> good morning. it was her third time on the show. it was a mostly friendly encounter. stewart wanted to know what is it like to have her every word parsed and answeralyzed by her family and friends. >> do you like commuting to work or you do like a home office? >> you know i've spent so many years commuting, i kind of prefer a home office. >> do you have a favorite shape for that home office? >> reporter: clinton's appearance was partially designed to boost lagging sales
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of her new book "hard choices" which was just knocked out by a salacious book about the clinton s s. while the former secretary of state has not announced plans to run, outside volunteers in a group called ready for hillary have already started gathering. whale hillary is considering her options they have hired 27 staffers and raised donations and increased sale. adam is the expectative director. >> in 2008 she didn't have a group of supporters that she could go back and chip in $5 or knock on doors and make calls. want to make sure this time if she does that they're here. >> reporter: his group has plenty of company.
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he runs "correct the record." they speak on everything from her speak fees to the state department. >> you don't let an attack or news story let something sit i'dably by and think it's going play out on its own. >> reporter: there are just as many groups on the right like the hillary group which vow to wage a way on her image. he said his group will start going after clinton this year both in advertisements and online. >> she has a level behind her. she's started activating. there's no doubt she's campaigns for presidency. so somebody us needing to go out and stop her. that's what we're doing. >> reporter: it's so intense she joked about it herself last night. >> you said i am not running for president. it all stops. do you agree or disagree?
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>> i think a lot of people would lose their jobs if it all stops. i've been amazed at what a cottage industry it is so i kind of expect it would continue. >> especially because she had sent no signals to her supporting groups that they should stop raising money and gathering named. in fact last night when jon stewart asked her what shape office she'd like. she said the kind without any sharp corners. >> always a good way to get around the direct answer. >> i was curious how he was going do it margaret. but the truth of the matter is mrs. clinton will let us know when she's ready. it won't slip out. it will be very strategic if she does it how she does it. >> exactly. a veteran is facing court this morning after breaking into the kennedy compound. they arrested james lacroix last night inside ted kennedy jr.'s
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summer home. police say the suspect told them he was looking for katy perry, the singer. they believe he had been there for hours. >> okay. this morning the parents of a san diego teenager are thinging of a lawsuit against the school. he faced bullying for most of his life. how educators could be held liable. good morning. >> good morning. family believes faculty was aware of the bull yg and the teasing. two weeks after that video went around the school he took his own life. he was a freshman at university city high school. a member of both water polo and water teams he was studying to become an eagle scout. this is his aunt. >> he was great fun-loving kid. >> reporter: matthew was
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unknowingly videotaped inside bathroom stall in a locker room. a student posted it on site claiming it showed him masturbate masturbating. matthew was soon tormented by his classmates of matthews in his school and other districts saw him, teased him. taunted him to no end. >> reporter: he left behind a note saying he could no longer handle school and had no friends. >> once matthews parents read the note and they were baffled at what had happened they took his coal phone and started texting his friends saying do you know what happened? what happened at school? why did matthew not want to return to school? they started getting feedback from his friends enlightening them to this video. >> reporter: i t alleges the
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school did nothing to intervene. the school will not comment on this particular case but release add statement that read in part the safety and well being of our students is a top priority. >> it did bring back a lot of memory. >> reporter: it's a very similar incident to what happened in 2010 to jane clemente's son tyler. he was secretly taped while having a sexual encounter with another man. humiliated by that he jumped from the george washington bridge. >> every person if they see someone being harass order intimidated or some type of bullying happening they have a personal responsibility to speak up and say something. >> san diego schools rejected the bur debt's legal claim. meanwhile the teenager who took the video of matthew is due back in court and could be charged with bullying.
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a little controversy. the starting shortstop was the star of last night's mid summer classic but there are questions whether he may have had help from a nation ool league pitcher. >> leading off and playing in his 14th all-star game, new york yankee derek jeter. on a chilly july night in minneapolis, new york yankee captain derek jeter took the field for the final time as an all star. players, coaches, and fans at target field saluted the career of the yankee great, a time of the respect he's garnered over the past 20 seasons. >> it was a wonderful moment that i'm always going to remember, the way the fans treated me to have them all at the all-star game was special. >> this was the 14th time the 40-year-old has played in the mid summer classic. he was 24 in his first all-star game in 1998. before the game in the
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clubhouse, jeter addressed his american league teammates. >> this is a fun experience you should shah share with your family, your friends, remember it. you don't know how many opportunities you're going to get and play in it. more importantly when you put your uniform on because trust me, it goes quickly. >> now for the american league, derek jeeter. batting from his familiar spot in the top of the lineup he sliced it down the line. but controversy erupted on social media. reporters claim that pitcher adam wainwright said he had deliberately thrown a couple of pitches for jeter to hit. later in the game he backed off both comments. >> it was missaid. i made a mistake about that. i hope people realize
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don't want to go to an all-star game is lying to you. this is something everybody wants to be a part of and i was happy to do it. >> such a classy guy. >> i like this. sir derek bam boolds national lead i don't care if he threw it deliberately or not, i don't o care. like derek said you've got hit it. good to see him do so well always. >> the people who crash tests cars has new advice for parents. jeff pegues is in washington
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this morning. >> reporter: remember the first car your parents gave you? i had no idea i had shingles. there was like an eruption on my skin and burning. i'd lift my arm and the pain back here was excruciating. when i went to the doctor his first question was "did you have chickenpox?" i thought it was something that, you know, old people got.
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a new report this morning argues that teenagers need to drive safer cars. teens involved in deadly accidents are more likely to be in older unsafe vehicles. a survey found 83% of parents who bought vehicles for their teenagers chose a used car. jeff pegues is in washington where for the first time they have a list of the safest used cars. good morning. >> good morning. aaa says over the last ten years teen driving deaths are up. when it comes to buying a car for your teenager the rule of thumb should be to choose big,
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slow, and ugly. the insurance institute for highway safety says most teenagers are not driving the safest vehicles on the road. research shows parents are choosing used cars and suvs for their sons and daughters by sticking to a budget rather than picking potentially life-saving safety features. >> it's still surprising how many teens are drivinging vehicles that aren't the safest. >> reporter: vehicles providing the most protection are bigger and have safety features which include electronic stability control. >> how does it help a driver? >> it helps the driver maintain control of the vehicle when they're going around the curve or a slippery road and they begin to lose control. it reduces the risk of death in
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a crash in half. >> they help them perform well in crash tests. among the best choices under $20,000, the saab, '95 to 2010 or later and the honda crv. they rated good choices under $10,000 the 2009 mercury sable, 2009 subaru legacy and the nissan rogue, 2008 and later. this is a 2005 rack tl. it's on the good choices list under $10,000, a 270 horsepower engine. the iihs says when purchasing a car for your teenager try to stay away from high-powered cars, small cars and mini cars. >> that's a lot of clouds outside if you are headed out the door. we have seen some heavy drizzle approaching the coastline. and even a couple of sprinkles outside with the monsoonal clouds sweeping overhead. towards san francisco, mostly
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your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. overnight fire at the chevron refi good morning, it's 7:56. i'm michelle griego. investigators are looking into an overnight fire at the chevron refinery in richmond. the fire started around 2 a.m. crews spent hours after cleaning up a crude oil leak. no one was injured. san francisco police are looking for a woman who robbed an 8-year-old girl. this is the suspect inside a corner store on davisadero and eddy. police say she asked the victim for bus fare outside the store but then grabbed the girl's bag of cash. the warriors are once again looking at trading for kevin love. sources tell the "associated press" that golden state resumed talks with the minnesota timberwolves with the all-star forward. love can be a free agent after next season. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment.
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good morning. we have been watching the commute in oakland. they have reopened all lanes in southbound 880. they have multiple lanes blocked multi-car crash approaching hegenberger. we were watching it. all lanes just reopened. unfortunately, it's still slow in both directions. actually leaving hayward all the way to downtown oakland exits. southbound also remains heavy into san leandro. better news at the bay bridge. it's clearing out quite a bit only backed up to the first overcrossing. we still see that bottleneck from pinole into richmond because of a couple of earlier accidents. that is traffic. here's lawrence. a lot of clouds this morning starting to break up just a bit. but some of those monsoonal clouds continuing to sweep overhead. we have some thick fog along the coastline line and a little drizzle there. hi-def doppler radar has been tracking the few raindrops weeing across the bay area due to the monsoon. looks like that will start to clear out. partly cloudy this afternoon.
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♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it's wednesday, july 16th 2014 welcome back to "cbs this morning." more real news ahead, including the storms causing floods and power problems from maine down to the carolinas, but first here is a look at today's "eye-opener at 8:00.." >> utility crews are already on the ground trying to restore power to some 13,000 customers. the water restrictions in california are in place. homeowners can no longer wash driveways and sidewalks. >> and militants launched a rocket close to our position here and that followed a night of heavy air strikes. >> this is the strongest storm to hit the philippines so far this year, and today they were
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bracing for the worst. >> and the immigration status could become an issue. >> dupree fur to sit in traffic or cause it? >> he wanted to know what it's like to have her every word parched? >> when it comes to purchasing a car for your teenager the rule of thumb should be to choose big, slow and ugly. >> in his 14th and final all-star game derek jeter. >> there's another 4 billion people to go. >> you have tried carpeting them with free aol cds? i am charlie rose with gayle king, and norah o'donnell is off. it's another hot morning in much of the west while three days of rain in the northeast is finally
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coming to an end. heavy downpours on tuesday caused flash flooding around new york city, and thousands of homes lost power and thousands of drivers sat in traffic jams for hours. >> in the meantime in raleigh, north carolina they got a record 4 inches of rain and the storm hit at rush hour with winds up to 50 miles per hour. and then the fighting with gaza is getting more intense. israel stepped up strikes after the cease-fire failed on tuesday. the military warns civilians to get out of areas where most of the rocket fire is coming from. the latest israeli attacks targeted senior leaders of hamas. so far there have a been one israeli killed and more than 200 palestinians. two subway workers are detained after the derailment
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during rush hour yesterday. investigators say this morning that a new rail switch where the train derailed was not properly installed. a foreman and his assistant face unspecified charges. no road trips for president obama today, but on tuesday he had a little fun with something he has not done in about six years. >> it's so exciting. i have not been on the road in a long time. >> the president drove even if it was only in a simulator, and he buckled up and cruised down a virtual highway at a virginia research center. he hit nearly 90 miles per hour and the joy ride comes with obama pushing congress. he said one thing was missing. >> where is the music? do you guys ever drive down the highway without music? >> no, sir. >> got to have music.
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there will soon be another person in the first family getting behind the wheel. daughter malia, is 16 and able to drive. any new technology that makes driving safer is important to me. >> we have to send that report over to the white house. we are learning new details about the break-in at the home of sandra bullock. she left her bedroom and found a stranger standing in her hallway last month. >> reporter: in the early hours of june 8th sandra bullock woke up to loud banging inside her los angeles home. according to the search warrant, bullock fearing for her safety went to close her bedroom door when she allegedly spotted a man in dark closing in the hallway, and bullock locked herself in her room and dialed 911, as the
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39-year-old man was taken into custody, he screamed "sandy i am sorry, please don't press charges." she had showered and went to bed and only awoke to the loud bangs. the police report does not say how long he was inside her home. at the time of his arrest he was unarmed but allegedly carrying a handwritten letter where he wrote, i will be around as you know, i love you. it was signed your husband, joshua james corbit. days later he was charged with residential burglary and stalking, but after police conducted a search of his home they uncovered an arsenal of weapons and charged him with 19 weapons. the star filed a restaining order against a mentally ill man
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that stalked her off and on in a decade earlier. >> criminal defense attorney says that while these crimes are not preventible, there are ways to protect victims. if corbit is charged and found guilty he could be spending more than seven years behind bars. >> so scary, because she has a gate and barbed wire and an alarm system and the question is how did he get in the house, and they are not deliberately releasing those details. >> what was his intent? >> his intent is crazy, and he thinks he is in love with her, and they denttkoebt don't want to
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give out too many details to give out ideas. and then ryan block and his wife tried to cancel their comcast service. the conversation with the rep got so annoying he began to record the call ten minutes into the conversation. here is some of what he captured. >> help me understand why you just can't disconnect us? >> i mean i'm just trying to figure out what it is about comcast service that you are not liking and you are not want to go keep? why is it you don't want to keep that service? >> this phone call is an amazing representative answer of why i don't want to keep comcast. >> why is that what you want? >> because that's what i want?
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>> why don't you say, i don't have to answer your questions, good-bye. >> charlie, that's what you would do. he recorded it ten minutes into the conversation, so they already had been talking. >> wanted to know why? >> did they disconnect the service at the end of the conversation. >> comcast said we are very embarrassed about how our employee spoke -- >> by the way our former employee spoke -- >> that's what i was wondering. >> aol faced own backlash after a similar cancellation call in 2006. ahead, is 42 the new sexy for women? i was looking for the -- or is that question just
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in our morning, success in reducing strokes. a long term study finds fewer americans are having less strokes and those that do have a lower risk of dying. >> stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the united states, and also a major cause of disability. the doctor is a cardiologist in new york city. good morning. >> good morning. >> what are we doing right? >> we are doing a lot of things right. the 24% decline is a big one, and it has come in prevention and treatment. over the last 24 years we have seen a use in cholesterol
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medications, and better treatments that we have developed medicine that can break up clots in the brain, and we can go into the catheter and destroy the clot. >> but the news is not as good as people under the age of 65. how come? >> in the under 65 population there was a plateau in the rate of stokes and there's still rising rates of obesity and diabetes and overall those contribute to stroke as well. and the problem in the young population is that strokes can be so debilitating. if you have not seen one, you don't really know what is taking somebody in the prime of their life and suddenly they can't move their arm or see or speak, and this is life altering physically and mentally. >> men and women are at equal risk? >> well, women live longer than
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men and they have more strokes than men, and over the age of 65 your risk factor doubles. they have the use of birth control pills and pregnancy and higher risk factors like migraine and obesity, and all of these contribute. >> i recently had a friend that had a stroke and they got to the hospital quickly and is fine today. what does it feel like? >> the great acronym is fast, so if you or somebody else you know the "r" face drooping and "a" is arm weakness or numberness or tingling and "s" stands for speech difficulty, and they can't understand what you are saying or repeat a phrase back to you, and the "t" is for time you have to get to the hospital within three hours of symptom on sets so go as quickly as you start to notice
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one of these. >> thank you. good to see you, always. ahead, the hot new topic of conversation at the firehouse. >> this photographer came over and said everybody take your shirts off so i just looked around, and i was like is he talking to me? am i included in on this? >> and she was. we will meet the firefighter adding a little cheesecake to the famous beefcake calendar they say. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." rounds" sponsored by pronamel toothpaste toothpaste. i was so focused on making good food choices i had no idea that it was damaging the enamel of my teeth. i wanted to fix it, i wanted to fix it right away. my dentist recommended pronamel. he said that pronamel can make my teeth stronger, that it was important, that that is something i could do each day to help protect the enamel of my teeth.
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it is a hot day in california. michelle miller is at a firehouse in manhattan. she's talking to the first woman featured in the calendar of heroes. >> reporter: good morning. it may be the summer of 2014 but it's feeling already like 2015. the new calendar honors 150 years of the sdny and we were one of the lucky few to get an autographed copy. autographed copy. crowds battled the new york heat
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tuesday for an up close encounter with 13 of new york's bravest. >> hot and sweater. i don't know if it's the guys or the sun. >> reporter: but this year the guys had to make room for miss march. bronx firefighter. >> i work for guys accountable to the guys so it's like going to work. >> do you feel like she's stiff competition? >> absolutely. >> dellin morgan is mr. august. >> it's great. it represents a diverse city. >> she said she always wanted to be part of the famed calendar. >> i always wanted to represent women on the job to show that women can do this job. >> reporter: an 11-year veteran of fdny she's one of 44 female firefighters in the department. women make up less than 1% of the force. did neveren say enanyone ever say you can't do
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this? >> one said it was only for men. someone said i would look like a pinup girl if i was in the calendar. >> reporter: last year's call convinced her the time was right. she auditioned with more than 100 shirtless male fighters. >> the photographer came over and said everyone take your shirts off. i just looked around and thought, is he looking at me? like am i included in on this? >> reporter: that didn't matter. she made the cut. donning suspenders and a tank top she earned a spot in march which also happens to be blake history month. . did you see it? >> her personality was glowing. it came out like she was meant to be there. it was pretty cool. >> ho you do think the picture looks. >> i think she could probably show a little more skin. >> like you guys? >> absolutely absolutely. >> either way, she hopes her
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ground breaking move will help boost female recruitment proving beauty and bravery go hand in hand. >> before you step foot into that firehouse, you have to tell yourself i'm willing to risk my life to save someone else's and that doesn't matter what gender you are. >> well, it's not all about just eye candy. the proceeds all of them go to the fdny foundation which helped to promote fire safety to the public and to provide training and equipment to firefighters. gayle? >> that's right. thank you, michelle. we have to remember the charity component. everybody looks good in suspenders. esquire magazine gets hit for saying 42-year-old women are sexy. what's wrong with that compliment or condescending. find out ahead on "cbs this morning."
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your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. good wednesday morning, everyone. it's 8:25. time for news headlines here at kpix 5. here's what's happening. fire crews are dealing with a crude oil leak after a fire at chevron oil refinery overnight at 2 a.m. in richmond. no injuries, though, have been reported. they are workingat any right now. a woman accused of manslaughter in that death of a high-tech executive aboard his yacht is due in a santa cruz courtroom this morning. investigators say alix tichelman is a high-end prostitute who injected forrest hayes with heroin last year and left him to die on his yacht. state water officials are telling water agencies they can fine water wasters here in the state $500 a day. that's because statewide water use has risen slightly in may even though the governor called for a 20% cut. got your traffic and weather coming up right after
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good morning. traffic continues to recover on 880 after that earlier crash on the southbound lanes approaching hegenberger. now we are seeing delays in the usual direction the commute direction northbound as you pass the coliseum. but as you can see, things are flowing better now in those southbound lanes. all right. getting first reports of a new
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crash coming into pittsburg. westbound 4 at bailey apparently a couple of lanes are blocked. our sensors are still showing green but again this accident was just reported and is blocking lanes in the area. now it's going to cause some backups. at the bay bridge things improved quite a bit only minor delays to the middle of the parking lot. that is your latest "kcbs traffic." here's lawrence. a lot of clouds around the bay area this morning. we have some thick fog along the coastline seeing a lot of drizzle there. and it looks like those clouds slowly breaking up in parts of the bay area now over san jose right now. hi-def doppler radar has been tracking a few scattered light showers this morning but those are starting to taper off but a chance we could see a few more sprinkles throughout the day. temperatures it's going to be muggy outside. plan on 81 in san jose. 74 in oakland. 70 in san francisco. about 86 one of the warmer spots in livermore. then 66 degrees in pacifica with some patchy fog. next couple of days the monsoon heads east. our skies start to clear out. night and morning low clouds and fog, sunshine in the afternoon through the weekend.
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this is how the president had to deal with the day. >> president obama spent all morning doing this. yes, who is this? >> good morning. this is jimt from visa fraud protection. i'm calling to go over some charges on your account. >> >> yes, go ahead. >> did you recently buy an inflatable. >> no. >> what about a bee keeping keep? >> i'm an amateur bee keeper. so that's a yes? >> yes. >> thank you for your time sir. bye. >> that is how it goes.
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the fraud people go did you spend that much money? >> welcome whack to "cbs this morning." coming up this hour backlash over what a men's magazine considers sexy. what they're calling praise over 42-year-old women sexist. daniel silva is in our toyota green room and he'll show us how he brought his obsession of stolen art to his pages of a new book. that, too, is ahead. right now it's time to tell you some of this morning's headlines. the "los angeles times" says hershey is raising its chocolate price by 8%. the reason the rising cost of cocoa. there's increased demand and bad weather impacting growers. >> our partners at cnet looks at security. they have their own team to prevent attackers.
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they can be can skplouted by hackers. the "daily news" says thor is getting a makeover. he will become female. turning the god of thunder into a goddess are saying the comics are dominated by men. >> the salt lake tribune has a birth announcement. two condors hatch a chick. it could be a major step toward re-establishing the major species in southern utah. "usa today" says china found the fossil of a new winged dinosaur species. this is an illustration of what the 125-million-year-old would look like. it is among the few four-winged dinosaurs ever found. >> all right. it's a look. and "the wall street journal" says your feet may explain why
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your shoes don't fit you. a study shows feet are getting bigger and if you haven't checked your shoe size in the last year you may be buying shoes that are too small. tight shoes can cause bunions, hammer toes and a whole lot of pain. in praise of 42-year-old women is sparking a huge conversation on line. the author writes quote, there used to be something tragic about teen most 42-year-old woman. if she remained sexual she was either predatory or desperate but then he declares good news it's not wait used to be. >> so "esquire" points to celebrities like sofia vergara and leslieman. it's not that they identified female strength but rather their vulnerabilities.
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that so-called compliment has outraged many of the women. jennifer wallace is not the author of the piece but has something to say about it. she's contributed to "the wall street journal." here you are. you sit at the table at the age f o -- >> 42. >> okay. so we're talking about you. what is the controversy? i know all over the internet there was collective eye rolls about it. >> why? >> there were two things. one was the tone that the had somehow made this huge discovery, 42-year-old like cameron diaz are beautiful and sexy and hot. i think that was insulting and the other is perpetuating this myth that women are objects and objects that hold their value de depend upon a man's gauge. so at 42 we have value. we don't need to be sexy. >> i'm sorry. how old is the author? >> in his 50s.
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>> oh. >> exactly. >> was there any response there? >> there was actually a funny counterarticle to this. i can't remember where it was published but talking about the myth of a 55-year-old man. >> i don't know. i have to tell you this does not bother me. he's saying women are sexy at 42. the truth of the matter is after you pass the age of 25 or 30 you were no longer sexy. when they did the movie requestet the graduate" with mrs. robinson she was 42 at the time. she looks drastically different. i'm missing something. i thought what is the big deal about this. women are sexy at 42. and? >> we already knew it. one, we already knew it or two, my friends said it's a priority. our careers are take off, we're raising our family and we're meeting our mates. if sexy is on the list it's low on the list. >> do you think it would have
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been different if women had written this article? >> i don't think they would because that's objecty fieing tyy tyy tyy i fieing it and i don't understand. >> i don't get it jennifer. do you understand why the brouhaha charlie? >> he's very quiet. >> very careful. >> what am i missing? >> i mean i just love women of all ages period for all the reasons, smart interesting sexy funny, and sexy. >> and women are sexy at any age. the truth is we're living longer, we're looking better than ever before. so women in their 50s 60s 40s everybody can look sexy. it's not just celebrities. they say, yeah it's celebrities, they have these glam squads. look at you. i hate to say everyday people because that sounds condescending but when you walk on the streets you see women of all ages and when you say how
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old are you, you think wow, you look great. >> it's not to look sexy for a man. what's youthful to women at least my friends and i, it's staying healthy, great fit so we can be a great partners to our partners or see our children grow up. not to be sexy to a man. that's not where i see my value. >> think where you're heading at, gayle, is really important in terms of redefining age and what sexy is but this idea of age restrictions comes up all the time. there was a poll in london. i don't know if you saw it recently. what's appropriate for your age? very steep high heels shouldn't be worn by women over 32. i didn't get that memo. baseball caps shouldn't be worn by anyone over 32. >> women, you can't wear a bikini over age 38. it seems like it's totally
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passe. >> i totally agree but it's the wrong question. who's doing these surveys and why do we care? we also should be celebrating. if my mother can wear high heels, god bless her. i'm always in flats. >> i say that too. god bless you, mr. louboutin. jennifer, thank you so much. >> thank you, gayle. best-selling author dan silva is in studio 57. he'll show us how a
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"the thomas crown affair" stars pierce burlingtonson as a wealthy man who pulls off an art heist. art heist is also the subject of dan ya silva's new book "the heist." >> going inside the secret world
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of stolen art to save his friend, daniel silva joins us at the table. good morn daniel silva. >> thanks for having me. >> i was googling at the same time. i wanted to look up the pieces you were talking about. because the purpose behind this book started with your obsession of the still missing today carvaccio carvaccio's nativity scene. >> kind of a wild man. killed man in rome in a sword fight. ended u on the run. he ended up in sicily where he ended up -- one of the last paintings of his career was this nativity with saint francis and saint lawrence. it hung in this chapel until a dark and stormy night in 1969. they didn't do it like thomas
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crown. they slashed it from the frame and whackalked out with it. >> it remains missing today. >> it's missing today. number one. the italians were the very first ones to form a dedicated unit and it remains at the top of the fbi list as well. they list it at a value of about $20 million. no way. it's worth at least 100. it's priceless. >> do you know these guying well this art squad detective? >> i don't actually. i keep a little distance. i wanted to create my fictitious general ferrari who's in a couple of books but i do have incredible contacts within the art world and i've heard some air raising stories. you remember the famous gardner heist in boston. i have a friend who swears on a stack of bibles that he walked in to an apartment in tokyo and
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saw one of the paintings at the end of the hallway. >> wait wait wait? what did he do about it? did he call police? >> he made appropriate inquiries. that's all i can say. >> you say art theft is a really big business. >> it is. it is. 4 to $6 billion by intell poll's estimates of art -- paintings and other objects go missing every year. 4 to $6 billion. that means art crime is the fourth most lucrative form of illicit activity in the world. >> why don't we hear about it? >> because it is a crime generally perpetrated against rich individuals who sometimes don't report everything that's stolen from them. institutions. and there's a lot of crime in the world. that was one of the things that police forces ha to overcome is
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that this sort of indifference to art crime because it's a crime commit largely against the art world. >> what's great. somebody sits in with google -- >> my worst nightmare. >> oh. your worst nightmare. >> it's something writers have to contend with now, right? we all sit with, no matter what we say. >> somebody can look it up. >> i'm very careful about every aspect of research that goes into it. >> what's interesting about this story is the notion that somebody -- that gabriel has to save his wife's friend by finding the painting. >> he was pressured into it. he has a dear friend who has appeared who has a way of stumbling into trouble all the time. >> that's a good way of putting it. >> that's a nice way of putting
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it. >> gayle knows it. >> off we go. >> art theft or ownership is a great way to conceal wealth also. i thought it was interesting the former jurjt in you coming out talking about the assad family and the revolutions and the arab world inspiring. >> well, -- it leads them to a mysterious collector in the middle east and directly into the heart of the syrian civilian war. as you know one of the most fascinating aspects of the arab spring is the way it laid there. i lived in egypt. we knew that the mubarak family had it pretty good. but when he fell -- i mean by some estimates he was worth 70 billion dollars. that would make him one of the richest men in the world.
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moammar canadagadhafi had at least that much. professional hunters are trying to track down that money. >> u.s. governments. >> they're trying to track down the money. if we can find it we can apply leverage and ask them to moderate their behavior. >> this is another thing i want to point out. you do everything on yellow legal paper. >> my handwriting is worse than yours. >> that's not a compliment. mine is bad. >> daniel silva, thank you so much. >> thank you so much. a new video showing a plane nearly making a humpbacked landing. and new tomorrow morningmoe." now he's co-starring in "sex tape." that's tomorrow.
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ov ron good morning. i'm frank mallicoat. time for news headlines here on channel 5. investigators are looking into an overnight fire in the chevron refinery that started at 2 amount in richmond. nobody was injured. it started at 2 a.m. san francisco police are looking for a woman hoe robbed an 8-year-old girl. this is the suspect inside the corner store at davisadero and eddy. police say she asked the victim for bus fare outside the store but then stole the child's cash. she was selling candy. warriors want to trade for this man right here. kevin love. sources say the golden state has resumed talks with minnesota timberwolves about the all-star forward. love can become a free agent after next season. steph curry is clapping
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somewhere out there. to be sure. how about your weather? here's lawrence with more on that. >> ucla alum, too, i like that, as well. starting out with a lot of clouds this morning, out above san francisco the transamerica building, yeah, pointing to some cloudy skies, a little drizzle outside, as well. but it's really interesting that monsoonal cloud cover still continuing to work its way overhead. our hi-def doppler radar tracking a few scattered light sprinkles and showers this morning. this afternoon, becoming partly cloudy and muggy about 81 in san jose. 75 degrees in san rafael, 81 in concord. and 66 degrees patchy fog in pacifica. next couple of days the monsoonal clouds are going to head eastward. going to start to clear out with patchy fog toward the coastline. we are going to check on your "kcbs traffic" when we come back.
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