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a botched execution in arizona. botched execution in arizona. an inmate a botched execution in arizona. an inmate dies nearly two hours after he's given a lethal injection, raising fresh questions about the death penalty. the faa lifts ban on flights to israel's main airport, but as the violence between israelis and palestinians escalate, some airlines are choosing to stay away. and a wild chase in colorado. a carjacking suspect barrels through a garage door in a stolen truck before he's taken down by police. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, july 24th, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. this morning there is renewed scrutiny of the death penalty
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following another botched execution. this time the lethal injection was administered in arizona. witnesses say the condemned prisoner gasped for breath more than 600 times over a nearly two-hour period after he was injected. executions usually take ten minutes. as david begnaud reports, this is the third failed execution this year. >> reporter: the execution of wood took almost two hours. witnesses say during most of that time they could see and hear wood breathing and gasping for air. >> he closed his eyes, he went to sleep. then he started gasping and he did. he gasped for more than an hour and a half. >> reporter: wood was sentenced to death for killing his girlfriend deborah dietz and her father in 1989. >> i don't believe he was suffered. it sounded to me as though he were snoring.
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>> reporter: the dietz family said the only delay was how long it took to carry out the execution. >> everybody's worried about did he suffer. who really suffered was my dad and sister when they were killed. >> reporter: this is the third time this year an inmate has taken far longer to succumb a lethal injection. in april officials halted the execution of clayton lockett because he wrighted in pain and dislodged the needle. he then died of a heart attack. arizona's execution director said directions were following and wo and david wood was comatose until he died. david begnaud, cbs news. arizona's janet breyer has ordered an investigation. in statement she said inmate wood died in lawful manner and did not suffer. this is in a stark comparison to the gruesome vicious suffering that he inflicted on his two
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victims. now a common denominator in the three botched executions this year is a said active used as part of a lethal cocktail mix. midazolam is given before surgery but it's unclear what role that drug played in wood's execution. this morning the prime minister says he does not think there'll be a cease-fire for days. secretary john kerry is back in egypt after failing to secure a truce in fighting that has left more than 700 palestinians and 34 israelis dead. late last night the faa lifted its ban on u.s. flights to tel aveev's ben gurion airport. it was put in place tuesday after a hamas rocket landed nearby. don champion is here in new york. good morning, don. >> good morning. even though the ban has been lifted, it does not mean airlines will start flights to tel a viv right away. it's up to the airlines.
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meantime as peace talks continue, fighting rages on. american airliners can once again fly into tel aviv's ben gurion airport after the faa lifted the ban. in a statement overnight the agency said it lifted the ban after getting new information on measures the israeli government is taking to assure safety of flights in and out of the airport. the decision of banning flights had been met with harsh criticism of the israeli government. >> the real answer to the danger of flying is not to stop the flights but to stop the rockets. >> reporter: the ban had been in place for more than a day after a hamas rocket hit a neighborhood near the airport on tuesday. u.s. secretary of state john kerry flew back to cairo after brokering a deal. kerry and the u.n. secretary-general worked both sides of the conflict in israel and the west bank wednesday. >> i can tell you that we have
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in the last 24 hours made some progress in moving toward that goal. >> reporter: just miles away from where peace talks were going on, the israeli military continued its assault on hamas targets in gaza. now, when it comes to a cease-fire, senior administration officials say it is important to them that some wider issues between israel and the palestinians are addressed as part of it. they don't want a cease-fire to just be a band-aid. secretary kerry will be in cairo through at least friday to continue peace talks. anne-marie? >> all right. don champion, thank you very much. the dutch prime minister says it may be weeks before all the victims of malaysia flight 17 are identified. this morning more planes carrying victims' remains are flying from ukraine to the netherlands. but some bodies are still at the crash site in eastern ukraine. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie, good morning. there are growing concerns that some of the remains may never be
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recovered if that crash site is not properly secure and searched. the prime minister has sent a group to london to be part of the team that will secure that sight. they will be part of a u.n. team that will secure that flight and they're focusing on the data recorder for clues on the final moments. hundreds of australians gathered in melbourne this morning for a memorial service for victims of malaysia airlines flight 17. dozens of australians lost their lives in the tragedy. >> nothing is ordinary about the circumstances of deaths of the 298 people whose lives were lost in an instant. >> 40 plain wooden coffins were flown by two military planes from eastern ukraine to the netherlands yesterday. two more arrived today carrying the remains of at least 70 more victims. a convoy of hearses then carried the bodies to a dutch facility
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where foreign experts worked to identify them. a week after, they continue to find human remains as they comb through the massive crash area. among evidence they discovered, signs the wreckage was tampered with and proof that it was shot down. >> we have photographs that feature puncture marks to the fuselage, almost a piercing mark. >> they believe it hit the passenger plane with a surface-to-air missile. they're studied the flight data recorders to try to find out what happened in the final moments of the doomed flight. now foreign ministers of australia and the netherlands will travel to ukraine to talk with leaders there about securing the site which is still held by rebels. anne-marie. >> all right. susan mcginnis in washington. thank you. this morning a tie roy neesz airline says weather may have played the role of a deadly
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crash with one of its planes. a twin-engine prop plane crashed yesterday as it was trying to land on a small island 90 miles southwest of taipei. 58 people were on board. just ten survived. there were thunderstorms in the area at the time. the plane crashed into houses near the airport. five people on the ground were injured. and a teenage pilot from indiana trying to set a record for an around-the-world flight was killed when his plane crashed into the pacific. haris suleman had just taken off from american samoa tuesday night when his single-engine plane plunged into the ocean. suleman and his father were using the flight to raise money for a favorite charity. the father is still missing. dean reynolds reports. >> reporter: 17-year-old haris suleman and his 58-year-old father babar took off from indiana airport on june 19 on a
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single-engine airplane for a trip of a lifetime. >> how long is it going to take you? >> 30 days. >> he was only a pilots for two months but his dad was a veteran airman. they faced headwinds, monsoons and more as they methodically plotted a trip around the globe hoping to settle a new record for circumnavigation, hoping to raise money for schools in pakistan. there were just three stops remaining on the flight. they hoped to be home this weekend. the family said they both loved to fly. >> we believed in it. you knew there was a risk but you can never expect something like this to happen. >> in a news conference it was said the father-and-son team raised $500,000 for their cause. dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. a suspect armed with a rifle goes on a crime spree while trying to escape authorities. we'll show you how a cop took him down. this is the "cbs morning news." you how a cop took
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a wind chase in colorado. carjacking suspect armed with an assault rifle fled police and broke into a home. he takes an suv and drives it through garage door, but he gets stuck in the ditch. the suspect tried to get drivers to pull over on a nearby highway and that's when a deputy on a motorcycle got him to put down his rifle and then chased the suspect. grabbing his shirt and bringing him to the pavement in the middle of the interstate. montana senator john walsh is trying to explain his parent plaj richl. walsh, an iraq war vet says post-traumatic stress was partly to blame when he used other people's work in a thesis to earn a masters from the u.s. army's war college. the democrat is running for election to a full term in the senate after being appointed to fill a vacancy in february.
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and on the "cbs moneywatch," a new recall for gm, and the weird artist who sits atop the billboard album chart. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, jill. >> good morning, anne-marie. general motors issued six more recalls covering 628,000 vehicles worldwide for faulty seats and other problems. that brings the total number for gm recall this year to 60. they cover almost 30 million vehicles, and that is a now record for the automaker. here on wall street investors are waiting for earnings reports from general motors and ford. the dow lost 26 wednesday. the nasdaq gained 17. is the s&p closed at 3 points. facebook could face a new high. it was way up. that sent earnings sharply higher to 40 cents per share, which is 61% higher than the previous quarter.
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investors who bought and held facebook stock are now close to doubling their money. six people are under arrest for targeting customers of the popular ticket resaler stubhub. prosecutors say the hackers broke into 1,600 customer accounts on the stubhub website and then they allegedly used stolen passwords to illegally by thousands of tickets to concerts, shows, and sporting events. >> and for the first time in his 30-year career, weird al yankovic is number one on the billboard chart. ♪ featuring a song making fun of pharrell's "happy," the parody singer earned his first top spot called "mandatory fun." it sold 400,000 copies in its first week and became the first comedy album to top the charts since 1963.
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anne-marie? >> i did not think that tune could make me smile even more, but somehow weird al managed do that. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange. thanks a lot, jill. still to come, a tearful announcement from an nfl legend. and saying sorry was never so sweet. lebron james' baked apology to his ohio neighbors. this is the "cbs morning news." or margherita flatbreads, baked fresh in house and served with your choice of soup or salad. chili's lunch combos, starting at just 6 bucks. more life happens here. worse and worse.rthritis, i had intense joint pain that got then my rheumatologist prescribed enbrel. i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. enbrel helps relieve pain and stop joint damage. i've been on the course and on the road. enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders, and allergic reactions
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the country. longtime denver broncos owner pat bowlen is giving up the team as he battles alzheimer's disease. the 70-year-old bowlen bought the team in 1984. in that time the broncos went to six super bowls, winning two. general manager john elway who quarterbacked denver to those two championships made a tearful announcement yesterday. >> having worked for him for 30 years, it's going to be very hard to not see him walk through those front doors every day. >> when the broncos won their first super bowl in 1998, bowlen famously handed john elway the
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this morning we're hearing m someone who was right theren the wild heist happened. the governor of arizona - looking into a review of the state's execution process - after it took a inmate almo two hours to die from lethal injection. plus - an alleged "serial squatter" and her family have finallyn evicted from a san bruno ho. how she kept evading the re. join us for kpix 5 news this morning... beginning at 4:3 good morning. it's thursday, july 24th i'm michelle griego.,,,,
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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. an overflow crowd at the funeral for the new york city man who died in police custody. thousands packed a brooklyn church to say good-bye to aaron gardner. he was arrested for allegedly selling unlicensed cigarettes. amateur video of the arrest shows the police officer using a banned choke hold on gardner. the incident has prompted the nypd to retrain its officers on the use of force. and a wireless microchip could be the future of contraception.
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here's another look at this morning's top stories. an arizona inmate who was executed yesterday remained alive for nearly two hours after the execution started. witnesses say joseph rudolph wood gasped for air over 600 times. governor jan breyer says he didn't suffer but has ordered a review of the state's execution process. and late last night the faa lifted its ban for flights to and from israel, but not all airlines will resume service. secretary of state john kerry returned to egypt after failing to secure a cease-fire and fighting on the gaza strip between israeli troops and hamas continues. since returning from war
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since 9/11, more than 1,000 women have been hurt. mark strassmann addresses the special needs for females. >> reporter: these women came to this alabama horse farm to find healing in a manner of sisterhood. >> you may not notice those injuries, the wounds, the traumatic brain injuries. they look no different than you or i, but yet have been through a lot. >> reporter: susan robertson coordinates operation refocus in birmingham, alabama. it's one of america's few outreach programs that caters exclusively to injured female vets like amanda marr. >> it's actually a warpiece. >> reporter: the 32-year-old left the army in 2010. sergeant marr was hurt in what she describes as a training incident. she's not comfortable giving details. >> for a long time i went numb, i think i was in shock.
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>> internally suffering. >> suffering internally. it wasn't till i got out of the army, i was like, oh, that's what a woman is, that's what women do, they hug their kids, they lie in bed with their husband, they don't have nightmares at night. >> how close to the old healthy you are you now? >> to be honest i don't remember the old healthy me and that's tough. >> reporter: the retreat is funded by the nonprofit lakeshore foundation. it lasts five days, but they tell us their connections are almost instant. the benefits may last a lifetime it's incredibly liberating, yeah. being around my own peer group as women veterans, it really allows me to sort of let down my guard. i can just actually be present here and just try things. >> reporter: recovery is a process. at this retreat they met someone else who understands. mark strassmann, cbs news, birmingham, alabama. well, coming up after your
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local news on "cbs this morning," an update on the negotiations for a cease-fire between israel and hamas, plus more on famed quarterback john elway's emotional reaction to broncos owner pat bowlen stepping down. and we sit down with ivanna triumph p to talk about a new luxury hotel coming to pennsylvania avenue. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com anne-marie green. have a great day.. rtd -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. good morning,everyone. it is thursday, july 24. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. it is -- well, it's nearly 4:30 and it's time to say hi to
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lawrence and liz and we're going to start with weather. >> good morning, guys! yeah, got some heat coming our way. summer heat making its way back to the bay area. temperatures today going to soar well into the 90s inland. we could see some triple digits coming up. more on that in a few minutes. >> just the usual overnight roadwork out there right now. if you are heading into downtown oakland, this is a live look at southbound 880 between jackson and embarcadero, various lanes blocked until 5:00. so we'll let you know as soon as they clear them coming up. >> we need a new clicker. >> and a new map. >> and a new map. [ laughter ] >> we'll take care of that in a few minutes. >> all right. thank you, elizabeth. robbers stormed this stockton bank armed with ak- 47s and now we're hearing from someone who was right there when that heist happened. the robbers took a woman hostage and used her as a human shield. steve large with what she said as the robbers dragged her outside. >> you feel like you have a connection with misty now? >> yes. >> tell me about that. >> uhm, i saw in her eyes,

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