>> see you next week. and we want to invite all you good morning to our viewers in the west. it's friday, august 8th 2014. welcome to "cbs this morning." overnight the u.s. launches its first air strike in iraq against the terror group isis. >> hawaii battered by tropical storm iselle as hurricane julio strengthens. >> a dramatic increase in great white shark sight go ahead off the california coast. >> plus make room boys meet the girls with a real shot at the little league world series. but we begin with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. fa-18s dropping 500-pound bombs on isis militants. >> we have people in erbil and if we see an advance, we're going to hit it. >> the president authorizes air strikes in iraq. >> when the lives of american

citizens are at risk we will take action. >> u.s. air forces air dropping food and water to thousands of iraqis trapped by islamic militants on a mountain near the syrian border. >> oh my baud. >> tropical storm iselle battering the hawaiian islands this morning packing 70-mile-an-hour winds. >> right behind it hurricane julio promising to be even bigger. >> let's be safe. the full brunt of the storm is still coming. >> israel and hamas are battling again. >> the explosion has rocked gaza city. a 10-year-old is reported to be the first casualty. >> the judge in the oscar pistorius trial has announced she will deliver her verdict september 11th. >> the world health organization has declared the ebola outbreak to be an international health emergency. >> the director of the cdc says his agency is up to the task. >> it will be a long and hard fight, but we can stop ebola. >> the woman has apparently become some kind of serial stowaway arrested again at l.a.x. one day after a judge ordered her to stay away. >> shutting down the white

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welcome to "cbs this morning." charlie rose and gayle king are off so maurice dubois is here with us. >> great to be with you, norah. >> good to have you here. as we wake up in the west we begin with breaking news. american warplanes are unleashing air strikes in iraq. navy fighter jets attacked isis also known as isil. >> late last night president obama authorized the pentagon to carry out limited strikes to protect americans in the region. let's get right to david martin at the pentagon. david, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. the first shots were fired at about 6:45 a.m. east coast time this morning when a pair of f-18 jet fighters off the aircraft carrier george bush dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on an isis artillery piece that was being used to shell kurdish forces near the city of erbil in northern iraq. last night the president

authorized air strikes against any isis convoy advancing on erbil because there are scores of americans in that city operating out of the u.s. consulate there. this was the first strike but almost certainly not the last because the president has authorized strikes not only to protect the city of erbil but also to break the siege around a mountain called sinjar, where these isis forces have thousands of iraqi refugees surrounded. last night the u.s. dropped food and water just to keep them from starving or dying of thirst but the only real long-term solution will be for those isis forces either to withdraw or for u.s. air strikes to go in and try to break the siege. >> david what do we know about

who is running this military campaign? >> reporter: well, this strike was ordered by general lloyd austin the head of the u.s. central command and the authority to do this was delegated to him last night by president obama. general austin is a veteran of the iraq war. in fact he was the commander of american forces in iraq at the time of the pullout of american troops in 2011. >> all right david martin at the pentagon thank you. and in last night's dramatic white house announcement, president obama said the u.s. must step in to protect americans and prevent a civilian massacre. he insisted this is not a return to an all-out u.s. military involvement. major garrett is at the white house where the president laid out the new policy. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the u.s. military is back in iraq. for how long, no one here at the white house is prepared to say. the humanitarian mission has begun and advisers say it could last for days possibly longer.

hours ago the first air strike hit sunni militants threatening u.s. personnel and kurdish forces near erbil. the president ordered u.s. air drops of food and water for tens of thousands in a religious sect unarmed civilians huddled atop sinjar mountain in northwest iraq, surrounded by well-armed militants known as isil. >> they're without food they're without water. people are starving and children are dying of thirst. meanwhile, isil forces below have called for the systematic destruction of the entire yezidi people, which would constitute genocide. >> reporter: u.s. planes dropped food and water for 8,000. more air drops are coming. and if isil forces don't withdraw, u.s. warplanes will launch air strikes to break the siege. >> when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, then i believe the united states of america cannot turn a blind eye. >> reporter: the president also authorized air strikes if isil

forces converge on the city of erbil, where u.s. diplomats were sent from baghdad weeks ago amid fears isil forces would overrun the capital. dozens of u.s. military advisers are there too. >> the stop the advance on erbil, i've directed our military to take targeted strikes against isil terrorist convoys should they move toward the city. >> reporter: the pentagon considers erbil crucial to the fight against isil. congressional sources told us the administration vowed an aggressive military effort to protect it. aerial surveillance of isil will be constant. fighter jets are poised to strike. but no u.s. combat forces are heading back to iraq. >> i will not allow the united states to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq. the only lasting solution is reconciliation among iraqi communities and stronger iraqi security forces. >> reporter: senior officials describe the isil forces as swift, effective and very well trained. so far the iraqi army and kurdish forces have been no match for them but the white

house believes the kurdish forces will rebound with the help of u.s. military air support. even so senior advisers here predict a very long military campaign. >> all right major, thank you. holly williams is in istanbul turkey where officials are watching isis very closely this morning. holly, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. iraq's top muslim cleric called on all iraqis to unite today to defeat isis and he blamed corrupt iraqi politicians for this crisis. those islamic militants came within 30 minutes of erbil yesterday, and that's a city that's considered a strong hold of forces opposed to isis. isis is on the move again, taking on kurdish fighters and extending the borders of what they call their islamic state. yesterday after fierce clashes,

isis militants seized 15 towns, an army base and iraq's biggest dam. soldiers from the iraqi military fled the area two months ago, when isis first surged into mosul. now the kurdish fighters who come from an autonomous region in the east are the only group doing battle with isis on the ground in northern iraq. but isis has won a string of victories over the kurdish soldiers. several of the towns captured by isis yesterday were christian, including bartella which we visited in june. captain jacob and his 600 local militiamen vowed to protect bartella from isis who at that point were just ten miles away. thousands of iraqi christians have now fled the area fearful that isis will give them the same stark choice they have offered other religious minorities. convert to sunni islam, leave,

or face death. the most significant strategic gain made by isis yesterday was the capture of the mosul dam, iraq's biggest. and there are fears that isis could use the dam as a weapon inundating hundreds of square miles of land. >> holly, thanks. now to the morning's other big story. tropical storm iselle is bashing hawaii's big island. trees and power lines are down and flash flood warnings are out. iselle was downgraded from a hurricane as top winds dropped to 70 miles an hour. >> iselle will cross hawaii's other islands later today. in the eastern pacific julio has strengthened to a category 3. it's expected to brush by hawaii this weekend. bigad shaban is in hilo hawaii where a storm has never hit this big. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. iselle is still hovering over us soaking the big island here. once the storm clears the national guard will help conduct damage assessments, but iselle

is expected to dump as much as a foot of rainfall in some areas before moving on to the rest of the hawaiian islands. >> water is coming in from everywhere. >> reporter: the storm made landfall just as high tide rolled in on the eastern shore of the big island. >> oh my god. >> reporter: flash floodwaters raised down the streets of kapoho as wind gusts of 85 miles an hour pummeled hawaii's largest island. >> the national guard is already moving planes to the mainland that could bring cargo. >> reporter: hawaii's governor neil abercrombie, is confident the state is prepared for the back-to-back storms. >> i could go through ten different scenarios like this with you. we're ready. i can assure you we're on the ball and ready to respond in any way necessary. >> reporter: despite dangerous waves and dire warnings some islanders still ventured out to ride the surf. others went to one of 30 temporary red cross shelters, including hilo high school where more than 100 people spent

the night. >> we went across the river with our back packs on. we can't just walk normally. >> reporter: jessica and eamon andrews came with their 2-year-old daughter, chloe, after wind gusts shook their home. >> better to be safe than sorry. >> reporter: and the islands won't get much time to dry off, maurice, before hurricane julio is expected to move just to the north on sunday. >> thank you. now, this nasa picture from space shows how big these two storms are compared to hawaii. meteorologist and hurricane expert craig setzer of our cbs station wfor is tracking these twin and unusual systems. craig, good morning. >> good morning. iselle continues to bear down now on the big island of hawaii. it took a turn to the southwest overnight. also slowed its speed but has now resumed more of a northwest coast. that slower speed is problematic, even though the wind is down to 60 miles per hour.

slower speeds means torrential rainfall for the big island. anywhere from one to two feet is possible. that means life-threatening flash floods and possibly widespread flash floods. after that iselle moves to the west. the core should stay south of the other islands, especially honolulu and it's on out into the pacific. of course the other system we're watching is category 3 major hurricane julio. right now it looks like julio will pass to the north of the island but certainly something we'll have to watch. norah? >> all right, thank you so much. one minute. that's how long the sky remained free of rockets after the temporary truce between israel and hamas came to an end this morning, and a child is among the victims in the latest outbreak of violence. clarissa ward is in gaza city. clarissa, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that cease-fire expired at 8:00 a.m., and by 8:01 we heard a barrage of rockets being fired from here in gaza. there has been a steady stream ever since. israel has responded with air

strikes. one hit just near a mosque and killed a 10-year-old boy. israel has also now pulled its delegation from cairo, saying that there could be no negotiations and no talks while hamas continues to fire these rockets. but hamas did warn last night that they are willing to drag israel into a long and bloody war unless they get some real concessions. there's a sense here politically that hamas cannot afford to walk away from this latest conflict without some big concession or some major victory that would somehow begin to justify the enormous price that the people here in gaza have paid over the last four weeks. so the situation here not looking good at all. talks have stalled and the cycle of violence is starting again. for "cbs this morning" clarissa ward gaza. now to the deadly ebola outbreak. concerns around the globe as the number of victims continues to rise. new figures from the world health organization this morning

show 961 deaths. that is up by 29, and part of the reason the virus is being called an international public health emergency. jeff pegues is in washington where the government is responding to claims the u.s. is not doing enough to help. jeff? >> reporter: good morning. the cdc is now at its highest state of alert and launching a team of 50 u.s. health professionals into the regions of africa affected the most. the cdc's director warned that containing the deadly disease will be a long hard fight. west africans are waiting for the potentially life-saving drug american patients nancy writebol and dr. kent brantly have been given, leaving some african leaders to criticize the american response to the outbreak. but dr. tom frieden, director of the cdc, says there are virtually no doses of zmapp available, and there are still questions about whether it works. >> the plain fact is that we don't know whether that treatment is helpful, harmful or doesn't have any impact. >> reporter: he is confident there will not be a large

outbreak here in the u.s. if ebola is contained in africa. >> the single most important thing we can do is to stop the outbreaks, to stop it at the source. >> reporter: increasingly that is proving difficult to do. the outbreak has spread to four countries across west africa. but according to the world health organization 60% of the nearly 1,000 people who have died since march have been in liberia and sierra leone. ken issacs is with the christian international relief organization samaritans purse. >> i believe this is a very nasty, bloody disease. i could give you descriptions of people dying that you cannot even believe. >> reporter: in atlanta, american ebola patient nancy writebol is showing signs of improvement. her husband, david, is optimistic. >> i'm grateful and happy that she's in a place that enables her to receive the best care possible. and that will give her every opportunity to get better and to recover. >> reporter: a drug company now

says that the fda lifted its hold on a drug that could treat people with ebola. that company had its trials on the drug tkm ebola stopped earlier this summer. >> jeff thanks. the blade runner oscar pistorius, will learn his fate on september 11th. that's when the judge in his murder troilial will issue a verdict. closing arguments wrapped up this morning. defense claimed primalin stipts caused him to shoot his girlfriend. debora patta is at the courthouse in pretoria. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it's ironic that pistorius has spent his entire life downplaying his disability but is now emphasizing it in a bid to escape a murder charge. defense attorney barry roux is trying to portray him as a tragic hero who is desperately vulnerable on his stumps. >> a little boy without legs you experience daily that disability and the effect of it.

you experience daily that you cannot run away. >> reporter: what's happened now is that the defense maintains that oscar pistorius has an exaggerated response to danger and that is why he shot and killed reeva steenkamp by accident thinking she was an intruder. the prosecution, however, argues it was cold-blooded murder and that pistorius is a liar. >> thank you. a michigan man faces life in prison this morning for the shooting of a 19-year-old woman on his porch. 55-year-old theerodore wafer claimed self-defense when he shot a 19-year-old. the jury disagreed. he was convicted of second-degree murder and manslaughter. he said he feared for his life when the woman banged on his door early one morning after crashing her car. the case initially raised questions about race but that was never the focus of the trial. mcbride's parents say they have

finally found justice. >> we know as parents how we raised her. she was not violent. she was a regular teenager and she was well raised and brought up with a loving family. and her life mattered. and we showed that. >> wafer heads back to court for his sentencing later this month. did you hear about this story, a small boy caused a big security scare at the white house. secret service agents scrambled after the toddler squeezed through the iron bars of the gate in front of the white house yesterday. well, they issued a lockdown and the little boy was quickly caught, as you can see, but even the secret service had a sense of humor about it. here's their statement. quote, we were going to wait until he learned to talk to question him, but in lieu of that, he got a time-out and was sent on his way with his parents. those bars are -- they're quite narrow but he was a little kid and he managed to get stuck right in between them. >> that's going to be a long time-out. >> a long time-out yes, indeed. it's 7:19.

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bombers increased flights around american airspace. russian strategic bombers and other military aircraft entered air defense zones 16 times in the last ten days. fighter jets scrambled several times. it comes amid the crumbling relations between russia and the west over ukraine. the "san jose mercury news" says the serial stowaway is at it again. police arrested marilyn hartman for the second time this week. she flew from san jose to l.a.x. without a ticket on monday. a judge told her to stay away from the airport unless she had a ticket and she ignored the order. now she's being held on $10,000 bail. the "indianapolis star" says ncaa's board of directors will give the five biggest conferences more authority to make their own rules. schools in the so-called power conferences will hold twice as much voting power as any other group. some of the proposed changes are expected to involve schools giving money to athletes beyond scholarships and housing.

smaller schools rejected that idea in the past. "the new york times" says prominent authors will run a full-page ad in its paper taking on amazon.com. more than 900 authors including douglas preston, john grish am and stephen king all say the online giant is turning readers away from buying books from the pusher. it's amazon's way to pressure them into giving better deals on ebooks. they ask readers to contact the top executive demanding they stop using them as hostages in negotiations. and "the wall street journal" looks at how credit scores are calculated. fico says it will stop including any record of a person failing to pay a bill if the bill has been paid or settled with a collection agency. unpaid medical bills will also be given less weight. the changes are expected to make it easier for people to get loans. so far this morning hawaii is standing up to the biggest storm to hit the islands in 22

years. tropical storm iselle weakened as it approached landfall but heavy rain is causing some flash flooding. it is the first of two tropical systems approaching the islands. we are watching iselle on the west coast. >> reporter: aloha from hawaii's big island where even though iselle has been downgraded to a tropical storm, she's still very much a force to be reckoned with. we're getting gusts that are very consistent even though their strength is rather unexpected. we hear on the east side of the island gusts were as high as 85 miles per hour. that's really what has born the brunt of this storm. they have had very heavy winds and very heavy rain. there is a flood advisory that's been issued for the entire island and the mayor has also declared a state of emergency. there's the anticipation that we could get 8 to 10 inches of rain over the next 24 hours. people are being very careful and closely monitoring those

conditions. there's also thousands still without power and many area roadways that have been shut down because of not only the rising storm surges but also downed trees. back to you guys. >> thank you. seven months into his second stint as new york city's police commissioner, bill bratton's leadership is under attack. it is familiar territory for the man who also led police in los angeles and boston. last month a man accused of illegally selling cigarettes died as nypd officers wrestled with him. eric garner's arrest caught on video led to protests. >> new york's medical examiner ruled that a banned choke hold was the main factor in garner's death. bill bratton is here for his first national tv interview since this case happened. good morning, commissioner. >> good morning. >> good to have you here. let's talk first about this garner case because chokeholds have been banned in the nypd since the '90s. what happened here? why was this violent force used

and is it at all defensible? >> well there's an investigation by the district attorney's office at the moment and we're going to have to wait to see the results of that investigation. we have a parallel administrative investigation in the police department, but we don't come into it until the district attorney finishes his look to see if this is a criminal act that was committed. so i think we're all going to have to just stand by a little bit and wait and see what he determines. >> i understand there's an investigation and that's important, but when you see this video, many people think this is over the top. >> what you're seeing is a snippet, an eight-minute video actually. and in terms of the activities before the video began, the activities after, that's the totality that we have to take into account in the investigation. what we see is certainly disturbing. policing unfortunately when force is used is never good to look at. this particular scene, which has been repeated thousands upon thousands of times, really has

struck a chord in the public. >> commissioner critics are blaming your broken windows policy. it's been hailed all around the world as successful going after low-level crimes before big ones happen. so in this case many people are upset, however, because they feel it's targeting communities of color. how do you respond to that? >> we are not targeting communities of color. we are targeting behavior. and the behavior is things that are prohibited by lockersaw breaking the law. make no mistake about it this city is one of the safest cities in the world today because of that targeting of not only minor crimes but serious crimes back in the 1990s. serious crime is down dramatically. and even the quality of life behavior that is being talked about now, it's still out there, quite obviously, because we're still finding enforcement. today's "new york post" you'd think we were being overrun -- they document three people that

have been seen acting as squeegee pests. we're not being overrun. those are being take care of very, very quickly. you have those that want it enforced and those that don't want it enforced. we enforce the law. we enforce behavior and don't go after any class of people. >> but garner was selling cigarettes. >> that's right. >> and now he's dead. >> mm-hmm. >> and one of the questions that's been raised is that the police department reported making almost 400,000 arrests last year. that is tens of thousands of more arrests than in 1995 when there were three times as many murders in the city. so the question is crime is down arrests are up. that you are arresting too many people for minor offenses and that that's a problem. >> look what also is reported is that the state prison population is down dramatically because we're closing prisons. likers rikers island has about 12,000

now. the serious crime getting people sentenced to those facilities is down dramatically. why? because we're stopping the behavior before it becomes more serious. so i'd rather have more summonsable offenses where people don't go to jail than having people go to jail. so you want to fill up the prisons again or do you want to stop the behavior while it's nil in the minor stage. >> critics would also say 85% of the drug arrests in this town are black and latinos. about half the drug users would be white. so something has got to give there, wouldn't you say? >> we look at that very carefully. once again, for example, in minority neighborhoods, unfortunately there are a number of neighborhoods in the city that still have the highest crime rates. that's been the case unfortunately, 20, 30 years, even though crime in those neighborhoods is down 70 80%. the shootings that we're still seeing, the murders that we're still seeing are primarily in those neighborhoods so that's where i put a lot of extra police.

we had thousands of extra police in those neighborhoods this summer to keep the crime down. while they're there, they are seeing other offenses that they're going to act upon. so there's so many elements so many streams here that have to be looked at. this is not a simple matter to look at. and it's good that we're having a public debate about it because that's what we need to have. >> commissioner i want to get to the big security scare that happened a couple of weeks ago when it appears that some people were able to get to the top of the brooklyn bridge and hoist a white flag. i don't need to tell you that the brooklyn bridge has been a target of terrorists in the past. it's very close to a number of top security spots. how close are you to finding out who did this? >> we think we have a very good idea of who was involved. >> you do? >> yeah. >> so why haven't the arrests been made? >> knowing is not proving. so when we have the proof, we'll move. we have put, as you might appreciate exhaustive efforts into this investigation -- >> and is it terror-related? >> not at all. not at all. >> just a prank? >> nothing of that nature

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ready two. cue norah. >> in texas this morning a group of current and former cheerleaders are rallying for help from the state supreme court. the squad is fighting a battle that began two years ago. at issue using banners at games that are inscribed with bible scripture. >> reporter: the high school cheerleaders may spend most of their time on the sidelines, but

their story has been pushed front and center. the team began printing scripture onto their game banners in 2012 but someone complained, leading the freedom from religion foundation to write a letter to the school district. elizabeth cavel is a lawyer with the organization. >> it's a religious message and it's a school-sponsored message. it violates the establishment clause which requires school districts to be neutral when it comes to religion. >> reporter: the school responded with a ban. then members of the 2012 squad filed a lawsuit against the district, saying their right to free speech was being violated. they won a temporary injunction in 2012 and a 2013 ruling said they could carry the banners but never clarified whether the students' rights to free speech were being violated. while the students can carry the banners, school officials have the right to censor them. on wednesday current and former members of the cheerleading

squad filed a petition with the texas state supreme court asking that it recognize the girls' speech as private, making any ban a violation of the first amendment. if courts rule in their favor, it would make it difficult for groups like the freedom from religion foundation to sue in the future. the squad insists this is about free speech not religion. >> if it was a group that was wanting to post not scriptures but maybe phrases from a different religion they should also be allowed to have their speech. >> reporter: we reached out to the school district but they did not provide a comment. the freedom from religion foundation says it has no plans to retreat. >> nothing has changed. these banners continue to be school sponsored speech and they continue to violate the establishment clause so depending on the outcome of this litigation, we would certainly be prepared to sue. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," adriana diaz san

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good morning. we have a traffic alert right now if you are heading to the richmond/san rafael bridge. five-car crash causing a pretty big backup right now trying to get on the span from richmond. westbound 580 the accident was just past the toll plaza. one lane is blocked. you can see it is stacked up even now beyond richmond parkway. in the meantime your other bridges look great even the bay bridge thinning out earlier than usual. here's roberta. >> look at the transamerica building under gray skies. numbers in the 50s and 60s, a little cooler than yesterday at this time. 67 degrees with partial clearing in pacifica today. 70s through the eights in the low 90s today. deeper marine layer on saturday. mixing out sooner on sunday.

♪ good morning to our viewers in the west this august 8th fry. more air strikes. but first, today's "eye-opener at 8:00.." >> american warplanes are unleashing air strikes in iraq. >> to protect americans in the region. >> and iselle is still hovering over the island here. >> that cease-fire expired at 8:00 a.m. and by 8:01 we heard

a barrage of steady rockets being fired and every since a steady stream. the single most important thing we can do is to stop the outbreak. >> it's ironic he is now exercising it to escape a murder charge. what you are see something a snippet, actually. what we see is certainly disturb disturbing a toddler squeezed through the iron bars of the gate in front of the white house yesterday. >> it's going to be a long time out. today's "eye-opener at 8:00." is presented by comfort inn. i am norah o'donnell. charlie rose and gayle king are off. hours after getting the green light from president obama u.s. jets dropped bombs on isis

artillery. hundreds of american troops and diplomats are stationed there. >> the president announced the new plan last night. and the terror group is getting too close to irbil. >> we intend to stay vigilant and take action if these terrorists forces threaten the personnel or facilities anywhere in iraq. >> and they are dropping supplies to people cut off by isis forces. israel and hamas are shooting at each other again. eyewitnesses say militants in gaza fired rockets as soon as the truce ended. israel responded with air strikes that killed a

10-year-old boy. hawaii's big island is seeing flash flooding and power outages thanks to tropical storm iselle. it's the biggest storm to hit the islands since 1992. a bigger system hurricane julio, is still lurking to the east. and a cell weakened as it came ashore overnight. good morning to you once again. >> reporter: despite the downgrade, iselle could actually still soak parts of the hawaiian islands here with up to a foot of rain. high tide rolled in on the eastern part of the island and winds were at 85 miles per hour and started flash floods. some people ventured out to attempt to ride some of the high surf. still, others not wanting to weather the storm at home actually took to one of about 30 temporary emergency shelters set up by the american red cross.

the storm is expected to make its final passover here later today, and when the storm finally clears norah, the air national guard is expected to help assess the damage. >> thank you. cbs news science professor is with us. good morning. >> good morning. >> what do you know about what are going to be two hurricanes over hawaii that have been downgraded? >> this is one for the history books. the people of hawaii will tell their grandkids about the double whammy of 2014. never in recorded history have we had a 1-2 punch in hawaii. in the last 64 years, we only had three -- just three hurricanes slam into hawaii. the last one was 22 years ago, and now we have two of them -- count them two of them barrelling down on hawaii. >> why is it so rare? >> because the atlantic ocean is

different, like a bowling alley, the storms roll across atlantic and score a direct hit when they hit the caribbean and united states and the hurricanes go to the south of hawaii and this time there is el nino is that's what is causing all the problems. el nino is pushing hurricanes to the north, and that's why the hurricanes are hitting hawaii. >> you say there is a silver lining of hitting landfall. hard to imagine something good coming out of this? >> there is something good. less hurricane activity in the atlantic, and hurricane activity in the pacific interferes with the atlantic hurricanes and they cause the bowling balls to become gutter balls and never hit. and so california could get some rain because of el nino. and the bad news is the pacific

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>> it's called health tap and they are best known for the question and answer website where you can ask a pool of thousands of doctors questions but now they added a service where you can have a monthly service for a video conference with doctor. and there's another service out there and generating controversy. it's called doctor on demand and it's an app you can use on your phone. there is a fee for a one-time visit and you can video conference with the doctor and describe your systems and that doctor can diagnose you and prescribe medicines and tell you the next step and they could tell you to call 911 or call your doctor. >> and it's owned by dr. phil. is the diagnose affective?

>> the apps are not going anywhere soon. they are popular and here to say. even though the doctor can see you and you can up load photos and one thing miss something a laying on of his hands, and that's a interaction between people. that's the most effective diagnose diagnosic tool we have. >> how much are we losing? >> it's hard to say. this is all still very new. on one hand it's hard to get into your doctor on the same day very often, so it's nice to have some resources out there for advice. on the other hand, you don't want to see people relying on this too much. >> talk about that that face-to-face experience you can take all kinds of tests you can't do on facetime like blood

pressure. >> yeah, and you can feel how somebody is sick or not. and there's another program out in new york city now and it's a house-call service, and it works bike uber and you can dial-up a doctor and come to your house and you have a physical exam, or whether it's for an acute illness or just a physical. >> i kind of like the way that sounds. who is this for? who should be using this kind of thing? >> it's better to see your doctor in their office but it's safest for young people who are healthy and don't have multiple complications. this should be used for pink eye or a sore throat and never for diabetes or something with long-term concerns. >> this is a covering probably not covered by insurance, right? >> a few will be offset by insurances and some employers are even providing the service as part of their coverage because they think that it gives

people greater access to doctors and keeps them healthy and at work. so i do think that this is something we are going to continue to see in the few kphuruturefuture. i just hope it doesn't overtake the real doctor visits. >> but what about the things you could miss the surprise diagnoses, the lump or some strange disease, right? >> that's just it sometimes things that look simple actually are not. if you do use an app, make sure you get a record of your visit and you go back and follow-up with your real doctor to make sure nothing was missed. >> you bet. >> thank you. straight ahead the water is getting wild out west. >> i am off catalina island and i am swimming in a cove full of leopard sharks. coming up on "cbs this morning," we will tell you what these sharks and this robot could teach scientists about the great whites swimming in the santa monica bay.

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month after great white attacked a swimmer off the pier in los angeles. in this case a fisherman was blamed for provokeing the animal but carter evans shows us how scientists are using technology to reveal the secrets of sharks. >> we'll get away from these guys. >> reporter: simon has been surfing in santa monica bay for decades, but it was only a few years ago that he started standup paddle boarding that he got a whole new perspective on the ocean. >> i had visibility. i could see down. it was amazing. >> reporter: thanks to that elevated point of view earlier this summer he saw this. >> he's going right under you. look down. >> no, i'm not going to look down. >> reporter: it was a seven-foot-long great white shark. >> there's nothing more chilling than seeing that fin cut through the water and drop down. >> if you see a shark, you just stay on your board. >> reporter: simon's not alone. according to the nonprofit

research committee, shark sightings along the coast of the santa monica bay grew from just three in 2003 to 37 last year. when you're paddle boarding how many times do you see sharks? >> just about every time. i'm in the ocean two or three time as week. >> he says most of the great whites are nonaggressive newborns and pose little threat to humans. >> i think they're healthier. we've done a lot to clean up our air, clean up the water, and better manage our fisheries and think that's why the white sharks are back. >> because the babies are there, does that mean the adults are near there? >> that's the big question. we think they're around catalina. >> reporter: he's testing out a new tool he hopes will unlock the many secrets of the great

white. >> they're programmed to start to act like a shark. in order to follow a shark, you have to act like a shark. these are microphones for under water. >> reporter: this computer scientists helped build this underwater drone. before using it on great whites they're testing it on smaller leopard sharks. >> what we'll do is test sharks. that signal is going to be heard by those two hydro phones. >> reporter: so this knows where the shark is and is programmed to follow it. >> exactly. >> reporter: the robot will also be fitted with a cam are. >> we're collecting two basic types of data. the first is the shark's position at every time but we're also gathering environmental data. how cold or warm is the water at this place where the shark is. >> you're finding out what's going on right around the shark, realtime all time at all times.

>> that's right. right now if i put the camera in the water they become a test model. >> once we enable the technology, we can readily adapt this. hopefully it will help answer a question being asked all along california's most populated shoreline. >> why the south bay is kind of the kindergarten for great whites. >> do you worry about falling in when you see a great white below you? >> yes. but it's greater motivation to stay balanced. >> carter evans, "cbs this morning," los angeles. >> a little disturbing. >> yes. we can report carter evans still has all his toes. >> i used to love swimming in the ocean. not so much lately. what's that about? >> it's not that much really. >> sharknado. coming up, you're going to love meeting this college president who just changed 24 lives outside the classroom.

his story ahead on "cbs this morning." two american your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. good morning, it's 8:25. time for news headlines. two american f-18 fighter jets attacked an isis division in northern iraq. the jets dropped 500-pound bombs on artillery islamic extremists were using to shell ear bill. >> they are going to finish the approach on the tunnel, the closure starts at 8:00 tonight. caltrans plans to open it by phantom. outside lands music festival starts today in golden gate park. kanye west and the heartbreakers will headline. it's sold out. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment.

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good morning. well, they cleared that accident approaching the richmond/san rafael bridge toll plaza. now all lanes are open but look at this, we have a backup still jammed up from richmond parkway trying to get on the richmond/san rafael bridge. so that's your hot spot white there even though the traffic alert has been canceled. the rest of the bay area "friday light" including at the bay bridge. traffic is thinned out nicely way ahead of schedule. you can see just some slight delays to the middle of the

parking lot. the metering lights remain on and at the san mateo bridge, you are still moving at the speed limit from end to end from hayward all the way into foster city on the westbound lanes of 92. that's your latest "kcbs" drive to work. here's roberta. >> look out gray it is there at the san mateo bridge. >> knee. >> now check this out. this is the city by the bay. bird's eye view from the transamerica building. hazy and gray. temperatures in the 50s and 60s out the door. west winds have been blowing up to about 12 miles per hour later today up to 15. we will see clearing back to the coast today from 60s beaches to 70s bayside and peninsula. 80s to the north and to the south. and through the 80s and the low 90s inland. check this out. this is our kpix 5 day forecast. deeper marine layer on saturday mixing out sooner on sunday. by monday a little muggy. then seasonal summertime weather right here in the bay area tuesday through thursday. make it a great day, everyone. bye!

♪ welcome back to cbs this morning. coming up in this half hour would your boss ever do this for you? we will meet the college president that gave away $90,000 of his own salary so dozens of his employees could earn a bigger paycheck. there he is. he is in our toyota green room for an interview you will see only on "cbs this morning." >> our boss i will go with no on that one, right? this little league series could come down to a battle between girls. meet the impressive young ladies hitting it out of the park in a league of boys. that's next. and yahoo is trying to

create a spy-proof e-mail system, and it would make it impossible for the government or hackers to read. yahoo hopes to have the feature running by early next year. a california wine dealer will betrayeding -- be trading wine bottles. the fbi found bogus labels in his home, and he was made to forfeit money to former clients and he will most certainly appeal. an all-female rock group called bullet proof stockings had the biggest gig ever and they had rules of not performing in front of men, but the show

was packed. and then president obama's habit of running late is what the "washington post" looked at. it determined the president was tardy for scheduled events by a total of 35 hours and 21 minutes so far in 2014. the president keeps the audience waiting for 11 minutes on average for every scheduled event. and then donovan is the all-time leading scorer for major league soccer and the u.s. national team and having played in three world cups and he was dropped from the team this year says he is retiring. and then the orself depicting

robot. it scuttles away. it could be used for anything from a toy for your cat to a rescue tool for first responders. kentucky state university is paying it forward in a big way to help his school's lowest paid workers. and he learned some were making minimum wage so he is giving them races -- raises out of his pocket. >> 65% of americans support increasing the federal minimum wage. good morning. >> this was one of the most popular stories on our website because people thought, wow,

what a generous boss. $90,000 of your salary. why did you decide to do this? >> i guess at the time the chairman of the board of trustees started talking to me about it if i would be interested in returning, and one of the thoughts i had in mind is when i went there i wanted to do something meaningful and impactful. my second question was how many employees make below $10.10 an hour, and they gave me a number and for the better part of a number i thought about it and i board chair i was going to do that and they looked surprised, and it was put in my contract that they would use that money to raise the salaries of the lowest paid employees. and i wanted to do that to get them committed to the institution to let them know we were an important part of what we do.

>> we joked this guy is rich. but you know a lot about that when it comes to working for those wages. >> yeah i have family members that worked for minimum wage and i came from nothing to where i am today and i can relate to and associate with those employees, and i know how people struggle and i didn't want those employees struggling at a time when we were trying to make major improvements in the institution. $10.10 why did you choose that number? >> it's been a number that has been discussed and debated around a living wage what the minimum wage ought to be and i used it as a rule of thumb where i wanted to go with the lowest paid employees. >> did you have any idea of the reaction would you get to this? >> absolutely not. it has been unbelievable. as i think about it sometimes, i think if i would have known it was going to be like this maybe i shouldn't have done it but i

did it anyway. >> you realize you are setting the bar a little high. you are only interim president here, and the next president, what are they going to do? >> i think they are going to continue the tradition and do the things that he or she needs to do in that position. part of my job now is to get the finances back and stabilize that at kentucky state and hopefully in the next year as i work through things i will get the institution's finances stabilized and those monies will be there to carry it on into the future. >> i know you said you had no idea this would get the reaction it did and it was something that you wanted to do and make an impact at the college you love so dearly and it involves inequality and this growing gap. >> right. there is in fact a growing gap there, and i think that sometime

that needs to be reviewed and evaluated and addressed in time but as it relates to my act it was a single act by me and not to make a statement anywhere but to address what i thought was an issue and to help me carry on the mission that i wanted to at kentucky state. >> and we heard about the restaurant charging a surcharge because of what is going on in their home state? >> i would hope the fact that minnesota raised the minimum wage they would not have passed that to the consumers, and you have to do what you need to do for the delivery of your product as well as thinking of what is the consumer impact of all of that, and i would hope it would have gone the other way. >> okay. >> great to have you here. >> thanks. >> thank you so much and good luck to you. >> thank you. well it may take a little girl power to make this year's

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>> no. >> are you crying? are you crying! there's no crying! there's no crying in baseball! >> tom hanks in the classic "a league of their own" and this year two girls are in a little league of their own as all stars. elaine is here for that. >> in the 40 years since girls were first allowed to play in little league just 16 have made it to the little league world series, and this year two girls are vying for the chance to get on that list a 13-year-old davis and 12-year-old bronson have skills that helped their teams become top contenders. with the state title on the line, a crushing two-run homer putting her team ahead in last week's championship game. but she did not stop there.

in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded she took the pitcher's mound and threw a fastball low and that turned into a pop-up giving them the victory and sending them to the mid-atlantic regional finals a step closer to the little league world series. >> how did you become interested in baseball in the first place? >> i was watching a yankee game with my dad and it looked fun to play so i told him i wanted to play one day. >> how old were you then? >> about three. >> her dad bought her a glove and by five she was playing t-ball and seven years later she is better than most boys. >> is she good for a girl or good, period? >> she is good period. she is stride to stride and she is part of one of the top teams in the country right now, 4-0 with a chance to go to williamsport. it's something special. it is. >> her teammates don't see her

as a girl, but they see her as a key player. >> she has a lot of defensive work at first base. there was one game where it was fielded at her and she made all four plays. >> it's like another player on the team. really cool. >> kay13-year-old davis of philadelphia's youth baseball association. >> we are trying to put the name out there in the world to let them know that inner city kids can make a big difference in the baseball industry. >> the right-handed pitcher is hoping to redefine what it means to throw like a girl. >> just throw strikes. that's all you have got to do is throw strikes. >> last week she struck out ten batters with precise pitches delivered at more than 70 miles per hour. no girl has ever been part of a team that has won it all, and both of the girl that met

briefly this week, hope to change that. >> i think it's really cool that other girls want to play and they are looking up to me. >> both girls' teams want to play today in separate games and the winners move on to the regional championship. if they both win today they will play against each other. >> wow, monet looks like rivera up there. >> her walk-up song is who runs the world, girls, by beyonce. she is very much in charge when she is up there. and it's the iconic album cover that came together in a flash. we will take you on a trip down abby road on a special day for beatles fans. that's next. plus the most unforgettable moments of the week. you don't want to miss charlie talking about mowing his lawn. that's next on "cbs this morning."

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. 45 years ago today the beatles posed for the abbey road album cover. it shows john paul ringo crossing the street. that corner has been a tourist stop ever since and beatles fans are returning to abbey road this morning to walk in their heroes' shoes. >> we were traveling in abroad in london touring all the sites and i thought we have to do abbey road. >> my son is a fan of the beatles and has a lot of the beatles records, so we came specifically here for that. >> abby road's original title was everest and when they were told they wore have to shoot the covers in the himalayas, they

took a pass on that. >> that does it for us. maurice, thank you so much for joining us. good times. >> thank you. good time norah. be sure to tune in to the "cbs evening news with scott pelley." and as we leave you, let's take a look back at the week that was. have a wonderful weekend. >> we can stop this outbreak. >> dr. kent brantly and nancy writebol are right here in the secure isolation unit. >> a number of individuals said you have introduced the plague into the united states and aren't you going to feel guilty. >> a russian gang is holding stolen online records. >> every password is no longer safe. you want to go in and change them all. monsoonal rains continue in portions of the west. >> it was like a river. >> one of the bus drivers has been arrested for driving while impaired. >> everybody was running. everybody was running for cover. >> a rocket hit right here. u.n. tells us that they shared the coordinates of this with the

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your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. good morning, everyone. it's 8:55. i'm michelle griego. outside lands music festival kicks off today at golden gate park in san francisco. headliners include kanye west this evening, tom petty and the heartbreakers on saturday, and the killers on sunday. several flights from the west coast headed to hawaii have been canceled. tropical storm iselle hit the big island this morning and hurricane julio is not far behind. a tuolumne county man has been indicted in connection with the largest fire on record in the sierra. the "rim" fire burned more than a quarter million acres last year in stanislaus national forest and yosemite national park. federal prosecutors say keith matthew emerald lit an illegal campfire that got out of

control. outside now it's a very gray cooler start to your friday. good morning, everyone. this is a look at coit tower, gray skies. that is because of the marine layer. it is pushed onshore. temperatures have come down as a result. 50s and 60s out the door this morning. the winds have been blowing out of the west up to 12. later today, clearing all the way back to the beaches. mid-60s in pacifica. mid-70s in oakland through emeryville. 70s around the peninsula. 80s in san jose. in the east bay 80s and low 90s. your extended forecast we have a deeper marine layer for your saturday but it will mix up a lot sooner on sunday. a little bit more muggy on monday and typical summertime weather pattern tuesday through thursday. elizabeth has traffic coming up.

good morning. the traffic alert has been canceled heading to the richmond/san rafael bridge for at least a half-hour. traffic is still backed up as you can see on the toll plaza approach westbound 580 backed up from regatta and once you get on the bridge still sluggish heading into marin county but that five-car fender- bender is now cleared out of lanes. all lanes open. here's a live look outside. the rest of the bay area is definitely "friday light." a much lower drive time than normal past the oakland coliseum to the downtown oakland exits. the metering lights are on on the bay bridge backups to the middle of the parking lot.

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