noontime. take care. >> and where are you staying? >> i'm not telling. [ laughter ] good morning to our viewers in the west. it's thursday august 21st 2014. welcome to "cbs this morning." new information on the failed mission to save american james foley from isis. cia insider mike morell on what it will take to stop the islamist terror group. after weeks of fear over ebola, word overnight of good news for an american victim. plus they are both devoted to your safety but this morning "consumer reports" is going after the fda over fish. >> but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. >> the white house sent a special forces team into syria earlier this year to rescue a group of hostages including the murdered reporter james foley. >> a failed rescue inside syria.

>> the pentagon says the hostages were not where the u.s. thought they were. >> one of two americans infected with ebola will be released from an atlanta hospital today. >> dr. kent brantly was transformed to emory university hospital earlier this month. brantly is expected to make a statement at a news conference later today. >> overnight ferguson missouri took another step towards healing. no shots fired, just six people were arrested. >> attorney general eric holder met with community leaders and the family of michael brown. >> why would i be any place other than right here right now? >> severe weather in parts of southern california. the summer storm brought more hail, rain and lightning to the inland empire. >> and it's gone! >> philadelphia phenom mo'ne davis losing against the team from las vegas. >> i think maybe they'll collect themselves and hopefully win. >> u.p.s. says a data breach may have exposed some of its customers' credit and debit card information. >> one of the most bizarre things in los angeles.

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charlie rose and gayle king are off and jeff glor is here. we begin with new information on the failed effort to save james foley's life. american special operations forces tried to rescue the american photojournalist less than two months before the terror group isis executed him. >> the u.s. commandos killed several militants on the ground in syria but they did not find foley and other captives. margaret brennan is at the pentagon where officials released some details of that raid. margaret, good morning. >> good morning. and good morning to our viewers in the west. the operation was carried out in early july and involved air and ground forces that tried to find and free a handful of americans held hostage. heavily armed blackhawk helicopters dropped two dozen special operation forces commandos in northern syria near raqaa. the hostages including four americans, were thought to be inside an oil refinery in the area, which is controlled by isis. but when the team swooped in the prisoners were gone. the soldiers exchanged fire.

one american commando was injured, all flew to safety. the u.s. believed that journalist james foley and steven sautloff were being held together, based in part on information by freed hostages who had seen them in captivity. they admit the covert mission was based on good but not great intelligence. president obama authorized it because the hostages were thought to be in peril. the mission was revealed a day after isis posted video of foley being beheaded. the exact location of the remaining hostages remains unknown. another rescue attempt is unlikely. the u.s. military mission in iraq remains narrowly defined as humanitarian and aimed at protecting u.s. personnel and facilities, not hunting isis leaders. there are at least five americans being held inside of syria, a country that's in the midst of a brutal war that has allowed isis to carve out a safe haven. now, this is the first time the u.s. has acknowledged any

operations inside of that country. isis has freed other hostages whose own governments helped to pay for their release. >> all right, margaret thank you. president obama condemned isis on wednesday for murdering foley and defended the latest u.s. moves in iraq. >> the united states of america will continue to do what we must do to protect our people. we will be vigilant and we will be relentless from governments and peoples across the middle east, there has to be a common effort to extract this cancer so that it does not spread. >> cbs news senior security krshtd mike morell is in washington. he was cia deputy director when foley was captured in 2012. mike, good morning. >> good morning, norah. >> you heard the president. isis is a cancer that must be extracted. is that going to mean more than air strikes? >> i think it's going to take a couple of things. one is requires taking territory away from them so that they cannot use it as a safe haven to

train. that requires the air strikes and that requires enabling the iraqi military to do its job. the other thing it requires i believe, is to take the leadership of isis off the battlefield. that means capturing or killing them. >> and how is that done? >> that's done by acquireing the intelligence you need on where these guys are and then taking action to either find them and take them into custody or if you can't do that to take them off the battlefield lethally. >> to use the analogy that was used with osama bin laden, cut the head off the snake? >> absolutely. this is a small leadership. it's a very hireerarchyical organization. if you can take the leadership off the battlefield, you can make a difference how the group operates. >> mike, you say smaller leadership poses a threat to the u.s. homeland. what are you concerned isis might do inside the u.s.? >> there's two concerns that i

have. one is in the short term. the short term concern is the americans who have gone to fight with isis and the west europeans that have gone to fight with isis could be trained and directed by isis to come to the united states to conduct small-scale attacks. if an isis member showed up in a mall in the united states tomorrow with an ak-47 and killed a number of americans, i would not be surprised. over the long term i worry that this group could present a 9/11-style threat. it took -- it took al qaeda two and a half years to plan 9/11. it would not surprise me to know that isis may be thinking about going in that kind of direction. short-term threat, long-term threat. >> that's really scary to hear. this also was the first time that the u.s. government has revealed that we carried out a mission inside syria in the midst of that civil war. the white house talked about anonymously on a conference call with reporters the details of

this secret mission to try and capture james foley. does that do damage to future missions? >> there was a reason the white house wanted to keep this secret. and it was a good reason. you know when we showed up at that oil refinery the hostages weren't there. so isis was not sure why we came. now they know. now they know that we may make an attempt to go after hostages so they will better protect them. and every little detail that is leaked out about this operation gives isis information that will help them protect against future operations. so there was a good reason they tried to keep it secret. >> mike you talked about some very heavy stuff earlier about the potential threat on the u.s. homeland. i wonder does the president agree with those thoughts? >> in order to make a decision to take out the leadership of a group, the united states the president, has to make a determination that the group

poses a direct and eminent threat to the united states and that you can't capture these guys. so the only choice left is to kill them. i don't know whether the president has made that determination or not. >> all right, mike morell thank you very much. in our next half hour we'll take a closer look at jim foley's reporting and the inspiration that drove him to risk and ultimately give his life. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." we got word early this morning an american doctor is winning his fight against the deadly ebola virus. in about an hour around 8:00 a.m. pacific emory university hospital in atlanta will announce the release of dr. kent brantly. he arrived nearly three weeks ago for treatment of the epidemic that's killed almost 1300 people. vinita nair is here with brantly's path to recovery. good morning. >> good morning. dr. brantly and nancy writebol were missionaries who contracted the virus while caring for victims in liberia. doctors will discuss the discharge of both patients later today but it appears as though brantly has survived the disease. a statement released this

morning by samaritans purse, the aid group brantly had been working with says we celebrate dr. kent brantly's recovery from ebola and relos from the hospital. it's encouraging news for brantly, who had been held in isolation, trying to fight off a virus with a fatality rate of up to 90%. three weeks ago he was flown from africa to atlanta and transported by ambulance to emory university hospital. with help from a paramedic, he was able to walk into the facility. a positive sign of his condition at the time. three days later, nancy writebol made the same jurny,ourney but had to be wheeled on a gurney. earlier this month writebol's husband told "cbs this morning" his wife's condition is improving. >> she keeps telling me that she's doing better bit by bit. >> reporter: before they left liberia, brantly and writebol received doses of the experimental ebola drug zmapp. questions still remain on exactly what role the drug played in their treatment.

the two worked at a missionary clinic outside liberia's capital. the country hit hardest by the ebola outbreak. the situation in liberia continued to worsen on wednesday as police dressed in riot gear used barbed wire and skrabcrap wood to seal off 50,000 people inside a slum. the country is trying to contain an outbreak which has already killed 600 people. the man in charge of street security in ferguson missouri said the city had a very good night. last night's protests over the deadly police shooting were much smaller and quieter. only six people were arrested. a new cbs news/new york times poll shows 41% of americans are satisfied with the president's response to the ferguson violence. 34% are dissatisfied. 60% of african-americans in this pole and only 35% of whites are satisfied with the white house reaction. vladimir duthiers is where the attorney general spent much of yesterday. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the visit by attorney general

eric holder to ferguson is seen as a move by the white house to try to bring back confidence to a community that's been torn apart by the shooting of 18-year-old michael brown. >> why would i be any place other than right here right now. >> reporter: eric holder's message to the people of ferguson, missouri. we want to help. he stopped by a local restaurant to speak with members of the community. >> we want to rectify and have justice, you know for everybody that's involved in this. >> reporter: he also met with missouri highway patrol captain ron johnson. holder is the country's first african-american attorney general. during a private meeting wednesday, he said he understood the black community's mistrust of police and recalled his own experience with racial profiling. his visit came as a grand jury began hearing evidence to determine whether to bring charges against officer darren wilson in the shooting death of michael brown. outside the court house, protesters gathered many arguing that prosecutor bob mcculloch should step down from

the case. five members of mcculloch's family work for the st. louis police department including his father, who was killed by a black suspect. many point to that incident as the reason he should step down. he argues that's a reason to stay on the job. >> did it affect me? absolutely affected me. and what it did for me is -- or to me is made me i think, a fierce advocate for victims of violence. >> what do you want? >> justice. >> when do you want it? >> now. >> reporter: but some here are not convinced. >> you know everybody knows you can get a grand jury to indict a paper bag. >> reporter: jerryl christmas once worked in the st. louis prosecutor's office. >> we hear grand jury and we think, oh well something is getting ready to happen. justice is getting ready to be served. what they don't know is this is the beginning of a process that's probably going to end up with this case not being issued or a lesser included charge. >> reporter: many here are seeing holder's presence as a step towards transparency. also on wednesday, st. louis

police released video and 911 calls related to the death of a 25-year-old black man who was shot by police on tuesday. take a look at this video. the man can be seen here confronting police with a steak knife after a store owner suspected him of shoplifting. he's then seen on the ground after being shot 12 times. st. louis police chief reportedly cited ferguson as a reason for releasing as much information as possible as quickly as possible. >> thanks. attorney general holder is back in washington this morning where just minutes ago he announced a record settlement with bank of america. the nearly $17 billion deal is the largest settlement connected to the 2008 financial crisis. it stems from the bank's role in the sale of mortgage-backed securities. $10 billion will go to settling state and federal claims. the rest will help consumers. >> under the terms of this settlement, the bank has agreed to pay $7 billion in relief to struggling homeowners borrowers and communities affected by the bankes conduct.

this is appropriate, given the size and the scope of the wrongdoing at issue. >> jill schlessinger is here. good morning. >> good morning. incredible to think about this the largest settlement ever between the u.s. government and a company. what does it mean in terms of the mortgage crisis that hurt everybody? >> i think what it means is that we are seeing big companies saying we've got to put this behind us, we're done. i think from the government's perspective, they may be saying hey, you know what we got a lot of flak for not getting enough out of the stimulus. yes, we got paid interest on a lot of the money that we did with t.a.r.p. and we didn't get a lot more than that. this is a way for the government to redeem itself. think about it $17 billion from bank of america, $13 billion from jpmorgan chase. another $7 billion from citigroup. >> for as many mistakes as they have made now, the total tab for bank of america is what between 60 and $80 billion? how does a company survive and

stay healthy paying out that much? >> you know, it's interesting. it's about three years of profits, this $17 billion. the 60 to 80 is what they have been counting on all along. they have been putting money aside. what's really interesting about bank of america's story is that some of this is self-inflicted. remember bank of america bought countrywide mortgage it bought merrill lynch. much of this settlement comes from those two acquisitions, so frankly the folks who made those acquisitions, they're no longer at the bank, they're the ones who really have a lot of the black eyes here. i don't think that the bank is going to be in any trouble. in fact the stock went up a little bit yesterday on the news. stocks down about 10% in the last five years. s&p 500 is up 96%. >> $17 billion fine slightly more than a parking ticket. >> just a bit. >> thank you very much jill. former virginia governor bob mcdonnell is back on the stand today, day 19 of his trial. mcdonnell and his wife face bribery charges after allegedly taking loans and gifts from a friend. chip reid shows us why mcdonnell

is relieved to have a chance to tell his own story. chip, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning. this is the moment everyone following this trial has been waiting for. former governor bob mcdonnell was once thought of as a possible republican presidential candidate. now his performance on the stand is expected to play a crucial role in determining whether he and his wife go free or go to prison for what could be a long time. leaving the court house wednesday, bob mcdonnell seemed well aware that the hardest part is still well ahead. >> marriage and finances are hard for anybody. >> reporter: especially his marriage. asked about his wife maureen, wednesday, mcdonnell testified that on the day after he was elected, quote, i could tell she was not as happy as i was. she was yelling at me about something. but that's nothing compared to what mr. mcdonnell's own lawyers have said about her. legal analyst robert holsworth has been in the courtroom. >> they have essentially thrown maureen mcdonnell the governor's spouse, under the bus and then rolled it back and

forth on her a couple of times. they have portrayed her as troubled secretive, irrational. they had defense witnesses that called her mentally ill. >> reporter: it's all part of a strategy by mr. mcdonnell's legal team to blame maureen for the $165,000 in gifts that were showered on the mcdonnells by businessman jonnie williams including $20,000 in designer clothes for her, a $6,000 rolex for him, and expensive vacations for both that included the use of a ferrari. prosecutors say in exchange for the gifts, then governor mcdonnell promoted the businessman's company. but mcdonnell testified wednesday that he gave williams nothing more than routine access. today the spotlight is expected to shift to maureen, and for bob mcdonnell, it will be like walking a very slippery tight rope. >> he certainly cannot be part of the sort of group that's throwing his wife under the bus. he has to talk about how he's

loved her. he has to talk about the nearly 40 years of marriage. >> reporter: at the same time, mcdonnell is expected to lay at least part of the blame on his wife. the big question now is how much. we should know soon because day 19 of this trial began just minutes ago. >> all right, chip thank you so much. in gaza this morning, an israeli air strike killed three senior hamas military leaders. israel launched 20 attacks on gaza overnight. hamas said the three men were responsible for a number of attacks on israeli targets. also this morning for the first time hamas official confirmed that the group kidnapped three israeli teenagers who were killed back in june. and it is 7:19. ahead on "cbs this morning," mo'ne davis, the girl wowing fans at the its league world a little less fog around the bay area. a lot more sunshine coming our way and these temperatures will be heating up outside. still gray over russian looking toward the golden gate this morning but promise of more

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that state was supposed to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples today, but the high court put on hold the ruling that allowed those marriages to go forward. the justices are expected to announce they're going to take up the issue in their next term. the "orlando sentinel" says seaworld is dropping its fight to get trainers back in the water with kill areer whales. seaworld says it will not appeal a court decision that makes those trainers stay on the side of the pool. probably a little more safe for the trainers involved. >> so many of us realize so much more about what happened after "black fish," which seaworld has come back and said it is inaccurate and misleading. >> this is hurting them in a lot of their parks. "the washington post" says visa wants to make it harder for thiefs to buy gas with our credit cards. visa is using new software that creates a risk war after analyzing 500 pieces of data. if the score is too high, a

message flashes on the pump and the customers has to go inside to see the clerk. 25,000 gas stations have already signed up. as someone who's had my credit card stolen and used at a gas station, i am very happy about this. the "wall street journal" says russia temporarily closed four mcdonald's locations in moscow. russia's consumer safety agency blamed the closures on sanitation violations. but analysts say it's just payback for western sanctions over moscow's role in ukraine. there are 435 mcdonald's in russia. the restaurant in central moscow is one of the busiest mkts in the world. >> mcdonald's stock price dipped a bit on that news. >> when you think about the traffic that goes through a place like that and if they continue closing them -- >> we're going to shut down mcdonald's. that's a weapon. we'll show you. finally, the new york daoshgew york daily news says critics are blasting obama after playing golf shortly

after james foley's murder. james foley and i went to marquette university at the same time. i didn't know him personally but he does say he credits his jesuit education with inspiring him to become an inner city teacher and later giving him the passion to report from wore-tornar-torn places around the world. >> we're so so proud of jim. jim gave joy to the world. >> reporter: for nearly two years, john and diane foley prayed for their son to come home. he never did. >> the data the truth were very important to him. but most important was touching souls, people who were in struggle and making that known to the rest of the world. >> reporter: james foley's last assignment took him to syria. he shot video for the french news agency afp and filed reports for the website global post. he disappeared in november 2012. on wednesday, president obama

praised his courageous reporting. >> all of us feel the ache of his absence. all of us mourn his loss. >> reporter: foley also reported from afghanistan and iraq. in libya, he witnessed a colleague die during an ambush by gadhafi loyalists. >> i was hit several times with butt of an ak-47, punched and dragged into a vehicle with my hands tied behind my back. >> reporter: he and two other journalists spent 44 days in captivity. after his release, he said praying the rosary sustained him during his ordeal. >> i knew that's what my mom would be praying, my grandmother would be praying. some kind of idea that you can communicate with them because you couldn't communicate with them. >> reporter: before he became a journalist foley was a teacher. helping low-income students in phoenix and jail inmates in chicago. friends say he was the kind of guy who called other guys bro and dude and that women loved his broad shoulder and even broader smile. he considered it his mission to

tell the stories of people caught up in the brutality of war. >> he was a courageous fearless journalist. very compassionate american. i mean the best of america. >> now james foley was 40 years old when he was killed. according to the committee to protect journalists, he is the 70th journalist killed since the syrian civil war began. there are an estimated 0 other journalists still missing in that country. >> ben thank you. this morning, "consumer reports" has a bone to pick with the fda. the government recently came out with guidelines urging people to eat more fish. but for the first time the fda set a minimum level for pregnant women between 8 and 12 ounces a week. >> but "consumer reports" found reason for concern over mercury in some kinds of fish. the director of consumer safety and sustain ability is with us this morning. so the government report came out in june. what did you find with when you looked? >> the government report basically says people should be eating more fish.

we agree. i think where we differ here is in what kinds of fish people should eat. we want people to make the safest options. when it comes to being pregnant we want pregnant women to actually avoid tuna altogether so that they aren't subject to the risks. when we look at the fda's most recent data 20% of chunk white tuna cans actually are double the average that the fda reports and uses in their assessment. we think that's too much. we don't think pregnant women need to take that on. while you're pregnant reach down the aisle for canned wild salmon. that's a better option. >> why only 20% of canned tuna have those high mergry rymercury levels? >> it is unclear. chunk light is a blend of tunas. they thought chunk white was among the lowest in average levels, but as we've seen in the last few years, the frequency of hitting a spike with chunk white has gotten higher. >> i always thought the tuna in restaurant has high levels of

mercury but the chunk light tuna in the store in med ration isoderation is fine. >> now it is 20% of chunk white cans are spiking. we just think during the time you're pregnant, you don't have to take on that val alal value outweighed any proposed risk. >> they are trying to subtract the risks from that benefit and give you the net benefit. we are saying yes, fish has a benefit but the less mercury you get is better. we want people to make safer options, safer choices, especially when they're pregnant when the fetus is the most damageable to the damaging effects of mercury. >> what are the effects of mercury? >> well, there are many.

neuro toxin is primarily what mercury does especially when you have a fetus that's developing its neurological system. there's also consequences for adults who eat high mercury that are very similar. it can also be an immune toxin. >> i have a 2 1/2-year-old who's obsessed with fish sticks right now. for children what is the good amount? >> we have a list that all the data we and the fda looked at. haddock, tilapia, these are all good choices. when it comes to tuna be careful with the kids. we have a graph based on the weight of a child and how much tuna they should be eating each week. parent should be very careful and check that. >> luckily, he doesn't like tuna. to see how much tuna you should be getting from fish and to read the "consumer reports" piece, go to cbsthismorning.com. great news for nfl hall of famer jim kelly in his fight against cancer. yesterday during a check-up doctors said there is no

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power her team to victory. >> now it is time to focus, like everybody here on the girl power that's on the mound. monet'ne davis. >> reporter: mo'ne davis helped carry the dienyragons of philadelphia this far. but it was a big hitting team and 2,500 miles away that revealed the newly minted superstar was human, after all. >> nevada is on the board first. >> reporter: the imposing kids from nevada took an early 3-1 lead and never looked back. >> hit, left center field, and it is deep -- and it is gone! >> reporter: the soon-to-be eighth-grader topped 70 miles per hour on the radar gun. mowing down six batters from las vegas. virtually unknown a month ago has experienced a

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good morning. checking the roads right now, still very busy as you work your way through the south bay. we're seeing delays on 101 and 280 north 280 at magdalena. two lanes shut down for an earlier accident and oil spill. 54 minutes as you work your way northbound guadalupe parkway also taking a hit this morning. so give yourself some extra time. checking the roadways at the bay bridge, westbound still slow-and-go. we are seeing delays metering lights on you're backed up into the maze. slow coming off the eastshore freeway. lawrence? >> low clouds and fog not as thick around the bay area today. in fact, you can tell high pressure building overhead. starting to compress the marine layer. yesterday some of that fog was rolling over the hills. today you can see it's down just a bit. so that's going to burn off a little bit earlier. we are going to see warmer temperatures into the afternoon, highs up in the 80s inland, site of and 80s inside the bay -- 70s and 80s inside the bay, 60s at the coastline with patchy fog. cooler tomorrow and warmer for the weekend.

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♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it's august 21st, 2014. welcome back to cbs. here is a look at today's "eye-opener at 8:00.." >> the operation was carried out in early july that tried to find and free a handful of americans held hostage. >> if an isis member showed up in the united states tomorrow with an ak-47, i would not be surprised. >> doctors will discuss the discharge of both patients a cording to his a group and it appears he has survived the disease. >> and holder tries to bring back confidence to a community

that has been torn apart. >> what does it mean in terms of the mortgage crisis? >> big companies are saying we have to put it behind us. kim keljim kelly, no sign of cancer remaining. mo'ne davis tried to power her team to victory. >> no question she did not have her a game today. >> she could be eligible to pitch in saturday's championship game. >> he is 100 years old and worked every day for 73 years, and i want to tell you something, ladies and gentlemen, i have enjoyed every minute of it. opener@8" is presented by panera bread. i'm i am norah o'donnell. charlie rose and gayle king are enjoying time off. u.s. officials say this morning another rescue mission to find

western captors of isis is unlikely. the photo journalist was just executed by isis. blackhawk helicopters dropped commanders. >> they believed the hostages were inside an oil refinery in the area controlled by isis but when the american team arrived the hostages were not there. one american commando was slightly injured and all of them flew back to safety. >> a british citizen leads a group of isis fighters. john was one of a group of guards. john is only one of a much bigger threat. >> in the grew some video showing james foley's murder, many were shocked to hear his

execution inner speaking with a british accent. >> this is an american citizen of your country. >> but for those who have been watching isis and its reign of terror, it came as no surprise. by some estimates the groups recruited thousands of foreign fighters and the isis propaganda video features three british men that encourage other muslims to martyr themselves for islam. >> ask yourself is this how you want to die? >> in the land isis controls in syria and iraq it rules with brutality and fear. publicly executing those who offend its strict version of islamic law. what makes isis unusual as a terror group is the ambition of its leaders. in the land they control they set up an islamic state and now

they are busy making the money they need to fund it. u.s. officials say isis is now self funding, and is probably making tens of millions of dollars from activities like extortion, robbery, and smuggling. intelligence officials fear young muslim men from the west who join the group will be ticking time bombs when they return home and some of them who carry british and other european passports could even enter the u.s. without a visa. for cbs this morning, holly williams. the american doctor infected with ebola is leaving a hospital today. the doctor arrived at the hospital nearly three weeks ago. he and another aid worker got affected. he is expected to make his first public comments as soon as he is allowed to leave. and a quiet night and only

six arrests. the impact is felt far beyond the area. >> they have cancelled classes for 9500 children and mark strassmann visited one team that is going to stay in the game despite the violence on the streets. >> reporter: it's full of disruptions and distractions and they were supposed to start school a week ago and playing sports was a way of keeping focused, but never more so here than now. the bulldogs are getting ready for their season opener on saturday. but instead of a locker room the varsity football team is suiting up in a public part just outside ferguson. >> how many days you have been out here to practice? >> three. >> the first day you walked out here did you think -- >> what's going on?

>> the players and coaches have had no choice but to move practice here. their high school is located less than three miles away from where michael brown was killed has been closed. >> i feel embarrassed. they are not doing this for michael brown. they are doing it for themselves. >> the players admit they have had friends and relatives take part in the chaos, but they say their focus on is their upcoming game and not on the streets. >> nobody on our football team is out there, they are all here. >> practice is kind of a way to keep us out of the trouble, because after practice we don't have the energy to go and do all of these bad things that other people are doing. >> that's the kind of leadership mentality the coach, howard brown, has been working hard to teach on the field and off. >> you must have been at least a little worried that some of these guys could get sucked into the mess? >> we always try to let the guys know, think about it before you do something.

this is the place where you can vent and let it go and can be free. >> but there has to be a part of you every night that keeps your fingers crossed? >> every night i pray. god knows how to keep you on your knees. >> coach brown had help keeping tabs on the teenagers. many of the players similar in age to michael brown say since the shooting their parents have also been more on edge. >> my mother she doesn't let me go where i would normally go like i couldn't just ride around in a car just because. >> you appreciate it? >> yeah. >> did you ever think you would say that? >> no. >> no. >> reporter: despite all of the background noise here all three of the guys told me that they hope football is their ticket to college, and i asked them if they ever thought they would admit to missing school and all of them laughed again and said, no, sir. >> what a great story and great thing for these kids to be

doing. >> my concern was when they said they cancelled schools for another week and there would be more of them out on the street so good to hear him say they were too tired. a giant flag with palestinian colors draped the manhattan bridge last night. police took it down 20 minutes later. they say it's not a security breach like this was just last month police looked into how a white flag showed up on top of the brooklyn bridge. german artists later claimed responsibility. football fans rallying around tim shaw this morning, and it's all thanks to the popular ice bucket challenge. raising awareness about als. on tuesday he revealed he has lou gehrig's disease in a video where he took the challenge and he is 30 years old, and he issued the challenge to his

team and when practice was over the players dowsed themselves with iced water. >> i feel loved and humbled to be shown that type of demonstration. >> shaw was just diagnosed with als in april and he credits the ice bucket phenomenal with help him going public. >> the difference it can make right? >> yeah, you look at the numbers in the past few weeks were what they made in the last few years. find out why they are weighing every single animal this morning whether

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increased in some parts of the country. one group is picking up firearms more than ever -- women. jan crawford got a firsthand look. she's in washington this morning. >> reporter: a lot of studies out there show women are taking up guns for many different reasons. some are for self-defense. but there is another group who see is more as a sport, and the other day i spent some time down in south carolina shooting clay targets with women who say this is a lot more fun than golf. >> pull! >> reporter: it starts with a simple, but decisive command. >> pull. >> pull. >> pull. >> pull! >> reporter: the voices calling the shots, like the shooters all are women. >> yeah! a double! >> reporter: just don't mistake their support and encouragement for a lack of competition. annette mueller first picked up

a gun at age 55. >> shooting sports is my passion. >> what is it about it that you find so, you know exciting? >> you're outdoors. you blow up clays. whenever you see a target explode like fireworks, there is nothing better. >> reporter: on this day, mueller is shooting with nearly two dozen women, split up in groups of four. on her team rebecca peters whose family legacy is expert marksmanship. she's a fourth-generation competitive shooter. >> you're thinking really hard about what you're doing executing, you see results really quickly. which is gratifying. you take someone new and they see that that's when it happens and you get really hooked. >> reporter: today's event is organized by the magazine requests garden and gun," now hosting two of these a year. the ceo is also a shooter. >> it's been because our readers want more and more and more.

women were clamoring for us to do these kind of events. >> reporter: in the last decade the number of women who target shoot has shot up nearly 70% to more than 6 million. women who hunt have increased 43% to 3 million. jim arnold has witnessed the growth. he's a shooting coach in south carolina. >> we're playing golf basically, only with a shotgun. >> reporter: he went over the fundamentals with me before i hit the course. the challenge and the thrill come from trying to hit a four-inch clay flying through the sky. >> yeah! right in the center! >> reporter: everyone here agrees, the sport can be intimidating especially for a woman who's never held a gun, much less shot one. >> i've taken them out and they're so afraid to shoot that gun for fear -- it's just lack of education and understanding. i've had them literally almost in tears until they shot it.

then they shot it and you can see their face light up. >> reporter: of course anything involving guns sparks heated debate. these women argue that education is critical for responsible ownership. they also want to share their positive experience with guns. this woman has been shooting with her mother since she was a little girl. both women received guns from their fathers. connelly, several years ago, for christmas. >> i think i started crying when i opened it up. it was kind of like my dad giving me a permanent invitation to come join him hunting. and that has been true since i got that gun. >> i would like more of that image to be what takes the place of the images people have when they think guns. it is enjoyable, and it might be out of some people's comfort zone but i would just encourage them to try it. >> it is like you are talking

about something that is completely different completely removed from handguns and gun violence. these women see their sport as this great american tradition that they hope their daughters and their granddaughters will continue and that others will go out and pick up those guns as well. jeff? >> jan kraufdcrawford, thank you very much. jan's not messing around. >> how did you do? >> it was a lot of fun. i hadn't shot in a long time. learned how to shoot as a teenager but i just hadn't gone out there like that. it was actually great. i'm now thinking i can't wait to get back out there. >> you looked great holding that gun. pretty sexy. still ahead here a different kind of shooting -- on the ocean floor. how underwater maps could help safe the coral reefs. bruce weber captured some of the top fashion models of the '80s and '90s. why is he turning his lens towards animals. just not weighing them. that's tomorrow. you're watching "cbs this morning."

a four- alarm fire left 35 people out of their homes in oakland ov good thur morning, everyone. it's 8:25 on this thursday morning. around the bay area, big four- alarm fire left 35 people out of their homes in oakland overnight. the fire on international boulevard at 23rd avenue started around 10:30 last night. it burned one building that had businesses on the ground floor and residential units upstairs. nobody was hurt. the cause is under investigation. today the giants and the cubs are going to finish a game they began on tuesday. big rainstorm in chicago caused a 4 1/2 hour delay. then the field was declared unplayable because of the water and the giants were declared 2- 0 losers. the team appealed to major league baseball the next day. and they decided the game should be resumed because the tarp was mishandled s at wrigley field so they are going to try again today to

finish the game. traffic and weather though coming up right after the break. so stay right there.

good morning. lots of company as you work your way westbound east store freeway through berkeley towards the bay bridge. once you get to the bridge, metering lights are on, traffic backed up into the maze. a slow-and-go up the incline, as well. traffic still slow as you work your way northbound 280 in los

altos. we have this traffic alert in effect at magdalena. two right lanes shut down for an earlier oil spill. they are trying to clean it up backed up to 101, 101 slow northbound through the south bay guadalupe parkway slow and a stalled vehicle just past the toll plaza on the san mateo bridge. patchy fog around the bay area not as thick today and high pressure building overhead. looks like we are going to have a warm afternoon outside as that ridge brings more sunshine but right now clouds out over the bay and temperatures running cool this morning in the 50s and the 60s. that ridge of high pressure though starting to work its way in and that means the temperatures going to warm up today. looks like some nice weather ahead, too. how about this? 81 degrees in san jose. mostly sunny this afternoon. 78 in san rafael. about 78 in fremont. 84 degrees in concord. 68 degrees in san francisco. a little breeze there this afternoon. next couple of days maybe a little cooler tomorrow then warming up for the weekend.

welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half-hour, google's street view is taking a dive. a team of scientists are mapping the ocean's coral reefs in a pretty incredible way. we'll take you along for their first descent into american waters. plus ellen degeneres snapped one at the oscars but the tradition goes back decades. we'll see how selfies got their start. right now ben tracy has a look at some of this morning's headlines. the san francisco"san francisco chronicle" says play ball. the team wanted to resume a game with the cubs that was called off on tuesday at wrigley field. as we showed you yesterday, a nasty storm moved in. grounds crew could not get the - tarp down fast enough and it

made the field unplayable. now the game was called with the cubs declared the winner. but now the league says the game should continue this afternoon. this is the first time a team has won a protest in 28 years. you guys might have an opinion about this next one. the tennessee an says a high schooler was sent to the principal's office for saying "bless you" to someone who sneezed. the phrase is on a list of things students cannot use in class. list also includes "my bad" and the words "dumb" and "stupid." the school says the teachers can set their own classroom rules as long as they're reasonable. >> it doesn't seem like "bless you" after someone sneezes should be banned. >> she could have said "my bad" after that. good news for beyonce and jay-z. the "usa today" says their visit to cuba last year was legal. some suggested the couple

violated u.s. sanctions against cuba by going there but the treasury department says they filed for, and received, a waiver. "the new york times" looks at a remarkable achievement for the mother of a pakistani teen and education advocate, ma la la yousafzai. tuesday for the first time her mother spoke english in pakistan. >> malala told the "times" about all the things her mom can now do on her own like going to the doctor's office and the market. you've interviewed her. >> it is one of the most remarkable things about this story. the illiteracy rate among women in pakistan is so high. it was malala's father who started the school for girls. of course malala was nearly

assassinated. she said her mother doesn't write, she read doesn't speak english. her mom has now gone to school five days a week they live outside of london. it was incredible to see her mom travel with her for the first time. she says her father in pakistan women do all the stuff in the kitchen. now she says her father is doing some work in the kitchen as well. >> that's one of my favorite parts in that article, too. opentable is letting you do more than book a restaurant with its app. now you can use your phone to pay for the meal. just a latest example of the digital wallet movement. dan ackerman senior reporter for c-net. feels like we're getting rid of the wallet. how does this open table mobile payment work? >> it is an interesting case. they took something that was already successful. you can use it to book tables and restaurants and they said now we want you to be able to pay the bill with the app. a pilot program that started in san francisco. it will move to some restaurants in new york and other cities.

you can basically go to the restaurant, you made your reservation through open table. you sit there, you eat, when you get done you look at the bill on your phone, go add a tip, pay, okay e-mail your receipt. >> you don't have to wait for the waiter to go take the bill go charge it -- it's more secure, too. >> restaurants are one of those places where you hand your credit card to someone, they walk around the corner with it they come back. people are always concerned about putting their credit card info into a website or app, but you do that so many times. it is generally fairly secure. i think handing someone your card and letting them disappear for five minutes may be a little more troublesome. >> is this the future of cashless eating out? >> i think so. restaurants and food is one of those things where people try technologies first because it is so personal and casual do you it every day. you are seeing a lot more pay-by-app, tap to pay things in cafes, coffee shops and restaurants. that's usually the first line to this kind of thing. >> there is a wonderful salad

place called sweet green expanding across the country. they said sign up for a mobile app, can you preorder your salad and pay for are it. seems like a no-brainer. >> that's good. because that line is always too long for me. >> does it cost more? who's paying for this? >> in some cases it is basically a credit card transaction fee that the merchant pays. some cases where you do person-to-person payments, then there is a little credit card transaction off the top for you. but that's like going to the atm and paying that fee. i think the fees are kind of even to what you get with a traditional credit card. it is just a little frictionless for you. >> it seems like fewer places have cash registers now, too. we see all these atemperaturements, things you can add to a regular iphone that makes it a cash register. >> i wouldn't want to be ncr right now. you go into any new store like a coffee shop they've just got an ipad on a swivel thing with a

square reader or amazon reader. you flip it around swipe your card, sign with your finger. i'm the one guy in the coffee shop with the cash holding up the line. >> is that the benefit to the restaurant speed, ease of transaction? >> i think all of these companies, they want to remove friction from the payment system because you have to get your wallet out pay for something, stand in line. if they can make that easier for you, you are more likely to make an impulse purchase that's the ultimate goal. to make the entire world an impulse purchase. >> dan ackerman thank you. an ambitious effort to document coral reefs around the world is making its first stop in u.s. waters. the whole project is taking its page from global street view. researchers hope a better understanding of marine sanctuaries is the first step in saving them. the florida keys are home to the only living barrier reef in the united states. but life here as changed dramatically. just ask sylvia earl the world

renowned oesh ogceanographer. >> when you look at a coral reef, you are looking at a snapshot of the ocean processes that on a grand scale make this blue planet function in our favor. what's different about the present time is the speed of change and the fact that humans are the victors of that change. it's like the ocean is too big to fail. right? well, no it is failing. it's up to us now. >> reporter: earl says in the past 30 years an estimated 40% of coral worldwide has been lost. that coral protects shorelines sea life and brings in big tourism dollars. and since you can't protect what you can't see, this unprecedented project is under way. a team of divers is documenting the ocean's reefs, the same way google maps out streets. full 360-degree views. every angle of undersea life will go up online. >> high time is what i say.

because we've invested in technologies that enable us to map mars and jupiter and the moon and universe beyond. we've been missing out on mapping the ocean. >> this is the 21st country that we've done as part of a global survey of coral reefs. >> the 21st country. >> yes. >> that's a big sur va. >> it is a massive survey. >> reporter: richard beavers is leading the team. he took us along for the team's first foray into u.s. waters. >> it is a very unique camera system designed around having three cameras which take a full 360-degree shot every two seconds. we've actually got a very clever system which is a tablet that operates the cameras. we've also got a meter which tells us the distance from the sea floor and a military-grade computer to get us out on the reef. >> what does this do that cameras couldn't do before? >> it is really being able to

spectograph the reef at scale. traditionally you send in a diver and they go an photograph using a normal camera and they might be able to do 100 meters in a dive. it takes them an hour. we can do two kilometers with full 360 data and 1,000 shots in less time. >> reporter: the team has already taken more than 400,000 images. there is reason for hope. a new federal study says reefs may be able to adapt to warmer sea temperatures. there are signs new coral is coming back in the keys. >> we know it can be done because i've seen the change in places where real protection is given. and it is starting here in the florida keys. fish need the coral. coral need the fish. it's a system. >> incredible. >> just want to go diving? >> there is a big documentary on netflix about her that just came out. 78. still gets out there as often as she can. >> who's paying for this whole

mapping? >> catland is an insurance company. it helps them because a lot of the insurance they do is on shorelines. the more information they have around what's happening around reeves helps them. >> great store. really cool. this morning, lee woodruff is taking a good hard look at selfies. she's in the toyota green room. hi, lee. >> hey! did you know that the word selfie was long before facebook instagram and twit

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storage cloud. the investigators have identified at least one of these selfie stars or criminals and deputies are looking to speak with them. >> yeah. you forget about the cloud. this morning, we decided to solve another selfie mystery. how did they come to be in the first place? lee woodruff is here to put things in focus. lee, i know you do love a selfie. >> all the time nora. it is everywhere you look people seem to have their arm stretched, their smartphone turned around and they're smiling for the camera. though the smartphone has made

the selfie easy to distribute, the inclination to turn the camera on one's self lies deep in the history of photography. we do it when we travel. celebrities do it on the red carpet. presidents and politicians do it, too. while visitors to st. peter's square have been known to ask pope francis for a quick self-snap. there's even a song written entirely about -- >> let me video a selfie. >> reporter: -- the art of the selfie. christopher phillips is the curator at the international center for photography. is the selfie a new phenomenon? >> really not at all. if you look back people have been making sell portrait photographs since almost the day that photography was invented back in 1839. >> let me take a selfie. >> reporter: around the world, selfies are everywhere. but, they are not always welcome. sometimes they're a sneaky way to promote products. at the tour de france in july fans seeking a selfie posed inches from cyclists causing

angry rebuttal from the athletes. >> come on guys please give the riders a safe road. >> reporter: a selfie taken by a tourist at auschwitz concentration camp this summer sparked international outrage. it appears there are no boundaries when it comes to selfie opportunities. are we know narcissistic today than we were in years past? >> selfies have really almost totally eroded the boundary between your private life and public life, the internet. >> reporter: the term selfie first appeared in an online post in australia in 2002. but this 21st century froefk photographic genre has history in the roots of self-portrait. by 2013 the use of the term increased 17,000 percent. >> who were some of the top original selfie makers that come to your mine. >> as an enabler of selfies

andy warhol. back in the early '60s when warhol started to get commissions to make portraits of new yorkers, he had the idea of sending them with a bag of quarters to times square to visit the photo booth machine. >> the internet is filled with selfie stars. a texas man named himself the selfie king. and a 19-year-old in montreal has taken a selfie every day for seven years. aging before the camera. for true devotees to the genre, you may want to buy yourself a selfie stick, an attachment for your smartphone increasing your chance at a perfect shot. >> if you have a smartphone you are a photographer and you are going to be making selfies without even thinking about it. >> do you have a favorite selfie? >> i don't. no. >> you like them all. >> i think the idea of having one favorite selfie really goes against the whole idea of the

selfie. what you love is the flow of those images and the changing kinds of self-portraits that you see. >> reporter: though techle lenology has simplified the modern day selfie, the urge to capture ourself at a moment's notice is one fof our desires. >> in case someone takes an unwanted selfie of you -- >> i want a selfie stick. >> you do? come on guys let's go. >> you know i don't do selfies. >> come on we got to post it. we're trending. we're trending. she's 86 shades of grey. meet the great, great grandmother behind a racy romance novel. next on "cbs this morning."

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story telling is ageless. so are other things. proof can be found in an 86-year-old great grandmother who just penned her first romance novel called "no good-bye." and it gets steamy. >> it is about a bored housewife that listens to talk radio. and that voice on the radio, he had a magic voice! and it just turned her on. hearing his voice made her legs go weak and quiver! >> all right. >> her daughter says she's

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dozens of people were displaced after a building in oakland went good morning. it's 8:5 a.55. i'm frank mallicoat. dozens of people displaced after a building in oakland goes up in flames. the fire started around 11:00 near 23rd and international boulevard. no injuries were reported. a number of people displaced though. investigators say it appears a fremont teacher foal his death in the southern sierra. gregory muck went missing on a solo hike in the kings canyon national park. muck taught at gomes elementary i fremont. police are looking for the driver who did donuts on the golden gate bridge over the weekend. the black camaro came close to pedestrians on the sidewalk that sunday afternoon. another driver posted the video to instagram. how about your weather? let's check in with lawrence find out what's going on. >> all right. frank, we have clouds out there

right now. looks like it is going to start to break up nicely. in fact, already seeing some sunshine in parts of the bay area. still, we have some clouds looking back towards san francisco. but the high pressure ridge continues to build overhead. our temperatures will be warming up at least today as it looks like that ridge will nudge in here ever so slightly. numbers away from the coastline you will see some 70s and 80s inside the bay as high as 81 in san jose. 78 in san rafael. 79 in santa rosa. and about 87 degrees in livermore. 68 in san francisco. as we look toward the next couple of days, maybe cooling slightly tomorrow. warming back up again on saturday and sunday. maybe some 90s as we look toward next week. all right. we're going to check your "kcbs traffic" when we come back.

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