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his foreign policy under fire, president obama heads to europe where he'll try to tackle the crisis in ukraine and the growing threat of isis militants in iraq and syria. the fbi joins the hacking investigation. agents are looking into how dozens of private and revealing photographs of celebrities were stolen and posted online. you're going to need a bigger boat. >> and it was the blockbuster that started them all, a behind-the-scenes look at "jaws" 40 years after the horror classic was made. this is the "cbs morning news" classic was made. this is the "cbs morning news" for tuesday, september 2, 2014. captioning funded by cbs good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. president obama leaves for europe today where russian aggression in ukraine and the
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threat of isis militants will top the agenda. mr. obama will attend a nato summit in wales beginning thursday but the president's first stop is estonia meeting with baltic leaders worried they may be the next target. mark albert is in washington. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. president obama is under growing pressure to come up with a strategy to stop the isis advance. some lawmakers here in washington are growing impatient and hope the nato summit leads to a plan. president obama leaves washington today for estonia. it's the first stop in a trip designed in part to shore up confidence among allies. growing nervous as russian-backed rebels continue to take over more towns in eastern ukraine. in the latest peace talks monday pro-russian separatists said they will accept sovereignty.
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by establishing a rapid-reaction force comprised of thousands of troops capable of deploying within 48 hours to eastern europe. leaders are expected to endorse that idea at a nato summit in wales later this week. president obama will also try to rally support there for a global coalition to tackle the growing threat posed by isis in iraq and syria. british prime minister david cameron says new laws to give police in the united kingdom the power to seize passports from citizens who have been radicalized. >> it is abhorrent that people who declare allegiance elsewhere are able to return to the united kingdom and pose a threat to national security. >> reporter: the u.s. has hit targets on isis in iraq and fighting in neighboring syria. in its latest online magazine out this week, isis has highlighted the beheading of u.s. journalist james foley.
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it cites u.s. air strikes against it in iraq is the reason for the killing and says foley's blood is now on president obama's hands. anne-marie. >> mark albert in washington, thank you, mark. well, this morning, the u.s. military is assessing the results of a military strike against islamic extremists in somalia. it took 105 miles south of mogadishu. yesterday's action against al shabaab involved air strikes only, no ground troops were involved. and involved somali only. and some of the severe weather that hit the nation labor day weekend is lingering this morning. severe thunderstorm and flash flood watches are posted in oklahoma, arkansas, kansas, missouri, ohio, and illinois. damaging winds and heavy rains are expected from the mid-south to northern new york. and a very large tornado touched down southeast of wichita, kansas, last night. the storm tore through a mostly rural area.
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and no damage or injuries are reported. some winds and heavy rains knocked down trees and power lines in michigan, north of kalamazoo. one large tree fell on to a house pinning the owner inside. >> i ran out the door and hollered down there. and i saw her climbing through the wreckage. and i could hear him yelling for help. >> i heard a crack and was on the deck so i immediately jumped up and started running as it was falling. >> folks are cleaning up massachusetts west of boston. a tornado with 85-mile-an-hour winds went through sunday. craig setzer, chief meteorologist of our miami station has more on the severe weather. >> good morning. severe weather continues to march across a good part of the middle of the united states, some of the hardest hit areas as of monday evening into tuesday morning were parts of kansas, missouri, oklahoma as well as arkansas. tennis ball size hail even tornadoes reported with some of the heavier storms.
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also big storms marching through parts of nebraska into iowa. as we go into the day on tuesday, storms will continue to move eastward toward the ohio valley. and eventually northeast. upstate new york under the gun as well as central and western pennsylvania, west virginia, southern and eastern ohio, southwest eastern and central kentucky. another area of severe weather is possible across parts of missouri, arkansas and western parts of tennessee. the main threat with any of these thunderstorms will be once again large hail, damaging winds, of course, the possibility of tornadoes as well as local flooding. for cbs news, craig setzer, miami. well, the season's latest named storm is building strength in the gulf of mexico. tropical storm dolly formed this morning. the national hurricane center says dolly will approach mexico's east coast by tonight and move inland by tomorrow morning. and this morning, in northern california, firefighters are battling a fire
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in the national forest. one person is in the hospital with serious burns after a brush fire broke out in sonoma county. the fire started yesterday afternoon and burned one acre before it was contained. a cabin was destroyed and five other homes damaged. two others were treated for burns or smoke inhalation. the fbi says it's addressing how the intimate photos of several female celebrities were stolen and posted online. the pictures of actress jennifer lawrence, model kate upton and others began to appear sunday. and others are investigating whether it has been tampered with. >> reporter: actress jennifer lawrence requested authorities investigate who posted nude pictures of her online. the photos of the "the hunger games" star became available late sunday night. her publicist called a flagrant violation of her privacy.
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she added that prosecutors will prosecute anyone who posted the stolen photos. the hackers who stole the pictures also posted nude photos of other celebrities like pop star rihanna and model kate upton and claimed to have more. but the authenticity of many of them have not been confirmed. it's not clear where hackers obtained the photos but internet security experts believe they may have been stored on one or more cloud servers. they allow users to store e-mails, documents and photos on a remote hard drive that can be accessed online from anywhere. jeff schilling is with the cloud server firehost. >> i think there's a lot of celebrities that don't take their information security seriously. >> reporter: cloud technology is used by more than 300 million people worldwide. the problem may lie in weak password systems that can be easily compromised. >> in some cases, those security controls aren't put in place. and it allows them to throw as many as 500,000 passwords in the
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account until it accepts one. >> the fbi said its addressing the matter. apple which hosts the popular icloud service says it is also investigating and takes privacy seriously. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. coming up on the "morning news," historic drug bust. officials in peru seize a huge haul of cocaine. we'll tell where you it was headed. this the "cbs morning news." everything she's been waiting for. carefully crafted with real seafood, real veggies, and never any by-products or fillers. wow! being a cat just got more enjoyabowl. fancy feast broths. wow served daily.
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in peru, police displayed 8 1/2 tons of cocaine, the largest ever seizure of drugs. the drugs were found last week in a rural home. six peruvians and two mexicans were arrest american drug enforcement officials were involved in the operation. police say the cocaine was headed to spain and belgium. and the obama administration has asked north korea to release three americans out of concern. jeffrey fowl, matthew miller and kenne kenneth bae will allowed to speak to the media yesterday. fowl and miller expect to face trial within a month. bae says its health is deteriorating at the labor camp where he's put to work eight hours a day. on the "cbs moneywatch" detroit's bankrupt trial opened and "guardians" ruled the summer box office. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, anne-marie. detroit's bankruptcy trial begins this morning.
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detroit is the largest city in u.s. history to file for bankruptcy. lawyers are going to try to convince a judge that detroit should be allowed to cut $12 billion in debt down to about $5 billion. earlier this morning, revel casino closes in atlantic city, new jersey. revel hotels have already closed $2.4 billion. it's atlantic city's most expensive failure. and one of four casinos to close since last september. that means at least 8,000 jobs. one quarter of the city's workforce. here in washington, the markets reopened after a long holiday weekend. the dow gains 97 points, the nasdaq is up 41 points. and the s&p 500 rose 15 points to a new record high. protesters at fast food restaurants across the country. workers will stage acts of civil disobedience at mcdonald's and other fast food businesses to
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call for a hike in the minimum wage. they want a $15 an hour minimum wage. in milwaukee, president obama supported the movement for a higher minimum wage. >> all across the country right now, there's a national movement going on, made up of fast food workers, organizing to lift wages. so they can provide for their families with pride and dignity. there is no denying a simple truth, america deserves a raise. >> the president says millions of americans pushing for higher wages will eventually force congress to go along. and "the guardians of the galaxy" are the summer's box office superheroes. the marvel comic "guardians brought in $280 million in the u.s. this summer. this weekend it was umber one with $22 million. in second place, "teenage ninja mutant turtles" earned more than
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$15 million and if i stay was third with more than $11 million. from summer's biggest hits to the blockbusters that started them all. an inside look at "jaws" and how it almost didn't get made. and in sports, a true team effort in philadelphia as four pitchers combined for a no-hitter. pitchers combined for a no-hitter. not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts her at a greater risk of stroke. rome? sure! before xarelto®, mary took warfarin, which required monthly trips to get her blood tested. but that's history. back to the museum? not this time! now that her doctor switched her to once-a-day xarelto®, mary can leave those monthly trips behind. domestic flight? not today! like warfarin, xarelto® is proven effective to reduce afib-related stroke risk. but xarelto® is the first and only once-a-day prescription blood thinner for patients with afib not caused by a heart valve problem that doesn't require regular blood monitoring. so mary is free of that monitoring routine. for patients currently well managed on warfarin, there is limited information on how xarelto® and warfarin compare in reducing the risk of stroke.
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forecast in some cities around the country. an american airlines flight from las vegas to dallas with 190 people on board didn't make it far before returning to l.a.x. monday. about five minutes after takeoff, the pilot saw a crack in the windshield. the jet turned around and made a safe landing. no one on board was hurt, and the cause of the crack is under investigation. well, this summer marks 40 years since the making of the blockbuster movie "jaws" on martha's vineyard, major garrett has a behind-the-scenes look at the movie and its effect on one of america's most famous vacation spots. >> reporter: this is edgartown harbor on martha's vineyard,
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summer, tranquil and serene. this is amity island, to its planks to production, for the movie "jaws." >> you're going to need a bigger boat. >> it looks like a set. >> reporter: jim beller is a "jaws" fanatic and helped create a book on the making of the most. >> it's just a movie that has everything in it. it's a horror movie, it's a drama, it's a thriller. >> reporter: but before it scared, "jaws" nearly sank. >> the entire crew that whole summer, they thought this was going to be a flop, a b-movie. >> reporter: universal studios gave 27-year-old director steven spielberg 55 days and $3.5 million to make "jaws." it took 159 days and $10 million. the mechanical shark nicknamed bruce almost never worked. perfect on land, short circuited on seawater. spielberg improvised. >> because of that shark not working your imagination had that fear.
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especially you didn't see the shark until an hour into the movie. >> reporter: jeffrey vorhees and lee fierro lived on martha's vineyard, they played alice kitner and her son. >> let me go back in the water. >> just ten more minutes. >> reporter: kitner's so near to shore struck a visceral score of fear. >> before it was -- a horror movie, godzilla and king kong, this made it more realistic. >> reporter: the embody of rage, this famous slap, took several takes to get right. >> how many times? >> in one day, i think it was 17. >> reporter: for decades, martha's vineyard disdained "jaws" mania, now the island embraces it with merchandise and sunday movie screens that keep visitors guessing whether it's really safe to go back in the water. major garrett, cbs news, martha's vineyard.
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the ice bucket challenge to raise awareness for als and lou gehrig's disease turned into a social media phenomenon this summer. the als association said it received more than $100 million in donations in august. dr. jon lapook updates us on research efforts. >> reporter: 68-year-old ed tassaro just joined the als ice bucket challenge. his challenge is different than most. tassaro has been fighting the disease for more than five years. >> my arms and legs are weaker. when i walk, i'm pretty much at risk. that's really the only bad news. i'm breathing at 100% of normal which is great news. >> reporter: in als, motor neurons, the nerve cells that control voluntary muscles detach
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from the muscle and die. patients lose control of movement and eventually their ability to breathe on their own. the cause of als is unknown. tassaro is one of 30 patients in a clinical trial who had stem cells injected into their spinal column in order to slow the progression of the disease. new research suggests that an als patients these supporting cells become killers, poisoning the motor neurons. animal studies found stem cells can help heal the toxic supporting cells. dr. jonathan glass at emerson university is leading the trial. >> what they do is create a nutritious environment for the motor neurons that are sick and they allow them to recover
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from that to reject with the muscles or keep them from disconnecting from muscles for a longer period of time. >> reporter: over the past decade, als research has been jump-started from a called disease in the dish. these neurons exhibit the same abnormalities are those in the als patient. this has sped up the pace of discovery for neuroscientists like thomas jessle. >> it compounds drugs, medicine and if they work in that tissue petri dish condition, you can go back and test them in a human. >> has there been one sort of eureka moment where you looked at the amount ls cells in a dish and you tried some compound and you say, ooh, that seems to make them better? >> yes, we have compounds. and is that a big eureka moment or a little eureka moment, so you have been guarded at the same time, seize the enthusiasm of the discovery, no matter how
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small. >> it's a long way from a drug that works in a petri dish than a cell stem that works in an animal to an effective treatment, but there is hope because every day, als is becoming less of a mystery. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. coming up on "cbs this morning" more on president obama's agenda has he heads to the summit later this week. that's the "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day.
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>> it's always ladies' day. >> there we go. i'm not complaining. >> brace yourself for that one there. >> we have the return of the marine lay they are morning. and some clouds layer this morning. and some clouds at coast and temperatures will drop as a result. right now we are into the 60s and it didn't cool off that much overnight. the compete tuesday forecast -- complete forecast still straight ahead. back to work for most folks around the bay area. the northbound 280 extension reopened about seven hours a head of schedule. what it looks right now on 2830 and the 101 also gnat all just -- alternate all just a few minutes away. >> back to work. >> on a tuesday that's right. one person is dead after an amtrak train slammed into an suv in oakland. it happened about 10:00 last night at high and san leandro streets. about 200 people were on the train but amtrak's coast starlight train was delayed for several hours on a trip from los angeles to seattle. almost 3:0 t
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