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for thursday. >> thank you for watching. remember you our next local update is at 7:26. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com good morning to our viewers in the west. it's wednesday, may 13, is 2015. welcome to cbs "this morning." a disaster on the tracks. an amtrak crash in philadelphia kills several passengers and hurts more than 100. norah is there. >> data is revealing the full extent of this tragedy. the mangled train ran off the rails. passengers forced to open doors and windows to escape. >> also, the search for a missing marine helicopter carrying six americans in nepal and we investigate why companies are bottling water from california in the middle of h historic drought. but we begin with a look at today's eye opener your world
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in 90 seconds. >> it's an absolute disastrous mess. i've never seen anything like this in my life. >> a deadly train derailment in philadelphia. >> classify this as a mass casualty incident. >> six people were killed including one person from the u.s. naval academy. >> the cause is not yet known. >> it hit power lines, the pedestrian bridge. >> they were just pulling people, just lifeless. >> reporter: two choppers join the search for the missing marine helicopter scouring the earthquake devastated area. >> the death toll is at least 65 in nepal in the wake of a powerful aftershock. >> tom brady's agent says the super bowl mvp will appeal his four-game suspension. >> he's going to have a successful appeal. this thing will be reduced. >> jeb bush is backtracking from comments he made regarding the war in iraq. >> he said he would have authorized the war even with the benefit of hind sight. >> i don't think you can honestly say that if we knew then that there was no wmd that the country should have gone to war. >> we will not stop!
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>> you don't have to be a dad. you just have to be lazy. >> announcer: welcome to cbs "this morning," several passengers are dead after an amtrak train derailed in philadelphia. >> the late-night crash left a horrific trail of damage. norah is at the scene in northeast philadelphia. norah, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we got here in the middle of the night. we should tell you, rescue crews have been here all night. they're searching for anyone trapped inside the wreckage along with dogs. the cause of this crash is still unknown, but authorities say there's no sign of terrorism at this hour. survives tell us it happened almost without warning. six people are confirmed dead this morning. eight others are critically injured. officials say more than 140 people were treated at area hospitals. there were 243 people aboard. philadelphia's mayor says some passengers are not accounted for. this crash happened at 9:30 p.m.
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local time as the train entered this curve. it's in an area called frankford junction. that's about five miles northeast of downtown philly. i was actually just on that curve taking a look at it. chris van cleave is also here with details with what happened to this new york-bound train. chris, good morning. >> good morning. the train never made it to new york. it met a violent end here in philadelphia. you can see the locomotive right back there askew on the tracks inside witnesses tell us people were thrown about. we know several people have been killed including a sailor at the u.s. naval academy. many, many more are hurt and many questioned about how this happened. >> keep crawling okay? >> reporter: from inside amtrak train 188, hundreds struggled to escape the wreckage as the train approached a long curve in northeast philadelphia. witnesses say it started to shake violently, passengers describe the terror inside. >> this is a nightmare. is i saw so many head injuries
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and bloody faces and people were really injured. they were thrown out of their seats. >> we have people on the tracks and a couple of cars overturned. >> reporter: hundreds of first responders arrived on scene, many using flashlights to search for anyone under the twisted mess of metal debris. over 100 were injured, several taken to the hospital in critical condition. >> i've been down on the tracks on the scene with my staff. it's an absolute disastrous mess. . never seen anything like this in my life. >> reporter: all seven of the cars came off the track, the front car landing several yards away from the rest of the train, giving some indication as to how violent this derailment was. >> a lot of people were just in shock, they couldn't believe what was happening. you can see the blood on people's faces, they can't move. their knees were out. >> i've never seen anything so
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devastating. they're in pretty bad shape. you can see they've completely completely derailed from the tracks. >> authority. >> reporter: authorities have given no cause for this deadly accident. >> we do not know what happened here. we do not know why this happened. >> reporter: amtrak is pledging to work with authorities on this investigation and we know and we know ntsb investigators are on scene trying to piece together what caused this accident. >> chris thank you so much. pennsylvania's governor tom wolf is thanking local emergency workers this morning. he says they took brave and quick action to help passengers get out of these trains. we have a reporter at temple university hospital in north philadelphia. jericka, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, it was a difficult night for the people on that train. i spoke to several people who literally had tears in their eyes as they describe the chaos and the struggle to help each other. >> it happened so fast.
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obviously a lot of debris. lights went out. people screaming. >> reporter: former congressman patrick murphy was on board when the train derailed. murphy, an iraq vet, wasn't injured, though he started helping those around him who were. >> i stayed back and told the people who were bleeding to put pressure on their wounds where they were bleeding from because you don't want to see those folks bleed out. >> people crawled, stumbled and carried out of the wreckage. >> he got me out of the train, the train was filled with smoke but he said "mom i have to go back and get everyone else out." >> reporter: you went back into the dark train to help people you could. why did you do it? >> i was in a position where i could help them so just instinctively that's what i did. >> reporter: many victims were covered in blood but walking. the more seriously injured were treated right there at the scene. more than 140 victims were transported to at least five area hospitals.
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teams of doctors and nurses were waiting. >> there were some internal injuries where people were bleeding internally where they were losing their blood pressure and that was from compression injuries where they were hit suddenly and it was usually in the first or second car. the third and fourth car had some injuries also. >> reporter: did the training you talk about in iraq come through in that moment when you didn't want to leave anyone? >> we say we leave no one behind. i wasn't going to climb out when there was people still hurt. >> reporter: the survivors, again, that i spoke to said when it comes down to it they are happy they are able to tell their stories this morning considering the people who died and those that are critically injured. meanwhile, a family is desperately looking for rachel jacobs, a ceo of a tech firm here in philadelphia. >> jericka, thank you so much. this morning, the big question is how could this have happened? let's go back to charlie and gayle in new york for more on this disaster. >> norah, thank you. no amtrak trains are running
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between philadelphia and new york. the northeast corridor is one of the busiest rail lines in america. amtrak carried more than 11.5 million passengers between washington and boston last year. >> former ntsb chair debra hersman is with us. >> good morning. >> you're near chicago but let me ask this. what will investigators be looking for now? and what is happening on the scene? >> you know, i think the most important thing is they have daylight, they're going to get on scene, they want to assess the situation. they're going to be working with the local authorities to make sure that they get a good debrief on what has happened throughout the night. they want to get those recorders as soon as possible and any perishable evidence needs to be preserved? >> the recorders will tell them how fast the train was going? >> that's right. the recorders will give them good information about braking, throttle position speed, other
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indications that they can get from those recorders will help them piece the information together. >> as far as you know, can you tell me how dangerous this is as a crash? how bad this is as a crash? and, two, how dangerous the spot where this train derailed. >> any time you have fatalities in a rail crash it's extremely significant. this is a highly traveled corridor. probably one of the busiest quarters in the united states so there's a lot of trains that pass through here everyday. the fact that this corridor is shut down is extremely significant, affecting a lot of passengers. >> does it say anything to you, debra, the fact that all seven of the cars derailed on this particular train? >> absolutely. i think that goes to the significance of the crash. not only did you have the cars departing the tracks but you also had them turning over. that just indicates that there's quite a lot of emergency involved in this event. those are heavy, heavy cars and
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so for them to turn over and remember the passengers and their luggage and everything else is not restrained inside those cars and so that's what really creates some of the damage that occurs to the passenger. >> the passenger this is morning are saying they felt the train was speeding up going into the curve. does that mean anything to you? >> one of the things they will be looking for is video. trains very often have forward-facing video. and they'll be looking to see what other trains might have experienced. the ones who went through just minutes or even hours before if there were any defects, neigh any of those trains picked up with respect to rough ride or anything that was captured on the video camera. >> let's go back to the questions that you think need to be asked right now. what are they? >> they'll be looking at the human, the machine, and the environment. so they'll be focused on that operator, what he was doing, the conditions of the cars and the tracks and anything unusual that might have been going on right at that point in time. >> debra hersman, thank you for joining us this morning.
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>> thank you. let's go back to norah in philadelphia. norah? >> all right gayle, thank you. investigators are sure to focus on the curve you guys were talking about on the tracks. i saw that. this is not the only rail disaster to happen here. in 1943 a train called the congressional limited derailed just a short distance away killing 79 people. we're going to be here in philadelphia all morning and ahead i'm going to take you down along the tracks for a closer look at the mangled wreckage and that very dangerous curve. right now, let's get the day's other news from gayle and charlie in new york. a big search is under way this morning for a united states marine helicopter missing in nepal. it was carrying six marines and two nepalese soldiers responding to the latest deadly earthquake. the quake triggered landslides and killed at least 65 people. seth doane is monitoring developments from beijing. seth good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we just got off the phone with members of the u.s. military on the ground in nepal.
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they tell us that as of this hour, no contact has been made with anyone on board that missing helicopter. we know those marines were for a remote region of nepal where they were delivering tarps and rice but ultimately did not return from that mission and a search team that went out overnight did not find any trace of them. the search by air for the missing marines continued at first light this morning as helicopters took off from kathmandu's airport. there are currently about 300 u.s. troops in nepal. they've been using choppers to ferry relief supplies to hard-to-reach regions. we were there earlier this month as one of the huey helicopters was off loaded from a giant u.s. military c-17 transport plane. tuesday's magnitude 7.3 earthquake flattened buildings that had withstood the april 25 quick and once again sent panicked people running into the
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street away from structures. "the repeated aftershocks have made it impossible for us to stay at home" this kathmandu resident said. tent cities that had gotten smaller as afternoon shocks lessened have been set up again and the search for survivors resumed with emergency workers using cameras and dogs to look for those trapped under rubble. within hours of tuesday's quake, the world food programme began assessing the damage in the district where tuesday's quake was centered. it's the same region where we saw entire villages destroyed earlier this month. wfp says it's fed close to a million people so far in what it called an immensely challenging operation. one of the things we kept hearing while we were in nepal is that it is not just the challenge of the terrain, but also the challenge of the timing with the monsoon season approaching.
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that means rain and likely more mudslides, landslides that could very easily cut roads, charlie, and cut off more aid. >> seth doane in beijing, thanks. in houston, heavy rain is flooding homes. firemen had to use a boat to rescue three people trapped under a bridge. all of them are safe. some areas have received more than eight inches of rain in the last 24 hours. a white police officer in madison, wisconsin, will not face charges for killing an unarmed biracial teenager t. district attorney says officer matt kenny was justified in shooting 19-year-old tony robinson in march. newly released dash cam video shows kenny approached the home just before he says robinson hit him in the head. he fired his gun seconds later. the officer fired seven shots. toxicology reports found
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marijuana, sedan naxxanax and psychedelic mushrooms in robins bloodstream. the former republican governor jeb bush said in a tv interview he would have authorized the iraq war even with the intelligence we have now. >> knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion? >> i would have. and so would have hillary clinton just to remind everybody and so would have almost anybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got. >> that response drew criticism from both sides of the political aisle. bush attempted to clarify his answer yesterday in a radio interview. >> i interpreted the question wrong, i guess. i was talking about given what people knew then would you have done it, not knowing what we know now and knowing what we know now, clearly there were mistakes. >> still, jeb bush never said the iraq invasion was a mistake. this morning, the man behind the deflategate investigation is
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firing back at his critics. ted wells says he stands by his report. anna werner is outside gillette stadium in foxborough, massachusetts. anna, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, gayle. ted wells has conducted numerous high-profile sports investigations over the years and he's always let his final report speak for itself so what happened tuesday was highly unusual -- he publicly defended his work on deflategate. ted wells said fact finding drove his investigation into the deflated football at january's afc championship game. >> in my mind the nfl based on my view of the world certainly wasn't hoping that i would come back with a report that would find that something happened wrong with the patriots or tom brady. >> reporter: speaking by phone to reporters tuesday, it was clear wells had had enough with people who questioned his motives. >> those personal attacks i will be candid with, you i would not have responded but i think those attacks are out of bounds and
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unfair and just plain wrong. >> reporter: wells says the text messages uncovered by his investigators were direct evidence of wrongdoing by brady and two other patriots employees. >> if i were sitting on a jury and a judge charged the jury that it should apply the preponderance of the evidence of the evidence standard i would have checked the box that said proven. >> reporter: wells' 243 page report has been picked apart. donee don yee, said it was flawed and robert kraft called it a one sided investigation. >> you put everybody into question. >> reporter: "usa today" sports columnist in nancy armour says a civil war is brewing between the nfl and the patriots. >> the dynamic between roger goodell and rocket kraftger kraft who's considered one of the most powerful owners in the league will be powerful. >> free brady! >> reporter: these brady fans
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staged a protest at nfl headquarters in new york. meanwhile, jets fans made their views known on 12 billboards across new jersey. now cbs tv station in dallas ktvt is reporting brady has hired lawyer jeffrey kessler. he helped overturn adrian peterson' indefinite suspension. brady has until 5:00 thursday to file an appeal. gayle? >> we will all be watching. thank you very much. north korea's defense chief has reportedly executed.
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the former good morning. i'm frank mallicoat. here's what's happening around the bay area right now. berkeley cell phones will come with a warning label. a new city council ordinance requires stickers on phones packaging sawing the carrying a phone -- saying the carrying a phone in the pocket may exceed federal guidelines for radiation exposure. pg&e making emergency repairs to a gas pipeline in san carlos. last week damage was found in the pipe. the 84-year-old line is shut down. coming up on "cbs this morning" bottled water woes. california residents are dealing with a drought. but are big bench
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we have a traffic alert for berkeley. eastbound 4 shut down approaching franklin canyon. there's an oil and paint spill. initially they said an estimated time of opening is 7:30. so we are waiting for word of that. in the meantime they are detouring cars off the freeway while the clean-up continues. bay bridge toll plaza, it is backed up east of the maze especially bad on the eastshore freeway. out the door mostly cloudy skies in the san jose area. currently we have temperatures pretty uniform in the 40s and 50s. not as windy today. west-southwest winds to 15. temperatures from the 50s to the high 60s. 70 cloverdale. so becoming mostly cloudy today. scattered light rain showers th
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norah went along the tracks to get a better idea of what happened. >> reporter: look at this. the busiest corridor in the country. amtrak corridor in the country shut down. no trains because that's the derailed cars right down there. this morning as the sun is coming up, we're getting our first look at those seven cars that jumped the track there. as you can see this is a big
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bend, a big curve in the tracks. it's actually known as frankford junction. amtrak trains can travel 45 miles an hour. they have to slow down because of this very curve. this morning there are local state federal officials on the ground trying to figure out what happened, also trying to make sure there are no more people on board those derailed cars. >> now, let's go live to norah in philadelphia. this is such a sad story. we have all taken the train many times. what are you hearing now? >> yeah. incredibly sad. we've all traveled that route many, many times. i'm in the front yord of a couple. they say the bang from the crash actually woke them up sand so they witnessed much of what happened. they say in talking to them that train usual goes fast around that curve. this also comes at a time that amtrak itself has been pushing for hundreds of millions of
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dollars in federal money to upgrade the railway system. so i think that's going to be a part of the debate too as to what happens here and what can be done in the future to prevent another disaster in the future. >> they're looking for the black box. do we know whether the engineer survived this? >> reporter: we don't know. we know that of the seven cars that were catapulted from the rail, one of them was the engine car. that's why the team of investigators has come this morning, the ntsb. there are some talks that it may be a while before we'll be able to download the data if you will as to what exactly happened. i think, frankly, gayle and charlie, there's still a recovery mission here getting everybody off the trains and moving some of those cars. this is such a mass it is disaster. you know amtrak is talking
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about that it may be days before amtrak is back up on line. this is such a huge huge scale in terms of what's happened here on these rails. also, you know for many of the people t first word of this crash came from a tweet. i don't know if you saw this. but former representative patrick murphy who's from this area, he was actually on board this train andt night. jericka, what did you learn? >> reporter: well, he sent that tweet out at about 9:30. i mean just moments after that derailment happened. he said his goal was to make sure everyone was okay. he's an iraq veteran and he said he would not leave anyone behind. so he stayed on that dark train and made sure he could help as many people as he could. >> i think everyone was bleeding, some worse than others. but i just checked my body parts. i had all my body parts. you know, people were screaming
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and going out the emergency window. the people in the car, eight or nine made a mad dash. they were stepping over people. there were two who were really serious. one guy couldn't move anything and another was bleeding everywhere. we put pressure on his head. we lost five men on this train. my unit in iraq. >> reporter: they're look into exactly what happened. norah? >> all right, jericka. thank you so much. we're going to ba back in the next hour with the latest on the investigation. right now let's go back to charlie and gayle in new york. >> norah, thanks. time to show you this morning's headlines from around the globe. the korea herald said north korea executed its defense
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chief. he allegedly fell asleep during ay and talked back to dictator kim john un. they say he was killed last month. they're considering using navy and aircraft shipments. now, this move could raise tensions over disputed in the region where china is building facilities. today they say they're extremely concerned by the possible u.s. plan. "forbes" says the number of merning spending money on prescription drugs has jumped. they find an increase of 63% in 2014. the total rose to 576,000 people. patients taking at least $100,000 worth of prescription drugs tripled. the majority of these patients take at least ten medications from at least four different prescribers. >> the "washington post" is reporting on a dean at the university of virginia who's
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scandal and his former teammates. >> reporter: the former players who were using performance-enhancing drugs like alex rodriguez, are their records tainted? >> i think right now the biggest is the hall of fame. eventually they're going to have to. but it's tough. it's a tough question to answer today. >> do you resent the players who didn't play clean who got records that you didn't get? >> yeah. the only thing i could think of is three. i was close to the mvp. it didn't happen. alex won mvp. i think second was carlos delgado or david ortiz, i don't remember. i was almost there. what could have happened if you know -- it's tough. it's really tough. >> because some of your teammates, roger clemons and eventually a-rod will be up for
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hall of fame. i mean when -- and there's a great debate in baseball about who knew what and did they look the over way. shouldn't players who were known to have used steroids should they be in the hall of fame? >> no. >> no. >> no. no. i don't think it's fair for the guys who have been in the hall of fame who played cleanly. >> even alex rodriguez? >> yeah. i don't think it's farks i really don't. i think the guys who are in the hall of fame need to be players who played with no controversy. >> have you told him that? >> no. >> no. >> would he be surprised to hear it? >> oh, yeah yeah. >> he won't be surprised to hear that some people have that pin. it's an ongoing debate in baseball. >> to have your teammate speak up that's very unusual. >> and you also think about people that might have been most valuable player. there but someone used steroids. that's hard to lever with that
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include aquafina arrowhead, and dasani. they told cbs news its typically low. in fact, bottled water company use 2.6 billion companies of california water per year. that may seem like a lot but even the state's didn't of water resources say it's a drop in the bucket compared with a 2.4 trillion gallons consumed in urban areas and the 8.6 million soaked up by the agriculture. >> the city in los angeles uses as much water in one week as the california bottling companies do in one year. >> reporter: still with so much focus on the drought, private companies making a profit on california's water has become an issue of perception. just last week starbucks desidedcided to temporarily halt its bottling company. the question is whether others
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big cute. >> big cute. a canadian couple celebrating the sky-high birth of a baby girl they were not expected. she was on the flight with her boyfriend when she went into plabor. she had no idea she was even pregnant. what? >> she thought it was a stomach ache or an ulcer or something and it turned out to be a baby. and then all of a sudden waaa. yeah. life just happened. i'm truly happy now. i'm happier -- happier than i've ever been. >> so nice. this morning the family's in japan. they're working with the canadian embassy to bring theirlile one back home. charlie, you've never had a baby. this is the thing. your body changes. i don't get it. your body changes when there's another life inside of you. >> you have to know if you're pregnant. >> i think so. >> or that close. >> they named the baby girl, by the way, chloe. we turn to today's news.
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♪ mattress discounters ♪ your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. good morning, it's 7:56. i'm michelle griego. health advocates trying to curb soda consumption in california will have to go back to the drawing board. yesterday, the state assembly health committee voted down a bill that would place a tax of 2 cents an ounce on sugary drinks. oakland parents will join a statewide protest against a mandatory vaccination bill this morning. senate bill 277 would require kids to be vaccinated before attending public school. and coming up on "cbs this morning," millennials and money. why the game changing generation is now the biggest in the workforce. the results of a new study. stay with
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good morning. chp is finally re-opening all lanes in hercules eastbound highway 4 for a while it was a mess. still slow from hercules back to 80. oil and paint spill around franklin canyon road exit. they were detouring cars for a while. within the last few minutes, all lanes now back open. still expect delays. here's the san mateo bridge, still crowded behind the san mateo bridge toll plaza westbound. trying to get out of hayward. and it remains slow along the flat section and the high-rise. that's "kcbs traffic." here's roberta. >> interesting view this morning of the transamerica pyramid. we have if the background you can see a deck -- in the background you can see a deck of low clouds and patchy fog pushing onshore. we have 51 degrees in santa rosa 54 livermore. low 50s for the most part. not as windy as yesterday. increasing clouds, mostly cloudy in the 50s to high 60s.
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♪ ♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, may 13 2015. welcome back to "cbs news this morning." we'll go back to nora at the scene of the deadly amtrak derailment. first here's a look at the "eye opener at 8." >> look at this the busiest amtrak corridor shut down. that's the derailed car there. >> several people have been killed, including a sailor at the u.s. naval academy. many, many more are hurt. >> i talked to several people who literally had tears in their eyes as they described the chaos and the struggle to help each other. >> it's going to be really
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focused on that operator. >> the conductor has or is giving a report. >> just got off the phone with members of the ult.s. military. no contact has been made with anyone on that missing helicopter. >> even an alex rodriguez? >> i don't think it's fair. i really don't. i think the guys that need to be in the hall of fame need to be a player that played with no controversy. >> mcdonald's is starting to introduce kale into their salad. mcdonald's customers heard this and asked what's kale and what's a salad? >> this morning's "eye opener at 8" is presented by walgreens. i'm charlie rose with gayle king. we'll hear from norah o'donnell in philadelphia in a moment. it could take days to clear amtrak's busy northeast corridor after last night's deadly train accident. investigators say this morning they have recovered the black
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box from the train. six people are confirmed dead. eight others are critically hurt. more than 200 passengers needed hospital care. that's out of 243 passengers and crew aboard northeast regional train 188. >> nora is at the scene of the disaster in northeast philadelphia to bring us up to date. nora, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, gayle and charlie. that derailed train is not far from here. we took a close look at the area where the train ran off the tracks last night. it is a busy rail crossing called frankford junction. witnesses say the front of the train suddenly stopped as it was entering a curve in the track. the commuter train was heading to new york city from washington, d.c. when it derailed here in the port richmond section of philadelphia. six passengers were killed and over 140 went to area hospitals with injuries. this morning we're learning
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eight of those are in critical condition. emergency workers swarmed the crash site shortly after the derailment trying to help the injured. philadelphia mayor michael nutter could not say how many passengers unaccounted for. authorities are still unsure what caused all seven cars to slide off the track. and it's not clear yet if any foul play was involved although early word is they think this was an accident. the train was packed with 238 passengers and five crew members. the national transportation safety board is already here in philadelphia combing through the wreckage looking for an answer to last night's crash. so you can see there's still a lot of activity here. a fire truck just went by behind us. there's still ambulances. it's very crowded. there's a lot going on. we'll continue to update you. nora and gayle? >> we learned this morning the ceo startup of a tech was on the
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train and is now missing. one of her employees says she was on train 188 last night. she released a photo of jacobs and is asking the public to help find her. the congressman on the subcommittee of railroads joins us. what questions, are you asking? >> the traveling public wants to know how could this happen. we're seeing investigative teams going out, including having the federal rail administrator, sarah feinberg going out to look at this. we want answers. and we're looking at -- we've been looking at safety throughout the last several years on how do you improve safety. in this case we want to know how this happened so we can make sure it doesn't happen again. >> you have introduced a bill on passenger rail reform. where does that stand and how does it adjust safety?
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>> it is actually the amtrak bill that deals with other parts of rail as well but is primarily amtrak. it's in the senate now. the president has already sent a letter of support. we expect the senate should move that soon and hope to see that signed into law very soon. ultimately that would allow the northeast corridor, this heavily traveled area that we've seen this horrific accident in would actually have the profits to be able to improve their infrastructure. we want to make sure that cash is available. >> do we have a significant rail infrastructure problem in this country? >> i think certainly countrywide we have seen all of our infrastructure that we've been slow to invest in but i think freight rail which is where most of our passenger rail is continues to upgrade and add new capacity -- new money to those improvements. we're trying to make sure where amtrak has dedicated rail that
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we do the same thing. >> do we have the funding snes necessary? >> we do. this is a bill we worked with amtrak on to fit their need but certainly the biggest, highest travel corridor this northeast corridor, which has huge ridership numbers, we want to make sure that what the passengers are paying into this actually stays on the northeast corridor improves the infrastructure and improves safety at the same time. >> congressman jeff denham, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> our coverage continues on our digital network. >> crossfit competitor and power lifter christmas abbott is her name. she's building a fitness empire around being, as she puts it a bad ass. ahead, see how she's
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calories out is a familiar mantra for anyone chasing a healthy body. but to earn a body what christmas calls a bad ass, well, that's going to take more. >> christmas abbott looks like an athlete at the top of her game, but the 33-year-old crossfit competitor weightlifter and fitness model hasn't always resembled the picture of perfect health. >> i was in terrible shape. i had almost a decade of you know really destroying my body. >> she smoked too much drank too much and says she could barely run a mile. >> it was devastating to me at 22 years old, i couldn't run a mile and when i finished it it took me a week to recover. so i wasn't interested in fitness. >> that first attempt to complete a short distance run came during a pivotal i'm in
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abbott's life and came from the green zone in iraq where she was working as a contractor. >> how close did it come to you? >> it came in the camp ground. my first month there, it was only a few weeks, i panicked. i did everything wrong. in that moment i realized i didn't want to die. >> abbott quit smoking and started hitting the gym, but it was an exercise video she saw online that really hooked her on fitness. >> i was just amazed because there was these three tiny little girls my size and they had beautiful bodies. the girl cries at the end. i was like that's what i want to do. i want to do a workout that make me want to cry. >> reporter: what were they doing? >> crossfit. >> abbott returned to the u.s. and began coaching crossfit classes. at this park in downtown
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raleigh. she soon opened her owner gym and went to work developing her brand, fearless focused, ferocious. there's nothing she won't try, including a brief detour changing tires on a nascar pit crew. nascar is what's to say largely a male world. and so how were you treated? >> i was treated really well. >> was it tough to be a woman? >> it's never tough to be a woman. >> reporter: when if comes to diet abbott likes to keep it simple and prepares the same breakfast every day, eggs peanutbutter and an apple. >> if you're looking for a balance of hormonal response every meal, every snack you need a balance of protein, carbohydrate and fat. >> but if you boil christmas abbott and her approach to life down to one word well it's right there on the cover of her book. when i throw that word out, badass, what does it mean to
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you? >> you know, you got to embrace it. it doesn't mean that you have to be the most fit, the strongest or the fastest, it just means that you have to have the will to try. >> reporter: christmas abbott's will is now trained on a climb to the top, a journey that begins with the bottom. what are you concentrating on? >> i'm concentrating on the booty. >> the back side. >> the back side. >> if you take care of your back side in the way that you're advocating, you're saying there's benefits to your whole body? >> absolutely. >> reporter: like what? >> like tighter abs, legs arms. >> reporter: i think if you're really quiet you can hear the sounds of people, women, throwing their coffee mugs against the television right now as we're talking because they're just not buying that they can transform. >> they have to believe in themselves.
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from someone who didn't believe in myself until my mid 20s. even towards my late 20s i didn't really believe i was capable of what i truly was capable of. failure is only failure if you stop trying. >> this past weekend christmas abbott lifted an impressive 176 pounds to take first place at a weight lifting competition, all the more amazing when you realize she barely ways 120. >> were you keeping up with her? >> barely. by barely i mean not at all. >> she looks fantastic. was she born on christmas day? what is that name? >> well, let's just say her mother's favorite holiday was not easter. >> words you will never hear me say, "a workout that makes he want to cry." she's amazing. >> sign up for crossfit in.
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. for the first time millennials are the largest group of a work force. that's according to a pew study. it finds one in four are between 18 and 34. that tops baby boomers and generation x. welcome. >> good to be here. >> so what does this data mean for the work force? >> i think it's always important when talking about this generation. 86 million people. to distinguish between the sentimental judgments people talk about. they're pampered entitled. >> coddled, allergic to work. >> this is statistically the most educated in the work force. it graduated into a recession. and so when you confront these things together the fact that -- tremendous expectations they had combined with the fact that they aren't earning as much as past generations and they have a high rate of unemployment, you have a sense that the social
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school is broken down and a lot of them are frustrated in their early jobs. >> doesn't he look like one of those millennials we're talking about? what is the economic power? >> it's not all that mighty. in fact, when you look at their history of buying cars and houses, two big ticket items in the u.s. economy, it's clearly behind track compared to gen x and the baby boomers. it's going to change. they're going to get richer get better jobs but this is a generation that has let debt left over for auto loans and student loans. >> so suppose you're a politician and they're going to be voting. what do you need to say to them to reach them? >> it's really important to be clear on where liberals are clearly more liberal than the rest. on issues of gun control and abortion they're right in the
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middle. the polls seem to find -- it depends how you frame the question, the economic policies that they want. if you say you want a smarter government that takes in less taxes. >> everybody does. >> they'll say yes. if you want a government with more services, yes, it's all about framing the economic issues. >> how are companies adjusting to this growing trend? i was surprised by the article that you guys are the biggest force. i really thought it was the baby boomers. >> right well, the two most common groups right now are early 50 somethings and early 30 somethings. i think what they're going to have to grapple with, is not to expect the kind of security the past generations have. they're more comfortable with security, a freelance life and sort of managing it.
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i think the companies are going to have to think it's 8:25. time for news headlines. four people are dead and another injured after a mustang went hurtling into a creek near gilroy. it happened last night. skidmarks led officers to the wreckage. the car that was smashed was smashed beyond all recognition. nasa is working to transform the way we fly. researchers are building the first electronic airplane in bakersfield. the goal is to reduce the noise of aircraft and make them more efficient. stay with us.
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improvement as well in those eastbound lanes. that is "kcbs traffic." here's roberta. >> it's been such an interesting morning because of the layers of clouds. we have low clouds, patchy fog all lining the seashore and trying to make it into the city of san francisco. it's in the background there. i don't know if you can see it clearly and look at all those mid- and high-level clouds all associated with an area of low pressure that promises to bring us rain tomorrow. today, increasing cloud cover and right now we are in the 50s. low 50s from oakland to santa rosa. 54 degrees in livermore. now, later today it's not going to be as windy as yesterday. the winds will blow out of the west and rotate to the southwest 5 to 15 miles per hour. notice the numbers are pretty much near or below average for this time of the year for the mid-50s at the beaches, 60s peninsula and across the santa clara valley, high 60s to the east. we do have an outside number of 70 in cloverdale. an isolated thunderstorm is possible thursday.
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scores fell by 1.6 per senn time points. >> prince harry performed the war dance today. harry had just 20 minutes to learn the new zealand's army haka. he performed it with them. >> he's into it. >> george is coming up on the outside. >> baby george. "the tampa bay times" reports on the first responders marriage proposal as a rays baseball game. a young woman such viever of domestic violence threw out the first pitch and the man who saved her and helped her handed her the ball and wrote on the ball will you marry me and she said yes in front of a crowd 106,000 people. >> nice to have a camera. they're watching the reports on the youngest mayor in
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maryland history. the 19-year-old. in the small town of indiana yand head. he's a political science student in southern maryland who's still too young. >> reporter: this morning a civil rights group has proof of a gender buy jasias in hollywood. kara finnstrom is in los angeles with what the group calls for an investigation. good morning. >> good morning. the aclu says that have compiled statistical gender. it alleges women are routinely passed over for high profile tv and film products and are hired as disadvantage for men. >> reporter: patricia arquette's oscar acceptance speech was a cry for gender equality. >> it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and
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equal rights for women in the united states of america. >> reporter: but the issue of gender equality will often front and center on screen. >> bin lad season there and you're going to kill him for me. >> reporter: is now being questioned behind the lens. >> by some measures there are less women working as directors today than there were decades ago. >> reporter: melissa says the genders have nearly excluded women from directing roles. yesterday the aclu september letters to state and other agencies calling them to investigate hollywood hiring practices but did not specifically name any tv or film studio. they accused them of discriminating, having the fact of shutting women out. >> less than 2% of last year's hot grossing films were directed by women. only 12% were directed by women. there is a big gap and there's a
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problem there. >> reporter: jennifer lee t co-director of the disney animated hit "frozen" told nor real o'donnell that the industry suffers from a lack of diversity. >> we need more women in creative leadership. we just do. >> reporter: "interstellar" producer linda obst says young female audiences are expanding. >> i don't think male directors are going to be able to please them forever. they're looking to their own gender for their own stories. >> in a statement the director's gild called ta lack of action by the networks and studios deplorable and said the acly has made no effort to contact them. charlie? >> thanks. a central eiland reminding some of jurassic park but the species that call it home are no clones. thousands of birds, insects, and amphibians are studied and
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preserved. major garrett is at the smith smithsonian smithsonian. >> when most of us think of the smithsonian institution, we quite naturally conjure up images or memories of the museum here on the national mall or if you've been here its lush gardens. but on a resent trip with president obama, we found something amazing. as massive commercial vessels pass through the pan macha nal, this boat carries scientists to an island in colorado one of the world's most important tropical research facilities and a scientific jewel of the smithsonian institution. barrow colorado, is where the pan tune lake is. it has served no purpose other than research.
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attracting scientists since the first crude huts and labs were built here in 1923. nowhere on earth is there more complete research data on tropical forests. >> you can go back in the literature and get the whole story. >> reporter: matt larson directs the institute. >> reporter: in the thick forest we found howler monkeys and odd look rodents called aguedies. lessons learned from interest tree species and hillside water drainage have led to the successful refor is station of trees. from trees to bees known as new gloss senior kid bees, they pollinate orchid now errs and replant in the leafy area. they study the mating habits but
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attracting males to this tea strainer filled with eucalyptus strainer. >> they try to cover themselves with per file to attract females. >> reporter: the island is home to 1,400 plant species and more than 100 times of mammals. 1,400 visiting scientists and students come here each year. like tom bradford lawrence from the united kingdom. >> what i do is climb a tree and survey the birding from on top of the tree. >> reporter: he carried our camera to the forest ceiling he observes daily. >> it's the rates at which the different types of species do that. >> reporter: the smiktssonian also conducts research in and around panama city where we found sloths giant nesting birds and frogs. .
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by isolating these frogs, scientists hope to rebuild their numbers and help them dodge extinction. the smithsonian has what scientists need most untouched preserve with decades of research number observation measurements, and a place to find answers. >> understanding our environmental is increasingly important because as humans dominate our planet, we need to be able to manage all of our resources. >> we learn many things. among them wearing a suit and tie is no fun at all. also the different between a tropical forest and a rainforest. a tropical forest has a distinct dry season. in panama it runs from roughly christmas to easter. gayle, a rainforest has no dry season at all. >> beautiful images. thank you, major. >> you've got it. >> it reminds you of how beautiful nature is. >> i was wondering the same thing. i wondered if you were going to go out and get ax body stray or
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steven tyler from one of the most famous rock and roll bands, aerosmith. you know that. he's taken a new direction. he showed nancy o'dell how he's changing his tune. he's in language. nancy, do tell. >> good morning, gayle. you know i want to talk about this, being country. he's not going solo but, yes, he is going country. at 67 years old his first country hit single "love is your new name" comes out today. while it's different than what you're used to, i can assure you his legendary pipes are making new music. steven tyler has spent the last
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few months in a nashville recording studio working on his country debut album. >> how do you define your country? what do you define it like? >> i would define it rock and roll would be country, you got it. country would be truth, very muth and one lost tooth. >> i love it. that's so steven tyler. >> it's just more free. >> tyler's primal screams are his signature, rocking rage are part of him. ♪ take a little piece of my heart now, baby ♪ >> do you hope to bring rock and roll fans over with you to your think it's going to be a whole new base? >> i think it 'going to be a whole new base and the fans of air low smith that love the lead singer, they're going to follow the guy that sings for them. >> reporter: for more than 40 years aerosmith has reigned as one of the most successful
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bands, selling over 150 million albums. ♪ every time i look in the mirror ♪ >> reporter: in the aftermath of the boston marathonyathon bombing aerosmith sang their song. >> it's really become the city's anthem. when you saw that beginning to happen, what was your reaction? what did they feel like? >> as soon as i worked those parts out with their musical coral director at my house and we sat and i heard them sing the first time i knew why i wrote "dream on." is that strange to say? >> no not at all. >> i think the way joe played because it was without the band the way he played and me and them singing, it was so angelic and it meant so much more than it ever had before. it was a magic moment. >> reporter: another magic moment for tyler's life this
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past february when his daughter liv gave birth to his second grandchild. >> i'm in nashville getting set to write and get a phone call from my daughter mia. liv's in the hospital. you've got to get up here quick. we got up there not ten minutes before she had the baby. imup here talking to ing toing to liv here and mia is at the other end. baby pops out, put the baby on her tummy and i cut the cord. >> you cut the cord. >> it was just as precious as it gets. >> reporter: giving birth to country move at age 67 -- >> it's a complete thing that swl somewhere is going to be singing for the rest of their life and the joy i get from that. >> makes you happy. >> so happy. >> well steven told me the album which is due out in the fall doesn't have a name yet but he is so excited about this album that he actually wanted to
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play me a taste of what's to become. we went in the room and closed door. these are songs not released yet. he played me essentially of them. sexy to seductive and foot stomp. they're country but totally steven tyler all the way. >> good for you. we heard a lit bit of his screaming. will you their hare that in the country songs? >> he said he's pulling back but he's pulling back a little bit but i heard it. he's going go a little darker comparing some of his songs to johnny cash. listen i am a south carolina gal. i know country. i love country music and i'll tell you i'll be the first one at his first country concert. >>'ve seen him with his grandchild. he certainly falls in the cool grand dad category. >> not only does steven's daughter liv has a new baby but
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a 10-year-old milo and he loves to walk him to school. he went with him on grandparents day. can you imagine bringing steven tyler to school on grandparents day. he said the teacher went a little bit nuts. >> reporter: will he be recording with any of the famous country singers? >> i asked him. he said his dream is to sing with garth brooks and rascal flatts. i imagine that probably will happen. he also wants to work with alison krauss. one of the most hilarious things he said when he first moved to nashville he called her up went to her house and sang a song on her doorstep so she would let him in. >> i'd like to work with alison krauss too. >> do you know where steven gets his pants? charlie was wondering. >> i know. you always wonder. tell charlie he'd look fantastic
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