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we get to happy birthday to you today. >> thank you! >> my 25th birthday. [ laughter ] >> really. how many is it? >> good morning to our viewers in the west. it is friday, may 22 2015. welcome to cbs "this morning." breaking overnight, the end of a massive manhunt. the suspect in the washington, d.c. mansion murders is in custody. >> flash flooding in texas puts millions at risk over the memorial day weekend. and loretta lynch sits down with norah o'donnell for her first interview since becoming attorney general. we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> we were able to find the location of wint and we were able to take him down and arrest
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him. authorities apprehend the prime suspect in the d.c. mansion murders. >> daron wint was found in a hotel with five other people. all six left two vehicles before being apprehended. more than 9,000 gallons of crude oil have been recovered. the offshore oil slick is nine miles across. we woke up to about five inches of water in the house. >> severe flooding throughout the southern plains threatening roads and closing homes. >> this area has seen way too much rain for the month. two men arrested in southern california on terrorism charges. one arrested at l.a.x., the other at orange county. the "new york times" publish publishing hillary clinton's e-mails. many discussing the unrest in libya and the attacks in benghazi. the senate is expected to vote today to extend most of the patriot act. >> if that law expires and you don't have the abilityay metadata what's your biggest fear.
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>> six officerindicted in the death of freddie gray. >> you woke up stupid this morning? >> all that -- ♪ baby come back ♪ >> a sing along turned not so fun as a tire blew out in the middle of their song. >> and all that matters. >> my arrival there was very much like the u.s. involvement here. we went someplace where weren't quite sure where we were going and once we got there and figured out what was going on it was too late to just pull up stakes. >> on cbs "this morning." >> hillary clinton seems to be facing minor money problems. word comes that a pro-clinton super pac is struggling to raise funds. it's gotten so bad they may have to start reaching out to americans. [ laughter ] out
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welcome to cbs "this morning," norah o'donnell is on assignment and will join us shortly from washington. gayle king is off. margaret brennan is here along with jeff glor from our digital network cbsn. the man wanted in a washington, d.c. quadruple murder is in custody this morning, daron dylon wint was arrested late last night after a huge manhunt. police say he played a role in the deaths of savvas and amy savopoulos, their ten-year-old son phillip and a housekeeper, vera figueroa. police trailed wint before arresting him in northeast washington about five miles from the family's burned mansion. wyatt andrews is outside d.c. superior court. wyatt, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. one week after three members of the wealthy and popular savopoulos family, along with a housekeeper due to retire to el salvador were all killed in the family home, the prime suspect in this case is now in custody. in just hours, he'll be arraigned here at d.c. superior court on charges of first degree
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murder while armed. late thursday night, a joint task force headed by the u.s. marshals located and arrested 34-year-old daron dylon wint in northeast washington. they were tracking wint in a white chevrolet as he followed a moving van driven by friends. in all, three men and two women were arrested along with wint. >> we can successfully take him down and we did our standard practice vehicle pin maneuver and we were able to safely pin both vehicles and place him under arrest. >> reporter: the arrest ended a manhunt that stretched up the east coast from washington to brooklyn, new york. daron wint has a long nine-year criminal record with at least six assault charges. reports say three of which led to convictions. in one allegation from 2010 a woman said he threatened her claiming he was good with a knife and later saying "i'm going to come over there and kill you." but wint's criminal record helped break this case. because his dna was on file from
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those prior arrests, analysts were able to match him to skin cells found on a pizza crust at the crime scene. >> we have not ruled out that there are others involved but i can't comment beyond that. >> reporter: police would not say if wint acted alone, but they did say this crime was targeted. wint had worked for savvas savopoulos at the family owned company american iron works. >> we believe there is a connection between this suspect in this case through the business. so right now it does not appear that this was just a random crime. >> reporter: the "washington post" reports this morn argue that during last night's arrest, $10,000 in cash was recovered. later today, the key question after wint's arraignment is whether he invokes his right to remain silent or tells the police whatever he knows about the crime that's horrified the residents of washington for more than a week. >> wyatt, thank you. parts of the southern plains will see more drenching rains
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today. the powerful system could produce severe weather through the holiday weekend. areas from kansas to texas are at the highest risk. drivers in corpus christi waded through floodwaters. some pushed cars to dry grown. vicente arenas is in wichita falls, kansas, with preparations for this weekend. vicente, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the wichita rivers and creeks like these have been rising causing problems for people who live in the area. this place i'm standing in right here is usually bone dry, but now floodwaters have been creeping closer to homes here. as many as 200 houses and pbusinesses are now at risk. texas has been battered flattened, and flooded in recent weeks. cars crept through dangerous floodwaters in corpus christi on thursday. some couldn't quite make it submerged nearly to their roofs. and luckily, no children were on board this school bus in fort worth when it was washed off the road. >> getting ready.
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>> reporter: people here in the north texas community of wichita falls filled sandbags ahead of the seven inches of rain expected this weekend. hundreds have already been asked to evacuate their homes. >> it's just a sense of trying to be as prepared as possible for what's to come. >> reporter: it's a stark contrast from just days ago when the city was in a severe drought. now dozens are staying at red cross shelters to escape the threatening waters. >> are you playing? >> yes. >> reporter: including dee ann lee and her two children. >> i piled everything up on top of beds. some stuff i couldn't get up so if it's ruined it's ruined. >> reporter: watch a falls fire chief john reese fears the same areas left underwater in the summer of 2007 when the river crested at more than 24 feet may be hit again. >> we hope our predictions are wrong but we're anticipating them to be right at 2007 levels or below. >> reporter: as many as 500 people have been told to
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evacuate and they may not be able too return until next week. all eyes are in the sky now. there are more severe storms in the forecast for the weekend. >> vicente, thanks. meteorologist scott padgett of our cbs station ktvt is tracking the severe weather and what you can expect in the west this holiday weekend. scott, good morning. >> good morning. flooding concerns continue going through the whole entire holiday week end in the southern plains. flash flood washes in effect north central texas, the entire state of oklahoma dealing with that flooding concern. for low pressure pulling its way in for possibly two to four inches or more of rain accumulating over very saturated ground. that stretches all the way in to parts of iowa through the holiday weekend. going into saturday along the west coast we'll be nice. temperatures in the mid-60s on saturday, sunday seeing dry conditions, 67 san fran to 67 in l.a. and phoenix about 88 degrees. looking like good barbecue weather on memorial day, mid-60s in san francisco to 56 in l.a. and in penix about 91 degrees
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and dry conditions continue. i know you want to boat. no rain in the forecast. health investigators are racing to pinpoint the source of a dangerous salmonella outbreak linked to raw tuna in sushi. the bacteria made 53 people ill in nine states across the country. more than half of those cases are in southern california. ten people needed hospitalization, no deaths have been reported. it's not clear if the sushi was pre-packaged. most of the victims report eating raw tuna a week before they got sick. isis is taking control of new territory in the middle east. fighters seized a town in iraq less than a week after capturing ramadi. and a monitoring group says the extremists now control the last border crossing between iraq and syria close to palmyra. >> president obama insists the u.s. is not losing the war against isis. in an interview the atlantic he calls the fall of ramadi a
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"tactical setback" and blames poorly trained security forces. this interview took place before isis overran palmyra. new video shows the islamic state fighters patrolling streets. few residents appear to remain. two southern california men described as homegrown violent extremists are headed to court in orange county. one suspect was arrested thursday at los angeles international airport. the second was picked up at an undisclosed location. they're accuse odd of supporting terror organizations overseas. the new attorney general is warning congress this morning american lives are at risk if they do not extend a law letting the government collect cell phone data. the senate is expected to vote on that later today. only on cbs "this morning," loretta lynch sits down with norah o'donnell for her first interview in office. norah is in washington. good morning. >> good morning, miss you guys in new york but we spent the day with attorney general lynch. in fact, we spent an hour with her at the department of justice
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talking with her and she expressed serious concerns about losing some surveillance powers that are now protected by the patriot act. it is a controversial law because it allows the government to collect data on almost every phone call until the u.s. it was recently ruled illegal by a top federal judge. why does the government need that much power? >> i think people view that as a kind of power, and i'm hoping that the more we have discussion on this point the more clarity we can provide to the american people about exactly what we do with that data. what's called metadata. it's information about telephone calls. it's not the content, it's not what's being said it's not the voices that are there. >> but if that law expires on june 1 and you don't have the ability to collect that metadata, information on every phone call in the united states what's your biggest fear. >> well our biggest sfweer that we will lose important eyes on people who have made it clear
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that their mission is to harm american people here and abroad do . >> do you think it makes america less safe? >> i think we run the risk of being less safe. i think we lose important tools. i think we lose the ability to intercept these communications which have proven very important in cases we have built in the past and i'm very concerned that the american people will be unprotected if this law expires. >> and this is an area where lynch has a lot of experience. she's a former top u.s. attorney from new york whose offices tried more terrorism cases since the 9/11 attacks than any other office in the country. she told me she's ready to take on critics who say the law is too invasive but those critics are going in number in congress and the courts, the right of the government to collect sweeping amounts of data on americans is being challenged. charlie, she told me about that and much more including how she had to brief the president on the riots in baltimore less than six hours after being sworn into office. we'll have more in the next
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hour. >> norah o'donnell, thanks, norah. president obama is one step closer to his trade accord that will connect about 40% of the world's economy. the senate voted thursday to end debate on a bill giving the president fast-track authority to negotiate trade deals with pacific-rim nations. the final senate vote on the transpacific partnership treaty could happen today. many democrats oppose the bill. the measure's fate in the house remains uncertain. the state department is set to soon release about 300 of presidential candidate hillary clinton's e-mails. the messages from her private server concern security in libya and the 2012 benghazi attacks when clinton was serving as secretary of state. nancy cordes is on capitol hill and has already seen some of those e-mails. nancy, good morning. >> good morning. if republicans were looking for some kind of benghazi bombshell, they don't exist in this batch of e-mails obtained by the "new york times." but there are still about 500 pages left to be released. and what we do see is that
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clinton was getting a lot of libya intelligence from a source outside the u.s. government. most of the e-mails involved memos sent to clinton from sydney blumenthal, a long time business confidante who had business ties in india and whose insight clinton clearly valued. in april, 2011 for instance blumenthal told her libyan rebels were thinking of hiring private security firms to train and organize their forces. clinton forwarded the memo to a top aide adding "fyi the idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered." blumenthal had worked in the clinton white house, but obama officials blocked his appointment to the state department because of his role as an attack dog during hillary clinton's 2008 campaign. she was asked about him earlier this week. >> she's been a friend of mine for a long time he sent me unsolicited e-mail which is i passed on in some instances and i see that that's just part of
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the give and take. when you're in the public eye and when you're in an official position, you have to work to make sure you're not caught in a bubble. >> reporter: the day after the benghazi attacks that killed four americans blumenthal reported the attacks were inspired by what many devout libyans viewed as a sack ril lidges you internet video on the prophet mohammed. about 18 hours later he mailed again with new analysis. an islamist militia group he wrote had been planning the attacks for approximately one month and simply took advantage of the cover provided by by the demonstrations. clinton forward it had memo to a top advisor saying "we should get this around asap." blumenthal's second take turned out to be correct, though the view never made it into the administration's talking point which is claimed the attack was spontaneous. clinton herself never made that controversial claim in public perhaps, jeff because she was getting back channel intelligence. >> nancy thank you. earlier this morning, a london judge sentenced a local
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cab driver to life in prison for the bombing death of a u.s. soldier in iraq. a jury found him guilty of murder thursday an extraordinary prosecution that stretched across three continents and nearly a decade. elizabeth palmer is at the courthouse in london and was inside for that sentencing. elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. anise sardar showed no reaction at the sentence. he'll be 76 years old before he can even apply for parole. this conviction is the end of a detective story that starts a long way away there london in iraq. ieds, homemade bombs turns iraq's roads into lethal minefields for u.s. soldiers. one of them killed 34-year-old sergeant randy johnson. it exploded right under his armored vehicle in 2007. fast forward eight long years and there's justice forant
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johnson. after a lengthy police investigation bolstered by american cooperation and a dash of luck a london jury convicted anis sardar of murder. >> he's reinvented himself carefully in london since returning as a black cab driver. the reality is he's a terrorist and has been convicted of murder. >> reporter: there's justice, too, for specialist joe bacani wounded trying to recover a bomb sardar built. >> i could feel the sun and my own blood feeling hotter than the sun and i felt like i was losing blood. >> reporter: british police flagged sardar when he came home from iraq in 2007 but not in connection with the iraqi bombs. then in 2012 they raided his home and found a bomb-making manual. but that wasn't enough to charge him. the evidence for that came a year later: ieds, both intact and in pieces had been collected in iraq and shipped
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halfway across the world to the fbi's terrorism explosives lab in virginia. in 2014 bingo, sar darr's prints were lifted from a piece of tape on two bombs that had been planted on the roads west of baghdad. exactly what london police needed for his arrest. the soldiers who served in iraq with sergeant randy johnson actually took the stand here in london to describe the explosion that killed him. it took this british jury just 11 hours to reach a guilty verdict. charlie? >> elizabeth palmer in london thanks. this morning, strong winds and currents are slowing the cleanup of a big oil spill along california's coast. six pelicans and a sea lion are being treated for oil exposure. so far, cleanup crews have collected nearly 10,000 gallons of oily water. the spill is affecting nine miles of the coast near santa barbara. the state closed more than 160 square miles of the ocean to fishing. voters are deciding right
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now in ireland whether to legalize same-sex marriage. a referendum would amend the country's constitution giving marriage rights to gay people. ireland could become the first nation to overturn a same-sex marriage ban by popular vote. the country's deep roots in roman catholicism but some priests have said they support the amendment. new echoes of the cold war. we are with nato over europe to see why some u.s. allies are growing more concerned about the military threat from russ
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your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. good morning. it's 7:26. i'm frank mallicoat. here's what's happening around the bay area right now. more than 37 million americans will travel at least 50 miles from home for the big memorial day weekend according to aaa. adding to the traffic in the bay area san mateo bridge closes tonight at 10:00 and reopens monday morning. warriors headed to houston up two games to none in the western conference finals. game two down to the wire at oracle arena. game 3 houston saturday night. straight ahead on "cbs this morning" a thin line between work and life. workers sue their employers for late night calls and emails. a look at the lawsuits that could help define when and when
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good morning. out to vaccination we go. and eastbound 80 by peabody road on-ramp blocked by an accident. no delays on the main lines of the freeway. eastbound 80 in vacaville. the metering lights were finally turned on just 45 minutes ago though over at the bay bridge, the toll plaza, very light traffic heading into san francisco. here's roberta. raindrops on the camera lens looking out towards sfo. we do have a stray shower or two in the forecast today. it's all wraparound moisture from the system in the bay area yesterday. we are currently in the 50s and not much movement today. 50s, 60s, a few low 70s inland. we have
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it's what makes a subaru a subaru. >> go, go, go! >> video here from margaret's recent honeymoon in africa. [ laughter ] tourists on a safari in uganda trying to save a lion and her cubs from a group of attacking buffalo. the guide turned the jeep turned the buffalo and forced them away from the cubs. the group honked and screamed as they chased the herd over the savannah. the guy told the tourist he would shoot the buffalo if neeb since the -- need be because the lions are protected. >> that story is a little closer to truth than you think.
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we were in south africa and we weren't intervening on behalf of lions. >> you're safe and everyone there is safe. welcome back to cbs "this morning." russia is flexing its military muscle in eastern europe. its aircraft applying dangerously close to u.s. allies. we're in the air to see how nato is responding. >> plus legal analyst rickkki klieman is on the clock. she says workers should get overtime pay for checking e-mails after hours. the baltimore "sun" says the garage has indicted six baltimore police officers in the death of freddie gray. the six remain free on bail and will be arraigned in july. the officer driving the police van where gray allegedly received his deadly spine injury is accused of second degree murder. that's the most serious charge against the six. the "wall street journal" says egg prices jumped amid the worst bird flu outbreak in u.s. nearly 39 million birds died or have been killed.
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in the past month, prices for wholesale large-shell eggs rose to 85% to $2.20 a dozen in the midwest. part of the problem, the egg industry is concentrated in the hands of a few producers. the "washington post" says robert gates, the president of the boy scouts of america, is calling for an end to a ban on gay leaders. gates, the former defense secretary, is recommending local scouting groups be allowed to decide whether to allow them. he says the status quo is no longer acceptable. the organization is examining its policies. >> the arkansas democrat gazette says josh dugger from the reality show "19 kids and counting" resigned from the family research council following reports he was investigating for molesting underage girls when he was a teenager. tlc aired a "19 kids and counting marathon" amid the allegations. in a statement yesterday josh duggar who is now 27 said he's extremely sorry, he says he confessed to his parents 12 years ago and they helped him address the situation then.
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the "new york times" says hundreds of volunteers joined new york city employees to educate manicurists about their rights and health. officials say information was handed out to workers at more than a thousand nail salons on thursday. a "new york times" investigation had exposed widespread worker abuses and serious health problems in the industry. this morning there's growing concern among united states allies in europe about the threat from russia. nato members from estonia, latvia and lithuania are so worried about possible russian aggression they want the alliance to permanently station three battalions of troops in their countries. holly williams got a closeup look at the threat. she's in brussels. holly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we flew with nato fighter jets from an air base in lithuania. they are intercepting more and more russian fight withers fighters bombers and surveillance aircraft flying too close for comfort to european airspace.
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nato euro fighters and f-16s armed with heat-seeking illmissile cans be air born in just 15 minutes. the russian planes they intercept try to stay invisible by turning their transponders off. we watched the nato pilots drill from a military transport aircraft. last year, they did this for real in the baltic states more than 150 times, a nearly fold-fold increase on 2013. if the nato fighter jets don't intercept and identify the russian military aircraft, the fear is they could cause a crash with a commercial airliner. general phillip breedlove is nato's supreme allied commander in europe. it's cold war style behavior isn't it? probing nato's air defenses testing what the west will do? >> let's put it this way, it's
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certainly not the kind of behavior you would see between two partners. >> reporter: and nor is this. in ukraine last year russia seized crimea and gave military backing to armed rebels in the country's east. if russia did what it's done in ukraine to a nato ally in eastern europe how would nato respond? >> nato is committed to defending its allies. >> reporter: you would go to war with russia? >> we will defend any nato nation who is attacked by any nation. >> reporter: if nato decides to permanently deploy three battalions of ground troops to the baltic states, that will undoubtedly anger russia which already accuses the west of interfering in its neighboring countries and encroaching on russian interests. margaret? >> holly williams in brussels thank you. our jobs can keep many of us glued to our smart phones even when we were officially off the clock. the issue is at the center of a
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lawsuit and possible legislation regarding overtime pay. >> in a pew research poll 39% of workers say smart phones have made their working hours more flexible but 35% say they're also putting in longer hours. cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman is here. rikki, good morning. >> good morning. >> what does the law say about overtime having to do with e-mails? >> well when we have overtime rules from the federal labor standards act, what we say is that if you're making less than $24,000 a year at that point you are eligible for overtime. and what that really means is there is a small group of people who can say, look i don't care if you offer me a smart phone or a tabtablet ultimately even though it's yours when i'm off the clock, i'm off the clock. so what is happening now is because tablets and smart phones are ubiquitous and that employers have just started to think, well, you know we can send you an e-mail we can send
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you a text and we expect you to answer it and so now the law will be changing. as always, the law follows technology. now, if you're on a wealth track, if you're someone on the executive track, of course you're going to answer your e-mails and answer your texts, it would be unthinkable not to. but if you're someone at the poverty line you may have a second job. you're a family of four you've got to feed your children. so the idea that late at night that you have to answer these e-mails or texts is a problem. >> but that's where it gets confusing here. because you can be technically a manager and be making a salary that doesn't necessarily put you above that benchmark. >> indeed you're correct. it's one of the issues of course, that has come forward with some of these cases. the easiest case i can give you is this. at the time of blackberries, when they were so available to employees, t-mobile had a lawsuit. what did t-mobile do? astounding. they had their customer service people service people in the store, give them a card that
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t-mobile approved with their cell phone number so you would say "hi, i'm rikki, i hope you like my service. if you have a problem, please call me." so i obviously they were getting calls late at night from customers. what did t-mobile do? exactly the right thing. they settled the case. now we have a new case that could be precedent-setting. you have a chicago police officer, a sergeant who has said even though he's in the organized crime unit a very elite unit look i'm expected to answer these calls at all hours of the night. well some of us might say, hey, you're a cop, you're on duty 24/7. but what he's saying is overtime is overtime. i get paid for eight hours a day or ten or 12 depending on your shift, this is still overtime that should be paid. if this case goes to trial this summer, this could be precedent-setting all around the country. >> but the white house doesn't want to raise the threshold for earning overtime right? how does that work? >> they want to raise the
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threshold to somewhere in the vicinity of $50,000 to $55,000 a year. what have that will mean is approximately 88% of workers who are not covered now will be covered and can ask for overtime. that's a big deal. >> we love overtime with rikki klieman. thank you. >> i wish i had it. a patient in los angeles can do things he never dreamed of when he became paralyzed from the neck down. next, how a ground breaking procedure lets him control an artificial arm with his thoughts. and if you're just heading off to work set your dvr so you can watch cbs "this morning" any time. we will be bright back on a friday morning. us any time. we'll be right back on a friday morning.
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smooth as real arm. elaine quijano of our digital cbsn has more. >> now this life-saving technology has given him the freedom he never thought he'd have again. eric never imagined he would be able to do this again or this. >> i want to jump around and high five everyone because we knew it worked. >> reporter: paralyzed from the neck down after being shot 134 years ago, soto can think about a movement in his mind and make it happen effortlessly. this doctor performed brain surgery on him two years ago. he implanted a pair of electrode electrodes in the region of the brain where the initial intent was done where it had never been done before. >> seeing if these were, in fact the right area. >> reporter: two chips in soto's
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brains are connected to wires and a series of motions to move the prosthetic arm. until now technology has only made jerky movements. >> you don't think about the muscles and joints. you think i want to pick up that glass of water. >> reporter: soto is the first in the world to have the new prosthetic device. the 34-year-old was able to pick up and drink a beer on his own. >> i want to be able to brush my own teeth, yeah. that would be -- that's the next goal in. >> reporter: two other patients also joined the clinical trial. researches hope to develop additional implants that could initiate touch sensation in paralyzed patients. >> what's the breakthrough one more time? >> the difference is before the near real prosthetics would go to the part of the brain that would operate the muscles.
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you'd have to say, now move your hand to the right, move it forward, pick up the beer bottle. now you can say pick up the beer bottle and move it to my mouth. now it's a lot smoother. you're not thinking in those kinds of degrees. >> show business moved very quickly. the very quick breakdown of the old "late show with david letterman." ahead, we'll show you who w
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dismantling the stage on thursday. i think jeff glor was there along with the dumpster divers. >> all day. i stepped away from the set for a few hours. >> ebay, is that what you're doing? >> i'll given you a discount. letterman said he doesn't have any need to hang onto anything physical. >> somebody said do you want the desk? really? what would i do with the desk? the tangible things don't mean anything to me really. it's the music and the acts and on and on and on. it's a thing. and your life is more than a thing, isn't it? more than 14 million viewers watched his finale more than any friemtime show on thursday night. >> somebody made this point. it's called show business.
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your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. good morning, it's 7:56. i'm michelle griego. a moderate earthquake jolted the bay area last night. the 4.1 magnitude quake struck just before 8 p.m. it was centered six miles northeast of yountville and nine miles north of napa. so far only about a third of the oil spilled along california's central coast has been cleaned up. the company at fault is looking at serious troubles ahead. and it's not the first time the plains all american pipeline has had problems with leaking pipelines. rebooting your body. on "cbs this morning" millions of american tried so-called detox solutions. but are they doing more harm
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san leandro northbound 880 at marina a multi-car crash blocking two lanes. you can see how solid it is right now from highway 92. it's also affecting the ride on northbound 238. trying to get on the nimitz freeway. here's a look at a traffic alert right now. still happening in vacaville this "sig alert" is on the peabody on rain to eastbound 80 to be closed for five hours to remove an overturned big rig. that's "kcbs traffic." here's roberta. i have been sharing with everyone this live weather camera. we have raindrops on the camera lens with stray showers in the forecast today under mostly cloudy skies and a few breaks in the cloud cover, as well. temperatures in the 50s all morning long the winds out of the west up to 12 miles per hour in san francisco. later today, southwest 10 to 20 miles per
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good morning to our viewers in the west. it is friday may 22 2015. welcome back to "cbs this morning." more world news ahead, including an interview with loretta lynch. why the nation's top prosecutor says her mother is tougher than she is. first a look at the eye opener at 8. the prime suspect is under arrest and will be arraigned of charges of first degree murder. >> this place i'm standing in right here is usually bone dry but now floodwaters have been
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creeping closer to home. >> home grown extremists are headed to orange county. >> serious concerns about losing some surveillance power. >> i'm very concerned that the american people will be unprotected. >> if americans were looking for a benz bombshell, they don't exist in this batch of e-mails. >> the theory is they could cause a crash with a commercial airliner. >> hundreds of documents seized from osama bin laden's compound. among the many items they found was a job application for al qaeda. how bad must it feel to not get the job with al qaeda? i'm sorry, we just don't feel you're terrorist material at this time.
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i'm charlie rose gayle king is off, nora will join us again in a moment from washington. the manhunt is over for the person wanted in a disturbing quadruple murder in washington, d.c. cameras captured the moments police picked up daron dylan wint last night. two women traveling with him were also arrested. >> he's charged with first degree murder of savos and amy savopolous. >> loretta lynch is the first black woman to lead the justice department. she spoke with norah o'donnell about police and african-americans. nora joins us. >> this was the attorney general's first interview since
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taking office four years ago. it was almost half a year before the senate confirmed her, longer than any nominee in three decades. once sworn in she quickly made up for lost time. your first day on the job you were dealing with what was going on in baltimore. >> yes, yes. >> within a couple of hours, had you an unscheduled meeting with the president of the united states about what to do next. >> people asked me about that and said you had to immediately deal with those issues. that's true. people have been dealing with that, that's true. >> we've had cleveland, we've had north charleston. what's going on in this country? >> you succeed in some cities and the resulting publicity has highlighted incidences of tension and frustration and negative relationships that have gone on for a while. you'll talk to community leaders who will say we've been tell uging you this for years but no one
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was listening. it's hard to say whether it's a new phenomenon or no one was listening to it. >> is it individual racism or do you think it's institutional racism? >> you know i think that when you look at america and for all of its glory and all the wonderful things that it acheers, it's clear we still have issues involving race. >> loretta grew up with issues involving race. her mother had a back bone of steel in the segregated south. i've read that you said she's tougher than you are. >> oh, yes, oh yes. before we were even born she would tell me my dad would go from church to clutch doing revivals or meetings and would drive to get to various places and she would go to a small
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rural gas stations and she would refuse to use the colored rest room. she said she got to a point where she decided she wasn't going to do it anymore. >> what did you learn from your mother? >> that can you make a difference very quietly and it's the choices you mack and things that you're willing to accept and not accept to define who you are. for her, i don't think it was a major moment. i think she looked at the situation and said this isn't right and i'm not going to do it anymore. this is not the america i was brought up to believe if and it's not the america i want to raise my children in. >> lynch became her high school valedictorian. she wasn't to go to harvard and that's where she went. you were mistaken in court a lot for the court reporter? >> that happened a lot.
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others will always seek to define you based on who they think you represent or who you think you are. you have to be the one to do what you do and what you say. you can't control how others think about you. >> but that's how many blacks feel, that they're not treated who they are even today by law enforcement. >> i think a lot of people people that way, many young black people feel that way and older black people may feel that way as well. when i talk to police officers about their concern, they too, talk about how people don't see them as individuals, they see the uniforms first and not as individuals. i point out that's often the same thing that the protesters are saying. people are saying the same thing. everyone wants to be seen. everybody wants to be heard. everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or image. >> it's just that kind of approach that the attorney general wants her office to
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take. she is trying to change the tone of how she deals with the law enforcement community and even members of congress. there's one bit of experience that suggests she could be successful. we found out very early in her career she actually interned for us at cbs. >> well there you go. >> what did she do? >> that and she's from north carolina. >> i know from north carolina. there's so many interesting things about her biography. he used to take her to rallies on civil rights, took her to the courtroom to listen to cases. just a really interesting biography. you can notice her tone too. she really has a very relaxed tone and she trying to change and work on the relationship between law enforcement and communities. >> the remarkable thing for me is how well spoken she is. all of that remarkable experience but her command of language and expression is truly
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stunning. >> she's one of the best prosecutors in the country. >> nora thank you. >> thank you, guys. >> we want to share with you an important new exhibit opening this morning in washington. it honors the journalists who covered the vietnam war. >> so i said to the cab driver take my to saigon to where he responded, "you in saigon." i come all the way to vietnam and i couldn't find the war. i didn't know where it was. >> that was a panel of legendary reporters, including bob schieffer, peter arnett and david kennerly who sat down for an interview with me about vietnam. it features the coverage of vietnam. the exhibit will run until september next year. vip to say with vietnam in particular, you hear this idea that the media was in some way an actor, not just an observer.
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and the stories on that panel and the reporting in there is just -- it's really important to see. and on sunday on "face the nation," bob schieffer is going to take another look back with those panelists and not only peter arnett laura palmer, david kennerly but our only bill plante and will talk also with john mccain. >> could two weeks change the wa
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juicing, cleansing and fad diets may not be the best way to reboot your body. samantha heller is the author of "the only cleanse." she's a registered dietician and exercise physiologist. good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> i feel like you open the magazines and you see a million different types of cleanses and the like. you say there's only one way to go with it. >> the only cleanse you need is the one with which you were born. you don't need to fast or juice or do potions. your body kneesows how to detox 24/7. your body's job is to keep you alive, maintain that inner balance in the body. our job is to support our body's ability to do that not to scare our body by starving it and
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taking crazy, potions and pills. our job is to say, hey, body, let me help you keep us alive and healthy. >> so this amounts to sort of a vegan diet. >> it's a 14-day vegan diet with the exception of honey. >> some people just don't know how to do that. the research is very clear eating a lot of animals foods increases the risk for a lot of chronic diseases like cancer and heart disease. >> what can't do you? >> no meat no fish no poultry, no alcohol, as little highly processed food as possible right? >> there's no way. it's not going to happen. he's charlie rose. >> it's also flexible. i had someone who did the plan and said i can't give up my morning cup of coffee.
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i said that's fine. and there's a mind-body connection, too. you have to have a mind that's healthy and detox our negative thoughts. it's a holistic approach to being as healthy as possible. >> "the only cleanse" goes on sale on tuesday. >> i'm erin moriarty "48 hours." it's an unusual case. a man is convicted twice for killing his wife. both verdicts are overturned. now a third jury is deadlocked. will there be a fourth trial? that story is coming up on "cbs this morning." >> cbs morning rounds sponsored by gilead gilead proud sponsor of hepatitis awareness month. cbs "morning rounds" sponsored by gilead. proud sponsor of hepatitis awareness month. after all there may be no symptoms for years. no wonder you try to
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how many times can one man be tried for murder. cal harris was convicted twice in the killing of his wife michelle. both convictions were thrown out. he goes on trial again. erin moriarty covers the latest on a case she began covering a decade ago. they were in the middle of a bitter divorce in 2001 when her minivan was discovered at the ended of the family's upstate new york driveway in the morning after the world trade center
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attack. >> the minute i got the phone call that she didn't come home i knew shehe did something to her. >> reporter: michelle's body was never recovered but they found everyday of her assault. specks of her blood in the harris kitchen and garage and family and friends said he acted suspiciously after she disappeared. >> he said i want you to take everything out of michelle's out of this house and you can have a garage sale. he never once said what do you think happened to michelle. as a matter of fact, he never looked me in the face once. >> reporter: cal harris went on trial first in 2007 and then in 2010. he was convicted both times but those guilty verdicts were thrown out. just before he was tried a third time, he sat down with "48 hours." what has that been like for the last 13 years? >> it's been horriblet just horrible. it's been a nightmare. i've been ripped way from my
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kids three times now. >> don't like the fact of knowing we could lose him again. >> did you have anything to do with the disappearance of your wife? >> absolutely not. >> did you kill her in. >> not even close. >> his third trial began in february. the new jury heard from some of the same people including this defense witness who has always said he thought he saw a woman resembling michelle arguing an unidentified man on the harris driveway before she disappeared. >> i have always said i cannot be 100% sure. >> reporter: but this time kevin tubb said he was sure and identified this photo of a friend of michelles as the man he saw. but would it be enough to persuade a jury? there was reasonable doubt and acquit cal. the jury deliberated for 11 days
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before sending word to the judge. the seven men and five women were hopelessly deadlocked forcing the judge to declare a mistrial. >> wi got closer to justice but we're not there yet. >> erin's here yet. why were these two convictions overturned? >> he came forward right after the very first conviction saying i saw a woman who looked like michelle at the end of the driveway and that would have been a time when the husband could not have killed her. i should point out i didn't get to mention the piece. there's going to be furkt trial. i'm sorry i'm going to be covering it, but it's been almost 14 years with these four trials. >> but it's dismissed because -- >> well because in this case the jury just couldn't reach a decision. >> on this mistrial? >> on this mistrial. the judge told them not to talk to anybody, but i may have gotten what the split was.
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i think we may a pi of someone we may know. he told me the split was 7/5 your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. good morning. it's 8:25. time for news headlines here. today chp is expected to release its findings in last year's fiery crash in or land between a fedex truck and tour bus on highway 5. the bus was packed with teens about to check out humboldt state. 10 people killed, 39 others injured. more than 37 million americans will travel 50 miles from their home for memorial day weekend. that's according to aaa. adding to the traffic here in the bay area, san mateo bridge will be closed at 10:00 tonight as they make repairs. and coming up on "cbs this morning," an end to cold war diplomacy. the u.s. taking steps to
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restore relations with cuba. why american tourists still face challenges, though, traveling to it the island country. [♪♪] ♪ i'm gettin' out ♪ ♪ i'm gettin' out ♪ ♪ i'm gettin' out ♪ ♪ gonna have a look around ♪ ♪ now is the time ♪ ♪ i started flyin' ♪ ♪ both feet off of the ground ♪ ♪ head in the sky ♪ ♪ eyes open wide ♪ ♪ happy to look around ♪
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♪ (music throughout) ♪ sfx: (smash) sfx: (roar) ♪♪ sfx: (roar) sfx: (engine roars) good morning. if you are a bart rider we have an update for you. they cleared that obstruction on the tracks it was near the rockridge stop. but they are still saying about 15-minute delays along that pittsburg-bay point line. traffic is so light this morning at the bay bridge they turned the metering lights on late and turned them off again about a half-hour ago.
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so no delay into san francisco. we also got the "all clear" from an earlier wreck multi- vehicle crash northbound 880 at marina. it's still a little slow coming from hayward but this is the worst hot spot southbound 880 at auto mall heading into fremont. another multi-vehicle wreck big delays from 84. that's "kcbs traffic." here's roberta. it looks threatening in the san jose area right now. good morning, everyone. take a peek at this. it's looking out towards the san jose area. and you see that we have mostly cloudy skies. we have a couple of stray showers around sfo this morning. temperatures in the 50s. livermore just shot to 61 degrees. you might have seen a change there on your screen. west winds up to 8 miles per hour in napa. otherwise rotating to the southwest 10 to 20 miles per hour today. numbers in the 50s at the beaches, 60s bayside today low 70s inland. and then here comes your memorial holiday. we are talking about temperatures pretty much near normal for this time of the year all the way through monday. again, looking at san jose, mostly cloudy skies, a stray
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♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ ♪ ♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour the world's newest vacation hot spot you didn't see coming. cuba is scrambling to embrace a wave of american tourists, that is if you can even get there. peter greenberg shows us what it will take to cut through the red tape. >> plus the wife of american sniper chris kyle how she found peace after struggling through grief. a personal tribute on this memorial day weekend. >> right now it's time to show you this morning's headlines.
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the "new york times" reports even though you may not live in california, you could be contributing to the state's drought. california is a major grower of the country's produce. farmers need 6 gallons of water to produce a third of an egg, more than 16 gallons for 16 almonds and 143 gallons of water to produce four glasses of milk. >> research found an ancient wolf bone in siberia. dna suggests the ancestors of modern day dogs split from wolves as many as 24,000 years earlier than previously thought. >> and taylor swift's "bad blood" smashed the record reviews on vivo. fans watched the action-packed video more than 20 million times in just 24 hours. charlie and i are responsible for at least 150 of those.
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vivo says all the videos on the service have a total of 5 billion. >> could not get enough. >> love the red hair too, in that video, don't we? >> yes. >> t >> video than we normally -- >> she has a rocket launcher. >> okay. >> she does. >> actually you have it worse than i do. >> moving on. >> moving on next week cuba is supposed to come off the u.s. black list of states that sponsor terrorism. it's expected to jump start the path to normalized relations. but if you're thinking of rearranging your summer travel plans, peter greenberg shows you how the island might still be a world away. >> ever since president obama said he wanted to reestablish diplomatic relations with cuba, more and more americans have been clamoring to get there.
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and while cuba has been welcoming more visitors it can be more than they can handle. >> reporter: business is picking up. >> today the united states of % america is changing its relationship with the people of cuba. >> reporter: after president obama acted to removal certain travel restrictions in december more americans are looking to see what they've been missing for half a century. >> it's close. but -- dating back to the 1600s. >> after 14 years of trying to overturn the cuba travel ban in congress senator jeff flake is seeing brighter skies. >> with scheduled air service coming soon, it's really going to blow it open and that's a good thing. >> reporter: but on this island nation where cars predate the embargo, cubans may have trouble meeting the demand. >> we're hearing a lot of
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planning. right now it's early days. >> reporter: tim murphy is general counsel for mastercard. americans can now start swiping, if you can find a terminal. >> it will take a little time for the large scale tourism to open up because so much infrastructure needs to be built and developed. >> that includes better financial services roads and a lot more places to stay. with many of cuban residents are renting space in their own homes. until more can be involved the country remains ripe for the cruise lines and they've quietly chartered 11 viable harbors. >> the cruise lines will go in first more than likely. >> well, they have some of that now but right now until the law is changed, they can't go. they can't go because if you're
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on a cruise ship i think it's safe to say your primary purpose is tourism. >> that's right. despite last month's handshake between president obama and cuban president raul castro and a deal broker then blessed by none other than the pope being a traditional tourist in cuba is still illegal for americans. >> it's never technically been illegal to travel in cuba it's just illegal to spend money in cuba. as soon as you arrive you pay some kind of airport fee or something else and so you've violated the ban. like the minnesota orchestra did last week when they became the first american orchestra to perform since the president moved to normalize relations. whether you play an instrument or not americans must qualify in one of 12 categories to be licensed for travel which
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includes family visits religious or educational activities and humanitarian projects. >> we've introduced the freedom to travel act, which would just say let's get rid of this facade and allow any american to travel to cuba for any purpose. >> reporter: even with travel restrictions still in place -- >> i would be very surprised if by the end of this you are fastening your seat belts. >> don't fasten your seat belts just yet. as for hotels no one is talking yet because they still are v a lot of claims. while they're not expecting a lot of money from their settlement, they're expecting land. with land they can build
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unique service member, chris kyle. he was america's deadliest sniper. she writes to her husband in this installment of "note to self." >> there's so much i could tell you you're going to experience joy jond your wildest dreams and a grief so terrible you'll be sure it will break you. i wish i could keep you from the pain but life isn't like that. when you're in your early 20s, you will meet a man who will change your life. his name is chris kyle. he'll be strong physically and emotionally, with the gentlest voice.
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he'll have a tremendous smile and a sense of humor that will match yours. the two of you will fall madly in love and decide to spend the rest of your lives together. chris is a united states navy seal. he believes in god, country and family just like you do. he'll serve four tours in iraq. >> your mother and i would like to bless you with honesty. >> even so he'll find a way to be by your side when you give birth to two perfect children, a boy and a girl. you will be so proud of him. as a father and a war hero.
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>> when i'm gone you can look at the tape. >> but every time he leaves for deployment, it will be a challenge. every time you say good-bye to him, you'll fear the worst. then finally he'll come home. things will seem perfect. >> give me a hug? i love you. >> until one day when a horrible, terrible, very long day ay, the worst will happen when you least expect it. >> kyle, who was 38 was killed over the weekend at a firing range in texas.
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>> chris kyle was the deadliest sniper in u.s. history. >> i stand before you a broken woman, but i am now and always will be the wife of a man who was a warrior, both on and off the battlefield. >> it's not going to be easy. in the end you'll reach deep inside yourself to find the strength to carry through. try and remember these things as you go on your journey. you like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. it doesn't make you weak. at some of the most important times of your life you will fight against fate. you won't be able to expect that you are on a path that will eventually lead you to happiness.
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like a lot of women, you know how important your friends are. go to them homemade their hands. in your darkest moment of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst. last but not least, enjoy every moment you can. when the dark days come many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. it will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes. sometimes you will think you can't take it another day, but if you hang in there one step at a time you'll be able to accomplish more than you ever imagined. good luck taya.
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may god bless you always. >> on this memorial day, we remember that men and women like chris kyle have kept us free and that when they went to war, their family went with them. >> it's hard to watch that because i think everyone has such empathy for watching you know, just -- >> because we feel like we got to know him because of his book and the movie. >> and watching him with his children. >> i'm not sure what tlels iselse there is to say. she said it all. >> up next the most unforgettable moments of the week. you're watching "cbs this morning." atching "cbs this morning."
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a great colleague of ours. >> good to have you two with us. as we leave you we take look back at the week that was. have a great weekend. >> we got to a situation where we could successfully take him % down. >> we have not ruled out there are others involved but i can't comment. >> there is oil all over the sands. the pipeline has been shut off but the cleanup and recovery is just beginning. >> do you reget gret the way the clinton foundation has handled the funds. >> i'm so proud of the foundation. >> i'm walking on part of a roof that was peeled off an apartment building. >> isis is still pushing forward. >> we need to change the rules of engagement for our troops. >> more than 100 injuries. >> takata has refused to acknowledge that the airbags are defective. >> traveled the world. >> if i want to purchase a $65 million plane, you not stop me.
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>> we geesht at least two down. >> first lady michelle obama getting hard core at the jimt. >> this is such a good night. what even. god. >> want a shot? >> i just did the letterman show, went to dinner had birthday wine. i think you're doing great. >> we are excited, very excited to bring you the new one world observatory. >> can you imagine we're 102 stories. >> you literally see the curvature of the earth. >> i'm not trying to think how high, but it is gorgeous. >> all of a sudden we're at the top. >> wow. empire state building. >> it looks small. >> how long was it between the time you met her and you thought, oh my god. >> i'll tell you it happened pretty quickly.
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she kept saying oh my god and wow. i said listen i've been on my knee now for about 28 minutes. i've got to get an answer out of this. >> they were holding hands during dinner. this is the way it is then i want to be married. >> dragged along the track. and the way this is constructed, you're going to be fine. >> i think i'm proof of that right here. i'm often told you're not going to ask us to get naked but then they're naked. >> how does that happen? >> i don't know. >> i think there's a lot of other memmen who would like to know the answer though that. >> he took my mouth and [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. i'm embarrassed reading that. >> can you given a special reading to charlie later? >> no. i'm a married woman. >> can you make up for -- can you tell them you're busy? who's calling you? it's a 516 number. he's busy. >> we hope to have gayle with us shortly. >> gayle has been on the road
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ok simon what do people wear? clothes. that's right, so it's important to learn how to dress yourself. here's how it's done. shirt, underwear, pants, socks, shoes. underwear always first nametag on the back, then pants, then shirt. go ahead and put this on. now with the shirt you want to make sure the first button's right or you have to start all over again, ok? socks, left on left, right on right. tying the shoes, we're going to take the laces, we're going to cross them over we're going to turn them around where the bunny goes down the hole, pull it tight and bunny ears, got it? [announcer] most parenting is hard to do in just 2 minutes.
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good morning. we have been watching an injury crash and car fire in the altamont pass. it looks like the car fire is now out. the grass fire is being dealt with. westbound 580 approaching the north flynn exit. you can see some delays from the 205 split but again it is still really much lighter than normal. the volume of traffic is way down this morning. 16 minutes and all lanes are
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you won a car! (screams) you're going to miami! (giggling): man, how you doing? jonathan: it's a designer watch. (screams) - you're so beautiful. - i'm going to go for the big deal! jonathan: it's time for “let's make a deal”. now here's tv's big dealer wayne brady. wayne: hey, everybody, welcome to “let's make a deal.” what's up, america. i'm wayne brady. here we go who wants to make a deal? (cheers and applause) the lady elf, melinda, come here, melinda. let's get it started, melinda. melinda. - oh my god! wayne: welcome to the show. you're the first one it's all you. - can i have a hug? wayne: yeah.
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