>> captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, to "cbs this m" ben carson ignites controversy with comments about how he would stop a mass shooting. the republican presidential candidate is in studio 57 to respond. more dams on the verge of collapse in south carolina after historic flooding. vagegas casinos replacing st machines with games of skill. first, your world in 90 seconds. >> of course it is the person behind the gun. guns don't kill people. >> dr. ben carson faces down a

wave of criticism. >> carson isn't backing away from controversial comments. >> i would say, hey, guys, everybody attack me, he may shoot me but he can't get us all. >> the fbi has interrupted four attempts. >> 17 people have lost their lives in south and north carolina. for more than 400,000 people, weather is entering. >> the bombing of a hospital that killed 22 people was a mistake according to the commander in afghanistan. >> the coast guard still in an active search for survivors of el faro. >> without draft kings or fan duel, the only conversations during football would be mathy mcconaughey driving around talking to himself. >> a man trying to get away from

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welcome to "cbs this morning." ben carson is lighting up the gun control debate with controversial comments on mass shootings. the gop presidential candidate says he would sacrifice his life if he were face-to-face with a gunman. he said he would rather see a body with bullet holes than gun control. >> carson claimed he would want his child's kindergarten teacher to be armed. his reaction to last week's shooting at an oregon college sets him apart from his republican rivals. julianna goldman has more. >> reporter: less than a week after the shooting, presidential candidates have been addressing gun control and mental health issues. but ben carson's latest comments defending the right to bear arms may be the most controversial. >> i would ask everybody to attack the gunman. because he can only shoot one of us at a time. that way we won't all be dead.

>> the accusation is that you're tone deaf and seem callous. >> no, i'm laughing at them. >> who? >> the question asking that question. of course, you know, if everybody attacks that gunman, he's not going to be able to kill everybody. but if you sit there and let him shoot you one by one, you're all going to be dead. when asked if he was judging the victims, carson said he was looking at the big picture. >> i'm not judging them at all. but these incidents continue to occur. i doubt that this will be the last one. >> reporter: he also appeared on abc's "the view" where he reiterated kindergarten teachers should be armed with guns in the classroom. >> you're obviously not going to have weapons sitting on the teacher's desk. >> where would it be? >> secured where the teacher could get to it. >> how fast could the students get to the locked draw to get the gun?

>> i want that teacher trained in diversiona arary tactics and whatever needs to be done. >> reporter: carson stated that even his experience as a doctor removing bullets from victims has reinforced his belief in the second amendment. he wrote, there is no doubt that senseless violence is breathtaking, but i never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away. other republican candidates staunchly oppose stricter gun laws. >> we don't have a gun problem. we have a problem with sin and evil. this is an evil thing, when people kill another person. and it happens way too often. >> stuff happens. there's always a crisis. and the impulse is always to do something. >> reporter: in iowa, democratic candidate hillary clinton mocked jeb bush's remark. >> this is not stuff happens. we let it happen. and we have to act. >> reporter: president obama is going to oregon to console

victims' families later this week. some protests are expected. and carson was asked if he would do the same as the president. gayle, he responded, probably not, and suggested it would be politicizing the tragedy. >> julianna, thank you. dr. ben carson will join us in studio 57 in our next hour. we'll ask him how he's responding to the uproar over those remarks on the mass shootings. that's ahead. a new poll contains positive news for ben carson in three swing states. numbers from quinnipiac university show he's in strong second place behind front return donald trump in pennsylvania, florida, and ohio, among republican voters. democrat hillary clinton is maintaining her lead in those same states among democratic voters. in national polls she has lost ground to bernie sanders. on the "late show" last night, president clinton explained the surge to stephen colbert. >> a lot of people all over the world are hacked off that they think the system is rigged against them and the rich get

all the gains. >>. this morning, a new report says hillary clinton hired a data system in 2013 that may have automatically kept copies of clinton's deleted e-mails in cloud storage. silence the associated press reports authorities working with the fbi stopped another attempt by russian-linked smugglers to sell radioactive material to terror groups. it's the fourth try in eastern europe in five years to sell materials needed for a dirty bomb. the latest case was in february when someone tried to sell it to a buyer allegedly from isis. our margaret brennan reports president obama and vice president biden will talk with secretary of state john kerry about which steps the u.s. will take next. we're hearing this morning that russia carried out another wave of air strikes in syria. syrian activists say areas near

the russian heartland were struck. holly williams has more from istanbul. >> reporter: good morning. syrian regime troops launched a ground assault today backed by intense russian air strikes and targeting syrian opposition forces. russian air strikes have pounded syria for a week. russia joined the syrian conflict, saying it would target isis. but many of the locations moscow said it's hit are not in areas controlled by isis militants. with war planes and helicopter gun ships, the u.s. says what moscow is really doing is propping up the syrian regime by attacking its opponents, including some groups linked to al qaeda, but also moderate rebels who are supported by america. a syrian monitoring group says russian air strikes are killing dozens of civilians.

but as if to refute that claim, russia released this drone video which it says shows the russian military carefully tracking but not targeting isis vehicles as they park beside a mosque. russian media also broadcast this video with a commander showing what he claimed were two accurate hits on isis ammunition depots. meanwhile, neighboring turkey, which is a nato member and a key u.s. ally, says russian war planes have twice violated its airspace. nato chief jens stoltenberg called on russia to avoid escalating tensions. >> this is exactly what we were afraid of, that incidents, accidents, may create dangerous situations. >> reporter: with russia seeming to reassert itself as a

superpower, its behavior is angering the u.s. and its allies. >> holly williams in istanbul, thank you so much. this morning doctors without borders is demanding an independent investigation into a u.s.-led air strike on a hospital in afghanistan. general campbell on tuesday described the attack as a mistake. >> we would never intentionally target a protected medical facility. >> 22 people died and dozens were hurt in saturday's attack. doctors without borders calls the bombing a war crime. recovery efforts are beginning this morning in parts of the south ravaged by historic flooding. the rain has stopped there but there is extensive damage in south carolina. more dams are on the verge of collapsing. david begnaud is in columbia where more evacuations may be required. david, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we've just confirmed with officials here in the come colu

south carolina area. beaver dam is reportedly stable after tons of rock were dumped there. about 72 hours ago, the arcadia lakes dam here collapsed. the bridge collapsed and the dam failed. the water went rushing downriver. it was dangerous, then turned deadly. video from this drone shows the damage to some of conclusouth carolina's dams, following the unprecedented storm. 11 dams have failed. more are in jeopardy. in richland county, where there was concern that beaver dam would be the latest to fail, people were told tuesday they may need to evaluate. >> we have people on the ground assessing it literally as we go. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: we were with angela cole and her partner craig as they entered their home together

for the first time since sunday's flooding. >> oh, my god. this is sick. >> reporter: most everything they have is soaked in mud. >> oh, my god. this is just -- >> reporter: as the water rose in their home, the family climbed to their attic. they called 911, but two hours passed and no help. cole posted a plea on facebook, if anyone has' boat, please help, i have two children, one with special needs, she wrote. did you think that you and your family were going to die? >> oh, yeah. i did. >> reporter: you honestly did? >> honestly. when i saw the water coming up, yes. >> and finally he just banged a hole through the side of the house wall in the attic and we started screaming for help. >> reporter: these three men heard the family's pleas and rushed to their aid. >> i think they thought they

were done for. if we wouldn't have been there 20 more minutes, i don't think they would have had much time left. >> reporter: this picture shows them clutching one of the family dogs while being rescued from the downpour. i can't imagine how helpless that must have felt as a father. >> you feel like you failed them. >> you didn't. you knocked that hole out. and we're here. and we're alive. and that's all that matters. >> reporter: that is one grateful family, which is safe in a hotel room right now. the good news is the sun is out. no rain is expected. but the water is still rising in some places. and there's a story developing right now. early this morning we're told that a driver went around a set of barricades and the vehicle was washed away. three people were rescued but we're told that two people are missing. and the search for them is ongoing. >> david, thanks.

this morning federal investigators are searching for answers in the sinking of the cargo ship el faro. 33 people were on board. overnight family members and friends of the missing crew members gathered in maine for vigil ills. at least four of the 33 crew members are from the state. the coast guard continues to look for survivors. so far it's covered more than 200 square miles in the bermuda triangle. our mark strassmann is in florida. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. investigators will now look for the ship's voyage data recorder to tell them how el faro was operating when it ran into hurricane joaquin. that device transmits its location for 30 days until its battery runs dead. at this point there is no sign of the signal. six days into the search, the coast guard is becoming increasingly pessimistic about finding survivors. carla newkirk's father, 22-year-old larry davis, is one

of the 33 missing. he has been el faro's lookout but has spent the last 20 years working on the water as a merchant marine. >> that's his second home. >> reporter: last thursday, el faro's crew sent out a distress signal. the ship had lost power and propulsion and the eye of hurricane joaquin was bearing down. were you worried? >> no. i wasn't worried. i've heard the stories of him, you know, being in storms out there on the ocean. but, you know, he's always come home. this is the story that i need for him to tell me now. >> reporter: critics, including some families of the missing crew, have questioned captain michael davidson's decision to continue the ship's route into a storm growing stronger. >> those ships certainly have the fuel range cable pable of g around to minimize weather issues. >> you don't go through a hurricane like that and survive.

>> reporter: but carla kinclinin -- clings to hope. >> i know that if god would give a miracle to my family and my father, he's still out there. >> reporter: the u.s. coast guard could decide as soon as today whether to stop the search for survivors. they've scheduled a meeting with families to tell them their thinking. >> mark, thanks. new york's attorney general is looking into whether employees at draftkings and fanduel have an unfair advantag. fanduel says its companies band employees from playing daily fantasy games for money and set up an independent review of its practices. cbs news's legal expert, rikki klieman, is here.

good morning. >> good morning. >> you say this is a smart move by the attorney general? >> really smart. and he got there first. you're hearing noise from representatives and senators all the way up to harry reid that they want to investigate, and the fcc. eric schneiderman is smart. what happened in fantasy football is this. originally it was a year-long game. that didn't seem so harmful. it was exempt from the 2006 unlawful internet gambling enforcement contact, because it was looked at as skill, not as simply chance. but now, what's happened in fantasy football is you can make a lot of money, because it's daily, and it's weekly. so if you're an employee on one of these sites, and you bet on the other site, and just happyo happen to have a good weekend, that smacks of i mpropriety.

we don't like the idea that an employee of one of these sites might have inside information that they can use to their advantage on another site. >> why is there no regulation? >> there was regulation simply because it was exempt. so the industry says, okay, we'll regulate ourselves. well, we know what happens when that occurs. so what everyone else is saying now is like, no, no, no, you can't police yourself, we're going to police you. so it's not going to be anymore that someone who appears to have knowledge can be able to bet on the other sites. i mean, what were they thinking? none of these people should have been able to bet. >> what's going to happen now? >> i think that the danger is fines. the danger is ultimately big time regulation. and if it goes further, the danger could really be indictments. >> rikki klieman, thank you very much. ahead, how sin city is

trying to reinvent itself to attract a new generation of gamblers. >> reporter: i'm ben tracy in las vegas where some people are betting the future of gambling looks a whole lot more like a video game. we'll show you the technology they're hoping will lure,, announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by voya. changing the way you think of retirement.

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the state is now distributing free water filters in the city of flint. the residents are dealing with lead into children's blood after the water source changes through the flint river. the "new york post" reports on a kiss for freedom for a man who served 25 years in prison for a crime he says he didn't commit. johnny hincapie and six other young men were convicted in the 1990 new york city subway murder of a tourist from utah. the judge ordered a new trail saying there was not enough evidence to dismiss the case entirely. michelle miller is here. >> reporter: johnny hand cappy says he was an innocent bystander and police coerced him into admitting to a murder he did not commit. joni hincapie paid his bail and ran into the arms of his parents. now 43, he says he feels

wonderful and free. >> shame on those who had knowledge of what happened to me. but i forgive them. >> reporter: tourist brian watkins was in the subway on september 3rd, 1990 when he was stabbed in the chest after a struggle with at least six teenagers who robbed his father and hit his mother. publications urged the mayor to do something as the city faced a record murder rate. more than 2200 people were killed that year. >> i'm damn angry. of course i am. >> reporter: within 25 hours police rounded up eight suspects including hincapie and he was convicted in 1991. this july, three witnesses came forward to say hincapie was not on the subway platform when the stabbng happened. after a quarter of a century in prison with his family by his side, hincapie celebrated with a seafood dinner where he toasted his future. >> i have plans of my own, but i have to see how seasonable they are, being that the world has

changed after so long. >> the world has definitely changed. hincapie has already served a minimum sentence for murder and his lawyer said while in prison, his client finished high school and earned a bachelor's and harry caray's restaurant in chicago where a big party is already under way. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: charlie, good morning to you, where beer has replaced coffee as the beverage of choice in chicago. it is wildcard wednesday. >> cubs win world series. >> reporter: in back to the

future 2, a world series for the cubs seemed possible only in the movie. >> what did you just say? >> i said i wish i could go back to the beginning of the season and put some money on the cubbies. >> reporter: but outside wrigley field today, a march to a championship seems realistic. bruce levine covers the cubs for cbs radio. it seems like you have good management and good fortune this year for the first time since? >> 1945. >> that was the last time the cubs won the pennant and last won the series in 1908, the longest drought in professional sports. >> it's really weighed down on this town. >> reporter: cubs historian is painfully aware. the cubs were three outs from a world series when steve batterman prevented moises alou from make ago catch. in 1964 the team traded lou brock to its arch rivals to the

st. louis cardinals and he went on to have an all-time great career with the cardinals. >> it's now more than a million to one odds because that is already 20 years old. >> reporter: this year all-star 1985man anthony rizzo and kris bryant behind a cy young winner, jake arrieta. a group of chicago newbies. maybe it's the year you don't expect it. >> that could be correct. if they beat the pirate, this town might explode because they would play the cardinals for the first time in the postseason and that is the cubs blood rivalry. >> reporter: some of the pain here in chicago has been dealt slightly by three blackhawks championships in hockey the past six years, which doesn't mean, of course, that cubs fans don't want to win tonight and go on to win the world series.

ryan sandbu ryan sandburg ryne, a prediction? >> i think the youth the regular players have had is impressive. i think they will rise to the occasion. early runs would be nice and let jake do his thing. >> reporter: enjoy yourself today and the game. ryne sandburg. >> you have early morning crowd there, jeff. >> it looks like they have the right stuff, jeff. with a 22-game winner and possible cy young award winner? >> reporter: yeah, you know, it's one of those years where it may be the unexpected year for them which is why i think a little more hope. >> in pittsburgh, it's been 36 years. they are saying that is a long time too. they want to win too. you want to root for -- i'm not going to say. it's going to be a good game.

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>> las vegas is on a cold streak this morning. casino revenue on the las vegas strip dropped nearly 5% in august and third straight months of decline. this comes as sin city tries to lure the next generation of gamblers with a new era in gaming. ben tracy is at the palms casino resort in vegas. >> reporter: good morning. when people come to las vegas, a lot of them come to play the slot. these things are still the biggest revenue generator for the casinos, but the problem is they are finding younger gamblers, they don't want to sit

here and hold one of these levers. so the future of gamble cog look a lot less like this and a lot more like an arcade. las vegas, as we know it, was built on the back of the one-armed bandit. slot machines with their 60% profit margins are cash cows. but greg dupreas says it may be time to put them out to pasture. >> 45 and younger are not going to play slot machines. >> reporter: if there is something new to sell, he is. >> we are going into a brand-new company. >> reporter: one of the streaming expos in las vegas are betting on a different kind of gambling. >> welcome to vegas pinball. >> reporter: a casino that looks much more like an arcade and a nightclub, filled with games that require skills, not just games of chance. this feels much more like video games than gambling to me. >> yes, it does, doesn't it? i'm fighting for my life over

here right now. i want to turn a casino into where you have a fighting chance to win some money. use your skills, race a car, shoot a target. >> reporter: i can't imagine your sales pitch to the casinos. they don't want to give people a fighting chance to win more than. >> they will all change. as your base gets older you have to prepare for the next generation coming. >> reporter: that is the millennials who were born after 1980. they head to las vegas in droves and walk past the casino and into the nightclubs. 63% of millennials who visited vegas last year gambled and compared to 87% of their grandparents and 63% of their parents. >> they come to clubs and partying and dancing and what vegas is known for and no longer for gambling. you always have to keep your eye on the prize. >> reporter: darian loewen is the chief marketing officer for gambling.

>> nice! >> reporter: their idea is to take the game people already play on their smartphones and add gambling. you can also compete not against a dealer, but against your frie friend. >> as opposed to to the focus did i win or lose money but get to playing and did i beat the boss and getting to the next level? how am i doing game playing as opposed to the money part. >> reporter: the flip side they don't know how much money they are losing? >> right! absolutely possible! >> reporter: a change in nevada gaming regulations last month now allows for skilled players to potentially win more money by advancing further into the game. but the downside is if you aren't good at the game, you could lose even more observe than you wou-- often than a gamt chance. these new skill-based games are expected to hit casino floors next year. >> we are now tread nothing a new territory. again, we are trying to attract a different generation. they don't play poker or blackjack, but they play arcade games. >> reporter: and those slots, no

matter how much manufacturers try to keep them relevant, may be on their final spin. >> ten years from now, those will be antique slot machines that dad used to play. >> reporter: the casinos are getting serious about this. the ceo of cesar's say they have a top secret casino within a casino in las vegas where they are researching what millennials want but until they figure this out there will still be plenty of these things in vegas. gayle, let me spin this for you and see if we win the jackpot. i guess we all still have to work today. >> we love working at cbs, ben tracy. go ahead and say it. >> we do. we do. of course. >> that didn't sound convincing. thank you, ben. ben is trying out several of the new games that could soon hit the casino floors. see how his skills stack up at

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"persons of interest" in a murder on a hiking trail in marin county. the sheriff's department is hopi good morning. i'm michelle griego. two men and a woman are persons of interest in a murder on a hiking trail in marin county. the sheriff's department is hoping surveillance video will generate more leads. and schools in parts of the bay area will take part in today's national walk and roll to school day. kids encouraged to walk or ride bikes to school to reduce car traffic. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment. ,,,,

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traffic is backed up into the macarthur maze. once you're on the bridge, expect sluggish traffic in pockets now all the way across the span into san francisco. it's also been very slow going for the san mateo bridge. all of this is because of earlier problems. at the dumbarton bridge flowing better so take west 84 as the alternate. san mateo bridge is backed up to the 880 interchange. richmond/san rafael bridge, westbound traffic crowded approaching the toll plaza and slow traffic stays with you all the way across the span. roberta. >> i swiped your golden gate traffic camera shot, liza, because i wanted to show all the clouds next to the coast and seeping into the bay. it's overcast. we have temperatures in the 50s and 60s but hey, we have clear skies in livermore, also in concord. we have spots of sunshine out towards mount vaca. today's temperatures from 70 with the clearing of the skies in pacifica to 80 around the peninsula, 80s inland. warmer today than yesterday.

♪ ♪ ♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, october 7th, 2015, and welcome back to cbs this ahead including dr. ben carson in studio 57. the president defends his controversial comments on mass shootings. presidential com pointens have been addressing the issues and ben carson's comments have been the most controversial. they stopped another attempt by smugglers. syrian troops launched a ground assault today by intense russian air strikes and targeting syrian opposition forces.

>> this is the arcadia lakes dam. the bridge collapsed. the dam failed and the water went rushing downriver, and it was dangerous and then turned deadly. >> investigators will look for the ship's voyage data recorder before the battery runs dead, but there has been no sign. someone who appears have have knowledge could be able to bet on the other side. >> i mean, what were they thinking? none of these people should have been able to bet. >> this feels much more like video games than gambling. >> yes, it does, doesn't it? i'm fighting for my life over here. >> beer has replaced coffee as the beverage of choice in chicago. it is wild card wednesday. a controversial 1,200-year-old document has been found that shows evidence that jesus was married. yeah. i don't believe it. what married guy gets to spend so much time with his 12 buddies. ♪ ♪

i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. more dams are on the verge of breaking in south carolina this morning after historic flooding. the storms have killed at least 17 people. >> crews say they have now stabilized the beaver dam in wildwood and there were fears this morning that it would break at any time. david begno is in columbia south carolina with one dam that has collapsed. >> reporter: since we last saw you at:00, we've come across the river to give you a different perspecti perspective. this is the arcadia lakes dam, and as we pull out you can see where the road collapsed and the bridge fell into the water and the dam failed. when that happened the water rushed downriver. it was devastating, flooding homes and communities and prompting rooftop rescues. there are numerous stories like that around the community of colombia the capital here in south carolina. smaller dams have already failed. national guard troops are securing a report you ared canal

wall that is threatening the water supply, just 375,000 people here in columbia. despite the lingering dangers, people are slowly, slowly starting to go back to their homes at least to look at what the damage is and it is expensive, we are told. more than 250 roads and bridges remain closed statewide which is making it tough for people to even get back home. all right, here's the deal for today, they're expecting sunshine, but the threat for the remainder of the week will be the potential for dam failure. we have just confirmed that earlier this morning near conjugee road, a truck was washed away and three people rescued and we have confirmed two people are missing. >> oh, my goodness. a reminder not to go around those barricades. they are there for a reason. david, thank you so much for your reporting all this week. this morning one of the leading republican presidential candidates dr. ben carson is facing controversy over comments he made about the oregon school

shooting. >> i would not just stand there and let them shoot me. i would say hey, guys, everybody attack him. he may shoot me, but he can't get us all. >> take action. >> exactly. >> a new quinnipiac poll shows carson in second place with donald trump, in three states, pennsylvania, florida, ohio and pennsylvania. >> what people can do to reclaim the con strushl activities. we are pleased to welcome dr. carson to studio 57. good to have you here. >> thank you. what did you mean when you said i would not just stand there? >> i want to plant in people's minds what to do in a situation like this because unfortunately, this is not going to be the last time this happened. >> do you believe the victims in oregon just stood there? >> from the indications that i got they did not rush the shooter. the shooter can only shoot one person at a time. he cannot shoot a whole group of

people, and so the idea is overwhelm him so that not everybody gets killed. >> do you know who chris mintz is? >> no. >> chris mintz is an army veteran and he was shot seven times. he did actually rush the shooter and he's being hailed as a hero and he saved people's lives so someone in that instance did actually act heroically. >> therein lies what i'm saying. that's exactly what should be done and the likelihood of him being able to kill many people diminishes. >> you are being accused of being sensitive to the victims people are saying you don't know what to do if god forbid you are in that situation. how do you respond to that? >> we live in a culture now where people think we need to set up battle lines and get on this side of it or that side of it rather than collectively decide how to solve the problem. it's sort of an immature attitude, but it seems took

rampant in america today. >> the question is what do we do about this? the president says it has become routine. >> right. >> how does a nation come to grips with this fact that it's a combination of who's doing it, access to weapons and the opportunity? >> well, in medicine we have a tendency to make decisions based on evidence not on ideology. so let's say this were a disease, what we would be saying is let's take each one of these shooters and let's go back and let's study their lives, and let's see if we can see some commonalities here. are there some early warning signals for people like this so that we can begin to identify them and intervene before the tragedy occurs, not only for those people who were shot, but for the shooter themselves. >> how would you do that, number one, and secondly, once you begin to see a pattern, how do

you make sure that that pattern will help you lead to the next potential assailant? >> i think we have to, for instance, empower the psychiatrists, the psychologists. in a number of these cases these people have been working with mental health professionals, but nothing was done about it, and we have to be able to move to the next step not just recognizing that they're mentally ill, but being able to take the appropriate interventional steps. >> should there be new laws to make it harder for people who have mental illness to perfect guns. >> for people who have been declared dangerous individuals by a mental health professional, absolutely we should be looking for a mechanism to keep dangerous weapons out of their hands. now we need to study all of the possibilities and we cannot do anything that compromises the second amendment, but as long as we keep in mind we don't want to compromise the second amend am, but we also want to keep

dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people. that makes imminent sense. >> they were talking about muskets and ak-47s and the high-powered rifles we have today. you write that the ban on military-style assault weapons was a good and you've now written that you've changed your mind. what changed your mind? >> you will also see that i talked about the fact that they recognize that things would change, that we would become a more modern society and we would face different principles and different situations, but we have to recognize that it was the principles that were important. so what were the principles of the second amendment and those principles were we wanted to make sure that the people had the ability to assist the military in case of an invasion and that the people also had the ability to protect themselves from overly aggressive, federal government, that was a very important part of the reason for

it. now, obviously, if we say well, we're talking about muskets so, yeah, you could have a musket, but as we advance in terms of our weaponry, you can't have any of those things. that violates the principle. >> michael bloomberg is also very close to the university where you work, johns hopkins. proud graduate. he has become a very, very strong advocate for gun control. what is it that he doesn't understand that you understand? >> well, i think we ought to get him to answer that question. >> let me get with you first and then i'll -- >> what i understand quite vividl is what daniel webster said. daniel webster said america will never suffer under tyranny because the people are armed. that's what i understand. so i don't want to see tyranny occur here. you know -- adams also said that there may come a time when we do

not have good people at the helm of our country. we can't always assume that it's going to be that case. >> you've criticized president obama who is going to oregon on friday to meet with some of the victims' families. is there -- you said it's becoming a political issue. can you change this conversation without politicizing it? >> first of all, let's set the record straight. what i was asked if i were president, would i go and i said no, not in it was going to open wounds and inflict, you know, a lot of controversy, i would not. i said i would have probably lots of other things on my other schedule that i could do. the other thing -- this is important, i don't think i would have the pushback if i were president because i wouldn't be picking and choosing which groups i sympathize with. i mean, i would have talked to kate steinle's family who was killed by an illegal alien.

>> yes. >> and you have to be compassionate to everybody. you don't pick and choose who you'll be compassionate to. >> so if in fact, you as president, could play a role and express the nation's grief in going to oregon you would be pleased to do that and you would object to a president whose effort is to console the grief of a nation and the families who have been suffering. >> i wouldn't object to such an objection. >> dr. ben carson. >> his book "a more perfect union" is on sale right now. getting 50% more at the grocery store may be no bargain at all. co

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♪ this morning, we are talking about packages. you may be paying more for less. the november issue of "consumer reports" looks at that empty feeling. the magazine investigates how some companies are downsizing products but not their packaging. >> this is the question they ask -- do you ever felt duplicated when opening a bag of chips or a bottle of pills? only to see a lot less products than you expected? ! tod marks is joining us at the table. he felt like raraisinettes and e out the box and get this much of raisins. outrage! >> i made a career of outrage all the time. remember when ice cream came in half gallon containers? >> yes. >> when juice came in half gallon cartons?

we all know these things and it's driving people crazy. >> you reached out to companies? >> oh, yeah. absolutely. >> what did they say? >> we say what gives? we get a lot of reader mail about these things and people are furious like you say. companies tell us when they have an explanation at all we do what you do and call the 1-800-number on the package itself and we say -- >> i never called that number. >> i do it all the time. at best you get a free coupon! how it works is that -- >> they should be counting their blessings? >> yeah. the rising costs of transportation. ingredients like peanuts and peanut butter and transportation and distribution cost and labor. >> so they justify it? >> they do. they say their customers tell them that in order to for on them to maintain their budget, they would rather pay the same than get basically -- raise the price. but what we are really doing is semantics. it's a shell game. what you're doing is inadvertently raising the price by basically giving people less

for their money, but here is the hook. people know prices but they don't know sizes. remember when oreos came in a one-pound container? >> no. >> well, they did. not only that, they are over 60 varieties and package sizes and more than a dozen classic oreos none of this which is a pound. people don't know what is the regular size. >> what does it say on the label about the weight of the product inside? >> that is the holy grail, the truth. you use the unit price label at the grocery store and gives you the cost per ounce. ignore the packaging. you know is in the packaging can be really big. it's not always trickery. because sometimes, like, potato chips. think about that. you open up the bag and talk about it hardly anything in there! >> who is reading the net weight? >> i look at it. i look at the unit per pricing all the time and tell my kids. i say, this is how you tell if

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♪ united airlines is apologizing to a massachusetts mother who was directed to a pet relief area to pump breast milk at dulles international airport. liz cooper was traveling for the first time without her 4 hont jol -- 4-month-old son and during a layover she asked an employee where she could pump. >> there was a red fire hydrant in there for a dog to relief himself. that is, obviously, where i'm not going to pump breast milk for my baby. >> the airport is working to

develop lounges for nursing mothers. >> i think they need to come up brown is expected to sign a bill... that would require california to get half of i icty from renewable i'm frank mallicoat. some of the headlines around the bay, at this hour governor brown is expected to sign a bill that would require california to get half of its electricity from renewable sources by the year 2030. the law would raise building efficiency standards also. and the national football league owners begin meeting today and a major topic will be the raiders and two other teams that want to move to the los angeles area. the raiders propose to share a stadium with the san diego chargers in the city of carson. coming up in the next half- hour on "cbs this morning," the man who helped mastermind three successful political campaigns. that story and a little traffic and weather too coming up right after the break. ,,,,,,,,

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the bridge towards the peninsula, dumbarton looking much better. and leaving the richmond area across the richmond/san rafael bridge, delays at the toll plaza and just sluggish on and off across the bridge into san rafael. i'm so impressed how quickly we're clearing out at the coast into the bay this morning. hi, everybody! we currently have cloud cover at sfo with delays up to 52 minutes on some arriving flights. coit towers with blue skies. temperatures in the 50s and 60s out the door. later today slightly warmer than yesterday from 70 in pacifica, low to mid-70ss across the bay to 80 around mountain view. 84 livermore. upper 70s in napa. the extended forecast calls for warmer conditions today than yesterday. a west wind five to ten miles per hour. then notice with the strengthening ridge of high pressure on thursday through saturday, temperatures in the low 90s away from the bay. 60s and 70s at the coast and stable weather through tuesday. ,,,,,,,,

♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, are winners born so succeed no matter what? learn what alastair campbell says. he has seen everybody from queen elizabeth to vladimir putin. do you know vladimir putin, charlie? >> yes. >> how they do business behind closed doors. maddie and tae are climbing the charts by knocking down misconceptions. they are also in our toyota green room. see what makes their debut album so personal. that's ahead. right now time to show you

some of this morning's headlines around the globe. "usa today" says comedian steve -- i don't know how to pronounce this. >> he speak out in inside one o trade center towers on 9/11. on tuesday, he apologized "the howard stern show." >> the hurt and pain and nervousness you hear now comes from because i know what i did was terrible and i know i hurt a lot of people. >> right. >> people that lost people, people that helped people survive. >> right. >> people that -- and those people -- those are the people that i truly am sorry. >> he says the lie was a mistake that became nearly impossible to take back. the "los angeles times" reports on california governor jerry brown signing a new drone line, it is designed to combat the paparazzi use of drones. >> "the

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feet above the ground and opened last month but now closed for repair. >> i agree, charlie. she is doing it right. i like that like, norah. >> you're so charming. thank you. >> it's so true. whntr in huntsville, alabama, posted a graph of a duty comforting a baby after a multivehicle crash. the image became a huge hit online. the picture shows deputy rick lindley holding the infant at the scene of the crash and he is holding that baby right, too. >> right at the head. >> and under the bottom. the accident involved a ambulance and tractor-trailer and vehicles and no injuries were reported. a michigan grandmother says she was having a bad night at work so she went to mcdonald's. in the drive-thru looked at the powerball wing ticket and now her worries are over. >> are you leaving your job? what are your plans now? >> i quit automatically! i was done! >> oh, my gosh.

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counseling tony blair after princess diana's death. >> even "the mail" was impressed. >> alastaire campbell's book arrives in the book stores this morning and he joins us at the table. you're hear to talk about new labour party leader. >> i saw him sitting next to ben carson and knowing him, i thought, my god, alastaire is advising ben carson? >> i said no. i said we disagreed on gun control. >> what you said was "you're wrong"? >> yes. >> yes, you did. he said, nice to meet you too, sir. in your book "winners" you say a lot of similarities between the

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then -- what i call the big how. the big plan to get there. and i think the real winners, they understand the difference between tactics and most of them don't. >> would you have said the same about lance armstrong? >> he is one of two people in the book but i decided not to put him on the cover with all of the names. the other is vladimir putin, who i know you know very well, charlie. the reason that this -- lance armstrong said the most extraordinary thing when i first interviewed him before he was finally exposed. what he said to me, losing and dying, it's the same thing. >> wow. >> i thought, wow that guy is a winner. i should have thought, if i had my old journalistic hat back on, he would do lk anything. i still want to see him in a positive like but i think, in a way, he lied too much, he is -- very, very hard for lance to rebuild his reputation.

>> you talk a lot about vladimir putin you said is a strategic leader but a bad man in many, many ways. >> he is complicated. >> look what he is doing in the middle east. >> or ukraine. putin's objective and strategy are totally aligned. they are all about the reasse reassertion of russian power. we can say he is a bad man and clearly doing bad things which he is clearly doing. you asked all of the questions in your interview, charlie, but all of the difficult stuff, he just laughed it off. the gangsterism, the krucorrupt and lying. he laughed it off because he has such control. if you see power as being about trying to do the things that you want to do, you cannot dismiss him just as being about man. you have to work out what he is trying to do. >> it's great to have you here. >> yeah. thank you. >> i was wondering what you were doing with your life.

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books sharp enough to draw at least blood. they are out with their debut album. they tackle relationships and not giving up and i love this one. it's called "fly." ♪ we have come this par don't you get out now ♪ ♪ because you can't learn to fly on the way down ♪ >> you can sing. >> i can't sing. >> can we bring up on stage tonight? >> she would love it but i know this is your moment so it's not about me. >> ah! >> i love what you guys do. >> we will be there. >> are you really coming? >> what should i wear? i'm kidding. >> you look beautiful. >> you are so musically talented and i think it's part of the message you're delivering in your music and i think you get a lot of attention because you took on the so-called bro

country. explain that. >> well, it was probably -- we have been, you know, writing together for five years now. and i think there was about three months of writing -- or, you know, walking into a writing room and being, like, man, i heard this song on the radio and can't believe this guy is sing willing to this woman this way. if somebody asked me to slide my sugar shaker all over, i would smack their face. so disrespectful. >> i listen to country music and my husband says, what? really? >> red, red, red. >> it was way too repetitive for us. we haven't really heard a female perspective in a while so it was important for us we wrote a song, even if it did not get released. when we wrote it we didn't know the success that was coming with it. we wanted to write a song and vent our feelings and it happened our fans believed in what we were saying. >> it's more than venting because you talk about love. you talk about loss. you talk about bullying. she clear got some issues,

maddie. i'm wondering if she heard the song. that's a real person. >> it's a real person. she did hear the song. and she was the girl that was a beautiful pageant girl in school but -- >> she wore her heart on a necklace. >> yeah. so i don't know. she just was the one that made everyone, you know, feel so small about themselves. definitely, i think, the biggest message with that song is no never allow someone to define yourself for you because i did do that and i did fall for that trap. and in order to heal from that situation and to kind of cope with that situation, we had to write a song about it. >> i wonder what she is thinking now? >> she probably still doesn't like me very much. we were the only ones that stood up to her. >> you're right. >> how long have you guys been working together? >> five years. we met when we were 15. this december will be five years. >> our five-year anniversary! >> you have the same ambition to write songs? >> i think that is why we instantly connected at the age

of 15 your peers are thinking what are you wearing for homecoming? and we were like what are we wearing for our red carpet one day? >> your vocal coach put you together. you live where and you where? >> i'm from sugar land, texas. >> oklahoma? >> vocal coach put you together? >> it's kind of weird. it was a vocal coach but he was host ago showcase where students could go and do a cover and an original song, whatever you wanted to do. so we both happened to be there on the same night and really hit it off. kind of as friends after, you know, the performances. and then started talking music and we were both, like, total music nerds. >> you hit it off. >> yeah. >> you've been together five years but just taken off the last year. i want to talk about that last year. because now here you are performing at the grand ole opry. the people that you looked at as little girls know now your name. what is that like? >> you mentioned the grand ole

opry and so foiunny. the first time we went there was to see steven skill and we love and hope to collaborate with him some day and we actually met him last night. he knows our name and so cool to be associate even with our own legends. >> yes. >> i think is there a really special moment that happened last week. we were in bakersfield, california. we do a meet and greet where fans come through and we get to meet maybe 40 of them before the show. there was this girl maybe about 11 or 12 in tears. >> you're young too! i love it. she was young. >> a baby. >> okay. e i felt so overjoyed in high life and to think she was overjoyed to meet us, i was so humbled and just honored that we were bringing so much joy to

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police are trying to solve e case of good morning. i'm frank mallicoat. here's some of the headlines around the bay. pluses are trying to solving the case of a beating death in san francisco. it 3-year-old audrey kerry of montreal was in golden gate park part of a backpacking trip. her body was found in the park saturday morning. san francisco airport is unveiling a new exhibit as part of a series of pre-super bowl events. nfl from the pro hobble hall of fame -- pro football hall of fame, including photo history of the 49ers and other exhibits. it opened about 10 minutes ago. >> at sfo we still have delays up to 52 minutes. some arriving flights due to areas of low clouds and fog but

boy, fog-free right now from mount vaca looking out towards lake curry where currently we have a temperature there near 60 degrees. otherwise, 50s beaches, 63 mountain view, 50s in vallejo and upper 50s in fairfield. later today, sunny skies. a bit of a breeze out of the west 5 to 10. warmer than yesterday. 70 in pacifica to 86 degrees in gilroy. also to the east in the brentwood area. 78 to the north in san rafael. warmer conditions on thursday as we have a strengthening ridge of high pressure building into the bay area. we are talking 60s, 70s at the coast. thursday through saturday low 90s away from the bay into our inland areas. and we are going to hang on to this weather pattern through tuesday. we have liza battalones in the house with traffic next.

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