libs ♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, july 12th, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." donald trump jr. admits he would have done things a little differently, after receiving e-mails that reveal russia's support for his father's campaign. we'll talk with the president's lawyer, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee and one of "the new york times" journalists that first broke this story. the mysterious disappearance of four men in three days rattles a pennsylvania town. a person of interest is now free on bail while the search intensifies. plus fda experts vote today on a ground-breaking treatment that helps your own immune system attack cancer cells, and a potential new lead in the largest art heist in history. the effort to return treasures

worth half a billion dollars to boston. >> but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> someone sent me an e-mail. i can't help what someone sends me, you know. i read it, i responded accordingly. if there was something interesting there, i think it's pretty common. >> donald trump jr. on the defensive after russian e-mail revelations. >> i don't see how anyone can deny that this brings the investigation to a whole other level. >> this is moving into perjury, false statements, and even potentially treason. >> as i've said many times in the past, there's another shoe that will drop and there will be other shoes that will drop. >> severe storms moving through the upper midwest. >> video shows a tornado barreling across iowa. >> meanwhile, wildfires are forcing evacuations in california. >> we initiated a very aggressive response. >> pennsylvania officials are scouring a large farm for clues in the disappearance of four young men. >> investigators calling this a

mind-boggling massive investigation. >> strangers work together to save a family from drowning at a florida beach. >> people formed a human chain to pull the family out. >> the search continues for wreckage from a military plane that crashed in rural mississippi. the cause of the crash still unknown. >> a little bit different game. >> all-star game from miami. nelson cruz decided he wanted a picture. >> no way. >> all that -- >> you can get it right now. you can get it right now. >> let the circus begin. the hype train left the station. >> the fists weren't flying yet but the insults were. >> i'm going to knock him out inside four rounds, mark my words. >> and all that matters. >> the e-mail is from rob goldstone, a trump acquaintance who set the meeting up. >> he was the one who took the russian lawyer to meet donald trump jr. at trump tower because he checked into trump on facebook. >> -- on "cbs this morning." >> goldstone could not have been clearer that this was going to be shady stuff. this is obviously very high level and sensitive information.

yes, obviously. that's why he encrypted his communique with an algorithm that cyber security experts call e-mail. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." charlie is off, jeff glor is not. you're here on your birthday. happy birthday. >> good to be here on my birthday. >> glad to have you on the table today. we begin with this. after months of talk about russian election meddling, there is now clear evidence that russia's government wanted to help elect donald trump. e-mails show that donald trump jr. was told in june of last year that the russians wanted to provide information to hurt hillary clinton's campaign. >> publicist rob goldstone told trump junior this is obviously very high level and sensitive information, but is part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump. trump jr. responded if it's what

you say, i love it. >> the president's oldest son released a string of e-mails that "the new york times" was about to publish and he talked at length last night about meeting with a russian lawyer that he said produced nothing. margaret brennan is at the white house where the president is defending his son. margaret, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this is a major distraction for the trump white house. this morning president trump is defending his son, calling him open, transparent and honest, and despite all these new revelations, he's continuing to call the russia story a political witch hunt. >> in retrospect, i probably would have done things a little differently. again, this is before the russia mania. this is before they were building it up in the press. for me, this was opposition research. >> reporter: on fox news, donald trump jr. admitted his meeting with russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya was a mistake and he said she did not deliver on the promise of sharing damaging information on hillary clinton. >> but really, it went nowhere and it was apparent that wasn't what the meeting was actually

about. >> reporter: the e-mails released by trump junior on tuesday were explicit. a friend, rob goldstone wrote to the president's son last june offering, quote, information that would incriminate hillary and be very useful to your father. he called it part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump. trump junior responded saying if it's what you say, i love it. the information goldstone wrote was from russian government sources and was shared with russian pop star and his father, a wealthy aoligarch with ties t vladimir putin. >> someone sent me an e-mail. >> reporter: trump junior claims he never mentioned it to his father. >> there was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. i wouldn't have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. >> reporter: trump junior's attorney, a sought-out defense lawyer for mobsters told cbs news that trump junior was simply doing someone a favor by

meeting with veselnitskaya. on tuesday veselnitskaya disputed any kremlin ties telling the associated press i do not represent interests of anyone other than myself. a month after the meeting, donald trump jr. attacked democrats for suggesting russians were trying to help the trump campaign. >> well, it just goes to show you their exact moral compass. they'll say anything to be able to win this. this is time and time again lie after lie. it's disgusting, it's so phony. >> reporter: attorney shannen coffin, former general counsel in the bush administration said donald junior committed political malpractice but so far nothing illegal. >> sure, it seems like donald trump jr. was willing to accept whatever help he could get to get his father elected, but there's no evidence that he was doing so through illegal means. >> reporter: trump junior also copied campaign chair paul manafort as well as his brother-in-law, jared kushner, on the e-mail. both of them also attended the meeting and, gayle, that is raising new questions about kushner's security clearance

here at the white house. >> all right. another story we're following. thank you very much, margaret. on capitol hill, some republicans do not understand why the president's son waited so long to reveal this meeting and the discussions leading up to it. >> this e-mail, we should have known about it before yesterday. >> the fact that we're knowing this now in july really is disturbing. >> it's certainly another shoe that's dropped that needs to be pursued and looked at. >> many democrats, including hillary clinton's running mate, say the e-mails are the first real evidence of the trump campaign working with russia. >> nothing is proven yet, but we're now beyond obstruction of justice into what's being investigated. this is moving into perjury, false statements, and even potentially treason. >> senate intelligence committee members say they now want to hear directly from donald trump jr. jay sekulow is an attorney for president trump. good morning, jay. >> good morning, thanks for having me. >> let me ask you, federal law

states that it is a crime for any foreigner to contribute or donate money or some other thing of value in connection with an american election. did donald trump jr. break the law? >> he did not. the meeting that took place, there was nothing illegal about it. there was not a violation of the law, no illegality. the statute you're quoting from, they are not criminal statutes. that is not a violation, the meeting that took place in the context -- by the way, i'm not the only lawyer that's saying this. most legal scholars are saying this. it certainly if you look at the law as it is written, as it's applied, there was not a violation of the law here. in fact meetings like this, on opposition research are not uncommon. even the government aspect has raised a lot of interest, we're talking about it this morning, but you had the situation of the ukrainian government providing information to the hillary clinton campaign and the dnc. again, the illegality issue is was there a violation of law in the conduct of this meeting and what took place, the answer is

no. >> would you at least agree or admit that the optics here do not look good? you say it's not illegal, but he's meeting with what he believes is a person from russia who says, listen, i have some information that could help your dad's campaign. would you agree the optics on that do not look good for donald trump jr. or the trump campaign? >> well, you're asking about atmospherics and how the atmospherics look. if we're going to look at atmospherics, let's put ourselves back into where we were in time. this is in the middle of the election for the presidency of the united states. this is in the full battle of the electoral moment, right? hundreds of meetings taking place. teams are working on both sides, republicans, democrats, 18 hours, 20-hour days. this is one meeting out of hundreds of meetings that took place on a whole variety of topics with both campaigns. so when you put it in that atmospheric, it was rather unremarkable in the sense that nothing transpired, nothing illegal took place. so you're asking the atmospheric question. but remember this also, the whole russia discussion, this wasn't a significant discussion

at the time, the russian involvement. and the other thing that seems to get lost in this, and i've said this before, you know, all this concern about russia, all the reports have indicated that president obama was aware of russia attempts at engagement and they did nothing about it. so here you have a situation where what took place per those e-mails that were released was not a violation of the law, no illegality there, and i think that's where -- loorks as a lawyer, as the president's lawyer, that's what i have to look at. >> jay, we're not just talking about atmospherics, we're talking about ethics here. and there was a long lead-up to this meeting taking place, a discussion between donald trump jr. and the folks trying to coordinate it, so it wasn't just 20 minutes out of one long day. there was a long procession beforehand. >> well, look at the e-mail exchanges. these are quick e-mails. >> we did. >> right. he put them out there. and the fact is if you look at this rapid succession of e-mails that takes place over a number of days, for a meeting that lasted 20 minutes. so what you have is a setup to a

meeting, a meeting that takes place. by the way, no information exchanged. it ended up not even being on the pretext of what it was supposed to be about, it was all about the maginski act. i'm here also as the president of the united states, that's why i'm here, i'm the president's lawyer, one of the president's lawyers. i want to be very clear on something. the president was not aware of this meeting, did not attend this meeting and was only very recently made aware of this e-mail. in fact he did not read the e-mail, was not provided to him until we saw it yesterday when you all saw it. >> can you clarify and make clear today, are there any other meetings with russian government officials that have not yet been disclosed? >> look, donald trump jr. said he met with a lot of people and he could have met with russians and other people. >> all right. >> jay sekulow, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. with us now from capitol hill is california congressman adam schiff.

he is the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, which is also investigating russian interference in the last election. congressman, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> so what are the next steps for your committee, and what questions do you have for donald trump jr. today? >> well, i think the next steps in terms of this issue is we're going to want to have all the participants in that meeting, anyone who helped in organizing it and putting it together come and testify before the committee. we're obviously going to want to see any documents, any e-mails. it looks like listening to the president's son last night on fox and hearing his lawyer today that the defense is going to be, yes, we had an intent to colewd wi -- collude with russia, we want it to get the dirt they had to help elect donald trump but were deeply disappointed in not getting it at that meeting. that's not much of a defense. we need to look into whether there was any subsequent efforts, whether indeed we can

rely on the representations of what happened at this meeting. one thing we have seen over just the last several days, we can't rely on anything that donald trump jr. has to say about this because his story has kept changing as he has had to confront the facts coming out. >> let me ask you, there's a new report from mcclatchy that says the house and senate intelligence committees, of which you are on, are looking into whether the trump campaign's digital team, guided by judiciaared kushner, helped the attacks on hillary clinton. can you confirm that? what are you looking into? >> one of the issues that i think we need to explore is whether there was any help in terms of the fake news, the efforts to push negative news by the russians, whether there was any coordination in that effort to target that, to identify where it would be useful to push stories in people's social media feeds. i'm not saying that's what took place but the russians used a whole variety of methods to try

to influence our election and the elections in europe. if there was a data component to this in which there was some level of coordination, that we need to look into. to give you an analogous piece of evidence here, in those e-mails, it's very significant that don junior says, hey, it would be most helpful to get this in the late summer. he's already talking about timing. so if there was any kind of coordination on the timing of the pushing of either negative stories or false stories by russian social media troels, that's something we need to know. >> and because you're a former prosecutor, in this federal campaign finance law, there's things about soliciting a foreign contribution or foreign in kind contribution. does that raise to that level to you? >> the question is, is it sufficient evidence. i think we need to do a lot to corroborate some of the evidence that we've received before we can draw any conclusions.

but here i think you have quite plainly just in the four corners of these e-mails that have now been released and the authenticity is not in question, you have three central campaign people, indeed three of the most people in the trump campaign, who go to this meeting with the full expectation of getting help from the russian government and indeed have sent a signal to the russian government they would welcome it, they would indeed love it. they also made the timing that it would be most useful and frankly admitted how disappointed they were that in this particular meeting they didn't get the dirt, the help they wanted from the russians. so are there issues of whether there was a potential conspiracy to violate u.s. election laws? that is certainly a very real issue that needs to be investigated. >> all right, congressman adam schiff, thank you very much for your time this morning. >> thank you. president trump's nominee for fbi director is testifying right now on capitol hill. christopher wray is being questioned at the senate judiciary committee's confirmation hearing.

members are likely to press wray about keeping the bureau independent of the white house. the former assistant attorney general was chosen to replace james comey, who the president fired two months ago. members of an elite special operations unit were among 16 military members killed in a marine plane crash. debris was scattered for miles when the kc-130 went down monday in mississippi. six marines and a navy sailor on board were members from camp lejeune, north carolina. cbs news has confirmed the identity of one victim. marine corps sergeant julian kevianne leaves behind a wife. his family describes him as one of the most loving people in the world. the parents of the penn state student who died after an alleged hazing ritual is calling for swifter justice for their son, timothy piazza. his father said yesterday, quote, these hearings have tried our patience. the accused defense attorneys are attempting to justify the

unjuu unjustifiab unjustifiable. timothy died back in february after a fraternity event involving heavy drinking. jericka duncan is outside the court house in bellefonte, pennsylvania. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. only five of the defense attorneys for those penn state students got a chance to question the prosecution's first witness. now, the other attorneys will have their chance next month in a two-day hearing process. remember, those hearings will determine the outcome of whether or not this case goes to trial. defense attorneys representing the beta theta pi fraternity brothers cross examined the lead investigator in the case tuesday. one attorney said his client wasn't in the frat house when timothy piazza fell down a flight of stairs after an alleged hazing ritual, known as the gauntlet. others argued their clients did not force piazza to drink. >> this is a case that's clearly been overcharged.

>> reporter: michael engel is representing one of the eight fraternity members facing the most severe charges, involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault. >> while gary may be responsible for certain things, he's not responsible for the serious charges in this case. >> reporter: according to a grand jury presentment, he and one other fraternity brother advocated calling a ambulance but they said it was typical of bid acceptance night. prosecutors presented incriminating text messages. one of the texts said he looked expletive dead. >> the boys themselves knew what they did. the text admit it before he even passes away. they say it's because of the hazing, it's because of the drinking, we caused this, we should have called 911. >> reporter: cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman. >> the text messages that came from some of these young men are what we call in the law consciousness of guilt. once you put those things in writing, ultimately those text

messages are going to come back to haunt them. >> reporter: in his statement, jim piazza encouraged the parents of those charged to come forward with any information, everything that they have that could be helpful. he also said that his family is committed to this legal process and that they are doing this for their son, tim. not only just for him, they said, but for all of those that come behind him as they enter their college years. jeff. >> jericka duncan, thank you. some uber drivers say the company's lucrative incentives have a dangerous consequence, tired driving. ahead we ride along with one driver who says he has no choice but to sacrifice sleep for a decent wage. first, it is 7:19, time to check your local weather.

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how they're connected and a person of interest. >> on any hot spots.. from a brush fire in san jose. "chopper five" was over the east foothills earlier this morning. it's 7:26. i'm kenny choi. firefighters are keeping a close eye eye on hot spots from a san jose brush fire. chopper 5 was over the east foothills earlier this morning. officials telling us that at least one home is destroyed and at least one other is damaged. san francisco police say that an officer is recovering after a clash with skateboarders. it happened last night after an impromptu competition at dolores park. we are told that two patrol cars were also vandalized. stick around; we'll have traffic and weather in just a moment.

good morning. it's 7:27. we're tracking a imagine accident that has three lanes block -- a major accident that has three lanes blocked at northbound 280.

traffic is backed up to john daly boulevard. so if you are heading through daly city into san francisco, you're going to be in for major delays. take a look at this backup. you can see 280 just crawling at this point heading in that northbound direction. do give yourself some extra time. over at the bay bridge toll plaza, not a whole lot of change. we are seeing a big backup that stretches beyond the foot of the maze. it's about 32 minutes from the maze into san francisco. this is really truly beautiful. it's our live weather camera. we are looking out from sutro tower towards the north bay this morning. we just have the low clouds billowing in towards the golden gate bridge. temperatures right now 50s and 60s. it's now 61 in san jose. later today a sliver of sunshine in daly city. we'll have sun in pacifica. as you look at the temperatures, this is where we should be for july 12. identical conditions for thursday. variable winds to 20. the heat is on. you know who else

couldn't believe donald trump released these e-mails? the journalists. one said, i worked on this story for a year and he just -- he tweeted it out. >> i spent like -- i spent hours and days and weeks and months. and his son just hit "tweet." like so many people out there, we're trying to track this down and it just got delivered on a tweet. what the hell. i applaud him. i applaud him.

>> it's true. people have been searching, making phone calls, and it just gets sent out. and they're like, wow, here it is. >> in 140 characters. >> jared jay sexton is a former cbs contributor. welcome back to "cbs this morning." the president has been out of public view since returning from germany. his public schedule has been empty. >> that's rye. the most recent images of him are these from last saturday when he walked from marine one back to the white house. we haven't seen him since. he's only had one event scheduled in the last four days. that was a 2:00 p.m. meeting with cabinet what is he doing? getting ready for his trip to paris. >> packing. >> packing. senate majority mitch backlog

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across -- a hajj search is under way on this huge farm in philadelphia. it belongs to a family of a person of interest. cosmo dinardo. he was released last night after posting 10% of his is million bail for an unrelated weapons charge. mark strassmann is outside the premises where the huge disappearance has sparked are he hasn't revealed why why they're focusing on this location, but he's confident investigators are on the right track. this picturesque part of pennsylvania is one of safest in the state but the disapeeps of four young men -- >> it's frightening. i have a 20-year-old boy. >> they have been joined by the fbi and marshals for an all out

search. district attorney matt weintraub. >> it's 90-some acres and we're going through it with the equivalent of a fine toothed comb. >> reporter: cadaver dogs have been brought in. they're clinging to the hope that the four young men are still alive. >> i have hope. i think it's very important to hang onto hope. >> reporter: 19-year-old jimmy pa track dipick disappeared. 20-year-old cosmo dinardo who was arrested on monday on an unrelated charge has not been named a suspect. he suffers from a mental illness.

dinardo lists patrick as a friend on facebook. sturgis and meo are friends in real life. >> we're scare. we want to know something because we're all -- we don't know. >> we're very worried. >> nicholas sal guerrero is friends of both meo and sturgis. he never heard dinardo's name mentioned. >> we hope they're doing okay. >> sturgis's father says a car was found miles away and another near by andy nar doe's attorney and family refuse to comment. >> thank you very much. some uber drivers are complaining they're sacrificing sleep for more pay. the 180 days of change calls for

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strangers on a florida beach are being praised for banding together to help in a rescue. nine people were trapped in dangeroustide in the gulf of mexico. mark strassmann is there. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a dangerous riptide lurked just-off shore, and suddenly the heads of nine people were bobbing in the water and they were crying for help. they got it. >> they told us they were drowning, so it kind of scared me. >> reporter: jessica simmons stepped up in a crisis because somebody had to. she saw people overmatched by a riptide 00 yards offshore. >> they kept yelling help us, help us, we can't do it. >> reporter: did you know they

were in trouble? >> yes, i knew they were in trouble. >> reporter: they were the first two trapped. roberta was their mother. >> i seen others but i didn't see my boys p they were screaming and crying they were stuck. they couldn't go nowhere. >> reporter: the family want out to rescue the boys but they became stranded them too. as the cell phone video shows humans linked arms and formed a human chain. then jessica and her husband devin swarm out to guide them to safety. tabitha monroe and her wife brittany spent 20 minutes in the water. >> it was scaring me. i kept taking water in. >> reporter: this video shows tabitha finally makeling it to show.

in fact, all nine stranded people survived including 67-year-old barbara frantz. she had a heart attack many the water and was rescued unconscio unconscious. she's also roberta usury's mother and she's going to be fine. >> did you know they were going to survive? >> i knew. i was going to make sure. >> not on your watch. >> i thought, this amt going to happen. >> a moment of despair, and because they did, nine people survive. >> we live in a world where we have so much going on around us and everybody's always battling over politics and races and everything like that. i have to tell you there were 20 different races on this beach, and they came together like that. >> reporter: all the life gards have gone home. police were here but were waiting for a rescue boat to show up. people on the beach knew people this the water were running out of time. some of them had been struggling in the water for a half hour.

norah? >> i like that. a good example of people working together all the time. >> it makes you feel pretty good. >> and the pictures are stunning that they rescued all nine of them. i think it's hard not to panic when you get caught in a riptide like that. but they're all okay. >> they stayed calm and worked together. one of "the new york times" reports who broke the news story on donald trump jr. will join us. also, the formation of a new

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battling hot spots - after a fire at this san leandro scrap yard. the 4-30 good morning. it is 4 minutes before 8:00. i'm anne makovec. right now crews are busy battling hot spots after this fire at a san leandro scrapyard. the flames broke out at around 4:30 yesterday afternoon and you can see that thick, black smoke that was pouring from the yard. that forced people living nearby to "shelter in place" for several hours. east bay m.u.d. has signed off on a 19% overall increase in water rates. a 9.25% hike kicked off at midnight with a second in the works for next july. east bay m.u.d. says a rise in water main breaks caused them to need additional funding. stay with us, traffic and weather in just a moment.

good morning. 7:57. that earlier accident along 280 just past san jose avenue has been cleared. but the backup continues to slow the morning ride down through daly city. right now just under 20 minutes making your way from john daly boulevard to 101. as you continue further along northbound 101 and on to interstate 80 eastbound 80, right as you approach the lower deck of the bay bridge, a crash on that shoulder backing things up. speeds drop to about 11 miles an hour. "slow, stop, go." thanks, jaclyn. hi, everybody. we have blue skies towards san jose this morning. visibility is unlimited. we even have some clearing a lot earlier this morning along the bay. a little bit of clearing later today around the coastal areas. right now, temperatures from 55 in santa rosa to 62 in livermore. 64 san jose. later today, 60s beaches, 70s across the bay. 70s, 80s peninsula through the 80s which is seasonal to the

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♪ ♪ ♪ >> good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, july 12, 2017. welcome back to "cbs this morning." donald trump jr. says he mishandled an offer that promised from russia to hurt hillary clinton's campaign. we'll talk to one of the "new york times" reporters that broke the story. the revolutionary cancer treatment that may clear an important hurdle today. first, here's today's "eye opener at 8:00". >> this is a major distraction for the trump white house. this morning president trump is defending his son. >> did donald trump jr. break the law? >> he did not. the meeting that took place was nothing illegal about it. there was not a violation of the law and no illegalit.

by the way, i'm not the only lawyer saying this? >> what questions do you have for donald trump jr.? >> we need to look into if there were subsequent efforts. we can't rely on anything that donald trump jr. has to say about this because his story has kept changing. >> the district attorney hasn't said why they're focusing on this location, but he's confident investigators are on the right track. >> the heads of nine people were bobbing in the water desperate for help. they got it. >> "the new york times" published an explosive article claiming there were e-mails showing that donald trump jr. was hoping to meet with russian officials. >> he forwardeded th this to ku, manafort and the meeting happened and all hell has broken loose. donald junior is the guy who opens the obviously fake document and everyone in the office has a virus on the computer. >> this morning's "eye opener at 8" is presented by liberty mutual insurance.

i'm norah o'donnell with gayle king and jeff glor. charlie is off. president trump's nominee for fbi director is giving his first testimony to congress right now. senate judiciary members are questioning christopher wray who will replace james comey. the president has said the bureau's investigation of russian election meddling was on his mind when he fired comey two months ago. >> chris wray was asked this morning about keeping the bureau separate from politics. >> there's only one right way to do this job, and that is with strict independence, by the book, playing it straight, faithful to the constitution, faithful to our laws and faithful to the best practices of the institution. without fear, without favoritism and certainly without regard to any partisan, political influence. anybody who thinks that i would be pulling punches as the fbi director sure doesn't know me very well. >> wray is testifying one day

after donald trump jr. released e-mails showing how an acquaintance set up a meeting to obtain damaging russian information about hillary clinton. >> his team is likely to look into those e-mails. the president's son told fox news last night that looking back, he probably would have done things differently. he says he didn't tell his father about this meeting because, in his words, nothing came from it. >> joe becker is a pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter for "the new york times" she and her colleagues published a series of articles. >> thanks for having me. >> president trump has twice applauded his son for transparency. when "the new york times" first approached the white house about this four days ago, were they transparent and forthcoming? >> look, their story has changed multiple times. donald trump jr.'s story has changed. first, the meeting was primarily about adoption and when we came back to him and said no. we talked to people who said it was also about getting dirt on

hillary clinton, he acknowledged that maybe that was the case. then we came back to him and said we understand that it also involved a government effort, and finally, we came back to him and said we're going to publish these e-mails, the contents of these e-mails and that's when he released. i guess it's up to your viewers to decide whether that's transparent. >> you said you were going to publish your story at 11:00 and he tweeted out the documents when? >> at 11:00. >> at 11:00. >> can you talk about the genesis of the article? a lot of this came when jared kushner revised his statement about who he'd met with regarding his security clearance. >> exactly. my colleagues and i in march revealed that he had met with the russian ambassador to the united states and also a russian state bank -- a head of a russian state bank, and we followed up and said not only had he met with them, but that he hadn't disclosed it as required on security clearance forms.

he has since revised his forms to include those contacts, as well as all of his foreign contacts and it was on those forms that he disclosed that natalya veselnitskaya, and he did not say what the contents were and we started digging and digging. >> do you think there could be revisions or other meetings we don't know of right now? >> i think they have submitteded what they think is all of the context. it's important because, of course, jared kushner is in a unique position here. he's at the white house. he has to have security clearance, so failure to disclose, willfully admitting something is a legal problem that actually can land you in jail. >> the president has called this the greatest political witch hunt in history. what are you all looking for at "the new york times". >> we're looking to report the news every day. >> i understand. >> nobody has said this is fake news. he said -- donald trump jr. said

he would do things differently, and i myself have done a lot of reporting on hillary clinton, and i did a story on her the uranium 1 deal that republicans love to talk about so this is not a witch hunt. >> when you look at the cast of character, you have a russian pop star and his dad, a british entertainment publicist and tabloid reporter who had previous ties to trump. what stands out to you as you're going through this story? >> you know, what stands out to me is that this was obviously a very sensitive thing and it went through the family and friends. you know, trump is often, basically, this is one of the things about him is that he is said to only trust his family and so, in one way it's not surprising. in other way, of course, why would you put your family, your campaign manager in this kind of position? i think what trey gowdy said last night, geez -- and at this

point it's, like, look, if you have russian contacts, get it out there, if you have -- you need to get it out there and stop dribbling it out like this. >> there are members of the house intelligence committee who are looking at this particular meeting and saying is this the beginning of the connections between the russian government and the trump campaign? >> i think the fact that there have been multiple stories about this meeting sort of heightens people's interest and makes you wonder, why not just say what this was at the outset of our reporting? i think the line in the e-mail that is the most intriguing, of course, is the line where he says rob goldstone says to donald trump jr., this is part of the russian government's effort to help mr. trump. >> his reaction isn't, what are you talking about? >> what effort? what are you talking about? i'd love to get the dirt, but what are you talking about? so it raises the question whether there were previous communications, communications

after this fact around this idea of the russian government helping. >> one of the things that jared kushner has revised his disclosure forms with the federal government to get the security clearance. very, very serious, you don't want to lie on these forms as you point out, they'll get you in jail. do we know how many meetings jared kushner has had with russian government officials? >> we still don't know. it's a confidential document. our initial reporting as things were described to us, but we do not know the entire list. i imagine that's something that investigators -- the investigators at least mueller's people definitely have that and have access to it. i imagine congress is going to want that, too. >> so your investigation continues? >> absolutely. >> all right. jo becker, thank you very much. doctors may soon have a new way to fight cancers. dr. agus,

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♪ ♪ in our morning rounds, unleashing a new weapon in the fight against cancer. an fda panel is meeting this morn whether to recommend the first government-approved gene therapy. cart-cell treatment has shown impressive results against cancers like leukemia and lymphoma. our dr. david agus leads the cancer center and he is in los angeles. good morning. why would this be so significant? >> good morning, jeff and happy birthday. >> thank you. >> this is the first living drug. it's a pretty amazing new treatment where they take the white cells out of a child with cancer. they send them to new jersey and

they put in a gene to reprogram these cells to attack the cancer and send them back to where the child is and infuse. about 80% of these children go into remission. it was first tried five years ago in a 6-year-old named emily and she's still cancer-free today. >> i know it combats cancer, but how are the healthy cells spared? >> in this case, the child has failed all standard treatments for leukemia. so they're literally at death's door. so in this case, there are no other treatments and they knocked down her own healthy t-cells and then put them back these new t-cells that target the cancer and they also target some of the normal cells in the body and one of the issues that will happen in the panel meeting today is the fda will say what's the long-term ramifications? we only have the five years since emily started treatment. we don't have any further data. so this is going to be a whole new area of treatment, but because the benefits so outweigh the harms at least initially,

it's probably going to get fda approval. >> what are some of the harms, david, and what about the cost? >> well, they're both two great questions. so the harms are real. is that when you put in all these t-cells that are turned on, the patients many times go into a significant distress syndrome. it can affect the brain and other parts of the body. nobody has died from the treatment and remember, this cancer is definitely lethal within weeks to months so the side effects are real. the cost, the analysts are estimating that it will cost 300,000 to $600,000 for a one-time treatment that can put the cancer into remission, but staggering costs. recurrent leukemia or leukemia that is not responding to treatment is rare in children. about 90% of kids are cured with conventional chemotherapy, but in these other children, this is a lifesaver. >> it is great to see medicine continuing to advance and save people's lives. dr. david agus, thank you as always for joining us. >> thank you.

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calling upon all of you, the internet time-wasters, join me once more in just five to ten minutes of mindless effort. i need you to do this. once more onto the bridge, my friends. go to this website and tell me everything. >> kmeeds miami john oliver issued a call for net neutrality. federal communications d the commission with comments to defend the regulation. today some of the biggest tech companies like google are participating. it's a protest of the fcc's plan to roll back obama-era net

neutrali neutrality rules. >> they prohibit the slowing or blocking of websites content while treating other sites differently but in may the republican-led fcc voted to start changing net neutrality rules. editor in chief nick thompson. good morning. give us a net knneutrality less and why it matters. >> it's the principle that all the information that flows over the pipes that come onto your computer. net neutrality is the principle that all that information has to be treated the same. so the companies that own the pipes can't say, you know what? we don't want that website to be fast. we want that one to be slow. and we don't like what that one is saying and we're going to stop it all together and maybe you'd like a tiered plan. it's a very important principle on the f we make more money,

you'll invest more heavily and we'll have the speeds. it's flourished pretty well pt it ooh working out pretty well and it's a pretty innovative open space. >> and we reached out to fcc and they did not hav regulation, you might say that. number twoing they're very close to the telecom companies. they will argue if you give the telecom companies the internet

has been a place of openness, where you can start a company, do what you want, and you can be reasonably certain if you put a site on the web, people can get to it. if you're opposed to something that comcast is running and is a competitor to what time warner cable has, they can shut you down. it's not just the competition. it's the entire principle. >> have google and facebook a problem with net neutrality? >> they do. all the executives are in favor of it but others maybe not so much. they're in favor of it today. ahead, the smash hit has

been a top product for five years. your local news is next. family of a prominent san francisco lawyer will make a new push to solve his mysterious murder. jame killed" outside hi good morning. i'm anne makovec. today the family of a prominent san francisco lawyer will make a new push to solve his mysterious murder. james gilliland was shot and killed outside his home in el cerrito last october. a $50,000 resward offered for any information leading to an arrest. >> crews are investigating a two-alarm fire that damaged a commercial building in newark. the fire started with three instruction and then the flames spread to the building. nobody was injured. raffic and weather i n just a moment.

good morning, 8:27. an accident as you are make your approach towards the lower deck of the bay bridge slowing things down. this is eastbound 80 at 7th street. that off-ramp blocked and that has traffic backed up for miles. right now, just to get from 280 to the 80 split, a little over 20 minutes. whoo! that's a tough one. overty bay bridge toll plaza, things are still stacked up. we are in the red along the eastshore freeway jam-packed just about a 45-minute ride. another 25 from the maze into downtown san francisco. san mateo bridge just under 30 minutes from hayward to foster city. hat's a check of your traffic; over to you. we have seen clearing a lot

earlier this morning around the bay. hi, everybody. let's take a look outside right now. we still have some clouds stacked up along the immediate seashore. but look at that view all the way to the port of oakland and the estuary of alameda. the flag is a little bit on the fly at pier 9. cloudy with drizzle at the cliff house towards ocean beach this morning. we'll see the clouds clear there, hang tight to the daly city and colma areas. otherwise, after dipping down to 49, it's now 55 in santa rosa. mid-60s in san jose where later today we'll see seasonal highs. 83 typically where we should be at mineta international airport and, bam, that's what we have in the forecast. 78 through mill valley into san rafael including terra linda. low 90s away from the bay. 60s at the immediate seashore. we do have similar conditions for your thursday, then high pressure on friday. we are seeing a gradual warming trend into the triple digits on saturday and sunday away from the bay. air quality could take a hit. hot on the weekend.

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he tweeted about the accomplishment. he said i joined youtube back in 2007 hoping to make a video that would reach 10,000 views. congratulations, charlie pew. you did it. >> that's a beautiful song. >> i'm not surprised. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> first time i've ever -- >> seen it? >> done that. >> see what we do here? >> look inside the green room. >> two guys that should probably be your best friend. josh giegle, raise your hand. if you'd like to get somewhere fast and save, josh and sherman should be your new best friends. we'll explain what that is. time to show you this

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macaques in the park. they were descended from monkeys in the 1930s as a tourist attraction. they're not grabbing you. >> monkey see, monkey do. a company is announcing what it calls a historic achievement. hyp hyperloop 1 is creating a new form of transportation. people will be transported at 700 miles an hour, faster than the speed of a boeing jet. first on "cbs this morning," here's a look at the ffrt

private test at a hyperloop test that took place in the nevada desert. >> three, two, one, fire. >> the company now says it has the first full-scale hyperloop in the world. the goal is to have three systems in service by 2021. co-founders josh giegle and sherm sherman are here. >> a high five all over the place. >> they've been looking a that for a while. why do you think you have it right now? >> we have it because we did it free idea to reality. this is our kitty hawk moment. we took a lot of inspiration

from the wright brothers and wanted to show the world it works. it's the first hyperloop skaul in the world. the structure weight is 200 poujds. we did the levitation, propulsion and vacuum as if you did your own flight. it will be the safest cleanest form of transportation in the world. >> what excites me about it is you can go from l.a. to san francisco in 30 minutes. why should we not be terrified of getting in a tube. >> we're in a tube every day underground. we don't have any real concerns about in the event of emergency, so you can basically get out if will's an emergency just like you would in a tunnel. but you're not at 30,000 feet. >> i can get out and go where,

josh? where am i going? >> there's emergency evac portds. >> but a subway is not going 700 miles an houring right? >> but we're able to slow down, emergency breaking techniques, things that we've been testing. in the event something happens you're able to slow down safely. >> i know you have an ambitious goal of creating three in four years. who pays for it. >> that's a great question, norah. we need the support of people and governments around the world. you can't build hyperloops around the world without the support of governments we think of this as a form of transportation, new form of transportation like broad band. so high-speed transportation will be very similar to that in the same way they introduced broadband around world. we need their support to do it and we're having amazing contact already. >> you need the land, right? >> that's right. the right-of-way-s are extremely

important and building new infrastructure for world is so important. we're all stuck in traffic. it causes so much pain and wastes so much time for people. speeding things up, making cities into metro spots and going, like gayle said, l.a. to san francisco in 30 minutes is game-changing. >> washington to new york, do you see that happening? >> absolutely. the northeast corridor is a huge focus for us. being able to go that fast will allow everyone to kind of spread around, live and work wherever they want. >> what about the rest of the country because so much of this conversation focuses on the east and west coast. the middle of the country, you want to bring it everywhere. >> there's a few spots in texas as well as florida. we were looking a different areas around the world and if the last three or four months engaged with a few local

governments on where this potential government could be. >> what are you worried about. i know you love your mom, your sister, your favorite daughter. what are you worried about? you have to have some concern. i love the high five and kitty hawk and all that. what are you concerned about now? >> that's a great question. the number one concern is to make this idea a reality, and this was a huge step in showing the world today on this show that this is real, we've done it. and now it's really to go to the next stage as norah said, connecting with the governments and actually building working hyperloops around the world. >> people have the courage to put this in place. >> yep. >> to move forward on changing america. >> that's right. >> i think if you had a chance to be around during the testing of kitty hawk, for an engineer, it's pretty exciting.

>> it's super exciting for those of us who travel a lot. we wish you the best of luck. which is all of us. >> safety and speed, you can't beat that. congratulations. josh geigel and

solve the biggest art heist in history. now, thieves made off with 13 masterpieces from the isabella stewart garner museum years ago. seth doane visited an investigator in the netherlands who is the indiana jones in the art world. >> reporter: 27 years later it's still a mystery. thieves targeted some of the highest art pieces from the isabella stewart garner museum. >> major theft in boston, two

thefts posed as police officers stole art it included a rembrandt and a vermeer. >> i'm 100% sure that they're on the islands, 100% sure. >> reporter: it's an audacious claim to make after nearly three decades. but art investigator says he's focusing on the republican party. >> we have talked with former members of the i.r.a. after a few drink,s, a few talks, you have to believe they know more. >> how do they believe you? >> we have a few ideas. let's give this a shot. >> they worked to recover bronze

horse statues which stood in front of adolf hitler's building. how is the stolen art used? >> they use it as payment for drug deals, for arm deals, sometimes they use it for -- like artnapping. they kidnap paintings and they use it to get a lesser sentence. >> reporter: to find pieces on the black market, he claims to have brokered deals with the terrorist group, the mafia, and a slew of shady characters. >> on one hand you have the police, insurance companies, collectors, and on the other hand you have the criminals, art thieves, and the forgers so these are two difference kind of worlds, and they do not communicate. so i put myself in the middle. >> reporter: recently he helped recover this art which has been stolen from a museume jager is

restoring the damaged works. >> to see it now is quite a change from when you first saw it. >> i'm very happy with it. >> reporter: the paintings had been stoleen in 2005 in a quaint town. 11 years later thanks to leads that followed to ukraine, five of the 24 pieces were returned with great fanfare. ed a ad ad geerdink is the museum's director. >> you left these as a reminder? >> a protest. >> why a protest? >> there isn't anyone dead. it's art. many people don't take it too

serious. >> but he said folks should. interpol ranked art crime as the fourth highest criminal trade. >> when you steal rembrandt and van gogh, it's international heritage. it belongs to you, to me. >> they're offering a $10 million reward and hopes to get it back but when we asked them about rembrandt leads, they told us, they're not new. we covered them years ago. >> your leads are skeptical. the museum calls them dead end. >> we'll see if it's a dead end. >> reporter: nav fating this understo underworld requires patience, good luck, and a fair share of i have bravado. >> it's about something more than that. >> it's the fame. if you solve these after 27

years, what more can you do. >> reporter: it's an irresistible challenge if whatever so far has been an unsolvable mystery. for "cbs this morning," i'm skt doan in the netherlands. >> i see nothing wrong with a little reward money too. very niece. >> one of the great mysteries in our -- i mean in one of the great museums. >> your favorite apparently. >> i always love it. it's part of the drama, seeing the missing paintings, the frames up there. >> now when you go back, you'll have something more to look at. >> maybe so. >> you can find podcast originals on apple's itunes and podcast apps. you're watching "cbs t

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keeping a close eye on any hot spots.. from a brush fire in san jose. "chopper five" was over the east foothills earlier this morning. officials good morning, it's 8:55. i'm kenny choi. firefighters are keeping a close eye on hot spots from a brush fire in san jose. chopper 5 was over the east foothills earlier this morning. officials say at least one home is destroyed and at least one other is damaged. east bay m.u.d. has signed off on a 19% overall increase in water rates. a 9.25% hike kicked off at midnight. the second one in the works for next july. east bay m.u.d. says a rise in water main breaks caused them to need additional funding. several beaches are closed in santa cruz after a man says he was attacked by a great white shark. he wasn't hurt. the kayak had a bite mark in it. santa cruz officials closed down several beaches and the main beach at the boardwalk.

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good morning, time now 8:57. we are tracking major delays for drivers heading along 101. an accident near bayshore boulevard and you can see that traffic is very slow. this is in that northbound direction. speeds drop below 15 miles an hour as you are making your way through south san francisco. over on 280, southbound 280 at hickey, we have an accident that has your ride heavy all the way down towards 380 there. 45-minute ride along the eastshore freeway. and as you get to the maze, it's another 17 minutes.

we are back in the yellow for drivers heading across the bay bridge into san francisco. 17-minute ride. roberta? >> good morning, everybody. this is our live weather camera looking out towards the bay waters. we have one of those tankers heading out to sea. can you take a look at that right there? we do have the skies clearing sooner this morning and look at san jose. it's bright, the sky is blue. the air quality is terrific even with that fire that continues to burn in south san jose. we now have temperatures in the 50s and 60s. it's 66 in livermore. it is 58 degrees in oakland. couple of things i want you to remember. okay, three things. not much change from yesterday. inland highs will stay near average through thursday. then the heat is back friday through the weekend. we have a beach hazard statement in effect for the beaches, that huge highlightiated for dangerous rip currents and sneaker waves. 60s to low 90s inland. variable winds 10 to 20. hot on the weekend.