morning for the broadcast center in new york k k 'm morning for the broadcast center captioning funded by cbs it's friday, august 4th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." a grand jury is now being used in the russian election meddling investigation as president trump continues to dismiss allegations of collusion. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that's all it is. plus, one of the world's tallest residential buildings goes up in flames. >> this person obviously in a

position where they could not get to them because of the fast moving water. and flash floods in southern california turns roads into rivers. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. special counsel robert mueller has convened a grand jury to investigate possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. subpoenas have been issued in connection with the meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer. and hours after news of the grand jury broke, president trump trashed the investigation at rally in west virginia. hena doba is here in new york with the details. good morning, hena. >> good morning, anne-marie. president trump goes on a rampage as the investigation is

ramp i ramping up as he continues to insist this is all a witch hunt. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. >> president trump called the russian investigation into the 2016 election a hoax at a rally thursday night just after cbs news learned that special counsel robert mueller is now using a grand jury to advance a federal probe. the move allows mueller and his team to streamline process to get subpoenas for records and testimony. the president insists this is owl sour grapes by democrats still upset by his win in november. >> there are no russians in the campaign. there never were. we didn't win because of russia. we won because of you. that i can tell you. >> white house press secretary sarah sanders issued a statement that former fbi director james comey had quote, said three times that the president is not under investigation, and we have no reason to believe that has changed. reacting to suggestions by mr.

trump that he may be looking into firing mueller, two bipartisan groups of senators introduced bills thursday, making that much harder to do. they stipulate if the president ever gave such an order, that would need to be required by the supreme court. >> he's one of the most well known that i know, and if you fire him, you'll create a firestorm here. >> ty cobb, a member of the president's legal team said the white house is fully committed to cooperating with mueller and, quote, it favors anything that accelerates the conclusion of his work fairly. and mueller's investigation team expanded even further earlier this week when it added an expert on foreign bribery. >> hena doba here in new york. thank you, hena. well, at the same rally where president trump spoke, democratic west virginia governor jim justice announced he's switching parties. justice said he will be registering as a republican today. he also said defections from his

positions by west virginian democrats hurt people. his switch leaves just 15 governors in 15 states. he was elected in november with 49% of vote. and we've gotten a glimpse of trump's negotiating style with foreign leaders. it involves some very blunt talk. the "washington post" published transcripts of phone conversations the president had with leaders of mexico and australia. as chip reid reports the conversations include some tense talk over a border wall and immigration policy. >> we will build the wall 100%. >> reporter: it was the biggest applause line of candidate trump's presidential campaign. >> who is going to pay for the wall? >> reporter: but just one week after taking office, president trump said in a phone call with mexican president enrique pena nieto that the wall and who will pay for it is economically, quote, the least important thing that we are talking about, but

politically this might be the most important. the president repeatedly demanded that pena nieto stop saying mexico won't pay for the wall. if you are going to say that mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then i'm not going to meet with you guys anymore because i cannot live with that. he also blamed mexico for the inflow of drugs in the u.s., adding, i won new hampshire because it is a drug-infested den. the post also contains the january 28th transcript of an even more explosive phone call with prime minister turnbull, one of north america's biggest allies. referring to a deal with the obama administration to take in refugees, mr. trump said, i hate taking these people. i guarantee they're bad. they're not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people.

turnbull then told the president a deal is a deal and you are going to stick with it. soon after that the president abruptly ended the call. we should note that in the months since those phone calls, the president has had meetings with the leaders of australia and mexico that the white house has described as productive. chip reid, cbs news, the white house. the pentagon has identified two american soldiers who were killed in afghan wednesday. they were killed when their convoy was hit by a suicide bomber near kandahar. the pentagon wants to send 4,000 more troops to afghanistan to beef up. and there are growing concerns over carbon monoxide fumes in police vehicles. at least two departments have pulled some or all of their cars from service.

others are inspecting their fleets. an officer in auburn, massachusetts, passed out at the wheel and crashed on wednesday. >> he was found to have high levels of c.o. in his blood as well. he still remains hospitalized. as a result of that out of an abundance of caution, we decided to test the entire fleet for carbon monoxide. >> ford is investigating but says the departments may have created the problem when they added equipment after delivery. the young woman who encouraged her boyfriend to commit suicide was sentenced to 15 months in jail. lawyers for michelle carter say they will appeal. when she was 17 and conrad roy was 18, she sent him dozens of text messages and told him to get back into a truck filled with toxic gas. he was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in 2014. a raging fire at one of the

tallest residential buildings overnight. this was the second fire to hit the 86-story torch tower in dubai in 2016. more than 40 floors appear to have been engulfed in flames. the tower was evacuated and no injuries are reported. this morning the firefighters say they have the blaze under control. in chicago, the first day of the lollapalooza festival was cut short due to severe thunderstorms. the storms including strong winds and rain rolled in last night forcing some 100,000 to evacuate grant park. headlined act lorde has to cancel her set. the rest of the acts are set to go ahead as planned. a severe weather system triggered flash flooding in california just north of los angeles. trapped motorists had to be rescued. a commuter train was also stranded. and elsewhere on the west coast, the heat is the issue. chief meteorologist eric fisher

of our boston station wbz, has more on that. >> well, it's been a scorching couple of days across the northwest and the smoke from fires in british columbia is not helping. things are starting to cool relatively speaking just a little bit. high temperatures close to 90 in seattle over the next several days. we talk about triple digits in spokane and 90s in portland and sacramento. we're going to dial it back a little bit, not much in the way of record high over that three-day stretch, just above the average of normal temperatures. we head through friday evening and into saturday morning across interior parts of the northeast. a chance for some damaging wind gusts and isolated tornados and certainly heavy rain in any of those storms across new york state and pennsylvania. behind it, a fall preview. look at the cool air. it's going to dominate much of the middle of the country. temperatures as much as 5 to 15 degrees below average.

a very comfortable air mass for august. i'm meteorologist eric fisher for cbs news. tourists will be allowed to return to two north carolina islands today following a week-long power outage. visitors will have access to hatteras and ocracoke islands this afternoon. power was cut to both islands a week ago when construction crews working on a bridge hit some underground transmission lines and that forced an estimated 50,000 visitors to leave at the height of the tourist season. well, coming up on the "morning news" now, cyber surprise. a hacker once hailed a hero is arrested. and a dazzling play on the diamond as the orioles pull off a triple play. this is the "cbs morning news." pull off a triple play. this is the "cbs morning news." . i should know. i have chronic dry eye caused by reduced tear production due to inflammation. so i use restasis multidose. it helps me make more of my own tears, with continued use, twice a day, every day. restasis multidose helps increase your eyes' natural ability

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>> baltimore pulls off a classic round-the-horn triple play visiting detroit. it was the fourth this season and the second by the orioles, but the tigers survived it last night for a 7-5 win. temperatures in death valley break a record, and a hero hacker is accused of going rogue. those are some of the headlines on the "morning news" hand. the las vegas "review-journal" reports the arrest of a british hacker who once stopped a global attack, marcus hutchins, will face a federal judge today in vegas. a justice department document says he's suspected of creating software that's attacking computers. witnesses say officials were slow to recognize the children were coughing after a chlorine leak wednesday. 40 kids and three adults were hospitalized. the "los angeles times" says

a century-old heat record was broken in dealt valley. its average temperature last month was 107.4 degrees. that's 0.2 hotter than the old record in 1913, 134 degrees. the "washington post" notes that the kennedy center honors will recognize a rapper for the first time. ♪ i'm going to take this itty bitty world by storm and i'm just getting warm ♪ >> ll cool j will be cited for his work in hip-hop during a ceremony in december. he'll be joined by singers gloria estefan and lionel richie, tv producer norman lear and dancer carmen de lavallade. still ahead, artistic flight path. a boeing outlines a familiar pattern during a long flight. a familiar path during a long flight. prot.

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country. fast food is getting faster all the time, thanks to technology, but the need for speed could leave some workers behind. wendy gillette explains. >> reporter: jonathan alvarez has only 30 minutes for lunch, so when the mcdonald's near his job added self-order kiosks, he found it as timesavers. >> it's almost 50% faster. >> reporter: mcdonald's says skipping the traditional cashier is part of the experience of the future. at some locations you can order the food at the mcdonald's app and pick it up at the drive-through or even get table service. mcdonald's plans to have kiosks in most of its 14,000 restaurants in the u.s. by 2020. the fast food giant is not alone.

bypassing cashiers could be just the beginning. this is flippy, a burger-flipping robot that will be used in select caliburger restaurants next year. the machine uses artificial intelligence to identify foods and cook them properly. martin ford, author of "rise of the robots," believes more restaurants will adopt this type of technology in the future, leaving fewer jobs. >> for me it's easier to imagine a fast food store maybe employing a third less employees or half less employees. >> reporter: zoriah foushee is not concerned she'll lose her job. >> i feel like there's always going be a need for someone to be up there, someone to fix something if something's wrong. technology isn't always, you know, 100%. >> reporter: these kiosks could

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our top story this morning. special counsel robert mueller has convened a grand jury to investigate possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. subpoenas have been issued in connection with the meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer. president trump trashed the russian investigation at a rally in west virginia, calling it a democratic excuse for the election law. federal prosecutors in new york are investigating the family business of the president's son-in-law jared kushner. anna werner and investigative producer laura strickler have been looking into that. >> reporter: the empty lot in jersey city, new jersey, is where the kushner companies plan to put two gleaming towers of

rental apartments and retail space, a project called one journal square, but prosecutors from the u.s. attorney's office in brooklyn now want to know more about the project's financing. according to "the wall street journal," they've subpoenaed the company for a use of a program that allows foreigners to get green cards, residency, in exchange for investing $500,000 or more in exchange for getting jobs. they're called eb-5 visas. the kushners used eb-5 financing. the second carrying the president's name. trump bay street. a kushner company spokesman told us the program is frequently used by many large developers to raise funds and help create jobs, and they did nothing improper. but in may the company apologized after jared kushner's sister nicole meyer told chinese

investors that the journal square project was important to her entire family and specifically mentioned jared, now a top aide to the president, raising questions of peddling. and there's the question of the u.s. immigration fund. republican senator chuck grassley is calling for a federal review of that company's arrangement with the kushner company. jersey city's mayor has his own questions about the eb-5 program. >> i think the goal of the eb-5 program is low income -- and i think that obviously did not serve that goal. >> did not. >> did not. >> jared kushner's trust still maintains an interest in that trump bay street project, but his lawyers point out he's divested himself of the one journal square project and says he will recuse himself from any matters concerned the eb-5 visa program. anna werner, cbs news, washington. coming up on "cbs this

morning," our ""morning rounds" shows us the transgender oregon man who gave birth to a baby boy on social media.ring his story plus, closing the digital divide. we'll tell you why the government is making a huge investment in high-speed rural areas. and major league baseball is on pace to shatter a home run record. why some say the ball has a lot to do with that. that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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kenny choi. it is just about 6:30. whoo! it's friday. >> i like that. >> it's only 4:30!! [ laughter ] >> thanks for joining us this morning. >> if it was 6:00 and it's still dark outside, i'd have a problem with that. >> it was a month ago. >> no. well, no, because it was lighter about a month ago, now it's going on the other side. we're losing about a minute, 13, 15, a day. it's happening. you know, it's hard to believe that summer is almost over. this is august. 4:30, good morning, everybody. you can't tell, but it's mostly cloudy. you can't tell. but we have a few sprinkles. and you can tell how mild it is. wow! did you guys feel it how warm it is outside? 74 in livermore. 69 in san francisco. san francisco your average high u'mperature 67.