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getting tough. the full security council has korean dictator on notice.orth >> pyongyang gets punished for its missile tests. also tonight, more cities challenge president trump's immigration policies as deportations intensify. >> the kid that walked to school every day in fear that thought i would get caught in gang shooting. >> protecting the dolphins. >> the hawaiian islands are one uh the few places you can get this close to them.
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>> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. trump administration efforts to further isolate north korea may be working. china is urging its outcast neighbor to make a "smart decisi decision" and stop conducting missile launches and nuclear tests. the scolding follows the the passage of a u.n. security council resolution imposing tough new sanctions on the regime. they could cost the country a billion dollars in lost trade. errol barnett has the the latest. president trump says he is working during his stay at his golf club in bedminister but took time to greet wedding guests at his resort. twitter the president described new u.n. sanctions on north korea as the largest ever to punish the country. the sanctions are in response to its testing of two intercontinental ballistic missiles last month.
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analysts believe they were capable of reaching u.s. soil. and could be used to carry a nuclear weapon. >> the north korean threat has not left us. it is rapidly growing dangerous. >> u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley says the move cuts deep but more action is needed. >> while this resolution is a significant step forward it is not nearly enough. >> russia and china didn't use their veto power. and supported sanctions. a move the white house says it appreciates. it is a sign of diplomatic progress for the trump administration which has been trying to convince china to use more of its economic leverage over pyongyang. today, secretary of state, rex tillerson met with his chinese counterpart at a regional summit in the philippines. the two agreed to keep up pressure on the rogue regime. last week, national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster said, mr. trump will continue to resist north korea's development of
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nuclear weapons. >> what we mav have to do is everything we can to pressure this regime, to pressure kim jung-un, and those around him such they conclude its in their interest too denuclearize. >> the state department is banning americans from traveling to north korea. citing risks of long term detention. in june, an american college student was released from jail there in a coma, dying in a u.s. hospital days later. when this ban takes hold, cement 1, north korea will be the only country americans cannot travel to. elaine. >> errol barnett, thanks. we turn to our chief washington correspondent, and "face the nation" host, john dickerson. john in the first week as president trump's chief of staff, john kelly made a big change firing the communications director. will he be able to organize a rather disorganized west wing. >> the reviews from the first week are good, both because the,
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general kelly has been able to tighten up the white house staff, having meetings in which, basically he gets everybody moving in the same direction. he has gotten some of the, fight of the egos apparently in line. it has been one week of course. then his other challenge which he seems to be making some inroads on how to manage up. saying working with the president. president who loves improvization, but who is in a job where it is very hard to improvise and not cause chaos. >> how big of a challenge will that be, manage up? >> it depend mostly, i think the biggest challenge for, for, general kelly is that the president likes to be the author of his own drama. in part because if he is the author of it he can control it. and, and that is just very hard, hard white house environment to work in. there is also the drama that comes not authored by the president, that would be anything the special counsel does. and trying to keep the president from reacting to any new special counsel information that will be
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a big challenge because it is not only probably puts the president in a tricky legal spot, also it distraction from wheverhe white hou is trying to work on in termsf their message. >> all right, john dickerson. thank you so much. >> thank you, elaine. vice president mike pence today strongly denied a report that he is planning a white house run in 2020 if president trump doesn't run for a second term. pence called "the new york times" article "disgraceful and offensive to me, my family, and our entire team." in australia today, american military officials called off the search-and-rescue operation for three missing u.s. marines. they were aboard an osprey aircraft that crashed into the sea on saturday. 23 other service members were rescued. >> today, chicago's mayor, said the city plans to sue the trump administration over threats to withhold money from so-called sanctuary cities. the latest pushback against a
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federal immigration crackdown that is escalating nationwide. here is mireya villarreal. >> reporter: in the front row of the church her family founded north of downtown los angeles, victoria carreas is praying her husband will come home soon, detained by immigration customs enforcement, the undocumented 42-year-old living here with her american born wife and two young children. >> they cry at night. they miss their father. i miss my husband deeply. >> reporter: in a statement to cbs news, i.c.e. says he is a repeat immigration violator who assumed multiple identities and his actions have established a pattern of misrepresentation. carias had several run-ins with i.c.e., granted two stays, his third was denied. >> why do you think he might have been targeted? >> i think he is just a victim of the new administration. >> reporter: the family's attorney believes the president's promise to target criminals is far from what is happening in the field. >> the detentions internally here in the united states have
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increased at 150%. since the obama administration. >> this week, president trump rolled out a new immigration bill that restricts what kind of immigrant should be eligible for a green card. >> our plan favors applicants who can speak english, who can support themselves financially. >> in another southern california case, a man was detained after droppin his daughter off at school. the mexican citizen living in the u.s. for 25 years. >> i didn't feel like my family, any one of us would be a priority for deportation. >> from october 2016 to june, i.c.e. made 102,000 immigration arrests and removed 171,000 people. i.c.e. is focusing efforts on anyone who poses a threat to national security or public safety. but elaine, they also say no one is exempt. >> mireya villarreal.
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severe weather is plaguing part of the plains and deep south this weekend. at least 28 people were hurt when a tornado tore through tulsa, oklahoma. several buildings were destroyed. at least 4 inches of rain also fell. in new orleans, powerful storms dropped nearly a foot of rain. swamping city streets. harvard university expects to enroll a majority nonwhite freshman class this fall for the first time in its history. but the ivy league school is being accused of discrimination. it is part of a new fight over race in college admissions. tony dokoupil explains.
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>> perfect score, 4.67 gpa. >> reporter: michael wang did everything to get into harvard. >> multiple speech, debate award. piano competitions. >> reporter: in 2013, the california high school student was rejected by his dream school even as he says students with lower grades got in. >> asian-americans are set to a higher bar compared to applicants. had i been african-american, latino i may have gone to more schools, not sure myself. >> reporter: the supreme court ruled repeatedly, race can be a factor in college admissions. on the website. harvard talks proudly of considering the whole person in its decisions. but asian students like wang allege that harvard keeps them out with what amounts to illegal cap on asian enrollment and preference for other racial minorities according to a lawsuit filed in 2015 by an advocacy group, students for fair admissions. more than 60 asian-american associations joined, this week the trump administration confirmed it is investigating.
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saying the department of jufs tis is comm -- justice is committed to protecting all americans. >> the college is not releasing the data how exactly they're using race. a senior fellow at the kato institute. >> reporter: you think discrimination against asian-american applicants is real? >> absolutely. against asians, against whites to a lesser extent. i don't think this does a service to anyone on our college campuses. >> reporter: a spokesperson for harvard says the school's approach is consistent with the legal standards stab lieshed by the u.s. supreme court. after his harvard rejection he went on to williams and now works for a law firm. elaine. >> tony dokoupil, thanks. >> another violent weekend in chicago. at least 14 people were hit by gunfire. three died including a 14-year-old boy. additional atf agents are helping combat gun violence in the city, they're led by a chicago native. for her the fight is personal.
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she spoke to adriana diaz. >> i was the kid that walked to school every day in fear that i was going to get call the in a gang shooting. no kid should have to live with that fear. what i say to them is, put the guns down. >> reporter: when you were task tasked -- it is her job toet the guns off the spreets. the headf the atf division nose the pain of gang violence personally. when the chicago native was 8 she lost her cousin who she considered a brother to gang violence. >> i get the anger that some gang members feel, they want retaliation. i say, you know what, turn that hurt into greatness. and do something positive. >> reporter: as her plan attack against violence, she launched chicago's crime gun strike forcing in june. it is a team of city, state, federal agents, tasked with hunting down illegal guns. >> what's that over there? >> this is our forensic lab on wheels. >> reporter: to help, she brought in the a. tf only forensic van. >> here is a shell casing we
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kind of see at crime scenes. >> this screen shows the database from across the country. >> when you can match shell casings, match crime scenes, now you have a possible suspect. eventually will lead us to the gun. >> reporter: in chicago, officials have confiscated more than 5,000 guns since january. 900 more than this time last year. how easy is it for some one to get a gun? >> that easy. >> reporter: gang members tell us the guns are easily replaced. >> seizing these guns is one part of the component. how do you change the mentality, where they feel that, that they need a gun? >> what's happening in chicago can't be put on law enforcement alone. we need how to change the mentality of our juveniles and the young people that want to carry guns. >> reporter: the police have had some gains. shootings are down 13%. already this year there have been 400 people murdered which is up over last year, elaine. >> adriana diaz, thank you.
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>> reporter: mary mahr of washington, d.c. says she started worrying abut her tap water during the water crisis in flint, michigan. what are you most worried about? about your water? >> the chemical that might been our water that we can't see and don't know about. >> reporter: we showed her a new report on tap water from the environmental working group. >> nine contaminants above health guidelines. but there is 18 other contaminants that's kind of crazy. >> reporter: the database allows consumers to go on line and see exactly what contaminants are in the water in their area. the new report also says, all most 19,000 water systems in the u.s. have levels of lead that could affect formula fed babies. and 93 contaminants in the nation's water are linked to increased risk of cancer. with the environmental working group -- >> who is most at risk? >> most at risk are young children, babies, and pregnant
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women. >> reporter: the u.s. environmental protection agency said in a statement, america's drinking water remains among the safest in the world and protecting drinking water is epa's top priority. the agency says more than 90% of the nation's drinking walter systems meet all epa standards. they meet the water quality standard does that mean their water is safe? >> absolutely not. the water quality standard are the legal standards, are set based on a compromise, between health and economical and political interests. it is not purely health. mary maher wonders what it all means for her 12-year-old daughter, ella. >> we don't live in a developing country. it seems like you should be able to trust your water when you live in the united states. >> reporter: there is some good news in all of this, the environmental working group says water filters can reduce or even eliminate many of the contaminants. but, depending on what's in the water, coming into your home, the price of a filter could be
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♪ when school was back in session ♪ ♪ those germs were shared with you ♪ each year kids miss 22 million school days due to illness. but lysol kills 99.9% of cold and flu viruses. a study out this week, revealed a surprising finding about teenage drivers. the older the teen the greater the risk on the road. here is transportation correspondent, kris van cleave. where is your cell known when you drive? >> in the glovebox. out of reach. out of sight. >> reporter: the glovebox. >> yes. >> reporter: riding with 18-year-old dillon mullins it's clear he knows the wheels, hands on the wheel, phone out of reach. but new research shows that's not the case with many teen drivers. >> you feel the pull of the phone? >> yeah, especially when you are in mid conversation before you leave. you have to say i'm driving now. you can still hear the dinging a little from there. >> reporter: the study by
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liberty mutual insurance and students against destructive decisions found older teens are more likely to use their phones while driving. 71% of high school seniors more than freshman, sophomores, or juniors. half of seniors say they use navigation and music apps compared to a third of sophomores. 32% of seniors admit to snapchatting behind the wheel. last month an 18-year-old in california was livestreaming on instagram when sheep lost control and crashed. killing her 14-year-old sister, and injuring another teen. >> the tendency for teenagers is you start cautious, and you get more and more experienced, and feel more and more confident, if they feel more confident, if they feel more powerful, they may jump to more risky behavior. compounding the problem many states drop license restrictions on teens including curfews and limiting passengers when drivers turn 1. this mother says she is not
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dropping her rules. what happens if they dent follow the rules? >> no car. he loses car privileges. >> if she would ever found out something happened and i was texting because of it. >> reporter: while older teens often see themselves as safer drivers than their younger peers, nearly 60% of high school seniors reported being in a crash or having a close call. parents, this is important. researchers say teens are following your lead. if you are on your phone behind the wheel, you can bet your kid probably is too. kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. next, we dive into the water with dolphins in hawaii, for what could be a final swim.
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swimming with dolphins is a popular tourist activity in hawaii. that could be coming to an end. the national oceanic and atmosphric administration wants to ban boats and swimmers from getting too close to the mammals. carter evans in hawaii has the story. >> reporter: we were with the tour group tracking hawaiian spinner dolphins off the west coast of hawaii. >> pretty close to 100 dolphins t the hawaiian island are one of the few places, you can get this close to them. native to hawaii, these spinner dolphins are a smaller species about 4 feet long. they're social animals known for their acrobatic behaviors. in the water they seem curious, and approach us, several swim
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right underneath. >> just hang out in the group. you guys don't push towards them. but our guide, jenna morris is serious about keeping our distance. you don't actually want people touching the dolphins. >> no. i think the hardest single-handedly, hardest part of moo is job is managing expectations that people have. current law prohibits harassing dolphins but doesn't limit how close you can get to them. man have taken advantage. online videos show swimmers frolicking and trying to pet them. >> i do think this human activity is raising their stress levels. >> biologist ann garrett says they're nocturnal and feed at night and come to the shore to rest, and the tour bets are a disturbance. >> what we are seeing their rest times are shortening. the dolphins were concerned with not feeding as well, maybe too tired to do the foraging they need to and are not nurturing their young in the same way they ought to.
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garrett says over time this could lead to decrease in the population, noa is now proposing changes to the current law that would keep people and bets at least 50 yards from the dolphins. >> is it unusual for them to come right up to you? >> no, dolphins are curious by nature. >> reporter: one of the many tour operators against the proposed rule. he says it would be difficult to keep the dolphins away from the bets and hard for tourists to see them at that distance. which could hurt business. but he agrees there are too many tours, and not every tour company its following the rules. >> we are all making a living. we need to protect it. we need to make sure that we are responsible. how we are viewing these animals. >> i don't think the tourists are hunting them right now. as long as everyone listens. >> reporter: sabrina and her daughter try to swim with the dolphins when they visit hawaii. this time may be their last. what is it about getting up so close to the dolphins that is so special? >> just being in nature and in its pure form.
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you get to see them do their thing. it is just beautiful. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, hawaii. that's the "overnight news" for this monday. from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine quijano. >> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. trump administration efforts to further isolate north korea may be working. china is urging its outcast neighbor to make a "smart decision" and stop conducting missile launches and nuclear tests. the scolding follows the passage of a u.n. security council resolution, imposing tough new sanctions on the regime. they could cost the country $1 billion in lost trade. errol barnett has the the latest. president trump says he is working during his stay at his golf club in bedminister but took time yesterday to greet
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wedding guests at his resort. on twitter, the president described new u.n. sanctions on north korea as the largest ever to punish the country. the sanctions are in response to it testing of two intercontinental ballistic missiles last month. analysts believe they were capable of reaching u.s. soil. and could be used to carry a nuclear weapon. the north korean threat has the not left us. it is rapidly growing more dangerous. u.s. ambassador to the u.n., nikki haley said the move cuts deep. but more action is needed. >> while this resolution is a significant step forward, it is not nearly enough. russia and china didn't use their veto power. and supported sanctions. a move the white house says it appreciates. it is a sign of diplomatic progress, for the trump administration. which has been trying to convince china to use more of its economic leverage over pyongyang. today, secretary of stat rex
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tillerson met with his chinese counterpart, at a regional summit in the philippines. the two agreed to keep up pressure on the rogue regime. last week, national security adviser, hr mcmaster said, mr. trump will continue to resist north korea's development of nuclear weapons. >> what we have to do is, everything we can, to, to pressure this regime. to pressure kim jung-un, and those around him such that they conclupd de it is in their interest. >> reporter: the state department is banning americans from traveling to north korea citing risks of long term detension. in june, an american college student was released from jail there in a coma dying in a u.s. hospital days later. when this ban takes hold, september 1, north korea will be the only country americans cannot travel to. elaine. errol barnett, thanks. experts say north korea's current jgeneration of
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intercontinental ballistic missiles would not reach california but could possibly reach alaska or hawaii. the north hasn't proven it can hit targets in the states. but officials in hawaii are preparing for the worst. carter evans reports. >> reporter: north korean missile launches are now much more than just scary images for more than a million people living in the hawaiian islands. based on what you hatch seen, can a north korean missile hit hawaii? >> yeah, i think there is no question about that. >> reporter: jeffrey lewis, a nuclear policy expert at middlebury institute of international studies. >> it is frightening. we need to take it seriously. we need to be calm, measured and know there are things we can do. first, you duck. and then, you cover. >> but don't expect those 50s era civil defense drills, emergency management officials in hawaii are launching a campaign to teach people what to do in the aftermath of a nuclear
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blast. >> we're working on notifications from pacific command to get the word out to the public quickly, get inside. stay inside. stay tuned. >> once a launch is detected. officials estimate people in hawaii would only have about a 15-minute warning before the missile strikes. >> based on the test that he has done so far, in north korea, these are smaller devices, you put those in honolulu, or, in the, central honolulu area, still have a lot of survivors. it doesn't take out the island. >> reporter: hawaii's emphasis is on sheltering in place up to two waeeeks to protect as many from the radio active fallout. but, for a state with an economy that relies heavily on tourism, there are concerns. in a statement, hawaii's tourism authority expressed support for the effort but said, if reports are misinterpret add but the state's need to prepare for an attack this lead to travelers and groups staying away from hawaii. lewis says preparation for an attack is only part of the solution. >> a nuclear war is just such a
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horrible outcome that every moment you spend preparing for it is probably better spent trying to prevent it from ever happening. carter evans, los angeles. vice president mike pence today strongly denied a report that he is planning a white house run in 2020 if ptd trump doesn't run for a second term. pence called "the new york times" article "disgraceful and offensive to me, my family, and our entire team." in australia today, american military officials called off the search-and-rescue operation for three missing u.s. marines. they were abarred oard an ospre aircraft that crashed into the sea. 23 service members were rescued. >> today the chicago mayor said the city plans to sue the trump administration over threats to withhold money from so-called sanctuary cities. latest push back against a federal immigration crackdown that is escalating nationwide.
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here is mireya villarreal. in the front rope of the church her family founded in los angeles, she is praying her husband will come home soon. recently detained by immigration customs enforcement, the undocumented 42-year-old has been living here with his american born wife and two young children. they cry at night. they miss their father. >> reporter: i.c.e. says he is a repeat immigration violator who assumed multiple identities and his actions have established a pattern of misrepresentation. carias had several run-ins with ice. he was granted two stays but his third was denied. why do you think he might have been targeted. >> i just think he is a victim of the new administration. >> the family's attorney, believes the president's promise to target criminals, is far from what is happening in the field. >> the detentions, internally, here in the united states, have, increased at 150%. since the obama administration.
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this week, president trump rolled out a bill that restricts what kind of immigrant should be restricted from a green plan. >> our plan favors applicant whose can speak english who, can support themselves financially. >> reporter: in another southern california case, this man was detained after dropping his daughter off at school. the mexican citizen had been living in the u.s. for 25 years. i didn't feel like my family, any one of us would be priority for detags. from october 2016 to june, i.c.e. made 102,000 immigration arrests and removed 171,000 people. i.c.e. is focusing their efforts on anyone who poses a threat to national security or public safety. but elaine they also say, no one is exempt. >> mireya villarreal, thank you. severe weather is plaguing
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part of the plains and deep south this weekend. at least 28 people were hurt when a tornado tore through tulsa, oklahoma. the ok, let's try this. it says you apply the blue one to me. here? no. have a little fun together, or a lot. k-y yours and mine. two sensations that work together, so you can play together. ♪ su♪ a cold, a bug, a flu ♪ when school was back in session ♪ ♪ those germs were shared with you ♪
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the federal government is stepping up its efforts to bring high speed internet to the countryside. right now, only 3% of those living in cities, can't get online. but in rural america, 35% have no access to at all. the fcc last week committed $2 billion to help close the gap. tony dokoupil visited dawsonville, georgia, just 40 miles outside atlanta with very spotty internet. >> reporter: at this on tom tree office in northern, georgia.
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>> perfect. >> dr. brian burke takes pride in his sleek technology. >> i wanted to be the most modern office we could be. >> but he has to run it at 20th century pace. >> when you say it feels like the 90s here, you are serious. >> it does. people can remember back when you would do your dialup and wait for, wait for it to spin around until actually got a connection we face that as daily part of doing business. >> reporter: the fcc defines high speed internet as download speeds of 25 mbps a second. dr.burg's is half the that speed or less. >> why can't you call and say we need faster internet? >> we tried. it's not successful. >> reporter: he spent $25,000 on a server to avoid transferring large files online. >> this server is a replacement for -- for high speed internet. >> that is correct. >> reporter: but slowdowns at the front desk prevent at least
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20 patients a week from getting in for treatment. the internet is is a physical thing. >> yes, it is. this is the internet. where networks connect to each other. >> reporter: andrew blum, author of the book about the guts of the in the net took us to a tightly guarded rhyme in new york to see one of hubs that connects broadband users here with high speed networks elsewhere. >> bandwidth in this room is cheaper and more abundant than anywhere on earth. the challenge is connecting where we are to the rest of the country. >> reporter: rural homes and businesses are far from the hubs and often far from each other in areas where fiber optic cable can cost $40,000 per mile. slow speeds can make downloading songs take up to 16 times longer. a movie that takes fewer than 8 minutes elsewhere, can some times take up to 1.5 hours. >> we are working hard and fast as we can to get as close to customers as we can. >> reporter: he runs georgia operations for winstream, one of rural america's largest internet
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providers. he brought us to a home where one of his technicians was installing broadband. >> why can't you bring high speed internetd to everybody i the countryside? >> challenge of economics trying to get further out into the rural network, density spread out. population being mr. and more spread out. a challenge no matter what provider you are. >> reporter: in the meantime working from home is a challenge for folk like fom who logs on instead at a nearby lunch spot. >> i live a mile up the road north. of tt way they do not have it. they have fter internet down th way. st has not made it a mile away. >> we hear about it all the time. one of our most pressing issues. >> congressman doug collins trying to encourage competition to connect the last mile. in produced a bill to offer tax in send tichs for come pans to improve their connections. >> many people are locked into mon on listic situations where it doesn't get better. >> telecom crews say they're working to make things better, line by line, mile by country
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begins his story on the florida interstate. tony hughes has been a long haul truck driver more than 20 years. but today, all he has the to do is sit back and relax. >> okay. rosebud is on. whoo. hauling 20,000 pounds of freight down the florida turnpike in a self-driving robotic truck. retrofitted with a self-driving kit made by starsky robotics. the two founders of the company in 2016. >> we think that some times towards the end of the year, we could be doing this run without a person behind the wheel. >> this year. >> yes. >> self driving trucks this year. >> yep. >> not his company it might be otto whose truck made headlines last october by driving itself across colorado to deliver a shipment of beer. otto is owned by uber which has also been testing self-driving
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taxis in pennsylvania and arizona. but here is the thing -- once our trucks and taxis drive themselves, what will happen to the people who used to do those jobs? in the u.s., that's 180,000 taxi drivers, 600,000 uber drivers, and 3.5 million truck drivers. >> we really need to start to think seriously about this. >> martin ford is author of, rise of the robots. >> this is it. >> he says driverless cars and trucks are just the beginning of a wave of automation, that will threaten millions of jobs, in every industry at once. like america's nearly 5 million store workers. amazon is testing its first amazon go grocery store in seattle. the company says shoppers there will soon be able to walk into the store, take what they want, and walk out again, without ever encountering an employee. sensors will detect what you take, and bill you automatically.
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>> the cashiers are totally gone. you are going to end up with, the ee kwif lquivalent of wal-m handful of employees, scale that out that is disruptive. >> reporter: you name an occupation, there is somebody considering a robot to take it over. >> look how delicate. perfect every time. >> reporter: at zoom pizza in silicone, vamy. four specialized robots help make the pizza. eventually, the company plans to replace the remaining humans on the line, too. here is zoom's chief technology officer, josh goldberg. >> you would think there would be some roman pizza chefs who would say, no this is not the way it has ben done since our ancestors. >> the world changes. there its a lot of other things we dent do just the way our ancestors did either. >> the common wisdom, robots threaten, repetitive, blue-collar jobs. not so says martin ford. >> we are seeing dramatic advances in, in the area of
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computers, analyzing tumors, recognizing -- medical scans, mammograms, and being able to find disease. we are seeing, you know, algorithms moving to journalism for example. >> wait, wait, wait. certainly not journalism. >> oh, yeah, absolutely. journalism. by one account, every 30 seconds there is a -- news story published on the web or in a newspaper that is machine generated. >> algorithms are threatening the masters of the universe. earlr this year, blackrock the world's largest money manager announced it is laying off dozens of human stock pickers. and replacing them with robots. by 2025, across the financial industry, artificial intelligence its expected to replace 230,000 human workers. bring on the disruption that is automation. >> the chief information officer at goldman sachs, the company now hires as many computer engineers as financial workers.
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>> during the movie wall street they would have been barking, buy, buy, buy. >> now, click, click, click, type, type, type. >> see the famous goldman sachs trading floor, a quarter of these people aren't traders, they're coders. writing soft ware to automate the routine grunt work of employees all across the company. someday could software replace the functions of these folks? >> great question. i don't think anybody knows the answer. >> all right. we get it. no job is safe. according to one recent study, 47% of a can jobs, could be lost to automation, in the next 20 years. martin ford says it is team to start thinking about what we are going to live on in the post robot economy. one of the best ideas out there is some kind of a universal basic income or guaranteed minimum income. >> this is where everybody gets, let's say $10,000 a year just for being alive. >> right. i think a better way to think of it in terms of the idea that we
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built this tremendously prosperous society, everyone ought to have if you are a citizen at least some ownership stake in this. >> the purpose of having a job is not to just to have income. it is also, meaning and purpose, and a place to go every day. >> that's right. that will be a real challenge. think it is a challenge with us all. >> wait. most experts do agrae that automation will soon take over millions of our jobs. but they don't all agree that that will mean mass unemployment. >> history has suggested that, that the pessimists have been wrong time and time again. >> including mit economist, david otter. >> the last 200 years we had incredible amount of automation. we have tractors that do the work that horses and people toed to do on farms. , we dent dig ditches by hand anymore. we don't pound tools out of wrought iron. we dent do book keeping with books. but this has not in net reduced the amount of emt ploimt. >> reporter: he points out changes won't happen overnight.
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>> i am sure 20 years from now, almost no one will be driving a vehicle. young people are forward looking. they say i guess i will not have a driving career. i am not going to go there. >> except that the young people might think i will go into retail. but that is also going away. maybe i will be a chef. that is also going away. maybe be a paralegal. that is also going away. >> do the following thought exercise. year 1900. and 40% of all employment is in agriculture. right? and so, some -- some twerpy economist from mit teleports % back in time to farmer pogue here says 100 years from now. only 2% of people will be working in agriculture. what do you think the other 3% of people are going to do? >> well i wouldn't know. >> oh, search engine opt midization, health and wellness, soft ware, mobile devices. most of what we do, barely existed. 100 years ago. >> reporter: in other words just because we can't predict what we will be doing doesn't mean we will be doing nothing. and sure enough, deep spite
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having replaced so many stock traders with software, he said goldman sachs still employs the same number of people and their jobs have been enhanced by automation. >> all of a sudden that young person is engaging with the client on their actual problems. rather than being stuck to 1:00 a.m. doing nothing but manning several spread sheets trying to corral all the data together. you will hear the same argument at starsky robotics. its trucks will self drive only on the highways. the company will still employ human drivers, but they'll silt in front of screens, driving the trucks by remote control. once they're off the highway. and if tony hughes can keep his job, without the weeks away. >> on that aspect. it is going to make my life better. >> if you get hired to be one of the pilots. remote control pie lots. >> true. >> he is on the top of the list. >> so, since this might be my last chance to be in a truck with a human driver, i had to
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we end this half-hour on a musical note. that steve hartman heard on the road. >> reporter: welcome us to portland oregon, 67-year-old steve goodwin would look to play one of his songs for you. >> ah. >> reporter: you have no idea how much he would look to play one of his songs for you. ah. ah. what key is it in? >> it made me almost hate the piano. then i realized it is not the piano's fault. i know huh to d how to do this. it's this thing going on with my brain. >> how about i play something else. >> reporter: three years ago, steve was diagnosed with alzheimers disease. he had to give up his job as
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software designer. his wife jody says the cruelest part is the toll it is taking on the music he composed. >> losing the songs would be like losing him. steve and jody have been married 47 years. and along the way, steve come posed more than two dozen songs. mostly for her. he played them daily. and they became the sound track of their lives. >> i love you. >> unfortunately, he never wrote down most of them. >> no, let's see. >> so when his memory started failing and the songs started fading there was no we to get them back. until -- a family friend, a professional pianist, offered to launch a rescue mission. >> i said if he can at least play through it even in pieces i can learn it. and so, for the last two years, naomi laveolette has been
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reconstructing his compositions note by note. >> just on the one. >> done beat. >> one downbeat. yes. >> we are rolling. >> reporter: and of course they're recording the songs. never to be lost again. >> i realized there was a part of him that wasn't going to fade away. >> reporter: but this may be the best part. with naomi's help, steve was able to write a new song. although he forgets entire conversations, and can no longer add even single digit numbers, somehow, his mind dreamed up this. ♪ ♪ alzheimers steals a lot, but today, we score one for the beauty left behind. >> sweet. >> got it. >> steve hartman on the road, in portland, oregon. >> right on.
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