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residents were rescued by the national guard.
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scores of others waded through two feet of water carrying what's left of their possessions. in this suburb of san juan, residents forged through flooded streets heading to the only open grocery store. only five were allowed in at a time to avoid chaos. maria inflicted damage on 80% of the homes here and like the rest of the island, there is no power or phone service. we rode with the mayor as he surveyed the damage and watched these young men help police rescue a 91-year-old man in a kayak. outside that man's house, his neighbors wept. his home was surrounded by arhot-deep water. e hi m?yo i'm good thanks to the virgin mary, he said. it wasn't any different here where teens went house to house rescuing the sick and elderly. at this shelter, residents nervously checked makeshift lists looking for names of
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family members who are safe. janice longoria has been looking for her 77-year-old aunt since yesterday. >> she's an elderly person. i don't know how is she? it's hard. >> reporter: and for those families able to reconnect -- words can't describe. the governor of puerto rico says two thirds of the island are a disaster zone tonight. the airport in san juan reopened but only for military and emergency operations and amid this misery you should know we have seenry resill jens as one man told us with a smile on his face, we're used to this. >> thank you, david. it wasn't a missile this time, tonight, kim jong-un shot off msnghiresident donald trump a mentally deranged dotard and will pay for his threats which include wiping
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north korea off the map. mr. trump slapped new economic sanctions on the north. here's white house and senior foreign affairs correspondent margaret brennan. >> reporter: president trump wants to renegotiate the 2015 agreement that froze iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions. >> that deal is an embarrassment to the united states. >> reporter: he wants a longer, more stringent deal and is trying to force the issue by accusing iran of not complying with the terms of the existing teal although all five other signatories say otherwise. so does the secretary of state. >> iran is in technical compliance of the agreement. >> reporter: iranian president, hassan rouhani warned that a pullout would lead to
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diplomat -- talking is a waste of time and no other government would be willing to negotiate that tramp also on its commitments. walking away would complicate u.s. attempts to get north korea to give up its nuclear weapons. >> if we back away in any way from our nuclear agreement with iran, we send a signal to north korea that a future president might unravel their deal too. so it is a disincentive, a strong disincentive for north korea to come to an agreement with the united states. >> reporter: secretary of state rex tillerson says he is optimistic. >> the threat is the same but the nature of t agreements are different in terms of what's necessary to achieve the objective, a denukized north korea and iran that never pursues nuclear weapons. >> i asked nikki haley if
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walking away from the iran nuclear deal hurts the ability to get a deal with north korea. and coming up next, the impact of flint's tainted water on the health of women and babies. want in on the secret to ageless skin. take the olay 28 day challenge. millions of real women see results starting day 1. "there is not a friend i have, that will not own this product"" visible results or your money back olay. ageless. mom i dropped my ball. got it. ewwww oh eat it! lysol kills 99.9% of bacteria on soft and hard surfaces. one more way you've got what it takes to protect.
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a new study blames contaminated water in flint, michigan for severe health problems, dean reynolds is in flint. when she looks at the ultrasound of the twin she lost two years ago her anger is evident. >> i believe the lead in the water caused me to have my miscarriages in 2015. >> reporter: back then she was drinking and bathing in the water pumpeto the home by the city of flint. the city switched the water source to the flint water because it was cheaper than the water from detroit but it leeched lead from her pipes into our faucet and leadts per billion were found. safe levels are no higher than
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15 parts per billion. >> we were taking showers and baths and breaking out with -- i don't knowhat w weren't scabs but bumps and stuff all over our bodies. >> reporter: her case is not isolated. fetal death rates increased by 58% in flint after the city switched its water source in april 2014. daniel grossman is a co author of the study. >> the costs of the water change were not limited to effects on children and adults but also led to large decreases in fertility rates which could have long-lasting effects on the >> reporter: a judge today was he is accused of involuntary manslaughter by failing to warn the public about an outbreak of legionnaire's disease which was
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violence erupted today as tueyrk'sde lea new york when protesters called president erdogan a terrorist, his security team dragged them out. one protester was punched in the face. there was a similar scene in may outside the turkish ambassador's house in washington. a big change at brigham young university. the school ended a 60-year-old ban on the sale of caffeinated soft drinks. no more byob at byu. up next, did "star trek" get it right? >> announcer: this portion is sponsored by --
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that's "star trek: discovery" premayoring on cbs. riente on the deck of the wnse krp asnohe "cbs overnight news." we asked dr. jon lapook how well the "star trek" franchise has done over the years at predicting the future of medicine. >> i was able to put a scope in and biopsy the pancreas which was unknown. >> unless you were watching "star trek." >> to boldly go where no man was gone before. >> star trek said you would scan
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someone without touching them. >> reporter: the tricorder, we have ct scan, mri and ultrasound. >> what else? >> where captain kirk would talk to someone on a tv i can talk to a patient remotely. > reporter: dr. mccoy's hypospray -- the lenses that let geordi see. >> what about sick bay. >> they get on the bed and the monitors would go on like the monitors here. that has come true. >> we got a sneak preview from this starship sick bay. but at the end of the day, "star trek" was more than just fancy gadgets. it saw a world of inclusiveness with doctors of color, male and female and in the new series,
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"star trek: discovery," a physician who is openly gay. >> what were we doing in a nebraska ole. >> we consulted a specialist, he played the emergency medical hologram. >> i would appear and say -- >> please state the nature of the medical emergency. >> do you think in the future a computer algorithm could entirely replace a physician? >> that artificial intelligence will be created from the personal experiences of a large group of doctors. so, yes, i believe a day will come when you will be obsolete. >> until we reach that final prone tear -- >> computer, end program. >> reporter: i remain dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. and that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you the news continues. from the broadcast center in new
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york city i'm anthony mason. thanks for watching. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> announcer: this is the "cbs captioning funded by cbs welcome to the overnight news. hurricane maria is lashing the turks and caicos island. maria destroyed thousands of homes in puerto rico, flooding towns and touching off mudslides. power is out on the entire island and president trump has declared the island a disaster area. david begnaud has the story. >> reporter: in the small town of toa baja, hundreds of residents were rescued by the national guard, most packed into trucks while scores of others waded through two feet of water, carrying what's left of their possessions. in the san juan suburbs,
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residents forged through flooded streets, heading to the only open grocery store. only five were allowed in at a time to avoid chaos. maria inflected damage on 80% of the homes here and like the rest of the island, there is no power or phone service. we rode with the mayor as he surveyed the damage and watched these young men help police rescue a 91-year-old man in a kayak. outside that man's house, his neighbors wept. his home was surrounded by yohot-deep water. feeling, i as him?e u i'm good, thanks to the virgin mary, he said. it wasn't any different here where teams went house to house rescuing the sick and elderly. at this shelter, residents nervously checked makeshift lists looking for names of family members who were safe.
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janice longoria has been looking for her 77-year-old aunt since yesterday. >> she's an rldly person. so i don't know how is she? it's hard. >> reporter: for those families able to reconnect, words can't describe. the governor of puerto rico says two-thirds of this island are a disaster zone tonight. the airport in san juan reopened for military and emergency operations. and amid the misery we have seen resilience. as one man told us with a smile on his face, we're used to this. and central mexico, families are holding out hope that their loved ones can be pulled out alive from the buildings collapsed by the earthquakes. manuel bojorquez is in mexico city. >> reporter: at the start of the day, rescuers believed a 12-year-old girl was trapped in
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this school. the drama riveted the nation as crews used thermal cameras to figure out how to reach her. they brought a teacher to the scene believing the girl might hang on if she heard a familiar voice. but the government announced the signs of life were likely an adult, possibly a janitor, not a student, after all. elsewhere, crews mounted rescues through small cracks in the rubble, pulling survivors to safety. others mourned. near the epicenter 11 members of one family were killed when a church collapsed during a baptism. the violent quake struck on the exact anniversary of the catastrophic 1985 quake that killed nearly 10,000 people. but this time, the city's seismic warning sounded and people ran into the main square.
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engineering professor sergio says it's a new line of defense as are stronger building codes. >> i would say the type of structure used in mexico city now is a structure where more walls are being used aside just from columns and beams and that makes the structure stiffer and stronger. >> but it did not prevent this collapse. this woman is still searching, waiting for her son, gustavo. >> do you wish you could be in there yourself, searching, yourself, for him? her son is among 40 people listed as missing from the collapsed office building behind me. and you can see from the wet roads here that a thunderstorm rolled through this evening, hampering the rescuers efforts. the white house is tightening the financial screws on north korea over its nuclear and missile programs and the administration hasn't announced
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whether the u.s. will pull out of the nuclear treaty with iran. margaret brennan reports. ostwaporter: president trump r5 agreement that froze iran's nuclear program. >> that deal is an embarrassment to the united states and i don't think you've heard the last of it. >> reporter: he wants a longer, more stringent deal and is trying to force the issue by accusing iran of not complying with the terms of the existing deal even though all five other signatories including russia and china, say otherwise. so does the secretary of state. >> iran is in technical compliance of the agreement. >> reporter: iranian president hassan rouhani says his country will not renegotiate and warned a u.s. pullout would have broader imp cases. >> is there a diplomatic way out? >> talking would be a waste of time, he said and no other government would be willing to
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negotiate with a country that tra tramp also on its agreements. >> if we back away in any way from our nuclear agreement with iran, we send a signal to north korea that a future president might unravel their deal too, so it's a strong disincentive for north korea to come to an agreement with the united states. >> reporter: secretary of state rex tillerson said he is optimist take the u.s. can handle both threats. >> the threat is the same but the nature of the agreements will be different in terms of what is necessary to achieve the objective of a denuclearized north korea and an iran that never pursues nuclear weapons. this photo of sean spicer appears to validate reporting that spicer kept copious notes during the campaign and while at the white house.
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the notes have drawn the attention of special counsel robert mueller. the notes river to top administration officials, r.p. for reince priebus, rex for secretary of state rex tillerson, the photo was shot at an april press conference with president trump and the secretary-general of nato. spicer refused comment on the photo or the suggestion his notes could become part of mueller's investigation into russian meddling and the trump campaign. on abc this morning, spicer deflected all mueller questions. >> i'm not going to discuss that issue at all. >> so you haven't been subpoenaed? >> i'm not going to discuss that issue at all. >> did you ever hear inside the white house that mueller should be fired? >> i'm not going to discuss that issue at all. >> as press secretary he tried to undercut the russia story.
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♪ >> reporter: braun helped guide bieber from internet obscurity to global recognition. ♪ >> reporter: it's been a ten-year career full of public highs -- >> you are charged with the following -- >> reporter: and lows. in july he cancelled the remaining 14 days of his world tour. he apologized to fans, citing struggles with broken relationships and insecurities. he's now cancelled the tour. was that a difficult decision? >> extremely the. you know, i think it will be -- >> reporter: people think he's having issues, what's going on with him? seems to be falling in another dark place. true, not true? >> he will decide to tell people what happened when he's ready. but i think he was making a decision to protect himself. but he's 23 years old now. and if -- >> he's a grown up. >> reporter: if he makes a decision as a man as long as he
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is willing to listen to opinions and hear people out if he has conviction i'll have his back. >> reporter: braun sayshat cent family but admits the trials throughout his career have at times be difficult. did it strain your relationship? >> absolutely. i wasn't willing to be a yes man. he was going through really hard times and for a year and a half i failed. >> you failed? >> completely. i tried every single thing to get him back on the right track and failed time and time again. and my dad gave me great advice. he said your responsibility is not to change him but to be a rock. >> reporter: you're close to your family, your mom and dad in particular. is there something that stands out about the lessons that your dad taught you? >> there was one day when i was 14 years old and i got in trouble for a white lie a couple days earlier and he said i want to talk to you and i said okay,
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he said you lied and we caught you and i keep thinking about how well you lied and i want you to know i know you're a liar. and my dad was my hero. that hurt. big time. >> how did that affect you, scooter? >> i was shaking and i said, you know, i'm going to go through life and be successful but i'm going to do it with integrity. i don't want to be a liar. ♪ >> reporter: lately braun has been mixing entertainment with philanthropy as executive producer of the hand in hand telethon that raised over $55 million for victims of hurricanes harvey and irma. in june of this year he organized one love manchester. >> you look fear in the face and you said no, we are manchester
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oysters you love them or won't put one in your mouth but either way they are big business these days, faith salie reports. >> blue points, beaver tail, bob, the sweetie. >> reporter: ask the chef what's on the menu at the grand central oyster bar in new york city, and you may be there for a while. >> will miyagi, rip tide, saddle rock. summer side -- >> reporter: it wasn't always this way. >> i started in 1990. and for about the first seven or eight years, very difficult to buy a lot of different varieties of oysters. there weren't any around. >> reporter: in case you didn't know we are in something of an walk into a restaurant like
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brooklyn's restaurant than you can find oysters from around the country and beyond. now if you think all this oyster slurping is nothing but a fad -- consider these thoughts from rowan jacobson. >> when you pick up an oyster you are kind of reliving this very early experience of humanity, which is eating a raw animal live out of its shell. an oyster is live up to the moment yout ick s i un aclearnd dead it is, right? so you're doing something that is definitely not a party of normal, you know, civilized life. and there's an intensity to that experience. you know, it's just like one-on-one, you and the oyster. >> reporter: and as more and more americans experience that rush, oystermen and women can't keep up with demand and prices are higher than ever. but today's story of the north
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american oyster doesn't begin in fancy restaurants or the depths of the oceans but here, where the water meets the land at america's oyster farms. >>es.'ma a fm? kitherooe's the l buoys out her yellow buoys are the corner markers of the farm. >> reporter: skip bennett has been raising oysters across from massachusetts's cape cod for 20 years, suddenly adding new farms to keep up with demand. >> how much has your business grown since 1995? >> about 40% annually. >> reporter: he and his team raise the oysters in the hatchery and move them to several far in the bay and nearby creek because it turns out with oysters, not unlike wine, geography matters. now are the oysters from your new farm going to taste different from the oysters from the original? >> they do. we are starting to taste the
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oysters. they've been out here for a couple of months and they taste quite different. >> how? >> it has to do with the location and oyster farming it's the slinity and type of food in the water and the chemistry of the water. >> reporter: now get this, oyster farmers never have to feed their livestock. they consume algae and plankton. they are in effect tiny water filters and so good at it they can turn murky water clear. incredibleably, a single oyster can filter 20 to 50 gallons of water a day. >> they are the greenest critter in the ocean. it's almost miraculous. you put baby ones in the water, wait two years, take out big ones, good to go. >> they seem they should be the food of the future. >> you're not the first person to say that. a lot of people are look at oysters and clams and mussels as
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a really potentially huge source of food for the future. >> reporter: and you might be surprised to learn that we wouldn't have this bounty of bi-valves were it not for the clean water act of 1972. >> the waters in the northwest, particular particularly puget sound area are quite a bit cleaner than when i grew up. there was a pulp mill that was still functioning when i was born and basically the waters here were a dead zone. there wasn't much that grew here. >> reporter: bill taylor's family has been raising oysters around shelton, washington since the 19th century. today just across the bay from the town's closed pulp mill, sp ne ove harjapan. >> we sell around 35 million oysters, live, each year. >> reporter: that's a lot of
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oysters. and this is probably the right time to confess that, until shooting this story your correspondent had never tasted a single one. >> how would you turn someone who never wants to try an oyster into someone who wants to try one. >> as long as they are willing to give it a try. you talk about the flavor and to me, it's like the smell of the beach. if you have ever been at the beach for the day in the afternoon when it starts to cool down and the beach smells sweet and salty and you can smell the air. >> reporter: i came and i smelled the air and tasted my first oyster. >> and then we're going straight down the hatch. >> only for you, i'm telling you. cheers. this way, right? and i take the liquid and everything all at once? okay.
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dignitaries as quickly and as safely as possible where they need to go. as they ride past it looks so easy. nearly two dozen motorcycles clearing the way for the president. but it's the culmination of a year's worth of planning and practice. president trump is one of 11 world leaders that attend the general assembly that get a continuous escort in new york. >> is this like the motorcade super bowl? >> exactly. >> reporter: thomas is a former motorcycle officer. >> we call them the a-team. they are the best rider in highway district and selected because of their skill. >> reporter: long before they hop on a harley, they have to make it through a grueling 20-day training course. only about half pass. we got special access to their facility and watched the officers practice. a few rideahead looking for potential threats and block roads and race to get back to
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the front. the others stay in a wedge formation in front of the dignitary. >> we have to be ready for everything. >> reporter: during his 35 year career he has worked on at least 75 presidential escorts. >> like i tell the new students when they come in, when they came on this job they get a ticket to every major event in the city. when they are in the highway patrol they get a front-row seat. >> reporter: this job is not without its risks there have several officers injured or killed in motorcade accidents in recent years. this unit vice presidents the vice president and pope and outside of the u.n. general assembly. when they're not doing that they make up the highway patrol. that's the news for this friday. check back with usater l for ne this morning. from the broadcast center in new
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york city. captioning funded by cbs it's friday, september 22nd, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." tensions rise. president trump approved tougher sanctions against north korea as kim jong-un lashes out at president trump calling him deranged and promising revenge. facebook is changing its policies. >> we can't prevent all governments from all interference but we can make it harder. and recovery efforts are under way in puerto rico after hurricane maria leaves the island in ruins.

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