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as long as you do it. have a great day. good morning to our viewers in the west. it's tuesday, june 5th, 2018. welcome to "cbs this morning." rescuers struggle to reach people buried in ash after a uption. we're at the scene in guatemala where more than 60 are dead, thousands are in shelters and many are missing. special counsel robert mueller accuses paul manafort of witness tampering. sources tell cbs news president trump's former campaign chairman hopes for a pardon if he's convicted. a groundbreaking new cancer treatment could help beat the most stubborn cancers. dr. jon lapook shows us how immunotherapy saved the life of one breast cancer patient.
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but a new report finds sweepstake and lottery scams cost americans more than $100 million a year. you'll see how the professional crooks can be very convincing. and oprah winfrey returns to studio 57 only on "cbs this morning." she'll reveal her newest book club selection. >> we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> the death toll is rising from a fiery eruption in guatemala. >> it is a humanitarian crisis in the making. >> the desperate search for survivors continues. >> thousands of people from the area have been displaced. many of them have no idea when they'll be allowed back home. >> the special counsel accusing paul manafort of attempting to tamper with witnesses. >> they're asking the court to revoke his bond as well as his house arrest. >> mueller might have indicted manafort incorrectly. we'll have to find out. >> president trump has disinvited the philadelphia eagles from visiting the white house, saying some players refuse to stand for the national
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anthem. >> former president bill clinton trying to explain himself after attempting to defend his handling of the monica lewinsky scandal. >> i support the me too movement and i think it's long overdue. >> starbucks says its executive airman howard shultz is stepping down this month. number of options including public service. >> all that -- >> for the double play! jesse warren! >> and all that matters -- >> the u.s. supreme court has ruled in favor of a colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. >> in my opinion, if there's anything america is not going to stand for, it's less cake. >> on "cbs this morning." >> if you were planning to invite fbi agents to a party, be warned, because they got some banging dance moves. >> an fbi agent is under investigation after his gun accidentally went off on a dance floor in denver. >> so now the denver police are investigating the agent, as are producers of "dancing with the stars." i tell you, i think that would
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make the show a lot the more entertaining. >> this morning's eye opener is presented by toyota, let's go places. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." as you get dance moves, that's what those are? >> jimmy, he was clearly making a joke, but i wouldn't be surprised if "dancing with the stars" calls that guy. >> "dancing with the stars" the duck and cove er edition. >> the fbi may be no, no, no. >> the number of people killed in guatemala is rising sharply. government says at least 69 people have been killed and an unknown number are missing and believed to be buried in the ash. >> the fire erupted on sunday. the explosion filled the air with a mix of lava and rocks and
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ash. it sits about 30 miles from the capital guatemala city, home to about 3 million people. manuel bojorquez is there. >> reporter: hundreds of workers are trying to reach remote areas around the volcano that have become impassable because of things like this. this is a mound of ash. and you can see in this village, it goes as high as the street signs. in some areas, the ground is still so hot that it can melt the soles of your shoes. from above, the once densely vegetated area surrounding the volcano is now coated in thick gray ash. a day after the eruption, much of the charred terrain was still too hot in some places for rescuers to search for survivors. in areas that are reachable, rescue teams wear protective masks and use construction equipment to navigate the dangerous conditions. babies and children killed during the eruption are wrapped in blankets and taken to a
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temporary morgue to be identified. one rescuer miraculously saved this baby buried for nearly a day. crews worked by land and air to save stranded people in towns close to the volcano. on monday, guatemalan president jimmy morales traveled to a hard-hit area where a woman begged him for help. "mr. president, my family is missing, she says, all of my brothers, my mother, all my family are there. more than 20 have disappeared." sunday's violence eruption left many residents with just minutes to try to escape. government officials held off for hours on issuing a warning because they believed the threat was diminishing before the blast. thousands of people are staying in shelters as they wait for word about their loved one. we were just allowed in this one shelter set up in a gymnasium. they're putting down their cots for the night. there are men, women, children. we've even seen pets here. these are all people displaced by the volcano.
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do you people who are missing? >> i don't know their name, i know their faces, and they're not here. >> reporter: just behind me are some of the homes that are now half buried in ash. even though the eruption has stopped, people here are not out of the woods. there is rain in the forecast. that could ham peres skew effpe efforts. the rain could make a concrete-like substance that could further damage infrastructure here. >> thank you, manuel bojorquez. the kilauea volcano is once again pouring into the ocean. and releasing toxic steam mixed with tiny particles of glass. the number of homes destroyed by the eruption is dramatically higher this morning. carter evans is in kapoha with more on this story. >> reporter: good morning. that's kilauea's most active fissure behind me.
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the lava fountain lighting up the night sky for miles around and the lava field growing as well. it now covers about eight square miles. that's the equivalent to 3,800 football fields. this is the eruption that's been blasting lava up to 260 feet in the air for more than a week. the total number of home, destroyed is now believed to be 159, up from 87 on friday. this is the second time lava has hit the ocean since the crisis began. this is where the lava meets the ocean. it's cool now, so it's hard enough to walk on, but you can still see some steam rising there, and the problem with this flow is that it crossed a major highway. the communities of kapoha and vacation land are now completely surrounded by lava after escape routes were overrun this weekend. authorities don't have a firm count on the number of people who have chosen to stay behind. but they believe it's more than a dozen. rnder now doing flyovers to watch the lava and look for anyone who now might
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want to leave. >> we're looking, you know, for people. if they want to come out, they'll wave us down. >> everything from that way is new. >> reporter: jeffrey wise decided to leave because there was only one remaining escape route. >> cracks with steam coming out of it. so i haven't been staying at my house in the case it would be compromised and i wouldn't be able to get out. >> reporter: meanwhile, hundreds of earthquakes continue to shake kilaue kilauea's summit, including a magnitude 5.5 on sunday that sent ash some 8,000 feet into the air. covering popular tourist areas and leaving huge cracks in nearby roads. we're now more than a month into this eruption. the destruction and the uncertainty has left these evacuees exhausted. there is the possibility this could last for months or even longer. that has many people thinking about where they might live for the long term. john. >> carter, thanks. those pictures still amazing.
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special counsel robert mueller claims former trump ca rying to sway potential witnesses in his fraud and money laundering case. prosecutors want a judge to decide if manafort should go to jail until his upcoming trial. paula reid is at the white house. paula, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. paul manafort has so far refused to cooperate in the special counsel investigation in the hope he would receive a presidential pardon if he is convicted. it appears he may not be so confident about that possibility of a pardon, as he is now accused of trying to tamper with witnesses ahead of his upcoming trial. >> he has done nothing wrong and this is a horrible -- not only a horrible p horrible perversion of justice, this has got to come to an end. >> reporter: while giuliani called for an end to the russia investigation, robert mueller accused trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort of trying to coach witnesses who may be
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called to testify against him. allegedly using encrypted apps and an intermediary to contact two former business associates. sources tell cbs news that manafort is banking on a presidential pardon if he is convicted. there's no evidence he's been promised one. >> the president hasn't done anything wrong and wouldn't have any need for a pardon. >> reporter: white house press secretary sarah sanders addressed the possibility of the president pardoning himself. repeatedly saying the president had done nothing wrong. but told reporters certainly no one is above the law. the president tweeted earlier, monday, that he had the absolute right to pardon myself, but why would i do that when i have done nothing wrong? monday night, giuliani again argued the president could pardon himself if he wished. >> the pardon power is complete and there's no limitation on it. >> reporter: the president's republican capitol hill allies said that would be a grave mistake. >> politically, it would be a terrible idea. >> i can't imagine a president even bringing that up. i don't know where that comes from.
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>> reporter: giuliani also defended sarah sanders and the president's other attorney over statements they made alleging the president had no role in crafting a misleading statement about his son's 2016 trump tower meeting with a group of russians. we now know the president actually dictated that statement, but giuliani said sanders and the other attorneys weren't lying, they were merely mistaken. john. >> all right, paula, we're also, in other news, one week away from the summit with north korea. who is working most closely with the president on the negotiations? >> traditionally, that would fall to the national security adviser. in this case, john bolton. but cbs news has learned that there is tension between the president and john bolton. the president was especially upset about comments that bolton made on "face the nation" comparing the north korea negotiations to the denuclearization of libya, which obviously upset a lot of north koreaning koreans. so the president has given his the lead ahead of the summit. >> fascinating, paula, thank you. the white house canceled a reception today for the super
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bowl champion philadelphia eagles. fewer than ten players reportedly planned to attend. they said the white house will hold a celebration of america. president trump pulled the team's invitation blaming nfl's sideline protests. he tweeted last night staying in the locker room for the playing of our national anthem is as disrespectful to our country as kneeling, sorry. none of the eagles players did either of those things during the last regular season and playoffs. the nfl announced last month it will require players to stand during the anthem or stay in the locker room. some players began kneeling in 2016 to protest racial injustice and police brutality. an eagles statement did not address the controversy but said we are truly grateful for all of the support. so it sounds like out of a team of more than, you know, 50, only 10 were planning to go, so the president then said, well you're not invited. >> a lot of people disagree with that decision. an arizona man believed to have murdered six people in ant.
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56-year-old dwight jones killed himself yesterday as police closed in. investigators say at least four of his alleged victims had links to legal battles with his ex-wife. mireya villarael is in scottsdale. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. dwight jones offered fire on police officers that were trying to capture him at this hotel before he turned the gun on himself. his ex-wife and her new husband, a retired police detective, actually alerted authorities when they recognized that there could be a connection between her divorce and the crime scenes. dwight jones' ex-wife connie says her husband was emotionally disturbed. in rambling audio messages to his son, jones accused his ex-wife of conspiring against him, along with well-known forensic psychiatrist dr. steven pitt. >> dr. pitt give the exam, but the garbage he made up couldn't get me committed to a mental
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ward, permanent -- >> reporter: police say pitt wam pitt evaluated jones and testified against him during the divorce. jones' next victims, veleria sharp and laura anderson were parallels at the law firm of his ex-wife's divorce attorney. he also killed marshall levine who worked in an office once a victim's son. scottsdale assistant police chief rich slavin. >> mr. jones was visiting them in an effort to right some wrongs. >> reporter: investigators say ballistics, dna and surveillance video evidence connect jones to at least three crime scenes. does this mean the case is closed right now? >> we're still following up on other leads, other associations and possibly acquaint neances o
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help the suspect may have had. >> reporter: police are treating this as an active crime scene. anybody who wants to go in or out of the hotel has to be esco escorted. investigators are continuing to look through those divorce proceedings and contact anybody who was involved in the case, although right now there's no indication there are any more victims. >> all right, mireya, thanks. bill clinton's 20 year old impeachment drama is getting new attention in the light of a comment. he is facing repeated questions about his white house affair with monica lewinsky and whether he properly apologized for it. bianna golodryga is here with mr. clinton's attempt to clarify his response. >> he became quite testy in that interview. questions about former president clinton's conduct in the 1990s have taken over a media tour intended to promote his new political thriller. the questions comes amidst the worldwide me too movement and asked whether the former president should also be remembered as a man who abused
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his power. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> reporter: with that one statement about his relationship with white house intern monica lewins lewinsky, president bill clinton set off a scandal that still follows him today. >> i apologize to everybody in the world. >> reporter: on his book tour, clinton argued he didn't owe monica lewinsky a personal private apology. >> you didn't apologize to her? >> i have not talked to her -- >> do you feel like you owe her an apology? >> no. >> reporter: the former president later had to clarify his remarks. >> the hubbub was i got hot under the collar. because of the way the questions were asked. the suggestion was i'd never apologized. so first point is, i did. i meant it then and i meant it now. i have asked all for their forgiveness. >> reporter: monica lewinsky did not respond directly to clinton but tweeted, grateful to the myriad of people who have helped me evolve and gain perspective
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in the past 20 years. and posted a march "vanity fair" article from which she wrote that her road to the consent to the affair was littered with inappropriate abuse of authority and privilege. last year on "cbs this morning" lewinsky said there were times she thought she may not survive the public reaction to the scandal. >> there was no role model there was no playbook. no one else had gone through a public shaming online. like what i had experienced. >> reporter: even clinton allies like democratic new york senator kirstin gillibrand have said they now view the scandal differently. >> is it your view that president clinton should have stepped down at that time? >> yes, i think that is the appropriate response. >> well, i disagree with her. >> reporter: in an interview with "cbs sunday morning" the former president called his impeachment entirely political. >> they knew there was nothing impeachable so -- >> reporter: the former president did say he supports the me too movement and he
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thinks it's long overdue. he says he has tried to support the movement in decisions and policies that he's advanced. one would think, though, going into this book tour that he may be asked this question -- >> that he might have been better prepared. >> and not to be so defensive. >> he said he got a little hot under the collar. what was interesting is watching james patterson sit there very uncomfortably. but craig melvin asked i thought some very legitimate questions. >> you can see why this was an uncomfortable issue for hillary clinton on the campaign trail too. >> and it's going to continue to be uncomfortable because there aren't easy and simple answers. >> right. >> right. >> thank you, bianna. a report out this morning says lottery and prize scams cost americans tens of millions of dollars every year. ahead, how the scammers are turning to social . we have a few coastal clouds hanging around the beaches. sunny skies over san francisco
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accident that has caused a sig alert eastbound highway 4. did quite a bit of damage near court chicago highway. they are waiting for crews to get equipment out there to clear that. we have traffic that backs up beyond 680. there's only one lane blocked with the ramp to the chicago highway remains closed as well. usual slow downs out of antioch. let's check in with netta. >> i'm noticing cloud cover across the bay. oakland may run into some low clouds, visibility at places like the after ports, it's 53 degrees in oakland, livermore 53. 451 in san francisco. a cooler 47 in santa rosa. here is a look around the wind speeds. san francisco 13. it's looking good in fairfield and antioch. temperatures staying cooler. because of west wind. tomorrow will be the coolest tomorrow will be the coolest day of the week.
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♪ music super star sean men decembmendez is the latest to take the carpool karaoke ride. >> do you think you will outgrow your love of harry potter? >> it's what keeps me young. >> have you met any of the cast? >> yeah. it was one of the first types i was star struck. >> you are like a proper super fan. >> i'm a fan. like it. i'm not crazy obsessed with it. >> so good. >> so good. >> carpool karaoke never gets old. it used to start with just singing. now they do bits.
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>> so well done. >> i have always liked that song. then i heard him play in person. i thought, wow, he is so incredibly talented. >> a golden voice. beautiful. i would love do carpool karaoke, but i think we would sit there mute in the car. >> no. we can sing loud. >> it doesn't say carpool karaoke has to be good, just that you have fun doing it. we could do that. >> we could fix the audio. boost the levels of the song. >> engineers from around the world would be called in. >> we could do it. here are three things you should know. harvey weinstein returned to court pleading not guilty to rape and a criminal sex agent. a grand jury indicted him last week in cases involving two women. more than 80 people have accused him of sexual misconduct. he denied all allegations of no non-consensual sex. he faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
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eight states are holding primary elections today. they will shape races for the house of representatives, the u.s. senate and governorships. california is getting much of the attention. seven districts that hillary clinton won in 2016 are currently held by republicans. democrats need to win 23 seats nationwide to take control of the house of representatives. >> a new study says more than 11 million people may have incorrect blood pressure prescriptions. researchers say the equations used to determine a patient's risk for heart attack or stroke are outdated. this could lead to the wrong dosage of medicine being prescribed. the researchers call the new set to help doctors prescribe more accurately. lottery and prize scams cost americans millions of dollars each year. the better business bureau calls them some of the most serious and pervasive frauds operating
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today. in the past three years, the group says more than 460,000 americans have reported losing more than $330 million. good morning. >> good morning. the better business bureau says the crooks are professionals. they might take advantage of someone in your family and they can be very convincing. as they were with one st. louis man who believed he had won a chance to pay off his debts. >> they said, congratulations. you have won the jamaica sweepstake. >> he had just moved to st. louis in 2015 when the call came in on his cell phone telling him he had won $94,000. it would be delivered soon. all he had to do was send them a fee for taxes. >> they kept on telling me, he will be there soon. wait. >> he sent them two checks totaling $5,500, all his savings. they didn't show up with the
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prize. then he got calls to send money to different people. that's when he realized it was a scam. >> i really feel empty inside and ridiculous that i got beat like that. >> steve baker is the lead investigator for the better business bureau. >> most of the people that are cold calling you are from jamaica and costa rica. >> nearly 3,000 people reported sweepstakes and lottery scams to the bbb scam tracker in 2017. that same year, the ftc and fbi combined received more than 145,000 complaints about the scams. losses topped over $100 million. the bbb study says scammers contact their victims to get their personal information every way they can. through cold calling, text messages, internet popups, mail and social media like facebook. >> the fact that they really migrated to social media means there's a huge new audience that's being introduced to these. >> facebook told us in a statement these scams violate
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our policies. we have a team and automated systems to help detect and block these kinds of scams. baker encourages relatives and friends of older consumers to help them avoid becoming fraud victims by educating them. >> if you think you have won a lottery and somebody wants money for taxes or for a third party or for any reason, the crooks do not send money. >> baker says the number of victims could be up to ten times higher than actually reported because victims are often too embarrassed to admit they were scammed. if you think you are being scammed, search the names of those sweepstakes and those companies on the internet. look them up. a lot of times, you will find a bunch of people who say, hey, this is a scam. really gotta watch out. >> any time you are asked to send money, that's a big tip. you get excited you win i'm going to win $94,000. >> think how cold blooded they are knowing he is talking you
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out of your life savings. >> they don't care. >> thank you. >> good advice. the starbucks executive chairman will step down. public service may be in his future. he is fuelling speculation about a presidential run in 2020. we asked him about his plans when he was here at the table last week. as you leave us, you will head to the green roo. senator elizabeth warren is there. some people would say we're look at two top contenders. >> i think elizabeth warren would be a great candidate. >> you can say hello. >> i will. >> forbes says the 64-year-old former ceo is worth $2.8 billion. under his leadership, starbucks grew from 11 seattle area stores to more than 28,000 stores in 77 countries. last year, the company promised to hire 10,000 refugees over five years. the company says it tries to turn its social values into action.
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cancer. dr. jon lapook is here to show us how she beat the odds. good morning. >> good morning. this particular type of immunotherapy has been used in a limited way for certain types of cancer. the single case represents a breakthrough for breast cancer and could usher in a more personalized way to treat other types of cancer. >> we went backpacking in nepal. we went rafting down the grand canyon. >> reporter: in 2014, judy perkins and her husband, bob, were powering through their bucket list after learning her breast cancer treated a decade earlier had returned. >> i felt another lump on the same side. this time it ended up being stage four. i entered the world of cancer patient, serious cancer patient. >> reporter: despite hormonal and chemotherapy, perkins had run out of options. the cancer had spread to her chest and liver. >> i felt bad for my family, but i was grateful for the life i had had.
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>> reporter: you're at the point where you had pretty much accepted -- >> the end. >> reporter: in 2015, perkins found dr. steven rosenberg of the national institutes of health. >> she probably had two or three months left to live. >> reporter: he's a pioneer in harnessing cells to fight cancer. genetic mutations in the cancer cells are the trigger causing cells to grow out of control. rosenberg's new approach it to find the few immune lymphocytes that can see the genetic mutations and multiply them into an army of cancer killers. >> it's a war going on at a microscopic level as the lymphocytes attempt to find the cancer, expand in number, and then attack the cancer cells. >> reporter: in a lab, rosenberg's team grew the few immune cells into billions, then injected them into perkins' bloodstream. there, just like the immune
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cells appearing white in this picture, they ganged up to attack cancer cells. >> we're developing a new drug for every patient that's suitable for that patient but no other patient. >> reporter: back home, perkins was at first exhausted and then could actually feel the tumor softening. >> and then a year later, it's all gone. i mean, just the odds are so ridiculous that -- i did hit the jackpot. it's amazing. >> circulating in her body are large numbers of the cells we administered to her 2.5 years ago. >> reporter: in march, perkins navigated 1,200 miles around florida by kayak and shows no signs of stopping. >> dr. rosenberg stresses that this type of personalized immunotherapy is still in its n infancy. two other women did not respond to the treatment. but he envisions a day when a patient will routinely be treated not with a drug but with an army of immune cells
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specifically targeted to that person's cancer. >> i got the chills. >> me, too. >> exciting story. >> incredible news. very exciting. thank you. >> thank you. coming up, a look at this morning's other headlines. melania trump's first public appearance since undergoing surgery more than three weeks ago. plus, oprah, she's coming back to the table. she'll be in studio 57 with big news. her newest book club pick. . starting off with this great view of golden gate bridge. here is a look at that low that's to the north and that's what will bring us more of those west winds which does contribute to some cooler air. 63 for the afternoon high. fremont 67, fairfield 82. the further out east you go the warmer it'll be but the temperatures cooler than yesterday. this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by toyota -- let's go places.
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it ruled against the baker. it did not answer the question of whether a business can use religious options to refuse service to same-sex couples. the death of san francisco's 49ers receiver dwight clark. he is known for the catch in the january 1982 c championship game. it sent them to their first super bowl. clark died yesterday after battling als. he said he believed the disease was connected to his football career. dwight clark was 61. "the new york times" reports melania trump returned to the public eye. she attended a white house event yesterday morning honoring military families. it was off limited to journalists. a video on twitter showed mrs. trump in a black sleeveless dress accompanying the r to her husband
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at the event. >> good to see her out and about. the detroit free press has a follow-up on the pace car crash we told about you at the detroit grand prix. a gm executive was driving the chevy corvette and slammed into the wall on sunday. the newspaper's auto critic says driving the 755 horsepower vehicle on a tight bumpy course, he says, it's hard eer than it looks. the corvette was generating more power than the indy cars running behind it. the odds are this, he hit a herve at the wrong angle.ho that video? it's over. everyone please move on. glad to say he is okay. >> everybody is safe. that's one of those things. >> the paper is confirming what can happen to anyone. >> there you go. newt gingrich says president trump's america is a better place. the former house speaker is here
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good morning to our viewers in the west. it's tuesday june 5, 2018. welcome back to "cbs this morning." newt gingrich is in studio 57. his optimism about trump's america and reaction to the president's former campaign chairman paul manafort now accused of witness tampering. only on "cbs this morning" oprah will be here with her newest book club selection plus a surprise. first here is today's eye opener at 8:00. >> the number of people killed by guatemala's volcanic eruption is rising. >> this is a mound of ash. some areas the ground is still so hot that it can melt the
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soles of your shoes. >> that lava found and is lighting up the night sky and the lava field is growing. it covers about eight square miles. >> paul manafort has so far refused to cooperate but appears he may not be so confident about the pardon as he is accused of trying to tamper with witnesses. dwight jones ex wife and new husband alerted authorities when they recognized that there could be a connection between her divorce and the crime scene. questions about former president's bill clinton's conduct and asked whether the former president should be remembered as a man who abused his power. a new restaurant has opened in boston where all of the food is cooked by robot. a robot that can cook a meal, isn't this just a microw i'm sure iad a robot make me a
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frozen burrito last night. >> we don't want a robot to cook our food. i'm with you on that. prosecutors working for special counsel robert mueller accuse paul manafort of witness tampering. mueller's team charged manafort with 23 counts in two different courts including money laundering and acting as unregistered foreign agent. manafort is one of 22 people or companies charged by the special counsel. >> former republican house speaker newt gingrich is a frequent critic of mueller's investigation. he writes this is rapidly becoming an opennded hunfor t with no regards for the limits of the law. newt gingrich, good morning. let's stock about some of the
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news we just outlined first. paul manafort, president trump's former campaign manager being accused by special counsel of witness tampering. looks like he may be going to jail. >> if it is true it is a big deal. i think it is an example of what happens in these cases where you start way over here with russia and then go to a 2005 tax problem and then trying to be clever when dealing with the fbi which is always a bad idea. and then what you get in trouble over here with no regard for how it started. people forget this is originally about russia. we have zero evidence that donald trump in any way colluded with russia which is what this is all about. >> the investigation is still underway. >> this has been underway for 20 years. but everything he is doing is about stuff other than russia. >> you are a history buff. you have written books about
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history. let me ask you, the president yesterday broadly declared that he has the absolute right to pardon himself. >> he does and congress has the absolute right to impeach him. if a president was dumb enough to pardon himself that would be such an act, such an arrogant statement of power that the house would probably impeach him within a week. >> why do you think he throws it out there? >> i think trump learned in new york city media that churning works. you do something this morning and by this afternoon you do something else and by this evening you do something else and everybody is busy chasing each other. he has done it his whole career since the 1980s. >> as a former member of the legislative branch the idea that as the head of the executive branch he has total control over any investigation going on and doesn't have to show up for a subpoena or can fire anybody doing it? >> i think rudy giuliani has
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been aggressive in defending him has walked that back a pretty big step. >> i think he should. >> i think after his subpoena it would lead to supreme court test. the question which several people have said including smart people about this, does mueller really want to end up in a supreme court test that he could lose? >> mueller or the president? does the president want to? >> what the president i think wants least and i happen to strongly agree with him is to end up in a room with mueller where mueller and his 15 lawyers having spent months -- we would like trump to be focussing on north korea. he has a summit next week. mueller and his team are focussing on north korea. they will amass this huge amount and they will walk in a room and sa 1,306 do you remember doing this? and if he makes any mistake that becomes grounds for either obstruction or perjury.
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>> is it a problem for him to sit with mueller when many believe he has trouble with the truth or remembering facts or trouble changing the truth? isn't that a danger for him? >> yes, for this reason. trump is a story teller. he is a guy -- that is who he is as a person. >> shouldn't the president of the united states tell the truth? >> he should tell the truth but he also likes to tell stories. sometimes his stories stretch things. >> isn't the question really at the center of all of this -- i spent time with the newt gingrich of 1998. when people complained about the investigations into clinton you would say be patient. everything else is noise. aren't those things to live by now? >> i don't think he can pardon himself. i think that would lead to a reaction in the congress that would be devastating. i think he should tell the truth. experience because i once had an
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independent council who had a million pages of my material. i watched what happened to scooter libby and other people. you have to be careful. the most they should do is agree to written interrogatories where mueller wants to submit what questions he wants to answer. the president should submit his answers. to get into the room just trump's personality. i would counsel him to be cautious about ending up in a room with hostile lawyers trying to play. >> as a story teller, in your book you make a very strong case the president is reconnecting a certain part of america with american values. i covered you. i read and then saw rendezvous with destiny which is about ronald reagan. you used character and integrity.
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you can't find those words in this book about this president. isn't that a challenge when you are talking about connecting america with core values? aren't they core values? >> they are totally different people. >> i think this president has enormous focus on big things and has been very consistent whether it is iran or north korea. we have the lowest black unemployment rate in history. i think it is a function of his policy. >> does he have character and integrity? >> i think he is very different. he is a businessman. he is not in the business that you and i are in. he is not a politician in the traditional sense. >> as a person planting a flag for american values and we all salute, doesn't that -- isn't that part of the job? >> it is part of the job. i would suggest he has done a great deal to rebuild a belief that america matters and that he aggressively fights for what he thinks is america.
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and his voters resonate to what they see as his passion for their future. >> thanks so much for being with us. >> thank you. trump's america is on sale now. apple wants to help you put down your iphone. how the new software surprised ceo tim cook. . we have a few coastal clouds hanging around the beaches but sunny skies over san francisco and san jose. partly cloudy conditions for some of you in the east bay but most of that should burn off. afternoon highs will be slightly cooler. 60s and 70s for most of you. 73 san jose. that puts you a few degrees below average. the temperatures will continue to drop tomorrow it. will be the coolest and cloudiest day of the week.
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♪ apple says it's launching software to help consumers cut down on phone use. it is also introducing new features for mobile devices. the company dibuebuted tools yesterday that allow to set time limits for apps. ceo tim cook told cnn that excessive use of devices is something he struggles with. >> i thought i was fairly disciplined about this. and i was wrong. when i began to get the data i found i was spending a lot more time than i should. >> you and me both, brother. apple also unveiled features to make devices more appealing. these include group face time chats, new animated emojis and updates to augmented reality platform. >> i'm glad they have an emoji with red hair. >> on the one hand they are
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giving you limits and the other hand making it more appealing so you break the limits. one foot on the gas and one on the brake. oprah winfrey is in our toyota green room. everybody is wearing yellow today. we will talk about her new honor. what are you reading, oprah? >> wall street journal. >> she has a new honor plus her newest book club selection, why she calls it unusual. you're watching "cbs this culture.thookplus. why she calls it a new book. you're watching "cbs this morning." not cool. freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting? now that's cool. coolsculpting safely freezes and removes fat cells. with little or no downtime. and no surgery. results and patient experience may vary. some rare side effects include temporary numbness, discomfort, and swelling. ask your doctor if coolsculpting is right for you. and visit coolsculpting.com today for your chance to win a free treatment.
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no frills. i don't know how i got to be successful wearing some of that. those hair dos and those outfits. >> gorgeous though she is oprah always understood the impact that she and her ground breaking talk show had on this country. that is the subject of a new exhibit, watching oprah. it will open friday at the smithsonian's national museum of african-american history and culture. >> the exhibit features interactive interviews, movies, costumes and artifacts from the 25-year run. organizers say examines the way that america shaped oprah and how her work shaped our country today. oprah is a major benefactor for the museum and also special contributor. we are glad you are back at the table. this is what you love more than anything is discussing yourself and i'm being very sarcastic. this is absolutely what she hates. i didn't know that you realize
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what all was going into the exhibit. it is a big deal. 4,000 square feet in three parts of your life, childhood, show. >> is it three parts? >> and then the impact you had on america. you were involved in curating all things on display? >> no because i think they wanted to draw a line between the fact that i had worked as a part of the board to create the museum and then not to have anything to do with whatever was going into the exhibit. i missed that meeting that there was going to be an exhibit. so there were archivests who had been working on it for the past couple of years. they would come to me and they really work with my team and they literally you know were asking for diaries. i was like let me see if i can give up that diary. looking for the first speeches i wrote when i was 12 and all of
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that stuff. >> was there anything of revelation to you which either you said i completely forgot that or that recentered you after all these years? >> i can tell you i don't know what is in the exhibit. i will see it for the first time today. my team has been giving up a lot of stuff from the show over the years. they met with most of the producers and so i think i'm going to be surprised. >> it will be like -- >> you can talk about what it means -- >> walking down memory lane. i can talk about that. >> oprah, i'm proud, actually, of -- you know, i've known you for a long time. the fact that this is happening and the fact that it's happening to you makes me so proud of what you've accomplished. and i can't imagine what it must be or feel like for you. >> actually, you know, just because i'm -- i'm here to talk about the book club later. >> yes. >> but also i knew you were going to do the segment so i just started thinking about it last night, and i hadn't given
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it a lot of thought. i thought, this is a really big deal. and the thing that makes me most proud is that it's about watching oprah, watching the "oprah winfrey show," and its impact on the culture. there still is -- it's been off the air century years as of may 25th -- air seven years as of may 25th. there isn't a day i go anywhere in the world where several people don't tell me about the impact the show had on them. that is no small thing for me. people say, i love you so much -- i say, tell me what happened. usually i end up saying, oh, i get it. i raised you. people tell the story of coming home at 4:00 and turning on the tv and watching with their mothers. >> my mom said you capture someone's heart, and you capture their mind. i think you captured people's minds by talking about issues that people weren't talking about on television.
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race, sexual abuse. that's -- >> the first time we did the show on alcoholism, there was a family of five. i was like, oh, my god, i didn't know that white people had dysfunction. i grew up thinking that all white people were like "leave it to beaver." the first time i started having conversations with people with real -- dysfunctions, with real family issues from all parts of the country, it was a revelation to me. here's the biggest thing -- when i finished doing my school and i was sitting in maya angelou's kitchen -- you know this -- and said, oh, this is going to be my biggest legacy, the school. maya says, you have no idea what your legacy will be. your legacy, she says, is every life you touch. your legacy is every person who's ever watched a show and made the decision they were going to go back to school, they were going to talk about -- >> i'll say this, lonnie bunch, the director, said oprah winfrey is a person people trust just the way they trusted walter cronkite. that's true. >> i'm excited about it. very much.
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among the races, senator dianne feinstein is widely expected to take first place in the prim . good morning, it's 8:25. it is election day among the races on the ballot, senator diane feinstein is widely expected to take first place in the senate primary. ken police have arrested two north bay men accused of assaulting a woman on a car ride from san francisco to sonoma. both are due in court. officers say it happened in april. the weather and traffic up next.
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the bay bridge toll plaza. it's a 30 minute ride but that east shore freeway bit more challenging. just under an hour from highway 4 to the maze. be careful out there. at least the weather is cooperating on this election day. weather not an excuse to get out and vote. here is a look from the sales force tower. that's city hall in the middle of the screen. here is a look at those clouds, you can see over the coast. west winds picking up at sfo to 20 miles an hour and, fairfield it's breezy. 57 in livermore. afternoon highs will be slightly cooler than yesterday. we will be around those mid60s around the bay. temperatures inland mostly reaching the upper 70's, some low 80s but you will have to go out east for that to places like fairfield. tomorrow will be the cool exist cloudiest day of the workweek and temperatures warm up through friday.
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welcome back to "cbs this morning." right now it's time to show some of the morning's headlines. "time" reports saudi arabia issued its first driver's licenses to women. it comes as the kingdom prepares to lift the world's only ban on female drivers on june 24th. the ten women took a driving test and eye exam before getting their licenses yesterday. last month, authorities arrested some activists who campaigned for the right for women to drive. those activists remain under arrest and are awaiting possible trial. california's "daily democrat" reports on a study that suggests our earliest childhood memories begin from the age of 2. that's earlier than previously thought.
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using mris, scientists at u.c. davis found the area around the brain responsible for memories can be triggered before toddlers learn to speak. wow. the breakthrough may lead to an earlier diagnosis of developmental brain disorders. as we mentioned earlier, "the atlanta journal constitution" reports a red head emoji is among a new batch launching today. 157 new ones were announced in february. 66 are being introduced today. there are different hairstyles such as red heads, curly hair, white hair, and bald heads. let's not leave all those out. there are also hot and cold faces, kangaroo, and lobster, a toilet paper roll, teddy bear, a cupcake, and a bagel. the emojis may not appear on devices until later this year. >> you would be happy about a red head for your favorite son, henry. i'm happy about a cupcake. >> you love cupcakes. >> i do. only on "cbs this morning," you saw oprah in the last half ho
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the main reason she's here is to reveal her newest, highly anticipated book club selection. drum roll, oprah. what is it? >> okay, my new selection is "the sun does shine. how i found life on death row" by anthony ray hinton. >> we're delighted to have the author join us. we featured you in april at the head of the opening of the legacy museum in montgomery, alabama. it features his story. he spent -- listen to this story -- nearly 30 years on death row for crimes he did not commit until he was released in 2015. anthony ray hinton, we are delighted. we have all read your book. we're excited that you're joining us at the table. an honor to meet you. >> a pleasure. >> i want you to know this, i've known oprah, as you know, for a long time. i've not seen her as excited about a book since "a color purple" where you said -- >> i would go on 5th avenue and
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put a book sign out, sandwich board, and hand out these books. i hope every person who can hear our voice today buys this book. >> that's how you felt about "color purple." this is a memoir. you normally don't pick memoirs. >> no. i was doing a story for "60 minutes" on the museum in montgomery, alabama, founded by brian stevenson. >> hero -- >> yes. the lynching museum. i was actually rumbling around brian's office. i'm looking at the shelves because i like to see what people are reading. i saw this lying on his desk. and i pick it would up like, oh, this interesting. when i left he handed it to me. i said, that's a book i saw on your desk. and i started to read it and couldn't put it down. it's a true story of this man's anguish and the fact that he was
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mistreated and misjudged, has never received an apology from the state of alabama, and was on death row for 30 years for a crime he did not commit. >> you were arrested, you were mowing the grass at your mom's house. even as you were in the car, the white police officer says, you're going to be convicted. first say what you were charged with. >> first charged with attempted murder, first-degree kidnap, and first-degree robbery. and as we was going toward the jail, they didn't know about a gun -- they asked do you own a firearm, i said no. he said, does your mother own one? i said yes, and i told him what kind. they dropped me at the police station, went to my mother's house. my mother gave them the gun trying to help me, whatever the case was. as they got -- >> the gun hadn't been fired in 25 years. she says, take this old gun. >> yes.
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old .38. when they picked me back up, as we was going toward the jail, i kept asking why am i being arrested. they never had explained why was being arrested. finally asked for the 51st time, officer, why are you arresting me? it seemed to set him off. he said, you want to know why? he told me the charge. i said, i haven't done any of that. he said, let me tell you something right now -- i don't care whether you did it or didn't do it, but i'm going to make sure you're found guilty of it. i said, for a crime i didn't commit? he said, didn't i just tell you i don't care? >> he said you're black -- >> as we got farther, he told me, he said there's five things they're going to convict you. would you like to know what they are. i said yes. he said, one, you're black. two, a white man is going to say you shot him. whether you shot him or not i don't care. he said, number three, you'll have atecu , a e judge. number five, you'll have an all-white jury.
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do you know what that spell? he looked at me and repeated the word conviction, conviction, conviction, conviction, conviction. >> that's how it started. >> even as you were convicted in this sham of a trial, total sham of a trial, you prayed for god's forgiveness for the people that did this. that is what i think is so amazing about this book is your grace and kindness, that you then carried out with other men in prison. >> yes -- >> and the one -- one of the parts that struck me, there had never been a book club on death row. >> no. >> and you brought books. and i underline men would do all kind of crazy things rather than spend another night with their thoughts. bring in the books. i thought, let every man on row have a week away inside a book. >> i've often thought books give you -- put you in a world that you never thought you could go. >> yeah. >> and i often would say, i don't need to go to california. give me a book that talks about california. and i can put it in my head and imagine what it looked like.
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i had read a few books on the street, not bragging, and i felt that something was missing. all of us was told by the world that we'd be better off dead. i decided until that day come, let's live a life of fullness and start a book club. i had to convince the warden could i have a book club? >> can you imagine a book club on death row? you've got people there for convicted of hanging other black people. >> yes. >> members of the kkk. and he's gotten those guys reading james baldwin. got them reading african-american literature. >> yeah. >> you had the grace from your faith. you had your mom. >> yeah. >> talk about her and lester. >> lester. lester who -- >> both of whom had lots of grace. ther and father.
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my father lost his mind when i was about 4 years old. my mom did everything she could to make sure that we was brought up right. i often say that if i had one wish in this world, i would wish that every child could have a mother the way my mother were. i never went without food, i never went without clothes, i never went without food, all of the things a child needs. she gave me unconditional love. i was blessed to have lester bailey. when everyone turned their back on me, he there was for me. >> he's here today. we'll show lester in the green room.
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>> he would sit and never questioned my innocence or guilt because he knew who i was and how we been brought up. we always been friends since the ages of 4 and 6. often people say, well, you have a true friend that would come see you. and i often tell people, to be honest, he didn't have a lot of things to do. why not come see me? >> but he had to drive over 200 miles -- >> yeah. >> every week. for 30 years, lester never missed a week. >> lester worked the overnight shift -- i say people need an oprah in their life. i also now say they need a lester. >> the thing about it, mr. hinton, you're there, you watched 54 people walk by your cell and one woman to go to the electric chair, that you could smell their burning flesh. and you would cheer -- scream their names to let them know what? >> we didn't know if they had a family or friend back in the
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death chamber watching them. thank you. and we always had this little pact -- we was family. and we would bang at the bars, they would execute at 12:01. we would start banging about ten minutes to 12:00. we would bang until about 12:20. and that was a signal to the condemned prisoner no matter what we are still with you. no matter what, we love you. >> yeah. >> the last thing we wanted him to hear was the banging on the bars. >> know somebody cared. compassion, you said, has no color. >> no. >> will you stay -- we're going to kill everything else in the rest of the show. we'll take a break and come back with mr. hinton and oprah at the table. before that, we've got to check the local weather. here y
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welcome back. we're here with oprah and her book club book along with anthony ray hinton, "the sun does shine: how i found life and freedom on death row." i like john's -- norah talked about reading in the book club where your mind" go. you married halle berry. you dropped her for sandra bullock -- >> in your mind. how long were you married? >> 15 long years. >> it was a good marriage. >> it was. >> then you played in wimbledon? >> yes. >> you were on the new york
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yankees -- >> all in your mind. >> yes. >> but that because what, mr. hinton? >> i needed to escape. to live in a five by seven day in and day out, 365 days a year, is unbearable. and can anyone imagine if you're there for something you know you didn't do. that was worse. >> even when there was a lawyer at one point who offered you the opportunities to be able to take the life sentence, you said you would rather die than take the life sentence because it would mean that you were admitting to guilt -- >> you passed a polygraph. you had an alibi, you were at work. people were ready to say he was at work. they didn't want to hear it. >> nope. >> the last night you have your freedom, where did you spend the night? >> i spent it at lester's house. >> yeah. w stayed up until abou0 in the morning. and when they went to bed, i got in the bed that i felt was the softest bed that i ever laid in. >> you liked soft things? >> you missed soft things.
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>> i did. but this soft thing about an hour later became a nightmare to me. i couldn't sleep. i had to go in his bathroom and lay on the floor and sleep. my heart rate was just speeding, and i said, i know god didn't bring me out of here to let me die of a heart attack. and once i ran into the bedroom -- i didn't want to wake lester and his wife up. i went in the bathroom and shut the door, and as i sat on the floor, my heart rate started going down. i realized that i had lived in a place so small for 30 years. >> five by seven. >> yes. >> yeah. that i wasn't use today to being in this open space. and i just locked the door and got in the fetal position and just slept. >> what was it like when you first walked out? i know you called the book "the sun does shine" because that's what you said when you walked out of being incarcerated for 30 years. what was it like to be in that
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world of an open space and sky and grass and trees the first time? >> it was beautiful. i couldn't believe it. in my mind, i kept saying, is this a dream? i had fantasized so much in my mind and trying to escape. and i kept asking myself, am i fantasizing now? and i looked up, and the sun was shining on me that day brighter than it ever had -- >> there's a funny part in the story about you and lester driving. you're thinking, who is this white woman in the car talking to us. tell us that. >> it first time in the automobile. leaving prison. >> he asked me, where's the first place you want to go. i said, i want you to take me where they laid my mother's body. i know she's not there, but i want to see where they laid her. he said, okay. and i buckled up. and i seen him fidgeting with the radio. i'm thinking, trying to find a radio station. and he was putting, now that i know, an address in. as we went down the road, this white lady come on. one 10th of a mile, turn right.
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the hell? >> where is this white lady in the car? yeah? >> i was afraid to look around thinking, well -- >> the car talks. >> this is my best buddy. white lady got to be a police officer. i'm trying to point, there's a white lady. he's laughing and laughing. and -- >> there you go. >> white lady back there. >> he couldn't take it anymore. >> turn in 700 feet -- >> yes, he said, that's the gps. he said, she's in here. i was like, how the hell did she get in there? she laying in there? >> a lot changed. >> he told me you got a lot to learn, the world has changed so much. >> ryan stevenson says that this is really about the evolution of slavery. that slavery becomes lynchy. lynching becomes codified segregation. now we're in an era of massive
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incarceration. you end the book with all the names of the people on death row. >> yes. >> i think that is -- especially poignant. we all need to be reminded of what this is. it's not just you. there are so many more like you. >> absolutely. i often tell people and i told ms. winfrey, there are thousands upon thousands of an anthony ray hintons in prison in this country. and i've learned that if you don't have the money to hire a decent defense -- >> capital punishment -- >> can i just say this -- when gayle was reading the book, because i'm like, read the book, and i feel that way about for everybody watching us. and she says, why do i like mr. hinton so much? why do i -- i like mr. hinton so much. i said, it's the first time we've been reminded of somebody who has the spirit of mandela, who spent 27 years in prison and bitterness. >> thank you very much. "the sun does shine." make ross your destination for savings.
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. this is a kpix5 morning update. >> good morning. five minutes before nine. it is election day for the state primaries. the governor's raise the front runner is spending the day here in the bay area. the other main contenders are john cox. and bay area voters willbe deciding on measure 3. it'll help pay for nearly three dozen transportation projects. and dwight clark has pass away after a battle with als. he was 61 years old. most remembered for the catch in 1981 which spurred the niners to their first super
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. good morning. we are tracking slow downs due to an accident along southbound 880. its right at 238 and you can see on the right of the screen traffic definitely starting to slow approaching the scene of that crash, blocking one lane. in that northbound direction traffic is heavy and we are starting to see that back up develop on 238. do expect delays if you are
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making your way thro valley. we are seeing that back up in all directions. heading northbound on 880, heading through oakland it's about just under a 40 minute ride. we continue to see a pretty light ride along 580. that may be your best alternate. that's a check of your traffic. excited to show you this view of san francisco city hall. beautiful building and on this election day very appropriate. get out there and vote. the weather won't deter you because it's beautiful out there. all we are dealing with is a stronger wind. san francisco 13 and up to 22 for fairfield. look at the live view of san jose. 61 degrees for new san jormwa b also stly loerage.day e er in the 60's and 70s for most bay area neighborhoods. cooler along the coast. tomorrow is the coolest day of
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