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peak heat on the east coast. a combination of a big area of high humidity and high temperatures. lots of 90 oz the board and a few spots in the northeast may hit 100 degrees for the upcoming weekend. we are talking about a scorching stretch. if the heat is not your thing and you want to g
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will we see a cool corner? the pacific northwest will have cooler than average temperatures and the only spot that will not look at a sweltering fourth of july. >> thank you. more than 1,000 people, many of them women converged on a senate office building to protest the trump administration's zero tolerance policy. they had 600 arrests today. plenty of reaction following our interview with the former spokesperson for immigration and customs enforcement. james schwaab said he quit after being asked to spread what he administration. here's jamie's report. >> tensions were high as they carried out a series of raids in the san francisco bay area. the protesters had been tipped off by the oakland mayeror. the former ice spokesman said that was irresponsible. >> she was putting lives in danger.
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>> correct. >> it sparked this exchange. >> here's my message to the mayor. how dare you. >> how dare you distort the reality. >> after the raids, ice acting director said because of the tip, agents failed to make 864 arrests. >> that are made you uncomfortable? >> extremely uncomfortable. we ended up arresting 232 which is 16% higher than the highest estimate. internally that was a success, but what they publicly said was that she let people go. >> schwab issued a statement saying some were able to allude us thanks to the mas on he said his boss is in washington and insisted 800 wanted criminals remain free. >> they know it's a lie. it's shocking that no one wanted to fix that. >> in 17 years in the military at the department of defense as
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a civilian and nasa and now at homeland security, i have never been asked to lie. i never have been asked to perpetuate a lie. >> during our interview -- i'm so sorry. >> unexpected visitors drop by. >> can i speak with you. >> why are you guys here? >> they identify themselves as agents from the department of homeland security inspector general's office. >> i will talk to you. when can we talk? >> as soon as i contact my lawyer. >> were you surprised to see them? >> shocked. this is intimidation. this is why people won't come out and speak against the government. to prepare and stand out in front of the public and perpetuate something you know is false is not okay. no special agent from the department of homeland security is going to stop me from saying that. >> ice said they couldn't put a number on how many awarded
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arrest, but one criminal alien can put public safety at risk and they wish schwaab well. he said he is speaking out now because he has been contacted by a number of employee who is are struggling with theen >>he headquarters in san fro. thank you. coming up next, outrage in florida. how did a
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>> it was supposed to be a controlled burn. a fire deliberately set to prevent future wildfires. it ended up burping much more than planned including dozens of homes in the town of east point. omar is there. >> glen woodall had minutes to save his pets and himself when the wildfire approach approached his property. >> the fire was in my back yard. i found the puppy that was in the back bedroom and got it out and i had noe nothing. >> wood all is one of 36 homeowners in this community who lost everything. >> and it all got burned up. stove, refrigerator, the whole nine yards. a local company
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hired by the florida mitch and wild to conduct a controlled burn. the fire was supposed to only burn 480 acres and ended up torching more than 8,000. the company started the controlled burn on june 18th. days later, this east point neighborhood was engulfed in flame. it took two days for the firefighters to control the flame and still parts of the neighborhood are smoldering. >> there should have been someone watching the fire at all times. >> the commission said they suspended our prescribed program statewide and inspector general has begun an investigation. this homeowner wants the state to pay for everything she lost. >> we heard they don't replace the she'tright. they should replace everything. >> damage is apparent across the neighborhood. people say the fire popped up as fast as a florida thunderstorm.
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one man told me he has not heard anything from the state of florida and only people helping are salvation army and neighbors. jeff? >> what a story, omar. insane to believe that happened. coming up here tonight, a little girl lost in the woods and how the heroes found her. i'm so frustrated. i just want to find a used car without getting ripped off. you could start your search at the all-new carfax.com that might help. show me the carfax. now the car you want and the history you need are easy to find. show me used trucks with one owner. pretty cool. [laughs] ah... ahem...
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she was okay. up next on his way to the gym, he stopped to exercise the golden rule.
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>> facebook head of global safety joins us now. tell us about the charms that facebook actively tries to get people addicted. >> law enforcement is closing in on a group of thieves that stole more than a million dollars from atms. >> how the scam works targeting elderly americans. is this going to bring down the cost of prescription drugs? >> we end with the kind js of strangers. srers friends. >> i start praying and somebody has to be to help me. >> belinda is stranded on the
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wheelchair on the way to the gym. >> what are told you she needs my help? >> you are the first person to ask me that. i guess just intuition. i asked her do you need any help and she needed it. i jumped right to it. >> it wasn't the work out that the boxer expected. they were frustrated by motorists just passing by. >> i don't care what you are going through. when god calls you for help, you are supposed to help, period. >> were you thinking man, his mother raised him right? >> that's for sure. he acted like he was one of my sons or something. >> bearing the georgia heat, he was delivered home 30 minutes later and both forgot to exchange but i didn't get his name or anything. >> over a month went by until another chance encounter.
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>> i ran into the man who was videotaping and i said what's his name and give me his phone number. >> she call and they reunited days later. then the following sunday she took him to church where he was honored. >> i make sure she was okay. you can't do wrong when i'm doing good. >> the wheelchair is now repair and they started a go fund me page to replace her van recently lost in an accident. you okay? >> now the random strangerer who had whitaker's back has taken a seat by her side. michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> that are is the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news moingn
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this is the cbs overnight news. >> welcome to the overnight news. a gunman stormed into the offices of the "capital gazette," a newspaper in annapolis, maryland, and turned it into a killing ground. several kill and others wounded before the suspect was arrested. chip reed begins our coverage. >> the activer. blac shirt, green pants. >> another deadly enun gunman f offices of the "capital gazette" newspaper before 3:00 p.m. >> several shots have been fired. possible shotgun, at least 10
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shots heard. >> this witness was in an office next door and spoke with wjla. >> it was blown to pieces and shattered on the carpet. this guy was holing what looked like a big shotgun and moving across the distance of the "capital gazette" office pointing it deeper like he was targeting people. >> an intern in the newsroom began sending desperate tweets immediately after the first shots. active shooter, 888. please help us. >> joel davis who covers crime for the paper hit under his desk and tweeted out a chilling blow by blow account of what was happening. gunman shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire on multiple employees. can't say much more and don't want to declare anyone dead, but it's bad. there is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you are under your
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desk and hear the gunman reload. he told the baltimore sun they were still hiding under his desk and the shooter stopped firing and he did not know why. five people were killed and at least five others injured in the horrific encounter. people could be seen leaving the building after the shooting with their hands up as officers from multiple agencies converged on the building. >> they went immediately into that building without a moment's hesitation and demonstrated incredible courage. it could have been a lot worse. >> tragically five people died in the shooting and at least four others injured. we believe two of those were not shot. they were injured by flying glass or other debris. >> supreme court justice anthony kenne kennedy's decision to retire set off a political firestorm in washington. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is promising a vote in early autumn, but democrats
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insist it should be postponed until after the mid-term elections. >> we must dig in. >> senate democrats joined protesters outside the supreme court, vowing, they believe, to block the president's nominee. >> women's access to safe, legal abortion is on the line. >> they argued the leader should delay a confirmation vote for months the way he held up and eventually sunk president obama's pick, merrick garland. >> is he prepared to keep the office vacant until after the election? i hope so. >> that are hope was dashed. >> we will confirm the vote for kennedy's successor this fall. >> because he moved to change the rules, nominees can be confirmed a simple majority. there are 51 republican senators. >> the president knows he doesn't need democratic votes. >> the approximately will need a
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fair minded and open congress. >> republicans expect the president to nominate a strong conservative along the lines of his first peek, neal gorsuch. >> if you look at the list we had last time, every one is really, really good. >> leonard leo of the federalist society helped to draft that list. on cbs this morning, he downplayed the threat to abortion rights. >> i don't think they should be worried. >> for could hinge on two pro abortion rights republicans. lisa murcowski and maine's susan collins who said she wants a justice who views it as settled law. >> the prudent course is to wait and see whom the president chooses to nominate. >> senators are discouraged from asking nominees how they would rule on a particular case, so collins and the rest of the
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senate will comb through the record looking for clues once the president announces his pick which he said he will do very soon. >> hundreds of protesters demonstrated from portland, oregon to brownsville, texas. they blocked offices and courthouses and several were arrested. meanwhile the flood of migrants entering the united states illegally continues. federal agents near the mexican border invited david along for a raid. >> it's another layer of the story. over the last two weeks we have been here, we showed you where people were crossing the border every day and hour. this involved smugglers, is stashing people in houses. we were in the middle of a nice neighborhood and theesand told e he found the immigrants and gave them the garage door opener. nearly two dozen law enforcement agents surrounded this texas
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home early wednesday morning. >> the deputy chief was told there were 40 people inside. >> inside, 62 undocumented immigrants, mostly from central america and border patrol said they were brought here by a smuggler. >> there was food being made and every inch of tile in this house had someone sitting on it. >> do you know what's going to happen now? >> yeah, i will go to new mexico. >> this woman here with her sister said she had been in the house for 15 days. >> my sister had, too. we don't have any food. >> every person is paying about $9,000 and that money goes to the cartel s and continues fueling this cartel . >> every person was given a clear bag for belongings and patted down in the house.
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they were led outside headed to a bus and then a processing center in allen, texas. >> conditions were so bad, they were calling 911. somebody so desperate to get out that they are willing to call the authorities to rescue them. >> border patrol said what smugglers will rent the house and in many cases the owner doesn't know what the smuggler is using it for. the neighbors don't even know. the woman who lives across the street asked what we were doing and we told her and she said i have no clue. i lived across the street and to think there were 60 team in this house and one man was here for a month one bathroom and one shower. >> the cbs overnight news will be right back.
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>> this is the cbs overnight news. >> members of the trump administration admitted using alternate facts from time to time, but when the attorney general threw out fake numbers related to an ice ra raid in san francisco, the local spokesman for immigration and customs enforcement quit. james schwaab was telling his story when homeland security en. here's jamie. >> he said before he resigned he worked for the federal government for 17 years. most recently here at the immiio cusms bay headquarters. he admits he was asked to spin information for the obama and trump white houses and felt
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compelled to resign after the current administration told him to lie about an incident that pitted the government against oakland's mayor. tensions in the san francisco bay area were running high in february over a series of raids carried out by federal agents with immigrations and customs enforcement or ice. with the superiors, it fell to james schwaab to communicate about the raids. >> the day before the operation took place, the oakland mayor surprised us and announced our operation. >> here's my message to the mayor. how dare you. >> how dare you distort the reality. >> uh approximate putting your officers's lives in danger. >> correct. we ended up arresting 232, 16% higher than the highest estimate. that was considered a success, but what they publicly said is she let people go. >> that wasn't true? >> not true.
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>> he helped craft a statement saying some of them were able to allude us thanks to the mayor's irresponsible decision. he was comfortable because it included the words some of. >> this is what every officer does. >> jeff sessions's language was noticeably different. >> ice failed to make 800 arrests that would have been made if the mayor in h not made her statement. those are 800 wanted criminals. >> that are made you uncomfortable. >> completely false. that made me extremely uncomfortable. >> schwaab said he was instructed by his superiors in washington to refer to e wiouisputiss ioof it,t'ed corre theyw it's a lie. it was shocking that i don't know wanted to fix that. >> trouble as public deception,
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he turned in the resignation. >> i couldn't fathom staying at an organization that was okay lying to the american public. i hate that. in 17 years in the military and the department of defense as a civilian and nasa and now at homeland security, i never have been asked to lie. i never have been asked to perpetuate a lie which is the same as lying. >> some three months after he quit, we were interrupted by a surprise. he had unexpected visitors at the front door of his home. >> we have to speak with you. >> why are you here? >> can't speak with you about that. >> they identified themselves as agents from the department of homeland security inspector general's office. >> we are in his home. >> i'm talking to him and this is confidential, okay? >> they said they wanted to talk to me about the leak with the oakland mayor. >> were you surprised to see them?
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>> completely shocked. unexpected. >> did you ever contact the oakland's mayor's office? >> i never met her. i never contacted her. i never e-mailed. never. i would never tell anyone they were very serious. he was very stern with me and it was concerning. >> you think that was an intimidation technique? >> absolutely. why three months later are we doing this? this is intimidation and why people won't speak against the government. >> do you believe other agencies are struggling with this? what you have gone through. >> i know they are because we reached out to me. >> he is speaking out because he talked to others with similar concerns. >> that's one of the most important reasons. so people hear that someone else stood up and someone else said no. he was concerned with it to prepare and stand out in front
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of the public and perpetuate something you know is false. it's not okay. no special agent from the department of homeland security ask going to stop me from saying that. >> we reached out to ice and they said they disagree with the characterization that he was asked to lie. the mayor's actions did allow some targets to evade arrest. they did not get back to us about who leaked details and although schwaab is a registered democrat, he said it has nothing to do with the decision to speak out. >> the latest victim of the trade war, kentucky bourbon and slapped a 25% tariff on american whiskey. whether that gives europeans a reason to give up their favorite thank. japan is now making some of the finest whiskey in the world.
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>> the cool air and crystal waters. the sea side cliffs. the perfect place to make world class whiskey. this is not scotland. this is the this distillery in japan. japanese whiskey came to worldwide attention with 2003's lost in translation starring bill murray as a pitchman for whiskey. >> aficionados knew that whiskey from tan rising sun was top shelf. >> just this company's distillee
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first in japan, the process is age-old. from the wash back machines where mulch and barley is mixed with yeast and water, it looks like a washing machine. >> to the topper stills to the cast where the risky spends years ma during. i'm happy to report, to the tasting. >> whiskey is very, very good. it's like alcoholic honey. >> very smooth. >> very ca as a distiller of the year, the best in the world, does that
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make you want to get better? >> we have space. >> it's the drive to revive. that helped the japanese beat even the scottish in composition. the inside that what you are doing and making should be slightly better than what you were doing yesterday. >> is that that a japanese characteristic? >> it's engraped in the culture. this continuous improvement. >> they sipped the water of 1853. matthew perry sailed into tokyo harbor. he brought along american whiskey as a gift to the emperor, but it would be almost yebefore, the son of sake
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make makers involved to learn from the masters and came back with samples. >> here fell in love with a local lass and brought her back to japan with all of the knowledge about whiskey making. >> in 1933 with the help of his scottish wife, he found the other great whiskey in a place where the climate not unlike scotland's. >> how proud are the japanese of their whiskey heritage? the love story became a wildly popular soapopera. and with japanese whiskeys wildly in demand, no surprise rare ones go forasmuch as $8,000
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it more evident than1,000 square foot shell of a house. it sold for close to $1 million. this house is a fire sale, but don't expect a bargain. it went on the market for just you should $1.5 million and serious buyers better bring cash. >> it's like having an unaffordable gated community. >> absolutely. they are looking in and have these teleskoeps. >> sale tracks real estate for curbed san francisco. >> do you well and your husband does well. >> we couldn't afford to live here or anywhere in the bay area. >> we're don't see an end to it. >> this flyer can speak for the housing market. enter at your own risk. cbsws f the served.
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we can help them find their next career. >> an nern hero received the highest military award this week. his story was largely unknown even to his wit. of. >> he loved the army. >> pauline was 15 years old when they turned out to welcome garland home from world war ii. >> he decided to bring us to the parade. he hitched the horses to the wagon. north africa, sicily, france, and into germany and been awarded an astounding four silver stars and one distinguished service cross. >> mother said there he s. i said my gosh, there is no they we could have done what they said he did. >> he was one of the outstanding
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soldiers if not the outstanding. pauline doesn't know any of that when she married him. >> did you see the evidence of what he had been through? >> a lot of times he would be dreaming and wake up fighting. >> six years later, they found the affidavits by fellow soldiers describing how he beat back waves. he took off like a bat out of hell towards enemy fire. a terrific hail of small arms and machine gunfire was concentrate and out there all alone, calling in artillery fire on the germans. they finally made it to the white house. >> they' called me on a friday and said we would be getting an important phone call. what if it is a scam and it was from the president of the united
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states. >> of all the days in your life, where would you rank that day? >> one of the happiest day of my life, but truly the happiest day was when i married him. >> i expected to hear a war story. what you are telling me is a love story. >> yes, it is. is. >> conar's commanding officer said i have never seen a man with so much courage. she accepted her husband's medal of honor, making that statement part of raft. >> cbs news, albany, kentuckken. >> for some of you the news conditions and for others that's it.
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captioning funded by cbs it's friday, june 29th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." breaking developments. at least five people are dead after a gunman opened fire at a maryland police station. police say it was a targeted attack. >> it's not accurate. >> it is accurate. >> mr. chairm, will you allow the witness to answer? >> a firing back and forth on he latest hearing into the 2016

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