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jeff? >> okay, kris van cleave, thanks very much at reagan national. we'll see you soon, kris. we do have an update now on the lava bomb that injured 23 tourists, getting a close-up look at hawaii's kilauea volcano. the coast guard will no longer allow, it says, tour boats to get that close to the oozing lava. carter evans is on the big island.
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>> tourists can be heard screaming in this video that captures the moment an explosion of molten rock and ash blasted into the air, landing on a tour boat called the hot spot. the lee family was hit. >> we were pelted with rocks. like it's imbedded in your scalp and everything, and the heat and steam, you could feel it. >> passengers said one lava bomb was the size of a basketball, smashing right through the metal roof of the boat. christopher lee's leg was severely burned when he fell to the deck. >> i got covered in really hot rocks. i stayed there maybe two seconds and third-degree burns on my leg. >> you were trying to dodge all the lava that was raining down on the boat? >> pretty much. >> reporter: kilauea has been erupting more than two months, destroying more than 700 homes. at night you can really see the orange glow from the eruption behind me through the trees. that's where all of this lava i miles down to the ocean. the boat operators, lava ocean
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tour, had a special permit to f the coastline, but cbs news uncovered three lawsuits in the last five years, which accused the company of failing to warn passengers of dangerous conditions known to lava tours, and dispensing with any kind of a risk assessment when selecting an area to view the volcanic eruption. the immediate area around the lava flow can be extremely dangerous. that's where we are now. we've got protective gear. this is off limits to the public. as for those tour boat operators, after monday's accident, they now have to stay a thousand feet offshore. jeff? >> carter evans on the big island. carter, thanks. still ahead on, how dna led investigators to a suspect in a 30-year-old unsolved murder. and later, it was no video game. a wild police shoot-out on the streets of las vegas. why did i want a crest 3d white smile?
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the murder of a young girl in ft. wayne, indiana, went unsolved and unpunished for three decades, but the police have finally arrested a suspect. don dahler explains how cutting edge technology helped crack this case. >> reporter: april tinsley disappeared on a spring day in 1988 while walking to a neighbor's house. the 8-year-old's body was discovered in a ditch three days later. she had been raped and strangled. today authorities announce they'd finally solved it. prosecutor karen richards. >> this case has haunted this community for 30 years, and i believe you have given us some closure. >> reporter: police chief steve
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reed. >> 30 years. 30 years this family has waited for answers. >> reporter: the answers came from genetic genealogist cc moore. >> we had enough to work with that i was able to narrow it down to two full brothers. >> reporter: investigators say they arrested 59-year-old john miller after matching his dna from the crime scene and from taunting notes he wrote to local residents threatening to kill again to genetic information posted by his relatives on genealogy websites. investigators confirm the dna match with evidence gathered from miller's trash. when he was arrested at his home sunday, miller reportedly confessed. what would you say to those out there who think they got away with their crimes? >> i think this case should tell them something different. >> reporter: this is the sixth cold case moore and her team have helped investigators crack, including the notorious golden state killer. since pay, parabon nanolabs has
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uploaded more than 140 crime samples to a dna matching site, getting hits for more than half. gary grant and dan jackson were the original detectives on the april tininside th tinsley face >> we're happy for the tinsley family. now maybe the family can rest knowing at least now it's solved. >> reporter: john miller's family genetic background is what led the prosecutors to this. jeff, they've opened up a whole bunch of new cases now. in fact, moore and her team are investigating 40 new cases. >> don dahler's in ft. wayne, indiana for us tonight. don, thank you. still ahead here, whole neighborhoods evacuated when a gas plant went up in flames. foaming body wash. amdrat
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pressure, what pressure? anif you've got a lifee. you gotta swiffer new details tonight about a wild police chase and shoot-out that played out in las vegas last wednesday. the police say the two murder suspects shot an officer who then returned this fire through his windshield. in all, 66 rounds were fired. no bystanders were hit. the suspects were later stopped, one was killed, the other hit. also in las vegas, the owner
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of the mandalay bay resort is suing hundreds of victims of last october's massacre in a bid to avoid liability. the company argues it cannot be held legally responsible for the gunfire that rained down from the hotel suite on to a country music concert. 58 were killed in the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. in south florida, three people were killed today when two small planes collided over the everglades. rescuers used airboats to get to the wreckage. both planes were from a flight school that operates out of miami executive airport. smoke shot high in the air this morning after a series of explosions in a florida gas plant northwest of houston. evacuations were ordered in a five-mile radius around the plant, which makes a product used in welding. no one was hurt. up next, and then there was ne. a blockbuster ending to the broadcast, next.
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finally here tonight, video killed the radio star. streaming is killing the video store. after the two blockbusters in alaska closed this week, is there is only one left anywhere. jamie yuccas reports the end of an era is just around the bend. >> reporter: this blockbuster video store in bend, oregon is suddenly nostalgically hip. >> awesome! ♪ what a difference blockbuster
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video ♪ >> nobody has the movie i want. >> reporter: in its heyday, there were 9,000 blockbuster stores worldwide. a new one opening every 17 hours. >> oh! >> reporter: the video store found its place in pop culture. >> the other side of darkness. huh, i never heard of that one. >> it went straight to video. >> reporter: and became the place to be. >> i want to rent ghost busters. >> ghost busters. >> reporter: for families, for date night, for just hanging out. then came streaming. >> time to finally return your father's overdue movies. >> reporter: and as fast as blockbuster had grown, the stores just as quickly vanished. circumstances it kind of sad that block buster is no more? >> it's really sad. it was a fun family outing. >> reporter: but this is not a relic. call it retro cool. >> i wish i could have grown up in the '80s. and it a of history that gotoen
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nostalgic to me. >> reporter: it's nostalgic to you? >> yeah. >> reporter: and how old are you? >> i'm 15. >> reporter: little has changed customers like it. they could stream at home, but browsing dvds gives them a sense of community. >> that's something we've lost. they don't like the interaction, face-to-face stuff. and i think you still get that coming here. >> reporter: store manager sandy harding works alongside her 17-year-old son ryan. when you found out you were going to be the last blockbuster store and it was going to be in bend, oregon, what struck you? >> the amount of phone calls is nuts. it's awesome. it really is. it changes the whole energy around here. it makes it cool. yeah, i get to go to work at blockbuster. >> reporter: and now making a last stand, those in this northwest town may be writing ending. >> thank you. >> reporter: jamie yuccas, cbs news, bend oregon that. >> the s the youghiogeny for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with cbs
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this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor. this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm michelle miller. president trump did an about-face trying to explain his controversial news conference with russian president vladimir putin. mr. trump now says he accepts u.s. intelligence assessments that the kremlin interfered in the election, but he insists there was no collusion. and mr. trump says he misspoke when he said he saw no reason why russia would interfere. how is that explanation going over? weija jiang begins our coverage. >> begin by stating that i hav ll faith and support forenen
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>> repr: reang from aepared sta trump declared he believes russia interfered in the 2016 election. >> let me be totally clear in saying that, and i've said this many times. i accept our intelligence community's conclusion that russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place. >> reporter: but he quickly added -- >> could be other people also. there is a lot of people out there. there was no collusion at all. >> reporter: his remark contradicted what he said yesterday, standing just feet away from russian president vladimir putin when the president seemed to side with putin over u.s. intelligence on the question of russia meddling. >> they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> reporter: today the president tried to offer a clarification, explaining that he misspoke. >> in a key sentence in my
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remarks, i said the word "would" instead of "wouldn't." the sentence should have been i don't see any reason why i wouldn't or why it wouldn't be russia. so just to repeat it, i said the word would instead of wouldn't. >> the reversal unfolded after senior administration officials and congressional republicans piled on the pressure, most of them ignoring what the white house wanted them to say. in a memo obtained by cbs news, the administration suggested talking points for lawmakers, including past instances in which president trump talked about election interference. >> i think it was russia. >> reporter: instead, many in the gop slammed the president for refusing to denounce putin, adding to today's drama, the lights went out during the president's remarks. >> whoops, they just turned off the lights. that must be the intelligence agencies. >> you know, president trump ignored an important question
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today. will you now publicly denounce vladimir putin? he didn't answer that. he did say, though, that his administration is taking strong action to protect election systems and the process, and it is doing, quote, everything in its power to make sure there's no interference in the midterms. >> nancy cordes has the view from capitol hill. >> was that a full enough correction for you? >> well, that's what i wish he would have said initially, and i'm glad he said it now. >> reporter: republicans may be relieved. >> i take him at his word. if he says he misspoke, absolutely. >> reporter: but they still have questions about that two-hour meeting with putin. >> what did you talk about? and why didn't you want it to be recorded? >> reporter: and many worry the damage from the president's foreign trip can't be fully undone. >> i said yesterday that that was shameful. i feel the same today. >> reporter: this was the senate's top republican this afternoon. >> myself, let me just say to our european friends, we value the nato treaty.
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>> reporter: what does it say about the state of our government that you need to stand here and reassure europe that we are their friends? >> well, i think it's important for our friends to hear from their friends. >> reporter: as for the russians -- >> i think the russians need to know that there are a lot of us who fully understand what happened in 2016, and it really better not happen again in 2018. >> reporter: as troubled as republicans were, they were still reluctant to call out mr. trump directly. >> vladimir putin does not share our interests. vladimir putin does not share our values. >> reporter: so should president trump be rebuked? >> all right. >> elizabeth palmer is in moscow where they have their own take on president trump's about face. >> well, immediately after the talks in helsinki, it was pure delight. in fact, russia's foreign minister said the talks had gone better than super.
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he used a russian word which means fabulous. by this morning, that had cooled a bit. wiser heads were saying the backlash in washington is so strong, it might make russia toxic enough that there would never be a follow-up round of talks. the president's clarification today may have reassured russia a bit, especially if it can turn down some of that heat, that toxicity in washington. the ultimate goal is to have the sanctions on russia lifted, and they would like a second round of talks in maybe just a few months, perhaps even connected with the g20 this fall. hawaii's erupting kilauea volcano has become a prime tourist destination on the big island, but one tour boat got a little too close and found itself bombarded by molten rock. carter evans has the story. >> reporter: we're so close to this lava flow, we've got our safety gear ready. you can see that molten river as
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it makes its way down to the sea. it's causing big problems for people in sur cold ocean, it can be very dangerous for people in the water. video from the tour boat captures the chaos on board during the explosion. >> the explosion looked like a gigantic firework right off the side of the boat. >> reporter: passenger kirk olson says the sightseeing boat was about 100 yards off the coast when a basketball-sized lava bomb crashed through the roof. >> it was suddenly bedlam. there was screaming. you'd look on the floor, and there were hot lava rocks glowing. >> reporter: the boat that was hit is run by lava ocean tours, one of several companies that takes visitors to see kilauea's lava pouring into the ocean. tourists on nearby boats could see the thick plume of steam and hot ash blasting into the sky.
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>> it just exploded straight out at the boat. we could hear the rocks hit the boat, and the people yelling. >> reporter: nearly two dozen people on board were treated for burns and scrapes, and one woman was hospitalized with a broken femur. the coast guard recently changed the rules for lava tour operators, allowing them to take visitors as close as 50 meters from shore, but after monday's incident, boats are now required to stay 300 meters out at all times. kilauea's latest eruption started in early may, and the lava flow has now destroyed more than 700 homes. >> what happened today shows the unpredictable nature of a vancouver. you just can't know what's going to happen. >> reporter: even though the vast majority of the big island is completely unaffected by the lava, concerns about the volcano have really hurt tourism here. now it's unclear if this new accident and the new restrictions will impact it even further. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> president trump is trying to walk back some of his criticism of u.s. intelligence agencies after his controversial news conference with russian president vladimir putin. but for many in the intelligence community, the president's comments come too little too late. cbs news national security contributor mike morrell, former acting director of the cia, discussed the issue on cbs this morning. >> you tweeted an article yesterday from a former cia colleague of yours who wrote that the u.s. intelligence community can no longer trust the president's judgment. do you agree? and if that's the case, should his intelligence chiefs resign? >> bianna, there's been a very
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rocky relationship between president trump and his intelligence community. you'll remember in the early days the relationship was bad. the morale was bad. the president called his intelligence community nazis. people were considering resigning. but over time, that relationship got better, in large parent because the intelligence community got access to the oval office on almost a daily basis. but yesterday was a blow to that morale. it was a blow to that relationship. i do think that senior officials in the intelligence community need to ask themselves whether they can continue to serve this president and represent the men and women in the intelligence community in a way that is positive. deeply concerned about that. >> would you advise them to step down if they reached out to you for advice? >> i would advise them to consider stepping down, yes. >> so imagine this. they have intelligence. they would normally share it
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with the president. what's your view about whether they should continue to share intelligence that runs particularly along these lines about relations with russia? >> john, their job is to inform the president, to keep the president informed of what they know and what they think. they will not stop doing that. i have high regard, very high regard for the director of national intelligence, dan coats. he has been very vocal about the threat that russia poses to the united states. he's been very vocal about russian meddling in the 2016 election. he has been very vocal about what the russians are doing in europe. he has been very vocal about the fact that the russians continue to meddle in our democracy to this very day. so i would encourage the intelligence community to continue to tell the president what they think, and continue ty thk and what they know. >> a lot of president trump's statements during his news conference with putin were, well, not quite true. paula reid now with the
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presidential fact check. >> there is an overwhelming consensus among u.s. intelligence and law enforcement that russia orchestrated a campaign to interfere in the 2016 u.s. presidential election. but president trump has been reluctant to accept that conclusion or the evidence that supports it, and that makes him a solitary figure in his administration and his party. >> they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> reporter: president trump appeared to side with vladimir putin over his own intelligence agencies monday. >> president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> reporter: those comments drew a strong rebuke from his own director of national intelligence, dan coats, who said in a statement, "we have been clear in our assessments of electi t on to undermine 016 our democracy." u.s. intelligence agencies and the justice department, as well as bipartisan committees in the
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house and senate russians launched a covert operation to sway the u.s. election. >> the indictment charges 12 russian military officers by name. >> reporter: just last week, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein announced new charges filed by special counsel robert mueller directly linking the operatives to the russian government. >> the indictment includes 11 criminal allegations. >> reporter: and in february, mueller charged 13 russians and three russian companies for running a troll farm to meddle in the election. rosenstein briefed the president about the allegations days before he left for the summit with putin. making these comments regarding an offer by putin all the more surprising. >> he offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people. i think that's an incredible offer. >> reporter: the special counsel's office declined to comment on that offer, but they comment on that offer, but they did point to two cases where
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lesson in the proper way to eat them. i bet. ♪ >> reporter: in this hyper modern metropolis, the present often looks a lot like the future. but down jus there are still signs of shanghai's culinary history. soup dumplings steaming on the sidewalk here. >> yes. this is your real neighborhood joint. >> reporter: crystal mo is a food writer in shanghai. she took us to one of her favorite spots for the city's most famous dish, shaolongbao. otherwise known as soup dumplings. a there was a line out the door. >> still in every neighborhood in shanghai. >> reporter: soup dumplings begin like most dumplings do. dough is roll out and pressed into little circles. the fiing, usually pork,s by
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hand, creating perfect dumpling dimples. a higher number of folds, up to 22, is considered a sign of a higher quality dumpling. but what about that liquid inside? >> it seems magical. i mean, when people come to china and they have it for first time, so is it injected? is there a hypodermic needle? how do you get all of that soup inside the dumpling? >> reporter: the soup comes from pork aspic, a jellied pork oil caught up in the soup mixture. when the dumplings are steamed, it liquefies, creating the distinctive soup inside. >> i assume this is not healthy. it tastes way too good. >> it depends what kind of diet you're on. >> i'm not going to be skinny reporr: its origins are somewhat debatable. ♪ near hang high >> reporter: most agree these dumplings were invented in the 1870s in the shanghai suburb of
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nansh nanshing. they steamed the dumplings in round bamboo baskets. they were a hit and xiao long bao was born, which translates literally as small basket bun. decades later, another shanghai shift moved to taiwan and was hired by a cooking oil store. that brand has made the soup dumpling a household name all over the world. with dozens of restaurants, including several on the west coast of the united states. >> the soup dumpling, the midwest-try food when you're in shining high. let's go. >> reporter: shanghai is still home to the best xiao long bao, and food lovers like this one make it their first stop, even if tourists aren't sure what to >> it's kind of like sort of pasta with a meatball inside. >> reporter: but eating delicate
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dough filled withsoup takes a b. i need you to show me how to actually eat these, because i'm pretty sure i'm not doing it right. >> well, i hope you're not too attached to your shirt. >> get a napkin. >> what you want to do is take a little bite out of the skin at the top. >> okay. >> there you go. and then you suck out the soup. and now you have a safe dumpling to eat. >> not going to burn my mouth. >> and now you can do it in one bite. mmm. >> there was a time not too long ago when you could d thetreet in any town without spotting a blockbuster video store. well, those days are blockbuster store in the entire country. jamie yuccas is outside that lonely store in bend, oregon.
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>> at one point it's estimated a new store opened every 17 hours. now there will soon just be this one. and while that iconic sign used to tell people where to rent movies, it's now become a must-see destination. >> one, two, three. look here. >> reporter: in a digital age, where streaming video reigns supreme, this represents how many people used to retrieve home entertainment. >> open late every night. the perfect video store. >> welcome to blockbuster video! >> is popping up all over the country. >> reporter: if you want to rent movies from blockbuster in the united states today, you'll have to come to bend, oregon. >> from all the way across the country. >> reporter: the chain was once ubiquitous in strip malls and on street corners. now the last surviving box store has quickly become an attraction p>> this being here is kind of cool because it's the last one. >> reporter: for people like
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15-year-old charlotte jones, browsing through the stacks of about 14,000 movies in person rivals any experience offered online. >> when you see them all next to each other, it's kind of -- makes it easier, but with like on netflix, you only see the title. and that's all. you have to scroll through it and it takes a while to get through all of the movies. >> reporter: dan and natalie bacon travelled from neighboring idaho to share the nostalgia with their children. when you guys hear that's how your parents used to date is they would come in here and spend an hour picking out a movie and then go home, what goes through your mind? >> kind of weird. >> reporter: with the arrival of netflix in the late 1990s, blockbuster stores began disappearing, just as quickly as they arrived. last week, there were only three in the u.s., including two in alaska where expensive internet and long winters help keep the stores in business. on ursd the alaska stores announce they'd would close for
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good. did you ever think you would be the last block buster? >> no, i didn't. >> hi, this is sandy. can i help you? >> reporter: general manager sandy harding says customers visiting the blockbuster in oregon treasure its customer service and familiarity. >> all alphabetical. so it still comes all the way around in the alphabet to find them. >> reporter: so that hasn't changed in years. >> nothing really has changed. we saw the category signs. i think if a customer walked in here, they would be oh, i can find that movie because it's like the library. you go and you kind of know where things are. >> reporter: even the computer system is turn of the century. these computers look like they are from the '90s. >> they absolutely are. >> reporter: cole stevens calls it a piece of history. >> it's fun to check it out. >> reporter: it's like a history lesson. >> it is. >>eporte how does that make you feel, mom? >> that makes me feel very old. >> reporter: the store's owners don't plan to close any time soon. in fact, they say as long as they can pay their employees and turn any type of profit, they'll
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little town on the coast of green land could soon be wiped off the map. a giant iceberg sitting right in the harbor is starting to break up, sending huge waves crashing on to the shore. evacuations are already under way. mark phillips has the story. >> reporter: we all know it's been a hot summer, and not just in north america and here in europe, but it's also been warm somewhere where it matters even more, in the arctic. for us, the consequences are potential and long-term, but they are immediate in one small little place. >> reporter: it's huge. it's beautiful, and when the massive iceberg that's grounded off the b it's dangerous. the village on green land's west coast is home to only 169
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people, and more than 30 of them have already been moved to higher ground because when the iceberg calves, when chunks of it fall into the sea, powerful waves surge into the harbor. if the warm weather means the berg breaks up faster, or worth of all, rolls over, the town could be flooded. greenland's ice is on the move. this is the helhem glacier on the east coast. that's a glacier the size of manhattan breaking off captured last month by a husband and wife climate scientist team from new york university. >> it was really extraordinary. the sound was like a sonic boom or thunder, a thunder storm. >> reporter: denise and david holland of nyu have spent decades studying green land's ice and have never seen anything like it. is this an event that we're going to be seeing more and more of? >> warmer air, or perhaps enarm
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leads to very rapid disintegration of ice, and icebergs are a very unstable structure. >> reporter: the calving of icebergs after greenland's glaciers isn't new. the question is whether it's speeding up because the arctic seas are warming, and what that means. on a trip there several years ago, that it was happening was obvious. how quickly these icebergs break off the glaciers, and how fast they float out to sea and melt will determine how quick sea levels rise across the planet. this isn't theory. these are the real consequence of climate change in handy frozen pacts. these bergs, the helheim glacier, that monster, they are the future. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you, us the t news continues. for others, cheacith a bit r cbhis g. from the broadcast center right here in new york city, i'm michelle miller.
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captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, july 18th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." president trump blames his russia gaffe on a slip of the tongue. >> i said i wouldn't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia, sort of a double negative. >> but continues to call his meeting with the russian president a great success as congressional republicans go into damage control. victims of the las vegas shooting massacre are being sued
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