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hillary clinton. a sexual abuse scandal continues to grow at ohio state university. more than 100 former students have reported inappropriate conduct by a former doctor. only on "cbs this morning," how some of the accusers tried to warn school officials. and this morning's notebook, john reflects on the unexpected blessings that come with growing older. but we begin with a look at today's "eye opener." you're world in 90 seconds. this is a volatile fire. flames erupting all over us. >> this is insane. how quickly this fire just jumped the freeway. >> a raging wildfire turned deadly in california. >> folks trying to escape the flames and just a terrifying situation. president trump's former attorney said the president knew in advance about a meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer. >> there is no way you're going to bring down the president of the united states on the testimony of a proven liar.

i guarantee you. >> north korea handing over the first set of remains of u.s. troops killed in the korean war. investigators are digging into the digital footprint of a missing college student from iowa. >> this isn't supposed to happen in our backyard. roseanne barr speaking out in her first tv interview. and a sandstorm slamming northwest china. >> can you imagine driving through that. >> and all that matters. >> facebook just suffered the biggest day loss in any company in history, that includes the great depression. and that is about how i feel about two minutes on facebook. >> on "cbs this morning." >> kiss and makeup, after calling the e.u. a foe on trade a few weeks ago, now all is well between president trump and the president of the european commission. >> the president tweeting that the united states and the e.u.

love each other. >> europeans kiss everyone they meet. that is what -- you could see a worst enemy in europe and it is like, mah -- i hate you. ciao. >> this mornings "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." james having a little fun there with the president -- >> you pointed out that kiss the other day looks very puckered up like. it was very friendly. >> for behind the ear. and nuzzles is very important part of diplomacy. >> there you go. >> we begin with this. a deadly out of control wildfire in northern california. suddenly exploded overnight. the carr fire burned dozens of homes in the redding area, north of sacramento. hundreds more are threatened. a bulldozer operate war was killed and three firefighters

were injured. the fire has taken down everything in its path. >> evacuation orders spread and it caused massive traffic jams as thousands of people fled and some were forced to drive through the far. the carr fire is one of five major wildfires burning in california. joe vasquez of our san francisco station kpix is in redding. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the sun is start justi -- just starting to come up and we could see the level of devastation. this house burned to the ground and same with the one next door as the fire raged through the west side of town. the fury of the carr fire took the town of redding by surprise late thursday as flames jumped the sacramento river and engulfed the area. redding is home to some 92,000 people. >> that is that new normal. the ub predictability and large growth fires. >> reporter: a private bulldozer operator was killed.

>> he was working on an active section of the carr fire. we're in the process of notifying next of kin. we can confirm that we have additional firefighters and civilian injuries. >> reporter: as night fell, worried homeowners watch the flames get closer and closer. >> oh, my god. everybody is panicking and going crazy and everybody is trying to leave. >> reporter: wind-whipped flames made roads nearlim possible. evacuees quickly filled the highway out of town with bumper-to-bumper traffic. a redding news station had to abruptly end the fire coverage. >> we are going to leave the station because it is now unsafe to be here. >> reporter: the fire destroyed homes and a historic schoolhouse in shasta. since it ignited on monday, it scorched dozens of square miles. >> this fire is extremely dangerous and moving with no regard for what is in its path. the california national guard

has been called out to help with the fire fighting effort and evacuations but officials tell me they are actually in life-saving mode right now. just wanting to make sure everyone is safe before they start fighting this fire again. >> joe vasquez, thanks. earlier we spoke with cal fire scott mcclain from redding and asked why residents had so little warning before they had to evacuate. >> further west of here, old shasta and kesswick were vakt d vaktd -- were evacuated during the course of yesterday. the fire progressed into those two areas and all of a sudden the weather picked up as far as winds. we had a few fire tornados within this area that moved vehicles around, broke windows out of the vehicles, that kind of tells you the velocity and the aggressiveness of this fire that came through this particular area. there was very little warning because of the speed of the fire. >> and compared to others we've heard about in other .

[ technical difficulties ] >> we know there is a danger for california wildfires out there. >> thank you. from our station wcbs is tracking the weather. more rain is heading in the direction. >> we have has --

[ technical difficulties ] for the firefighters because temperatures are 110 degrees or higher until monday. 8% humidity and that is nonexistent. super dry air. the wind speed is about 15 miles per hour but you heard the fire chief talking about the fire tornados. what happens is the temperature is so hot the air is rising very quickly but now the fire itself creates its own lift and now you get those remains of 55 american troops killed during the korean

war. the plane carrying the remains landed overnight at an air base in southedrk in south a decade remains of american servicemen comes back and it comes 65 years to the day after the end of combat in the korean war. >> reporter: one by one u.s. soldiers carried the 55 set of remains off the c-17 in front of a military honor guard. their fellow servicemen watching over the fallen as they pass by. in wooden caskets, draped in united nations flags, these are believed to be the remains of the some of the 5300 service members last known to be in north korea. >> it absolutely should not and

must not be considered a trade. >> reporter: admiral james winfeld said north korea sees this as a tool to make headway in negotiations with the united states. >> it is clear that if north koreans are doing this as a good will measure they are serious because they would not give up a bargaining trip as they view them able to witness the crash? >> the navigator said the plane went down over the hill and he heard the ammunition going off and that is all. that is all could be everything.

>> testing in south korea next week they'll be flown to hawaii where they will be back on american soil after 65 years and where forensic scientists will attempt to identify the remains and return them to their families. >> david, thanks. president trump is touting the surging economy, numbers out this morning show the economy grew 4.1% in the second quarter. the strongest pace in nearly four years. the president took credit in comments he made from the white house. >> we're on track to hit the highest annual average growth rate in over 13 years. and i will say this right now and i'll say it strongly, as the great deals come in one by one, we're going to go a lot higher

than these numbers and these are great numbers. >> in our next half hour we'll talk to jill shlegginger whether it will continue. michael cohen will cooperate with bob mueller. he said president trump knew in advance of the meeting where russians would give damaging information about hillary clinton. trump tweeted he didn't know about the meeting. major garrett is explaining it all. >> reporter: good morning. a couple of things worth taking note of. first cohen said he has no evidence to corroborate this charge that candidate trump knew about this 2016 meeting. two, cohen has not been a particular interest to robert mueller or his investigators. they are not even handling the investigation into the cohen conduct. that is being dealt with by the u.s. attorney's office in the southern district of new york. as for white house reaction,

nothing from this building but rudy guiliani called cohen a pathological liar. >> there is no way you're going to bring down the united states on the testimony uncorroborated of a proven liar. >> reporter: president trump's lawyer rudy guiliani slammed michael cohen saying he lacks credibility. >> he has nothing to give. so all of a sudden at the 11th hour, i don't think anybody believes that. >> he will testify before robert mueller that the president knew about the 2016 trump tower meeting involve donald trump jr., son-in-law jared kushner, and then campaign chairman paul manafort along with a russian lawyer. cohen reportedly did not say that trump had advanced knowledge of the meeting in private testimonies last year to two congressional committees investigating russian interference in the 2016 election. >> i didn't know anything about -- >> mr. trump has denied any knowledge of that trump tower

meeting. when asked about the meeting last july, the president told reporters, i only heard about two or three days ago. >> it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. >> reporter: echoing trump jr. who told investigators last september that his father wasn't aware of it. i wouldn't have wanted to get him involved in this because it had nothing to do with him. >> mr. president trump, are you upset with mr. cohen. >> reporter: on thursday he ignored questions about michael cohen who is under federal investigation for possible campaign violations. giuliani said until cohen provides evidence, it is just his word against the president's. >> can he corroborate? if he can't corroborate, it's useless. >> reporter: trump's attorney said in a statement his client, quote, has been professional and responsible throughout the mueller and congressional investigation. gayle, the office of special counsel had no comment. a move to impeach rod

rosenstein appears to be stalled for now. speaker paul ryan yesterday firmly rejected the effort by a group of conservatives saying impeachment is not a viable move. attorney general jeff sessions defended his deputy saying he has a highest confidence in him. 11 house republicans introduced impeachment articles on wednesday accusing him of high crimes and misdemeanors claiming he has obstructed repeated demands for documents related to the robert mueller russia investigation. >> i said that yesterday. what does speaker ryan think about this and he doesn't think a lot about it so it won't happen. ion. >> i asked that yesterday. he said not a lot is going to happen. the trump administration has met t failed to reunite all the children with their parents.

1,820 children have been reunited. 711 children are still separated because their parents are no longer in the u.s. some have waived their rights so the children could stay in the country. crackdown was supposed to deter immigrants from coming to the u.s. but backfired after global outrage. investigators searching if for a missing college student in iowa hope a trail of electronic data will find her. mollie tibbetts is her name. she vanished a week ago after going on a run. how her fitz ens tracker and cellphone may provide clues about her disappearance. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. there are faces of molly tib betts on store fronts all over town. she was wearing a fitbit and it holds a trove of data about her movement the day she vanished. >> she's out there somewhere and

we need to bring her back home. >> she said her 20-year-old niece mollie tibbetts is a fighter. >> do you talk to her in your mind? >> absolutely. every day on my way to work. >> what do you say to her? >> i love you, sweet girl. we love you. we will not give up on you, and don't you give up on us. >> reporter: when she vanished last wednesday, tibbetts likely had her cellphone and a fitbit on her wrist to track herron y says mitch mortgagevedt. >> we're likely to know anything. >> reporter: investigators have built a detailed timeline of her movements before she disappeared. based on eyewitness accounts, cellphone tower pings, fitbit data, and social media da tachlt

they don't think she returned home that night, but they also don't think she ran away. >> could someone have tracked her movements on social media and stopped her? >> i think in today's word that's a possibility. >> her boyfriend opened a snapchat on the night she disappeared. she started the run from his house where she was dog-sitting. he was out of town. he has this message for his girlfriend. we love you. we're looking for you. we're going to never stop. >> police have issued warrants to get tibbetts' account data and there are at least a dozen with information. as for the cellphone and fitbit, police believe they're turned off or without battery but they keep checking in case they're turned back on. >> thank you. i hope they find her. >> i do too. as a family member, you have to keep hoping. you can't give up.

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table. congratulations. >> always nice to have good work. >> that was a powerful piece. you did two parts. i remember when the gentleman was here. >> the head of the air force academy. i worked with producer jennifer janis on that and it was part of the me-too movement and talking about sexual assault and harassment that occurs at our elite military academy. >> and he flew here to answer the questions. that is something when you could call him to the table. >> i'm not sure that helped when he came the next day to answer some of the questions. very well done. >> but they've made changes. and the power of journalism reminder. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." here are three things you should know this morning. the aclu said amazon facial recognition technology wrongly identified members of congress as criminal suspects, comparing photos of lawmakers against 25,000 mug shots and the civil liberties group said the test

misidentified black and latino congressmen, nearly 40% of the false matches were people of color. several legislators are questioning whether amazon should sell the technology to law enforcement. amazon said the aclu did not use the proper settings for the test. a new report by the cdc reports the number of people killed by guns in this country jumped 31% from 2014 to 2016. overall the total went up from 11,000 deaths to more than 14,000 in that two-year period. deaths from cutting and piercing and suffocation remain stable. the agency said firearms were used in more than 70% of all homicides between 2010 and 2016. and the government released the gross domestic product report for the second quarter this morning. it showed the u.s. economy grew 4.1% from april through june. that is the best showing since 2014. the u.s. economy has been growing for nine years, making this the second longest period

of growth on record. cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger is with us. good morning. put these numbers in context for us. >> it was an amazing quarter. the best in four years. but if we look longer term, go back to the year 2000. in the top ten of annual growth quarters that we've seen since that entire time horizon. what really powered this was a combination of effects. number one, we know that the tax cuts started to boost business spending. consumers stepped up at a very good pace in the second quarter. the government spent money and there is this really weird one-time impact of the tariffs. a lot of foreign buyers wanted to buy u.s. goods before tariffs went into effect. so we saw a huge surge in soy bean experts before the prices started to change. >> rushing in before the door closes. so what does this mean or a longer term basis about the health of the economy and for regular folks. >> i think the health of the

economy is good but we'll often do the segments and i'll hear from people and they say i don't feel like i'm part of that and what is going on. so it is undeniable that growth was strong in the second quarter. it has picked up in 2018. but there is still a lot of americans who are struggling. we just have not been rising enough to off-set the impact of first the recession and certainly now prices starting to rise. so we hope wages will pick up by the end of the year. still a very good quarter. >> thank you, jill. always good to have you at the table. the new federal lawsuit claims ohio state university received multiple warnings alleging students were sexual abused by a former team doctor, richard strauss worked for 20 years at osu and the school said 100 people including former athletes have now cforwar cuab "cbs this morning" co-host dana jacobson spoke with two people

who are suing the university. >> this is the third lawsuit since the allegations became o spoke out. this is not a class-action suit. the former patients we spoke with say they want to make sure their individual stories are told. >> when i reread this it makes me angry because they invalidated me back then in 1995 -- >> reporter: back then steve snyder hill was a student at ohio state and showed us the complaint after visiting student health services to check on a lump in his chest. >> and it is clear it is just somebody -- taking handwritten notes. >> it is my words. >> reporter: he told a school representative that his conversation with dr. richard strauss felt flirty and not appropriate. he reported that the doctor pushed his groin against him and gave him unnecessary testicular a and rectal exams. >> i went in there vulnerable because he had me de-clothed and

i'm sitting there in front of him and everything is going badly. >> were there points in the exam where i thought i should say something or this is strange. >> when it was happening, i was letting it happen because i didn't know how to respond to it. >> reporter: after he reported the incident, the director of student health services wrote a letter saying they had never received a complaint about dr. strauss before. but ron mcdaniel's said his behavior had been an open secret for years. >> your coach was aware? >> reporter: he said he informed a team trainer and fellow athletes that dr. strauss touched him inappropriately while treating a cold in 1982. >> and they started laughing, you got hit. you're a rookie. you didn't know? and i'm like know what. you could go to him for a h nail and he has tock y testles. absurd andou got hit, you're a rookie. welcome to the club. like we all went through it.

>> we kind of validate each other. >> reporter: mcdaniel and snider-hill among ten men who filed a lawsuit against ohio state university accusing the school of fostering an ingrained culture of institutional indifference that succeeded in keeping dr. strauss's two decades of serial sexual abuse buried. strauss died by suicide in 2005. years after retiring from ohio state. so how many victims haveou heard from so far? >> dozens. >> reporter: attorney jack lance krohner hopes this will bring back change. >> what is the goal of the lawsuit. >> the you've turned a blind eye to a serial sexual harasser and we want to make sure that never happened again. >> ohio state launched an independent investigation in april. a spokesperson said we are aware of reports that individuals at the university did not respond appropriately during that era. these allegations are troubling and are a critical focus of the current investigation. >> we thought we were doing the

right thing in telling our coach. they were the athletic department and we looked to the coaches and the trainers and the doctors to do the right thing. >> and we are kids. we were kids. they have a job to protect us. and not only did they not protect us but they subjected us to that guy over and over again and when they tried to stand up for people they shut me down. >> along with acknowledgment of wrongdoing, the men are asking for an unspecified amount of money in damages. >> this is the same doctor that congressman jim jordan got involved with. people are accuse him of ignoring charges back in the day. >> he was an assistant on the wrestling team and at the time this is the same dr. as far as they could tell from the investigation and the suits, 1 ain,steve,alke wi stut health so it is b st the aletic department. u, da facebook stock market loss is raising questions about the co-founder's future at the

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♪ ♪ facebook stock bounced back this morning after suffering the largest one-day loss of any publicly traded company in history. shares of the social media giant plunged nearly 20% yesterday and that erased about $120 billion of facebook market value. bianna golodryga is here with how some sharmds say co-founder and ceo mark zuckerberg is part of the problem. >> good morning. the worst trading day since the ipo in 2012 and once a darling of wall street, facebook has long been one of the market's best performing tech stocks. but with the announcement this week that the company's growth

may be slowing after an avalanche of scandals, it is becoming apparent the facebook prosperity isn't guaranteed. >> fake news is becoming increasingly maddingly and disturbingly popular on facebook. >> reporter: for months facebook headlines have had trouble getting likes. >> facebook is where all of the action is and where all of the problems, and it is not just this issue with cambridge analytica. >> reporter: scandals involving misinformation and data use trur thrust the company into damage control. >> from now on, facebook will do more to keep you safe -- >> reporter: they pledge to resolve the issue through television ads and top management. >> the entire company is focused, adding over 10,000 people and using technology to help us find bad actors and bad behavior. >> i say this gently. you're user agreement sucks. >> reporter: on capitol hill in qstione ur.er ceo mckerberg was doing o view our responsibilities and

that was a big mistake. and it was my mistake. and i'm sorry. the turbulence caught up to facebook on thursday when a mixed earnings report forced some investors to dump shares of the company. >> our next ask of that -- of facebook and their board is the separation of chair and ceo. >> but wired editor and chief nicholas thompson sees no signs of duk giving up his power. >> if the stock goes down, then pressure could come at zuckerberg. but again, i don't think he'll be forced out. >> and speaking of mark zuckerberg, he personally lost nearly $16 billion in

yesterday's slide. now that's enough money to buy some of the most expensive major league baseball teams, including the yankees, the dodgers and the cubs and red sox combined and estimated to be the sixth richest person in the world falling from third. so no one is feeling sorry for him from a financial perspective this morning. we're not finished hearing from the company testifying before congress. sheryl sandberg is expected to testify in september. >> he's under the gun but this would make him work harder for the company. i think he will fix it. thank. coming up next, a look at morning other headlines including why banners promoting president trump's re-election could get

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good morning. 7:57. an accident on southbound 880 as make your approach towards "a" street. you will be tab every on the brakes. around 25 miles per hour. then things start to pick up. here's a live look, this is just south of hesperian slow. san mateo bridge in the green in both directions. lower deck of the bay bridge, we are tracking a new problem. looks like an accident with the motorcycle approaching treasure island. let's check in with neda on the forecast. >> thank you. here's a live look from the sutro tower camera looking at the marine layer over san francisco. it's thick out there this morning. you may see a light drizzle in the air, as well. here's the view from our kpix 5 roof cam. triple-digit temperatures through the weekend.

♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it's friday, july 27th, 2018. welcome back to "cbs this morning." a fast moving and deadly wild fire tears through northern california communities. how extreme conditions are spawning rare fire tornados. plus, the whistle blower who said the pentagon overcharged by millions. how he and his family paid a steep price for speaking up. a deadly out of control wild fire in northern california suddenly exploded overnight north of sacramento. this home burned to the ground. it was a frightening and chaotic scene last night.

>> the weather picked up as far as winds. we had a few fire tornados within this area. >> it has grew while you were sleeping. it's at least three times as large now. >> this would be the first time in more than a decade the remains of american service men have been returned from north korea. >> cohen said he has no evidence to corroborate this charge that candidate trump knew in advance about the 2016 meeting. when she disappeared, she was wearing a fit bit fitness tracker like that. investigators say it's critical. it holds a drove of data about her movements the day she vanished. walmart is testing a pilot program with waymo. it shuttles customers to the stores to pick up grocery orders placed online. >> self-driving car is called uber. i sit in the back and it drives for me. i don't have to steer at all. this would be like if amazon rolled out amazon prime but in reverse. everyone is like you great you get in the box and amazon ships

you to the storage facilities and you pick up your own stuff! yeah! gives new meaning to "in the box." >> i'm norah o'donnell. gayle king and john dickerson. a deadly california wild fire exploded in size. the carr fire is burning through neighb neighborhoods in redding. this is a huge fire. there was a bulldozer operating clearing brush that was killed by the fire. three firefighters suffered burns. >> the fire ha burned more than 28,000 acres. almost the size of san francisco. it's only 6% contained. the carr fire is one of more than 80 fires burning in the west stretching from alaska to oklahoma. flames lit up the sky overnight. jerry brown declared a state of emergency. temperatures in redding are expected to hit 111 degrees and fire officials say the flames

are moving erratically and extremely quickly. >> we actually had a few fire tornados within this area that moved vehicles around, broke windows out of the vehicles. that kind of tells you the aggressiveness of this fire that came through this particular area. there was very little warning because of the speed of that fire picked so dramatically. >> firefighters are also tackling fires in southern california. the cranston fire burning east of los angeles has destroyed at least five homes. its burned more than 7,000 acres and is just 3% contained. president trump's former lawyer is making it clear he's willing to cooperate with the special counsel's investigation into possible collusion between russia and the trump campaign. michael cohen claims then candidate donald trump knew in advance about a 2016 meeting at trump tower. the president's son, his senior advisor, and jared kushner and his former campaign chairman met

with a russian lawyer. they offered to give damaging information about hillary clinton. this morning president trump tweeted he didn't know of the meeting with his son. we're at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. sources confirm that michael cohen is willing to testify at a special counsel robert mueller that then candidate trump knew about the meeting in advance. but the sources tell me that cohen doesn't have any hard evidence to corroborate these claims. and president trump has repeatedly said he only learned of the june 2016 meeting a year later when he was already in office. if true, though, cohen's allegations would undermine repeated statements from the trump camp denying they colluded with russians. cohen does have credibility issues. he is currently under criminal investigation for his business practices. the president has tweeted noting it may be part of cohen's motivation for wanting to share this information. cohen is under investigation for certain taxing medallions he

over the past several weeks, we've seen a remarkable shift in cohen's legal strategy from stoic and silent to the public break with the president. he's hire an attorney who is most famous for helping the clintons through their legal issues. he's leaked evidence to the president's least favorite news outlet, and here you can see him confirming he's willing to flip on the president. now the big question is will robert mueller buy what cohen is trying to sell? and the fact that mueller has taken cohen's whole case and passed it off to a u.s. attorney in upstate new york, that suggests that perhaps the special counsel believe that michael cohen is a reliable or valuable source of information. >> thank you. >> we want to put important? why would it matter if president trump knew about the meeting? because it would suggest tha ru

offer dirt against his opponent. that's a crime. in other words, you are american, even though they're your opponent in a campaign. >> i think that's an important point. the president continues to deny that. >> to be continued. the trump administration and congressional republicans are pushing to overhaul the endangered species act. the 45-year-old landmark law helped safe guard american icons like the bald eagle and the grizzly bear. republicans say their plans would modernize the act but conservationists say their plans will gut it. nancy cordes is in washington, d.c., to sort it all out. good morning to you, nancy. >> reporter: good morning. what the endangered species act does is establish protections for the habitat and food sources of animals that are on the endangered list. it's a big part of the reason that bald eagles have returned to the park after a decades long absence. but, republicans argue there's

an imbalance between protections and progress. they're pushing nearly a dozen bills that would make it harder to get a species on to the endangered list and easier to remove it. the endangered species act is credited with bringing gray wolves, florida manatees, and the humpback whale back from the brink of extinction. still utah republican rob bishop said the act is broken. o al we species. >> reporter: one of the bills would require the government to consider not just science but the cost to business. before adding a new animal to the list. >> so you're saying let a species go extinct, i it means that nothat i'm saying. 's what i'm saying. what i'm saying is don't specify and limit yourself into looking at what the criteria has to be. >> reporter: the push has alarmed conservationists. >> the endangered species act has been wildly successful. >> reporter: jamie rappaport clark ran the service under

president clinton. >> republicans say they want to modernize the act. >> modernize is code for e vis rate, undermine. it rolls back protections for species on thenk tinction. >> reporter: republicans argue that long-term extincts hamper logging, drilling, and development. >> the goal is to help these species recover. >> reporter: wyoming republican's bill would turn some of the federal rule for protected endangered animals over to the states. >> i think they have more understanding of what goes on in their state. >> reporter: as congress debates the trump administration is looking at ways to act on its own by blocking certain animals from the list. like the sage grause. >> one environmental groups say you're trying to destroy the endangered species act. you say? >> that's crap. we're trying to make it better. if they want to malign me or the process, let those radical

groups do it. >> reporter: he and his colleagues are trying to get these bills passed by the end of the year. they're worried that democrats could take control of the house after the midterm elections, and, while the white house can make some of the changes on its own, those changes could be rolled back by future administrations. that's why they're hoping they can change the law itself. >> nancy, thank you. new details are emerging about demi wilavato. how she plans to get sober again.

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host tonight's episode of "whistle blower." >> i was finding discrepancies. things that didn't add up. i wanted no part of this. i could see myself going to jail. >> what would you do. >> something feels wrong. >> i found myself up against one of the most powerful corporations in the country. >> after jim left the coast guard, he started his dream job at northrop corporation. one of the top military contractors in the world. >> and my job there was to track inventory that wound up in the b-1 bomber stealth bomber. as well as the f-15 fighter. >> northrop is dealing with some of the top military secrets of our country. >> yes. >> i came to believe that the company might be double or even triple billing for the expensive parts to the u.s. government.

and this was adding up to the tune of millions of dollars. >> reporter: found it out that northrop was scrapping perfectly good parts. >> it started making me feel something is wrong here. they take all the good parts out and reuse them and charge again for them as if they're new. so 9 to $11 million worth of cost overcharges to the customer. >> and the customer being overcharged was the u.s. government. >> i finally met the puppet masters. the ones who have been cooking the books. >> jim decided to blow the whistle. he started working undercover with the feds. >> i smuggled copies of documents out and brought them to federal agents. >> it was not just an ordinary fraud case. it affected national security. >> jim put everything on the line. including his family. >> somebody was in my house.

my family was asleep and my phones were tapped. even my cars were tampered with. >> i can't say who it was. somebody did it and i almost lost my life. >> i feared for him. very much. i was very afraid. >> we were scared of sleeping at the foot of your bed because i was too scared to sleep in my room. >> we wound up in a homeless shelter. the entire family goes through everything. the cost is so much. >> when i was younger, my father said something to me i've never forgotten. he said, "jimmy, when is it ever wrong to do the right thing?" >> good question. welcome to alex. >> you. >> we heard him say his house was broken into and tampered with. some people call them paranoid. >> those things happened. he reported at the time when they happened. the federal investigator asked

him if he would go into the witness program but he didn't want to put his five kids and him and his wife. the burglary of his house seemed professionally done. the door was propped up with a coat hanger for fast exit. the burglar went through the evidence he had collected to turn over to federal authors. wheels on his car, the front wheel, the lug nuts were backed out. the tire fell off while he was driving it. two weeks later it happened to his son and daughter. this was report at the time. he will tell you he doesn't know who this did this and northrop said they had nothing to do with any of this stuff. you can imagine during that time growing up five kids. >> yeah. >> afraid. >> yeah very afraid. >> northrop released a

statement. they stated that any suggestion that the company may have i think engaged any criminal wrong doing would be without credible response. during that time, he lost his job as well as his dream job. he got blackballed in the industry. couldn't get a job anywhere. ended up doing menial work like sweeping gas stations and delivering papers. it was an experience. the show is very dramatic and eye opening. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. whistle blower airs tonight at 8:00 p.m. 7:00 central. some people are calling the 5-year-old nigh yeerian's most beautiful girl. g to catch the look of innocence captured

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wildfire in shasta county has now claimed a second life. ca good morning, it's 8:25. i'm michelle griego. the wildfire in shasta county killed a second person. cal fire says a redding firefighter has died. the fire moved into heavily populated areas in west redding after jumping the sacramento river. the california supreme court has ruled hourly workers must be paid for tasks done off the clock. it's as a result of a lawsuit brought by a starbucks employee who said he should be paid for time spent doing things like locking up and setting the alarm. the san francisco marathon is set to get under way sunday at noon at mission street and the embarcadero. stay with us; a look at weather and traffic in just a moment.

good morning. 8:27. we'll begin by looking at your ride through the south bay. this is along 85 right near stevens creek and we are in the yellow due to an earlier crash that doesn't appear to be blocking lanes. we just slipped back into the green on the travel times. hey, there's the gilroy garlic festival this weekend! avoid the roads and take the garlic train express. that's what the caltrain -- you can catch that in san jose at the diridon station. it leaves at 10 a.m. and returns at 4 p.m.

let's check in with neda on the forecast. this morning, a little cloudy out there for san francisco. even a little drizzly. it's cold in many locations. higher elevations stayed warm above that marine layer. but around san francisco, 53 degrees. 56 in oakland. livermore at 60 degrees. yes, that marine layer has reached livermore this morning. , san jose and santa rosa. it's widespread. that ridge of high pressure still there to the south. inland above average heat. temperatures in san francisco spot on for this time of the year. 66 degrees. warm in livermore at 97. san jose 86. fremont 79 degrees. so overall, the bay area, pretty decent weather considering what the rest of the state of california is dealing with.

>> a little time to think about things. >> i'll be honest, i'm terrified. this feels like a mistake. >> okay. >> okay. let's do it. >> let's go. >> here we go. >> all right. >> i'll see you later. [ laughter ] [ expletive ] [ cheers and applause ]

>> oh, my gosh. james, i'm scared for you. james corden didn't let his fear get in the way with "mission impossib impossible" tom cruise. they jumped out of an airplane at 15,000 feet. this is corden's first time sky diving. i'm terrified, too. i might do it if tom cruise would do it with me. >> i'll go with you. >> i said if tom cruise might go with me. >>well, >> if tom cruise agrees to it, i'll come with you. >> yeah. that's quite the shot. >> you sent me a postcard. >> i love how the guy that james corden went tandem with like pulling his forehead back like don't look down. >> he did it with a pro. welcome back to "cbs this morning". the cleveland plane dealer said

education secretary betsy devos's yacht was set adrift. the $40 million yacht named "the sea quest" was moored at a boat basin. someone untied it on sunday morning. it drifted into a dock before the crew gained control of it. the yacht is one of ten owned by the family. rolling stone reports that cardib. is pulling out of the bruno mars tour. she said she's not ready to leave her baby behind. ♪ the rapper gave birth to her daughter kulture earlier this month. she thought six weeks would be enough time to recover but she's not ready physically and doctors said it's not healthy for the baby to be on the road. she added that she under estimated the whole mommy thing. bruno mars said she's doing the right thing. >> the whole mommy thing hits you. >> sure does.

>> i understand. "people" reports on a 5-year-old from nigeria. she's been dubbed on social media" the world's most beautiful girl." we agree! these images posted to imstnstam last week. the young girl is responding to the attention >>well, she's aware about this but she doesn't know as much as we're getting the whole vibe which is excited. she's a beautiful girl. her parents are excited. she's a beautiful girl. she's bright. she's intelligent. she's smart! >> look at that hair. >> i know. it's stunning. >> so gorgeous. >> she was trying to capture the innocence of childhood. now this morning she posted photos of her 7-year-old sister. now i want to see mom a dad.

they produced beautiful humans. >> i know. >> the eyes and the hair. >> oh, my gosh. stunning. >> nicely done. now to this important story. medical companies are responding this morning to a critical new documentary on the health care industry. the film is called "the bleeding edge" and it speaks with patients suffering of complications from medical devices such as the cobalt hip replacements and the permanent birth control device. the movie claims loose regulations are putting patients at risk. >> most people probably believe when they get a medical device implanted that those medical devices have undergone appropriate testing, but for most moderate and high risk devices, that's not the case. all the manufacturer needs to demonstrate is their device is substantially equivalent. to another device that is already on the market. >> bear recently announced it would stop selling the birth control product in the u.s. at the end of the year due to

declining sales. they reminded women that the safety profile of the device remains positive and unchanged. it presents an inaccurate and misleading picture. the fda responded to the claims stating evaluating the post market safety of essure -- the film makers behind "the bleeding edge" are with us. i knew little about of the devices you talked about. this is a huge industry but you're here to sound the warning bell and alarms. what are you here to say, amy? >> it's not just the devices we actually show in our film. it's device across the board. the system is flawed and puts patients unnecessarily at risk. >> what do you mean? >> medical devices are anything.

it's cat scans, x-raies, accidents, anything any interaction you have with technology when you're in the medical industry is a medical device. and those are the things that we learned. we were shocked to learn aren't regulated. >> they're one of the most powerful lobbying groups in washington. what are they lobbying for? >> well, they're lobbying to keep the regulations low. right now, you know, i would say right now most medical devices the fda does not require human clinical testing before they're implanted in humans. this is shocking. >> totally shocking. 98% of devices can be approved for sale without any studies in humans, meaning we are guinea pigs and don't know it. >> let's start with the women who have been affected by this. bayer is facing 16,000 lawsuits over essure. what did you hear from the women? >> it causes auto immune reaction in the body. so you can have migraines,

tremors, ticks, es rts of thing happe and you don't actually associate it with the device. >> let me ask you about what bayer says. it says that 40 published studying involving about 200,000 women demonstrate the safety but were not discussed in the film. this is what they say. what is your response to that? >> one of the things we learned is that most studies are funded by industry. as a result, they're very, very biassed. and one of the big problems with a lot of these studies is essure is planted for life. the studies follow women for a short term. a lot of these symptoms come up 5, 10, 15 years later. the results were devastating. it was shocking what i was hearing from the women. and the point that struck to me in the film when you said new doesn't mean better. new really means unproven. i thought that was a very powerful message. >> yeah. we found that hip implants in

the '70s are as effective if not better than the newer and later ones. they had to sort of change and tweak it to charge you more. it's marketing. it's not necessarily the product. i prefer tried and true as opposed to something that they want to sell me for more money. i would love something that is tested for a long time and so i know it's safe before it's put in my body. >> do you see this saving lives? >> we save lives with every viewing. i was shocked to learn it. kirby was shocked to learn it. every screening doctors thank us. they don't know the information. that's why we made this. being an informed consumer. >> right. >> that's the best thing you can do. >> "the bleeding edge." very well titled, too. >> yeah. the technology that is so cutting edge it's dangerous. >> all right. thank you. "the bleeding edge" is streaming now on netflix.

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fact i must come to terms with, but i already have. to accommodate my ageing eyes, the letters on my phone can be seen from space. my hairs are tracked like an endangered species. when you have a mid summer birthday, you're aware of your mortality. summer time is like a lifespan. you roll around in the early days with hours to burn, but then the hands on the clock start to spin at the speed of a propeller on a plane. suddenly summer is over and you wonder where the time went. still, to drive the point home, my family gave me a bottle of silver. surveys do show that when people are asked to assess how they're doing, 50 is the age when they feel the most glum. they're worried about retirement and kids are driving them crazy or they left and they miss them but then things turn around. people get happier as they age. older people are less stressed.

more nourished by personal relationships and feel deeper gratitude. we can nurture this. don't rage against the dying but exploit the perspective that comes from age. dying of the light but exploit the perspective that comes from age. let each fruit be harvested in its own season wrote cicero in his old gauge. it's not by speed or strength that great deeds are done. but by wisdom, character and sober judgment. niece qualities are not lacking in old age but in fact grow richer. so if we must see this age as the first dimming it should not be the twilight of the setting day but like the moment the light starts to dim before a movie, a sign of excitement to come. we don't know how the story will end. but at least we can buy the popcorn. >> that was a nice analogy did you feel like mollie shannon i'm 50 and proud.

>> i'm proud. >> i can kick and stech. >> if you can hitch or pants up that high a lot is available. >> some people get freaked out at 50. it's the first time i raemzed i probably won't live another 50 but it's a grate age. >> there is a culture of people trying to freak you out at 50. >> welcome to the club it's a good old club too. >> and i want to let you know you can hear more of cbs this morning on the podcast. find it on apple and itunes. all that matters this week up next. slam is just $5.99! ♪$5.99 are you out of your mind?♪ seriously?! yup! eggs. hash browns. bacon. sausage. and buttermilk pancakes! ♪$5.99 are you out of your mind?♪

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was only 6% contained. >> that's about 8,000 to 9,000 acres. it has bloomed while you were sleeping. it's at least three times as large right now. >> we could be in store for much of the east coast. this is it. >> roads are under water this way and that way. >> he testified. cohen has credibility issues here. >> a very bad day for facebook. >> the amount of facebook stock decline is larger than the total of mcdonald's. >> she's depressed. ♪ i'm so sorry i'm not sober anymore ♪ >> a lot of people are young and they say this is about their future. >> you know you're risking your lives here. the fear is gone. >> russian hackers could have thrown switches and caused blackouts. >> america must not sta b let vladimir putin and his gang of ruthless --

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there. >> please stop, please stop. >> "eighth grade" is getting rave reviews. >> one girl, kay lay, i said, what's your name, kayla. i said do you have a special talent. she said, i have eczema. another kid was eating a bell person and said, oh, you're so qualified. >> think about the presidency. george washington cutting down the cherry tree and saying i cannot tell a lie. the story's not true but it tells us what we believe about our president. >> so the first story of honesty is a lie. >> john, that's not true, i cannot tell a lie. >> well, gayle, believe that about you. i don't believe you could tell a lie, but george washington never said it. the story about the cherry tree is apocryphal. >> debbie downer bursted my bubble. i never knew that was true. that's why you're here. >> sometimes learning can be painful, gayle. >> yes, we can. >> we're all growing songer like

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underway in shasta county, as a destructive wildfire continues to rage. e than good morning, it's 8:55. i'm michelle griego. he imaginedder to evacuations under way in shasta county as a destructive wildfire continues to rage. the carr fire burned more than 44,000 acres and is only 3% contained. a ind a bulldozer operator were killed in the firefight. a stabbing suspect is due in court today. police say abdul bey attacked gerald bisbee at the pleasant hill bart station last week. bisbee died two days later from a related infection. and maintenance crews say the golden gate bridge is 4.5% corroded but the bridge's district says the corrosion is just cosmetic, not structural. stay with us; a look at weather and traffic in just a moment. ♪ ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? ♪

still flat. here. try this. and... ♪ ooh, heaven -- nailed it. good morning. time now 8:57. your ride heading into san francisco right now by the bay bridge, not two shabby. a look at this. we have just a few cars backing up our sensors showing yellow likely to come back down into the green as the morning commute is really starting to quiet down. if you are heading into san francisco, this weekend, keep in mind there is the san francisco marathon that begins

at 5:30 sunday morning. that will go down the embarcadero. keep in mind also that there will be no pedestrian or bicyclist traffic allowed on the golden gate bridge during that time 5 to 11. they will have shuttles that will take people across the bridge and it will be open to drivers in vehicles. the weather should be perfect for running weather across the golden gate bridge. it's going to be cloudy and cool. so that's just right. not too hot. here's a live look now at san jose. sunny conditions there now. but also taking a look from our kpix 5 roof camera, it is cloudy over san francisco. that's also where it's cool. 53 degrees livermore 63. oakland 56. we do have that morning marine layer, look at that. extending far towards livermore. starting to clear up across the south bay. santa rosa also a little cloudy out there. unfortunately inland still hot.

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