well, that's the "overnight r t. from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. captioning funded by cbs it's tuesday, august 7th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." a star witness takes the stand. explosive courtroom details as paul manafort's former business partner testifies they committed financial crimes together. plus, twin california fires become the largest in state history. the latest from the front lines. and it happened in a flash. a freeway pileup ends with a massive fire and even bigger explosion.

good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. paul manafort's right-hand man turned on him. rick gates cut a deal with prosecutors and is the government's star witness in manafort's financial fraud trial. he told jurors he and manafort committed crimes together. gates is expected to take the witness stand again today. paula reid has more. >> reporter: richard gates became the first member of the trump campaign to admit to crimes on the witness stand. special counsel robert mueller charged gates and paul manafort with dozens of counts related to lobbying efforts on behalf of foreign governments, but gates agreed to flip on his former boss in exchange for leniency. prosecutors quickly got to the heart of the case. "did you commit crimes with mr. manafort," asked the prosecutor? "yes," gates replied. gates said he conspired with manafort to falsify tax returns, failed to report foreign bank accounts and failed to regimena

fort as a foreign agent. gates also admitted he embezzled from his boss, something aregistered for months. "i added money to expense reports and created expense reports that were not accurate," he said, to pad his salary by several hundred thousand dollars. there was no mention of president trump or his campaign, but the trial is the first big public test for the special counsel, and the white house says the president feels his former campaign chair is being treated unfairly. >> certainly, the president's been clear. he thinks paul manafort's been treated unfairly. >> reporter: paula reid, cbs news, alexandria, virginia. in northern california, a pair of wildfires became the largest wildfire in state history. the mendocino complex fire north of san francisco has burned more than 443 square miles. meanwhile, a fire burning south of los angeles grew rapidly overnight, forcing the evacuation of two canyons and some campgrounds. laura podesta is here in new york. laura, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie.

14,000 firefighters are attacking these fires from all sides, dropping retardant from planes and using picks and shovels to cut fire lines on the ground. and fire season in california is eek because the

smoke is so thick. and president trump has weighed in on the fires, blaming, quote, environmental laws which are not allowing massive amounts of readily available water to be properly utilized. but experts say that's not the

issue, and they've always had plenty of water to fight the flames. anne-marie? >> laura podesta here in new york. thank you very much. large hail pounded a colorado zoo, injuring at least 14 people and killing two birds during a short but very intense storm. the cheyenne mountain zoo located in colorado springs will be closed today. witnesses say chunks of ice fell from the sky yesterday afternoon. softball-sized hail was reported in the area. five of the injured were hospitalized with traumatic injuries. dozens of cars and trucks were damaged. this morning, powerful hurricane hector is churning west through the pacific, expected to brush parts of hawaii tomorrow. hector is a dangerous category 4 storm withstand winds of 155 miles per hour. a tropical storm watch has been issued for the big island of hawaii, but on its current track, hector is expected to travel well south of the big island. swells generated by hector are expected to reach the big island

and eastern maui, and u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal. weijia jiang has our report. >> reporter: president trump signed an executive order from his new jersey golf club to reimpose sanctions on iran, which were suspended under the obama-era nuclear deal. the president abandoned that agreement in may. >> the fact is, this was a horrible, one-sided should have never, ever been made. >> reporter: the sanctions iranold and metal and restrict iran from using u.s.

dollars in financial transactions. the trump administration argues just the threat of sanctions has already made a difference, pointing to iran's plummeting currency, a worsening economy, and as a result, intense, antigovernment riots like these from recent days. despite heightened hostility, last week, president trump offered up a meeting. >> no preconditions. no. they want to meet, i'll meet, any time they want. >> reporter: rouhani said negotiations and sanctions can't coexist, and if someone has a knife in the hand and seeks talks, he should first put the knife in his pocket. european allies still part of the iran nuclear deal say the president is wrong, even taking measures to protect businesses from the impact of sanctions. but a defiant administration is forging forward alone with more sanctions targeting iran's banking and oil industry set to go into effect in november.

weijia jiang, cbs news, berkeley heights, new jersey. well, a special election in ohio today is being closely watched as a possible barometer of the upcoming midterm elections. democrats hope to grab a house seat held by the gop for decades. the race in ohio's 12th congressional district is expected to be close. danny o'connor looks to be within striking distance of eking out a win over republican troy balderson. now, balderson is backed by president trump, who won there in 2016 by 11 percentage points. a win by o'connor could signal where ohio is trending in the next presidential election. and coming up on the "morning news" now, earthquake survival. rescuers in indonesia dig up a man who was buried by the quake. and postpartum struggles. tennis stars serena williams opens up about being in a funk. this is the "cbs morning news." , you don't see psoriasis. you see clear skin. you see me. but if you saw me before cosentyx...

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"usa today" looks at a study that says runaway global warming is threatening the habitability of the planet for humans. scientists from australia national university and other institutions say a hot house earth climate could raise average global temperatures six to eight degrees. they say it would also raise sea levels up to 200 feet higher, cause widespread river flooding and increase the risk from coastal storms by the end of the century or earlier. "the des moines register" reports the father of missing university of iowa student mollie tibbetts says that he thinks that she is with someone she knows. tibbetts vanished three weeks ago e dogsting for her boyfriend and his brother in brooklyn, iowa. rob tibbetts says that he believes no one went into the house to hurt his daughter and that she's caught in some kind of misunderstanding. florida'un reports during taped confession, the suspected parkland school shooter said "kill me." prosecutors released a transcript of most of nikolas

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this morning north of san francisco. the mendocino complex fire is actually two fires burning a few miles apart. it's burned 443 square miles and destroyed 75 homes, and it is just 30% contained. and in paul manafort's financial fraud trial, his former right-hand man betrayed him. rick gates, who cut a deal with prosecutors, testified that he and manafort committed crimes together. gates said he falsified foreign bank accounts on manafort's behalf to help manafort obtain millions in bank loans. gates is the first member of the trump campaign to admit to crimes on the witness stand. he is expected to testify again

today. the survivors of the parkland, florida, school shooting have been criss-crossing the country this summer to keep the issue of gun control front and center, but gun rights advocates are also speaking out. danielle nottingham has more. >> reporter: all people of all colors, shapes, and sizes are affected by gun violence -- >> reporter: david hogg has spent much of his first summer out of high school leading rallies coast to coast. he's one of the survivors of the marjory stoneman douglas shooting that left 17 people dead. still, he says, he supports the second amendment. >> it's okay if you learn a gun. my father's a gun owner. before going on this tour, i disassembled and reassembled his gun. >> reporter: but he and other students want common sense gun laws, including universal gun laws, background checks and a ban on semiautomatic rifles. >> if you're shooting people from 70 feet away, you're not defending yourself, you're hunting. >> reporter: at every stop,

they're registering voters, hoping to change the balance of power in washington. a gallup poll credited them for a drop in democrats supporting the nra. gun rights advocates are pushing back, hosting their own rallies around the country, including this one high school students organized in chicago. >> i plan on owning a gun for self-defense, to defend me and my family. >> reporter: rick travis leads the california rifle and pistol association. >> voters who care about the second amendment are very excited coming into these midterms. >> reporter: his organization focuses on training and safety. and in their classes, no live firearms are allowed. >> that way, we are teaching safety along with teaching you the instructions in the class, and i am not having to worry about somebody with a loaded firearm. >> reporter: florida will be bringing more guns on to campuses in the hands of a new army of public safety officers armed to protect students from mass shootings. >> gun control has never worked when it comes to the criminal element. stopping criminals. >> reporter: voters have their

say on the issue with students well into the fall semester when they go to the polls on the first tuesday in november. danielle nottingham, cbs news, los angeles. coming up on "cbs this morning," a st. louis community finally has some answers about what health problems decades of radioactive contaminationmay have caused. and inside beyonce's latest "vogue" cover, which is making history as the first "vogue" cover shot by an african-american photographer. that's the "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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here's neda iranpour with a check of weather. twin wildfires, racing into the let's take a look at the morning headlines. you can see it's still a little dark out there. the headlines include that marine layer protecting a lot of communities from the smoke. unfortunately for the north and east bay, smoke will be in the skies this morning. it will be hot and hazy, temperatures reaching the mid- to upper 90s for a lot of you and by friday we have triple digits in the