for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. and for others you can check back with us a little later for th news" and of course "cbs this morning." "cbs this morning." from the broadcast c captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs low temperature it's wednesday, august 8th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." close contests. both are being tallied in key elections across the country as parties battle for control in washington. paul manafort's business partner faces tough cross examination in manafort's fraud trial, what gatesed a

mitds to doing. >> this fire tornado is actually just inside the fire line. and from north to south, wildfires continue to rage across california. 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. so we begin with politics. this morning a closely watched congressional election in ohio is too close to call. races were held in five states yesterday. they were primaries for governors and house seats and several key contests as democrats look to regain control of the house, but it was special election in ohio's 12th congressional district that attracted the most attention, and democrats, republicans, and president trump. laura podesta is here in new york. laura, good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. yes, the special election in the battleground state of ohio is to replace a republican congressman who quit after becoming frustrated with his own party. the race was expected to be close, but not this close.ee

to be counted, and it could be weeks before we know the winner. the special election race between republican troy balderson and democrat danny o'connor in ohio's 12th district is too close to call. balderson leads o'connor by more fewer than 2,000 votes but more than 8 thousand provisional and absentee ballots have to be counted, which could trigger a mandatory recount. that didn't stop balderson from claiming victory. >> it's time to get to work. over the next three months, i'm going to do everything i can to keep america grn great again. >> president trump handedly won in 2016. he put the full weight of his support behind balderson, going to ohio over the weekend to campaign for him. >> can you believe how close this is? we are in a tied ball game. >> regardless of who comes out

on top, the two will face each other again in november's general election. four other states held primaries yesterday. democratic senator claire mccaskill will face josh hawley, a republican, in what's expected to be a close race. >> this is a state that voted for president trump by 20 points. being independent in this state means standing up to your liberal parties. >> and in michigan the president tweeted that iraq war veteran john james is a future star of the republican party after he ran against debbie stabenow. and in the race for governor in kansas, republican kris kobach has a slight lead over current republican jeff colyer though the race has yet to be called while votes are still being counted. president trump tweeted a full endorsement of kobach less than 24 hour before the polls opened. anne-marie?

>> laura podesta here in new york. thank you so much, laura. ahead on "cbs this morning," the latest from ohio on the too-close-to-call special election and what it may mean for democrats to retake the house. in missouri, voters rejected a right to work law. unis say it would have led to lower wages. businesses said it could have led to more jobs. 27 other states have laws against compulsory union fees. five states have enacted such laws since 2012. at paul manafort's financial fraud trial, rick gates is expected to return to the stand today. gates is the prosecution's star witness. yesterday during cross examination defense attorneys grill gates about his personal life and inability to tell the truth. paula reid has more. >> reporter: after hours of cross-examination of the prosecution's star witness, paul

manafort's lawyer offered this assessment. attorney kevin downing attacks rick gates' testimony one day after his testify that his former boss knowingly committed crimes. you knowingly and intentionally lied, defense attorney kevin downing asked? uh, yes. >> downing peppered gates with questionsing what was dubbed as the secret life of rick gates. he admitted to having a secret apartment in london to facilitate a secret marital affair but denied uses funds. it's possible, gates conceded. as gates struggled to answer questions about wire transfers he authorized, downing pointed out gates' testimony was much clearer when the prosecution was dock the questioning.

have they confronted you with so many lies you can't remember any of it, downing asked? earlier in the day the trump cam pape was discussed at length for the first time. after manafort resigned as trump's campaign manager in 2016, dpats stayed on and worked on trump's inauguration. paula reid, cbs news, alexandria, virginia. well, as expected, the trump administration is going ahead with imposing a 25% tariff on an additional $16 billion worth of chinese importds. the list of 279 taxable items is heavy on industrial products like steam turbinen chinese pr. china has been retaliating in line.

the trade dispute is dependent on getting trade secrets from u.s. companies. and it's reported president trump's former attorney udcohen any crime. at issue is whether income from cohen's taxi cab business in new york was underreported. that's according to "the wall street journal." authorities are also looking into whether cohen lied on loan applications. >> and now to california on what is shaping up to be the worst fire season in state history. in southern california, southern los angeles, a fire tornado erupted in the so-called holy fire. firefighters are working to keep it away from homes. some orange county residents had meantime up north, the largest th res state history, the m

burning slower. this morning there are 18 fires. prosecutor says a pennsylvania police officer they've charged with voluntary manslaughter is relatively inexperienced and made an unreasonable decision about his safety. he shot and killed a man from new jersey last month. nikki battiste has the details. >> reporter: the fatal shooting of joseph santos was captured on this cellphone video. you can hear jonathan roselle give commands before giving fire shots, killing the 44-year-old who was unarmed. lehigh county district attorney jim martyn called it unjustified. >> i have concluded he did not have to discharge his weapon. >> reporter: the incident happens after callers reported a man acting erratically outside a water park in pennsylvania. >> a call to report a male

jumping on cars in front of downey park. he's in blue shorts. >> reporter: santos can be seen here jumping on top of roselle's patrol car. he had been with the police department for five months before the incident. >> officer roselle stated to the first responding officer that he thought, quote, [ bleep ] up. >> reporter: d ta tracked by bowling green state university, since 2005, 91 officers have been charged in police-fatal shootings. santos leaves behind three children. >> when father's day comes, he will not be here to celebrate. >> he's not releasing roselli's body cam recordings until the examination ends. he's being held without bail.

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the missing boy's father allegedly abducted him in georgia in december. the father was arrested on friday along with four other adults when 11 starving children living in filthy conditions were found there. the "chicago tribune" reports the city is deploying hundreds of additional officers the violence-plagued neighborhoods. it comes after the most violent weekend in chicago in more than two years. 74 people were shot including 12 who were killed between friday afternoon and monday morning. dional officers have dent said been added. that number will increase to 600 by the weekend. the "los angeles times" says retired aerospace executive wanda austin was named interim president at usc after c.l. max nick quyaas -- ni for allegatio norring sexual abuse complaints

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on the "cbs moneywatch," a dream job for barbecue lovers, and a possible new path for tesla. diane king hall is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, diane. >> good morning, anne-marie. well, tesla's ceo elon musk is considering taking his company private. he sent out a tweet shocking shareholders. he said tesla's shares have been subject to wild price swings which has been a major distraction. musk says no final decision has been made, but he did say shareholders could opt to remain as investors or be bought out at $420 a share. it closed at $379.57 a share. on wall street, more strong second quarter earnings fueled optimism about the economy. that led to solid gains in tech.

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cows helped corral a stolen car suspect in florida. a seminole county sheriff's officer's dash cam captured the scene of sunday night. the stolen suv crashed into a ditch and two people ran away. the video shows about 20 cows chasing a woman. they eventually herded suspect right to waiting officers. a new report says lyme disease has spread to all 50 states. the quest diagnostic report says the number of cases continues to rise. it's exploded in areas like california and florida. the company says ticks are finding it easier to survive in new regions and spreading diseases to human. diseases carried in ticks are normally found in the northeast. chicago is mourning the death of one of its beloved sports stars. hockey hall of famer and chicago blackhawks star stan mikita died yesterday.

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and at paul manafort's fraud trial, rick gates is expected to return to the witness stand today. gates is the prosecution's star witness. yesterday the defense attorneys grilled gates about his inability to tell the truth. the insurance institute for highway safety repots on driver assisted technology including tesla's autopilot. kris van cleave gave it a test drive. >> if i want to start the autopilot, what do i do? >> basically tap that down again and you'll hear a noise. >> reporter: this is my first time with autopilot. it's suvered a series of high-profile accidents including this crash in san francisco that was fatal in march. that's tim stevens, editor in chief of cnet's road show. >> what is autopilot? >> there are cams and radar. particularly on a highway, it will stay in its lane, speed up and slow down based on traffic,

and make it so it takes some the drudgery out of driving. >> reporter: he says it should only use on divided highways because it responds to cheerily marked lanes and does not respond to signals and stop signs. >> there's a misperception it's a self-driving car. >> reporter: that misperception or what's call overreliance on au a automation is a misperception fak today heavily in this car in florida in 2016 that killed 40-year-old josh brown. >> that nearly drove us into the subaru there. >> not a perfect car. >> reporter: jake fisher of auto testing. >> it's unclear if there are safety problems. >> reporter: on a test track fisher showed us how the system failed to navigate some turns when road lines faded.

>> did not get this one. >> did not get that one. >> to be clear we're intentionally misusing this system. >> right. >> but so are drivers every day. >> reporter: he says autopilot can't acknowledge where the technology is used or drivers on the road. >> we're not racing toward the end of the track. >> i hit the brakes because i don't want us to get hurt. >> reporter: kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. coming up on "cbs this morning," gayle king talks with the mother of trayvon martin for a documentary about the slain florida teenager. recent shark sightings are closing beaches 'long cape load and we'll talk with ocearch about the reason for the close encounters. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. i'm anne-marie green. thanks for watching and have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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