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the smoke is keeping the heat from expanding. so stay inside. right. >> next update at 7:26. don't forget that cbs this morning is coming up next. have a great day, everyone. good morning to our viewers in the west. it's wednesday, august 8th, 2018. welcome to "cbs this morning." a high-stakes congressional election in ohio is still too close to call. ed o'keefe is on the ground in the buckeye state with how both democrats and republicans are claiming a victory. strong winds whipped flames into a wildfire tornado in los angeles and to the north exhausted firefighters show us how the conditons are so extreme it's like fighting a war. trading of tesla stock is halted after co-founder elon musk hints he may take the company private. what's behind the potentially
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largest buyout in u.s. history. plus, we'll take you to maine to see why lobster fishermen says the tariff war is seeing red. and dr. tara narula tells us how sleeping too much may be a sign of bad health. but we begin this morning with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> we made our case for change. we kep fighting through november. let's get it done. let's change this country. >> ohio's special election is too close to call. >> it's time to get to work. get ready. we've got to come back here in november. >> the enormous fire that just keeps growing. >> firefighters have been relentlessly fighting fires across california. >> this is so frightening, it's like it's coming straight for us. >> elon musk is considering taking tesla private which caused the stock to spike, saying it's the best way forward. massive search under way in camden, new jersey after two
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undercover police officers were shot. >>le they essentially ambushed. >> a pennsylvania police officer faces a voluntary manslaughter charge after shooting an unarmed man. >> he murdered him. a massive water main break flooding a neighborhood. >> one man had to be rescued from a sinkhole. >> cattle helped corral a woman. >> if you see a large group of cows, they're literally chasing hem. >> and "all that mattered" -- >> i want to start off by saying happy birthday, robert mueller. >> i got him a gift card to the "hurry the hell up" store. >> on "cbs this morning." >> rick gates admitted to lying, had an affair. >> i thought he would confess. he denied it. and then we've got a surprise witness, your twin brother. tom cruise would show up and say you can't handle the truth and we would be like, wow, tom
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cruise does his own stunts! >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" presented by toyota. let's go places. it did sound like a telenovela. a soap opera. >> very much so. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." norah and john are both off, but you see we're in good hands. bianna golodryga is here along with vladimir duthiers. >> nailed it. republicans are claiming victory in a closely watched congressional race in ohio that is officially as you heard too close to call. republican troy balderson leads danny o'connor by 200 votes for a seat that republicans have controlled for more than three decades. >> election officials say more than 8,000 absentee and provisional ballots must be counted before they can declare a winner. ed o'keefe is in columbus, ohio,
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with what a close vote could mean for the midterm elections. ed, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. they're calling this race a nail-biter, and it sure is. those provisional ballots can't be counted for another ten days. even if they lose, democrats say the close margin suggests big trouble for the gop here in ohio and across the country this fall. >> can you believe how close this is. >> reporter: declining to concede, democrat danny o'connor said he's waiting till all votes are counted. >> we need to make sure this process is respected because too many people have worked too hard, too many people want to have a real voice in washington. >> reporter: but republican troy balderson declared victory, leading by less than one point. >> i'm going to promise to you, that i'm going to work relentlessly, relentlessly for this 12th congressional district. >> reporter: republicans have controlled this suburban congressional district for more than 30 years and usually win by double digits.
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but in the final weeks of the race, o'connor closed the gap by calling for new leadership in washington. ohio democratic chairman david pepper. >> if we can learn a lesson from this, talk to swing voters. i actually think we have a chance to do great things all over the state. >> troy balderson, he is the guy. >> reporter: another factor in ohio, president trump who won the district by 11 points in 2016 and campaigned for balderson over the weekend >> we have a man who's going to fight for you, fight for ohio. >> reporter: mr. trump tweeted because he showed up in ohio, there's a big turn for the better. now troy wins a great victory. >> i'd like to thank president trump. >> reporter: but some democrats said the president's visit here drove him to the polls. >> i get a sense him coming made you more determined to vote. >> absolutely. >> i was going to vote anyway, but that definitely pulled me out. >> reporter: democrats and
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republicans spent more $8 million. in the middle of the summer and here's the thing. no matter who wins this first round, there's going to be a rematch because troy balderson and danny o'connor, they're their parties' nominees for the general election in november. vlad? >> as always, all eyes on ohio. ed, thanks very much. california could be on the way to its worst wildfire history. it's part of a fire burning in orange and riverside counties. the huge mendocino fire in northern california is forcing a two-week delay for the start of the school year. 18 significant fires are burning across california. john blackstone is at the command post for the mendocino complex in ukiah. john, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, after two weeks of intense flames on this big fire, the smoke here is causing serious problems for firefighters. it was so thick on tuesday, they
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were forced to suspend fighting from air. they had to do everything they could on the ground to stop the fire from spreading. more than 4,000 firefighters continue to battle the mendocino complex fires almost two weeks after the blazes began. so this is one of your lines of defense here? >> yeah, this is a secondary lineup. >> reporter: for the fire chief russ fowler, fighting these fires has been like waging a war. >> we're on the battleground, and we're trying to make sure troops stay safe, but we're also trying to save lives and property. >> reporter: this is one point where fire crews have been victorious. they worked on stopping these flames coming down this ridge, but they'll need many more victories. they're clearing away vegetation, creating fire breaks. they're keeping a close eye on where the fire might be spreading. >> our hope is that that plume will cross back on itself and not bend too much more to our north. >> but a plume like that is
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what's helped this fire grow so much over the past 12 days or so? >> >> absolutely. a plume like that and you add a wind to it. it turns horizontal and the fire is off and running again. >> reporter: the unpredictable nature of the fires is why thousands have been evacuated. but not everyone has decided to leave their home. >> i'm going to stay. if i think it's going to get to me, then i'll leave. but i don't feel that threatened right now. >> reporter: the threat to homes is real. 75 residences have been destroyed and 10,000 structures are still threatened by the growing flames here. this battle is far from over. fire officials say they don't expect this fire to be fully contained until september. >> it's a long time. thank you very much. paul manafort's former right-hand man will testify this morning in his ex-boss's fraud trial. manafort's lawyers hammered
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gates yesterday calling him a liar and getting him to admit on the stand to cheating on his wife and stealing from paul manafort. this morning, they'll continue their attack on gates who is cooperating with the special counsel robert mueller investigation. paula reid is outside the courthouse in alexandria, virginia. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i was inside the courtroom yesterday. you could see rick gates was visibly nervous under this relentless testimony. while on the stand, there were other crimes he committed. he says he may have embezzled from the inauguration fund. in a dramatic exchange, manafort's attorney kevin downing asked gates after all the lies you told and fraud you've committed, you expect this jury to believe you? yes, gates responded. i'm here to tell the truth. >> a democrat-inspired witch hunt. i would call it the rigged witch hunt. >> reporter: president trump has tried to continuously paint the
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trial as a case of overzealous prosecution. >> paul manafort is clearly a nice man. >> reporter: and manafort's lawyers hope the jury will see the former trump campaign chairman as a victim. under relentless cross-examination, gates admitted to embezzling from manafort and more sorted details like having an extramarital affair more than a decade ago along with a secret apartment in london to house the tryst. gates admitted he committed at manafort's direction. gates admitted, quote, it's possible he may have submitted personal expenses to the inaugural committee. >> it's very likely that gates knows a great deal what was going on in the campaign. >> reporter: former federal prosecutor peter zeidenberg says gates cooperation could lead to more indictments in the probe. >> there will be other shoes to drop in this investigation.
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>> reporter: gates said he falsified these financial document s because manafort was upset. gates revealed to manafort how much he owed. manafort replied, wtf, how could i be blind-sided like this. bianna. >> as gayle said at the top of the show, a real life telenovela happening there. paula, thank you. president trump held a business dinner with a group of ceos. the corporate leaders invited to his new jersey golf club including johnson & johnson ceo alex gorske. a years ago, gorske vitt after the president chose not to condemn white supremacists at a ramally in charlottesville. tesla ceo elon musk stunned wall street by saying he may be preparing the take his electric car company private. it sent the stock soaring. let to stock trading for a short time.
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tony dokoupil is at a tesla dealership. with the factors behind potentially the largest buyout in american history. tony, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that stock price soared because musk is suggesting a buyout price considerably higher than what the stock is currently trading at. no decision has been made. and ultimately it will be up to shareholders. take a look at the cars behind me, since musk started selling them as a public company in 2010 he has never turned a profit. this latest declaration is a sign how badly he'd like to fix that. high-profile announcements are nothing new for elon musk. >> unlike any truck you've ever driven. >> reporter: after wall street's opening on tuesday, musk delivered another stunner. the unconventional ceo tweeted he was considering takes tesla private at $420 a share. musk elaborated in a letter to employees he'd like to free tesla from the, quote, distraction that comes from
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being a publicly traded company including flings in stock price, quarterly earnings pressure and people incentivized to attack the company. jen wieczner is a senior writer. for "fortune" magazine. >> taking it private would allow him do that. >> reporter: much of tesla's troubles has evolved around the company's model 3 sedan which only recently began shipping after months of delays. >> i'm feeling really good about where things are headed. >> reporter: he addressed his critics when he sat down with gayle king in april. >> this is very frequently why they have underestimated tess tesla because they would look at tesla's procedure done in the past and used that as proxy for what they're able to do in the future. >> reporter: if elon musk is facing scrutiny out in public, what confidence do you have that he would do a better job in private? >> well, you have to believe in elon musk the genius.
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>> reporter: oh, you must believe. >> he's got the first company that may take people to mars. >> reporter: you've got to believe. now, musk says that shareholders will have a choice between sticking in this deal or exiting. if they want to stick in, it is a big potential deal. dell went private in 2013. that was one of the biggest buyouts on record. this proposed tesla deal would be more than three times as large. as much as $82 billion. a lot of gas in the tank, gayle, a lot. >> a lot of gas, a lot of money. elon musk always keeps it interesting. thank you very much. a rookie police officer in pennsylvania has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed man. jonathan roselle of the south whitehall township police department surrendered to authorities yesterday. he is accused of killing joseph santos last month after responding to a call outside an allentown amusement park.
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the reaction from the victim's family and joins us at the table. good morning. good morning. officer roselli's attorney says his client believes his actions were justified and appropriate. but yesterday, a pennsylvania prosecutor disagreed. the santos family wants answers and most of all justice. >> as long as we have air in our lungs, we will fight for joey. >> reporter: outside the pennsylvania courthouse tuesday, arlene figueroa reacted to the charge against the 33-year-old officer who killed her daughter's father. >> you murdered him. his hands were up in the air. >> reporter: cellphone video captured jonathan roselle shoots joseph santos on july 28th. >> call to report a male jumping into car. >> reporter: roselli was responding to calls about a man acting erratically near an
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amuseme amusement park. this video shows a 44-year-old hanging onto a moving car. when roselle arrived, santos jumped on the hood of the patrol car. santos who was unarmed later walked toward roselle's car again. officer roselle ordered him to get on the ground and he refused. >> officer roselle stated to the first responding officer that he thought, quote [ bleep ] up. >> reporter: he had pepper spray and a stun gun on him at the time of the shooting. >> in my opinion, he was a relatively inexperienced officer. i have concluded he did not have to discharge his weapon. >> roselle is an army veteran who served in afghanistan and a major in the national guard. his attorneys say they believe roselle's actions were justified.
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if convicted, roselle could spend up to 20 years in prison. >> that tough video to watch. >> yeah, it is hard to watch. a manhunt is under way after a gunman open fire on two undercover detectives. it happened last night as the officers were in their unmarked car waiting for a red light. camden's police called an ambush. they said 10 to 20 founds of fire were fired at detectiveses. one of them shot back, but it's not known if anything was hit. both detectives are expected to survive. the university of southern california has a new leader after the president resigned amid a campus abuse scandal that rocked the school. max nikias stepped down yesterday. the psychologist george tyndall had abused students for years.
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the story alleged he ignored years of complaints about tyndall and the board they found no wrongdoing against tyndall. dozens are suing tyndall and usc. tyndall has not been charged with any crimes and denies any wrongdoing. three people here in new york city are recovering this morning after being struck by lightning. cellphone video captured thunderstorms that moved across the city yesterday afternoon. flashes of lightning lit up the sky and hit the buildings across all five boroughs. one is listed in critical condition at that hour. two others suffered nonli nonli nonlife-threatening injuries. i don't know if you saw it on your way home. it was very scary. >> no, you're right. >> i told my kids someone was taking pictures outside.
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an asian-owned nail salon in an hello, everybody. we do have morning cloud coverage. that may affect some of your flights. definitely want a check of the airline. instead of the fog out there along the coast, they will be replaced with smoky skies. many bay area locations will be dealing with moderate to unhealthy air quality. it's not going to allow the sun to eat things up too much but temperatures will be on the rise through saturday.
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wisdom teeth removed could increase your risk for opioid addiction. and how they're breaking pushing to fix the long wait times at the d-m-v. in less than 2 hours: good morning. it is 7:26. i'm michelle griego. lawmakers in california are pushing to fix the long wait times at the dmv. in less than two hours, assemblyman jim patterson of fresno is expected to requested an audit of the department. and jurors in san francisco will begin deliberating in the case of chemical giant monsanto against a terminally ill bay area grounds keeper. the verdict could open up a floodgate of lawsuits. and some of the smoke from the mendicino fire complex is now reaching the bay area. a spare the air alert has been
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woman into a pasture. who knew cows were such crime fighters, guys? >> on my watch. >> i'm impressed how professional the police officer was. >> i get the impression. let them attack her. let's see what happens. we're glad she's okay. >> once the cows corner her then what do they do? they look at each other. >> and she's in custody. welcome back to "cbs this morning." here are three things that you should know this morning. tropical storm warning is in effect for hawaii as an intense category 3 hurricane churns offshore. hurricane hector is the name of this one. it's expected to move 200 miles south of hawaii's big island later today. hector has sustained winds of 125 miles an hour and suspected to deliver powerful winds, high surf and rip currents to the islands. young people who take opioids after wisdom tooth
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removal could be at risk. they are three times to fill another over the next year. patients with a history of depression, anxiety or chronic pain also have a higher risk of persistence use. researchers say dentists and oral surgeons should prescribe non-opioid painkillers first. kellogg's is makes rice crispies treats more inclusive for visually-impaired kids. they can decorate the snacks with braille stickers that have encouraging phrases with "you've got this" or "love you the lots." kelloggs says it could be re-records more than a thousand times. >> a search for a college student is stretching for more than a week. mollie tibets went missing after going on a jog in brooklyn, iowa. thousands of others do not receive the same kind of attention. adriana diaz is in brooklyn,
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iowa, with the overwhelming scope of the missing persons issue. adriana, good morning. >> reporter: the number of missing people in this country is staggering. one, of course, is mollie tibbetts, her case is bringing to light just how many missing people families are still searching for. >> this year started with 38,000 active missing person. more than 41,000 are under 21 years old. that's enough to fill 495 standard school busses. advocates says law enforcement lacks resources to keep up with all open cases, warning that some can slip through the cracks. one that hasn't is 20-year-old mollie tibbetts who disappeared after going on a jog in brooklyn, iowa. her boyfriend, who is not a suspect, says she has no enemies and no reason to run away. >> i've never heard anybody say
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a bad word about her and never heard her say a bad word about anybody. >> people just loved her. >> yeah. it was hard not to. >> reporter: her case has garnered national attention says robert lowery for the center of missing and exploited children. >> cases like mollie where they simply disappear and for though investigative reason and any purpose that we can determine and that's what makes cases like mollie's the most difficult that anyone can face. >> records entered in 2017 where the reason for disappearance is known, 95.9% were runaways and .1% were abductions by a stranger. for those missing under 21, 53% are women, 57% are white, 37% are black. >> the situation with mollie is so extraordinarily rare. >> laura calderwood robert tibbetts are mollie's parents. >> when you think about the
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people missing in the u.s. why do you think the whole country has focused and rallied around mollie. >> as someone put it, the all-american girl who lives in a norman rockwell community in love with the boy next door vanishes into thin air and so, poof, that doesn't make sense. >> this is rare because she had no reason to run away. >> none. >> none! >> she was ordering sheets and bedding from target, and i told people i've got the sheets and i've got the bedding, but i don't have the girl. >> investigators have told us that they are still conducting interviews and they are re-visiting leads. experts tell us that one of the challenges to locating missing people is most states are not required to report cases to a national database open to the public. bianna? >> it would be so frustrating and investigators are combing through hundreds of leads. adriana, thank you. racial tensions are rising in a new york city community after a dramatic fight inside a brooklyn nail salon.
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>> stop it! >> the fight started friday night after a customer complained about her eyebrow service and refused to pay. video obtained by our new york station wcbs shows the moment the fight broke out. police say thomas hit an employee. that employee then grabbed a broomstick and hit thomas. her friend and her grandmother. >> shut them down! shut them down! >> protesters now want the brooklyn salon to close. they gathered in front of the business yesterday to highlight the strain between the black and asian communities. both thomas and the salon employee face assault and harassment charges. >> if it wasn't so jarring and barbaric it almost looks comical. this all happened because of a $5 bad eyebrow job. it just makes no sense that was the end result. >> all caught on video. i hope they would do things differently. >> i would hope so. the conflict with china is
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steam turbines and iron girders are targeted. last month u.s. tariffs on $34 billion chinese imports went into effect. >> america's lobster industry is feeling the impact. the u.s.y exported more than $142 million from china last year and that's up from $108 million in 2016, but that number is expected it take a big hit after china doubled tariffs on live u.s. seafood. don taylor went to long island, maine, to see how lobster producers are getting squeezed out. >> that's a pleasant surprise. >> it's just after sunrise in the gulf of maine. lobster fisherman steve train is preparing for today's catch. train has harvested lobster from these waters for over 40 years, a lively hood made viable in part because of trade relationships with countries like china where north atlantic lobster is popular.
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>> it's going to hurt our market. now we've got another something else hanging over our head. >> reporter: in june, the trump administration announced a 25% tariff on chinese goods. beijing responded with its own 25% tariff on a list of goods that includes live lobster. at the same time, china has lowered its tariff on canadian lobster imports to 7%, making them more attractive to chinese buyers. >> stephanie nudo distributes the lobster caught by fishermen like steve train. she says chinese buyers were 35% of her sales and since the tariffs have come into effect that market has virtually dried up. >> there are no lobsters going to mainland china. >> they've stopped? >> they've stopped . >> because of the products.
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>> it's a $2 difference is an insurmountable difference. >> reporter: maine currently produces more lobster than any other u.s. state or canadian province, and for now, most of steve train's lobster can still be sold domestically, but as the trump administration takes aim at chinese imports, many here feel that the lobster industry has become collateral damage. >> they've taken our business and i don't know how we'll ever get it back. the longer this goes on the more difficult it will make it for us to resume our relationships with our customers. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," don daleor, long island, maine. >> the consequences. >> you see the ripple effect. >> $2 is a lot. >> that's a big difference. coming up, a look at this morning's other headlines including how tv's iconic brady bunch, here's the story, a brady bunch house is in a big old bidding war with former 'n sync star and we'll tell you which star after the break.
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plus a vote today that could limit the number of uber and lyft cars. that was a tease. >> you left people hanging. if it's not cloud coverage, it is smoke out there. waking up to gray skies across the bay area today. spare the air alert in effect because of the smoke and that haze. temperatures not going ting as hot as yesterday because the smoke is preventing the sun from heating things too much. 91 in concord, though, still too warm. 83 this afternoon for san jose. moderate to unhealthy air quality. >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by lilly diabetes. and i can do it with what's already within me. because my body can still make its own insulin. and once-weekly trulicity activates my body to release it.
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hundreds of additional police officers to neighbors plagued by violence. eddie johnson flanked by rahm emanuel said 320 additional officers have beenaround add ad patrol it is and that will be increased to 600 over the weekend. this is after the most violent weekend in chicago. 74 people were shot in the windy city. i hear your big sigh, bianna. this is not normal. we're reporting the story as everybody is. >> third largest city in this country. everyone should be alarmed. >> "the washington post" reports more than 600 people got sick after eating at a chipotle restaurant in ohio last month. customers self-reported gastrointestinal symptoms. they're awaiting results to determine the cause. chipotle closed the store for 24 hours for sanitizing and there have been no illnesses reported since. the detroit-free press says
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the aclu is investigating ballot shortages during yesterday's primary elections in michigan. officials blame an unexpectedly high voter turnout in oakland county near detroit. the county reported more than 280,000 votes in the gubernatorial primaries and that's up 100,000 votes from 2014. michigan officials scrambled to provide more ballots saying no voters will be denied the chance to vote. and "the los angeles times" reports that hgtv cable network beat 'n sync's lance bass war for the iconic brady bunch house. the studio city home served as the exterior on the very popular tv show, discovery, by the way, which owns hgtv says it will restore the house to its 1970s glory. bass says he was heart broke tone find out his bid didn't win. the former boy band star announced he had the winning bid, but an agent representing the estate later told him, oops,
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investigators have wrapped up their probe of a deadly plane crash that killed a group of realtors from the bay area. according to flight records: the it's 7:56. i'm melissa caen. federal investigators have wrapped up the probe of a deadly plane crash that killed a group of real estate investors from the area. the plane began losing altitude less than 20 minutes. and a missing teen from san ramon is safe this morning. 14-year-old taylor cusick has been found safe with another girl d.
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traffic alert remains in effect for drives headed along the lake highway due to a major injury accident. north of highway 37. one-way traffic control in effect at this time. emergency crews remain on the scene. a very foggy ride for drivers headed across the golden gate bridge. please, be careful. refrain from using those high beams. metering lights are still on. let's check in with neda in the forecast. >> marine layer across the bay unwitches and smoky skies for many inland communities this morning. so basically gray anywhere you look. 60 in concord. expect the temperatures to rise but not quite so much. the smoke is actually going to
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this race a nail biter, but the provisional ballots can't be counted for ten days. the carr fire is presenting challenges to the firefighters. they were forced to suspend air operations and they're doing everything they could on the ground to stop this fire from spreading. >> you could see that gates was visibly nervous under this relentless questioning and while he was on the stand he revealed new details about other crimes he may have committed while he was a member of the trump transition. >> tesla's stock price soared after musk suggests a buyout price considerably higher than what the stock is currently trading at. no decision has been made and ultimately it will be up to shareholders. >> the city council unanimously voted to remove president trump's star from the hollywood walk of fame. >> trump's star isn't in west hollywood where they voted. it's in hollywood and one has absolutely nothing to do with the other and when the star gets damaged it doesn't cost them anything. this is none of their business. if you busy bodies want to remove something, how about you remove one of the 12 drunken
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spidermen we have out there. >> that's jimmy kimmel's perspective with vladimir duthiers and bianna golodryga. nora and john are off today. there is no clear winner in a closely watched congressional race in ohio. before november's midterm voting troy balderson has a narrow lead over danny o'connor with just 8,000 ballots left to count, balderson has declared victory, but o'connor is not conceding. republicans usually win this district by double digits and democrats say this close race could be a sign of things to come. >> last night's primaries also made it a record-breaking year for women in american politics. a rutgers university tracker shows 168 women have won major party nominations for the u.s. house, beating the previous record of 167. there will also be at least 11 female candidates for governor on the ballot in november after women in kansas and michigan won their democratic primaries. the old record of ten was set back in 1994.
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cbs news political correspondent ed o'keefe has spent years covering congress and he spoke with both candidates in the ohio election. he is in columbus, ohio. a busy evening and morning for you, ed. president trump won ohio district by 20 points in 2016. how big of a wake-up call is this for republicans? >> reporter: this is huge because there are dozens of districts across the country where the president's margin of victory was smaller. so democrats say if we can run the table here in this suburban ohio district, just imagine what we're going to be able to do in the south, out west, in the mid-atlantic. there are plenty of opportunities for them to get the 23 seats they need and if you're getting them this close in a district like this that suggests they'll get north of 30 and maybe closer to 40 seats in november if this keeps up. >> they have 8,000 provisional ballots left to be county and how like lie is it to change the
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outcome we have so far? we know the margin is very, very close and right now the republican candidate is ahead. >> reporter: right, well, if you have a 1,700-vote margin with the republicans ahead and 8,000 still to count, anyone doing the math realizes that there's a chance. what they're hoping for, the democrats is to get to the point when you're about .5% or less between the two candidates. if that happens, the state triggers a recount and we can track this out, but it bears repeating. no matter who wins this it's on the ballot again in november facing the same exact guy because troy balderson, the republican and they're already the nominees in november and we'll see the rematch and voters in columbus will see these guys in the next 90 days. >> let's talk about kansas. the hard right conservative chris koback, this is the president's pick. >> absolutely it is because there were republicans hoping that the president actually would stay out of this race because they're concerned that
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koback and his incredibly conservative positions on immigration especially could actually hand the governor's seat to democrats in the fall. kansas has had democratic governors before, but it's a predominantly republican state and the fact that you see the close margin speaks to the ongoing identity crisis in the republican party. do you want to be the mainstream republican or do you want someone who is far more conservative and brings out trump supporters? we'll see whether or not the trump style works in states like kansas this november. >> thank you very much, ed. president trump says north korea is making good progress on commitments made during the singapore summit. at a dinner with business leaders last night, the president said the north has taken steps to ease tensions. that appeared to contrast by his own security adviser john bolton who said north korea is not working to denuclearize. >> in north korea, we're doing well.
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i think we have a lot of good stuff going on. we've been working on this for 40 years. three months ago, no more missiles flying over japan and no rockets going up, no nuclear testing and we have a good relationship with north korea so we'll see how it goes. >> the united states has lived up to the singapore declaration. it's just north korea that has not taken the steps we feel are necessary to denuclearize and the idea that we're going to relax the sanctions just on north korea's say-so i think is something that just isn't under consideration. >> two different points of view. >> john bolton said secretary of state mike pompeo, rather, is prepared to go back to north korea and the president is ready to meet again at any point. new satellite images from the website 38 north indicate north korea has taken new steps to dismantle a key missile launch facility. the site says they appear to be the first activities to reduce the country's ballistic missile threat, but it does not rule out the possibility the north is modifying the site for other purposes.
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twitter ceo jack dorsey says he has no reason to ban radio host and conspiracy theorist alex jones even though other tech giants have, apple, facebook, youtube, spotify, pintrest and linkedin have removed jones and his info wars site. he violated policies against hate speech. jones denies that and said the decisions were about censoring conservative content. when twitter was criticized for not banning jones, dorsey says he will be held accountable, but quote, has not violated our rules and dorsey's words, if we succumb and simply react to outside pressure rather than straightforward principles we become a service constructed by our personal views. new york could become the first major u.s. city to cap the number of cars used by ride sharing companies. after years of complaints from taxi owners, protesters rallied yesterday ahead of today's city council vote on limiting companies like uber and lyft. kris van cleave is at penn
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station, one of the commuter hubs here in manhattan. chris, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. as uber and lyft have gotten more popular and really sorted popularity, cab drivers have been lamenting how much harder it is to make a living. there have been six driver suicide in recent months, some linked to financial woes, that's driving this effort to cap uber and lyft. there are more than 13,500 licensed taxes in the city, but more than 100,000 licensed drivers for ride hailing apps. the proposed legislation would cap the number of the ride-hailing app drivers at its current level while the city studies its impact and imposing a minimum wage for drivers which would also be the first in the nation and they support the proposals, and uber and lyft say it will hurt the communities that do not have reliable mass
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transit and it would have longer wait times and reduce service. and ride sharing apps are making traffic worse by encouraging people not to take mass transit. here is a sobering staff. see this medallion on the hood of the cab? you need that to be a new york city cab driver, those used to go up to $1 million apiece, and now they're worth $200,000. vlad? >> it's a difficult story because there are arguments to be made on both sides. >> indeed. shout out to my fellow comic book nerds. there is a new bat woman joining the dc comic cas
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♪ ♪ actress ruby rose is said to make television history by playing the first lesbian superhero to headline a series. rose who is best known for her role in "orange is the new black" will play batwoman in the cw series set debut in the 2019-2020 season. she'll be the first lgbt actress in the com being book shows. she rose, this is something i would have died to see on tv when i was a young member of the lgbt community who never felt represented on tv and felt alone and different. this comes after the network
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cast transgender activist nicole mains, as tv's first transgender superhero alongside super girl. cw is a division of cbs. >> i love this. what a message it sends. >> can't wait to see ruby rose in this role. there is much more news ahead. dr. tara narula. she's here in our toyota green room. hey, dr. tara. new research showing that too much sleep could harm your health. what are you talking about? plus we'll talk to a top shark researcher about his upcoming expedition that could reveal new information about where the predators mate and the mother of trayvon martin opens up to us about her new mission. >> i chose to live, number one. i chose to move to my next chapter because if my son had died and i had died also when i was just walking around earth not doing anything then i would be dead, too. >> ahead, sabrina fulton talks about her docuseries about her
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♪ let me sleep on it, baby, baby ♪ new research suggests too much sleep is bad for your health. a study published in the journal of heart association found that people sleep ten hours a night -- who are those people -- are more likely to die earlier than those who sleep eight hours. the risk for cardiovascular disease increased. the study involved 3.3 million people. i never think of you, dr. tara
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narula, as a liar, liar pants on fire. i can't wrap my head around too much sleep is bad for you. >> in the words of shakespeare, too much sleep is not a good thing. the question is it the sleep itself that's creating the increased risk or is that people who sleep longer have underlying problems, medical conditions that are making them at risk and they're sleeping longer because of their underlying conditions. what types of underlying conditions, anemia, chronic inflammatory disorder, depression, sleep apnea. those are increased risks and will make them sleep longer. could it be that biology changes the circadian system and it could cause weakening of the immune system. people who sleep longer, maybe they don't exercise as much. and lastly but not least could it be completely unrelated and have more to do with unemployment and socioeconomic
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status. a lot of questions we need to answer. but certainly this was a very big study and that's what they found, increased risk. >> what does it mean for people who try to catch up on sleep on the weekend. i'm just curious. my friend asked a friend to ask me to ask you. >> hello, my name is gayle. >> this is meant for people who are really sleeping nine or ten hours consistently every single day for long periods of time, not just people who sleep low amounts during the week and try to catch up on the weekend. really what you need to remember is consistent and regular sleep patterns are important. sleep hygiene is important. going to bed and waking up at the same time, a cool dark quiet room, putting devices away, you're not drinking caffeine or alcohol right before bed and you're exercising daily. all of this helps. >> so why should doctors ask their patients about sleep? >> it's very important. in fact, a state was put out,
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irregular sleep indicates risk. if we find it, we need to screen people for increased cardiovascular risk and sleep studies if we think they suffer from sleep apnea. >> years ago doctors never asked. >> we're learning about more of these, quote, nontraditional risk factors, things like stress, pregnancy, and stress. just remember, ages 18 to 4, regular sleep, 7 to 9 hours is recommended. >> we'll try. >> try. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and i'm still sleeping in on the weekend. >> over 54, what happens to them? >> they're still -- >> i -- >> over 65, 7 to 8 hours. >> okay. sorry. >> we're good. >> kwle, we're good. how a woman's attempt to be discaret in looking for a job backfired when she ended up on
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an illinois woman who tried to secretly go to a job fair while on a break from work ended up on tv and the video ended up online. our worst nightmare. the video showed a three-second clip of her fipping o iher fill application. i didn't want my current job to know i was looking for another job. the post was shared more than 47,000 times. >> my whole mouth dropped out. out of all things i ever posted, this is the one thing that like blew up and i don't even know how it happened. >> it's the one thing you don't want to go viral that ends up going viral. she hasn't spoken to her managers but is optimistic everything will work out.
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>> i'm going to run out to get a bite to eat. >> and your boss is out of town on vacation. a group of shark researchers spent the father fatally shot on the bay bridge monday morning.. is identified as 31- year-old darryl s good morning. it is 8:25. i'm michelle griego. the father day fatally shot on the bay bridge was identified as 31-year-old darryl stinnette, jr. the pair pose ya county fire is 345% contained. this morning, yosemite valley remains closed. and u c davis researchers say that lake tahoe's clarity dropped an average department of 59 feet.
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time now is 8:27. we have a traffic alert for drivers making their way to the south bay due to an accident which has two lanes blocked northbound 87, past capital expressway. do expect plays if you are heading in that direction. here is a live look at 280 right near saratoga. traffic is still heavy but we are back in the yellow so
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that's good news there. 101 near sfo. earlier report of a crash in that northbound direction, travel time just went back into the grieb. looks like they just cleared the roadway. traffic is starting to kick up along the peninsula. >> if you are making your way across the golden gate bridge, be careful. foggy out there. let's check in with neda iranpour for the forecast. >> yes. it is going to be sent this way for the bay area. looking at a pretty nays at this air quality. you can see the cloud cloud coverage, lower from the ground. here is the forecast air quality. unhealthy. you may want to limit your time outdoors. over sfo right now, low clouds
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censorship of winnie the pooh. they have not given a decision but in the past china has cracked down on images of winnie the pooh after memes comparing him to xi jinping started circulating on the internet. the state democratic party is renaming the annual fall fund raising dinner, it had been named the kennedy clinton dinner and republicans criticized the name and before that it was the jefferson jackson dinner. but critics cited the history of slave owners. it will be dubbed the eleanor roosevelt dinner. a poppy seed bagel is being blamed after a pregnant woman tested positive for opioids while in labor. poppy seeds could result in false positives in drug tests and formed the doctor she had a poppy seed bagel for breakfast.
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the doctor reported her to child services and assigned to a caseworker and forced to stay in the hospital for five days. the st. louis post dispatch reports an a stunning upset in the democratic primary for st. louis county prosecutor. seven term prosecutor lost to ferguson councilman wesley bell. it's first time he's been challenged since violent protests erupted in 2014. they started after michael brown was shot and killed by ferguson officer wilson. came under heavy criticism after a grand jury failed to indict wilson. bell will run unopposed in november. two and a half years before ferguson, shooting death of trayvon martin was a call to action in many in the country. he was 17 and shot and killed in 2012 by george zimmerman who claimed he was attacked and he fired in self-defense. zimmerman was tried and acqu acquitted of all charges. now trayvon's martin parents have teamed up with jay-z on the
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new six-part docu series, rest in power. it chronicle iz his death and protest that emerged after it. tracy and sabrina were honored for their activism and we met with sabrina there yesterday. >> you and tracy received an award in this church. >> i decided i could not let my son's death be in vain. >> i've heard you say if it was up to you none would know your name or trayvon's name. how have you reconciled it now everybody knows you and everybody knows your story. >> i chose to live, number one. i chose to move to my next chapter because if my son had died and i had died, also when i was just walking around the earth not doing anything, then i would be dead too. >> slid a crime scene photo and asked was that my son.
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>> i was reluctant to you know, even speak, even to be the voice of my son, you know, which seems like that's the natural thing to do is to speak for trayvon who is not here. but i didn't want to, i just felt so weak and hope also and helpless. god had to work on me to strengthen me to get me to speak for other people, to speak up for my son and to speak up for myself. >> sabrina fulton can still recall the moments six years ago when she learned her 17-year-old son trayvon martin was shot and killed. >> they say time heals all wounds. it does not. >> a neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman, zimmerman claimed self-defense. >> my son was innocent. my son was the victim. my son didn't shoot and kill anyone. he didn't even own a gun. people look at the situation and they get angry with it but we
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have to get angry to the point we're doing something about it and that's what i did. >> the death of your son, trayvon martin certainly launched a movement. what was it like for you the first time you went anywhere and saw crowds, thousands of people saying we are trayvon martin or screaming his name, how did you process that? >> it was here in new york -- >> this is not about a black and white thing. this is about a right and wrong thing. >> you look so strong during that time and i often marvel does she feel as strong as she looks. >> i did not. they didn't see me when i was very emotional. they didn't see me when i was depressed and so where so many people were telling me how strong i was, i didn't feel it on the inside. and so i started speaking to myself, i started speaking to god and started saying to myself, i am strong. i am strong. and then i started to feel like i really was strong. >> how do you grieve and recover
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from the death of a child? >> i think i had a great deal of support. early on i started like reaching unite out to other mothers that had kids that were victims of senseless gun violence and it kind of took the edge off of what i was going through. i had so many people that were positively like lifting me up, even now through my difficult days when i have my bad days -- >> still have bad days? >> absolutely. i'm going to have bad days the rest of my life. but because it feels like something -- >> what is a bad day? you're triggered by a memory or what is it? >> it doesn't really have to be a memory. it doesn't have to be something that i saw. i could wake up that morning and just have a bad feeling because it feels like i'm missing something. it feels like something is not right with my life. it feels like something is not in order with my life. so i'm not afraid to cry.
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i'm not afraid to tell people i cry. that's just my rainy day but i know that a better day is coming. >> how do you feel about george zimmerman? >> i don't give him a whole lot of time, a whole lot of focus. >> have you for given him? >> i have not. i have not. i know that in my own time, in my own grief and this whole grieving process that i have to forgive. but by the same token, i'm not at that point yet. i'm very honest with that. a lot of people ask me that question and i'm very open and honest about it. i'm very real with my feelings and i know i have not for given. >> sabrina says she never could have imagined her son's death would have had this kind of impact. as a catalyst for the black lives matter movement, even trayvon's hoody would become a symbol. >> i call it pandora's box, it is the box of evidence that was given to me by the department of
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justice, probably three years after trayvon was shot and killed. and when i first got the box i said i wasn't going to open the box and of course curiosity bothered me for a while because the box was in the house. and i opened the box and i cried and cried and cried. >> what was in the box? >> in the box is everything that trayvon had on, his hoody, his pants, his t-shirt, his socks and shoes, his cell phone, his money, the drink -- the candy, everything is in the box. >> sabrina she's she received a request a few years ago to display the items to the public in a museum. at first she was not ready. >> i didn't want anybody to see the things or touch them. i just was like, no. so this year, we're meeting now, there's a possibility a strong
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possibility that they may end up in the museum because i feel like i have grown since that time, even though i gave birth to trayvon, i just think that he is everybody's son. and i need so share those things with everybody. >> a lot of people do feel he's everybody's son still. we reached out to george zimmerman for comment and did not hear back from him. the third episode airs monday on paramount network. >> when you see in the documentary, you learn so many things you didn't know about trayvon, he wanted to fly. he was taking flying lessons with a friend that he had great love for aviation. you see too about george zimmerman who now is signing ex skittles bags for people and bragging about i shot trayvonn martin and sold the gun. we have been covering that case from the very beginning. it was interesting to see. i asked her that iconic picture
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of trayvon in the hoody, where did that come from? that was a selfie he had taken of himself. i always wondered about that. >> when she said she's always going to have bad days, i can't imagine. but it's so powerful to hear her express these emotions that ste still she still has all these years later. >> someone should have to pay for every tear she shed. she doesn't feel justice has happened in the case. i don't know if it will ever get justice to her satisfaction. it's still very, very painful. >> turned to other mothers whose children were taken by gun violence for help and solace and so many have turned to her now. >> that's what the work of the trayvon martin foundation does. >> similar issues, right. >> that gives her some power, some comfort that she's doing something to make sure that he didn't die in vain and she knows she's helping other mothers. >> such a powerful interview. thank you. >> ahead, a great white shark named hilton is leading researchers to new waters. expedition leader chris fisher
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look in the corner. ready whenever you guys are ready. >> they had this great white shark named hilton in march last year. now they hope hilton can answer key questions about serious predators. the team has studied it in trips to nova scotia and they'll go there on their 33rd expedition. they believe the area is a second mating site for atlantic white sharks. we have followed oh search's tagging efforts to learn,000 they learn about the life sikele of sharks. chris fischer is here. good to see you. >> before you say anything, you're talking to a self-ascribed shark nerd. >> you're the expert. i've been in love with sharks since i was a little kid. we have never seen great white shark mating, never happen. >> right. first you have to know where to
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look to find it and that's why we do our work. lots of big shark means lots of fish sandwiches for our children. we believe they're mating in the cape cod/nantucket area, and those sharks led us to a birthdaying ar birthing airy in the -- au-- ar hamptons. they were wintering and we tagged two sharks there. during the mating season, they didn't go back there. they went to nova scotia and during the made itting season. so in the pacific, we believe there's two matting areas with a shared forging area. now also in the atlantic. >> is there a call to see sharks matzing? what do we learn from that?
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>> they've been evolved for millions of years, even before humans. learning about their life cycle is really important. >> yes. it's the key to making sure we leave the plan etd to our kids. if we get the ocean right, the land will be right. you can't get the ocean right unless you get the sharks right. we're going to win this one. i mean imagine the progress since 2012. this is an ancient puzzle. we've got a good idea where they're mating. we'll see where they give birth if we're able to tag females on the east coast. we want to be proud of the planet we leave our grandchildren and this is a fundamental puz, the data, to actually effect that, and we're going to win that. it's just a matter of a couple more years and we'll be done.
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>> we certainly feel your enthusiasm as you're talking about this. you came first to talk about mary lee. we'll get an update on her. how did hilton inspire the canadian expedition? >> mary lee led us to the united states where they had the shared foraging area in the winter and we found hilton. we tagged him off hilton head. hilton head, we believe they did not go to cape cod. h went to nova scotia, to an area called mahone bay and he spent the entire mating season there last year, so we began to work on our permits to go there this year and after we released him this year, we went there. he's already back there now prepping for mating season right on schedule. so we'll be moving the ship up there in september and spending the month and hoping we find big mature animals. >> mary lee has become quite famous. people keep asking you where's mary lee. but i want to ask you a more serious question.
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er >> you have to realize mary lee is the most famous shark in history. she's named after my mom. you knowing the climate change question is interesting because believe it or not we're laying down the baseline for sharks and their movement. it will be a benchmark that all future data is compared against. we don't know if it's changed from what it was because we don't know what it was before and if it was different. if it pushes around the fish stock which scientists talk about, sharks will have the move around. that e eat the weak, the dead, and the dying. >> i like that this is good news story. good namesake for your mom as well. you can hear more on our morning podcasts wherever you like to download your podcast. you're watching "cbs this morning."
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here is a lock life as you head off the richmond san rafael bridge. traffic doing just fine in both directions. east shore freeway stuck in the yellow. 25 minute ride. we are still seeing feeds in the red. reports of a new accident at the brain toll plaza. 30 minutes ride riding into san francisco. our dublin camera not looking so good. these are not clouds. these would be smoky skies across a lot of our inland communities. this is what you will face all day today. here is a look at the air quality. there will be some smoke and ash in the sky from the mendicino fire complex. looking at sfo right now, a low clout feeling there and that's where the fog is, the cloud is, along the water's edge. there be some flight delays at sfo. here is a look at the afternoon
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