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70s and 80s inland. >> warming up by the weekend. thank you for watching kpix 5. your next local update is 7:26. ♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it's wednesday, august 15th, 2018. welcome to "cbs this morning." we're learning new details from a bombshell report about catholic priests sexually abusing more than 1,000 children. a grand jury accuses bishops, including a current cardinal, of covering it all up. shoppers flee in panic after a gunman shoots several people inside a crowded walmart. we are at the store near philadelphia with how the violent chaos started with an argument in the checkout line. rescuers search all night for survivors after a massive bridge collapse in italy kills more than three dozen people. charlie d'agata talks to a witness who captured the sudden fall on camera.
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plus, a study finds breakfast food marketed to kids contains a weed killer that some health authorities have linked to cancer. and we'll hear from the director of "crazy rich asians" on how he believes his highly anticipated new movie can change hollywood. but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of god who were responsible for them not only did nothing, they hid it all. >> a massive cover-up in the catholic church. >> more than 1,000 victims and hundreds of priests were involved. a shooting inside a walmart injures several shoppers. >> a couple is under arrest. >> it is a very dangerous situation. the president's campaign taking legal action against omarosa. he also denied using the "n" word. >> a claim the white house is not backing up. >> i can't guarantee anything. closing arguments begin today in the trial of former trump campaign chairman paul
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manafort. >> the defense rested without calling any witnesses. rescue crews searching for survivors after a deadly bridge collapse in northern italy. >> officials fear the death toll may rise. recovery efforts are under way in the northeast and the plains following devastating flash floods. >> we lost everything. all that -- >> grandpa schooling a teenager in a pickup basketball game. [ laughter ] >> oh, my gosh! >> and all that matters. >> phillies fans show teamwork can be just as important in the stands. >> he like, gotcha! i gotcha! >> he handed the ball off to a girl next to him. >> we're building bridges here in the city of brotherly love. >> that's right. >> on "cbs this morning." former white house aide and "apprentice" contestant omarosa released her much-discussed tell-all book, "unhinged: an insider's account of the trump white house." >> it's highly anticipated. it's filled with salacious, behind-the-scenes details, and it's 30% off. [ laughter ]
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day one. day one. >> oh. ♪ >> ouch, stephen colbert. sometimes, a new book comes out and they immediately put it on discount because they want to help sales, right? >> that's one way. >> that one needed a whole separate audio cassette to go with it. >> yes, it absolutely did. welcome to "cbs this morning." norah is off today. bianna golodryga is here. we always like that when happens. we're going to begin with this. the vatican is saying nothing so far about a bombshell grand jury report on sex abuse by roman catholic priests in pennsylvania. the report released yesterday says the catholic church used what amounted to a playbook for concealing the truth to hide decades of abuse. >> the report names 301 predator priests who assaulted more than 1,000 children, most of them boys, over a 70-year span.
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nikki battiste has spent weeks reporting on this scandal. nikki, good morning. >> good morning. the u.s. conference of catholic bishops said it is completely saddened, and the pittsburgh bishop has apologized. this is the report, nearly 900 pages long. its findings are drawn from more than 500,000 pages of documents hidden in secret church archives. because some records were destroyed and many survivors are still afraid to come forward, the grand jury believes there are actually thousands of victims. >> the church showed a complete disdain for victims. >> reporter: survivors wept as pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro publicly revealed the contents of the landmark grand jury report for the first time. when you saw the emotion on the survivors' faces today, what did that mean to you? >> it means the world to me to be able to do this for them, to help them have some modicum of healing. >> reporter: victims and their loved ones had been anticipating the release of the report, the
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most sweeping examination yet of child sex abuse in the u.s. catholic church. >> we've stood up and said our truth. >> secret's out now. >> r reporter: investigators uncovered disturbing allegations, including a 7-year-old girl raped in a hospital after she had her tonsils taken out, a 9-year-old boy whose mouth was rinsed with holy water after being forced to perform oral sex, and five sisters abused by the same priest. how old was the youngest victim? >> she was 18 months old when she was abused for the first time. 18 months old. she was in a diaper. >> reporter: 301 offenders were named in the report, about a third, 99, came from the pittsburgh diocese. the former bishop there, cardinal donald wuerl, spoke to us before the report was released. >> i think the report is going to show that during my tenure, we acted very appropriately with many times removal from ministry totally and completely. >> reporter: did you ever move priests quietly to another --
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>> that wasn't our process. >> reporter: because i did speak with a victim who said his priest that he alleges abused him was moved. >> i can't speak to any particular case. >> reporter: but according to the grand jury, in 1991, wuerl reassigned an accused priest, ernest paone, to the reno diocese. in 1995, he returned george zirwas, who the report says was the member of a pedophile ring, to ministry. wuerl even presided over zirwas' funeral. he also approved monthly sustenance payments of up to $1,000 to richard zula, also a member of the pedophile ring after zula's release from prison. >> it's, frankly, shocking that the priests and the bishops and the monsignors and the cardinals knew about all this and weren't shocked and sought to cover it up. >> in all the cases mentioned by the grand jury, the statute of limitations has expired for all but two of them. more than 100 of the accused
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priests are dead. nikki, you brought this case to us last week, and i thohought i was stunning then. it's just getting worse. when you talked to them, it's such a painful ordeal, have you been in touch with them? >> they had heard from more than a dozen victims who have never spoken before since our interview not just in pennsylvania but across the country. >> thank you for bringing this important story. >> amazing reporting. a man accused of suddenly shooting a gun inside a crowded pennsylvania walmart is in custody this morning. five people were shot. police say the suspect drove away with a woman and led officers on a wild chase before he crashed into a patrol car. jericka duncan is at the cedarbrook plaza shopping center teouof philadelphia, where the chaos unfolded last night. jericka, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this walmart remains closed with
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the exception of employees, which are only allowed inside. but you can imagine the terror that those customers must have felt as they rushed out yesterday. the montgomery county s.w.a.t. team and two other police departments responded, 22. and among those hospitalized, a pregnant woman who fell while trying to take cover from the gunshots. >> we have reports of gunshots inside a walmart. >> reporter: police rushed to this shopping center in wyncote, pennsylvania, around 6:00 p.m., after an officer nearby saw droves of people running out of the walmart in panic. >> we just hear all these gunshots. all of the employees are running out, crying, some people are bleeding. >> reporter: police say the male suspect, accompanied by another woman, got into a dispute with a customer near the cash register. >> words were exchanged. the male pulled the gun from the female's waistband, and started shooting. >> reporter: the suspect allegedly fired at least ten shots inside the crowded store, forcing those nearby to take cover. the montgomery county s.w.a.t. team made their way inside to secure the area. >> come on, get the kids out of there.
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>> reporter: video taken inside the walmart shows anxious customers trying to leave right after the shooting. the armed suspect fled the scene with his companion in a light-cocolored pontiac. police chased them for less than a mile. >> along the way, they threw the gun from the vehicle and we did recover the gun. >> reporter: the car chase ended after the male suspect who was driving rear-ended a philadelphia police car and injured the two officers inside. although the suspects were arrested, witnesses were still left uneasy. >> you would never think that you would be at the point that you might get killed or shot just walking in a walmart to do some shopping. >> reporter: three out of the six people who were injured actually work here at this walmart. police say that according to hospital records, the male suspect was on some type of drugs, and it's still unclear right now as to whether one of the victims had been arguing with that male suspect. >> jericka, thank you. dozens of disaster declarations and states of emergency are in effect across new york, new jersey, and pennsylvania, after heavy rain
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and historic flooding. rushing water destroyed hundreds of homes. this morning the floodwaters are starting to recede as the cleanup begins. tony dokoupil is in hector, new york, with more on the story. tony, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, about half a foot of rain fell here. and i want to show you the results. this used to be a bridge. this morning, it's about a 60-foot gap in the roadway. what used to be a creek is now a rushing river. there are scenes like this all over. new york governor andrew cuomo is saying an addition al nationl troops will be available. >> reporter: in the town of lodi, a sinkhole opened on a roadway, while dozens of people were trapped by floodwaters and debris. just to the south in monitor falls floodwaters turned a
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serene view into a violent deluge of rushing water. >> reporter: in the town of lodi, a sinkhole opened on a roadway, while dozens of people were trapped by floodwaters and debris. >> have you gone to the other side of the debris? >> reporter: new york governor andrew cuomo toured lodi and other hard-hit areas tuesday. he declared a state of emergency in more than a dozen counties. >> this is a different pitch from mother nature, and it causes problems in areas that haven't seen it before. >> reporter: just south of the new york border in franklin forks, pennsylvania, emergency crews were busy rescuing people trapped in their homes. unable to get out in time because the floodwaters rose so quickly. >> almost got swept away a couple of times by the water, so, kind of see your life flash before your eyes. pretty terrifying. >> reporter: in new jersey, people in the hard-hit town of brick started the long process of cleaning up and rebuilding. officials say 85 homes were flooded. it really terrible.
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>> reporter: back here in new york, governor andrew kwom please disaster declaration will be in effect through august 21st. other states are looking at whether or not they will qualify for federal disaster relief. john, remarkably, no deaths reports in this storm. >> tony, thank you. >> storms are affecting people in oklahoma, arkansas and missouri. flash floods warnings are in effect. in oklahoma city, strong winds tore down this gas station awning. just south of there, in norman, more than two dozen people were rescued from their cars after the roads flooded. former white house aide omarosa manigault newman says she will not be intimidated or bullied by president trump. she says she's been interviewed for robert mueller's russia investigation and is ready to
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give him any recordings she made. weijia jiang is at the white house with new allegations from the former staffer. weijia, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, omarosa is making a new claim that president trump knew beforehand that wikileaks was going to release hillary clinton's e-mails during the 2016 campaign. his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, says omarosa is lying. it's just one of many damning things she has said this week about the president, who says she is violating a confidentiality agreement. >> there is a lot of corruption that went on, both in the campaign and in the white house. >> the next president of the united states! >> reporter: former presidential aide omarosa manigault newman says she's ready to provide special counsel robert mueller whatever he needs to expose wrongdoing at the trump campaign and the white house. >> i'm going to blow the whistle on all of it. >> reporter: hours earlier, the president's team filed an arbitration against omarosa for breach of her 2016
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confidentiality agreement with the trump campaign. >> i don't believe that i violated, but i'm going to leave that to the lawyers. he's trying to silence me, so what is he trying to hide? >> reporter: omarosa is in the middle of a media blitz to promote her new book, "unhinged," published by an imprint of simon and schuster, a vision of cbs. in it, she paints president trump as a racist who's mentally unfit to run the country. to support her claims, omarosa has released recordings she secretly made inside the white house and on the campaign trail. in one of the recordings, staffers are heard strategizing on ways to deal with the potential fallout of an alleged tape where mr. trump uses the "n" word multiple times. >> just want to make sure that we're aware of that, you know, we're in a battle stage so we're ready to go. >> reporter: on tuesday, press secretary sarah sanders said she wasn't sure if the president had had used the derogatory racial slur in the past. >> i can't guarantee anything. look, i haven't been in every single room. i can tell you the president has
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addressed this directly. >> reporter: and sanders would not answer yesterday whether she has sin nda, ws normal for staffers who have a security clearance. but sources tell cbs news that top level employees like omarosa who did not have a security clearance did have to sign a nondisparagement agreement to prevent them from criticizing the president or making money from their time here. several former white house administration officials told us an agreement like that is unheard of, not enforceable, and totally outrageous. >> all right, weijia jiang. closing arguments begin today in the trial of president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort. paul manafort defense team called no witnesses in his fraud trial. his attorney, kevin downing, says manafort felt very comfortable resting his case. >> he did so because he and his legal team believe that the government has not met its burden of proof.
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>> this trial is the first to emerge from special counsel robert mueller russia investigation. italian officials now say at least 39 people died in the collapse of a giant highway bridge. a rescue effort continued around the clock with searchers looking for more survivors. charlie d'agata is at the scene in genoa, italy, where the morandi bridge fell, leaving a massive gap in that highway. charlie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, those rescue efforts are continuing beneath the bridge, even if the hope of finding survivors is dimming. government officials have arrived here this morning. they're facing growing demand to explain exactly how something like this could have happened. residents awoke to a new skyline and a new reality. the bridge that suddenly ceased to exist, taking so many lives with it. rescuers with sniffer dogs searched through the night in a desperate hope that somewhere, buried beneath the huge slabs of
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concrete, someone had managed to survive. during a heavy rainstorm, the bridge suddenly plunged 150 feet down into the riverbed, buildings, and city streets, taking dozens of vehicles and those inside with it. davidida digiorgio shot that cell phone video. >> i hope this morning i wake up, it's a dream. >> reporter: all a bad dream. >> but not a dream. >> reporter: the collapse of what's now been called the bridge of death left a gaping hole in the heart of this city and unanswered questions about whether this structure that local residents say was under a constant state of repair, was still fit to do the job a half century after it was built. 60,000 vehicles cross the morandi bridge every day, families on summer vacations,
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employees on their commute, truckers ferrying goods from one side of the city to another, victims who, but for a few seconds on that bridge either way would be alive today. the public prosecutor has already announced that a criminal investigation will be under way to determine whether negligence was involved, but locals here have been scompreexg fears for years that that bridge would never survive an earthquake. gayle? >> and seconds meant the difference between life and death. thank you, charlie d'agata, from genoa, italy. we're learning new details about the suspect in yesterday's terror attack in london. british media identifies him as 25-year-old salah hauter, he's a british citizen originally from sudan. hauter is accused of slamming his vehicle into a bicyclist before slamming into a security banner. he is in custody this hour but officials say he is not cooperating. in turkey, a court has turned down the appeal of an
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american pastor at the center of a diplomatic and economic showdown. andrew brunson's lawyer asked for his release from house arrest. turkey's government claims he's connected to a muslim preacher in the united states, accused of leading an attempted coup. the trump administration has raised tariffs on turkish imports to protest brunson's detention. turkey retaliated this morning by sharply increasing tariffs on american alcohol, cars, tobacco, cosmetics, and skin care items. aretha franklin's church drew dozens of people this morning for an early morning prayer vigil for the legendary singer. ahead, we're in detroit with the latest on her condition and the famous visitors coming to see her. first, it is 7:19, time to check your local weather. it is 7:
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be patrolling the streets of san francisco soon.. going to known problem areas that have a lot of fecal matter on good morning. it is 7:26. i'm michelle griego. a new so-called poop patrol will be patrolling the streets of san francisco soon going to known problem areas that have a lot of fecal matter on the sidewalk and cleaning it all up. the two mendocino complex fires have burned almost 355,000 acres in mendocino, lake and colusa counties. the smaller of the two, the river fire, is now fully contained. the larger ranch fire is 64% contained. a man who made it his mission to curb street violence is now a victim of a shooting in san francisco. joe was shot multiple times yesterday on kisko road. he is still in the hospital.
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♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." here are three things you should know this morning. senators return to capitol hill today after majority leader mitch mcconnell cancelled the remaining august recess. they're expected to vote this week on a massive spending bill funding the pentagon and department of health and human services. movie pass is drastically scaling back its subscription plan today. members can now only to go three movies a month with their pass.
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users will receive discounted tickets after hitting that limit. this comes as crepog an operatio quarter. that's a nearly 500% bigger loss than in the same quarter last year. the highest paying jobs this year can be found in the health care industry, according to employment website glassdoor. physicians topped the list with more than $195,000 average salary a year. pharmacy managers and pharmacists placed second and third. with enterprise architect and corporate counsel rounding out the top five. more than 3,000 students returned to class this morning at marjory stoneman douglas high school. the florida school has significant security upgrades for the new school year since a gunman killed 17 people in february shooting. changes include -- more
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surveillance cameras, a single point of entry a. >> reporter: good morning, school is already under way and there are therapy dogs and counselors for students inside. the building where the shooting occurred. building 12 that has been blocked off with 12-foot fence. the school has brought in trailers designed as portable classrooms. despite these changes in security, students told us they still don't feel safe. in the run-up to the new school year. school spirit was already on full display. but superintendent acknowledged that it won't be easy. >> it will be motional. it will be difficult as we remember the victims, their families, faculty and staff and everyone in this entire community. >> reporter: he said that the school districts are returning to will be far more secure. the number of on-campus school
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personnel has doubled from 9 to 18. more security cameras have been installed along with a single entry point system. students and staff will be required to wear i.d.s at all times. and class room doors lock automatically. >> i don't feel safe anywhere in this point of my life. >> reporter: she's a leader among student activists. >> we won't stop until this gets fixed. until we actually remove these weapons from our streets we're not going to feel safe. we can have all the security we want, bulletproof backpacks for y all i care. >> reporter: he says he's too afraid to go back to school. why are you not going back to
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school? >> i don't feel safe. >> reporter: maybe there's another nicolas cruz. >> andrew pollak lost his daughter meadow in the attack. he believes the school board has failed students. >> they're just putting a band aid on the situation. the father of anthony who was shot five times said he won't sen send his child to school until there are change >> why it bey unsettling to go back, i can see why. early morning prayer vigil for aretha franklin drew dozen of people to her church. community members have been visiting the new bethel baptist church to offer their prayers
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for the singer who's said to be under hospice care at her home. we're inside the church, vlad, good morning. >> it was right here in this church where a young aretha franklin found her soul through the power of gospel music. i want to give you a sense of how important this church is to her and how important she is to the church. follow along with me here into what they call the history room of new bethel baptist church. you can see along these walls, photographs lined show the history of this church and the history of aretha franklin's association with it. you can see pictures of her here with her sister and her father. historical pictures here. there's the reverend franklin with coretta scott king, the widow of mtin lutr i had ano
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current pastor of the church. take a listen to what he had to say. how important has aretha been to new bethel? >> well, i call her the life blood. the life blood. without her, i don't think we would be in existence today. because her name has kept us in the public eye. >> reporter: the pastor tells us that she's returned to the church over and over again to hosts events. get this, we just had an opportunity to speak with ms. franklin's secretary coordinator. she spoke to ms. franklin, spoke to her yesterday, she's alert, she's eating, she's doing well. she's even watching television coverage of all the well wishes and prayers pouring in. the legendary singer, icon,
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native of michigan, stevie wonder stopped by to say hello to her yesterday as well. >> good to hear that she's doing well, aall right and watching. the life blood of that church. >> and for her to know how much she's loved. sending her all the best. >> lot of love, endless love. a potentially cancer-causing weed can i recall could be in popular cereals. ahead, the surprising new findings this morning and what parents need to know about several products marketed to children. subscribe to our "cbs this morning" podcast available on apple podcast. here are the today's top mornings. in less than 20 minutes. you're watching "cbs this morning." following you everywhere? it's time to take back control with stelara®.
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weed-killing chemical that some health authorities link to cancer. the research out this morning discovered trace amounts of glyphosate in oates, granolas and snack bars. what these findings mean, an yashgs good morning. >> reporter: glyphosate the most wi widely herbicide in the country not likely to be carcinogenic to humans. one group finds it may be on your breakfast table. >> we're very concerned that consumers are eating more glyphosate than they no. >> reporter: scott farber has been working to improve food safety standards for more than a decade. he said the group at ewg had a lab test 45 simples of products made with conventionally grown
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oats contain glyphosate. >> i was shocked. >> reporter: this doctor heads the council of environmental health for the american academy of pediatrics. >> we don't know a lot about the effects of glyphosate on children. and essentially, we're just throwing it at them. >> reporter: they used their own more stringent standards to conclude that products with excessive levels of instant oats, great value instant oats. glyphosate was even found in a few organic products though most had nondetectable levels. the world health organization said glyphosate is a probable c asha rsh rcinogen. monsanto disputes that say.
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even at the highest level reported an adult would have to eat 118 pounds of the food item every day for the rest of their life in order to reach the epa's limit for glyphosate red dues. >> did monsanto fail to warn of the potential risks? the answer, yes. >> reporter: jury last week a jury ordered monsanto pay a man $198 million in damages. he's skeptical of epa's limit of dmrif sait. it's time now for them to step up and do their jobs to ban glyphosate. >> reporter: she heads moms across america a group formed to raise awareness of toxic exposure. her family switched their diet.
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>> we want to trust what's in the grocery store is safe. in many cases it's not. >> we reached out to the makers of those products. in a statement quaker said we proudly stand by our products. any levels of glyphosate that may remain are significantly below any limits of the safety standards set by the epa and the european commission as safety for consumption. >> i didn't see honey nut cheerios or frosted flakes. what you should do? >> what this study seems to suggest that the organic products had much lower levels in general. some had traces. they seemed to have lower levels of pesticides for whatever reason.
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some people may want to try and look and see some of the research itself. >> thank you, anna. coming up next, a look at this morning's other headlines. including this 6-year-old, this little girl was all smiles after secretly buying $300 toys on amazon. we like her. but first it's -- >> look at that smile. >> she's
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good morning. it's slow out of hayward trying to get to san mateo. here's a live look at the san mateo bridge where we have an earlier crash in that westbound direction just past the toll plaza. it's 34 minutes across the span. we had an accident at sfo causing delays on northbound 101 earlier. a new crash at sfo. neda has the forecast. >> it's cloudy out there this morning again but the difference today is these clouds are sitting pretty high above the towers. so right at the very top of the "salesforce tower" right
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it's wednesday august 15th, 2018, welcome back to "cbs this morning." senator bernie sanders is in studio 57 and we'll talk to him about the view of the mid-term elections and the mixed results for democrats he supports. plus the high expectations for the new movie "crazy rich asians", we'll hear from the director about changing hollywood and himself. but first, here is today's "eye opener" at 8:00. the vatican is saying bthing but a bombshell grand jury report on sex abuse by riestscatholic priests in pennsylvania. >> and the kids mentioned by the grand jury, the statue of imitations has expired for all tations has hem.
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>> imagine the terror these tstomers must have felt when they rushed outside. hed outsideery county s.w.a.t. team and 22 other police .a.t. ments responded. > half a foot of rain fell here ad i'll show you the results. this used to be a bridge. fell her this morning it is about a 60 foot gap. >> those rescue efforts are continuing beneath the bridge. effrnment officials facing growing demands to explain ialstly how something like this y how have happened. omarosa is making a new nt trumpat president trump knew aseore hand that wikileaks was going to release hillary clinton's emails during the 2016 campaign. nasa launched the first ever mission to study the sun up close over the course of the upt seven years, a probe will the courseun to study the outer atmosphere. at 430,000 miles per hour and probably the fteov
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man-made object in history, >> i'm son witg the record set by donald trump trying to distance himself from omarosa. >> i'm john dickerson and gayle fing and bianna golodryga. >> a new report reveals sickening details of child hia al abuse by roman catholic churchs in pennsylvania. the philadelphia inquirer sums it up saying, they hid it all. > the report names 301, quote, thattor priest accused of molesting more than 1,000 mo the gran and alleges the abuse innned more than 70 years. he grand jury believes a real under tf victims is in the thousands. in one case under the sickening category it says boys were given old cross necklaces to signal to other predators that these boys were targets for further victimization. >> more than 100 of the priests are dead and only two cases are new enough to prosecute under the statute of limitations. pennsylvania attorney general pe said those laws need to change.
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>> if you raped a child, you should be held accountable in a court of law. i wish that i could have charged all 301 predator priests, at least those still living. >> the u.s. conference of catholic bishops said it is >> the u.s shamed by and sorry for the sins s it isssions by catholic priests and the catholic bishops. >> story still so hard to believe. prie results from last night's primary show women breaking be more barriers on the way to the november midterms. at least 19 female candidates . e nominated for the u.s. senate, breaking a record set 2012.n 2012. ahan omar won in minnesota and ota.could be the first om alley american elected to congress and r philine hallquist is the newest democrat to win vermont's democratic primary.
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how chris face's vermont scott in november. bernie sanders won the democratic primary but he will run as an independent for re-election in november. he's with us. good morning, senator. >> good to be you. >> what do you think about the istory in the gubernatorial ideaschristine hallquist. >> i think it looks that we look at ideas people have and not the sexual orientation and i think it is a good thing. >> tell me about the democratic orie party. the ideas that are winning the tes what's hapur candidates have won, some have lost. wo things ppening in the democratic party today? >> i think two things are happening. number one, the ideas that we the been fighting for, ideas wor i think make sense to the milies,f working families, i think those ideas are spreading all over the country and have all over more support. if you look at the issues like medicare for all, shouldn't we end the embarrassment of being the only major country not to carantee health care to all people and poll after poll says we should move in that direction. tax bould we give tax breaks to billionaires, which is what trump wants, or demand that the
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wealthy start paying their fair share of taxes? that is what the american people want. oould we move toward raising hat theimum wage to $15 an hour. that is what the american people want. so what i'm saying all across the country people are saying we so, want a government that ayingsents all of us not just the billionaire class and wealthy campaign contributors. >> tell me about the democratic party and how they balance these two things. they have to win in 2018 where n e idea of medicare for all and ll and thes too much for the ofers in those suburban swing costricts. ackingea of free college, and ficit.ear the numbers racking up doeshe issue of federal deficit. s athe other hand, you hear talk i thinke energy in the democratic party. how does the democratic party balance those two things. >> what is happening is there is a whole lot of energy. and i think what you're seeing across this country is not only progresses winning and losing occasionally. r, youu are seeing people running for office, women and
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ting people getting involved in politics in a way that we have ago,seen for a long, long time. i think that is good for america and i think that is good for the democratic party. four years ago, let me say this, n the mid-term elections we had the lowest voter turnout in 70 tors, what the democrats have to do is excite people and get young working people to the polls and if they do that we'll polust fine. >> i was going to ask you about leadership. because one target for the republicans or for the president is nancy pelosi. even some democrats say that she needs to go. her response is they come after me because i'm effective. is she an effective leader. >> i think nancy has done a good job. but what she may not say, i think it's also the fact that she's a woman. i think the republican party is th vief giving tax breaks to billionaires and cutting social security and medicare and medicaid and they have to come up with a demon and that demon
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millen nancy pelosi. >> we asked a panel of millennials and which you are popular with, who they think is a democratic leader and they th couldn't come up with an answer. does that concern you or surprise you? couldn't cn't concern me. at the end of the day, we are 50 states in this country. and what gratifies me very much is somebody who has gone around much around tntry, who has been state to state after state, trying to see if we can elect progressive have nats is, i'm seeing an energy level that i have not seen before. so i'm less worried about people thanp than i am about seeing young people and working people get involved and that is happening, gayle. youet me ask you a question about those young people. de democratic socialism is appe hopealing to some young people and also might be interested in the democratic party, the idea be morialism versus capitalism the that need to be more in the forefro forefront? >> the media makes a big deal about it. look at the issues. should every american have health care at a time when we spend the twice amount and ca highest amount for prescription
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drugs and of course we need to trous symedicare for all. should at a time we're in a foretitive global economy, we timepublic colleges and universities tuition free, the wswer is yes. look at the issues out there. univer wer i'll also say this, john, i hink there is growing resentment not only among young eople and who in many cases only among lower standard of d ving than their parents, there is an understanding or something undamentally immoral and wrong that a nation in which we have >> and oople who own more wealth than the bomttom half of the american people, that does not make sense. >> and the response from many is how do we pay for them. this conversation will continue. but we've run out of time, senator. thank you for joining us. well walmart honors a woman hopping can internet sensation with a shopping cart in the middle of a storm. and ahead, what returning your cart says about your character.
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last month when this vo -- video made the rounds. walmart is calling her a walmart legend. i'll say. the retail giant gave her a trophy and a year of free pick-up so she never has to push a cart through a storm again. dn dhing spealust got wet. scientific american suggests that the simple act of returning a cart can be an indicator of a person's character. people who always return carts tend to have a sense of obligation and feel badly for those who have to collect the carts and someone who never returns them believe it is somebody else's job. i don't know what it says about my character, but i'm not returning a car in cart. i'm jumping in my car and i'm leaving. >> and she wasn't even running. >> you return your cart. >> bravo, sue. >> and everything in the car is now wet. >> they should give candidates a return the cart test. >> brvo. >> a good idea. >> there is much more news
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ahead. the highly anticipated movie "crazy rich asians" hits theaters today. we'll hear from the film's director about why the movie is a water shed moment for him and plus we'll show you how unique vending machines are spitting out literature to make reading fun. i like that. and oscar winner sir ben kingsley will be in studio 57 with a look at his new movie "operation finale" feeling compelled to tell the story of a notorious nazi. you're watching "cbs this morning." d one handed pumps. gentle means pure, gentle means safe, gentle means love. the new johnson's®.
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lots of buzz about its potential to shatter stereotypes. it's predicted to have a big impact at the box office this weekend, which estimates that it could rake in more than $25 million. there's a lot more riding on it than just ticket sales for the all-asian cast. "cbs sunday morning's" lee cowan spoke with the movie's director about how he feels the film can make a cultural impact in hollywood. >> these people aren't just rich, okay? they're crazy rich. >> reporter: in a better world, we wouldn't be talking about the ethnicity of the cast in "crazy rich asians," we'd be talking about whether or not they gave a good performance. overall, most critics agree they do. >> we've been dating for over a year now, and i think it's about time people met my beautiful girlfriend. >> reporter: but it's the oddity of an all-asian cast that's still drawing headlines, and for director jon m. chu, that's just fine, for now. >> i hope that in ten years, we forget about it.s we at w thing,n all-asian cast was a thing?
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>> reporter: it is a thing, given that this is the first studio film since "the joy luck club" -- >> oh! >> reporter: -- way back in 1993, to feature an asian-american emsell bale. >> three, two, one, action! >> reporter: when chu, a veteran of hollywood, set to bring kevin quan's popular novel to life, he knew it would be a watershed moment, but he had no idea just how much it would affect him personally. >> it's the most present movie i've ever made. >> reporter: which means what? >> going through this cultural identity crisis at the same time of making it. i cry every four hours thinking about it because you feel that your movie is more than just for yourself at that point. >> reporter: chu, an asian american whose parents owned a chinese restaurant, loved movies as a kid. that's him dressed as yoda. but he rarely saw anyone who looked or sounded like him on the big screen. chu realized as a director, he wasn't casting asians either and was part of the problem.
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>> i think for myself as an artist, i wanted to know that i was an artist. like, do i have the courage to push something through the system that i now have known so well for the last ten years? so, that desire grew too much for me to hold inside, and it was time. >> reporter: rebecca sun is a senior reporter at "the hollywood reporter." movies are her life. and yet, this one felt decidedly different. >> to see one about a chinese-american girl like myself who looks and dresses like me was, it was incredible! it felt really, really validating and it felt like recognition. >> reporter: the stakes for tonight's opening are high, and so are the expectations, maybe impossibly high. do you think it's a "black panther" kind of moment in film? >> i mean, it's tricky, because it's hard to compare anything to "black panther." >> reporter: right. >> it's, you know, an amazing piece of work that has changed the landscape. we are on the beginning of a
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journey, and i think this cracks the door. >> reporter: you'd be happy if it just doesn't -- >> i'd be happy if people go to the movie and have a great time. you can't take back what you see. >> i think i've just fallen in love with you all over again. >> reporter: what you see is a loving comedy about a boy and a girl and a family comedy that could be almost anyone anywhere. and that's the point. for "cbs this morning," lee cowan, hollywood. >> at the end of the day, we all want to see a really good movie, but i can see why this could be a sense of pride for the asian-american community, much the way black americans felt about "wauconda forever," but at the end of the day, you still want a good movie. >> and he acknowledged he was part of the problem. >> i can't wait to see this movie. >> me, too. let's go together. >> i'm game. lennon and mccartney are back together again, you could say. ahead, john and paul's sons, they're look-alike sons, we could say, team up for a photo that left a lot of beatles fans wanting a whole lot more. plus, our "my vote" series
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takes an inside look at two politically active young women on opposite sides of the aisle. >> when i look at young women today, i feel opposite. >> 2018 is the year of the woman. we're going to continue to change the world. >> aahead, what motivates them and why they both think other millennials are not politically engaged enough. you're watching "cbs this morning." we always appreciate that. we're taking a break. we'll be right back.
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♪ hey, do these two look familiar to you? if you're thinking, that's lennon and mccartney, you are absolutely right. sean lennon and james mccartney posed for this selfie and then put it on instagram. beatles fans quickly noticed how much they sure look like their famous dads. that, of course, is john lennon r aewul mccartney.u teho w the, dana jacobson brings us a literary snack. >> reporter: meet the vending machine that spits out short
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stories, instead of soda. coming up on "cbs this morning," we'll show you the latest way to feed your mind, and there's no cell phone required. ♪ friends are remembering utah firefighter -- matt burchett -- who was killed while battling ndocino complex up good morning, it's 8:25. i'm michelle griego. family and friends are remembering utah firefighter matt burchette, who was killed while battling the massive mendocino complex up north. flags in draper city, utah, will be at half-staff this week. a new report from the research group trip says poor road conditions are costing californians billions of dollars each year. it's sure to be part of the debate in the november election when state voters decide on proposition 6. the measure would repeal the recent gas tax increase meant to fund road repair and maintenance. popular fast food chain in-n- out has certainty a "cease-and- desist" order to a san
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good morning. 8:27. we are still tracking delays in santa rosa due to an earlier crash no longer blocking lanes. it's in the northbound direction. here's a live look. this is right near highway 12. and you can see traffic backs up along the left side of your screen, that's northbound and 12 crossing over that.
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so expect delays through the north bay. foggy ride heading across the golden gate bridge. if you are heading along the eastshore freeway, we are stuck in the red, over 30 minutes just to go from hercules to the bay bridge toll plaza where we are still tracking over 30 minutes into san francisco. we are also dealing with clouds pretty much all over the bay area this morning. here's a look from our "salesforce tower" camera towards the golden gate bridge which you can kind of see there off in the distance but the clouds are sitting higher up in the levels of the atmosphere compared to yesterday so visibility is doing fine in many locations. it will be cool in san francisco and at the coast with a breeze. breezy east of livermore. that's why today temperatures will only be in the 80s for many inland spots. we are not going to really start to warm up until friday
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♪ every day is a winding road, i get a little bit closer ♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." right now it's time to show you some of this morning's headlines. "usa today" wants to ease fears about infections from dog licks. so, the paper talked to the cdc's top expert on bacteria found in dog saliva. the cdc says illnesses linked to the bacteria are rare. it has received just 12 reports in the past year. if symptoms, such as high fever, are recognized early, common antibiotics will cure the infection. so, dog licks are okay. >> what would we do without dog licks? that's a relief. well, "newsweek" reports on a study that suggests
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sleep-deprived people feel lonelier, making them socially repellent to others. the university of california berkeley researchers found overly tired people avoid close contact in the same way as people with social anxiety. the study says people can pass on feelings of loneliness to someone who is well rested through conversation. >> that should make it easier to fall asleep at night. and the "detroit free press" reports the first owner of a ford mustang kept the car, and it's now worth $350,000. gail wise -- wise indeed -- bought the sky blue convertible in 1964 in chicago. it cost $3,447.50. it's on display this week in royal oak, michigan, as ford celebrates production of the 10 millionth mustang. we've teamed up with digital media company refinery 29 for our series "my vote." we polled millennial women voters to explore their potential impact on the upcoming midterm elections. about one-third of women ages 18
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to 35 say headlines over the past year motivated them to become more engaged in politics. but only 30% of millennial women say they will definitely vote in the midterms this fall. as part of our "my vote" series, we followed two politically active millennial women on opposite sides of the aisle to learn what motivates them. ♪ >> my name is vanessa rivera, and i am 23 years old. people just think that because i'm young, woman, and spanish, that i just check the box to think more of a liberal point of view, and that just is not the case. i am registered republican. >> i'm micah scharff. i'm 25 years old. politics was always a dinner table conversation with my family. i am registered as a democrat. >> i have been very fascinated by politics since i was little.
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i got more involved in college when i joined the college republicans. >> keep them motivated. >> and i got called a hispanic hater, i got called a brain-washed baptist. and that just made me feel like i wasn't being heard. >> probably just go park in here and walk. and i really thought i would end up in politics. and sometimes i still wonder what i'm doing in this political sphere. but after the whole 2016 cycle, i just knew that there was something missing and there was just a desperate need for new leadership in public service. >> we also have a really big lineup today. i think the girls are active from about 8:30 in the morning until about, i want to say 10:00 at night. >> all right, ladies! >> i am the campus program associate for the network of enlightened women. >> today we're doing a lot of professional development. >> the network of enlightened women is a non-profit organization with chapters all across the united states where college women are able to discuss ideological differences
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from a conservative point of view. >> every day i get to wake up and i get to go give people an opportunity to change their communities. i am the finance director for ken harbaugh for congress. my responsibilities include planning fund-raising events. he sits on two committees. engaging with our thousands of supporters. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, good luck. >> writing e-mails to potential new supporters. >> hello. this is ken harbaugh -- >> sitting with ken as he makes phone calls. attending meet-and-greets, knocking on doors. >> the fact that i'm bi-lingual -- >> immigration i think is something that will always be near and dear to my heart due to the fact that my mother is an immigrant and so is my grandmother. my grandmother just became a citizen last year. >> right there. >> we're living in a world where folks have to choose between going to the grocery and paying for health care. >> i have a daughter that's -- diagnosed with cancer at 25. >> oh, my god.
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i'm so sorry. >> and that doesn't make sense to me. it doesn't make sense to, i think, most millennials. >> i do not think millennials are doing enough politically. >> for an internship of, you know, foreign policy and things like that, put it in there. >> i know of a ton of college students that tweet and post online about their outrage of what their congressmen, their senators or the president are doing, but they didn't even vote in the last election. >> you're going to go to the communion halls, they're going to go -- >> millennials did not vote in 2016. we just didn't show up. but i think you're going to see in a big way that millennials will be engaged in 2018 and beyond. >> walking through the women's march! >> when i look at young women today, i feel opposite. >> say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here! [ crowd chanting ] >> 2018 is the year of the woman. we're going to continue to change the world. >> to a young woman organizing with the democratic party, i would tell them, listen to us,
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talk to us, try to see our point of view. >> i think we need more women across the aisle involved. and honestly, let's grab coffee. let's talk about the things that matter to us. and if you put a few more women in these rooms making decisions, i think we'd get a lot more done. >> both sides say you've got to vote, though. it's a little disturbing to hear that only 30% say they definitely plan to vote. young women on both sides are saying you've got to get engaged, get involved. >> it's been great to hear their voices this week. >> they can march, but they have to vote. >> that's right. that's right. reading for pleasure is at an all-time low in the united states. a recent government report revealed americans read for fun about 17 minutes each day. between 2003 and 2017, the percentage of americans indulging in leisure reading on any given day dropped by nearly 30%. "cbss rng's" saturday co-host dana jacobson is here with a unique program that brings reading to unexpected places. good morning. >> good morning. we always say we don't have
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enough time, right? well, one solution to our short time or even short rt they're low-commitment, high-gratitude, and still can transport us to far-flung places. ♪ >> a beautiful airplane with a pointed nose. >> my fresh and fragrant mistress -- >> it's called lift every voice and sing. >> reporter: in a corner of the south philadelphia free library, there is now a vending machine tomorrow literature. think of it as tales to go. >> it's a little old, but it's a classic story. >> sounds pretty cool to me. >> reporter: with the press of a button, users select a story that takes either one, three, or five minutes to read. within seconds, the cylinder spits out a modern-day papyrus stroll. >> whoa, that's a long one! >> yeah. >> yeah. >> what i love about this project is it gives us something a little bit old, a piece of paper, to have that tactile moment. >> reporter: andrew nurkin
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helped bring the kiosks to philadelphia library. >> it uses an atm machine of short stories to make it delightful. >> what's old is new again. >> exactly. >> reporter: philadelphia is one of four american cities installing the short story atms in public libraries. there are 35 dispensers in various locations across north america and 180 worldwide. >> any minutegaging with the wr is advancing literacy, and if it brings joy just for that minute or five minutes, that's great. ♪ >> reporter: this joie de vivre comes courtesy of french company short edition, which makes the machine and manages a catalog of more than 100,000 stories. >> come sheep, oh sheep, the certain not of peace. >> reporter: details vary in tone and style. >> i have felt real dread, which resembled all things being equal th the -- that's pretty sad. >> reporter: they are free and
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guilt-free. >> some people would say, oh, no, this is bad, it's pape but this isn't. >> no. so, the paper is all environmentally friendly. the ink is biodegradable. so, it's environmentally conscious and certainly recyclable. >> reporter: film director francis ford-coppola is the godfather of short story atms. in 2016, he brought the first american dispenser to a cafe in san francisco. >> i love the idea of a vending machine, a dispensing machine that doesn't dispense potato chips or beer or coffee or money, but gives you art. >> oh, this is from william shakespeare. >> i was totally in the dark. first i bumped into my bed. then i bumped into my closet. >> reporter: in a constant and instant world filled with transitory and interactional interactions, these stories transfo transform us, if only for a minute. and if you want your own short story to come out of the atms, in september, the public library
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association will launch a national writing contest to encourage budding authors and amateurs to add their voices to the dispensers. >> such a great idea. >> it really is. it's this little piece of paper, but it just brightens your day. it's a little, quick smile and gets us off our phones tomorrow just a moment. >> we need one here at cbs, i think. >> we'll put in a request. didn't offer one, but we'll put in a request. >> we could have a local writing . >> we can have a local writing contest. >> i wonder who would win? >> john. >> expectations. >> not even close. >> thanks, dana. oscar winner sir ben kingsly talking about his latest role, it's a doozy, it's good. how the new movie sheds light on a daring mission to
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capture adolph ikeman one of nazi's chief architects of the holocaust. hiding in argentina with his family under an alias in world war ii. >> we have our guy. >> the architect of the final solution? >> we should be putting him down like -- >> i would happily put a bullet in between his eyes but that's not what we're doing here. strictly catch and extract. >> he'll stand trial in israel. >> the country i love from being destroyed. >> the man in this picture is you. ss number 45381. am i correct? again, your number was 45381. your number was 45381. 45381. 45381. >> 45326.
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and i'll accept my fate, my name is adolph ikeman. >> joining us now at the table. good morning, that was such a crucial scene in the movie. the thing that got to me about this movie, ben, he's such a depickable character in history yet we saw the humanity of ts man with his family and with his dog and wife and it was hard for me to reconcile the two. >> well, i think that you've hit on one of the many tensions that run through the film and i'm delighted that that's your dilemma because that's the dilemma we want to awaken in the audience. if we fictionalize the man as a monster quote unquote then we rel gate that horrendous portion of history to fiction and it's
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either easier to forget or digest or dismiss. when we insist on the audience to accept these men and women as men and women, then it makes that period of history much harder to deal with but we must must confront it and deal with it. ikeman was one of us. >> and it's not your first film based on the holocaust. you had murderers among us. >> and frank's father. >> and knowing about the preparation that went into this role as a nazi, you played holocaust survivors before and jews before obviously. what went into this role in preparing for it? >> i can answer simply because i know we don't have a lot of time but meeting, playing otto frank and meeting so many survivors on shindler's list and other survivors, who hid ann frank's
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family in her attic, wonderful woman and interlaced with this i had the pleasure of meeting the great prophet and poet and witness of the holocaust and survivor. and when i was last with ellie, i did have the opportunity to tell him to his face that the next time i walk on a film set relative to your story, i'll dedicate my performance to you. so really i did not immerse myself in naziism or german nationalism, i immersed myself in the memory and i said to myself and photograph in my pocket, i'm doing this for you. that was my engine, that was my fuel. i didn't take it from naziism but ellie. >> why canonnect those two thin, ikeman is one of us, why is that so important to keeping memory of the holocaust survivors alive? >> i think if we dismiss them in
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a sort of capsule, saying they weren't really human, so they don't count, then we really letting history off the hook and we're in grave danger of allowing it to happen again. i know that ellie last time i heard him speak, he actually said that in his prayers to god, i think he had actual conversations with god, after the holocaust he said what more do you want? and in the light of anti-sem itism and extreme islam and in the light of everything that's threatening the jewish die as pra, he was saying, what other sacrifice do you want to stop this? is 6 million not enough? apparently not. which is tragic. >> what a blessing to his memory and it's such a moving film. thank you. >> beautiful performance from you. >> thank you. >> we appreciate it. >> operation finale is in theaters august 29th. ate it. ♪ theatrs august 29th. ♪
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be patrolling the streets of san francisco soon.. going to known problem areas that have a lot of fecal matter on the sidewalk an good morning. it is 8:55. i'm michelle griego. a new so-called "poop patrol" will be patrolling the streets of san francisco soon going to known problem areas that have a lot of fecal matter on the sidewalk and cleaning it all up. the two mendocino complex fires have burned more than 360 acres in three counties. the smaller of the two, the river fire, is now fully contained. the larger ranch fire is 64% contained. a man who made it his mission to curb street violence is now a victim of a shooting in san francisco. joe taeotui was shot multiple times yesterday on kiska road. he is now in the hospital.
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sluggish 21 minutes to 101 out of hayward. and oakland 880 the nimitz freeway just under 30 minutes from 238 to the maze. slow into san francisco. look at all those cars. 35 minutes connecting to 101. let's check in with neda on the forecast. a lot of cars and clouds here. we have our "salesforce tower" camera pointed towards the north so golden gate bridge is out there, but it of course is covered in low-lying clouds right there. the bay bridge looks like the clouds are sitting a little up higher and you can also see this view. transamerica pyramid towards "salesforce tower" camera. here's a look at the temperatures. 58 in lermore. oakland 62. not going togemuch warming today. satellite-radar showing some of the east bay starting to see a little bit of blue sky action but mainly, it's cloudy around the bay area. this afternoon, expect more sunshine inland. west winds picking up.
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