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now or be prepared to face the consequences. >> reporter: those consequences are u.s. sanctions and a
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doubling of tariffs on turkish steel and aluminum, announced by president trump on friday. in retaliation turkey's doubled tariffs on u.s. passenger cars, coal, and other goods and announced a boycott of u.s. electronic goods. these angry turks tore up fake dollar bills in protest. many people here believe this crisis is all the fault of the u.s. even though experts have been warning of danger signs for months. some blaming turkey's authoritarian president, recep tayyip erdogan. a defiant president erdogan said, "they have their dollars, we have our god" last week. but though the turkish lira rallied somewhat today, the markets do not share his faith in the turkish economy. jeff. >> a dispute that seems to have no end right now. holly williams in istanbul, thanks. it was the first day of school today at marjory stoneman s hig sl in parkland,
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florida. six months after 17 students and staff members were killed, another 17 were wounded. new security measures are now in place. but as adriana diaz reports from parkland, some still don't feel safe. >> bye, mickey. >> reporter: carlos rodriguez greeted the day with both excitement and dread. >> this is my first time driving myself to school. i'm kind of excited because it's my senior year. and it's also six months and one day after the anniversary of what happened at my school. as the day gets closer, i've become more nervous. there's a helicopter. that's a trigger for some of my friends. >> there's a code red going on. >> reporter: it reminds them of february's rampage. rodriguez recorded himself hiding that day with his friend, then junior alec lisarraga. >> this year it's like a different feeling. i really don't want to go back. >> why not? >> it's -- i -- i just don't
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want to be there anymore. >> in the back of my mind there's still the thought of a shooter coming into campus. >> reporter: but officials say the school is now safer than ever. there are more cameras, 18 security staff, and doors that lock automatically. >> parkland is the heart of this movement. >> reporter: senior jaclyn corin pushed for gun reform this summer with her classmates and teens touched by urban gun violence. >> i think we all don't want parkland to be a dirty word anymore. we want parkland to be a word that people feel inspired by. >> reporter: it's that positivity that helped rodriguez get through day one. >> i tried to keep a smile as much as i could, and i think that's what i'm going to have to do for the rest of the year. >> reporter: some students are not returning this year, like 15-year-old anthony borges, who was shot five times and told us he's afraid to go back. but overall, enrollment this year is steady. students told us they want to be
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with people who can empathize with them, not sympathize. jeff? >> yeah, adriana, i liked what jaclyn said there, she doesn't want parkland to be a dirty word, she wants people to be inspired by it. that's pretty well said. adriana, thanks. coming up next, dozens are treated after a mass overdose on a drug that seems to be her now. and later the search for a pregnant mother and her little girls.
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emergency crews in new haven, connecticut today responded to a mass overdose. nearly 50 people have been treated after taking synthetic marijuana, which can be 100 times more powerful than normal pot. as tony dokoupil reports, it is a growing national problem. >> reporter: calls began streaming in after 8:00 a.m. >> 911 emergency responding on an ems alarm. new haven dreen. >> reporter: zozs of people suffering from nau nausea, vomiting, some unconscious, suspected of overdosing on a synthetic marijuana known as k2. >> and even while we were trying to return people to service, they were passing victims on the ground.
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>> reporter: during this preference on the new haven green, another apparent victim. >> we're getting another call of a person. >> eyes wide open. >> reporter: emergency workers rush in to respond. >> he's not moving. >> come on, let's go. >> reporter: the drug enforcement administration has tried to crack down on the distribution of k-2, but it hasn't stomd tpped the rise in . across the country in the past three years more than 13,000 people have reportedly been sickened by synthetic can binnoids like k2, over 1,200 in the first seven months of this year alone. in may nearly 60 people overosed on a batch of the drug in brooklyn, and officials in connecticut called today's scene part of a national epidemic. >> it's a nationwide problem that people are self-medicating for several different reasons. >> reporter: this afternoon police arrested one man believed to be tied to the overdoses here, and just moments ago we learned of a second arrest. now, jeff, no fatalities reported but it's important to point out that synthetic marijuana is chemically different and much more dangerous than the legal marijuana now available in many
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u.s. states. jeff? >> and as we can see, still an active scene behind you. an alarming story. tony, thanks. coming up next here, race to a barbecue nearly ends in a runway disaster. i woke up in memphis and told... (harmonica interrupts) ...and told people about geico... (harmonica interrupts) how they could save 15% or more by... (harmonica interrupts) ...by just calling or going online to geico.com. (harmonica interrupts) (sighs and chuckles) sorry, are you gonna... (harmonica interrupts) everytime. geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.
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the fbi has joined the search for a mother who disappeared in colorado this week with her two young daughters. 34-year-old shannon watts is about four months pregnant. she was last seen with her daughters, ages 4 and 3, on monday in frederick, colorado, north of denver. video has surfaced of a close call at the airport in springfield, missouri. this is a van speeding across a runway seconds before a plane takes off. the jet carrying 50 people was heading to chicago. no one was hurt here. the van driver says ground control cleared him to cross the runway. he said he was racing to get to an employee barbecue. we have an update now on ethan sonneborn, the 14-year-old
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at the detroit tigers game last night became anything but. >> and it will go down in history as nothing. but it's not nothing to him. >> no. very important. >> now he wants another one. >> that's great. >> oh! how about that? how nice is that? when an adult catches a foul ball, you say give it to the kid. but when a kid catches it and gives it to a younger kid, that'll melt your heart. aw. >> how great is that? >> i'm not crying, you're crying. >> and he shakes his hand. look at that. >> when you sour on humanity even for a moment, please, think of that. >> so your dad catches the ball. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: we caught up with 10-year-old travis blackwell and 7-year-old michael ogden at the park. >> i said, can i give this ball to that kid down there because it's his birthday today? back a couple years ago i went
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to a lansing lugnuts game and an adult gave me a ball and it just made my day. so i wanted to make his day, just be a blessing to him. >> i was kind of bummed, and then i saw him catch a ball and then he just came down and gave it to me. i think it was awesome. >> reporter: and so was this moment today. >> and the ball came over the net, and the guy gave it to me, and then this little girl was sitting behind us, and i gave the ball to her and it was her first baseball she's ever had. >> you got a ball a couple of years ago from a complete stranger. last night you gave a ball to a complete stranger. and then today you gave a ball to a complete stranger. >> line of awesomeness. >> reporter: yeah. the line of awesomeness. we should all get in that line to pay it forward. >> i feel accomplished. >> reporter: vladimir duthiers, cbs news, detroit. that is the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for
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the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city i'm jeff glor. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm jericka duncan. president trump made good on his threat to retaliate against his critics and the national security establishment by revoking their security clearances. the first, former cia director john brennan, who once called the president's conduct treasonous. major garrett reports. >> reporter: at the white house briefing today press secretary sarah sanders read a statement from the president. >> "i've decided to revoke the security clearance of john brennan, former director of the central intelligence agency. mr. brennan's line and recent conduct characterized by
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increasingly frenzied commentary is wholly inconsistent with access to the nation's most closely held secrets and facilities." >> reporter: brennan reacted shortly afterward on msnbc. >> i do believe that mr. trump decided to take this action, as he's done with others, to try to intimidate and suppress any criticism of him or his administration. and revoking my security clearances is his way of trying to get back at me. >> reporter: brennan served as cia director under president obama and was part of the team that briefed president-elect trump on russian interference in the 2016 election. >> president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> reporter: after the president's press conference with russian president vladimir putin last month brennan tweeted "it was nothing short of treasonous." this was brennan last night. >> i think donald trump has badly sullied the reputation of the office of the presidency.
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>> reporter: in an interview with jeff glor in mid july mr. trump maor brnan clear. like brennan. i think he's a total lowlife. >> reporter: former government officials often retain security clearances so they can advise their successors. sanders said the administration was reviewing the clearances of several other former obama administration officials and bruce ohr, a justice department attorney who was in contact with a former british spy claiming to have dirt on mr. trump. when the white house first released the president's statement, it carried the date of july 26th. strong evidence this decision had long since been made. white house aides then released a different statement that was identical in every respect except for adding today's date. turkey has raised its tariffs on a list of american products including cars, coal, and booze. it's the latest in a tit for tat trade war thatarfnastor arkcono
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brink. holly williams is there. >> reporter: this is an economic war according to turkey, and the enemy is america, its turkish l falling in value for months, but last week it plummeted 20% because of a dispute with washington over this man, andrew brunson, an evangelical pastor from north carolina who's lived in turkey for more than 20 years. and is accused by the turkish government of terrorism and spying. pastor brunson has been detained here in turkey for nearly two years. the u.s. says it's seen no credible evidence against him. >> i have a message on behalf of the president of the united states of america. release pastor andrew brunson now or be prepared to face the consequences. >> reporter: those consequences are u.s. sanctions and a doubling of tariffs on turkish steel and aluminum announced by
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president trump on friday. in retaliation turkey's doubled tariffs on u.s. passenger cars, coal and other goods and announced a boycott of u.s. electronic goods. these angry turks tore up fake dollar bills in protest. many people here believe this crisis is all the fault of the u.s., even though experts have been warning of danger signs for months, some blaming turkey's authoritarian president recep tayyip erdogan. a defiant president erdogan said, "they have their dollars. we have our god" last week. but though the turkish lira rallied somewhat today, the markets do not share his faith in the turkish economy. the finger pointing has begun in italy over who's to blame for a deadly bridge collapse in genoa. more than three dozen people died, and many more were hurt when the half-century-old bridge
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crumbled in a thunderstorm. charlie d'agata has more. >> reporter: valentina galbusera knows how very close she came to plunging over that bridge. >> i would have died. >> you would have died. >> yeah. >> reporter: the mother of two said the bridge started shaking violently. then the giant a-frame tower in front of her collapsed like flour. >> the column fall down like a flour. >> like flour. >> like a flour. and was like also the twin towers. >> dust. >> yes. >> reporter: she abandoned her car and ran for her life. british tourists nicola and louisa henton mitchell were a bit further back. >> people started shouting, waving their arms to reverse. >> we couldn't go anywhere. and the car in front hit the front of our car. and people were running, screaming in italian, run. >> reporter: today new fears that more of the 3,900-foot bridge might plummet prompted authorities toevth hundreds more residents. and new photos have emerged
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appearing to show just how badly the bridge had deteriorated before collapsing. when gal busera got home last night she hugged her two young daughters like she had never done before. as the rescue mission enters its second night the fire chief in charge told us today there is still reason to hope those huge concrete slabs afford more air space in flattened buildings. students returned to class at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. that's the scene of february's mass shooting that left 17 people dead. some kids said they were still nervous about entering the building despite nearly 7 million nasdaq new security gear. adriana diaz reports. >> bye, mickey. >> reporter: carlos rodriguez greeted the day with both excitement and dread. >> this is my first time driving myself to school. kind of excited because it's my senior year. and it's also six months and one day after the anniversary of
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what happened at my school. as the day gets closer, i've become more nervous. there's a helicopter. that's a trigger for some of my friends. >> there's a code red going on. >> reporter: it reminds them of february's rampage. rodriguez recorded himself hiding that day with his friend, then junior alec lisarraga. >> this year it's like a different feeling. i really don't want to go back. >> reporter: why not? >> it's -- i just don't want to be there anymore. >> in the back of my mind there's still the thought of a shooter coming into campus. >> reporter: but officials say the school is now safer than ever. there are more cameras, 18 security staff, and doors that lock automatically. parklands th heart tsmovent. >> reporteenior jaclyn corinne pushed for gun reform this summer with her classmates and teens touched by urban gun
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." is your child's cereal poisoned? well, a new report found some of the top-selling breakfast foods contain a weed-killing chemical that some authorities link to cancer. it's called glifosad sxechlt trace amounts show up in oats, granola and snack bars. in fact, 31 out of 35 products tested had levels higher than what some scientists consider safe for children. anna werner has the details. >> reporter: glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the country but some scientists, doctors, and activists want it kept out of your food due to
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kern concerns that it might cause cancer. now one environmental group finds it may have made its way to your breakfast table. >> we're very concerned that consumers are eating more glyphosate than they know. >> reporter: scott saber has been working to improve food safety standards for more than a decade. he says the team at the non-profit environmental working group, or ewg, had a lab test 45 samples of products made with conventionally grown oats and found glyphosate, the active ingredient in the monsanto weed killer roundup in all but two. >> it was a shock. >> reporter: dr. jennifer lowry heads the council on 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: ewg used its own more stringent standards to conclude that products with excessive levels of the herbicide included quaker old-fashioned oats, cheerios, quaker dinosaur egg, instant
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oats, great value instant oats, and back to nature classic granola clusters. glyphosate was even found in a few organic products though most had non-detectible levels. the world health organization says glyphosate is a carcinogen. the state of california lists it as a chemical known to the state to cause cancer. monsanto disputes, that saying in a statement "glyphosate does not cause cancer and has more than a 40-year history of safe use." and monsanto criticized ewg's research saying 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 residue. >> did monsanto fail to adequately warn of the potential risks? answer yes. >> reporter: but last week a jury in california ordered monsanto to pay one man $289 million in damages after he claimed the company's glyphosate
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weed killers caused his cancer. and ewg's favor is skeptical of the epa's glyphosate limits. >> we don't think it does enough to protect children. >> it is time now for them to step up and do their jobs to ban glyphosate -- >> reporter: this woman heads mothers across america. her family switched to an organic only diet after her three sons developed allergies and other health problems. >> we want to trust that what is in the grocery store is safe. and the shocking reality is that in many cases it's not. >> we reached out to the makers of those products. in a statement quaker said, "we proudly stand by the safety and quality of our quaker 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 safe for human consumption." and general mills told us, "our products are safe and without question they meet regulatory
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safety levels. the epa has researched this issue and has set rules that we follow." chesapeake bay is known as the soft shell crab capital of the world. and if you want a good crab meal you might want to take a boat out to tan jere island. people there have been making a living off the water for more than 200 years. but now that way of life is being threatened. a new book shows how tangier island may become one of america's first casualties of climate change. chip reid explains. >> reporter: on a clear day a peaceful boat ride to the middle of the chesapeake bay will bring you to tangier island, the idyllic home to about 450 people, all facing a dire threat. their island is slowly disappearing due to sea level change and shoreline erosion. what inspired to you write a book about this island? >> well, you've got a remote community that's a working theocracy in many ways that's
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facing the end times. trying to grapple with them. >> reporter: author earl swift first set foot here as a reporter nearly two decades ago. he recently returned and spent 14 months documenting a vanishing community and way of life. >> this is a place in crisis, and it is merely the first of hundreds if not thousands of american towns that will be in similar crisis over the next 20 to 30 years. it's a question as to whether it's already too late for some parts of the country. if it is, tangier will be the first place to go. >> reporter: since 1850 this island has lost 2/3 of its land mass. some marine scientists believe water levels will rise about two more feet by the year 2050. tangier rarely tops three feet above the tides. >> is it too late for tangier? >> no. not without heroic intervention. but it would have to be truly heroic. >> heroic. on the part of the federal government. >> i don't imagine anyone else could come up with the money that it would take to do it.
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>> reporter: the u.s. army corps of engineers plans to build a $3 million jetty that would ease erosion next year. the corps wants approval by congress and the trump administration for a large-scale study to examine how to protect tangier. solutions could be a sea wall around the island, break waters, or relocation of residents to another part of the island or the mainland. the pricetag could be hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. >> it is so beautiful from right here. can you imagine this ever not existing? >> no. no. i can't. we've been here for hundreds of years, and i want to be here for hundreds more. i don't even want to visit the thought that this will all be gone one day. >> reporter: james eskridge, known as uker, is tangier's mayor. he's also one of many here who make their living off the water in this soft shell crab capital of the world. >> so these guys are not going to bite me.
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>> no. no. >> that is a soft crab. >> yeah. >> is this ready for eating? >> yeah. >> reporter: uker admits his island is disappearing. but he blames wave erosion, not climate change. and i don't think man has that power, to affect the climate like that, like they say. in talking with a lot of people, it's amazing to me that when people hear about tangier disappearing they automatically think of sea level rise. they cannot grasp the concept of erosion. >> can you envision a day or do you try to not envision a day when people would have to start evacuating this island? >> i don't think about that. i don't go there. i know a lot of folks say why don't you just move to the mainland and start over? but you know, that's foolish talk. i mean, to leave your home and your business. >> reporter: most people here are strong supporters of president trump. uker spoke to the president by
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phone last year and says he wants him to build that wall. around the island. >> he said america first. i mean, that's just common sense. he's the president of the united states. it should be america first. i'm the mayor of tangier island. it's tangier first with me. >> reporter: for author earl swift tangier island is a harbinger of what's to come. >> this is the canary in the coalmine. we've got 80,000 miles of shoreline in the united states, and a lot of it is going to be experiencing the effects of sea level rise. nowhere near as soon as tangier is seeing it. but yeah, this is coming down the road for an awful lot of the east coast an awful lot of the gulf coast. >> and areas with much larger populations than this. >> new york city among them. miami, norfolk. yeah. >> so one of the questions we have to ask ourselves as a country is is head count the only metric you use to decide whether to save a place? we have to decide what's important to us. and that's going to be really ugly.
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so your family is like rich? >> we're comfortable. >> that is exactly what a super rich person would say. >> a new film that opened in theaters last night is aimed at breaking stereotypes. it's called "crazy rich asians."
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it's got an all-asian cast and an asian director who sat down for a chat withlee callen. >> these people aren't just rich. they're crazy rich. >> reporter: in a perfect world we wouldn't be talking about the ethnicity of the cast in "crazy rich asians." we'd be talking about whether they gave a good performance. overall most kritaches gree they do. >> we've been dating for over a year and i think it's time people met my beautiful girlfriend. >> reporter: but it's the oddity of an all asian cast that's still drawing headlines. and for drerirector john m. chu that's just fine for now. >> i hope that in ten years we look back at this moment and we forget about it, we're like that was a thing, an all asian cast was a thing? >> reporter: it is a thing. given that this is the first studio film since "the joy luck club" way back in 1993 to feature an asian-american ensemble. >> three, two, one, action. >> reporter: when chu, a veteran of hollywood, set out to bring kevin kwan's popular novel to
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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. >> 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. >> i think of myself as an artist, i wanted to know if i was an artist. 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.
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>> 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. >> wakanda forever! >> 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." it's an amazing piece of work that has changed the landscape. we're on the beginning of a journey, and i think this cracks the door. >> you'd be happy if it just cracks? >> 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'm falling in love with you all over again. >> reporter: and what you see is a romantic comedy about a boy and a girl and the complexity of family that could be almost
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anyone almost anywhere. and that's the point. lee callen, hollywood. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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in washington the only people with a worse reputation than politicians are probably lobbyists. well, steve hartman has the story of one lobbyist who's working very hard to change that perception. >> reporter: 31-year-old kayla mccuen may be washington's most unlikely power broker. as a lobbyist, the first registered lobbyist with down syndrome. kayla roams the capitol, advocating for the national down
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syndrome society. >> she's an incredible asset to this organization. >> reporter: sarah hart weir is her boss. >> she's extremely articulate and she's quick on her feet. >> and i'm not going to take no for an answer. >> they hired you for your communication skills. >> that too. >> and your charm. >> you're good at this. >> reporter: it takes a schmoozer to know a schmoozer. but kayla also has a certain sincerity that can turn almost any politician into putty. >> i need your help. >> okay. you need a sponsor? >> i definitely need you. >> am i surprised that she's in washington, d.c. calling on senators and congressmen? yeah. >> reporter: her parents mark and patty say although their daughter continues to surprise kayla never really let down syndrome slow her down. they say even at 2 kayla had already decided she would drive a car someday. >> to pass the permit test we said you have to be able to read. so that gave her encouragement to knuckle down and start reading. right now she still reads a book a week. >> reporter: and she got her driver's license too. that's kayla celebrating after
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passing the road test. she's now one of just a handful of people with down syndrome to have a license. >> what about that parallel parking? >> you don't want to know. >> really? >> that's challenging. >> reporter: fortunately, today she does more flying than driving. a couple times a month she leaves her home in syracuse for her office in d.c., where kayla is focused on passing a law that would make it illegal to pay people with disabilities anything less than minimum wage. >> i got it. >> reporter: she says if it passes it would be a monumental achievement. but a thrill regardless. just to be part of the process. >> i just love the feeling of w? >> hard to believe? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: kayla mccuen. lily in the swamp. steve hartman on the road in washington. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us later for the morning news and
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of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city i'm jericka duncan. captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, august 16th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." president trump strips the white house security clearance from former cia director john brennan. critics call it an abuse of power. breaking overnight, there's been an arrest in the case of a missing pregnant mom and her two young daughters. and the lights are back on off a blackout at one of the
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