school. >> my he a good day, avery. >> enjoy. my kids have been in since last week. it's all right. everyone have a good day. good morning to our viewers in the west. it's monday, august 20th, 2018. welcome to "cbs this morning." pope francis breaks his silence on the pennsylvania grand jury report on abuse. the call for action for all catholics. shots are fired at the u.s. embassy in turkey overnight, adding more stress to a showdown between the two countries. we're in istanbul. only on cbs this morning, we talk to the cancer patient who l he wants ton others about the agricultural giant's weed killer. plus, how "crazy rich

asbe one box office hit. and what do you do with a bridge you don't need any more? we're at the shore in new york's fire island where parts of the iconic tappan zee bridge are now an underwater home for fish. but we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. >> president trump fuming on twitter over a new report about the white house counsel's cooperation with the russia investigation. >> the white house lashes out at the russia probe. >> when you tell me he should testify because he's going to tell truth. he didn't have a conversation about -- >> truth is truth. i don't mean to -- >> truth isn't truth. >> pope francis has issued a letter to catholics around the world condemning sexual abuse and cover-ups and demanding accountability. outside the u.s. embassy in turkey, several gunshots fired from a vehicle. the shooting amid increasing tensions between the two countries. >> john brennan considering legal action against president

trump after the president revoked his security clearance. >> i am going to do whatever i can personally to try to prevent these abuses in the future. >> dozens of elderly south koreans are in north kor reunions with family members they have not seen in decades. >> indy car driver robert wiccans is hospitalized after a frightening crash at pocono raceway. >> all that -- >> a father and son narrowly escape a fire. >> the car's heating up. >> and all that matters. >> a nun in chicago showed off a little flair before throwing out the opening pitch. the fastball right over the plate. >> the how abopitch. >> how about that? >> are you kidding? >> drops the putter. you can see the emotion flooding out of him. >> snedecker wins, his kids rush out to celebrate with daddy.

>> give dad a big hug. >> there's nothing better than this. sharing this moment with his family. welcome to "cbs this morning." gayle king is enjoying some time off so bianna golodryga is with us. >> i'm happy to be back. >> vacation becomes you. >> thanks very much. a lot of news this morning to kick this off. some things happened just this morning. pope francis is condemning sex abuse by priests this morning in his first extended response to a grand jury report accusing hundreds of roman catholic clergy in pennsylvania. >> in a letter to catholics around the world, the pope wrote, the heart wrenching pain of these victims was long ignored, kept quiet or silent. even though this can be said that most of these cases belonged to the past, we did not act in a timely manner, realizing the magnitude and gravity of the damage done to so

many lives. no effort must be spared to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening but also to prevent the possibility of there being covered up and perpetuated. francis also focused on the youngest victims, writing, we showed no care for the little ones. and we abandoned them. >> the pope's letter came after a cardinal accused by some of covering up abuses in pittsburgh pulled out of a high-profile conference. cardinal wuerl, the archbishop of washington, was scheduled to speak this week in ireland before a visit by pope francis. he faces calls for his resignation after that sweeping grand jury report detailing pennsylvania.tionx abuse by pr jan crawford is at the cathedral in washington. jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. cardinal wuerl didn't preside over sunday mass here and his spokesman tells cbs this morning that he canceled the speech

where the pope was going to appear because he didn't wabnt o be a distraction. >> he was part of a conspiracy to cover up a child porn ring run by priests in pittsburgh. you can't read this without vomiting. if you're a catholic who believes in the church. >> reporter: prominent catholics continue to condemn cardinal wuerl. he's the highest ranking church official implicated in last week's report into predatory prie priests. but has given no indication about stepping down. >> the pain and the suffering is something that we need to accept responsibility for in helping survivors. >> reporter: he strongly defended 18-year tenured bishop in pittsburgh last week. >> if there were allegations, we dealt with them. >> reporter: pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro who led the two-year investigation, said wuerl wasn't being truthful. >> the church's own documents simply do not back up what the

cardinal had to say to you. >> reporter: on sunday, parishioners said the church needed a shake-up. >> we got to pull our weeds and purify ourselves just as jesus tells us to. >> he needs to address it somehow and not try to sweep it under the table. >> reporter: pittsburgh's current bishop david zubik wants a top wuerl lieutenant, also defended himself sunday. >> i can honestly say we followed every single step we needed to follow to be responsible. the church of pittsburgh today is not the church described in the grand jury report. >> reporter: now, the scandal obviously has had a nationwide impact. dallas' bishop suspended a pastor and asked police to investigate what he called credible claims that this pastor had sexually molested three teens more than a decade ago. the bishop of fort wayne, indiana, said he would release the names of priests accused in his diocese, norah. >> all right, jan, thank you. it is significant to hear the pope speak out about this, in

what is really quite a lengthy letter. >> that's right, and priests are speaking from the pulpit at mass on sunday and will have to keep speaking about this. this is a long-term problem for all of us catholics. >> yes, the yes is what more, forgiveness, what steps the church is going to take to prevent the abuse. >> who else may need to step down. >> the american embassy in turkey was shot at overnight at a time when tensions are rising between turkey and the u.s. local police are looking for suspects who opened fire. the embassy was closed at the time of the attack. a spokesman for turkey's president says the gunman wanted to create chaos. holly williams is in istanbul following the investigation. holly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the authorities in ankara say six rounds were fired at the u.s. embassy at 5:30 this morning local time from a white vehicle. this is certainly not the first time that a u.s. diplomatic mission here in turkey has come under attack. in 2013, embassy was argeted by a suicide bomber

killing a security guard. and in 2015, attackers opened fire outside the u.s. consulate here in istanbul. this attack comes as relations between the u.s. and turkey, two nato allies, are strained, perhaps even to breaking point. they are at odds over several issues including pastor andrew brunson, an evangelical pastor from north carolina, who turkey accuses of spying and terrorism. and who's been in detention here for nearly two years. in response, the u.s. imposed sanctions this month and both sides have imposed tariffs on some groups. turkey's president erdogan has called this an economic war. but we do not know if or how the shooting was connected with those tensions. john. >> holly williams in turkey, thanks. president trump insists he had no problem with his white eciaertmueller.peaking to don mcgahn reportedly sat down with mueller's investigators in

three separate interviews. the president called the probe mccarthyism at its worst. his spokesman says he's worried about mueller's motives because, quote, truth isn't truth. major garrett is at the white house. he's been talking with the trump legal team. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the president's lawyers, past and present, say they know and have known that white house counsel don mcgahn spent hours and hours with special counsel mueller and his investigators. these lawyers say they're not afraid about what mcgahn told mueller about the firing of fbi director james comey and the white house investigation and subsequent firing of national security adviser michael flynn. but mcgahn's time spent with mull mueller and his evident candor have raised fears here of a presidenti perjury trap. >> i'm not going to be rushed into having him testify so that he gets trapped into perjury. >> reporter: rudy giuliani, one of president trump's lawyers, argued sunday that mr. trump could perjure himself during an

interview with special counsel robert mueller because each side has a different definition of motive, evidence and truth. >> because it's somebody's version of the truth, not the truth. he didn't have a conversation -- >> truth is truth. i don't mean to go, like -- >> no, it isn't truth, truth isn't truth. >> reporter: the exchange about provable truth came as questions were raised about what white house counsel don mcgahn, at the center of mr. trump's most scrutinized decisions deal comey and flynn, told mueller. mcgahn gave investigators a sense of the president's thinking when he fired comey, as well as the move to oust flynn. he was also a witness to mr. trump's criticism, public and private, of attorney general jeff sessions, as well as white house debates over whether to fire mueller. current and former mem of e president's leg o topics mcga covered with mueller and are not concerned. >> mcgahns with a strong witness wr the president. reportedly surprised the t

lit and, ote,ea mr. trump was setting him up to take the blame for any possible acts of obstruction, end quote. >> we did nothing, there's no collusion. >> reporter: president trump attacked "the new york times" story, saying he, quote, allowed mcgahn to talk to mueller because he had nothing to hide. no one knows what mcgahn told mueller's investigators except those directly involved. the key issue here is his events would conflict or reinforce the recollections or memos of james comey. we know no charges have been filed and mueller has not issued a subpoena to testify, to compel president trump's testimony, something we might expect if mcgahn in those interviews had provided real evidence or some bombshells that might implicate the president, john. >> major, i want to ask you about another separate investigation that's going on by federal prosecutors in new york. and president trump's fixer or former lawyer michael cohen.

in its final stages. what do we know about the charges they're considering? >> well, they could involve bank fraud, tax fraud. they could also involve failure to report income from taxi medallions in new york. there could be some campaign finance violations filed against michael cohen. all of this about either things he undertook in terms of obtaining loans, work he did on behalf of mr. trump, business and political, and we are told those charges could come by month's end. john. >> and of course we're still waiting for a verdict in the paul manafort trial as well. well, more than 175 former intelligence officials are now backing former cia director john brennan whose security clearance was stripped last week. they wrote in a letter, we believe equally strongly that former government officials have the right to express their unclassified views on what they see as critical national security issues without fear of being punished for doing so. en "the wall street journal" it was

due to his role in the russia investigation. brennan said yesterday he's considering legal action to prevent the president from stripping anyone else of their clearance. the white house said the president is considering revoking clearances for one current justice department official and eight former government officials. >> if my clearances and my reputation, as i'm being pulled through the mud now, if that's the price we're going to pay to prevent donald trump from doing this against other people, to me, it's a small price to pay. so i am going to do whatever i can personally to try to prevent these abuses in the future. >> national security adviser john bolton said yesterday more security clearances are under review because of a, quote, unprecedented number of leaks. a manhunt in tennessee is targeting two suspects who could be linked a string of brazen murders and shootings in nash individual. three people killed in apparent robberies in the last ten days.

jaime sarrantonio and bartly teal died in the latest attack. >> reporter: nashville is such a tourist destination. this is a story tourists and locals need to hear about. we're in east nashville. it's a trendy hot spot for a lot of local people. that's the cobra. friday morning around 3:00 a.m., two people came walking out. police tell us they headed up e the street to a convenience store. as they walked back, right there on the corner, that's where two young people were shot. one of them was shot and killed on his birthday. police believe this surveillance image shows one of the alleged suspects standing next to a small black chevrolet. >> 2511 gallatin avenue. someone shot outside. >> reporter: officials suspect that two men killed 30-year-old jaime sarrantonio and 30-year-old bartly teal early friday morning. >> the two victims left, walked

to a nearby convenience market to purchase snacks. >> reporter: they walked back to the bar parking lot where they, along with another man and woman, were confronted by the alleged suggestion expects. >> mr. teal was told that it was a robbery. he reportedly said he had nothing to give. he was then fatally shot. a short time thereafter, miss sarrantonio was shot. >> reporter: according to police, the men dumped the victim's belongings in a remote alley. >> because of where these items were dumped, it is quite likely these killers have some knowledge of this north nashville area. >> reporter: police think friday's killings could be connected to a string of nashville area shootings. last week, 31-year-old kendall rice was shot and killed while he was walking to a bus stop. on august 8th, a 39-year-old woman was shot in the back while she was walking her dogs and she's now paralyzed. she's the wife of a crew member for the band one republic. >> she's in a wheelchair and going through multiple surgeries

and has a long road to recovery. >> reporter: nashville police aren't connecting these crimes yet. however, the victims have similar stories. take for example the woman walking her dog. b andhe driver came around and came back. and that's when she got shot. >> david, thanks. a lot of puzzle pieces there. a colorado man accused of murdering his family is expected to be formerly charged today. police arrested 33-year-old chris watts last week on suspicion of killing his pregnant wife and two young daughters. autopsies were completed, but officials have not revealed a cause of death or motive. omar villafranca is outside the wells county courthouse in greely, colorado. omar, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. chris watts is in jail, but former murder charges are expected to be fileded into court. shanann watts, his wife, was pregnant and was supposed to have a gender reveal party this past weekend but now her family is planning her funeral.

>> hey, guys, i'm here with my little munchkin. hi. >> reporter: for those who knew her and her daughters bella and celeste, the unanswered questions are almost as painful as the grief. >> the hardest part about it all is when you're closer with the family, it's the why. >> reporter: chris watts remains locked up in protective custody. accused of murdering his pregnant wife and two young daughters. >> my daddy is a hero. ♪ he helps me grow up strong >> reporter: the girl's bodies were found on a property where their father worked, submerged for days in storage tanks filled with crude oil. court documents filed by watts' attorney suggest the girls may have been strangled. the defense asked the judge to take a dna swab of the necks on the remains of the two children. the judge granted that motion, but denied a request for a defense expert to collect their own dna samples from the hands and nails of the mother and children. >> he's the best thing that has ever happened to me.

>> reporter: shanann first met her husband after a mutual friend connected them on facebook. court documents showed the couple recently struggled with debt, filing for bankruptcy in 2015. over the weekend, shanann's brother took to facebook, writing, i've never been so mad, sad, enraged, hurt, heart broken, lost, and shocked in all my life. the family's friend and neighbors are also still trying to come to grips with the tragedy. >> everyone asking that same question, omar, thank you. dramatic video from a father and son fleeing a montana wildfire shows how close they came to disaster. ahead, how they say their escape was like driving into hell.

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she honored former assault survivors of dr. nassar. she has won five times. a man who won a landmark lawsuit against the agriculture giant monsanto is speaking out for the first time only on "cbs this morning." monsanto was ordered to pay $28 johnson. theirlyphos i responsible for giving him cancer. nora is here. nora? >> he's the man who went up against monsanto and won. but dewayne johnson, who goes by lee, says his lawsuit started to warn others about the potential dangers of chemicals, a

glyphosate weed killers he said >> to put it bluntly, you're dying. >> yes. >> but you say it's not about you. >> no. dying is something everybody has to do, right? so if you know you're dying, it gives you that extra push. it's like, okay, you can't just die for nothing. you know i am an -- >> lee's experience began when he took a job as a pesticide agent at a school in 1995. the chemicals made by monsanto he was using, which they told him they were safe. >> they told me they were safe enough to drink. >> safe enough to drink? that's what he said? >> it became a joke almost, it was like, hey, man, did you drink your -- i was like, what? >> he always wore his protective

gear sometimes two to five hours a day. >> you're going to get it on your skin. it was never like, i didn't even get any on me today. it was always, man, i'm glad i had this on. >> especially, he says, after a hose came loose, spraying chemicals inside his suit. it was a few months after that that he developed a rash that spread over his body. >> it never went away and got worse and worse and worse. >> doctors diagnosed him with cancer. he later called monsanto. >> what did you want to ask them? >> i want to ask them if someone got this on their skin, would they get rashes? would they get lymphoma? >> what did they say? >> they said someone will call you about this. it won't be me, but someone will. >> did they ever call you back? >> no. >> he was told an executive was

notified and someone would call him back. in a later deposition, an executive said he didn't recall whether he ever spoke to johnson. so a little over a year later in 2016, with his health declining, johnson sued. a little later this month in an eight-week trial and over three days of deliberations, the jury stunned the world with a $289 million verdict against monsanto, finding the company failed to warn johnson and other consumers of the cancer risks. >> what did that verdict mean to you? >> the verdict really meant to me that this thing was not done in vain. i remember standing there saying to myself, if i lose this case, this company is going to be able to get away and they'll be able stuff didn't d that.o monsanto still says its ter the rdict,tiveid w all have sympathy for mr. johnson and his

family. what they've gone through with his disease is terrible. >> but of the verdict, he said? >> it doesn't change the overwhelming scientific evidence and the 40 years of safe use of glyphosate around the world. >> what do you make of the fact that monsanto is not backing down? >> they have to not back down, is what i think. you know what i mean? it's like -- if they just come that's the end of them. >> monsanto promises to appeal. johnson may not live to see the final outcome of his lawsuit. but he says knowing the end is near has allowed him to pass on the lessons of his life to his two sons. >> i want my sons to know to go forth and always do what they're supposed to do, and never be weak, be strong all wait through. >> but you have to have pain. >> oh, yeah. but pain makes you stronger.

things like that happen. i'm still here. i was supposed to be gone a long time ago. ups and downs always come, so you deal with that accordingly and you move forward. >> monsanto continues to say that 800 scientific studies and reviews, including a conclusion from the environmental protection agency, support the fact that glyphosate does not cause cancer. but johnson hopes this verdict will lead to labeling changes for these products, so he says more people will know the potential risks and be able to choose whether they want to use those products. >> he see tt outlook, and as he says, move forward and not feel down and depressed all the time. he says he does get down, but -- >> he's got his family there. lee has a lot to be proud of. has he had time to talk to his sons because he knows death is coming very soon. a father and son's dramatic drive through a raging wildfire

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♪ more evacuations are underway as firefighters try to put out a fast-moving wildfire in montana. a video documents a man and his son's attempt to escape the flames in their car. they were in the park when the fire exploded inside. demarco morgan is following the story. incredible footage. >> reporter: what a story it is. good morning, the fire started when a lightning storm passed through glacier national park more than a week ago. just inbein belton and his fire

told the fire wasn't going to spread, but then they were racing to get out. >> i think we can drive through this -- >> what? [ bleep ]. >> reporter: surrounded by touring flames, they -- towering flames, they tried to escape. >> dad, this is insane. >> i know. we don't want to be trapped. >> reporter: you can hear the pan nick junin in -- panic in j voice. >> you can't see. just go easy. >> dad, the car is heating tuch's goitucup. it's going to explode. geez ugod, help us. -- jesus, god, help us. >> seeing the flames that big for that far was terrifying. it was unearthly. it was like driving into hell. >> reporter: he feared for his life as the dark smoke made seeing nearly impossible. a fallen tree blocked their one way out. >> good. you're doing good. [ beep ] we can't get out. once we got to the downed tree, my heart just dropped.

that's when i thought we were dead. i thought there was no way to get up through what we had come through. >> reporter: belton put the car in reverse, driving back to their lakeside campsite where they flagged down a boat. the car was destroyed in the fire. >> we were lucky. it wasn't our time to go yet. maybe a higher power has a purpose for me and my dad here. >> they are lucky to be alive. justin and his father didn't suffer injuries. the fire is still growing and has burned more than 7,800 acres of lapd. officials don't expect -- of land. officials don't expect it to be fully contained until november. >> you can hear, you're doing great, keep going. encouraging him -- >> having the father maybe helped in this scenario. >> absolutely. next, a look at this morning's headlines including how a woman survived in the ocean at night after she fell from crue ship. plus, a potential hidden danger in your car could put your children at risk of serious injury. >> our children are hurt

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him. a argento is one of the women accusing harvey weinstein of sexual assault. she arranged to pay jimmy bennett $380,000. the payment was made after he filed notice of intent to sue. accusing her of trying to sexual assault him in a hotel years ago. he said he was only two months past his 17th birthday. the age of consent in california is 18. she was 37 at the time. argento claimed weinstein raped her when she was 21. we reached out for comment but have not heard back. bennett declined to comment. "the fresno bee" reports the deadly ferguson fire is fully contained and cost more than $100 million to fight. the fire burned near 97,000 acres across the sierra national forest and into yosemite. two firefighters were killed and 19 were injured. the fire started july bbc

report on the monsoons. the official death toll is 191, but the number is expected to rise. hundreds of soldiers were deployed to rescue people trapped by the floodwaters. about 200,000 people have been left homeless and are taking shelter in relief camps. and britain's "guardian" reports a woman was rescued after falli ining off a cruise to the adriatic sea. it happened 60 miles off croatia's coast shortly before midnight. a ship found her swimming yesterday morning not far from where she was believed to have fallen. photos show her climbing on board the ip. she's also seen with her rescuers. >> i was in the water for ten yours. these>>ay. i am very lucky to be alive -- >> she reportedly said she sang to fight the overnight cold in

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good morning. we have a traffic alert for drivers trying to cross the san mateo bridge in the westbound direction. we are in the red, over an hour for drivers heading that direction. this is due to one lane being blocked at the high-rise, looks like a car broke down there. no accidents but definitely seeing those delays, at least an hour to cross that bridge. emily? your highs today will be cooler than yesterday with a little bit of a foggy start. that will start to clear out by the afternoon. 87 in fairfield, 80 san josi and santa rosa 59, mix of 60s and 70s around the bay. temperatures are bottoming out tomorrow before they start to rebound for the backside of the week. foggy and cloudy in the morning before it retreats to the coast, sunny and beautiful inland with fog around the bay.

welcome back to cbs this morning. a new lawsuit from -- plus children don't play as much as they used to. why pediatricians are being asked to prescribe more play time. but here's today's eye opener. the scandal has had a nationwide impact. dallas's bishop suspended a pastor and asked police to investigate. the authorities say six shots were fired. this is not the first time that a u.s. diplomatic facility has

become under attack. it's not clear what president trump told mueller about the firing of james comey and consistent firing of michael flynn. >> as they walked back on to the property where the candles and the flouer e flowers are, that' two teenagers were shot and killed. >> she was supposed to have a gender reveal party this weekend, but now her family is planning her funeral. the mets took on the phillies in this little league classic. >> these people built their own scaffolding to sit on during the avee. rican ie's another empty seat. ingenuity and the american pass time.

home know, build your own. they made themselves at home. >> i'm john dickerson with norah t'donnell and gayle is off. for the first time a report on sex abuse by priests in pennsylvania has rocked the church toholic church. in a letter to 1 billion catholics the pope asked for forgiveness but no effort to apologize or make amends would do enough. >> he said we have realized that these wounds never disappear . d we did not act in a timely manner realizing the magnitude and gravity of the impacted on real lives. ommunitithe active participation he wro the church members, everything being done to up root the evil can be done. s notn other news, president trump says he's not worried lawyer tat the chief white house

lawyer told special counsel robert mueller in a series of dr. interviews. don mcgahn spoke with investigators three times. the president tweeted mueller spent over 30 hours with the white house counsel only with my transpar for purposes of transparency. major garrett is at the white house about what could be a of major investigation. >> reporter: lots of investigation from the president rn twitter also saying that ing tt mueller is disgraced and "ys he has a team of, quote, angry democrat thugs trying to impact the midterm election with their investigation. even but the president says he's very calm about what don mcgahn the tlyte house counsel told their presidenators. mcgahn could shed light on exactly what the president's thinking was, what he said and how he handled high profile fecisions scrutinized by mueller's team. he fired james comey--the

n whatent-they don't know exactly what muelll mcgahn told presides investigators. it could cause legal complications for the president e's notone on his team. the president has said over and comparist he's not concerned about all this and he's deflected comparisons with his own counsel and john dean. he president has called dean a ndt, says he has nothing to hide. an,y provided mcgahn to mueller ho the name of transparency. mcgahn is not the president's pe context. attorney, he works for she white house so that should cause trump some concern. re> south koreans travel to the

north to reunite with their famili families. any are in their 80s and 90s. h's nucre on hold due to increased tensions due to the north's nuclear program. more than 50 women are going larry rt against disgraced former usa athletic doctor. at least 512 new cases have been omled. but they may throw out any rmplaints filed after september trans federal prison records show that transf prison was recently sent to a detention center in oklahoma. worshippers remembered singer aretha franklin for her , ice and for heroc activism. he lle packed into her baptist

church yesterday. reverend jesse jackson told stories about how she donated all of her money from a concert tour to dr. king. a two-day public viewing for ranklin will take place next week, a private funeral will be eld next friday. a rear end collision left ahea young two siblings with serious injuries. nd why a jury ruled against toyota in a

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jurors in texas are sending a powerful message to automakers about dangers cbs news has reported on for years. it ruled the toyota failed to warn consumers that front seats can collapse back was and propel people into the seat back. $242 million stems from a 2016 crash where two young children per seat. >> our children are hurt forever. but we just -- we can't imagine this happening to any other families. >> reporter: ben and christy rivas were stopped in traffic in a dallas area expressway on the way home from church in september of 2016, their two kids, 3-year-old owen and 5-year-old emily in the back in their car seats. as this crash test simulated the collision and used during the trial shows the front seats

collapsed sending ben and christy headfirst into their own children, both kids suffered lasting traumatic brain injuries. >> traumatic brain injuries is devastating. we have no idea what's coming. >> reporter: toyota says it accepts the $242 million verdict but says it's confident that the injuries sustained were in the result of factors specific to this very collision and not a defect in manufacturing. >> do you understand that the only way you're going to get any movement here was to get toyota's attention and other car makers. toyota testified inhis g th 20hereeathowed the jury awarded the rivera family for an accident that left their son with brain damage. >> i regret that we weren't able

to make that decision for ourselves. i wish i would have seen that piece six months before our accident happened because i would have started asking questions about my own car. >> seats in cars meet or exceed federal standards for seat strength that date back to 1967, standards even a banquet chair can pass. still, automakers have known about front seat collapses for decades. >> it's time to step up, step forward, make a decision, this is igatioal members havealled on toyota eaeatathe kids tells us it is still considering its next step in this case, we were not able to reach nhtsa over the weekend.

>> thanks for keeping us up to date on that, thank you. there is much more funews ahead, up ahead, playing may be the most important medicine for kids development. we'll explain what kind of playing too. and the romantic comedy "crazy rich asians" exceeded box office expectations. how the film is being celebrated as a turning point in hollywood. and a decades old iconic bridge now has a new role, helping marine life. it you're watching cbs this morning.

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new guidance overnight calls on pediatricians to write a ip for play and for parents to help fill that order. the clinical report from the american academy of pediatrics says play is not frivolous, it's brain building. it cites the benefits of unstructured play on brain structure and functioning and its role in building language and math skills and executive functioning and physical and social development, it's all there. our dr. tara narula is here. good morning. i love this study. i read in it, too, they think play has declined by about 25% in the last few decades. so explain how it contributes to this healthy development for children. >> maria montessorie who you know said play is the work of children. and this is really important in telling us, look, play is not a waste of time. it's extremely valuable in ngealthy adulto' pro-social and adaptive. how does it do that? as you mentioned it changes

brain structure and function at a molecular, cellular level, and behavioral level. it teaches resilience. it mitigates stress. allows children to learn risk taking. it nurtures safe and stable relationships with caregivers and does teach cognitive skills, language skills, social/emotional skills, and one of the things the report says is 21st century skills, what does that mean? it means creating adults who know how to problem solve, how to be innovative, creative, all the adults that we want to work with when we are older. >> yeah. you say because i am a fan of montessorie schools, my kids go. what kind of play are we talking about? >> so, the play that they mentioned, the way they define it is essentially play that's self-motivat self-motivated, but where the kids are actively engaged and where there's joyful discovery. it tends to be fun, spontaneous, with no real goals. they say play starts at the earliest ages at birth. that's where you're interacting with your baby. they smile, you smile back. this teaches nonverbal skills, and it goes all the way up through their teen years. and essentially pediatricians

should give a prescription for play at every well visit until the age of 2. and play can be play with objects it can be outdoor play, physical rough-and-tumble play, and social, dramatic make-believe play. you don't need expensive toys or devices. you can use wooden spoons at home, boxes, there's so many cheap and simple things that can become play for kids in your there's so many cheap and simple things that can become play for kids enyour house. >> if your child is getting a pot and a pan and just banging it, let them play. >> let them do it. the more you're hands off, really don't give them instructions and allow them to thal guided interaction with the parent and scaffolding, you let them play and give them clues. >> and let them be board. they have to be board to solve it with the creativity that builds these pathways. >> that's right. you don't need to fill in the spaces every time. let them explore, innovate. >> there's a role with parents

in this, do away with this. >> bang on pots. >> i like the prescription. i want one for adults, too. >> i know. no. unfortunately we lose that as we get older. >> we need more. thank you. up next, the nun who might have found her second calling. john's favorite story of the morning. her second calling on the baseball diamond. plus the new book on how polling works. our resident polling expert h e here, what the numbers say about polling.

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good morning, 8:27. we have a traffi s trying to get across the san mateo bridge. one lane is blocked at the high- rise, and that's about a 45 minute ride there. they have just cleared that lane and travel times are coming down, but it's a slow go meantime if you're heading out of hayward. use the dunbarton bridge, but that will add time to your trip as well.

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news anchor gretchen carlson denies she silenced and bullied the current miss america. in a letter sent friday to miss america cara mund. "our chair and ceo have systematically silenced me, reduced me, essentially erased me. carlson said she was surprised and saddened by accusations. she said she never silenced mund. she said it dilutes the experience for the next woman selected to wear the crown. >> "the washington post" selects two few firebombers as the incident commanders requested air support but there were not enough planes. the number of federal air tankers decreased since 2000. helicopters also done. usair service enable to fill more than 50% o year. "wall street journal" says

fewer americans are uprooting themselves for a new job. u.s. data shows 3.5 million people reequity loed for a new job last year. that's down from 3.8 million in 2015. 4 million people moved nor new jobs in 1999. experts cite a number of factors including changing family ties and openings near home -- more openings near home. uproot their lives for work. >> the "times" of london report the pub, usain bolt of pugs claimed the victory in international race. the dog won the race in just under 6 seconds saturday. she raced against dozens of mere mortal pugs in berlin. owners usedre and toys and "who's a good boy" to encourage tht but almost as fast. >> the endorsement deals are

coming. a new cbs tracker poll puts democrats in a better condition than republicans to gain control in november's med term elections. but many contests are still considered toss ups. analyzing poll number is a specialty of anthony salvanto. he's out with a new book called "where did you get this number? a pollsters guide." good morning. >> thanks for having me. >> what do you make of this poll? >> well, democrats are in a stronger position than republicans and they have gotten a little stronger over the summer. our estimate now has them at 222 seats versus 218 needed for control. but there's a margin of error on that and there are plausible, d short of control and republicans hang onto it. i already see back ts

means. people saying we're winning, we're winning. one of the things i wanted to get across in the book is, hold on a second, okay, let's go past the horse race. let's look at what people are thinking and feeling. it's august. that's the dynamic. that's the interesting part. >> i feel like your book should also be in the grocery store because it's a grain of salt. it's like take these numbers but here is the important grain of salt you always need. tell us about a constituency you're looking at in the increases few months that will important. >> the women's vote stands out here in that there are some women and some moderate women and also some republican women who feel a little bit conflicted. they don't like how the president handles himself personally. they do like how he's managing the government, so they have drifted a little bit away from saying they will vote for a republican candidate, and i think that's part of it. that'sen wo of the key constituencies to watch. >> quickly, worried they will turnout, won't turnout but vote

for the other team. >> i don't see them cross over. turnout on the democrats side. many who haven't voted before tell us they were turn out now. we'll see. >> we were august together for election night 2016. it was a long night for everybody, a real nailbiter. people said that proved polls were wrong. were they? >> no. >> explain to everybody. >> no. well, first of all, you know, this is again looking past the horse race and also looking past the national polls which actually turned out to be very accurate. what you wanted to do was go a step beyond. >> because she won the popular vote by a percentage or two. >> yeah. all the signs were there. republicans at the same time, as were talking to us in the polls but saying they weren't sure if they were going to back trump. were we really shocked that they came home? they were conservatives. democrats were telling us they weren't enthusiastic. we should have understood they might not show up, and, in fact, they didn't. while it did surprise a lot of

people, if you saw the whole picture and i like to think our viewers got the story, maybe you weren't as surprised. >> people underestimated the margin of error. that's for sure. last week we spent a lot of time talking about millennials. though they are opinionated and outspoken they are not voting. what's going to change, if anything, this election cycle? >> i think that's a great question. we ask people why don't you vote when they say they are not going to. they are not always interested, they don't always see how politics connect to their lives. part of what we talk about the book, pollsters rms wrestle with this too. when somebody says they are not interested, what would make them change and becomrested. on and say likely , voters, that's our best estimate. how long have you lived in a place? do you feel a sense of community? are you tied to it? does that make you want to get involved? all those things are things,

too. >> i love how you gave a tick-tock election night. i want to revisit that whole night. it was so chaotic how everything changed. you point out here i reported after 1:00 a.m. john podesta was heading to the crowd to say things were too close to call. then gayle said, is it too close to call or not wanting to accept reality. i think that was really the moment we all realized it's probably done for her. >> you guys had some good lines that night. >> thank you for reprinting them because i had forgotten them all. >> i went back and i was watching tapes and listening from over there. >> if you learn something about how you read the polls that night and the data that was coming in, what did you learn about ways to do it better in the future? >> turnout is a big thing. that's why i want to emphasize the story for everybody this ar'sd did. predictions. when people are telling you they are uncertain, believe that. >> turning out for ando

rning out for. >> not turning out for. >> vote. go out and vote. >> there's still an argument to be had. there's still an argument to be had for self months. >> i could talk for. anthony, thank you so much. i love the book, "where did you get this number?" it goes on sale tomorrow. a bridge that once carried 140,000 vehicles a day is getting a new life. tappan zee be in new york city, demolition began last year after construction of a modern replacement. it leaves behind hundreds of thousands of tons of steel and concrete. do n don dahler olt beautiful fire island in no, showing how those materials can create an ecological habitat. good morning. >> good morning. there's a 744 acre reef two miles offshore and 60 to 70 feet of water. the state of new york is dumping man made materials on that reef. they say it's not pollution,

it's a housing project for undersea residents. along new york's iconic long island coast, not far from the shores, the state is dumping a reusable resource into its waters. >> what got you into this? >> my dad was a commercial fisherman. >> he has been navigating these waters all his life. for the last 25 years as a marine scientist he's helping protect them. >> this really isn't pollution. this is beneficial not only to the fish but the ocean as well. >> putting material from the tappan zee bridge isn't pollution, it's creating habitat that's really valued by a lot of different fish species. >> this project is the largest infrastructure project going on in the nation. >> new york governor and drew cuomo is behind the new $4 billion tappan zee bridge project, which is still under construction. lurking just behind that is what's left of the old bridge. >> is there a bridge heaven? well, there is a bridge heaven.

bridge heaven is you spend all your life above the water serving people, and then you go to bridge heaven, which is you go below the water. >> more than 11,000 tons of recycled steel and concrete will be used to expand the state's artificial reef program. 33 barges are hauling the material from the bridge's old footprint down the hudson river to the long island coastline. it's the largest renovation in new york history. additional square footage for marine life that call the reefs home. >> how is this just not a clever way of saving money by dumping this into the ocean? >> artificial reefs are used all across the country, all across the world. it promotes the fishery, it promotes the ecosystem, it promotes recreation. they become diving sites, et cetera. >> so there's nothing detrimental in the materials to the environment. >> no. the materials are all clean.

what they provide is an ecosystem underneath. >> do you think this was a good use for an old bridge? >> i do. a lot of us had thought when we first heard the bridge was going to be replaced, wouldn't it be great if this is what they did with the material. really incredibly rapidly it was mobilized. >> in addition to helping the marine life, the governor's office says the expansion of the reef will also aid local businesses. it will encourage more sports fishing, recreational diving and potentially add thousands of jobs to this area. >> what a creative idea and just in our own backyard, right? who would have thought. great story, don. thank you. hollywood happened made a movie like "crazy rich asians" for years. ahead how the film opened twice as big as expected, and why fans are counting well well well, what have we here?

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the new movie "crazy rich asians" had big expectations when it opened last week. it is even better forecast. the romantic comedy was number one at the boivin north america. they estimate it made $34 million in ticket sales since wednesday. the movie's all asian cast and

director could be the studio's biggest payoff. how the movie is being turning for asian-american representation in hollywood. it's about time. good morning. >> it is about time. good morning. it's been a quarter century since the nearly all asianments cast starred in a hollywood fumbleh 1982's joy luck club. some say cra"crazy rich asians" doesn't do enough. >> they aren't just rich, they are crazy rich. >> "crazy rich asians" might not be the solution to all of hollywood's diversity problems but fans like david chen believe it can help. >> i ask myself what am i doing to further the cause of diversity and more representation on screen. >> chen is one of several people who have bought out showings,

even entire cinemas to get people to see the film. he was inspired by the director john chu who passed on a big bay tay with netflix to get rae crazy rich aggies in theaters. >> we had an agenda to get it to the most eyeballs. >> they have struggled with representation. the industry was recently ridiculed for casting white actors in roles seemingly intended for asian actors. >> half chinese, half hawaiian and my mother is swede of. >> after a while i think hollywood got scared. >> in tweets she described the movie's emotional impact after growing up asian americans. >> there were so many different types of asians. we were just ourselves, authentically asian. for someone who has never seen that, that meant a lot. >> while "crazy rich asians"

does sacrifice some cultural accuracy, she says the film makes up for it in the name of fun. >> hopefully more stories will be made of different experiences both in the asian-american community along with other minorities. >> earlier this summer box office experts predicted "crazy rich asians" would open up with half the estimated $34 million it's made in the first five days. the film is helping raise the success of hollywood's summer season. revenue up 12% over last summer. >> i like that. after all the really good reviews, i'm dying to see the movie. >> i'm seeing it like this. >> movies like this and black panther and "get out." >> "blackkklansman." . >> "blackkklansman" for sure. >> up more on podcast app or wherever you like to download your podcast.

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for switching to progressive? [ engine revving ] you cannot hear me at all, can you? good morning, 8:57 now. we have a traffic alert for drivers trying to cross the san mateo bridge in the westbound direction. take a look at the backup here on the hayward side. over an hour commute just to cross the span there. we still are a lane blocked at the high-rise but looks like the tow truck got there and they are working. meantime, expect delays out of the east bay to foster city. slow ride on 880 north and southbound approaching highway 92, so give yourself extra time

there. no accidents, just those delays backing up from the san mateo bridge. let's check the forecast with emily. a foggy and cloudy start this morning, but that will start to clear up. highs for the day will be not quite as warm as we have been seeing, 87 in fairfield and 80 in san josi, a mix of 60s and 70s around the bay and cooler along the coast. seven-day forecast shows temperatures bottoming out tomorrow before they rebound going into the weekend. pretty much through the rest of the week, it will be a similar weather pattern, waking up with foggy skies and clouds, and then the fog will retreat to the coast, leaving it nice and clear inland. we have patchy fog around the bay and clouds around the coast. that will be the story throughout the week with temperatures bottoming out tomorrow then climbing towards the weekend.

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