captioning funded by cbs good morning. it's september 8th, 2018. welcome to "cbs this morning: saturda saturday". norway-- narrowing the hunt, he wants the department of justice to get involved. plus, out on the trail and on the attack. former president barack obama takes the gloves all wife demonstrating for democrats.

tracking florence. forecasters raise concerns that the storm will become a major hurricane and slam into the east coast. we'll have the very latest on its path. a groundbreaking birth. two lion cubs make history after being conceived through reproductive marvel. how it could be a huge boost to saving endangered big cats around the world. and roasting starbucks. the coffee chain open its first store in italy. so what does the country that created cafe culture think of it all? but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> jeff should be investigating the author of that piece. >> the president demands an investigation into a critical op-ed. >> it's treason. >> it's not treason under the law. it's disloyalty, it's cowardly. >> we'll find this person. >> what happened to the republican party? >> president obama criticized president trump by name and at

length. >> how hard can that be saying that nazis are bad? you need to vote because our democracy depends on it. >> george papadopoulos, a former trump campaign adviser spends two weeks in prison after lying about a controversy with russian intermediaries. >> a highway in california will shut down. >> i want to share information about florence. still forecast to intensify a lot. maybe a 4 looming out there. >> newly released body camera video shows what unfolds in the deadly cincinnati bank shooting. >> all that -- >> rafael nadal forced to retire from the match, del potro advances to the final. >> that left eye is a little swollen. >> -- and all that matters -- >> paul mccartney performing a

private concert at grand central terminal. so many others watching a streaming version online. ♪ >> -- on "cbs this morning: saturday." >> the president continued to try to discredit the savage publisher of the op-ed. >> it was published by an anonymous -- >> did he say anonymous? let's look at that part again. >> anonymous -- really anonymous -- >> he pronounces anonymous the same way i spell "restaurant," very carefully, but it still comes out screwed up every time. and welcome to the weekend, everyone. i'm anthony mason along with michelle miller and dana jacobson. how about paul mccartney in grand central. can you imagine that?

>> did you get an invite? >> no. i remember when he played outside david letterman's marquee. but grand central? >> he's still got it. he's still got it. we beginning this morning with a narrowing hunt for the writer of the op-ed in "the new york times." >> the white house has a short list of who it might be. this comes after president called on attorney general jeff sessions to launch an investigation. meanwhile "the new york times" is promising to keep the writer's identity a secret. >> the newspaper released a statement reading in part, quote, the president's threats both ubds score why we must safeguard the identity of the writer of the op-ed and seven as a reminder of the importance of a free and independent press to american democracy. mola lenghi joins us from the white house with more. good morning. >> good morning. as speculation swirls about who was behind the scathing piece, more than two dozen officials

including the vice president have come out denying they wrote it. the president meanwhile has escalated his attacks on the writer and bob woodward on his critical book on the trump administration. the president calling woodward an idiot and the book a work of fiction. in south dakota friday night, president trump continued to blame what he called lousy libel laws for your the scathing allegations in bob woodward's new book, "fear: trump in the white house." >> create some libel laws when people say stuff bad about you, you can sue them, and if you're right, you win. >> earlier in an interview, mr. trump said it's only a matter of time before the white house figures out the identity of the anonymous official who claims to be part of a resistance within theed ministration. when you saw this "new york times" peerks in your gut, who's the first person that came to

your head? >> well, i could think of four or five. mostly people they either don't like or respect. the fact is that we will find this person. >> speaking to reporters aboard "air force one," president trump said he wants the department of justice to open an investigation. >> jeff should be investigating who the author of that piece is because i really believe it's national security. >> top administration officials have came out in full force denying they were behind the op-ed including united nations ambassador nikki haley who wrote one of her own, calling the writer cowardly and anti-democratic. some republican lawmakers disagreed they would go that far. >> it's not treason under the law. it's disloyalty, it's cowardly. >> house republican leader kevin mccarthy said in a letter to the editor of "the new york times" that the official should be exposed and fired.

the department of justice has declined to comment. anthony? >> mola heng hi at the white house. thank you, mola. former president barack obama criticized president trump friday at the university of illinois champlain. he urged them to call out the bigots and fearmongers. he said democracy itself is at stake. he'll be campaigning this month for illinois, and ohio and more. >> reporter: the 44th president re-entered the political fray in dramatic fashion accusing his successor of stoking racial division. >> we're supposed to stand up to discrimination, and we're sure as heck supposed to stand up clearly and unequivocally to nazi sympathizers. how hard can that be, saying

that nazis are bad. >> reporter: with control of congress at stake, president obama argued the president's party has lost its way. >> it did not start with donald trump. he is a symptom, not the cause. he's just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years. >> reporter: it was a striking turnaround for a nan who initially vowed to help president trump. and who in the mold of past presidents has largely stayed silent even as his successor slammed him. >> i inherited a mess. obama didn't do anything. >> reporter: mr. obama sought to settle some of those scores. >> let's just remember when this recovery started. >> reporter: each bringing up that new op-ed by an anonymous top trump official. >> they're not doing us a service by actively promoting 90% of the crazy stuff that's coming out of this white house and then saying, don't worry,

we're preventing the other 10%. >> reporter: the current president pretended not to notice. >> i watched it, but i fell asleep. >> reporter: this was just the first stop on what aides promise will be a fall midterm blitz with campaign stops already planned in california, ohio, and pennsylvania. democrats have a chance to take back the house this fall, and mr. obama is still consider one of their most effect tifb messengers, though the republicans warn it could fire up their voters too. for "cbs this morning: saturday," i'm nancy cordes in urbana, illinois. the trump campaign adviser who set off the russia investigation will spend two weeks in federal prison. a judge handed down the sentence to george papadopoulos on friday. papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying the fbi about his contacts with russians during the campaign. prosecutors say his false statements cost the fbi a chance

at interviewing another person of interest in the investigation. papadopoulos acknowledged he hindered the investigation. >> reporter: joining us is anna palmer. good morning. >> good morning. >> let's talk about the op-ed first, which seems to be consuming the white house. 30 officials have felt the need to come out and say, it wasn't me. how likely do you think it is, first of all, that we actually get down to who it really was? >> i think it might take some time, but i definitely anticipate at theed on the day, we're going to figure out who exactly did write this op-ed. if you look back to the administration's primary colors, there are a lot of people trying to figure out who wrote this. >> we hear a claim of quiet resistance with the op-ed. we hear about the president talking about the deep state that exists there. is this just backing up what has been said before? >> there is paranoia in the white house and this definitely feeds into that.

with that said, the president is alone. there's very few people he can trust. this op-ed, the bob woodward book feeds into that. there's very few people he can look to to say, hey, you do have my back? >> president obama made it very clear the gloves have come off now. could this like raise the stakes? >> i think the stakes have never been higher in a midterm election. the fact that you have a midterm election calling out a president and a president that's unprecedent in a very press denled time, it's something to remember. >> is it good or bad for the democrats that it's the former democrat that seems to be a star right now, that there's not anyone they're leaning on in the democratic party. >> that's the big problem. certainly former president barack obama is the standard for the party. he excites people on the basic and a lot of people have been wondering for the last six months, where are you. >> what do you make of his decision to come out now? >> i think the democrats see

this as the future of democracy. i've said it several times. this is something where they're saying, we need you, we need you to tell america what the stakes are. >> the senate confirmation hearing for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh just wrapped up. what was your takeaway? >> they were able to land a few punch, but the stars of this hearing were the future democratic party. they're really the standouts for democrats here. >> are they trying to set themselves up for white house runs? is that what it's all about? >> there's a lot of speculation that this was them seizing their moment on it. i would say for a democratic party that needs these protester, they were abe to be the new face. >> and what was their strategy? >> i think they were trying to find a way to punch him and kind ways to put some chinks in his

armor. certainly they weren't able to find the smoking gun that was going to tank his supreme court nomination. >> we heard news about george papadopoulos. we also hear paul manafort will be wage iing something. >> paul has been working on a potential plea deal. if that happens, certainly everyone is watching what he could flip on this president, what he could say about some of his adviser, but so far there's no actual details coming out what that ideal might look like. >> all right. anna palmer, thank you very much. >> thank you. tomorrow morning on "face the nation" on cbs, margaret brennan will welcome vice president mike pence. forecasters expect tropical storm florence to become a hurricane as early as tomorrow. it could strengthen into a major hurricane by next week as it heads toward bermuda and possibly the east coast. storm preparations were under

way friday in bermuda as workers took down flags and boarded up shops. a direct hit could damage homes and biddings and cause power outages. for more we turn now to meteorologist ed curran of our chicago station wbbm-tv. ed, good morning. >> well, good morning. keeping a careful eye on this storm over the next several days, florence was a hurricane, is a tropical storm now, expected tomorrow to probably make it to hurricane status once again and as we head early into next week up to about tuesday, we have winds of up to 110 miles an hour and become a major hurricane and a category 4 would be over 130 miles per hour as it approaches the east coast. now, it couldn't make a right turn and head to the north. it's too uncertain as we head this far out to know exactly where it goes.

the interesting thing, this is over very warm waters of the atlantic. tropical storm florence followed by tropical depression 9 followed by tropical storm helene, which is expected to become a hurricane tomorrow, which is just off the coast of africa. so we'll see this storm, 830 miles southeast of bermuda right now, continuing to track to the west. bears careful watching. we have flooding rains, by the way, from what's left of storm gordon, which has now moved to the north, bringing rain up there. anthony? >> a parade of storms reaching our way. ed curran of our chicago station wbbm-tv. thank you, ed. in california, a large section of interstate 5 remains closed this morning as an out-of-control wildfire burns along the california/oregon border. 45 miles of the i-5 have been closed since wednesday. the blaze has burned 31,000 acres. i-5 is a north-south artery from

canada. it's forces trucks to travel to take long detours. >> north korea is looking to capture the world's attention as it puts on what is described to be a parade of the ages as it marks its 70th anniversary. it ee looking to make another statement. ben tracy is in north korea this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. north korea has invited more than is 00 journalists from around the world and thousands of tourists for several big events it plans to put on this weekend to celebrate its founding day. this includes one of its trademark military parades throw the streets of popping yang. the big question is whether kim jong-un will show off the intercontinental ballistic missile north korea claims are capable of hitting the united states given he says he is

serious about dedenuclearizatio. since we arrived here, the north koreans have wanted to show us another side of their country, taking us to a teaching college where young women are being trained as elementary school teachers and also to a cosmetic factory. in recent months kim jong-un has told his people he wants to focus on education an growing north korea's economy. the reality, of course, is that north korea still has all of its nuclear weapons and little progress has been made of convincing them to give them up. defense secretary james mattis had arrived. for residents of the region, it mean as generation living under the shadow of violence. charlie d'agata has covered the conflict there for the past decade. he's in kabul where he spoke to some of the war's survivors.

>> reporter: reassurance from defense secretary mattis might be a hard sell during a week that has seen yet another spike in violence here as afghans mourn the death of those in kabul. this is what bloodshed does to a city. we drove to an area to the scene of an attack that shocked the world in 2016. from the outside the american university looks like a super max prison. inside the blast walls and razor wire, the campus is an oasis of calm. but it was the target of a taliban rampage that lasted ten hours killing 16 students, faculty, and priests. a student is still haunted by that night. >> i heard multiple gunshots and then an explosion occurred. it went dark and i couldn't see anything. i could not run because of the polio on my right leg. i could not run, so i was

trapped. >> reporter: a gunman's bullet tore through her good leg. he then came back and shot her in the foot. >> so i was there for almost six hours pretending to be dead. i thought i would not make it. and at that time i was missing my family. >> reporter: they were a big reason she vowed to return to school when she recovered. >> i had the support of my family, and i really wanted to come back too. >> why? >> i wadidn't want to see the campus where i was attacked and the place write was shot. i wanted to finish this die degree because this degree is very important for me. >> reporter: she did earn her degree in may with honors after an american trust tee paid for her to have medical treatment in dallas. she wants to be a human rights lawyer and practice here where she's needed most. for "cbs this morning: saturday," charlie d'agata, kabul, afghanistan.

>> that's very powerful reporting from charlie. time to show you some of this morning's headlines. bloomberg news reports federal prosecutors are pushing past the recent conviction of the president's attorney michael cohen by investigating whether anyone at the trump organization violated campaign finance laws. the u.s. attorney's office believes at least two executives approved the alleged hush money payments cohen made to a woman who claimed to have had an affair with mr. trump before he was elected president. there has been no comment from the u.s. attorney's office or the trump organization, which is managed by two of the president's sons. a very right reports a rapper has died from an overdose. he openly sang about his addiction to drugs. this is a video with his former

love interest ariana grande. he was slated to go on tour next month, promoting his new album, "swimming." mac miller was just 26 years old. >> such sad news. >> it sure is. a texas oil company has been found guilty of knowingly causing a catastrophic oil spill off the coast of santa barbara in 2015. a jury found them guilty of failing to properly maintain its 350i7 line and for failing to immediately report its spill. hundreds of birds and sea mammals were killed when an estimated 140,000 gallons of crude were poured into the ocean. "the new york times" reports jack ma is celebrating his 54th birthday monday by retiring from his ecommerce company alibaba. ma started the internet company nearly 20 years ago. it transformed the way consumers pay and shop for goods in china.

that makes one of the richest men. ma was an english teacher before venturing into business. he plans now to again focus on education. >> a little change in pay there. and "sports illustrated" reports that florida state's football team will honor the late burt reynolds during today's game against stamford. reynolds who died thursday at the age of 82 played football at florida state before starting his acting career. the tribute will come in the form of a helmet sticker that gives a nod to reynolds' most famous role. the school tweeted out this picture of the sticker. it's the license plate on the pontiac trans am reynolds drove in 1977's smokey and the bandit. >> he was like george clooney of the '70s and '80s. >> i knew someone who was his roommate in college. how did that happen? >> connection. that's how it happens. >> it's about 22 after the hour.

now here's a look at the weather for your weekend. you can't send a trash truck to the middle of the ocean, but we'll see what is being sent to the great pacific garbage patch to clean up the debris field the size of texas. and wait till you hear who came up with the idea. that's ahead. also, tesla's stock takes a hit after its founder and ceo does the same during a podcast taping. now find out why the air force is now investigating elon musk. and later, a big cat breakthrough. why the birth of these lion cubs is encouraging hope for endangered species around the world. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday."

making a pitch for a return to normal. we'll look at the recovery efforts of the nation after the september 11th attacks. without the letters a, b and o, there's no mom.

i'm an optimist, and the book is a book of optimism. it's an insight. not a policy book, but an insight into how individual citizens can bring us back from the brink. we've been through this before. we had richard nixon in 1970, '71, '72, '73, breaking the law, attacking the justice department, enemies list. we had, you know, riots in the streets of america, people being assassinated in '68 and before that. it was a rough time in our country, and citizens brought us back from that. this book, i think, is a roadmap through stories of people's lives and how the senate changed

and what happened, and i think it shows people where we can make the difference. >> but nixon ultimately resigned. i doubt that -- >> because he broke the law and because he was about to be impeached. >> well, you went to high school, st. paul's, with bob mueller who is the special counsel. i know you played sports together, you know him, you're the same age, served in vietnam at the same time. do you believe his report will be taken seriously by both republicans an democrats in congress, that they would move forward in some way in terms of office or whatever it may be? >> i believe bob mueller is an incredibly qualified capable straight-up public servant. he was a great leader of the fbi, unprecedent tenure. he ooh going to come out with whatever he comes out with that he believes represents the truth, and then it's up to the american citizen. not democrats or republicans but the american citizens to decide how they respond to that. we're lucky to have somebody as

qualified as bob mueller to take on this task.

some split-second sinking paid off for two men, wow, stuck in a truck at a railroad crossing in chester, virginia. they didn't just jump out from the tractor trailer. they ran, and obviously for good reason. how does that happen? >> that is just terrible. >> one witness striked the train as blowing through like a knife into butter. the train eventually stopped and no one was injured. >> well, that's good. >> oh, my gosh. >> that's just incredible. welcome back to "cbs this morning: saturday." we begin this half hour with an

ambitiousest to clean up the pacific ocean. it starts today. a ship in san francisco bay will start towing a device more than a thousand miles out to sea where it will begin the process of gathering a heap of ocean-bound garbage estimated to weigh 88,000 tons. >> reporter: it may look like a giant pipeline, but this 2,000-foot-long contraption will soon be cleaning up what is known as the great pacific garbage patch, made up an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of floating plastic. why not take a big ship out there and scoop all this stuff up? >> this area is twice the size of texas. if you were to skim that with boats and net, it would take around 9,000 years to clean up. >> reorter: 24 kwlrld dutch inventor boyan slat says his technology can do it must faster. he came up with the idea when he

was just 16. >> i was scuba diving in greece. i saw more plastic bags than fish, and i thought why can't we just clean this up. >> reporter: slat took us out on the water. >> reporter: coastlines are very effective ways of catching plastic. we couldn't think of any way. >> so you built one. >> so we built our own artificial coastline. >> reporter: once it's towed to the garbage patch, the collection system floats freely with ocean currents and forms a "u" shape to corral the trash. >> we expect to remove around half of this great pacific garbage patch every five years. >> reporter: ocean experts are hopeful. >> it's very much an idea worth testing, but if we clean that up and don't stop the plastics at the source, we have an even bigger problem. >> reporter: but for now, slat is focused this first full-scale test.

>> are you sure it will work? >> no. we'll see. >> reporter: carter evans,lamed great idea. coming up, starbucks has coffee shops all over the world, but it's never done business in one european nation until now. does the espresso giant have a shot at success in an originator of coffee culture? later we'll take a look. but first here's a look at the weather for your weekend.

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it's time for "morning rounds," our look at the medical new of the week. scientists may have made a major breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer. in a study published this week in the "nature partner journals," researchers from the university of southern california and yale university were able to teach a computer to better identify the nature of breast tumors. the hope is it will help doctors speed up diagnoses and open up treatment to more people worldwide. dr. david agus is with us. good morning. tell us about the hypothesis. >> it was a reflection of the biology, and the human eye is good at seeing patterns, but machine a.i. is so much better at that. they had an on switch called estrogen receptor and half department, and the computer could pick them out. right now if you're a woman with

cancer, they do a biopsy, they have to stain that. a couple of weeks later they tell you the results and the treatment. now you can skied the scan in and instantaneously know how to treat it. cost is down, time is down. you can see in the picture on the right, this is digital. this is done with a computer, identifying the cell, versus a long meolecular process to identify them. a. it. is going to diagnose how we diagnose and treat cancer. >> you call it a revolution. is that because the computers are learning or because it might up lock other treatment options? >> right now it's looking at which of the genes are on or off, which will respond to drugs. it's all there. now we can unlock it. the power we have today is staggering. that cellphone is what a super computer was a decade ago. now it's being unleashed to basically help us fight cancer, and so the tech world, silicon

valley progress, is helping us in our field treat patients better, to live longer and better. it's very exciting. >> one of the issues with breast cancer detection is the frequency of all of those false positives. so with this new technology, will it reduce that number? >> the idea is when you get a mammogram, there's something there, and they say, oh, my gosh, we've got to do a biopsy. it turns out not to be breast cancer. a lot of stress. that same concept of using machine learning, artificial intelligence on a mammogram can be done. humans are good at pattern recogniti recognition. computers are better. this is going to be an explosion in our field and on how we treat men and women with cancer. >> fantastic going forward. our next topic, we hear a lot about expanding access to health care. but that may not be enough.

a new report in "the lancet" this week looked at the impact of health care quality on mortality rates. the study covered a two-year period. and that's more than the 3.6 million people in those countries who die from not having health care access. there was also an editorial that increasing health insurance isn't enough. how do you explain all of this? >> so the first is, and i think this is really important, is why we should care. the council on foreign relations did a report two years ago showing if they're treated better, it helps our economy. and what we're seeing in this study is really important in that it's not just access to care. it's doing it right. it's not just what you do. it's how you do it. education and training at the patient and physician level are critical in all countries. we have to make sure we do the right thing to get these

diseases treated. we can delay some of the diseases in these countries, and we're not doing it well enough. >> what other solutions are possible? >> if you look at it today, that computer can also be in involved in treatment. we can say, hey, did you do "x" and "y" and "z," and we can have a check list. instead of sending a pill or vaccine, let's put in a check list to figure out how to do the right thing for the patient so they can live longer and better in these countries because in the long run, it helps us. when someone says why would it matter to me, it matters to us. >> i could not do anything without my check list. really good point. finally this morning, a plea for plain english. you may not always understand everything your doctor tells you. this week a royal medical academy in britain urged doctors to summarize in simple plain english a patient's visit to the office and the recommended treatments for their condition or illness.

for example, the guidelines say that while chronic means a long-standing condition, many patients think it just means bad. so doctors were urged not to use it. >> i totally disagree. this is going to hurt our ego like you wouldn't believe. my business is about multi-syllable words. the longer the words, the more important and smarter i look. so come on. >> look. the black sweater with the white shirt does it for me. >> a compliment every time for the ego. dr. david agus. thank you. >> thank you, all. are social media companies right for regulation? up next we'll take a close look at this week's congressional hearings, and why some say we're getting too much information from too few sources. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday." ♪ we the people, defined by the moments we share

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money of the information that reaches the american public. as we've seen, the concentration and reach of facebook, twitter, and google has left us vulnerable to foreign influence as in the case of the russians' role in the 2016 election. >> it has also raised concerns that the companies themselves have the power to restrict free speech. those issues were raised during separate congressional hearings this week. here with more on that is derek thompson, senior editor at "the atlantic." >> good morning. >> you had saying the era of the wild west on social media is coming to an end. what is your takeaway? >> i kind of want to marinate in that metaphor for just a second. in the middle of the 19th century, you have the gold rush, people moving out, shoot-outs in saloons. in cinematic history what fixed the wild west was john wayne.

it was single individual heroes. what actually fixed the wild west was people, infrastructure, technology essentially, and government. and that's exactly, exactly what's going to fix our social mia problem. good people, infrastructure, and government. good people meaning facebook has to hire people to watch what's being posted. >> actual people. >> actual people. human people, with hands and not made of this. to watch to make sure posts are not offensive or hurt others. you need enfra structure. finally you might need government to come in as well to say who can advertise, how much information people have about the information they're seeing. >> google was represented at these hearings by an empty chair. why the no-show and what are the consequences of that, do you think? >> i'm not entirely sure. my guess is, a, they didn't want to be equated with social media networks, and, b, they didn't

want the visual of being screamed at and dragged by senators. i don't agree with that decision, but that's my guess at what google was thinking. a lot of senators said this is the sort of behavior that we ought to punish. google is not gouge to be helped by not showing up. that's something i want to throttle. we should make rules based on what's best for the american public, not based on who feels what chair on what date. google should have shown up absolutely, but the rules set in place should not be predicated on who shows up when. if google is providing the government with information about how exactly they're displaying information and who's advertising, that's the most important step for making smart regulation. >> believe it or not, this whole issue entered into trevor noah's standup comedy last night in newark. i was there. and the notion of the president googling himself and finding that he didn't like what he saw,

what does that link to this whole notion of not only the critique on social media and it's bad thing and this idea of shadow banning? >> yes. first you had this concept of shadow banning, which the president has been talking about. shadow banning essentially means using the al go rhythms of sites. if i'm shadow banned, not a lot of people can see it. i'm not having a dialogue. i'm basically talking to myself. here you see it's juks opposed with the president. a lot of people accuse google of info nation mon on lis. you know who's doing that? the president. he wants to make sure no one counters him. he wants to tamp down the criticism within the white house and at the white house. what you're essentially seeing is two unstoppable forces want

the same kind of power. we shouldn't have a monopoly at all. we should have less power in the hands of any individual. >> it's interesting with twitter banning alex jones, the question of free speech and how you have that. >> and who determines that. >> and who decides that. no easy fixes, i am sure. take thompson, thank you so much. >> thank you. it's scientists roaring after the rebirth of a pair of lion cubs. up next, why these very special newborns could open up a very brand-new chapter in the effort to save endangered big cats around the world. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday." needles. essential for the cactus, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. because there are options. like an "unjection™". xeljanz xr. a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough.

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left. >> reporter: the african lion population is estimated to have decreased from 12 million in 1800 to only 18,000 this year. researchers and conservationists hope that the new technique condition help bring some of the big cat populations back on the rise. >> this is one step toward being able to apply these artificial reproductive techniques in other speci species. so this is a very important step. no one can argue away the value of what's been achieved. >> those are cute cats. >> another way of what technology can do. >> extraordinary. it's been more than 50 years since the beatles first caused a senn sausage here in new york. now one of them has done it again. still ahead, mccartney mania hits grand central terminal. for some of you, your local news is next. the rest, stick around. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday."

♪ it's been a hard day's night, and i've been working leak a dog snot. so money of what we're talking about has been technology and a.i. the big question is will a.i. help us as a race, will they help us as a society, or will a.i. lead to our downfall? >> that depends on the question of what we do with it. you can build very different societies with the same technology, just as you could use trains and electricity and radio to build communist dictatorships or fascists.

you can use technology to build paradise or hell. it's up to us. >> one of the stories leading up to this interview was about the need to retrain workers and the feared loss of jobs due to automation. what can we expect in decades to come when it comes to jobs? >> well, we can expect two things. i mean the job market will completely change, and much of the struggle that

welcome to "cbs this morning: saturday." i'm anthony mason with michelle miller and dana jacobson. coming up this hour, up in smoke. investors lose millions after tesla founder and tesla ceo elon musk uses marijuana during a taping. why it's another concern for the company. we'll take you to a special new exhibit. >> and thomas the tank engine has entertained generations of children.

now the people behind the franchise have a new train of thought. get it? we'll hear why a major makeover is in the works. that's ahead. but first our top story this hour. the trump administration's search for the writer of a critical "new york times" op-ed piece. the president says the u.s. justice department should investigate the identity of the op-ed writer. the article described the president as amoral with erratic impulses. mr. trump was asked if he has any ideas of who it might be. >> it could be four or five. the fact is we'll find this person. with less than two months to go until the midterm elections, former president barack obama is going on the attack against president trump and the republican party. in a preview of speeches he will give while campaigning for

democrats this fall, obama criticized the president for the pressure he's put on law enforcement officials such as the attorney general. he called on gop leaders for not being tough enough on russia, and he questioned the president's handling of last year's violent white national list rally in charlottesville, virginia. >> we're sure as heck supposed to stand up clearly and unequivocally to nazi sympathizers. how hard can that be, saying na zeros are bad. >> president trump said mr. obama's speech, quote, put him to sleep. tropical storm florence could cause dangerous surf and rip currents along the east coast of the u.s. this weekend. florence is expected to regain hurricane strength as it moves closer to the mainland. the governor of north carolina declared a state of emergency, but he says it's too early to tell where the storm will go. the storm may hit the island of

bermuda first and residents are getting ready. flooding and power outages are also possible. a dallas police officer could be facing manslaughter charges in a bizarre shooting that left her neighbor dead. police say the off-duty officer took the neighbor's apartment for her own. omar villafranca reports. >> reporter: around 10:00 p.m. thursday, a dallas police officer returning home from work shot and killed a neighbor inside this apartment complex, just blocks from police headquarters. >> get some crime scene tape up here on the fourth floor. >> reporter: the off-duty officer who police have not identified was still wearing her uniform when she claims she went to the wrong apartment. bothan shem jean lived in the same building was inside his

apartment. at some point she fired her weapon. investigators aren't sure what kind of interaction the two had. jean who was 26 wrus originally from the island of saint lucia. he graduated from harding university in arkansas and sang in the church choir. jeff scherzer live this the same apartment complex and says each door is equipped with its own key fob and own unique code. >> the doors are similar in color and the numbers are up sort of high, so i can see potentially the mistake happening. >> reporter: the dallas police chief says what happened is unique and she's called in the texas rangers to help investigate. for "cbs this morning: saturday," omar villafranca, dallas. tesla ceo elon muffing is the subject of a new controversy after he appeared to smoke marijuana during a podcast

interview. muffing was a guest on "the joe rogan experience" podcast on thursday. and on friday tesla's stock also took a hit, dropping by more than 6% to $263 per share. meg oliver is with us this morning. good morning. >> rogan's interview with musk was in california where recreational marijuana use is legal, but this is one of many p.r. troubles for elon musk and tesla. musk even joked the company was bankrupt in a tweet on april fools' day. it all makes you wonder if tesla could go up in smoke. >> there's tobacco and marijuana in there. that's all it is. >> reporter: smoking what podcast host joe rogan said was a marijuana and tobacco joint is just the newest controversy for elon musk, whose tesla company

is mired in a federal investigation and faces shareholder lawsuits. that's after musk tweeted he was considering taking the company private last month, a move that boosted tesla's stock prices at the time. "cbs this morning" co-anchor gayle king spoke with musk in april. >> i'm definitely under stress, so if i seem like i'm not under stress, then i'd better be clear. i'm definitely under stress. >> reporter: he said tesla was going through production hell, but he felt positive about its future. >> i'm feeling pretty optimistic about where tesla is at this point. i can have a clear understanding of the path out of hell. >> reporter: but the feeling may not be mutual. tesla lost more than $700 million in the second quarter this year, and after musk's appearance on "the joe rogan experience," tesla's stock plunged before closing at its lowest price since march 2017. dr. howard combs is a professor

at the soes state lucas college of business. he said musk's behavior could smoke out more investors. tesla also saw a string of high-profile departures this week. on friday its chief accounting officer david morton left after working there for just one month. max chafkin covers technology for "bloomberg businessweek." last month he told us muffing was becoming a distraction from the work tesla does. >> he's always been somebody who works very hard, but it really feels like he's reached some kind of breaking point. >> reporter: in an interview with "the new york times" last month, musk said, quote, this past year has been the most difficult and painful year of my career. it was excruciating. >> it's always uncomfortable when the chief operating officer says he's under stress snoopds

he family said they were worried about him. that's never a good sign. >> no, it's not. >> meg oliver. thanks, meg. grand central station was transformed into a concert hall last night. ♪ it's been a hard day's night, and i've been working like a dog it's been a hard day's night, i should be sleeping through the night ♪ >> yeah, paul mccartney, of course, sir paul mccartney, entertaining a crowd of about 300 invited guests. i wasn't on the list. that doesn't stop hundreds more from crowding the main hall of grand central station from listening. it was also streamed online as part after a promotion for his new album. >> how did you not get invited? that's criminal. >> i really wish i had.

what a great moment. >> i actually was at two paul mccartney concerts, back to back. i met him backstage. he's a regular fantastic guy, folks. just so kind. >> and what a cool memory to have of grand central terminalen stead of all the delays for your trip. >> yeah, i don't have a lovely feeling about that place. >> all right. it's about nine minutes after the hour. now here's a look at the weather for your weekend. . giving a wounded nation something to cheer about. professional sports helped america heal in the days after the 9/11 attacks. up next, wheel talk to some those who led the way.

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tuesday marks the 17th anniversary of the september 11th terror attacks. the nation vowed to never forget. the 9/11 memorial and museum on the grounds of the world trade center are a con stand reminder of that commitment. we got a firsthand look. and we talked with two new york sports legends who didn't just witness that history. they were a part of it starting the morning of september 11th. >> i heard a phone ring at 8:00 in the morning as my father goes where are you going, home. he goes, you'd better turn the tv on. so i turn the tv on and then

obviously saw the events unfold after that. >> reporter: mark messier and tiki baerker weren't just ny sports stars for the rangers and giants on september 11, 2001. >> i sat there in horror watching this unfold and being like, morgue, only if you know 50 or 60 blocks away thinking this is an attack on our city. >> reporter: they were new yorkers reeling in the aftermath of the nation's terror attacks. >> i remember thinking from a giant and jet standpoint, these are our fans. i would go literally our parking lot was a commuter lot to go into new york city. some cars never left our parking lot. >> reporter: with the country in mourning, the sports world paused to greesh. an unprecedented stoppage in pro sports as stadiums and ball pacs sat empty. at that point, where was sport for you? >> i think for me personally and

most of the people around it was the furthest thing from our mind. it was irrelevant at that point. >> how do you then know you need to get back to playing? >> you don't. you don't. and even when we did, we still didn't know until we actually played and got through it. >> we realized not that they need us, but they needed an escape from this horrible tragedy, and they we started to realize, let's get back to what we do because it will help them. >> reporter: it is that spirit on display at a temporary excision at the 9/11 memorial museum entitled "comeback season 9/11 and sports." . alice greenwald is the 9/11 memorial and museum ceo and president. >> this exhibit is a microcosm of the whole museum actually. you are confronted with the real tragic horrific history of what happened on 9/11, but you're also reminded of the way we

responded. ultimately we tell the 9/11 story, but the message is 9/12 very or for some, 9/21 when the new york mets returned to shea stadium to take on the braves. >> the mets fans, braves fans, braves players, everybody is cheering because there was a sense that this was not about the game. it was about new york. and to this day people remember that moment when they exhaled. they had been holding their breath for ten days. they didn't know if they'd recover. then they knew they could. >> reporter: from president bush's world series pitch to the first nascar race after 9/11, the theme is constant throughout the exhibit. sports helping the nation to heal, unifying and uplifting as the days and soon months passed.

there's so many images in here. does any one thing stand out more to you? >> all of them for me. >> reporter: but for mark messier and tiki bashr, they're more than images. it's history they live. like the giants' first game after 9/11 at the chiefs. >> kansas city is a rough place to go play. it's a sea of red, and they're not friendly to anyone that comes in there. but the first thing we saw was a sign saying casey loves nyc. the fans wanted to reach down and shake our hands. and the "national anthem" played. i've stood for the "national anthem" for years going back to when i was a kid. but i heard it. i think i truly heard it for the first time. >> reporter: messier's moment would come two weeks later at the rangers' home opener. during a pregame ceremony, he was asked to wear the helmet of fdn

fdny chief ray downey who was killed on september 11th. >> to be honored with that was, you know, an incredible thing. but i also felt a huge responsibility to do the rieng things and say the right things in honor of all the people that lost their lives that day. >> you met his family also right after, right? >> met his family after and stayed in touch. the kids are growing up. >> what does that mean for you? >> to me, i was the one that wore the hat, but it was everybody. all the sportsmen and sportswomen in the city who did so much. >> we had a shared responsibility and it will exist forever. as mark has said repeatedly, you can't forget what happened on 9/11, but you also can't forget how we responded. >> this may seem crazy or sound crazy to say, you walk out of that exhibit uplifted because you're reminded of this wonderful way when we were all told, it's okay to laugh, it's

okay to cheer against a team. the skpiblt will run through next summer. if you get a chance, it's really worth going. >> i remember mark messier putting on that fireman's hat and the home run. 17 years ago, but it seems like yesterday. >> yeah. he's been chugging along for more than seven decades, but thomas the tank engine and his fellow trains are about to get a timely tweak, a makeover designed to appeal to even more kids the world other. you're watching thermomet"cbs t morning: saturday." >> announcer: this portion sponsored by toyota. let's go places. 4 you're it! ♪ toyota. let's go places.

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. more than 70 years ago, a british man took a widen broomstick and crafted a toy for his young child and thomas the tank engine was born. his creation later inspired books, movies, and a very popular tv series that airs in 161 countries and territories in 57 languages. but despite that incredible popularity, the franchise is getting a major update in an

effort to appeal to even more children the world over. roxana saberi has the story. ♪ >> reporter: thomas burst onto screens in the '80sing and with a little help from narrator ringo starr, the blue engine's adventures became an instant hit. >> thomas thinks no engine work as hard as he does. he loves playing tricks on them. >> reporter: thomas and his friends changed throw the decades. but in more than 500 episodes, some things stayed the same. of sodor. and the female characters were rarely in the spotlight. >> we know we've investigate a show that means a lot to young audiences and really what we're trying to do is just bring that show into the 21st century and make it relatable for that young

audience. >> reporter: ian mccue and micaela winter are part of the creative team overhauling thomas & friends. the makeover comes with an updated theme song, international travels, and two new female main characters, rebecca and nia. >> africa is a beautiful country. >> everyone can watch the show and think, oh, that person's like me, that character is like me, and feel represented. >> if about half of thomas's fan base are girls, why did it take so long to have a main female character? >> what happens is we sort of create a new female character. she's in two or three episodes, and in the next season, she also disappears into the background while we bring in the newer characters. i think that was a fault of our own that we sort of wanted to rectify, and that's why we decided to do is move out two of the boys and bring in two girls.

>> the team wanted nia, a tank engine from kenya to be awe then ka. the character is voiced by yvonne grundy, a kenyan-born american actress. >> through nia, it was an african character taking up a leadership role as a female train engine with lots of strong values and goals herself. >> reporter: five u.n. sustainable development goals including gender equality were weaved into story lines with the help of tolulope lewis tamoka of u.n. women. >> there are stereotypes out there around the role a girl should play that are different from the role a boy should play, but through the character, nia, we are ashl to simplify by showing that a female engine has skills and ability and can

actually get the job done just like a male engine. >> sales for the fisher-price and thomas & friends brands were down 14% due in part to lower sales of thomas products. for these engines, the keys to staying relevant may be inclulgs and girl power. how do you think these changes will help ensure thomas' future for another 70-some years? >> i think the changes we're making will mack the show sort of relatable for the whole audience who are watching it today. but i feel like it's a natural show that's going to go on for another 70 years. he's a train, he's a character, he's going around the world, he's teaching a young audience lessons. >> there are other ways to get animals to move, thomas, without scaring them. >> yeah, he'll be here for many years to come. that track will keep on going. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning: saturday," roxana saberi, london. >> thomas changed everything in

my household. it was thomas all the time. these are great changes. >> a female engine. >> i love it. >> can do just as much as the male engine. >> that's right. boys like girls too. >> we'll be right back. talk about the leadership lessons you think you learned as a girl scout? >> what i think is fantastic, lived in near poverty, living paycheck to paycheck. girl scouts taught me opportunity. when you're raised like that, you're not taught. girl scouts taught me achievable goals, great business techniques and taught me one of my favorite business goal tips i never learned. >> which is in. >> you never leave the site of a sale until you hear no three times. my troop leader taught me that.

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since its start in seattle in the early 1970s, starbucks coffee chain has opened shops all over the country. that includes european nations where coffee culture was already well established. but one place they dared not tread was the coffee-centric land that helped shape the chain's character in the first place. that is until this week. seth doane reports. >> reporter: this line wasn't for milan's cathedral or castle but for italy's first starbucks. >> it's for tourists. come on.

it's for tourists. >> reporter: he joined hundreds of others, curious but defiant. inside starbucks transformed this this former post office into a 25,000-square-foot coffee roastery. it's a testing ground for ideas like using liquid nitrogen to freeze the ice cream for a dish. and in an elaborate attempt to woo and wow a country that invented espresso. you see starbucks is written here, but this does not resemble any starbucks i've ever been in. this is really more a theme park of coffee. they dispensed with some of the more american concoctions. no frappuccino on the record, but they have imported american pricing, which is high for italy. at milan's cafe where schultz was said to have been inspired, they've been brewing espresso for a century, and customers

were unfazed by the american import. will starbucks change the way italians are drinking coffee? >> no. we are italian. we invented coffee and pizza. >> reporter: starbucks has struggled and closed stores in other countries with a strong coffee culture, including australia, new zealand, and israel. to succeed in italy, it will need more of this. >> you see the brazilian coffee being toasted in this super huge machine. then you drink it. it completes the experience. it's incredible. >> reporter: wow. you've been in here for 15 minutes and you're a convert. >> i've complete will i changed my mind. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning: saturday," seth doane, milan. >> i just got back from italy. i love their coffee there, but you guys know i love my starbucks. i'd still take the italian coffee in italy. >> i would too. >> me too. >> they're going all out to impress the italians, that's for

sure. all right. now here's look at the weather for your weekend. he sampled great food the world over only to realize there's no place like home. chef chris williams found the inspiration for his texas restaurant in his great grandmother's recipes, and he put a few of them on this own menu. we'll head to houston on a special edition of "the dish." that's next. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday." you know. jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill proven to both reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease... ...and lower a1c, with diet and exercise. jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration.

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including eye pain or changes in vision. if you have asthma, and are taking asthma medicines do not change or stop your asthma medicine without talking to your doctor. help heal your skin from within. ask your eczema specialist about dupixent. this morning on "the dish," lucilles and chef williams. one year ago williams was forced to close his southern-style restaurant during its busiest month after the flooding rains of hurricane harvey. lucille's has weathered the storm and is having its best year since opening in 2012. the inspiration for the restaurant goes back three generations into the family history of its owner and chef.

tucked inside the kitchen of his restaurant, chef chris williams prepares the dishes he's created from scratch, having tasted each and every ingredient. but shockingly, williams prefers his customers be the first to taste the final product. >> i make it and send it out and look at the guests' reactions. >> whoever heard of that. is that like a chef thing? >> i don't know. this is my thing. >> okay. >> reporter: even with his take on the classic pork and beans. >> oh, my gosh. that has flavor. >> that's pretty good, huh? >> reporter: you never know what might meet on his dish. chili biscuits topped off in cheese and dark chocolate. braised duck confit served atop sauteed collard greens with a parsnip puree. >> what is this here?

>> this is one of my favorites. >> reporter: on a whim, williams spent a year at le cordon bleu in austin, but says he never considered making a career in the kitchen. that notion changed after backpacking through europe. >> cooking was like my hustle. it's my passion and hustle. it didn't matter where i was in europe. we all spoke the same language. >> reporter: after a stint in d.c., williams moved home to houston to open lucille's. the namesake of his restaurant? his great grandmother lucille bishop smith. >> she was a matriarch to your family. >> right. but she was also a pioneer and trendsetter and just fearless with what she was doing. >> reporter: a chef, a culinary educator, an entrepreneur, by the mid-1930s smith had her own

general store, developed curriculum at prayer er view college and ran a camp for girls. this is really your shrine to lucille. >> yeah. we call it a reliquary. >> reporter: in his private dining room upstairs, williams created a place for all of the relics he found researching his family's history. candy, culled desserts, lucille fed everyone, from heavyweight champ joe louis, to martin luther king jr. in this letter president lyndon johnson thanked lucille for shipping fruitcakes to servicemen fighting in vietnam. she was known across the country for one of her own special inventions, served in the first-class cabins of american airlines in the 1930s and '40s, the first very instant quick biscuit. >> so we make the original recipe, the slow three-hour method, but in that industrial

time, people were looking for something convenient and she came up with the instant hot rolls. >> does his hot biscuit and his chili biscuit live up to lucille's? >> okay. here we go. here we go. i made them. i served them up for seven years. this is getting closer and closer, and it's there, it's right there now. >> reporter: chris's father and mother, lucille's granddaughter, used to work for lucille at the all girls camp waldemar in central texas. it must be something for you to look at him and say, wow, he's carrying on the family tradition. >> very much so, yes. i wish that grandmother would have lived to see this. she would have been so proud. >> there's this discovery now of southern american cuisine and african-american cuisine all over the globe. >> i mean you love good food brefr you are. you know, be it african-american food or southern cuisine, this is americana. you know where it came from.

it came off the backs of slaves. southern soul food is the base of the american food scene now. it's just now being recognized for what it truly is. the best food i ever find anywhere i go is the food of the poor people. i find it to be the most creative food out there. it's fancy, beautiful, fake. it's just honest. and i think -- i find that beautiful. >> reporter: lucille's has faithfully served houston's museum district since 2012, but was forced to close its doors during harrick harvey. >> it came in the middle of our busiest month and stopped business for almost a full month. >> reporter: his kitchen helped feed harvey's first responders. >> i know a lot of people had some really tough experiences, and we wanted to trcontribute a do what we could. we made it part of the culture of the restaurant, which is what my great grandmother was all about. >> -- >> reporter: williams says he

remembers visiting with lucille during her final years, a 7-year-old boy helping to feed the great grandmother whose days of feeding others had long passed. >> if you could have this meal with anybody, past or present, who would that be and why? >> it would probably be my great grandmother, without a doubt. let her see how i size up to her and what she would think. >> can you imagine? >> those chili biscuits are not right. you need to let them rise another 30 minutes before you put them in the oven. i could see her just being a perfectionist, yeah. >> where are our biscuits? >> what a cool family. >> she did it all before miss bury. >> yes, she did. incredible tradition. really cool. what a great story. >> i can't wait to get back to houston now. >> you'd better go. try it out. up next in our "saturday sessions," eye. the canadian singer/songwriter's

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starring in our "saturday sessions" this morn, the breakout artist from canada known as eye. the toronto-based musician has scored a steady stream of honors. cbc radio named his indy soul debut one of the top ten records of the year. songs on his 2017 digital album were viral hits and won ahi eye canadian singer/songwriter and rising star awards. this summer he released his second album "in our time." now making his national television debut, here is eye with "made it home." ♪ ♪ maybe we were only wasting time somewhere on our way to lost ♪ ♪ when you can't see where the road will end then the journey's all you got ♪

♪ the picture perfect we were searching for ain't as perfect as we thought ♪ ♪ you gotta set your eyes on something you believe is true it don't matter what it cost ♪ ♪ we might never be the same 'cause our youth is taking toll but i'll do it all again if you're here with me through it all ♪ ♪ 'cause we made it home we made it home we made it home ♪ ♪ we made it home we made it home we made it home ♪ ♪ we made it home we made it home ♪ ♪

♪ feel the cracks along these wooden floors as they creep up these four walls ♪ ♪ and this old house may one day fall apart but it made us who we are ♪ ♪ we may never be the same 'cause our youth is taking toll ♪ ♪ but i'd do it all again if you're here with me through it all ♪ ♪ 'cause we made it home we made it home ♪ ♪ we've made it home we made it home ♪ ♪ we made it home we made it home ♪ ♪ we made it home we made it home ♪ ♪ we were running most our lives looking for a place where we

belong ♪ ♪ when nobody would take us in we found our way through thick and thin and we can finally say we made it home ♪ ♪ we might never be the same 'cause our youth is taking toll ♪ ♪ but i'd do it all again and i won't change nothing at all ♪ 'cause we made it home we made it home ♪ ♪ we made it home we made it home ♪ ♪ we made it home we made it home ♪ ♪ we made it home we made it home ♪ ♪ we might never be the same 'cause our youth is taking toll ♪ ♪ but i'd do it all again and i won't change nothing at

all ♪ ♪ 'cause we made it home we made it home ♪ ♪ we made it home we made it home ♪ ♪ we made it home we made it home ♪ ♪ we made it home we made it home ♪ >> don't go away. we'll be right back with more music from eye. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday." >> announcer: "saturday sessions" are sponsored by blue buffalo. you love your pets like family, so feed them like family with blue. you've tried moisturizer after moisturizer but one blows them all out of the water.

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and my doctor and i choose to treat my mbc with verzenio. be relentless. ask your doctor about everyday verzenio. ♪ next week on "cbs this morning: saturday," we'll introduce you to the founding father you've probably never heard of. that's benjamin rush. he was an american pioneer and writer who signed the

declaration of independence. now he's the subject of a new book. you'll learn about him and all the things you didn't know. that's coming up next week. >> have a great week, everyone. >> we leave you with more music from eye. >> this is "breakin' ground." ♪ i was told i'm worthless so much that it gave me purpose ♪ ♪ and i took the creative license that it means i'm processed ♪ now i aim to prove i ain't no burden and i know i'm going to make it out 'cause i'm already breakin' ground ♪ ♪ i was lost and stolen nt got a pocket full of dead end doubt ♪ ♪ i thought all doors were broken until i found it open ♪ ♪ and i love it because i'm already breakin' ground ♪ ♪ i don't have to break down because i'm already breakin'

ground ♪ ♪ i'm already losing count i know i'm going to make it out because i'm already breakin' ground ♪ ♪ ♪ i found some folks just like me they weren't dealt with a privileged hand ♪ ♪ this life is a lesson but i'm studying not to care because i know i ool going to make it out because i'm already breakin' ground ♪ ♪ i know i'm going to make it out because i'm already breakin' ground ♪ ♪ you're already losing count i have the right to say anybody can fight their way because i know i'm going to make it out because i'm already breakin' ground ♪ ♪

♪ it seems like yesterday i was sleeping at thunder bay ♪ ♪ i planned on giving up but gave up gave up on me ♪ ♪ and then you showed my story showed me there's a present for me ♪ ♪ i knew i was going to make it out because i'm already breakin' ground ♪ ♪ i knew i was going to make it out because i'm already breakin' ground ♪ ♪ i'm already losing count ♪ i have earned the right to say anybody can find their way because i know i ooh going to make it out because i'm already breakin' ground ♪ ♪ i know i'm going to make it out because i'm already breakin' ground ♪ ♪ bless the poor i'm already losing count now ♪

♪ i'm taking it day by day because i'm learning my own way i'm going to make it because i'm already breakin' ground ♪ ♪ [ clapping ] >> he's some good. for those of you still with us, we have more music from eye. >> this "on my side." ♪ ♪ 40 nations rise against you and now i'm alone in the great divide ♪ ♪ there been nobody there to defend me you're the only one standing on my side ♪ ♪ ♪ friend and family leave me

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