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administration official. and a first starbucks, a major jolt to italy's cafe culture. good evening, we begin with breaking news. cbs chairman and ceo l leslie moonves is stepping down. new alaska sagss of sexual harassment and assault. the accusations were reported sunday in the new yorker. a source tells cbs news he's been offered a separation package of $80 million in stock to be held in escrow pending the results of an independent investigation. cbs chairman leslie moonves is tonight preparing to resign bowing to pressure by a sexual
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harassment scandal. the number of women accusing him of sexual misconduct has doubled to 12, according to a new report by the new yorker magazine. detailing six previously unreported incidents, which allegedly took place between the 1980s and early 2000s. according to the magazine, they include claims that had forced them to perform orl sex on him, exposed himself and used physical violence and intimidation against him. he's denied all allegations of sexual misconduct, though he acknowledges what he described as consensual relationships with three of the accusers. the magazine says he declined to say which three. in one incident when he worked in 1986, he invited a fellow executive to lunch, drove instead to a et secluded area and forced oral sex. he held her head in place forcibly. in another allegation almost a decade later, moonves was
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working at a regency hotel in los angeles. there he allegedly forcibly kiss ed a young assistant and aspiring writer and propositioned her saying i can help you. the new yorker goes on to quote a third accuser describing him this way. he's cunning, calculating, and he's a predator. moonves described the allegations as part of a concerted effort to destroy his name. he would leaf with no payment depending on the sexual his conduct investigation. hurricane florence is gaining strength as it towards the east coast. people in the carolinas are bracing for potential disaster. states of emergency have been declared in the carolinas and virginia. this comes aswo other tropical storms are on the move in the atlantic. one could threaten the caribbean islands this week. meteorologist dave warren is tracking the storms at our cbs
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mime station. >> the latest is that it's a hurricane and continuing to intensify. here is the latest satellite picture. it's moving west at 7 miles an hour. the track here is going over some very, very warm waters. it could rapidly intensify thursday to friday. approaches the carolina coast as a major hurricane and then along with it producing hurricane force winds up and down the coast t will slow down from friday to saturday and sunday as it tries to work its way inland. that could lead to a flooding problem as you get heavy rain. busy in the caribbean as we watch tropical storm isaac. and the final storm that we're watching in the atlantic, got to go east. this is in the eastern atlantic.
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this is hurricane helene as it goes from a hurricane to a tropical storm. three main systems to watch in the carolinas for hurricane florence. back to you. >> dave warren, thank you. in the port city of charleston, south carolina, people lined up today for free sandbags.colb has more from our charlton affiliate. >> reporter: coastal communities are preparing for the worst as hurricane florence strengthens. here in charleston, nearly all communities are under opcon 3 meaning a disaster or emergency situation is likely. and even though it's the calm before the storm, people here in south carolina are taking that seriously. some shelves have been cleared of water and sandbags are beginning to fill up. some gas stations even ran out of gas yesterday. all of this preparation underway
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as we watch the cone of uncertainty encompass the carolinas potentially putting us ot justmeate tthflng that me with it. and here in charleston, it doesn't take much to flood because the city sits below sea level. that's why a potential hurricane has people in this city preparing for the worst. for many people this storm is bringing back memories of a hurricane that def statesed the city in 1989. for now all is calm here as we wait to see what happens. >> thank you. russian and syrian planes stepped up their assaults this weekend. there are fears the seven-year war could end with another mass slaughter of civilians. debra is just across the border tonight in turkey. >> reporter: it took just 15 minutes for russia to unleash
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its military might this morning. during that brief time, 17 airstrikes rained down. among the dead, an infant girl. russia has been fix iing its military muscle with renewed intensity after a turkish and russian summit failed to agreeo syria, backed by its allies, has been gearing up on an assault. and they showed just what they were. capable of today by dropping barrel bombs on villages in the area. below there are nearly 3 million civilians. half of them from fled from syria. there's nowhere left to go. and so they frantically prepare for war stocking up on supplies and handing out makeshift gas masks. the united nations has warns of a humanitarian disaster and
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right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. an explosive new book by reporter bob woodward comes out on tuesday. current and former white house aids refer to president trump as an idiot and a liar. david martin spoke with woodward for cbs sunday morning. >> how many people did you interview? >> over 100. i would say that maybe half of those are key people. >> the book will be relowsed on the heels of a scathing op-ed in the "new york times" by an anonymous trump administration
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official. vice president mike pence addressed the op-ed and the book in an interview for "face the nation." >> the only thing that's wrong about that narrative is everything. >> reporter: vice president mike pence dispute d reports of chaos in the white house. >> is he demanding, yes. is he a strong leader who expects things done yesterday, yes. it reflects an ignorance about president trump. >> reporter: pence was responding to bob woodward and his now gnu book "fear: trump in the white house." >> this one was in the belly of the beast. what did you conclude about the beast? >> that people better wake up to what's going on. >> administration officials also dismissed an anonymously written "new york times" op-ed that said cabinet secretaries considered using the 25th amendment to removing trump. >> have you been part of a
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conversation about that? >> never. why would we be? >> i'll tell you what happened this week. the team tightened up even more because of all this. >> reporter: the revelations prompted senator ben sass of nebraska to are new his concerns. >> it's pretty clear that this white house is a reality show soap opera presidency. you'd like the president to worry not about short-term of staffing, but the long-term of vision casting for america. >> ed o'keefe is at the white house. today we also learned that one of the legal cases against the president is proceeding. >> that's right. the president and once a cob tes tant on his show "the ce"eed to written questions for a court. answers are due to the supreme court by 28th. answers are given under oath so any untruthful answers by the
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president open him up to perjury charges. she sued trump last year after he said that she lied. she has accused him of forcibly groping her and kissing her about a decade ago. the president denies those charges. >> ed, thank you. the dallas police department identified the white officer who fatality shot a black man in his own apartment. officer amber geiger is on administrative leaves a the rangers investigate the thursday night shooting. she was heading home and says she b accidentally walked into the wrong apartment. officials attempt to charge her with man slaugt r. she was investigated last year for shooting and wounding a man during a confrontation while on dutyshwas noarged. >>rt of foe today ceatin yf indende. for the t arhentrythmass games. tens of thousands took part in a
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synchronized display of national unity. ben tracy has our report from pyongyang. >> reporter: nobody throws a military parade like north korea and this one certainly did not disappoint. more than 100,000 people crammed into the main square in the nation's capital they paid homage to their leader kim jong-un. there were battalions of soldiers. north korea definitely showed off its military hardware, but what's most notable is what was not in this parade. they did not parade their ballistic missiles as it has done in other parades. that could be a sign that kim jong-un is serious about dedenuclearization and he wants to negotiate with president trump. just this past week, kim jong-un said he had absolute faith in president trump and the president said the two of them will work on the issue of denuclearization together. now while we have been here in
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the country, we have noticed a change in attitude. a lot of the anti-american propaganda you once saw around is now gone. it's replaced with messages about the economy. kim jong-un has made the strategic shift to boost the north korean economy and that's what he wants his people to focus on. what has not changed is that north korea still has all of the its nuclear weapons. the cbs overnight news will be right back. why did i want a crest 3d white smile?
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who wrote the anonymous op-ed. >> you don't think none on their staff since they are calling themselves a trump appointee had anything to do with this? >> i wouldn'tknow. and i really would hope not. i was disheartened to see our colleagues make it clear. i can tell you serving alongside this president is an incredible privilege for me. i know it is for every member of the cabinet and all the senior personnel in our administration. this is a president who literally gets up every day and works to keep the promises that we made to the american people. when you look at the record of success over the last 18 months, it's been remarkable. >> after the interview, the vice president told us he had misunderstood the question and asked if he could clarify. so we turned the cameras back on. >> mr. vice president, i asked you earlier if anyone object your staff wrote this.
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op-ed. have you asked your staff? >> i thought you were speaking about the administration staff. let me be very clear. i'm 100% confident that no one on the vice president's staff was involved in this anonymous editorial. i know my people, margaret. they get up every day and they are dedicated, just as much as i am torks advancing the president's agenda and supporting everything that president trump is doing for the people of this country. >> and you asked them? >> honestly, i don't have to ask them. i know them. i know their character. i know their dedication. and i'm absolutely confident that no one on the vice president's staff had anything to do with this. but that being said, whoever this was, they should do the honorable thing and resign. i can't believe it.
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mf year war, charlie dag ga met with survivors of a 2016 attack that shocked the world. >> reporter: the ameriecurit pr. inside it looks like an american university with all that college kid optimism. >> we have dreams. if we give up, the enemy or the terrorists are going to win this war. >> reporter: these students are also survivors. in 2016 a ten-hour siege claimed the lyes of 16 students, faculty and police. after the first explosion, classmates locked themselves in a classroom. >> there was another blast and they were hitting the door, and they're trying to open it. and we were very scared because we were 100% sure if they entered the class they would probably shoot us. >> reporter: in the panic she fellfelt out of a second story
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window and broke her back in three places. and yet she returned to school when she recovered. attackers threw hand grenades into classrooms. muhammad watched his friends die and came close himself. >> i was badly injured there and had spinal , in i had my leg ans and i was not able to see things and i was bleeding for a couple hours that night. >> the head injury took two years to recover from. he escaped with his life and dreams intact. >> what do you hope to do after you leave school? >> i'm hopefully running for president in a couple years. >> reporter: despite the tragedy of that night, there was one thing the taliban could not destroy here. hope. cbs news, kabul. up next, the grand opening of italy's first starbucks. you won't find pumpkin spiced frappuccinos here. in 2017,
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we end in italy bustling financial hub fuelled by countless shots of espresso. it's home to high end restaurants and shops and davincis the last supper. it's the first place in italy to now have a starbucks. the american coffee giant is a jolt to cafe culture. >> the company called it coffee's version of willy wonka's factory. the 25,000-square foot roast ri
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where beans shoot through tubes and coffee and ice cream were con conducted in ways that se seemed more science experiment than neighborhood starbucks. this is a reserve roast ri. with more than 27,000 stores in 78 countries, but none in italy until friday, starbucks had been noticeably absent in this country that invented espresso. while they have done away with american touches, they have imported american pricing. espresso here is the euro 80. that's more than double in most places here. where howard shultz was inspired, they have been brewing espresso for a vinch. coffee is simple, quick and traditionally consumed like standing at the bar.
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wasn't criticized american pronunciation, never mind preparation. we met one in a long line on opening day. but this guy fl move lance who works in marketing was wooed himself. >> you remember what i say outside? forget it. this is not starbucks. >> the company plans to open four of its more standard stores in italy by the end of this year. it has struggled in other countries with a strong coffee culture. they are entering italy in a humble way, but there's nothing sut until this multimillion dollar spectacle. seth done, cbs, move ran.
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for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back us with later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in n good evening, we begin with breaking news. cbs chairman and ceo leslie moonves is stepping down as he faces new accusations of sexual harassment and assault. his exit comes as moonves facing new accusations of sexual harassment and assault. the accusations were reported sunday in the new yorker. a source tells cbs news he's been. offered a spraigs package of $80 million in stock to be held in escrow pending the results of an
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independent sexual misconduct investigation. >> reporter: he's tonight preparing to resign bowing to pressure brought on by a sexual harassment scandal. the number of women accusing him of sexual misconduct doubled to 12, according to a new report by the new yorker magazine. detailing six previously unreported incidents which allegedly took place between 1980s and early 2000s. according to the magazine, they inclu inclaims that he exposed himself without consent and used physical violence and kbim sbim dags against him. he denied all allegations of sexual misconduct, though according to the new yorker, he acknowledges what he described as consensual relationships with three of the new accusers. in one incident when he worked for tell pictures in 1986, he
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invited a fellow executive to lunch, drove to a secluded area and forced oral sex. according to the magazine, he held her head in place forcibly. he was working out of regent set hotel in los angeles and forcibly kissed a young assistant and aspiring writer and propositioned her saying i can help you and if you do something nice for me, i can do something nice for you. they quote a third accuser. he's cunning, calculating and he's a predator. he previously described the allegations as an effort to destroy his name. >> tony, thank you. an explosive new book by reporter bob woodwardment cos out on tuesday.
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aids refer tor cbs sunday morning. >> how many people did you interview? >> over 100. i would say that maybe half of those are key people. >> the book will be released on the heels of a scathing op-ed in the "new york times" by an anonymous trump administration official. vice president mike pence addressed the op-ed and the book in an interview for "face the nation." >> the only thing that's wrong about that narrative is everything. >> reporter: vice president mike pence disputed reports of chaos in the white house. >> i have seen this president in action. is he demanding, yes. is he a strong leader who expects things done yesterday, yes. it reflects an ignorance about president trump. >> reporter: pence was responding to bob woodward and his new book "fear: trump in the white house."
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>> this one was in the belly of the beast. >> what did you conclude about the beast? >> that people better wake up to what's going on. >> pense and other administration officials also dismissed an anonymously written "new york times" op-ed that said cabinet secretaries considered using the 25th amendment to remove trump. >> have you been part of a conversation about that? >> never. why would we be? >> i'll tell you what happened this week. the team tightened up even more because of all this. >> reporter: the revelations prompted republican senator ben sass of nebraska to are new his concerns. >> it's pretty clear that this white house is a reality show soap opera presidency. what you'd like the president to worry not about short-term of staffing, but the long-term of vision casting for america. >> ed o'keefe is at the white house.
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today we also learned that one of the legal cases against the president is proceeding. >> that's right. in a court filing friday night, the president and once a contestant on his show "the apprentice" agreed to answer written questions for a court. answers are due to the supreme court by september 28th. answers are given under oath so any untruthful answers by the president open him up to perjury charges. she sued trump last year after he said that she lied. she has accused him of forcibly groping her and kissing her about a decade ago. the president denies those charges. >> ed, thank you. the dallas police department has identified the white officer who fatality shot a black man in his own apartment. officer amber geiger is now on administrative leaves a the rangers investigate the thursday night shooting. she was heading home and says she accidentally walked into the wrong apartment.
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officials attempt to charge her with manslaughter. she was investigated last year for shooting and wounding a man during a confrontation while on duty. she was not charged. russian and syrian planes stepped up their assault this war could end with another mass slaughter of civilians. debra patta is just across the border tonight in turkey. >> >> reporter: it took just 15 minutes for russia to unleash its military might this morning. during that brief time, 17 airstrikes rained down. among the dead, an infant girl. russia has been fixing its military muscle with renewed intensity after a turkish and russian summit failed to agree on a cease-fire. syria, backed by its allies, has
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been gearing up for an assault. lis.w ere arly 3illionhat they half of them have already fled from syria. there's nowhere left to go. and so they frantically prepare for war stocking up on supplies and handing out makeshift gas masks. the united nations has warned of a humanitarian disaster and wants to set up corridors while turkey is concerned about a new influx of refugees, which they have no capacity to deal with. so for now, they have closed the borders here and have also sent in military reenforcements to the area. >> a dire situation, thank you. the cbs overnight news will be right back.
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this is the cbs overnight news. >> bob woodward's new book on the trump presidency hits the store shelves tomorrow, but it sent political shock waves across washington. david martin same down with the sasm reporter to discuss his latest work. >> you look at the operation of this white house and you have to say, let's hope to god we don't have a crisis. >> for bob woodward, that's the bottom line to awl the chaos
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described in his new book "fear: trump in the white house." >> people who work for him are worried that he will sign things or give orders that threaten the national security or the financial security of the country or the world. >> including chief economic adviser gary cohn and staff secretary rob porter literally stole documents like this one off the president's desk in the oval office. >> so he wouldn't sign them because they realized that this would endanger the country. >> how do they get away with that? >> he doesn't remember. if it's not on his desk, if it's not immediately available for action, it goes away. >> unelected officials like cohn and porter intentionally thwarting the actions of the elected president.
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the exact reverse of what a white house staff is supposed to do. going back to richard nixon and watergate, this is the ninth white house woodward has covered. >> in the eight others, i never heard of people on the staff in the white house engaging in that kind of extreme action. >> in woodward's telling, donald trump does not see america as the indispensable nation. he sees it as an international sucker taking advantage of by allies and trading partners. he complained his advisers don't know anything about business. all they want is to protect everybody, that we pay for. according to woodward, the president is obsessed by the fact the u.s. pays $3.5 billion a year to station troops in south korea as a first line of defense against the trump. >> i don't know why they are there, he said. let's bring them all home. at another meeting secretary of
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defense james mattis explained why the u.s. has 28,000 troops in korea. we are doing this in order to prevent world war iii. >> the united states has great strength and eff it ally, w totally destroy nort korea. >> the standoff with north korea has been eased for the moment by the singapore summit, which brought together two leaders who had been trading nuclear threats and schoolyard insults. >> rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. >> the president later made that little rocket man on twitter, when he said may be my best ever. when porter asked if it might provoke kim, the president replied -- >> its leader versus leader. man versus man.
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me versus kim. >> the most dangerous moment of the standoff, woodward says, came when the president went to work on another tweet. >> he drafts a tweet saying et we're going to pull out dependents from south korea, family members of the 28,000 people there. >> that tweet was never sent because of a back channel message from north korea that it would regard a pull out of dependence as a sign the u.s. was preparing to attack. >> at that moment, there was a sense of profound alarm in the pentagon leadership that my god one tweet and we have reliable information that the north koreans are going to read this as an attack is eminent. >> we are going to appoint mad dog mattis as our secretary of
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defense. >> the president surrounded himself with generals, active duty and retired, all of whom had served in afghanistan. but before he decided on a new afghan strategy, he insisted on meeting with enlisted men who served this as well. >> i'm going to be talking to you about afghanistan, what you think, your views. >> in a meeting the next day, he lashed out at the generals. i don't care about you guys, he said to mattis and then national security adviser h mcmaster. >> soldiers on the ground could run things better than you, he says to mattis and dunford, and there's a 25-minute dressing down of the generals and senior officials. >> in a recent tweet, the president acknowledged i'm tough as hell on people and if i weren't nothing would get done. when he didn't like a trade deal
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that was negotiated with china, the president lit into him at a white house meeting. it's a terrible deal. we got screwed. you're past your prime. you're not a good negotiator anymore. you've lost it. i don't trust you. >> i thus he's pretty happy. >> yes, i'm happy. >> when economic adviser cohn was upset over the reluctance to condemn white supremacists for the violence in charlottesville, he went into the oval office to resign. >> trump said you can't resign. i need you to do tax reform. and said if you leave, this is treason. and trump talked him out of resigning. >> afterwards chief of staff john kelly pulled him aside. >> cohn wrote this down. quote, from general kelly, if that was me i would have taken
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that resignation letter and shoved it up his six different times, end quote. >> the president has been bracing for woodward's book since last month when the two pretended to lament that they had not talked. he recorded the conversation. >> it's really too bad. nobody told me about it. i would have loved to have spoken to you. you know i'm open to you. you have always been fair. >> it's a tough look at the world and your administration and you. >> all right. i assume that means it's going to be a negative book. that's all right. some are good and some are bad. sounds like this is going to be a bad one. >> last week when the con tnts of fear began to leak, the president said it was worse than bad. >> the book is a work of fiction. if you look back at woodward's past, he had the same problem with other presidents. he likes to sell som books. >> he's added fake books to his
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complaints about fake news. are you ready for a tweet storm directed at you? >> i've been there before. >> we respect the free press. i don't respect the type of journalism, the shotty journalism being practiced by "the washington post." >> woodward's stories written on richard nixon and watergate were reneat petedly denounced until the white house was forced to apologize. working on this book, woodward says he went back to the days of his youth when he and bernstein portrayed in "all the president's men" made late night visits to the homes of potential sources. >> this won't take long at all. >> please go away, okay? >> we're from "the washington post." >> yes, i have read what you have written. i want to thank you. >> in one case, i called
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somebody at 11:00 at night and said i'd like to talk. yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get to it. i said, how about now? and he said, now, it's 11:00 at night. and i said, i'm four minutes away. okay, come on over for awhile. >> he doesn't identify his source, but most readers will conclude he talked to gary cohn and rob porter along with several white house officials who quit or were fired. >> the criticism would be you talk to the people who have an ax to grind against the president. >> that's just not true. >> which is not true? >> i talked to dozens and dozens of people and have notes and documentation on lots of things. >> woodward quotes harsh criticism of the president from some of his close est advisers. kelly called his boss an id
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yotd. secretary of defense mattis said the commander-in-chief act ed like and had the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader. both men have denied saying such things and the president continues to denounce the book at every turn. >> like these guys that write books and put phoney quotes all over. totally phoney quotes. they are fraudulent books. >> woodward stands by all the quotes in his book. quotes in his book. you can see the full well, here's to first dates! you look amazing. and you look amazingly comfortable. when your v-neck looks more like a u-neck... that's when you know, it's half-washed. add downy to keep your collars from stretching. unlike detergent alone, downy conditions to smooth and strengthen fibers. so, next time don't half-wash it. downy and it's done.
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elon musk is having a difficult time keeping his promise model 3s each month. sales drar of that of any other car r. tesla stock took a beeting after musk was seen smoking a blunt on a podcast. meg oliver reports. >> tobacco and marijuana in there. that's all it is. >> reporter: smoking what podcast coast host was a marijuana and tobacco joint ask 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 stock prices at the time.
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>> i'm definitely under stress. if i seem like i'm under stress, i want to be clear. i'm definitely under stress. >> reporter: he said tesla was going through production hell, but felt positive about its future. >> i'm feeling optimistic about where tesla is at this point. i'd like to have a clear understanding of a path out of hell. >> tesla lost more than $700 million in the second quarter this year and after musk's appearance on the podcast, tesla's stock plunged before closing at its lowest price since march 2017. a professor at the san jose college of business. >> you have lost the magic touch and you're kind of stumbling out of the gate now and not really sure where you're going, they will punish you. >> tesla saw a string of high profile departures this week. on friday its chief accounting officer david morton left after working there for just one
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transformed this former post office into a 2500-square foot coffee roast ri. it's a testing ground for ideas like usingly kwid nitrogen to freeze the ice cream. and an et llaborate attempt to and wow the country that invented etc. prspresso. you see starbucks is written here, but this does not resellable any starbucks i have been in. this is like a theme park of coffee. they dispensed with some of the more american concoctions. no frappuccino on the menu, but they have imported american pricing, which is high for italy. at mulan's cafe, they have been brewing espresso for a century and customers were unphased by the american import. >> will starbucks change their way italians are drinking coffee? >> no, we are italian.
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we invented coffee and pizza. >> reporter: starbucks has struggled and closed stores in other countries with a strong coffee culture. to succeed in italy, it will need more of this. >> you see the brazilian coffee beingg toasted in this super hue machine. then you drink it. it's the complete experience. it's incredible. >> you have been in here for 15 minutes and you're a convert. >> completely changed my mind. >> reporter: seth done, mulan. >> that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine quijano. .
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>>'s it's monday, september 10th, 2018. this is the cbs morning news. barreling toward the east coast, hurricane florence gets strength. as it turns across the atlantic where it could hit. >> cbs ceo is out following new allegations of sexual misconduct and fallout from an anonymous op-ed, the president is defending the presidency and his own staff members. >> i know my people.
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