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could vote on monday. >> we're going bring you updates throughout the morning. it's going to be another historic day in the u.s. in the men time, cbs this morning coming up next. good morning to our viewers in the west. it's friday, september 28th, 2018. welcome to "cbs this morning." the senate judiciary committee plans to vote this morning on brett kavanaugh's supreme court nomination after an extraordinary hearing lasted nearly nine hours. christine blasey ford testified she's 100 percent certain kavanaugh attacked her in high school. the nominee testified he's 100% certain he did not. >> the american bar association called for an fbi investigation of blasey ford's allegation. we'll talk about the hearing with trump senior adviser kellyanne conway and rikki klieman and our chief
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correspondent jan crawford. an alleged marketplace murder online. and hands over life-saving information to authorities. >> if it wasn't for "48 hour," there would have been a funeral. >> how a killing in minnesota led to a mysterious dark web where you can buy everything from hit men to drugs. a marvel of engineering is getting an upgrade. the project to allow hoover dam to store electricity like a gigantic battery. >> but we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> i thought that brett was accidentally going to kill me. >> this confirmation process has become a national disgrace. >> republicans push forward with judge kavanaugh's nomination. >> if there is no truth to her charges, the fbi investigation will show it. >> you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy. >> elon musk sued by the sec for
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misleading investors. >> this is not the end we hoped for. >> a body believed to be that of the missing north carolina boy with autism was found. >> it's really heartbreaking. for anybody. >> in micro niche sha, a plan crashing into the water. >> this is surreal. >> a near perfect game. >> what a throw. >> and all that matters. >> i'm sure all of you watched the testimony of dr. ford. it was extremely respectful and emotional. >> i'm okay. i got the coffee, thank you very much. i think i can proceed. >> all she needed was coffee? i was just watching and i needed a venti xanax. >> on "cbs this morning." >> like many of you, i'm sure, i watched that testimony with a lump in my throat. if there's any silver lining, it's that these experiences that were once shrouded in fear and shame for so many people are becoming a movement and if this
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is something that you've been through or are going through, just remember, you're not alone. there are so many people who are standing alongside you. right now all over the world. they really, really are. >> this morning's eye opener is presented by toyota. let's go places. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." >> that was nicely said what he just shared with his audience. but what was so great is how interested people were on the train last night. i don't know if this happened to you. i'm sitting at a table with strangers. we're all looking at this one woman's i-pad. everybody was watching it. i love that people were engaged and wanted to see this. >> it was so emotional. both testimonies. you could feel the pain this has caused both families. both of these people. >> we pick it up with the emotion again this morning. norah o'donnell is off so bianna golodryga is with us. good to see you.
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>> good morning. >> felt like it was just a few hours ago. the senate judiciary committee will likely decide to proceed with judge kavanaugh's supreme court nomination this morning. barely 14 hours after a fiery and emotional day of testimony. kavanaugh and christine blasey ford, who claims he sexually assaulted her in high school, told their contradicting stories to a worldwide tv audience. capitol hill and the nation had not seen a display like this in a generation. >> i am here today not because i want to be. i am terrified. i am here because i believe it is my civic duty. >> this is a circus. the consequences will extend long past my nomination. >> after the hearing ended, the american bar association, which gave kavanaugh its highest rating, called on the senate to put its vote on hold until the fbi can investigate the allegations of abuse. the aba says the supreme court nomination, quote, is simply too important to rush to a vote.
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nancy cordes has covered the kavanaugh confirmation from the beginning. she's still covering the kavanaugh confirmation. she's on capitol hill right now. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: success for kavanaugh in the senate judiciary committee is now all but assured, after the one major undecided republican jeff flake of arizona has announced that he will vote yes. he says he left that very moving hearing yesterday with a lot of doubts, a lot of uncertainty about who is telling the truth. but at the end of the day, he said there was not enough corroborating evidence for ford's story. >> do you swear the testimony you're about to give this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. >> reporter: it was a day that transfixed washington and the country. >> dr. ford, with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? >> 100%. >> none of these allegations are true. >> correct. >> no doubt in your mind.
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>> zero. 100% certain. >> reporter: committee listened first to christine blasey ford, a psychologist. >> brett's assault on me drastically altered my life. >> reporter: she said kavanaugh pin heard down at a high school party. >> i believed he was going to rape me. i tried to yell for help. when i did, brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from yelling. >> reporter: republicans treated blasey ford gingerly, ceding their time to veteran sex crimes prosecutor rachel mitchell. >> you believed it occurred in the summer of 1982 and you said the end of your sophomore year. >> reporter: the ten-committee democrats universery behind ford. >> what is the strongest memory you have? >> indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter, the uproarious laughter between the two. and their having fun at my expense. >> reporter: kavanaugh came out swinging. as some in his party had
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advised. >> i had never done this. to her or to anyone. >> reporter: he said the accusations from blasey ford and two other women had ruined his life. >> the other night, ashley and my daughter liza said their prayers and little liza, all of 10 years old, said to ashley, we should pray for the woman. it's a lot of wisdom from a 10-year-old. >> reporter: democrats asked kavanaugh about alcohol use. >> you're saying there's never been a case where you drank so much that you didn't remember what happened the night before or part of what happened? >> you're asking about blackout. i don't know. have you? >> could you answer the question, judge? >> reporter: they also questioned repeatedly to back an fbi background investigation. >> judge kavanaugh, will you support an fbi investigation right now? >> i will do whatever committee wants -- >> personally, do you think
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that's the best thing for us to do? >> reporter: republicans honed in on blasey ford's lack of corroborating witnesses. >> if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy. >> reporter: eventually, partisan anger reached a boiling point. >> are you a gang rapist? >> no. >> boy, you want power, god, i hope you never get it. i hope the american people can see through this sham, that you knew about it and you held it. you had no intention of protecting dr. ford. none. >> reporter: the vote was originally supposed to take place this morning, but there was so much emotion on both side, so much that these senators wanted to say, that the chairman, chuck grassley, essentially postponed the vote for several hours so the committee could get through some other less controversial business first and then everyone will have a chance to say why they do not support kavanaugh before they take that pivotal
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vote. the 21 senators on the judiciary committee will meet again in about three hours. they're expected to vote along party lines to send kavanaugh's name to the full senate. what happens then is still uncertain. key senators from both parties are undecided and if republicans lose more than one gop vote, they will need help from democrats. ed o'keefe is on capitol hill with the next steps for this nomination. ed, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. that committee vote sets the stage for a final vote as early as tuesday. majority leader mitch mcconnell expected to begin the process of confirming him in the full senate on saturday afternoon. meaning the senate will be hereby for a rare weekend session. focus remains on at least two republicans who have yet to say what they plan to do. maine's susan collins and ah alaska's murkowski. and joe manchin of west virginia. much of the lobbying under way
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involves the former president george w. bush and former secretary of state condoleezza rice. both of them have been in touch with republicans and manchin in recent weeks, trying to convince them to vote for kavanaugh. >> ed, thank you. in his opening statement, judge kavanaugh accused democrats of a conspiracy to sabotage his nomination. >> this whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit. fueled with apparent pent-up anger about president trump and the 2016 election. fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record. revenge on behalf of the clintons. and millions of dollars in money from outside left wing opposition groups. >> with us now, from washington, is kellyanne conway, counselor to president trump. good morning, kellyanne. >> good morning, john. >> we've seen two sound bites from kavanaugh this morning. one, the anguish, the personal
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anguish, talking about his daughter. the second being that very partisan shot at democrats. i want to focus for a moment on that second part. how can judge kavanaugh sit on the supreme court and call balls and strikes and be an impartial member of the supreme court with that kind of a partisan shot? >> judge kavanaugh has done exactly that, john, for 12 years on the second highest court in the country. the d.c. circuit. and as he also said in his sworn testimony yesterday, there's never been a whip of an allegation like this all the time he's been in the court with any number of dozens of female law clerks and more importantly, people have never questioned his judicial temperament and his decisions. he's authored 300 opinions. these senators yesterday could have talked about that and said they were talking about a paragraph in high school yearbook. so i believe once he gets to the supreme court, he will call the balls and strikes fairly. what he was responding to yesterday was 2 1/2 weeks of a political hit job where the democrats in the senate
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judiciary committee treated both he and dr. ford very unfairly. >> let me ask you -- >> they abused him for their own purposes. he had showed them respect and deference in his original confirmation hearing and they showed him ruination and destruction in return. >> i hear you. the partisan message is quite clear. the american bar association when lindsey graham was reacting, he cited the american bar association. he called it the gold standard. so they took something differentway from this testimony yesterday. they've asked for a delay until the fbi can investigate dr. ford's claims. the president has the ability to ask for that, and since it's his nominee, will the president listen to the aba, which senator graham called the gold standard, and have a delay here? >> the president is listening to then senator joe biden in 1991 where he said anybody thinks the fbi makes conclusions doesn't understand anything -- >> not conclusions, kellyanne, just an investigation, to tighten up these details.
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>> but we had that yesterday for the whole country to see, and i think your reporting from your colleague ed is very instructive here, in that the sex crimes prosecutor, whom the republicans ask to come in and do the questions for dr. ford, respectfully, and impatiently, that she would never have enough evidence in a court of law to prosecute. the fbi has conducted six successful vettings of brett kavanaugh throughout his career. he's raised his right hand many times taking oath to the constitution, swearing to uphold the law. the most recent vetting occurred this summer, con temp rainiously with the letter that ford apparently sent to the democrats asking for anonymity. that vetting result is on the desk of every democrat senator. they ought to open it up and look at it. they're not going to find anything there that would cast doubt except for the most hardened partisan against judge kavanaugh's nomination. she didn't provide corroborating evidence yesterday in her testimony. he provided the country
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corroborating evidence as to his qualifications and temperament to be on the supreme court. >> let's talk about her for a second, kellyanne, christine blasey ford. what's your take on her testimony? was she credible to you? >> she was very compelling and i think very sympathetic. i have said all along including on your network something that judge kavanaugh said yesterday under oath and i have goose bumps right now. it seems that she absolutely was wronged by somebody. that she was sexually assaulted. as judge kavanaugh said at some point, somewhere, by someone. and that he and the rest of us mean her no ill will. i also have a 10-year-old daughter like he does. it's becoming a little bit harry in the way we have to describe these things to our youngsters. but he wasn't there. i've said from the beginning it may turn out that they're both right, that she was sexually assaulted, but that he had nothing to do with it. i think america saw that yesterday. i don't know why, also, that we have to look at every woman
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automatically as a victim. if you're a woman. every man as a bad perpetrator. when did this happen that we line up according to political lines or accord to gender lines? i think yesterday's hearing, if it had to happen, was very aware for the country, but i think everybody now will recognize dr. ford. her life will be forever changed. judge kavanaugh said his reputation, he ned needs to res it, the death threats against his wife and children and family. i think this was mishandled from the beginning. who could have been asking questions in a much less public setting. it sounds like dr. ford would have been open to that. >> a lot of people have a lot of questions about yesterday. it was certainly very partisan and very riveting to watch, i'll say that. >> i'm glad the public had a chance to see it, gayle, i think transparence is important. thank you. >> thank you for joining us. cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman is with us in studio 57
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and chief legal correspondent jan crawford joins us from washinton. they were with us yesterday as we watched the hearing unfold. good morning, again, guys. we did have a front row seat. that's one thing i like about this job, you really do have a front row seat to history. let's talk about the testimony yesterday. she was 100% certain. he was 100% certain. who do you believe? >> it depends who you are. she was anguished. she clearly had been -- >> he too. >> i'm going to start with her and then go to him. she was anguished. she was passionate. she made your heart break. the republicans were very respectful of her, even in their comments outside of hearting room. and she was think for almost everyone 100% believable. then we turned to him. and frankly i did not expect him to be able to come back with the same kind of passion and the
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same kind of anguish and he shocked me because he did. his opening statement was so painful that for many of us we had to look away. so when you're in this balance, i think it comes to the fact of whom do you believe. it depends on what you brought when you started to watch. >> jan, let me ask you, how effective do you believe that rachel mitchell was in asking the questions on batch of republicans? >> well, i mean, think it was kind of unclear as the hearings began. because at some point it seemed it was really hard to follow what was she doing with some of the questions she was asking of ford and was she laying the groundwork for something? at the end of the day, i think republicans have to be pretty pleased with the decision to use her to ask those questions. it really defused kind of the tone of the room. and so by the time kavanaugh was testifying in the afternoon, you didn't have this heightened atmosphere of drama and tension
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as much. certainly you had it from the witnesses, but i mean with the senators kind of going at it. so i think that that really from the republican's perspective is a decision they're pretty happy with. >> what do you make of the aba's move? >> i don't think that will have any impact whatsoever. you've got to think about conservatives who have a trem tremendous distrust for the american bar association. they were shocked when it came out and gave him their highest rating. what i'm hearing this morning from republicans is this is pretty much what they expected and they're surprised it took them this long to call for delay. >> our legal dream team, thank you. we have so many other questions obviously we'll get to later on in the show. up ahead, we'll continue our coverage of the kavanaugh controversy as we count down to the expected judiciary committee vote this morning. good friday morning to you, the weekend, cooling
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senator durbin tried to clear things up. >> with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? >> 100%. >> senator feinstein doubled down on just that question. >> how are you so sure it was he? >> the same way that i'm sure i'm talking to you right now, just the level of nor epinephrine in the brain that sort of, as you know, encodes that neuro transmitter, encodes
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memories hippocampus so the details are locked there. >> what? damn. what? did you? damn, dr. ford just dropped some knowledge and spit some neuroscience. >> i see why stephen picked up on that. she said is so confidently. i didn't know how it encoded into the hippocampus. >> no reading from script for that. >> no. >> you don't usually have somebody who is both a witness and an expert witness on their own testimony. quite a moment. on a key question. >> on a very key question. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." here are three things that you should know this morning. google's ceo is meeting with members of congress amid allegations that the company's search engine results are biased against conservatives. house majority leader kevin mccathy and more than two dozen
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week in 2016. that's an increase from 79% in 2010. researcher also found that fast food restaurants still widely promote sides like french fews despite a pledge to offer healthier options. >> investigators in north carolina believe they found the body of a missing 6-year-old boy. maddox rich, who had autism, reported missing last week. his father says his son ran away from him in the park. a body was discovered yesterday in a shallow creek nearby. manuel bojorquez. >> reporter: good morning. more than 300 investigators and searchers spent nearly a week poring over hundreds of leads and looking through thousands of acres here for any sign of maddox. in the end, even though they believe they have found his body, there are still many unanswered questions. >> i'm heart broken.
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>> reporter: gastonia police chief struggled to speak while announcing investigators believe they found the body of missing 6-year-old maddox rich. >> our community's heart broken. our searchers, our investigators. this is not the end that we'd hoped for. >> reporter: maddox who had autism, and was nonverbal, was last seen at rankin lake part in gastonia. his father told police he couldn't catch up when the boy ran after a jogger. >> there's a lot of information indicating that maddox was where the family indicated he was and that his movements were what they indicated. >> reporter: hundreds of investigators spent nearly a week by air, foot and boat looking for maddox. thursday afternoon, a body, camouflaged in the shallow creek, roughly a mile from the park in an area searched before. at this point what is your investigation looking to answer right now? >> how did he get there? what was the manner of death? what was the cause of death? was there any crime that was
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comm committed? >> i want my baby back in my arms. >> reporter: earlier this week, maddox's parents both made emotional public pleas for information leading to his safe return. >> it's torture. i just want my little boy back home. >> reporter: in a lengthy facebook post thursday night, maddox's father ian rich thanked investigators and said he is distraught. today, i found out i'm not a dad anymore, he wrote, i would give anything to go back and save him. >> it's really heartbreaking. >> reporter: the body was found near steven early's house. he and other community members say they are devastated. >> i was so hoping they'd find him, you know, alive. his poor mama. >> reporter: formal identification of the body could take days. in the meantime, police say they would still like to speak with anyone else who is that the park at the time of the disappearance. they say there was a man
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described to be in a white truck they would still like to locate. they believe he may have been the last person to see maddox, john. >> manuel, thanks. oh, maddox, sweet face in the picture. >> very tough story. a "48 hours" murder investigation revealed a dark secret about the internet. >> i'm peter van zandt. a murder for hire plot is discovered by a cyber sleuth here in london. we found ourselves in the middle of an apparent live marketplace for murder. we contacted authorities. >> the truth is that most hit man sites are real. >> that's coming up on "cbs this morning." >> and if you're on the go, subscribe to our "cbs this morning" podcast, available on apple's podcast app or wherever you like to download your pod casts. hear the day's top stories and what's happening in your world in less than 20 minutes. you're watching "cbs this morning." "cbs this morning." [ growling ]
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the internet has a little the internet has a little known and mysterious twin known as the dark web. a place where online services
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offering illicit drugs and hit men is just one click away. the shadowy world of the dark web. his six-month investigation uncovered murder plots that were paid for but not yet carried out. "48 hours" alerted authorities around the world hoping to save lives. here's a look at what "48 hours" discovered. >> reporter: he calls himself yura. in this video diary, claims to run a murder for hire empire on the dark web. a kind of an internet hiding behind the one we know. yura has struck terror in the hearts of people all over the world. including 43-year-old amy in cottage grove, minnesota. >> they seemed like an all-american church going, fearing loving couple. >> reporter: so prosecutor says in may 2016 amy and her husband
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steven seemed shocked when the fbi and police informed them she was marked for murder. someone had placed a kill order for $12,000 on a dark web hit man site called besa mafia, using using an anonymous screen name dog day god. >> champing at the bit for this to happen. >> reporter: captain mcallister says they beefed up supreme court and bought a gun. november 13th, 2016. sergeant martin was on the night shift when police got a 911 call. >> i think my wife shot herself. there's blood all over. >> reporter: first responders to the scene were suspicious. amy had a single gunshot wound inside her right ear. >> it soon became clear someone had killed her. >> reporter: was it the hired hit man from the dark web?
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4,000 miles away in london, a white hat hacker named chris montero had been monitoring yura's besa mafia site. what did god day god want done? >> a target on a particular date. >> reporter: dozens of kill orders from all over the world. he says he tried to alert authorities but they brushed him off. so he started passing tips directly to "48 hours." we found ourselves in the middle of an apparent live marketplace for murder. and there was only one thing we could do. we contacted authorities. >> they just received a tip for a murder for hire in iran. >> against a citizen of taiwan. >> if it wasn't for "48 hours" there would have been a funeral. >> so far, four arrested from our tips. >> do you understand the terror that you have caused with this murder for hire plot? >> wow. peter van zandt is here.
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peter, you and the investigation literally saved lives. how many murders were prevented? >> we're up to more than 30 targets in 9 countries. these are people who where a kill order had been made and money exchanged hands. >> the dark web, aside from the name itself, what makes it so dangerous? >> it's everything you do on it is virtually untraceable. it was created by the united states military. so commanders could have secret communication. criminal organizations have gotten into the dark web. it requires a special browser to do so. so so much goes on and no one can trace what's happening. you can actually go on and say i'd like to have this person murdered, negotiate and nobody knows this is happening. >> so con flikflicted even tell this story because on one hand, it gives people idea, on the other hand, shouldn't we do something to shut it down? >> it's remarkable how many people already know.
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welcome back to "cbs this morning." here's a look at some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. time reports called to the national sex assault hotline spiked an unprecedented 147% during christine blasey ford's testimony yesterday. she described her alleged attack when she was a teenager. raain, says it often sees an uptick when sexual assault is in the news. anyone can call the hotline. 1-800-656-hope. >> senator leahy yesterday said courage is contagious. those numbers would suggest that is the case. >> an example of that, for sure. the telegraph in london reports everybody onboard a jet liner that crashed into the pacific lagoon in micronesia today survived. the air new guinea plane apparently hit the water short of the runway while attempting to land at an island airport.
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all passenger and crew were evacuated before the plane sank. seven people were taken to the hospital. the u.s. navy said sailors working nearby assisted in the rescue. the cause of the crash is under investigation. >> good news that everyone survived that. the dallas morning news reports on a recall of boy scout uniform neckerchief slides. there are concerns over potentially toxic lead content. it involved about 110,000 metal slides made in china and sold between february and august of this year. consumers are advised to return them to the store for exchange. and our partners at the bbc report on the first up close video and high resolution images of an asteroid. japan's space agency posted the photos from its two rovers yesterday. they are the first to land on a moving asteroid. the images show a rugged and rocky landscape. the asteroid is about 170 million miles away. another lander is scheduled to arrive next week and attempt to
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commission is suing elon musk... and asking a federal court to oust him as tesla' rman and c-e- it's 7:56, and i'm kenny choi. the securities exchange commission is suing elon musk, and they want him ousted as the ceo of tesla. he tweeted he had funding to take his company private several weeks ago. bay area home prices fell by 10 percent. investigators said a woman's blood alcohol limit was
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good morning. it's 7:57. a traffic alert in effect for drivers on northbound 13, and this is just past highway 24, a headon crash. emergency crews are on the scene, and currently all northbound lanes of 13 are blocked. we expect delays as you're making your way on 24 and 13, and we are also tracking slowdowns through oakland. look at this. 880, northbound side, 30 minute ride 238 to the maze. 580 is a 25 minute ride. now to mary with the forecast. thank you, jacqueline. starting off the day with fog. we are on the cool side as we go through the day. high temperatures running 10 degrees below and cooler from what we saw yesterday. 62 in san francisco. 66 in oakland. 76 for concord, and check out the weekend, much cooler in the
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it is friday, september it's friday, september 28, 2018. welcome back to cbs "this morning." brett kavanaugh's supreme court nomination is senate judiciary committee. ahead, committee democrat amy klobuchar on her confrontation with the nominee yesterday. plus, a group of high school students tell us what they see in the controversy. but first, here's today's eye opener at 8:00. the sfwhenate judiciary committee will likely decide to proceed with judge brett kavanaugh's supreme court nomination this morning. >> success for kavanaugh in the
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senate judiciary committee is all but assured? >> mitch mcconnell expected to call procedural votes as early as saturday morning with a final vote by tuesday. >> what's your take on her testimony. was she credible? >> it seems she absolutely was wronged by somebody. that she was sexually assaulted. but he wasn't there. >> she was anguished, she was passionate. and she made your heart break. >> his opening statement was so painful that for many of us we had to look away. how effective do you believe that rachel mitchell was? >> republicans have to be pretty pleased with the decision to use her to ask those questions because it diffused the tone of the room. >> there were questions about why she could fly to certain things but she said she had a fear of flying. >> hawaii, costa rica, south pacific islands and french polynesia. have you been to those places. >> correct. >> by airplane. >> so what? [ laughter ] being afraid of flying doesn't mean you never fly. it means you hate it while
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you're doing it. like everyone else. in coach. [ laughter ] >> i think i'm laugh ago little too hard at that joke. but i did think he made a good point. just because you're afraid of flying doesn't mean you never fly. >> of course. >> i'm gayle king with john dickerson and bianna golodryga. we like she's here but why? because norah is off. we'll begin with this. in a few showers the senate judiciary committee plans to vote on sending brett kavanaugh's supreme court nomination to the full senate. that follows powerful and emotional testimony from the nominee and the woman who claims he sexually assaulted her 36 years ago. christine blasey ford says she is certain that kavanaugh attacked her. kavanaugh says he does not doubt she was attack bud he says he did not do it. the tone of the hearing was
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strongly political and often very angry. >> i have been accused of acting out of partisan political motives. those who say that do not know me. i am an independent person and i am no one's pawn. >> your coordinated and well-funded effort to destroy my good name and to destroy my family will not drag me out. you may defeat me in the final vote, but you'll never get me to quit. never. >> judge kavanaugh, will you support an fbi investigation right now? >> i will do whatever the committee wants. >> personally, do you think that's the best thing for us to do? you won't answer? >> look, senator, i've -- i -- i've said i wanted a hearing and i said i was welcoming anything. i'm innocent. >> this is the most unethical sham since i've been in
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politics. and if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell would haven't done what you've done this guy. you're looking for a fair process you came to the wrong town at the wrong time, my friend. >> so much emotion. the hearing gripped the nation for nearly nine hours. americans gathered around televisions and offices, bars, classrooms and other public spaces, commuters listened on their smartphones, airplane passengers were silent. and some of them cried as they watched the testimony unfold. >> we spoke earlier with democratic senator amy klobuchar about an exchange from yesterday's hearing that is getting a lot of attention. she asked judge kavanaugh if he'd blacked out from too much alcohol after mentioning her father had a drinking problem. >> you're saying there's never been a case where you drank so much you didn't remember what happened jav r tthe night befor >> you're asking about blackout. i don't know. have you? >> is could you answer the
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question, judge? that's not happened, is that your answer? >> yeah. and i'm curious if you have. >> i have no drinking problem, judge. >> nor do i. she asked me a question at the end that i responded to asking her a question and i didn't -- sorry i did that. tough process. senator, what do you make of that exchange now that we're a few hours after it happened? >> i was thinking if i was in his courtroom and acted like that he would have thrown me out. and appreciated that he apologized, but at the same time he didn't really answer the question. and what i was trying to get at was that you have this incredibly convincing testimony in the morning from dr. ford, you have other witnesses out there that have said, including his college roommate, that he gets belligerent when he drinks. others saying that he would have memory lapses. those kinds of things. and yet we are not allowed to talk to those people under oath or have the fbi look back and talk to them. and that is all we're asking for
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here is a fair-minded process just like we do with other nominees where you open it up if new information comes out. and they are denying us that and, of course, what does that make me think? that they are hiding something. they don't want these people to be questioned under oath or by the fbi with criminal penalties if they lie. >> did you believe his apology to be sincere to you? were you caught off guard? >> i can't assess that. i think he realized that it was not good to be going back at a senator. all i was trying to say to him in a polite way was that i've had alcoholism in my family, my dad has duis and took the consequences for it and then went on to go into treatment and is in aa at age 90 and i was using that to say that happens in a lot of families. there's drinking problems. and then you have to get through it. but in your case, you're just denying that this ever happened in the past and that's what bothers me. for me, it's not that people
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drink in high school, it's is he telling the truth. and the only way to figure it out is talking to the witnesses. she passed a polygraph test. >> a lot of people are asking the question, senator, about the truth and they're also questioning today his temperament. do you have question about that? and then on the other hand people say well, someone who is fighting for their reputation who believes their credibility has been torn to shreds, wouldn't you expect that person to be emotional. >> emotional, yes. but what we saw was a concerted effort on the other side all afternoon, not just him but the republican senators, this chest beating, like who could yell the most and who could claim, oh, this isn't about her at all, this is about this concerted effort. and i believe what the strategy was with the republican side was to simply not talk about her, not talk about what happened in the morning, her moving testimony where she didn't just testify like victims do in a trial to a jury box of strangers, she testified and was
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willing to go forward to the nation. didn't seem to me to have a political bone in her body. then you have these other people out there who are also making claims and they need to be looked into. i'm a lawyer. i don't like living in an evide evidence-free zone and for my republican colleagues who still haven't decided, senator flake, murkowski, collins, they're fair-minded people. they should want one week for an fbi investigation for the sake of the country to follow up on these claims. >> senator, republicans, at least publicly, feel a bit more confident now that they do have the votes for confirmation. what is your response to chatter within democratic circles that if he is, in fact confirmed that democrats will try to impeach him? would you support that strategy? >> first of all, i'm not everyone thinking of that because i still believe that they haven't decided. and in my conversations with them, i believe them when they say they haven't decided.
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just because we're having a committee vote today, committees have advanced nominees to the floor who later get pulled back or investigations occur. that doesn't mean that it's done. and i know they're trying to ram it through so more evidence doesn't come out, but i believe the nation is focused on this right now, whether or not we should at least allow, as the american bar association, the group of lawyers from across the country that found him to be well-qualified for this job, they now came out last night after watching this and said at least allow the fbi to go back and look at this just as george h.w. bush ordered in the anita hill case. >> there's still time to do that. thank you, senator klobuchar. >> thank you. high school students tell us if they are closely following the brett kavanaugh controversy ahead. hear from our student panel about why they
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the hoover dam is one of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th century. built during the great depression, it was the biggest public works project in the country. the dam provides power to three states and water to more than 20 million people. now, there's a $3 billion plan to bring the power plant into the 21st century. as california and the west expand into renewable energy. jamie youks shows us how a solar and wind powered water storage system could in effect turn the dam into a giant battery. >> close to a million people come each year to the arizona/nevada border to be awed by the mighty hoover dam.
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a 726-foot-high wall of concrete housing power generators. >> that's a lot of concrete. >> 3.35 million cubic yards of concrete. you could pave a road from san francisco to new york with that concrete. >> it produces enough power to support more than a million homes. the generators take in water from lake mead. the water is funneled through spinning turbines to create electricity. then the water is released to flow downstream. los angeles is its largest customer. >> 55% of california, 25% of nevada, and 20% to arizona customers. >> the dam was built to tame the colorado river after devastating floods. now, the los angeles department of water and power is looking to turn it into a giant energy storage system. similar to the job a battery would perform. >> it's one of the simplest
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technologies. pump water up here, when there's too much energy, and let it run downhill when there's not enough energy. >> the l.a. department of water and power has already implemented the plan that works on a much smaller scale here in castaic, california. >> this isn't something we're looking at lightly. this is something that has been thought about and now it's let's look at the engineering, let's look at the feasibility. >> the project calls for a wind and solar powered pump station to be built 20 miles downstream. water would be pumped back to lake mead through underground pipes and sent back down during periods of higher demand. l.a. mayor eric garcetti, a proponent of green energy, is also behind the plan. >> you're talking about a price tag of $3 billion. that's a lot of money. >> the cost of inaction is more. we've got drought and fires in the west. we're going to be talking about hundreds of billions, trillions of dollars of cost if we don't confront climate change now. >> california has a mandate of zero carbon emissions by 2045.
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and stands to gain the most from the plan. while some of the businesses downriver are concerned there may not be enough water for recreation. how do you sell people downriver this is going to be a good thing, especially during a drought when water levels are low? >> you have to listen to stakeholders that are there. we can't just do this and mandate it and say it's our dam and we're going to do whatever. >> the project is in its infancy. it requires an environmental impact study, along with a debate over how the cost will be divided between all of the energy users. >> the western united states might be divided by state borders, but we really have the same electricity lines, the same water. we realize our fates are tied together. >> a visionary project that some hope will stem the flee of climate change before it's too late. for "cbs this morning," jamie youks, los angeles. >> we have been teasing all morning, giant battery. now i see what they're talking
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about. >> yeah, big battery. >> very hard to plug your phone into, though. >> see how that's going to turn out. who could ever replace mr. rogers, do you think? one oscar winning actor is going to give it a try. i'm thinking he's going to do a good job, too. you're watching "cbs this morning." we always thank you for that. we'll be right back. this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by rocket mortgage. by quicken loans. america's largest mortgage lender. what?! he's gonna slap some clips in your hair, give you a bob and then he's gonna move to boca raton. but you're gonna look amazing. ok. there are multiples on the table: one is cash, three are fha, one is va. so what can you do? she's saying a whole lotta people want to buy this house. but you got this! rocket mortgage by quicken loans makes the complex simple. understand the details and get approved in as few as eight minutes by america's largest mortgage lender.
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actress and big me too supporter alyssa milano was a visible presence inside the committee room at the kavanaugh hearing. she revealed last week that she did not tell her parents that she had been sexually assaulted for 30 years. we spoke with her about the me too movement's role in the kavanaugh showdown. >> i think women are scared. and i think that the perfect storm needed to happen for me too to take off the way that it
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did. and so many survivors have come forward and are standing in solidarity with dr. ford. we're not going to be silences anymore. we're going to speak out. it's not a perfect movement. there's no movement that is. people will be falsely accused of things. and that's why it's so important that we set precedent for what due process and a fair process looks like. >> milano told us these difficult conversations are important for the me too movement's success. high school students tell us the sexual assault allegations in the brett kavanaugh hearings resonate with them. >> raise your hand if you know someone who has been sexually harassed or assaulted by a peer. >> do you want to describe whatevery -- you don't have to. >> i mean, it happens at parties. yeah. >> and it's serious. it is serious. >> ahead, our panel of teenagers
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opens up about the culture of sexual assault and why some young victims are still afraid to come forward. your local news is next. a helicopter is being blamed for starting this brush fire in calistoga. good friday morning, and it's 8:25. i'm ann makovec. a hospitaller is being blamed nor starting this -- for starting this brush fire. it was brought in to inspected power lines, but it accidentally cut the power line in the process. no one was hurt. a 3-year battle over rent control in mountain view will likely stretch into 2020. the campaign missed a deadline for the november ballot. san francisco's mayor is calling for a speedup on the
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good morning. it's now 8:27, and we are tracking slowdowns over at the bay bridge toll plaza, and it continues to be a slow ride headed into san francisco. here's a live look at the fremont exit where traffic is stacked up, across the bay bridge span. for folks trying to exit at fremont or harrison, you can see it's going to be a slow
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commute. you avoid downtown surface streets in san francisco, definitely do so. we have the transit that is closed and moved over to the temporary transit agency there, and you will need to plan for plenty of extra time if you're headed into downtown san francisco. it's very busy right now. now to the forecast. >> a live look at the tower camera. you can see the clouds and foggy conditions out there. temperatures on the cooler side, and about 10 degrees cooler compared to what we saw yesterday. 62 in san francisco, 66 in oakland. 76 in concord, and 79 for the high in fairfield. check out the highs for the weekend, not all that high. talking about cooler weather inland. saturday and sunday, inland, mid-70s. mid-60s for the bay, upper 50s for the coast, and a chance of
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showers late monday into early tuesday of next week. have a great weekend.
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♪ welcome back to cbs "this morning." right now it's time to show you some of this morning's headlines. the "wall street journal" reports on new laws aimed to make work hours more predictable. seattle, new york city, and the state of oregon have implemented so called fair work week legislation. they require certain retail, fast food, and hospitality employers to set schedules as much as two weeks in advance. companies would also allow for mandatory rest periods between shifts many workers endured frequent last-minute scheduling changes and late-night shifts followed by early-morning
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call-ins. the "l.a. times" reports 17 people are being charged in a change of apple store thefts across california. we told you about these graf-and-go robberies earlier this month. the thieves are accused of stealing more than $1 million worth of electronics over several months. they wore hoodies and entered apple stores in large groups. seven people were arrested tuesday and warrants are out for the nine others. >> i hope they get the rest of them. so brazen and wrong. bloomberg reports the fda approved a new migraine drug and it will be free to pagttients. emgality is the cost. it's the third in a new class of therapy for the 30 million patients who suffer is from recurrent painful headaches. just 10% take prescription drugs to prevent smigraines. "variety" has a new look at tom hanks playing mr. rogers in
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a new movie. that looks so much like him. ♪ won't you be my neighbor >> fred rogers died in 2003. hanks will play him in a new movie based on rogers friendship with a journalist. the film hits theaters in october, 2019. what can't he do? >> i was going to say if anybody can do it it's tom hanks. he did "sully" he inhabited that character. ben bradley, walt disney. >> between tom hanks and mr. rogers you can just feel your blood pressure just going -- >> the goodness. >> he'll play john dickerson one day. too. >> very nice. >> you don't know what to say! >> it's a compliment. >> bianna, he's blushing. >> he is blushing. >> all right back to work. christine blasey ford testified -- she was -- sorry. i can't laugh at this.
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christine blasey ford testified she was sexually assaulted by supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh when they were both in high school. kavanaugh strongly denied the claim. much of yesterday's hearing focused on the time when they were teenagers, so we decided to assemble a panel of current chicago-area high school students. they shared their thoughts with adriana diaz, not only on the allegations but the relevance of these hearings for young people today. >> have you been paying attention to the brett kavanaugh story? >> i've been following the reports on the news, reading articles about it. >> reporter: what stands out to you? >> i think it's the position of power that we're trying to put him in. it's kind of like scary to see someone who has, like, such serious allegations be up for a position like this. >> reporter: is it scary to be in high school knowing something you do now -- >> can affect you in 30, 40 years? absolutely. >> well, i think that's part of what's so good about this.
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should be should be scared. their actions have consequences. >> reporter: is it fair to expect teenagers to know right from wrong when it comes to sexual harassment and assault? >> i think it's very fair. i think even as children, as a five-year-old we have this human intuition where we know right from wrong. i think sexual harassment is human intuition. you know it's wrong to assault someone. i think kids in high school don't know whether it's wrong to get drunk or do that kind of stuff, but to physically harass a person, we've been taught forever that it's wrong. >> does a culture of objectifying girls and women still exist today in high school? >> nothing has changed. i was even reading some of the articles from 30 plus years ago and i think it's still the same. >> i think the way boys are supposed to act is pursue girls regardless of how they respond. i think that's a very toxic part
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of our culture that persists today. >> reporter: what do you make of the notion that boys will be boys? >> i think it's a childish excuse for something you very well know that you were doing at one point or another. at one point or another he knows he was drinking, he knows who is getting drunk. >> i also think that to a certain point i think it's, yeah, like boys will be boys, girls will be girls, it can be said about anyone but i think it's important that -- people make mistakes and i think it's important for them to reflect on their mistakes and know that was a stupid thing i did, i should haven't done that. i should haven't gotten drunk, i should haven't done this to that girl. >> you mentioned drinking. is alcohol abuse at parties by your peers? maia, you're shaking your head and you're 15. >> i mean, definitely. i don't think that has changed either. there's new things, new drugs,
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new stuff like that. but i think abusing something that isn't meant to be abused is a definite high school thing. >> people will go outside of their comfort zone to be accept ed especially in high school, there's a need to have to fit in, somewhere to be, to exist where you feel comfortable even if you have to start by making yourself uncomfortable. >> reporter: do you think young men are more likely to be targeted or be assumed guilty rather than assumed innocent? >> i can't speak from personal experience but looking at it from an outside perspective, absolutely. >> i think with something as heavy as sexual assault instead of it being innocent until proven guilty it's more of a young men start guilty until proven innocent. i feel like we shouldn't start with the mentality that they are guil guilty. >> reporter: raise your hand if you know someone who has been sexually harassed or assaulted by a peer.
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do you want to describe -- you don't have to. >> i mean, it happens at parties. >> and it's serious, it's very serious. it's something that makes as a 15-year-old, you don't know how to help your friend, you don't nope what to do and you feel at a loss where how could i let this happen? i wasn't even there but how could this happen to someone that i know and to me next, you don't know. >> i think there are some situations where it does get serious but there are some times when a guy comes out of the room and high fives all his friends and that's something that's like -- i don't know, i distinctly remember of being like, that's just kind of weird. >> and you're saying you may not know what happened behind closed doors? >> yeah, but just the fact that he comes out and that's his initial response.
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the girl didn't come out with him, was still in the room, didn't see it happening. >> reporter: but he comes out looking for props. >> yeah. >> reporter: have you or anyone you know had to help someone get help or help them report what happened? was that hard for you or the person you were helping? >> it was definitely hard for the person i was helping just because there's so much pressure to not be the girl who ruins his life. >> my friend has not reported it and she does not want to, either. and i think it's because of exactly what you describe. you don't want to be the person who ruin his life. you don't want anyone to know because it's so embarrassing to imagine yourself so small and i think tieing into the brett kavanaugh case, just imagining
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maybe in 30 years she'll say something. and the fact that it should take that long is just kind of sad. >> appreciate their candor and poise. it shows you how little in some cases things have changed. we need to have conversations with our sons and daughters about this topic. >> and on the one hand you're optimistic because they know what to look out for yet it still happens and they don't want to hurt the boy or the girl short term. long term we know what the implications are, too, though. >> they've really -- the fact that they were able to speak with such clarity gives me some hope. the new cbs comedy "the neighborhood" tackles issues ranging from racial stereo tyty to father hood and family. star and executive producer -- hey, there he is, hi, cedric the entertainer. >> where's the camera? >> over here, over here.
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>> why he compares his character -- >> you're still not looking in the right camera, cedric. why he compares his character to classic tv dads like george jefferson and minority a chance to make their d hear from the other
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sexual assault survivors who have come forward with credible and powerful stories. and that will be also in my view
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necessary, but today i am >> i'm walking down street and a little white lady sees me. she sees me she goes oh, my god, i can't believe it, can we take a picture? i was like, of course, she take a picture, she walks off talking about thank you cee lo. [ laughter ] >> you know y'all all look alike. comedian and actor cedric the entertainer. he's been making audiences laugh for more than 30 years. he's best known as one of the original kings of comedy as eddie and the barbershop movie franchise and his hit tv movie series the soul man. he stars in the cbs show called "the neighborhood." this comedy focuses on what happens when a white family moves into a predominantly black neighborhood. hold your face straight. [ laughter ] calvin butler is wary of the newcomers. >> baby, any sign of the new neighbors yet? >> nope. >> ain't that something. i invite them to my home, laugh
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after his corny jokes. he has the awe das di nudacity up. >> lena. >> dave, glad you could make it. >> calvin. >> hey, dave. >> hi, i'm tina. >> i'm gemma, this is our son grover. >> grover? grover johnson? . >> that is his name. cedric the entertainer. good morning to you. >> good morning, good morning, everybody. how are you doing? >> they were already cracking up about it because everybody is so used to the other story where the black family moves into the white neighborhood and this is based loosely on a true story. >> based off of the creator and executive produce ere partner jim reynolds. this is loosely based off his life. he moved into a predominantly black neighborhood and so when i got this script, it was mainly from his perspective and then i was like well, okay, that's not
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how black people would act. >> there's a line where you say, you know, when the white people move into the neighborhood next thing you know they're running around in -- >> in their little short shorts, got their vegan labradoodle. [ laughter ] i've never even seen a dog like this. looks like a curly haired german shepherd. >> did you come up with the name grover? >> no, the writer came up with this name grover and i was like the only grover i knew was grover washington, jr. so i was like that just surprised me and the one from "sesame street." but the fact that we started to think about that he thought johnson -- i thought that was such a black name that when he said that was a commonly white name in the midwest i said what? so that's the stuff we started to make the show about. >> you also touch on race which is hilarious, that's what the show is. you said in the show there are two kinds of racists, one who
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hates black people and the other that loves black people. what do you mean? >> they love you just because they're black. like yo, i got a lot of black friends and your dress is so pretty, your skin. can i touch your hair? and i think rihanna is gorgeous. [ laughter ] like everybody loves rihanna. >> or how about this "i don't even think of you as black." anybody said that to you? >> not me, i'm too dark. you see me and you go yeah, you pretty black. but you're so well spoken. we talked about that, like when you get the white neighbors we know your potholes are going to get fixed because white people will call the city on you. black people just tell you there's a pothole down there. don't turn on that street, there's a pothole. >> and different styles of parenting, too. >> definitely. >> this is rich with material. >> yeah because you know you see
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the parents that's going to talk to the kids and reason with them one parent will listen to their kids opinion and the black parent going to tell their kids. boy, this is what you believe. >> you're a parent of three yourself. three kids. i'm glad you mentioned that, i forgot about it. i love the children. >> they're all named after cedric right now. >> careful they're watching. how much of cedric is in your character as a father? >> i'm a little more lenient as a father but i do like to kind of set the rules. we want our kids to be great citizens and mannerable kind of kids but our kids can do -- they live a new society, they can do whatever they want. >> hear that kids? >> they travel the world and do all kinds of things. >> speaking of traveling the
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world, you're still tour iing. what does that do for you? >> it keeps you on the pulse of what's going on in society. when you perform for beam and the live audience comes out, that gets you out of the bubble. it took one of their democratic colleagues, amy klobuchar of minnesota to pipe in and say they are not saying anything because they are so stunned at you left little rock and you go to chicago, portland and the world is just different in these places so that's what i like about that. >> you know what i like? i like you're on cbs. we're glad you're part of the family. i learned today off last name. mr. kyle. >> oh, wow. >> not johnson. >> "the neighborhood" premiers monday night at 8:00 right here on -- where, cedric? >> cbs. >> get used to that. and remember you can hear more of cbs "this morning" on our podcast available on apple's podcast app or wherever you like to download your podcast. you're watching cbs "this morning."
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i'm april kennedy and i'm an arborist with pg&e in the sierras. since the onset of the drought, more than 129 million trees have died in california. pg&e prunes and removes over a million trees every year to ensure that hazardous trees can't impact power lines. and since the onset of the drought we've doubled our efforts. i grew up in the forests out in this area and honestly it's heartbreaking to see all these trees dying. what guides me is ensuring that the public is going to be safer and that these forests can be sustained and enjoyed by the community in the future.
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good morning. it's 8:55. bart directors voted to expand to more inspectors, and they will now be working nights and weeks. workers are laying the ground work to brace the transmay transection in san francisco. they are hoping to secure the area around the cracked beams we have news throughout the day on all your favorite platforms including kpix.com. ♪ ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? ♪
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still flat. here. try this. and... ♪ ooh, heaven -- nailed it. good morning. the time now is 8:57, and we are tracking an accident that is keeping the northbound ride very slow along 101, and you can see the crash has at least one lane blocked, southbound 101 at sir francis street boulevard, and the backup is stretching towards highway 37, and right now a25 minute ride from roland, down to 580, and slowing across the san rafael bridge. one lane blocked in the westbound direction by the toll plaza. an earlier crash there, and
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things are heavy for the drivers, making their way along 580 and 101, headed through the north bay, and that is a check on your traffic. now to marylee with the forecast. >> you can see on the traffic cameras, a low cloud area of fog, and the onshore flow is kicking in for us. cool today, and cooler for the weekend with the rain chances next week, and high temperatures, a lot cooler compared to yesterday. 66 for the high in oakland, and check out the inland locations. fairfield at 79. 77 for livermore. cooler still for the weekend. mid-70s inland for saturday and sunday. mid-60s for the bay, up ander 50s for the coast. a slight chance of a shower for the coast, and for the north bay on saturday, there's the rain chances, and it's late monday into early tuesday, and it has been about 5 months since we have seen measurable rain fall in the bay area. we can definitely use it. high pressure is building back
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in with sunshine by the middle part of next week. have a great weekend.
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