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this point, nikki, thanks. this storm is moving north tonight. flash flood and tornado watches and warnings are posted in the carolinas and virginia. the storm is expected to move out to sea tomorrow. other news tonight, there was a special guest in the oval office today. kanye west said he wanted to have a few words with the president. he did. including, our major garrett who was there to watch. >> he might not have expected to have a crazy [ bleep ] like kanye west run up and support, but best believe, we are going to make america great. >> reporter: with that oval office obscenity, rap superstar kanye west described to president trump the cosmic effect his presidency had on his psyche. >> there was something about when i put this hat on, it made me feel like superman. you made a superman. that's my favorite superhero. >> reporter: west and hall of fame football player jim brown were at the white house to discuss criminal justice reform
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and other issues with the president. west, a chicago native, questioned mr. trump's support of the police practice known as stop and frisk. >> we feel that stop and frisk does not help the relationships in the city. >> i'm open-minded. i'm here. >> reporter: earlier this year, west's wife and reality tv star kim kardashian successfully lobbied the president to commute the sentence of a woman convicted of a federal drug offense. at today's meeting, the president by turns appeared perplexed, pleased, and amused. >> how does it feel to be in the oval office? >> oh, it is good energy in this. >> reporter: west has left an impression on previous presidents, saying this about george w. bush after hurricane katrina in 2005: >> george bush doesn't care about black people. >> reporter: and after west grabbed a microphone from taylor swift at an award ceremony, president obama was caught on an open mic saying this: >> the young lady seems like a perfectly nice person. she's getting her award... >> why would he do that? >> he's a jackass. >> reporter: west said the president was on his "hero's
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journey," and the rapper appeared to be delighted to be along for the ride. possibly for the first time in his presidency, in the oval office, the president appeared speechless, saying at one point, "that was quite something." jeff? >> glor: all right, major. thank you very much. coming up next explosion on board a soyuz rocket had everyone fearing the worst for the crew.
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welcome to tide pods talk with gronk. i'm gronk! these are tide pods. this is not. even this entire bottle can't beat tide pods. to recap: ugh... tide pods. if it's clean, it's got to be tide. >> glor: the only vehicle that can currently take crews to the space station has been grounded, after a russian soyuz rocket malfunctioned today just after launch. the two crew members survived a jarring return to earth. mark strassmann is following this. >> and there is liftoff of the soyuz ms-10.
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>> reporter: two minutes after liftoff, trouble. inside the capsule, something jostled american astronaut nick hague and russian cosmonaut alexey ovchinin. an unexplained rocket malfunction triggered an automatic mission abort, something to do with this debris you see falling away from the rocket. the crew's capsule ejected from the rocket at 4,700 mph, falling more than 30 miles safely to earth in the middle of kazakhstan. space station operations manager kenny todd: >> we have every confidence that our russian colleagues will figure out what's going on and we'll hopefully see nick and alexey on orbit and at the space station again soon. >> reporter: today's mishap comes seven years after the space shuttle fleet was retiredh russians for rides to the space station. two u.s. companies, spacex and boeing, are now building a new generation of american space taxis.
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hh crude flights next summer, and the clock is ticking-- america's soyuz contracts with the russians end next july. >> this is the upper dome. >> reporter: earlier this week, program manager john mulholland gave us a tour of boeing's starliner assembly plant at the kennedy space center. do you feel under the gun now to make it happen? >> we expect as a team to meet that schedule, but schedule pressure is never going to get in the way of making sure we have a safe vehicle to fly. >> reporter: you want to get it right? >> have to. >> reporter: the three crew members on the space station right now have a soyuz capsule docked there to bring them back, but if the russians can't clear a soyuz rocket to fly up a replacement crew by january, the station may have to be abandoned, jeff, at least temporarily. >> glor: mark strassmann, thanks. up next here tonight, what is behind the dow's biggest two-day behind the dow's biggest two-day loss since feb
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>> glor: the sell-off on wall street continued today, giving the dow its biggest two-day loss since february. since hitting a record high last
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week of 26,828, the dow is off more than 6.5%. investors are worried in part about interest rate hikes meant to keep inflation in check. today, president trump criticized those hikes again, saying the federal reserve is "out of control." the president also said today the u.s. is working with turkey and saudi arabia to find out what happened to saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. the "washington post" contributor was last seen nine days ago entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. turkish tv showed images of what it called a saudi hit squad flown in, allegedly to murder khashoggi, a critic of the saudi regime. one intelligence official told cbs news the saudis may have planned to bring khashoggi back to saudi arabia, but it's unclear what happened inside the consulate. prosecutors in new york today dropped one of six criminal sex assault charges against harvey weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul. that's after they learned a detective had coached a witness to keep quiet about evidence that cast doubt on the story told by one of weinstein's accusers.
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>> glor: we end here tonight with an inspiring 20-year-old athlete. he is following in the footsteps of tiger woods, serena williams, and lebron james, in a pair of nike's. here's carter evans. >> here he comes. >> reporter: for justin gallegos, running seemed like an impossible dream. he was born with cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder that affects coordination and muscle
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movement. >> initially, when he started running, he was falling, and he'd have bloody knees, and 90% of the time, he would pick himself up and we would finish the run. >> reporter: justin's dream wasn't just to run, but run fast. despite his disability, he can do a seven-minute mile, and now competes with the university of oregon running club. all that put him on nike's radar. this past weekend at the end of a practice run, a company representative made a surprise announcement-- justin would be signed as an official nike professional athlete. [ applause ] >> i'm still kind of in shock that it actually happened. >> reporter: on instagram, he wrote, "you don't realize how realistic your dreams are until they play out before your very eyes." >> i have never seen him that emotional.
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running really kind of opened up the doors for him. you know, it gave him the opportunity to be on a team, to have friends, to be a part of something. >> reporter: as the moment sinks in, justin's reaction says it all. >> it's been quite a ride, and it's only quite literally the beginning. >> reporter: and he plans to keep making great strides, through sheer will and determination. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> glor: that is "cbs overnight news" for this friday, for some of you the news continues for others check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning from if panama city, florida, i'm jeff glor. ♪
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>> announcer: this is the cbs overnight news. welcome to the overnight news. a search and rescue operation is under way in the florida pan handle a mid the devastation a mid hurricane irma. the storm came a shore with 155 miles an hour and massive storm surge that wiped some neighborhoods off the map. the storm is continuing to dump sheets of rain as it turns its way up through virginia. jeff glor beginning our coverage in the devastated town of panama city beach, florida. >> michael has claimed six lives, as victims recovered here
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in the florida panhandle and in georgia and north carolina. 11-year-old sarah radney was killed by debris that ripped through the roof of her home in southwest georgia. more than 24 hours after michael made landfall on this coast, the scale of the destruction is becoming clear, and it is immense. have a look at mexico beach, 20 miles east of here, before, and after the storm. it took a direct hit. homes and businesses were blasted off their foundations by winds that reached up to 155 mph, and this huge surge of seawater. >> it is a scale of devastation that could truly be understood perfect the air. we took a helicopter ride to see the scope of the damage. look at that house, literally blown off its foundation. this is where the eyewall passed over, and that is why you're seeing the worst of the damage. that is houses in the water. it is carskeup and dragged or thrown hundreds of yards potentially inland. that's a 100-foot ship that has just been flipped on its side. some of the damage we're seeing right now reminds you a little bit at times of a tornado when
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houses just completely flatten. >> we're going to begin in east point about 60 miles southeast of us. >> reporter: a view from above mexico beach, florida, shows utter devastation. today, fema called this tiny tourist town, "ground zero." >> we're in the eyewall. >> reporter: michael's 155 mph winds decimated homes. businesses were reduced to piles of scrap metal. neighboring towns along the panhandle didn't fare much better. so we've made it to east pointe, florida. and this is the type of damage that we're seeing around here. it looks like the entire corner of this building was just sheared off. this is what's left of the gym at jenks middle school in panama city. the roof and walls, ripped away. the hornets' volleyball team was scheduled to play their semifinals here yesterday. roads throughout the panhandle's coast remain treacherous. driving down the road here, and
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you can see some of the pretty big debris that's been scattered about. this semi here almost looks like it was bent in half and thrown to the side of the road there. block after block littered with debris, fallen trees and tangled power lines. this is something you're going to see all over the panhandle, and that's power crews moving in and out of the area to spots where they're needed to try to get those power lines back up and restore the electricity here. it's going to be a long few days for them. today, staff and emergency workers at gulf coast regional medical center transported more than 100 patients to regional hospitals, starting with the most critically ill. back in the hardest-hit sections of east pointe, today was clean-up day. >> that right there, that's the water line. >> reporter: keith millander has lived in this house his entire life, and he's never seen a hurricane quite like this. but he says he also won't let michael take him away from here.
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how do you rebuild? >> time. >> reporter: time? little by little? >> little by little. time. >> reporter: but this is home. you don't plan to leave. >> oh, no. i ain't going nowhere. >> reporter: keith's home is just down this highway, highway 98, which remains largely impassable tonight. and here's why: the storm surge literally ate away entire lanes of this highway. this is what first responders are having to get around tonight, as well as people who are returning home to see what is left. president trump hosted rapper kanye west at the white house with predictable results. >> he might not have e kanye west run up and support, but best believe, we are going to make america great. >> reporter: with that oval office obscenity, rap superstar kanye west described to president trump the cosmic effect his presidency had on his psyche. >> there was something about when i put this hat on, it made me feel like superman.
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you made a superman. sro >> reporter: west and hall of fame football player jim brown were at the white house to discuss criminal justice reform and other issues with the president. west, a chicago native, questioned mr. trump's support of the police practice known as stop and frisk. >> we feel that stop and frisk does not help the relationships in the city. >> i'm open-minded. i'm here. >> reporter: earlier this year, west's wife and reality tv star kim kardashian successfully lobbied the president to commute the sentence of a woman convicted of a federal drug offense. at today's meeting, the president by turns appeared perplexed, pleased, and amused. >> how does it feel to be in the oval office? >> oh, it is good energy in this. >> reporter: west has left an impression on previous presidents, saying this about george w. bush after hurricane katrina in 2005: >> george bush doesn't care about black people. >> reporter: and after west grabbed a microphone from ta president obama was caught on an open mic saying this:
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>> the young lady seems like a perfectly nice person. she's getting her award... >> why would he do that? >> he's a jackass. >> reporter: west said the president was on his "hero's journey," and the rapper appeared to be delighted to be along for the ride. possibly for the first time in his presidency, in the oval office, the president appeared speechless. >> an american after now and russian cosmonaut >> reporter: today's mishap rocket malfunction triggered an automatic abort.
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the crew's capsule ejected from the rocket at 4,700 mph, falling more than 30 miles safely to earth in the middle of kazakhstan. space station operations manager kenny todd: >> we have every confidence that our russian colleagues will figure out what's going on and we'll hopefully see nick and alexey on orbit and at the space station again soon. >> reporter: today's mishap comes seven years after the space shuttle fleet was retired. ever since, nasa has paid the russians for rides to the space station. two u.s. companies, spacex and boeing, are now building a new generation of american space taxis. both hope to launch crude flights next summer, and the clock is ticking-- america's soyuz contracts with the russians end next july. >> this is the upper dome. >> reporter: earlier this week, program manager john mulholland gave us a tour of boeing's starliner assembly plant at the kennedy space center. do you feel under the gun now to make it happen? >> we expect as a team to meet
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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." autumn is in the air, the leaves are beginning to turn, that means it's apple-picking season. that's right apple lovers from coast-to-coast have their eyes on particular variety. for decades the favorite in the country was the red delicious. not any more. >> at fish kill farms in up state new york, their annual fall harvest of apples is in full swing but this year there's a new king of the orchard being crowned.
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the dprks gala is projected to n as number one surpassing the reigning champion red delicious. >> do you look forward to time of year or dread it? >> a little both. >> i asked this third generation farmer if he seen a shift away from red delicious since taking over the orchard in 2008. >> yeah we pulled out some of our red delicious trees and we've seen part of the crop picked and we're down sizing red delicious and planting other variety whys we think have more potential. >> is it just that our palettes have gotten more sophisticated. >> gosh that's a tough question. i think maybe our palettes have got more sophisticated but also for so many years the red delicious, it's about color and shape and red represents ripeness so what looked good on a shelf is what people would buy. >> created in the late 1800s in iowa the introduction of the red
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delicious apple redefined a whole category of fruit. apple historian. >> i don't think we will see an apple as iconic as the red delicious again. if you think about it red delicious was the icon of 1950s americans, homo againous and by the 0s red delicious was completely dominant maybe 75 pef% of the mt and growers thought americans would not by a apple that was e wingther red,en >> the ooked fftaed different the fruit was sweet with a crispy texture to munch on. once americans took a bite there was no going back. >> it did not exist in american
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apples and increasely became most popular this year it's finally surpassed red delicious to become the number one apple. really red delicious's last market is export. u.s. consumers caught on to the fact it tastes terrible but still parts of the world haven't figured it out yet. >> you want this variety? is it good. >> as the american consumer began to rediscover the apple the demand for taste trumped appearance and the apple industry had to find a i way to adapt. >> every time a apple grower has to learn to grow a new apple, it's a challenge. so they all have their own idiot synch racis. the majority of apples are bred through conventional means, might take anywhere from three to seven years before that seedling produces ams and can be
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evaluated so it's a ver process. >> a long process that's created over 7,000 variety of apples being grown today, making the core competition that much tough zbler i don't think gala's reign will be very long. it just passed red delicious after, really decades of slowly climbing. but there's another apple on the bl block that's kind of the third wave. >> sky rocketing is the apple expecting to dethrone gala. >> the honey crisp has changed the industry. a pound not 99 cents a pound and that's changed the industry in a major way and opened the doors for other variety that's taste better and supermarket and distributors are realizing people will pay for a better, better apple. >> i'll go for the honey crisp every time.
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you may be familiar with the
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old show "monte python" they only made 45 shows now nearly 50 years after its debut, netflix is making all of those episodes available to stream. one of the troops founders has written a memoir called "always look on the bright side of life" you may remember the song. he discussed his life and career and song with anthony mason. >> i'd like to buy a book. >> i'm afraid we don't have any books, we're fresh out. good morning. >> with their often surreal sketches monty python's flying surkamp us circus would change comedy. >> seems we're off in this show. >> we took it very, very seriously. to be funny. >> it featured five britts,
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includingeric idle, john glees, michael peyton and gary jones and gill that did the animation produced 45 episodes, five films and a blockbuster musical. >> we ran for almost five years. >> aye, your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elder berries. >> the film, monty python and holy grail was adapted by spamlot which opened in 2005. >> do you remember opening night. >> very well. all of the python's cast. >> it's interesting i always thought of it as the writing that made python special. the material in the grail is really funny.
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i part in your general direction people still go to that castle and laugh every day. >> it was idle who wrote this memorable python sketch originally for another comedy. >> was initially rejectd. >> mercifully because if you read it, it's not funny. there's no jokes in it. but the way you play it, then it's funnier. >> eric idle wasn't born to comedy. at age seven was sent away to a royal or fanage. >> my education was paid for by the irf because my dad was killed in irf and every kid there none of them had ca a dor miles long. >> you were there 12 years. >> you get less for murder. >> getting college out of there
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is quite an achievement. >> i'm quite a difference. >> yeah. >> at penrow college he signed up to perform in a college review. >> the first period of material i wrote was written by john cleez and i met him in any second term in cambridge and then my life changed. >> after college he teamed up with two other future pythons in a show. >> i'm terry jones. >> i'm eric idle. >> i'm cord he'llia. >> their success let to the success of to show. >> they called up and said i have a late night offer would you want to come do it with me. we said might as wellecause we're waiting for the big show to happen. the big show never happened. now it's something completely different. >> instead in october 1969 monty
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python's flying circus went on the air. >> you really didn't know what you were doing. >> had no clue but we knew what we didn't want to do. we knew we didn't want to be safe. >> oh, i'm sorry. and now a frontal nudity. >> how is it received initially with britain. >> with maximum indifference. >> i to complain about this which i purchased from this very boutique. >> yeah it's the norwegian bird what's wrong with it. >> it's dead that's what's wrong with it. >> slowly word spread, eventually even to america where the show debuted in 1974. the following year "monty python
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and the holy grail" was the highest grossing british film in america. even george harrison declared himself a fan. >> he really came to your rescue at one zbloint point. >> he paid for "the life of brian" he mortgaged his house for the movie to be made because he wanted to see it. >> harrison kick in 4 million pounds more than $8 million at the time. >> i was fla be glaber flabberge were looking for funding and people looked at us like we were hitler. they got a funny comedy. it was amazing he did that. >> the film's final cruise fixion theme featured a seam
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written by idle. >> ♪ always look on the bright side of life ♪ ♪ hat turned tout have a longer life than you expectd. >> it did suddenly years later it became a hit because all of the football fans would sing it with when they were losing. ♪ always look on the bright side of life ♪ ♪ >> they would be chanting that. >> and now the number one played song at funerals. >> british funerals yes. i'm hoping to conquer america shortly. >> in 2014 the surviving members of the mighty python gave a farewell contest at the 02 arena in london. >> we got all these singers and dancers to do these monty python songs. doing sketches everybody knows. >> how did you feel about saying
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good-bye. >> it was powerful. felt like a good way
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starbucks build thousands of coffee shops around the world before they had the nerve to open the birthplace of espresso. we were there for the grand opening in milan, italy. >> this line is not for a italy's first starbucks.f this man fro milan joined
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hundreds of others, curious but not defiant. >> this will not become my cafeteria. >> it was transformed into 25,000 square foot coffee roastery with ideas like freezing the ice cream. and elaborate attempt to woo and wow the country that invented es suppresso. >> you see starbucks written here but it's not like any starbucks i've been in. more like a theme park for coffee. >> they have no frappachino on the menu but high pricing. from the cafe they've been brewing es suppresso for a century and customers were
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unphased by the american import. >> will starbucks change the way italians drink ffee. >> no we are italian we invented coffee and pizza. >> starbucks struggled in other countries with strong coffee culture including australia, and israel. to succeed in italy will need to see more of this. >> you see the brazilian being toast in this super huge machine, and you drink it, the complete experience is incrible. >> wow you've been in here 15 minutes and you're a convert. >> absolutely changed my mind. >> yeah i don't expect to get any salted care mel mocha fraps. that's it for "cbs overnight news" for some the news continues for others check back for morning news after you hav for morning news after you hav had your frappacicinno.
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it's friday, october 12th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." michael's dangerous aftermath. flash flood warnings are in effect across several states as more are feared dead in hurricane-devastated areas. new details in the case of a missing saudi journalist. they say there are audio and video recordings that prove the murder. and rambling rant, kanye west does not hold back in the oval office. >> to have a crazy mother [ bleep ] like kanyees

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