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buy. >> this is from our sales force camera. be careful out on the roadways. . >> morning to our viewers in the west. welcome to "cbs this morning." denouncing automaker's plan to cut up to 14,000 jobs. why gm says it needs to focus on newed pros and what it means for drivers. a mysterious illness is blamed for killing one student and sickens others at the university of maryland. the father of that 18-year-old girl tells us he thinks the mold problem on campus is linked to his daughter's death. regulators say it's now okay to eat some romaine lettuce after investigators narrow down the source of an e. coli outbreak. we have the new information you should look out for to make sure
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your lettuce is safe. one hand glider turned into two minutes of terror. see what happened after he took off without a working safety harness. but we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. >> iot happy about itp . this country's done a lot for general motors. >> gm faces backlash after layoffs. >> extremely disappointing decision. >> a blatant disrecord for workers. >> paul manafort now accused of breaking his plea agreement by lying to special counsel muler. >> i wonder whether the president and his team have dangled a pardon. >> the president is not buying the main warning in a government report on climate change. >> they say economic impact can be devastating. >> i don't believe it. >> you don't believe it? >> i don't believe it. >> touchdown confirmed. >> nasa making history on mars
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with the first successful landing in six years. the. >> science literally is groundbreaking. >> the powerful winter storm is noweadend allhat ers. hanging on for dear life. >> and all that matters -- >> president trump is defending the use of tear gas. >> they were throwing rocks and debr debris. >> throwing stones will not get you into america unless you can throw them really fast like 95 mights an hour and then maybe the yankees will help. >> getting out of the hole. >> the texans beat the titans. >> chasing! lamar miller! all the way! wire to wire! 97 yards of glory!
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welcome to be "cbs this morning." norah o'donnell is on' si assignment. >> congrats to mr. miller, 97 yards. >> you know the previous longest run in 2014, same guy. >> bigger, faster. >> exactly. >> he's good. >> good morning, everyone. now to this news. general motors. once the bellwether of american manufacturing. it plans to cut thousands of jobs even though it's profitable. it will affect 15% of the white collar workers. gm may close one canadian plant and four more in the united states.
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chairman and ceo mary barra says the move gives them flexibility to invest in the future. kris van cleave is at a gm dealership just outside washington. kris, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. americans preference for suvs is part of what's driving gm away from sedans. the company is looking to get leaner and pivot its focus to electiric and autonomous vehicles. gm closed up nearly 5% yesterday. and comes with a lot of controversy. >> i moved my family twice for this company and they do this to me. >> reporter: outrage over general motors decision to drop six underperforming sedans came quick. >> we don't like it. >> reporter: from president trump. >> i think you'll see something else happen there but i'm not happy about it. >> reporter: congressional republican -- >> today's announcement was
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disappointing. >> reporter: and democrats. >> i'm pissed off because they have blatant disregard for workers in the country. >> reporter: the move will idle five plants where the seedens are produced. potentially laying off up to 14,000 employees. >> it's devastating what it will do to this community. >> the bad thing is to get the news on the day after we come back from thanksgiving. >> it's all about greed, putting more in their pockets. >> reporter: cuts include 8,000 salaried jobs, among them 25% of gm's executives, making it the largest cutback since the company went bankrupt and was bailed out by taxpayers during the 2008 financial crisis. gm repaid those loans. the steel tariffs have cost the auto making $1 billion. >> those jobs that left ohio -- >> reporter: the cuts are a setback for president trump who made this promise in ohio last year. >> we're going to get those jobs coming back and fill up those factories or rip them down and build new ones.
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>> reporter: before any plants can close, gm must reach a deal with the autoworkers union. >> we call on gm today just as they called on all of us over a decade ago. please save our american jobs. >> reporter: lawmakers and the trump administration are pledging to pressure gm to keep the plants open and repurchase them and to give affected workers opportunities to apply for other jobs at gm. ford made a similar move in deciding to drop most of its se sedans, that will happen by 2022, john. >> in the face of this backlash, why did mary barra decide to make these cuts? >> the marketplace is changing and so is the demand for vehicles. autonomous vehicles are coming on the market here potentially in the next five years. it takes five to seven years to develop new vehicles. if you make a change, even seven years from now you need to be thinking about it today. >> she's thinking about the future market.
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now what happened to the workers? >> these plants will, in gms words, become unallocate order essentially idle sometimes in 2019. so it will be a rolling date coming here in the next few months. >> unallocated. you don't want to hear that if you're a worker there. kris, thanks. a new attack killed three americans this morning. a spokesman said they died in a roadside bomb blast near the city of ghazni. the taliban has claimed responsibility. three other troops and an american contractor were wounded. this attack follow also saturday's killing of army sergeant lee ann droe dreso. the last time three americans were killed in one afghan incident was in june of last year. the food and
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and w labels will help n the se of a outbreak that made 42 people sick in 12 states. they're focused on lettuce harvested in coastal california. new romaine will be marked with a location and harvest date. people should not eat romaine that doesn't feature that information. the cdc points out industry groups expect the newly labeled romaine to start hitting the shelv shelves some time this week. president trump is defending the use of what he called safe tear gas. u.s. customs and border control commissioner said migrants tried to storm thebord suscted of cro illegally were arrested in california. mexican officials say 98 others
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are being deported. the department of homeland security says more than 600 of the thousands of migrants are convicted criminals. mireya villarael is on the border. >> reporter: the trump administration's hard stance on immigration is not deterring migrants here at this shelter in in fact, we spoke to about a dozen people staying here this morning. they said they tried to sneak into the u.s. this morning and were turned away abruptly by border patrol agents. it's eerily quiet. agents are at attention, backed by newly wired fencing to discourage migrants from crossing over. major contrast to the chaos on sunday, when agents deployed tear gas to turn the central american migrants away. at a roundtable in mississippi last night, president trump strongly defensed the response.
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>> tear gas is a minor form of the tear gas itself. it's very safe. the ones that were suffering to a certain extent were the people that were putting it out there. >> reporter: now, migrants are waiting for answers at this sports complex in tijuana. they're sleeping in tents. while mexico federal police stand nearby, ready to use force. the mexican government was not ready for a group this size. in just two weeks, you can see thousands of people have grouped in here. they continue to come day by day. where they eat, sleep, shower, and even go to the bathroom. this is a mother of three from honduras. she arrived here 16 days ago and says the shelter's conditions are terrible. they have no water to drink. we have no food. the bathrooms are overflowing and contaminated. tijuana secretary of social development says the shelter is over capacity by 2,000 people.
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we're not prepared to take in more people, he says. there isn't a city in the world who could be prepared. but some have had enough at this tenthe iniolrganizn for100 people a day are lining up to go back to their home country. department of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen said in a statement the violence was entirely predictable. we'll continue to prepare for the next assault while looking for lasting solutiutions with congress. mexico is asking for an investigation of the nonlethal weapons used. >> this, as a new mexican president takes office this weekend. mireya, thank you. the president spent several hours last night in mississippi, on a mission to hold on to the last u.s. senate seat to be decided this year. he led two rallies for the republican senator who faces a
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runoff election today. ed o'keefe is just north of the state capital jackson. ed, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. voters are placing ballots in the final congressional race of the year. focused mostly open controversial comments by the sitting republican senator. president trump was here last night and tried shifting the focus to himself. >> other than the blonde hair, when i was growing up, they said i looked like elvis. >> reporter: clearly enjoying himself in a series of rallyings. one with a christmas theme. >> nothing like a trump rally. >> reporter: he has a serious goal, proving he still has the magic touch for vulnerable republicans. >> i can only make so many stops and today i'm making two of them. >> reporter: he didn't dig too deeply. inste instead, the messages from the 49 campaign rallies he led for republicans this year.
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>> now you have a president who is standing up for america. >> reporter: this mississippi contest isn't just any election. gop senator cindy hyde-smith is facing scrutiny for racially charged incidents including comments in a video from earlier this month. >> for anyone that was offended by my comments, i certainly apologize. >> reporter: on monday, she gave her last push. >> i will continue to stand up for the conservative valleys of mississippi! >> reporter: the democratic candidate, mike espy, has hammered her on the comments. >> disappointing. it gives us a black eye in this state. >> reporter: but, facing long odds in a red state, he's trying to win over moderate republicans and independents. is there a place where you agree with the president and where you might find disagreement with him? >> i'm an independence person, independence senator. i'll do whatever i think is best for mississippi. >> reporter: mississippi hasn't
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elected a democrat to the u.s. senate since 1982. if hyde-smith holds on as expected, she would grow the gop senate majority to 53 feet. >> the country's watching, thank you. paul manafort faces new legal trouble today because special counsel robert mueller claims manafort violated his plea bargain. alleging he lied to the fbi in the special counsel's office on what they say is a variety of matters. paula reid has more. take us through this. we all remember he said he would cooperate in any and all matters related to mueller's investigation. does this new filing mean everything is now null and void? >> reporter: pretty much, yes. he entered into this plea deal, agreeing to cooperate in exchange for most of the charging being dropped. he has to be honest.
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about any matter. including possible russian interference in the 2016 campaign. now that he's allegedly lied, the government no longer needs to honor any of the promises. but manafort's attorney insists his client was truthful. >> mr. mueller clearly has something. do you know or have heard anything about what manafort is accused of lying about? >> reporter: we don't know what exactly he lied about. but manafort is now 70 year sld of his life in prison. he sees additional charges here in washington. pretty much the only thing that could spare him life in prison is a presidential pardon. that would not protect him from any state level charges. >> all right, paula, thank you.
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nasa announcing another major milestone for its historic mars lander. insight can now recharge its own battery. this newly released photograph sh shows inside on the mars landscape. a lot of people were cheering yesterday and rightly so. >> reporter: good morning. this is the place where tensionings wetensions were highest on monday as insight traveled to a safe landing. nasa says the lander will teach us about the red planet, mapping a course for future more ambitious weapons. >> touchdown confirmed. >> reporter: the celebrations inside the jet propulsions lab watch room were echoed from new york's times square, to
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texas, los angeles. in 6 1/2 make or break moments, insight entered the martian atmosphere at more than 12,000 miles per hour. before softly touching down sandying back its first photo. >> to see that payoff finally happen, for everyone of them, it's amazing. you can't get a better feeling than that. >> reporter: you get a couple of days of rest? >> no rest at all. >> reporter: scientists will use insight's cameras to find the best location to place the main tools. a tool to measure the seismic activity and a heat probe. >> insight is going to give us visibility into asteroid impact on mars. we'll know when it's safe to go to mars. and where they should go to be safe. >> reporter: nasa is just one player in this new space race. space x is among a number of
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companies hoping to launch manned missions to mars. followed by a manned someplace flight two years later. >> want to make mars feel possible, make it seem as though it's something we can do in our lifetime. >> reporter: the time line is more ambitious than nasas, which wants to send humans to mars by 2030. they will have to live there for two years before the planet aligned for a return. gayle. >> all right, jamie yuccas, thank you. you know what's so cool, in addition to the success of it all, it's to see the nasa engineers. you think of them as buttoned up people. but it shows they have a great sense of humor and really take pride in their work. >> it's hard work paying off. >> when you look at how hard it
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was to get it there, you see why they're jumping out of their seat. the doctor in china who created an controversy with what he said about his work on babies is defending his work. why scientists around the world are so goo good tuesday morning to you. today the weaker of the two systems. so today's storm impact looking at light to moderate rainfall. it will continue to push across the bay area as we head through later on into the morning and into the afternoon. the wind impact will be low but the wet roadways that will be the greatest storm impact for the afternoon and evening commute. our second storm system over a powerful one wednesday evening into thursday.
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we have much more news ahead including a disaster on this
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hand glider. what went very wrong as soon as he took off. >> jericka duncan with a story about the family of a college student who died. she had complained of mold in her dorm room and died after catching a virus. >> when they daughter went to the university health center, she was not tested for adenoid virus. why they believe a more thorough diagnosis could have kept her alive. possible resource to fight cancer, and never lose sight of the patients we're fighting for. our cancer treatment specialists share the same vision: experts from all over the world, working closely together to deliver truly personalized cancer care, specialists focused on treating cancer using advanced technologies, and more precise treatments than before. working as hard as we can-doing all that we can- for everyone who walks through our doors.
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this is a kpix 5 morning update. >> good morning. it's 7:26. in san pablo at least one person has died following a high speed pursuit crash involving contra costa sheriff's deputies. it's unclear when those lanes were re-open. >> health officials now say it is okay to eat some romaine lettuce ago. now labeled with a harvest location and date. officials say it is safe as long as it's not from the central california's growing region. in donation to victims of the thousand oaks shooting in the camp and we'll
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have updates throughout the day.
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we are tracking the crash on northbound 101 on marsh road it is blocking one lane right now but not looking too bad. san francisco international airport is an 18-minute ride. highway 80 and highway 85 are all in the red. we are tracking our first storm of the week. bringing right now for the north bay on high def doppler. in clear lake this morning. so our rain headlines looking at that light to month rate rain through the afternoon. into wednesday morning and our second storm system wednesday evening into thursday and that will be a more powerful storm.
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♪ and you're looking at pictures of the snowy maples in maine where the high will be in the high 30s. look how pretty that is. it's supposed to be that way, though, right? like maine's maples. the area is under a winter storm warning and could get another four inches of snow today. pretty. >> i think it looks gray and dark and damp. >> i'm trying to not be a grouch this morning. i'm trying to be positive. sorry, folks. >> you are very positive. >> lovely. >> a winter wonderland. >> okay. i'm not ready. welcome back to "cbs this
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morning." here are three things you should know -- the fbi is upgrading its tip line after warnings about the alleged gunman who killed 17 people at a parkland, florida, school shooting last february. in a letter after the shooting, the assistant director outlined the changes. the public access line is hiring at least 62 additional staff qualified to analyze information. the fbi will use technology that translates speech to text and identifies key words that could indicate a threat. for the first time the fda approved a cancer drug that targets a genetic mutation rather than a certain type of tumor. it will cost more than $32,000 for a 30-day supply. but the drug manufacturer expects most insurers will cover it. out-of-pocket costs would be $20 or less per month. dr. david agus says it's part of a trend to treat cancer by the biology, not by the body part where it started. he said 2,000 to 3,000 could benefit a year from the drug and he's seen dramatic results in one patient already. today is giving tuesday. an opportunity to help those in need like the victims of the
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recent wildfires in california or hurricane michael in florida. >> the day for giving back raised more than $3 million last year -- $300 million last year. a source of social media will check out organizations taking donations. ones you can trust include the american cancer society, habitat for humanity, and the u.n. refugee agency. or go to tuesday.org. the parents of a university student who died from a virus illness are speaking out about the conditions on campus. olivia paregol died last week after having flu-like symptoms and she had contracted
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adenovirus. three new cases have been identified in maryland students. this is raising concern about mold problems in the dorms. jericka duncan spoke to olivia's parents only on "cbs this morning." she's on the university of maryland campus in college park. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. absolutely, a tragic, very sad story for the family. the university officials say they hired contractors to remove the mold from the dorms. now olivia paregol was one of many students who complained about the problem. we sat down with her parents who told me they believe the mold contributed to their daughter's death. >> you can't imagine having to go and pick out a plot for your daughter. that's not the way it's supposed to work. >> reporter: three days ago, olivia's parents buried her. she was a freshman studying criminology at the university of maryland. >> i think she found a real place for herself. that brings me comfort knowing that she -- she was finding joy in life. >> reporter: olivia was
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diagnosed with crohn's disease before coming to college and took medication which her father said weakened her immune system. within weeks of starting school he says olivia began expressing concerns about mold in her dorm room at elkton hall. >> she saw the mold on her clothes -- itas evewhere.er shoes, tables. >> collect on their shoes overnight. >> reporter: kyle rumsey is among the freshman students who also found mold in his dorm room. >> i would have red eyes when i would wake up. i'd have a scratchy throat. >> reporter: the university says it began receiving higher than normal reports of mold throughout the dorm beginning on september 16th. five days later, officials began relocating more than 500 students from elkton hall until crews finished cleaning on october 10th. >> there should have been greater disclosure and transparency about the existence of the mold. it was just brushed off, oh, we're going to clean it. >> that was the first issue -- >> that was the first issue. >> reporter: university officials say they learned about their first case of adenovirus on november 1st.
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the next day olivia went to the university health center complaining of difficulty breathing. the family says no one tested their daughter for adenovirus. >> they don't connect that one dot on this student is immunosuppressed, she has all the symptoms of adenovirus, we had a diagnosis of adenovirus. oh, we'll just send her home. >> reporter: she was treated at johns hopkins hospital but died on november 18th. her parents said doctors told them if they had known she had adenovirus they would have given her a different treatment. something her parents believe could have saved olivia's life. >> we've cried for days and then we go numb and then we're in disbelief. and it's just -- no one should have to do this. >> reporter: university officials say there is no link between adenovirus and mold.
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they also note of the nine students that have contracted adenovirus here at the university of maryland, they said it impacted students living on and off campus. >> such a tragic story. so many people wondering how you get mold. >> yes. >> and mold thrives in humidity. so the advice for consumers at home is to keep your humidity levels below 50%. if you have water damage, make sure to check. >> as painful as this is, i'm glad the family is speaking up. it will forece other people to take a close look and take it more seriously. mr. paregol is so right, a parent should never to pick out a plot for their child. when he said that, it gave me chills. >> never thought they would be talking about this when they were applying for colleges. the chinese scientist who created what he says are the world's first gene-edited babies believes he's on the right side of history. ahead, dr. tara narula explains why critics say his methods are unethical, immoral and
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chinese medical officials are investigating the scientist who claims to have created the first genetically edited babies. he jiankui says the twins were born with the immunity to hiv, the virus that causes aids. he claims he altered their dna in a lab using a gene-idating technique called crisper. dr. tara narula shows why other scientists believe this is alarming. the medical and scientific community are upset. >> they are outraged. >> you understand it. >> absolutely. absolutely. i mean, this was really done in a totally unethical way. the controversial research was wildly condemned because it was shrouded in secrecy and broke with international scientific norms. but he jiankui says his breakthrough can protect children from a dangerous and deadly disease and that he's on
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the right side of history. the technology to genetically edit human embryos has been around for a while. but scientists were unwilling to cross that ethical line until now. >> i believe family need this technology, and i'm willing to take the crisp item for them. >> reporter: he jiankui, a stanford and rice university trained physicist, says he used the technique crisper to help a married chinese couple conceive twins immune to hiv. when the girls were embryos he used chemical czyztors turn off a gene to makes people vulnerable to hiv infection. the embryos were then implanted into the mother, and the girls were born earlier this month. >> no gene was changed except the one to prevent hiv infection. the girls are safe, healthy as any other babies. >> reporter: china's national health commission ordered an
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investigation into the work which defied a global scientifi deeply shocked by his research which it believes seriously violated academic ethics and codes of conduct. >> i think this was irresponsible. >> reporter: kiran musunuru, an associate professor of medicine at the university of pennsylvania, believes this was an attempt to engineer genetically modified human beings. >> no question that that is unethical. i would actually add immoral to that. >> reporter: he reviewed some of he's scientific data and believes the genetic edits were incomplete meaning the girls may not be totally immune to hiv. musunuru says there's evidence other genes were edited unintentionally, increasing the twins' risk for cancer. >> taking the embryos for pregnancy to live children to me is absolutely appalling and horrifying.ine with one d actually d
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findings wednesday at a scientific conference in hong kong. rice university said the work described violates conduct guidelines of the scientific community and launched an ethics violation into michael dean, a bioengineering professor who's part of he's research team. >> so are there rules to stop other scientists from doing this? >> there's nothing. that's what's horrifying. the united states and europe have rules that say this cannot be done, this type of experimentation in embryos. but china and other nations don't. and this is really prompting an outcry, as you said, from the scientific community, calling this genetic russian roulette. unconscionable, immoral. and you're really changing not just the genetic code of these children but the genetic code of their children's children and their children's children -- >> it's passed along. >> it is passed along. what's crazy is this was presented on youtube in a series of videos where he says healthy babies were born. we don't know if they're healthy babies. we don't know if they will turn out to develop cancer, if they will have projects with infections like -- have problems
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with infections like west nile virus or genetic mutations. >> why would parents agree? >> we don't know what they consented to. the form said "hiv vaccine trial." it's unclear what was explained, if they understood the full consequences of what was done. >> that's amazing. one person making a decision to affect -- >> one person changing the genetic code of the human race for generations. >> thank you. ahead, this morning's other headlines including how the u.s. trade conflict with china could we're tracking oir first storm system of the week moving across the bay area. so for today, light to moderate rain picking up 1/4 i think so to 3/4" of rain. a brief break late tonight into tomorrow morning and then our second storm system rolls in with heavy rains and strong winds for wednesday evening into thursday. so a wet afternoon and evening commute today. that stronger more powerful storm system wednesday into
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goods which could raise prices on u.s. consumer products. the tariffs are set to rise to 25% on $200 billion of chinese goods. mr. trump suggested that 10% tariffs could be placed on apple iphones and laptops imported from china. he will meet with china's president at the g20 summit in buenos aires on friday. and bloomberg reports that because of those possible tariffs, apple's stock fell. it allowed microsoft to briefly overtake it yesterday as the world's most valuable publicly traded company. apple shares plunged, wiping out more than $300 billion in market capitalization. its market value fell to $812 billion during intraday trading. it was the first time in more than eight years that microsoft has surpassed apple. the "arizona star" has video showing an explosion at a border agent's gender-reveal party that apparently sparked the 2017 saw
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this is a kpix 5 update. >> one person is dead in san pablo after a high speed pursuit. the crash happened just after midnight on san pablo avenue near 23rd street. authorities have shut down san pablo avenue in both directions. it's still unclear when those lanes will re-open. >> electric cars alone won't be enough for california. vehicle omissions are still rising as commute traffic have gotten worse. >> and happening today facebook is back in the hot seat. lawmakers from nine countries are grilling vice president richard allen for public policy for misleading information online. news updates throughout the day on your fe platforms
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welcome back. have some mass transit delays to tell you. 72, 72r and 74 will be detoured. capital corridor 522, 523, and 526 delayed. and southbound train 216 departing late. we're tracking that rain with the first storm system of the week. you can see the rain for the north bay this morning. sdoomg in from yucaiya point arena getting that ran this morning. we'll see light to moderate rain as we head through the day. the impact of ot wind on the low side but the wet roadways especially as we head through the afternoon and evening will be the greatest impact of this storm more powerful storm wednesday into thursday.
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♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. welcome back to cbs this morning. >> ahead, gm announces plans to lay off thousands of workers and stop building some cars. we'll talk to fortune magazine's lee gallagher about how the changes mark a potential turning point for the u.s. auto industry and its workers. here's today's eye opener at 8:00. >> general motors plans to cut thousands of jobs. >> companies looking to get l n leaner. >> i moved my family twice for this company and they do this to me? >> to conduct a full investigation of the nonlethal weapons used.
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>> the tear gas is a very minor form of the tear gas itself. it's very safe. >> now that he has allegedly lied the government is no longer bound by any of the promises that it made to him. >> this is the place where are tensions were highest as insight traveled through mars's atmosphere to a safe landing. >> rice university now investigating one of its professors for his alleged ties to the controversial experiment which manipulated the dna of babies to make them resistant to hiv. >> you know that editing dna is just china's plan to make super athletes. ♪ >> definitely has a lot of people talking this morning. a lot of controversy surrounding
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that. >> trevor found a joke. a lot of people do not think this is funny. >> good morning. nora is on assignment. general motors' financial restructuring plan is getting a thumbs-up from wall street this morning but a bad review from the white house. gm could lay off up to 14,000 workers, including 15% of its salaried employees. the auto industry giant will stop productions at five factories. >> the cruz was the only car built at the gm plant in warren, ohio. president trump told workers in ohio not to move because all the jobs would be back. >> he said yesterday he told the gm ceo that he was upset about the decision. hours later at a rally, the
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president still talked about creating hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs during his administration. >> the previous administration said oh, manufacturing jobs, that will never happen. manufacturing, we've got to make things? they said manufacturing jobs would never come back. you'd need a magic wand. well, we found the magic wand. >> in a statement barra said -- >> lee, so help explain this because revenue is up at gm. they've had a huge windfall from the president's tax cut, but yet these layoffs. >> car sales are slowing. that is a shift after many years of -- the past three years in particular they've really surged but there'sng
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we d sedans anymore. four door passenger cars are going out the window with such a degree that it's even taken the car industry by surprise. what's replacing them, guess what, is sales of suvs. look at the road around you. they're everywhere. gm is chock full of sedans. so it is readjusting for the future. the third thing is that, talking about the future, the future is autonomous cars and self-driving and electric cars. that is where things are going. gm and ford have been -- they epitomize the changes that are happening in our economy where tech is changing everything. they're trying to not get left behind but actually try to lead d take a tremendous pivot. they're going to pour money into that. >> it's tough to see the agony on the workers faces.
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>> of course. >> i'm thinking what mary barra must be thinking of right now. is there another way to look at it, that she is in fact saving the company? >> definitely. the stock went up. a lot of analysts say this kind of restructuring is overdue at gm. she is taking the time right now when things haven't really -- things are not dramatic yet, but she sees where the trends are going. she said in the statement that she's going to try to make these moves while things are still going well to sustain us should there be a downturn and to help take us into the future. 's h for these workers, but this is what's happening in so many industries. this is why we talk so much about the need to reskill workers. the jobs for the future are not the jobs we've had forever. the changes are so rapid and so
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significant to so many industries. >> and there's attention between politicians who say nothing's going to change, we'll protect what you have. you talk about retraining. in this case it looks like they want to hire coders for these new electric cars. can you retrain -- >> the interesting thing is a lot of these are salaried workers, so designers, product developers. those people may be able to find -- there's always going to be a market for designers, i would think. on the coding side, you could do the reskilling. some of this involved a.i. which is a whole thing unto itself. there are people in school right now who are just studying a.i. and this is going to be maybe the path for them. some reskilling is possible but not for everyone. they rai >> did the president's tariffs make it harder? >> harder for them and more
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expensive for them. earlier this year gm cut its profit for the year because of that. >> thank you. the photographer who took a picture along the mexico border that appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the world is now sharing the story behind this picture. we tracked down the reuters photographer who took the picture of a mother and two daughters running away from a smoking tear gas canister on sunday near the u.s./mexico border. he noticed the kids were barefoot and in diapers. >> what was it about them that struck you? what was it about them that made you take that picture? >> when i saw the woman and the two girls, i think maybe that can be a story because i had the chance to talk to many migrants. most of them say they want
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better life and they want to give better future to their children. that's one of the reasons they want to go to the united states. that's why in a hectic and chaotic situation let me focus on just that. >> reuters reporter spoke to a woman yesterday in a shelter. she tried to claim asylum at the u.s. border on sunday but was among those blocked by police. customs and border protection commissioner said the gas helped stop adults from throwing rocks and he said it was, quote, unfortunate that women and children were affected. nerve-racking piece of video shows a tourist clinging for life onto a hang glider in switzerland. >> run, run, run! that's hard to watch. his harness was not properly attached when he and a pilot launched themselves off of a 4,000 foot mountain ledge.
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it was his first hang gliding flight. he dangwrote ewrote on facebook remembers looking down thinking this is it. >> as they approached the landing area his hand began to slip. once his feet hit the ground, he was ripped away from the landing gear. he needed surgery for a broken wrist and tour his left biceps. he had a plate and seven screws installed in his arm before leaving the hospital. he said i will go hang gliding again as i did not get to enjoy my first flight. what? why do you want to do something that you looked at and said this is it? i don't get it. >> i don't even enjoy watching that. >> my hands are sweating. i like the fact that he wants the adventure. >> i don't. >> his insurance policy just
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skyrocketed. >> mastering his fears. >> okay. >> you're next, john. well, the u.s. is close to having its first world chess champion in more than 40 years. yay. ahead, the next move in the
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>> h a new u.n. study shows the most dangerous place for women is in the home. ahead we sit down with domestic abuse survivors. plus, what caused a massive wall of sand that engulfed an entire city in china and how a family's emotional reunion with their dog came after more than a 1,000 mile journey. a 1,000-mile journey. you're watching "cbs this morning." we thank you for that. we'll be right back.
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if an american upstart can beat the current undisputed and so far invincible world champion who's held the title for five years. you'd think this chess championship stuff isn't serious. the competitors are electronically screened before they play. in this sport the threat sentence performance enhancing drugs, it's performance enhancing super computers. only then can the current world champion, 27-year-old magnus carlson, enter the field of play. followed by the challenger, 26-year-old fabiano carauana who could be the first american to win the world title since brock lynn -- brooklyn's bobby fisher won timecording to two of his
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pals who have come over to support him. >> it was so easy for this to be like oh this is an allegory for the cold war. who has the smartest people, the biggest bombs. magnus is just a nice norwegian guy. who really has problems with norway? >> caraona has problems with more way. the american challenger has managed to tie carlson through 12 games but not beat him. this match may not be about cold war politics or international bragging rights but this this world chess is more than just a game, especially if you win. when fabiano talks, he speaks in a kind of chess-ese. >> but he lets his pieces do the talking on the board, where his
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success has produced a fan club. >> chess is cool. >> chess is cool with nerds. it's a great game and apparently being a nerd is cool. >> reporter: being a winning nerd, of course, would be even co cooler. the match goes to a series of speed chess games where the time available gets shorter and shorter and we should have either a new champion or the same old champion tomorrow. >> fingers crossed that we hear check very soon. >> even if you're not into chess, that's a very exciting thing. i remember that magnus guy on 60 minutes when they did a profile on him. i thought he was very impressive. now you have to root for fabiano. >> we're rooting for the american. nothing against norway. >> i just can't wait to see the end zone dance. ahead, the christmas spirit comes to the white house.
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♪ i love this songithouse is out for the holidays. this year's decor includes symbols that reflect america's spirit. the official white house christma ia velvet ribbon that names all 50 states and u.s. territories. more than 14,000 red ornaments hang from the trees in the grand foyer. the roughly 40 red trees dramatically line the hallway to
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the east garden room. the first lady's team said red was chosen as a symbol of valor and braveren. there's also a ginger -- bravery. there's also a jirchgingerbread depicting the monuments including the jefferson memorial and washington memorial. they're made from 225 pounds of dough, 25 pounds of chocolate, and 20 pounds of white icing. i not the only thperson who lik white icing as much as my husband is -- >> you -- >> me. >> we're together to that. i think the red trees are an acquired taste. they're having fun with it on line. i saw one meme with them dressed up as "the handmaid's tale" with the white bonnets that i thought was funny. >> different taste -- >> different taste for different people. i get it. ahead, a massive sandstorm brought love to a halt in in mi. you're watching "cbs this
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it's 8:25 i'm kenny choy. in san pablo at least one person has died following a high speed pursuit crash. authorities have shut down san pablo avenue in both directions. it's still unclear when those lanes will re-open. >>. the man accused of stabbing a woman to death at a bar station is due back in court today. along with the special circumstance for lying in wait. a few fee hike from pg &e could cost san francisco's renewable energy project $20 million. the hike would also slow down local green energy projects. we'll have updates today including on our platforms and website it's kpix.com.
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all right let's hit the roads and check traffic this morning. we're still very heavy in that westbound. mcarthur a 3540-minute ri tapping those brakes all the way to the bay bridge toll plaza. it's just under a 30-minute ride. it's all packed and here's a kwib check of your other bay area roads. in the red about a 35-minute ride and 101 in the north bay
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and along the peninsula both stuck in the red. mary's got a forecast. all that rain coming in. >> that's right, we're tracking that first storm system o week. and that will push krogs the rest of the bay area as we go through the day you can zoo that rain down through heelsburg clear lake as well. so this is what you can expect. this first storm system today is the weaker one out of the storms we're tracking this week picking up anywhere from 1/4" to steffi lee/4" of rain today. could see a go with that heavy rain and wind with that stronger more powerful storm system wednesday into thursday there. have a great day.
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♪ baby you're a firework. >> nice live shot of london. welcome back to cbs that is a nice live shot of london this morning. time to show you some of the headlines from around the globe. fema is spending a billion dollars on homes to rebuild homes in puerto rico after it was hit by a hurricane. but after of it is going to contractors charge iing higher prices. homeowners received less than half of the aid they were approved for. fema says the agency uses the nationwide construction cost database to establish prices and looking at individual line item prices could be inaccurate and misleading. and your imagination could
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help you conquer your fears. a research at the icon school of medicine compared it to the commonly used exposure therapy. it triggers the part of the brain involved in perception, memory, learning, and imagination. i'll have to try that out. the south china morning coast says the city was swallowed by a sand storm. a wall of sand swept in on sunday. the wind storm engulfed the city of more than one million people within minutes. visibility was about 30 feet in some places, and air pollution levels increased sharply. and a united nations study out this week finds that domesic violence is one of the most common killers of women around the world.
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killed by an intimate partner or relative. about 137 women were killed every day by family members. alex wagner recently met with domestic abuse survivors. >> in the u.s. alone one in four women is a victim of severe physical abuse. earlier this year we asked viewers to send in submissions for our series "note to self. we found close to 100 of the notes mentioned a history of domestic violence. two of those women are part of this group that range from a municipal judge, a new york best selling offer, bernie sanders former deputy campaign manager and the president of a nonprofit foundation. >> how many of you didn't realize it was happening at first? >> i mean if you asked me at the time, my husband was beating me on a regular basis. he had three guns he kept loaded all of the time.
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he pulled them on me on a very regular basis and i would not have said i'm not a battered wife. i'm a strong, smart, independent woman in love with a troubled man and i became increasingly ashamed that i loved him and my love was making me vulnerable and go back again and again. and it was not until i was convinced he would kill me that i was able to leave. >> a number of you feel like your abusers were going to kill me. >> he was going to kill me, no doubt about it. >> you talk about the isolation that you abuos between your family and him. >> correct, yes. >> how did that happen? >> it was like a bonnie and clyde mentality, it is us against the world. he became like my protector, right? it is the same mentality we have in the relationship that we believe there is nobody else, and i was ashamed. >> i want to talk a little about that idea that you were ashamed.
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because this horrible thing was happening to you and you were embarrassed and ashamed. you are a high powered woman in politics, tell me how you grappled with what was happening to you. >> not very well. working in a male environment where i was constantly fighting for my seat at the table, constantly fighting to be respected, i was terrified that someone would find out and then the struggle that i was already having to go through in my professional life was just going to be that much worse. >> at what point could no longer keep it together? >> honestly i don't know how long it would have lasted had one of my, she is my sister, my friend, but really my sister, she saw the bruises on me and she called me and she said i i know what is happening and he
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will never touch you again. >> it is not just a psychological hold, right, lisa you had a number of forms of abuse like financial abuse. >> that is something i want to stress, if you don't have a black eye people think you weren't abused. i think his jealousy, at first was just that he really cared, and then it just became a point where it was like he owned me. i really felt that he believed -- >> that's what i felt, like i was his car or property. >> if i went to visit my family he would take my credit card out of my wallet. i moved out with my child and he would not by child support or the mortgage or anything. >> did you ever think i need to go back to him? >> no, i was resolutiosolutreso? >> how many of you questioned if
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it was the right choice? >> i went back the first time. it was more fiscal, my children were small, at the end it was more verbal, but i went back, i left him for a year, and i said if you promise not to hit me any more, i'll come back to you. >> did you really think he would stop hitting you? >> no, but i had to do something for my babies. >> a lot of people hear stories of domestic abuse and they don't understand why you stay. they ask why did you stay? how do we need to reframe that question. >> the question should be why does he think he can do that and get away with it. we sometimes think we let it happen. i know, of course, the first time he slapped me, i just, i saw stars, that's how hard he slapped me and he stormed out, i asked myself that question. how could you let this happen. >> but of course you didn't. >> it is confusing to have love
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and violence go together. >> and it is hard to say they beat the crap out of you and then he would put his arms around me and say stop crying, imhere. person that damages you is also healing you. >> we're having this conversation against a much broader backdrop of accountability, sexual relations, sexual harassment, sexual predation, power, control, are you all more optimistic that we can put an end to domestic violence given the conversation that we're having right now? >> i'm so optimistic, journalist, journjournal i ist and er irom a allmmunitme pu air your dirty laundry. if it saves o
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then let the laundry hang out. >> we reached out to judy's ex-husband, he did not deny the allegations and he says he believes abuse goes both ways. the national domestic abuse hotline says the first step to get out of the abusive situation a plan of how when and where to go after you leave if is also critically important to reach out to someone. it doesn't have to will law enforcement, it can be a friend, family member, or a complete stranger. >> someone is listening to that right now and that is resonating with someone right now and that will help them. a few years ago my mom told me love is not supposed to hurt physically or emotionally and i never forgot that. >> and it is not your fault. >> someone is now saying it's not just me, just like those women, there is a community of people that are having the same experience, that piece is so important for them. it is a loneliness that keeps
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you encased in those relationships. >> and whatever stereotype people have, they're strong, successful, resilient, educated sdp . >> she said it best, she said i'm in love with a troubled man, we need to change our thinking about that. >> the national domestic violence hotline has counsellors around the clock. if someone you know needs help, that number is 1-800-799-safe. also visit cbs this morning.com for more safety plan important, i'm so glad we did it. >> i won't forget what they said. the person loving you is healing you at the same time, so many big emotions going on. >> yeah. >> nicely done, alex wagner, good to have youble. >> those women are heros, too.
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>> yes. >> how strangers came together to get a dog back to his family, why sinatra, why his return was so emotional for the family at the end of more than 1,000 mile r
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strangers more than 1,000 miles away from a lost dog helped him find his way back home. the husky named sinatra, look at his eyes, got out the front door of the family's home 18 months ago. the dog ended up down the east coast in a place called sefner, florida, outside tampa. jim axelrod shows us how two families and their friends worked together to get him home began. i love this story -- home again. i love this story. >> reporter: sinatra took off running during a package delivery. now anyone who's ever lost a pet knows the hole that creates in your heart. making this even more painfulhi family's tragedy. [ cheers ] after being gone for the last year and a half, the willis family's beloved pet dog sinatra is finally back home this morning. when the message arrived that
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sinatra had been found, i can't even imagine what went through your head. >> i didn't believe. it i didn't think it was true. i didn't think it was possible. >> reporter: that's because the message came from more than 1,000 miles away. near tampa, florida, three weeks ago, -year-old-year-o rose verr saw sinatra while she was at her school bus stop. >> he had this thing about him famie. ailroostfe. in to the vet who found an i.d. chip in the dog. some of the owner's contact information was inaccurate. with what little info. they did have, the family used social media to connect with lesmore willis and deliver the unbelievable news. >> there's a piece that's back that we didn't have for a year and a half. there's a piece of zion that's back. >> reporter: sinatra had joined the family as a 14th birthday present for their daughter, zion. the teenager was killed in a
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shooting accident at a friend's house in november of 2015. 18 months later, sinatra ran away. >> in light of the tragedy that happened to their family, the fact that they're able to get back this part of her, i think, that's truly amazing. >> sinatra? you excited to go home? >> reporter: what's also amazing is how sinatra made it back home once the owners were found. a t willises took turns over two days driving sinatra hundreds of miles up the east coast. lesmore willis drove the last leg of the trip himself. >> if zion were here she'd say, hurry, daddy, and we've got the to get him. >> reporter: they were reunited in southern new jersey. >> sinatra? hey. >> reporter: and sinatra finally made it all the way home last night. [ cheers ] back to the family that sees him as a connection to zion more
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than three years after her death. >> she loved him, it was obvious. they got along incredibly. they had a bond that none of us had with him up until that point. it was tough. it's still tough sometimes, but i'm glad he's back. it's a part of our family back. >> it would seem a big part of his story will forever remain a mystery, just how sinatra got all the way to florida to begin with. but the willis family says say that are content to live with never knowing just as long as they have this link to their late daughter back, a link they had given up hope ofn. >> we needed a story like this today. there's so much negativity in the world it shows you what happens when humanity ki >> and social media. >> exactly. wow. >> having good friends that will drive hundreds of miles. >> a long way with a dog. >> i love that. >> yeah. >> i hate the not knowing, though. i'd want to know, where has sinatra been. you said we'll never know. >> we'll stay on the story. >> okay. >> that's right. it's an opportunity for a
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memoir. >> yes. also with blue eyes, i should note, the -- old blue eyes. >> back in the day. next, no, this isn't a revival of the worm dance craze. the surprising reason these three guys were slinking across the floor of a houston barment a lot of interesting stories today. today on "cbs this morning's" podcast, the crow creator and co--- co-creator and co-star of "broad city," the "abby jacobson joins us and talks about wrapping up the comedy central show. and her book "i met regret th " this," you can hear the podcast on our pafbodcast app and all mr audio platforms. we'll be right back. you know when you're at ross and you find their favorite hero at a price that makes you the hero? yes. that's yes for less. yes! with hot holiday toys for all ages, ross is your toy destination. it feels even better when you find it for less, at ross: yes for less.
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inchworm bandits. three thieves broke into a houston bar on sunday. security video caught them slowly slinking along the floor in what apparently was an attempt to avoid cameras. watched too many bond films. they crawled through the dining room and behind the bar before making their way to the kitchen. the thieves made off with $450 in tip money for employees and are still on the run. >> worming around. that's what they look like, a couple of worms, too. >> yeah. after hurricane harvey, houston had the phrase, you know, houston proud. and there are three houstonians we're not proud of. >> feeling proud? no. >> no. >> i hope they get them -- somebody knows those guys. you recognize that hoodie and tennis shoes, call the police. that will do i what's a gig of data?
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san pablo one person has died following a high speed crash. san pablo avenue is shut down in both directions. it's still unclear when those lanes will re-open this morning. the city of south san francisco is offering supplies handing out sandbags. all day all week in front of the maintenance corporation yard on north canal street. and today marking mayor london breed and other city officials will honor these two men. it's kpix.com.
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pack your patience this morning. mass transit delays for both capital corridor and cal train. 5.2. 5.3 still delayed up to 37 minutes. in san jose taking a live look at conditions are there on northbound 101 from helliar to san antonio avenue. you can expect about a 15-minute ride and taking a look at the golden gate bridge traffic. no reports of accidents or stalls. we can see the fog is there and a lot of rain is coming our way. mary with more on that. that's right. we're tracking our first storm system of the week. and also the rain across the north bay.
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so zooming in here you can see that rain. point arena there as well as a near clear lake. here's what you can expect. this first storm system today out of the weaker ones. 1/4" to 3/4". tonight into tomorrow morning could see a few isolated showers but for the most part getting that heavy break. that will be the stronger storm system this week. so tracking that for you. a bit of a break friday with rain back in the break for saturday.
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wayne: season ten! hit it! - i'm taking the money! jonathan: it's a trip to sweden. big deal of the day! wayne: what's in the box?
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jonathan: what? tiffany: selfie. - oh, my god! wayne: smash for cash. $20,000. let's go. "let's make a deal" season ten, baby. jonathan: it's time for "let's make a deal." now here's tv's big dealer, wayne brady! wayne: welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. ten seasons strong, wayne brady, "let's make a deal." who wants to make a deal? let's go! you sir, come with me. everybody else, have a seat, let's get this show started. michael-- have a seat, have a seat. all right, excellent, how are you? - man, i live a blessed life, i'm up here with wayne brady. wayne: but i'm here with you, joshua, i'm here with you. - today, i am here!

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