good morning to our viewers in the west and welcome to "cbs this morning." outreach and anger. president trump offers his condolences to grieving communities in dayton and el paso. but some residents express frustration over the president's rhetoric. we'll talk with dayton's mayor. breaking news. cyntoia brown, an alleged sex trafficking victim, is released after 15 years. how she says she's already changed her life. policing in america. five years after the shooting death of michael brown, a cbs news investigation into more than 150 police departments looks at whether officers training to reduce racial bias works. and how prejudice can still hide in plain sight. and riding the star train.

our series, "american wonder," finds one of the rare places where the night sky still shines brightly. it's wednesday, august 27, 2019. here's today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. >> we'll be meeting with some of the victims and paying my respects. >> the president heads to the scenes of two mass shootings. >> i heard from victims still in the hospital as they grab my arm and tell me, tell him not to come here. >> the fbi is now looking into the dayton shooter's violent idealogies. the gunman's former girlfriend said she saw several red flags. >> i'm not shocked he did something horrific. >> the fbi has now opened up a domestic terrorism investigation into the shooting in gilroy, california. the gunman created a hit list. >> the shooter was exploring violent idealogy. >> the shootings have people on edge.

>> chaos in onew york city as a car backfires. >> it's the largest pedophile ring on earth. >> baltimore is bracing for another round of strong thunderstorms after heavy rain and flooding. >> all that -- >> this is a french bulldog. it looks like he's trying to get on the 2020 olympic volleyball team. he's that good. >> -- and all that matters. >> this is a highway in chicago. two semis collided. one of them lost a lot of wine. >> they immediately dispatched several local book clubs. >> on "cbs this morning." >> they just read the rules of october's debate. after calling the field for the september debate, the rules could let some of the candidates back in for october. the whole point of this is elimination. there is a reason that march madness doesn't go from the elite eight to the final four to

the terrific 12, to the nifty nine to the thrifty 13. they go down! >> he does have a pretty good point. >> don't give them any ideas, though. i don't want to change the march madness format. >> sometimes it does feel likee an eternal campaign, doesn't it? welcome to "cbs this morning." i'm anthony mason. gayle king and tony dokoupil are getting some much-needed rest. michelle miller and dana jacobson are here. the president is traveling to dayton, ohio and el paso, texas where two mass shootings took place last weekend. >> he said his rhetoric had no impact on the country. >> you asked the president about

banning assault weapons. what did he say? >> reporter: the president said there is no call for a ban on assault rifles, and when i asked him if he supports that, he dodged that question. he is expecting to be the chief in dayton and he will pass oel s not being welcomed with open arms. >> the mayor in dayton says he will not be welcome in the city that left nine people dead. >> mental illness pulls the trigger, not the gun. >> reporter: the president's t rhetoric is not going well in either community. the mayor in el paso is receiving lots of hate mail for the president of the united states. emotions in el paso are particularly raw. congresswoman veronica escobar says the president should

apologize for past comments. se scribe mexicans and immigrants are racist words that fuel hate. >> reporter: the accused white supremacist who allegedly killed 22 people at the walmart there said he was responding to what he called the hispanic invasion of texas. the president has often used the word invasion to justify his border wall immigration policies. >> many illegal aliens trying to rush our borders. it is an invasion. >> mexico should step up and stop this onslaught, this invasion into our country. >> reporter: the president continues to insist he's the least racist person ever. and the white house is pushing back on the pushback. >> it's not the politician's fault when someone acts out their evil intention. >> reporter: and some in el paso, like republican blanca del rona see the president acting out of respect. >> he is a representative of our nation and he is coming as such.

>> reporter: beto o'rourke said the president should not visit el paso today. in a tweet, president trump said he should be quiet. o'rourke replied, 22 people are dead in my town inspired by your racism. they will not be quiet nor will i. he is attending an action event while the president is in el paso. >> in our next hour we'll speak to nan whaley. you heard her criticism. we will talk to her about that and gun control. that's coming up at 8:00. an investigation has been opened up on the dayton gunman as he previously expressed a desire to commit a mass shooting. investigators also say connor betts had a history of violent

idealogies. it seems the republican governor there has some new proposals. >> reporter: that's right, but first the fbi will be looking at three main things. what idealogy may have influenced the attacker, who, if anyone, helped him or noour of his intentions beforehand, and why he chose to commit that specific act. all o of this comes as the shooter's parents have made their first public statement. late tuesday police delivered a statement on behalf of connor betts' parents. it included an expression of horror and grief over the loss of both of their children. >> they asked that everyone respect the family's privacy in order to mourn the loss of their son and daughter. >> reporter: connor betts went on a 30-second rampage in dayton's district, and in that time, he killed nine people, including his sister megan, before police shot and killed him. >> we have evidence throughout

the course of our investigation that the shooter was exploring violent idealogies. >> i didn't think he would go shoot strangers, especially his sister. >> reporter: adelia johnson, the shooter's ex-girlfriend, said they dated from march to may. betts was studying in college and that's why at first she didn't think of much of his obsession with violence. >> he was interested in what made people do certain things. >> reporter: on their first date, he showed her a video of a mass shooting. they broke up in the spring. >> i'm not shocked that he did something horrific. i am shocked that he did it to this level. >> reporter: we're also learning more about the victims. nicholas k aurumar was studying cancer care. thomas mcnichols was the father of four children, all ages eight

and under. deion green said he wasnjoyinga the shooter opened fire. >> he saved my life. there is no way i shouldn't have been the one that got hit. >> reporter: his dad died in his arms. >> he was just staring at me, just staring at me, and i'm like, come on. and he just stops breathing on me. i just lose it. i grab him and hold him. just tell him i love him and hold him. >> reporter: the fbi says the shooter was not on its radar before this incident, and while they are not saying what specific idealogy he may have embraced, they are saying they found no evidence that this attack was racially motivated or influenced by events in el paso the day before. anthony? >> dean reynolds, thank you, dean. in the wake of the dayton shootings, ohio's governor is calling for tough new gun control measures. republican mike dewine wants to require background checks for

nearly all gun sales. he's also seeking improvements in the state's mental health resources and a so-called red flag law. that would allow courts to take away firearms from people who pose a threat. it's not clear how much support the proposals will have in ohio's republican-controlled legislature. for the first time we are hearing from the parents of the suspect. in the "wall street journal," the parents wrote, patrick's actions were objeapparently influenced by people we do not know. janet, good morning. >> reporter: the parking lot is emptying as people involved in the shooting are coming back to pick up their cars. several walmarts in the country could be pretty empty as well as they are calling for a nationwide walkout over ohio's gun law. here in el paso, the emotions are still very raw in the wake

of this horrific tragedy. >> it was so quick, just boom, boom, boom. >> reporter: she couldn't hold back tears as she finally returned to the walmart tuesday for the first time since the shooting to pick up the car she left behind. >> my husband asked me what it was, was that gunshots? i told him i didn't know, it sounded like fireworks. and he said, he's shooting, he's shooting, he's shooting. >> reporter: authorities are learning more about the alleged shooter's movements after he stormed the walmart. the suspect was driving a honda civic about a quarter mile from the store. he reportedly stopped, got out of the car with his hands in the air, and surrendered to a cop on a motorcycle. now as el paso grieves, some of them are well enough to share their story. >> i just feel grateful i'm alive. he had the chance to kill me but he didn't.

>> reporter: octavio was shot in the foot and has had several reconstructive surgeries. the youngest victim, 15-year-old javier ramirez, was shot and killed. >> it was a horrible image and i hope nobody ever goes through it. >> reporter: that pain has been felt by an entire community, as well as the suspect's parents who, in a statement to the "wall street journal," said in part, there will never be a moment for the rest of our lives when we will forget each and every victim of this senseless tragedy. >> janet, thank you. just days after the mass shootings, americans remain on edge. last night in new york's times square, crowds ran for cover after there was a loud noise that some apparently mistook for gunfire. police say that noise was from motorcycles backfiring and there was no danger. some people reportedly ran into stores, theaters or restaurants

for safety. police tell our new york station wcds-tv that 22 people were hurt in the stampede. four were hospitalized. all are expected to be okay. a woman who says she was a 16-year-old sex trafficking victim when she killed a man left prison early this morning. cyntoia brown, now 31, was granted an early release from her life sentence in january. that followed support from celebrities, including rihanna and james. she's served a sentence for a long time. >> reporter: that's right. considering cyntoia brown has spent nearly half her life behind bars. she earned her degree and encouraged scores of people to champion her release. now she wants to use her

experiences to help other young women and girls escape abuse. >> reporter: she left prison hoping for privacy as she reenters society. but her case, drawing attention for years, already speaks volumes. brown, seen in this 2011 documentary, says 43-year-old real estate agent johnny allen picked her up in 2004 in an area of nashville known for prostitution. she says allen agreed to pay her $150 with the intent to have sex, then drove her to his home. >> he just grabbed me, like, and he just grabbed real hard and he just gave me this look. he rolled over and he's reaping to t -- reaching to the side of the bed or something. and i'm thinking, he's not going to hit me, he's getting a gun. >> what did you do at that time? >> i grabbed the gun and shot him. >> reporter: brown was 16 at the time but was sentenced as an

adult and sentenced to life in prison for murder. >> i have prayed for a long time to be released. >> reporter: last year brown got her first bid for freedom before a parole board. >> i am a changed person because i have no choice but to be. >> reporter: seven months later, former tennessee governor bill haslem granted brown clemency. >> she was 16. you don't throw away a child. >> reporter: he is a former state prosecutor that once fought to keep brown out of prison. he is advocating for her release. >> she has all the potential to not just go and do good, potentially mentor other people. >> reporter: now, schiff actually says he wants to fight for justice for the thousands of other women in similar situations but of course much lesser known. as for brown, she will be on parole for the next decade and she will stay that way so long as she does not break any laws, holds a job and receives counseling. also this fall she does plan to release a book about her life

story. dana? >> errol, you see that video of her so young and so many others that may have been in a similar situation. thank you, we appreciate it. severe weather slammed parts of the midwest and east. a dramatic and fast-moving storm swept through north dakota with heavy wind, rain and ma marble-sized hail yesterday. cars were standing in water several feet deep. some drivers had to abandon their vehicles. storms in the next few days could bring heavy rain to the west and the east. politicians, writers, musicians and fans are paying tribute to activist toni morrison who died wednesday. she was 88 and died after a brief illness. the nobel laureate's influence went far beyond the world of books. michelle miller remembers the author who transformed how we look at african-american life.

>> i think i write well. and i think i have a distinctive voice. >> reporter: toni morrison used that voice to challenge beliefs on race and gender. definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. she wrote that in her novel "beloved" about a runaway slave who chose death over bondage for her daughter. the book won the pulitzer prize. through 11 novels spanning more than four decades, morrison delved into the struggles of the oppressed. she received the nobel prize for literature in fir black woman to accept the honor. >> she was very much aym mentor and a beacon. >> harold donaldson said he

might not be an executive at randomhouse if she had not gotten him his first job in publishing. what will you miss most? >> i will miss her mystery, her laughter and her abiding faith in human beings. >> reporter: he said up until her death, toni morrison was working on a new book, perhaps one last piece into her lens on humanity. for "cbs this morning," michelle miller, new york. >> what a phenomenal woman, a real truth teller. i was saying during the break i went to a reading not too long ago, and you realize how important those words were asking who we are, why we are and how we can be better. >> a political contribution to american culture. a cbs news investigation reveals what police departments nationwide say they are doing to combat potential issues of racial bias. it's been nearly five years since a controversial police killing in ferguson, missouri that was followed by months of

protest. that and similar incidents in other cities led to changes in g we wd toifhe begay led our investigation. >> reporter: we compiled data from six big city police departments and half of them said they conducted training. ahead, you'll hear those officers say that training could

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indict the officer involved. outrage over similar incidents in other cities led to changes in police training, but is it working? jeff pegues investigates our rg. jeff, what did you learn? >> we reached out to 155 police departments. at least 69% say they've added training to teach officers how to deal with unconscious bias which we all have over race. 57% received training, but when we asked if it works, most say they don't have a way to measure success. some officers even told us it's made their jobs tougher. implicit bias training, has it worked? >> no. >> you don't think it works. >> the training itself, the concepts, was the absolute worst training we've ever had. >> reporter: these are mesa,

arizona, police officers. they're white. we have agreed theirfaces andt. this is their department's implicit bias training. >> there's research that has documented implicit biases and they've linked it to ethnicity and race as one. >> reporter: they're taught how to recognize and impact racial biases on their jobs. >> they individualize blacks. >> one of the first videos introduced in the trains was reaffirming you're born a victim if you're a minority. >> what do you think the agenda is? >> reinforcing that the police are racist, specifically white middle class officers. >> these are the high-profile

videos. they see it as an overcorrection. >> trying to change what we've done that's worked overwhelmingly effectively. it becomes an officer safety issue causing officers to second-guess themselves, which is a complete change to when wee >> well, there have been some pretty high-profile incidents here. robert johnson getting knocked around, gabriel ramirez, an officer squeezed his neck after he was handcuffed. daniel shaver on his knees begging for his life in a hotel room. >> there's nothing that those officers did that was outside of the training they had received. >> that robert johnson video, is that what you're taught to do? >> we're taught to handle the situation. >> was that handling the situation or was that excessive force. >> that was handling the situation. >> reporter: the officers involved in the ramirez and johnson cases were not charged with crimes. officer philip bralsberg fired

and charged with murdering daniel shaver but was acquitted to change their 75% of departments who completed our survey told us that they changed their training after controversial use-of-force incidents. 90% of departments who say they have implicit bias training say it's required of all officers. but training methods vary. for example, honolulu, hawaii, told us they have one half hour session a year. >> i wmt our communities to feel safe. >> despite what we heard from the mesa officers, chief roman batista told us the new training is working. >> i think by evidence of the fact that in the last nine months we've reduced

use-of-force-related events by 30% points to the fact that we're making progress. >> reporter: but there's no universal measure of success. other departments we surveyed like new york saying reducing physical altercations between officers and the community doesn't necessarily mean implicit bias training is working. >> they judge a book by its cover. >> departments in hawaii, oregon, and nebraska told us they track bias complaints against officers to determine success, but about 59% of departments who responded to our follow-up questions say they don't have a way to know if implicit bias training is working at all. these officers say some of the new training is just for show. >> they instruct in the video, we're not telling you to do this. we're presenting it. >> at the beginning they're saying, don't do this, but you have to watch it. >> correct. it kills morale because to pay for this training we had to give

up something else, right? so instead of doing more firearms training, we've taken the function there, for the officers' morale, you don't care about me or the citizens. you care about putting on this little show. >> mesa p.d. denies telling officers to ignore what they're teaching. as you heard, officers claim racism among law enforcement are overblown. but what about cops who say more needs to be done? in our next hour we're going to meet a st. louis officer who says she thinks white supremacists are working on the force. >> there's clearly a big divide there still. >> there is, there is. i don't know if you could see in the video. as you're watching that, maybe you heard my eyes pop open when you hear them say, it's a show, we don't do what the trainers tell us to do. >> you appreciate their honesty

and they didn't want to show their face, but you look at robert johnson and say, he wasn't resisting. that's what you're training to do? i'd be curious what it does look like. i understand they're under an enormous amount of pressure. you have to wonder what should happen to get to a place where everybody is happy. >> exactly. we were surprised by how candid they were, too, and especially over those incidents because if you talk to police chiefs after incidents like that, they would not say what those officers told us, and that's why we feel that that interview was so because you rarely hear officers on the beat being that honest. >> we're looking forward to the next part. thank you. in "48 hours," how a suspect was able to live off the grid for four years before he was

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abuse. >> are you representing they covered it up? >> oftentimes they were. what they were covering up was a systemic problem that they had, which was infiltration by child molesters and the worst of the worst. >> the boy scouts issued a statement saying, quote, we believe victims and remove individuals based on only allegations of inappropriate behavior. the scouts say they're continuing to search paper records at the local level to get more information about alleged abusers. it looks like there's been another shark attack. i want go back to the boy scouts. a lot of the reason they're coming forward is the me too movement. the average age are in their 50s and, three, 18 states have passed new statute and reform laws which goes in effect next week. new york will give a one-year retroactive window. >> you did a lot of work on this in the catholic church. you see once again it's a

vulnerable -- it's children, people that are going to be scared because they don't want to come forward with people that they trust. >> we'll have more on that. i want to turn to shark attacks. it looks like there's been another one in florida. a diver said he was in the water about a mile from key biscayne on saturday when a 20-foot bull shark grabbed hold of his left arm and almost killed him. the 37-year-old was bleeding badly when a nearby charter boat which happened to have nurses on the boat came to his rescues. two officials took him onboard and took him ashore. he was released from the hospital on wednesday. >> so lucky the nurses were onboard. and my favorite story. for the first time in "o" magazine's historier our very own co-host gage king will be gracing the cover. she joins oprah in a spread for the september issue. "o" magazine gave us an

exclusive behind-the-scenes look at gayle shooting her big debut. it also contains a special column written by oprah. she talked about her rising moment and tells is with such joy. >> it's so cool. she said she is often asked how she felt being the shadow. she said she never fell like a shadow. she felt like the rain. ahead in our series "me ""american wonders"" we're going to take you for a train ride that's out of this world. unpredictable crohn's symptoms following you?

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good morning it's 7:56 i'm kenny choi. jury deliberations continue in the warehouse trial. they're working to determine if max harris and derek almena are responsible. the search is on for the man accused of stabbing two people in the downtown bart station both victims taken to the hospital and are expected to be okay. and looking for a man who swiped laptops at two starbucks in foster city. we'll have news updates throughout the day on your favorite platforms including our website of course kpix.com.

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good morning here at 7:57 i am tracking real time traffic delays this morning. i know it's a little bit hazy but you can see there are some delays. depending on what direction you're headed. and let's head over to the bay bridge where they finally have cleared an accident that was blocking lanes as you are approaching on 80. all the way to the maze and the 880 fly over. it's a grey start along the coast and the bay. temperatures will be a little bit cooler compared to yesterday. 80 in concord and livermore. 76 in san jose. 68 in oakland and 66 for san francisco. we will continue to cool down as we head through the workweek and into the start of the work weekend. warming back up to sunday into the next workweek. have a great day.

good morning to our viewers in the west. it's wednesday, august 7th, 2019. welcome back to "cbs this morning." ahead, president trump visits two cities shaken by mass shootings. dayton, ohio's mayor tells us what she wants to say to him. and policing in america. one cop who believes there are racists in her department. and american wonder stargazing at an entirely different level. first, here's today's "eye opener" at 8. >> president trump is on his way to visit two cities where the nation's most recent mass shootings left 31 people dead. >> the president says there is no appetite in congress for a ban on assault rifles.

he is hoping to be the comforter in chief in dayton and el paso. >> the fbi will be looking at what eideology influenced the attacker, who helped him and why he chose to commit that act. >> parents in a statement to the "wall street journal" said there will never be a moment for the rest of our lives we will forget each and every victim of this senseless tragedy. >> cyntoia brown wants to use her experiences to help other women and girls ex cape exploitation and abuse. retaliation to president trump escalating trade war, china has just announced that they will no longer buy any agricultural products from the united states. i'm not a liar. i think we might need oprah back. she can move some products back. cou have they are come out like, you know what my favorite product

is? soybeans! >> this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. >> you get a soybean, you get a soybean, you get a soybean. >> i'm anthony mason. gayle king and tony dokoupil are off. dana jacobson and jericka duncan are here. president trump is traveling to two cities where people offended by his words are questioning his plans. when he left the white house this morning, the president said he would support stronger background checks on gun buyers, saying they are important. el paso's republican mayor says it's his tduty to meet with the president despite calls for mr. trump to stay home. others say the president's tough talk on illegal immigration inable violence like the el paso shooting. the president said this morning his rhetoric has no impact >> the gunman charged with killing 22 people in el paso wrote he was responding to what he called the hispanic invasion

of texas. those words are similar to the ones the president has used. mr. trump arrived minutes ago in dayton, ohio, where a gunman killed nine people. dayton's mayor said she was disappointed with the president's statement on monday denouncing the shootings. >> another nine people were killed in dayton, ohio, where democratic marinan whaley will meet with president trump this morning. she said yesterday she was disappointed with the president's statement on the shootings monday. >> before the president arrived in dayton, we spoke with mayor nan whaley she joined us from the shooting scene. what do you plan to say to president trump today? >> i hope i get a couple of seconds or a couple of minutes just to ask him to not only just come here tforticti andour f re actually to take some action. we had a vigil on the street

sunday night at 8:00. the grief and anger and love, actually, was palpable. but the anger is something that i think has motivated a lot of politicians here in ohio to take action and instead of just words, i want the president to do something to make sure that these kinds of senseless acts of violence stop happening in the country. >> when you say do something, what would you like the president to do? you mentioned the action there your own governor has proposed, some gun control reforms he would like to see in place. >> right. in the past 48 hours we have seen the republican governor move forward on legislation around background checks. we have seen the republican congressman call for the end of these assault weapons. the president has a choice of lots of options to take action to make sure that these

gun tions, slow down. on l th lindsey graham and blumenthal have moved he could support that and say i'm going to do everything as president to make that happen. we know the president relishes action, but we've seen no action around gun issues. just a lot of talk. >> mayor whaley, the gunman's family released a statement saying that they are cooperating with law enforcement. have you learned anything new about the gunman's motive? >> we haven't. yesterday afternoon the fbi took over that section of the investigation because some of the violent ideologies, is what they talked about. they also said that they are pretty confident that it's not racially motivated. so we'll leave that to the federal investigators to really undig. >> mayor, yesterday, you went to two hospitals to visithe medical teams. how is everyone holding up? >> look, it's tough.

when i went to visit the folks that were injured, they lost a . their other friends were there. so this is like not just bone person that was sitting here and nobody else was surrounded. their whole network of folks have had a great trauma around what happened saturday night. and that's going to take some time for our community. a lot of those injured are just processing, not really understanding, you know, really what happened. you know, look, the whole community is still processing that. there were over 1,000 people in the district saturday night, like a normal saturday night. so we're all in that process. but earnly the families who lost loved ones and those that have been injured are people that were paying very close attention to it here in dayton. >> mayor whaley, so many have been in your shoes before. have youy lp you a y try lead

country have been terrific. mayors are the last functioning part of government. bill peduto in pittsburgh. the mayor of parkland has been amazing. mayor castor in tamp, a florida, used to be a police chief, has been awesome. buddy dyer of orlando with the pulse nightclub. unfortunately, this is a fraternity that we wished didn't exist. i am so grateful for the mayors across the country, their leadership and their want and action to finally make it so we don't have to have another city that continues to go through this. >> that list far too lock. mayor whaley, thank you. again our condolences to all of you there in dayton. >> thank you. ahead, we have more on our year-long cbs news investigation into policing in america. jeff pets startling information from a police officer in a department that has

faced racial controversial. >> controversy. >> do you think there are white supremacists on the police force. >> you didn't pause. >> have you seen some of the facebook posts of our suspended officers right now? yeah. >> how some officers say they did not take or do not remember

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rare insight from police officers about the challenges of fighting racism inside a department. a growing number of the departments told us they have added implicit bias training. but hundreds of officers in multiple states have recently been exposed or racist social media posts attacking minorities and promoting racial stereotypes. jeff beg ace spoke to an officer who has officers at the center of that controversy. our investigation into policing in america five years after ferguson. jeff, what did that officer tell you? >> the st. louis metro police officer you are about to hear

from says the culture among her department's top brass is allowing bad cops to slip through the cracks. when we asked if the department had training to address possible racial bias, the answer wasn't clear. >> reporter: do you think that there are white supremacists on the police force? >> yes. >> reporter: you didn't even pause. >> have you seen some of the facebook posts of some of our suspended officers right now? yes. >> reporter: heather taylor is an almost 19-year veteran on the st. louis metro police force. she points to the recent report by the plain view project which flagged thousands of racist and derogatory social media posts, including some from 22 current st. louis metro officers like this one, that compared black lives matter to the kkk. at president of the ethical society of police, a oma predominantly black local union, she roots out discrimination among police.

this led to changes in training there. slmd says implicit bias trainings has been mandatory once a year since october 2014. that's two months after michael brown's death. >> implicit bias training, they have had that here? >> yes. >> reporter: has it worked? >> i think that's pretty obvious it hasn't. >> reporter: if implicit bias training is mandatory, it doesn't seem to have left an impression on heather taylor. have you been through it? >> no. it was optional. >> reporter: lieutenant cheryl orange, a patrol officer for the department, says she doesn't remember taking it either. wasn't it mandatory? >> not that i recall, but it may have been. >> reporter: we have been trytr thpolicehief to t washington wizards news investigation. we found a majority of departments nationwide are adding training to address possible racial bias. over a period of months there have been phone calls,emai

d eandry time the ouest for int >> there is a change. >> reporter: so we went to the man who hired the police chief. jimmy edwards is the public safety director for the city of st. louis. >> we had an officer tell us she knows that there are white supremacists on the police force. >> i'm not surprised. my job is to root that person out. >> reporter: the implicit bias training isn't mandatory for all officers? >> it is mandatory. >> reporter: we talk ed to officers who don't remember taking it. >> everybody has taken implicit bias training. >> reporter: and they can't remember it? >> i don't know. that's a good question for hem. >> reporter: that's odd. >> it is odd. >> reporter: still use of force incidents are down, which he credits to new training. he concedes police have a long way to go. >> she asked me, can you change the police department? every time my little black boy

encounters the police, i think one of two things is going to happen. my child will lose his liberty and go to prison or that my child will die. we have challenges. but we're over coming those s tha lude bettecreening and what some have called the blue wall of silence. a term for police cover-ups of internal wrongdoing. your fellow officers, they might see your comments and be offended. how do you go back to work after making comments like that? >> because when you know you are doing right, you can hold your head up. i don't think that all of our department is bad, but instead of complaining about me, how about you do something to change the culture that you know exists? >> it is still unknown whether any police training technique could impact trends in use of force. one reason is because there has never been a federal use of force database to study. for the first time the fbi is

creating one. we will have an exclusive report on thatluding an lng % that effort. >> amazing stuff. so difficult it sounds like to really make people change how they really feel. and i think that's the issue. you can mandate things all day long, but it's a cultural shift that has to happen. >> that's true in police departments and in society overall, frankly. but we were surprised by how candid the officers that we spoke to were with us, even when the cameras were rolling. >> part of the problem is actually just knowing that it still exists. maybe that's at least the first step. >> you have to realize you may have a problem with your bias training if people can't remember taking the course. >> that surprised us, the fact that there was this big push to get implicit bias training. the question is, is it working? is to making a difference? >> maybe counseling would help. thank you very much. and to see how police departments in your state responded to questions about training, including that racial

bias training and de-escalation avstate- go tocbor kdown of the 155 police departments we surveyed. >> watch more of jeff's exclusive report tonight on the "cbs evening news" and tomorrow on "cbs this morning." jeff brings an kluwe look at the fbi's new efforts to track use of force across the nation for the first time. plus, jeff discusses what went into the year-long investigation on today's "cbs this morning" podcast. it's available wherever you like to get your podcasts. a new movie shows the true story of nfl prospects brian banks, who was convicted in his teens of a crime he did not commit. ahead, greg kinnear, who plays the attorney who helped exonerate banks, will be in studio 57 to talk about why he wanted to be involved in the film. you're watching "cbs this morning." more and why greg kinnear wanted to be

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a texas teenager who defied the odds after a terrible car accident is talking to us about herssger when the driver had a seizure in june. she tried to grab the wheel but couldn't stop the vehicle. it rolled over and she was thrown from the vehicle. he was paralyzed on one side and doctors said she might not make it. she was determined to recover. >> they're amazed how fast i recovered. i was like -- it was over a y r year. >> now lacy is up and mobile with the help of a walker. she has hard work ahead. members of the community are helping through a gofundme page. >> way to go, lacy. >> the power of a mind. >> very impressive. >> it is. we'll take you on the star train deepews is next.

this is a kpix 5 news morning update. >> all lanes are finally back open along the san mateo bridge after a tow truck veered off the road this morning. crews closed two eastbound lanes this morning to get the truck out of the ditch luckily no one was hurt. today the notorious criminal dubbed the ski mask rapist is set to appear at a parole hearing. today a parole board will determine whether he should be released. muni's new platform for the chase center is up and running. if you're using muni to get to a concert or a warriors game. we'll have news updates throughout the day on your

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good morning at 8:27 i'm going to track your travel times for you. let's start there and take a live look at how they look.' you are back in the red unfortunately. no accidents causing that. just regular old delays. you are in the yellow elsewhere. taking a live look to the bay bridge this morning where you're backed up onto the 880 into the flyover as well. and san mateo bridge looks a little better than it did this morning but still busy in that

westbound commute direction. richmond san rafael bridge let me make sure geeuf ot the right -- i've got the right picture here. oakland northbound on the nimmets that still has not recovered. temperatures will be a little bit cooler today compared to yesterday and we'll continue with that cooling trend through the workweek and in through the start of the weekend. the grey start but it is sunny on our san jose camera this morning. temperatures running about 80 in concord this afternoon. also for livermore 76 and san jose 68 in oakland and 66 for san francisco. there we go with that cooldown. stronger on shore flow for the workweek and through the start of the weekend. warming back up sunday into early next week. have a great day.

welcome back to "cbs this morning." it's t pick a story we'd like to share with you and with each other. >> yeah. why don't you start. >> good idea. i'll do that. >> i mean -- >> a judge has ordered a handwriting expert to examine tit of aretha franklin. they've named different executors to her estate. there are millions of dollars. the recent executives are two different sons and a niece. it's become such a problem that her will is now under court supervision and they've had to bring in a handwriting analyst

to determine whether these wills are actually real. the moral of a story here, when you have an estate that big, get laer,rite will. >> make sure the lawyer has it and there's no discrepancy. >> now you and your family ends up fighting. >> exactly. >> jericka, what's your story? >> my story is a tip for women and even men who are diagnosed with breast cancer. a new study shows you might be able to low ur your risk by eating less red meat and more chicken. they've analyzed different types of meat and the way people were cooking it. 42,000 people over a seven-year period, the women who consumed red meat had a 23% higher risk of getting breast cancer, increasing consumption of poultry had a 157 lower risk than those with the lowest consumption. so when you look at the big

picture, 42,000 deaths every year because of breast cancer and more than 3 million women across the country who have breast cancer right now. this is some helpful information as you look at what you can do. >> it all comes down to health always. >> and diet. >> diet, yeah. i should have said diet. so my story -- i can't decide where i fall on this one. if you're flying on cafe pacific, chances are they're collecting information about you on surveillance. that's why i say i don't know where i fall on this. they want to find out about your in-flight entertainment, how yu euro using it and how it's there. i don't think i want them capturing images of me while i'm on my flight. they say there are others who have the in-seat cameras but they're not using them. why do they have to watch us? >> i wouldn't want that because

i sleep with my mouth open on a plane. >> so do i. the only good part is i usually fall forward so i'm not sure the camera will see anything. >> not to the side. >> it's like deadforwa forward. >> i'm okay with that. >> me too. academy award winner greg kinnear is known for portraying real people on the big screen. he's played former philadelphia eagles coach dik fur meal and john f. kennedy. now he's taking on a prosecuting attorney justin brooks and brian banks. it's based on a true story of a teenage nfl prospect who was convict odd of a crime he did not commit. after spending five years in prison and more on parole, he sought out justin brooks to prove he's innocent. >> mr. brooks, i'm brian banks. >> oh, yeah.

you're the football player. >> you got my letter. >> letters, plural, right? brian, look, we only work with wrongly imprisoned people. >> i was wrongly imprisoned. >> i know, i know. you're out now. and you took a plea. >> i only took a plea -- >> that's okay. you didn't go to trial, so you can't appeal. there's nothing you can do. >> there's always something you can do. >> greg kinnear joins us at the table. good morning. a long ways from the days of "talk soup." i remember watching that. >> the bright light? got a table here. >> brian banks was at the table not too long ago telling his story six or seven years ago. it's a true story and a special story when you consider the timing as we just talked about cyntoia broin who was released from prison today.

but you did heavier. in terms of getting to know this character. you sat in on some of those law classes from justin brooks at california western. why was that so important, and what more did you do to propair for this role? >> you know, justin, in addition to starting a program that has exonerated over 30 people, some people have been locked up for ten, 20, 30 years, he's always a tenured professor, a law student. i wanted, of course, to hang out and see how he does this thing. of course, i was the stup irdest guy in law class. getting to follow him around and seeing what he was doing was obviously imperative. you know, it's amazing. usually when you make a movie, you don't always have the real ose marv guys can't look like that. >> what? >> we were lucky to be there as

great assets, telling exactly how these moments happened in what was really a fantastic story. >> there are actually executive producers of the film. >> yeah. >> were they on set the whole time? >> yeah, pretty much. obviously for me, when you read the story, brian's journey, he starts at 16 years old, wrongly convicted. he gets pulled into the criminal justice system, spends six years in prison. and really it was his own advocacy. brian pulled the cie with him into getting this case overturned with not a lot of time left. brian was out. he was out on parole. >> that's why they were hesitant to take this because he was already on parole. ursue his dres asht.

a football player, could gonlt near a field because he was a registered sex offender. there were a lot of things against him. the story, even if it weren't, it played like a helluva movie. the fact that all of this was real, the fact that these amazing and inspiring people were surrounding him. >> did the real justin brooks give you a case on how to defend a case in new york? >> he gave me a few acting tips. he was an asset. it's impossible not to inspire a guy like this. he's made it his life's work. he've done from the get-go. and the fact that these two stories aligned right at this moment is what made a huelluva change your role

and how you approach issues? have you gotten more involved in social justice issues along those lines? >> it's impossible not to be deale affected. i think anybody who sees the movie and i hesitate to see the movie. they're like it's going to give you -- >> it is. >> in addition to that, just following the story, i don't think there's a way in which you can't feel a passion for trying to, you know, get involved in that, you know, criminal justice reform and trying to really look at what you can do to trial to drn in a system that -- at least when you look in brian's case. >> really getting inside to a serious matter and people being believed now, not just with the

ke t >> ye. >> thank you veryre kinnear. brienk bangs will be out in theaters on friday. ahead, we'll take you on our series ""american wonders."" >> reporter: why would anyone want to take a trip to one of the loneliest parts of the country to a place that's so darng uchl yo

in our summer series "american wonders," we're exploring places that make american wonder to from the wonderful landscape to spectacular creations. this morning we go on a train bound for northern nevada. the passengers there are not there to see sunny landscapes. their focus is to see views after dark. "cbs sunday morning" correspondent lee cowan takes us on a trip. >> reporter: good morning. we're aboard one of the oldest operating railroaded in the country. the only thing more scarce than people is light. these tracks have been here for more than 100 years, and this

day, they're about the only manmade things you're going to see way out here. >> if you leave this town, there's a sign that says, next gas, 164 miles, and they mean 164 miles. >> reporter: mark bass set looks the party and it's no show. he's the president of the nevada northern railway out of ealing, nevada, a part of this town built by a railroad that's still chucking along. you know, that is our strength and our weakness. if we were near las vegas right now, that would have all been bulldozed down. but because of our remoteness, it was preserved. >> reporter: the trains have been running for years.

there's no ore here. just before sunset it heads out for a three-hour ride toward great basin park certified as one of the darkest regions in the northern united states. no lights are allowed. ahead is charlie green, racing ahead of the sun to set up telescopes. you don't have to do much for it because if you see it, you see it. >> reporter: what the passengers are about to see still impresses even him. >> does it get overwhelming? >> i'll tell you the first night i came, i said, uh-oh, i can't find my marker stars. i can't find any of them because there were so many.

>> reporter: 100 years or so ago a night sky like this was oddly the milky way with the naked eye, all because our world is completely polluted with light. >> the more that we lose, we're going to lose it universally. >> reporter: as the train creeps to a stop, passengers are greeted by an eerie glow. >> whoa. >> reporter: what happens? the view of the universe the way most have never seen it. >> oh, wouchlt this is something i have never seen in my life. >> i couldn't believe in my eyes. i've only seen things like that in pictures. >> reporter: sue mittendorf came

all the way from st. louis to see this. >> it's really beautiful, it really is. it makes you feel so small. >> reporter: it looked like fireflies gathered around the campfire. but soon it's time to head back. an excursion that for a while shed as little light on our plates in the universe. all of this darkness is gaining steam, but time is of the essence. as lighting becomes more powerful and more cost-effective, even remote places like this may one day be in danger of what some people call eternal twilight. >> i want to go. >> i want to take my future stepson there. >> you take jack. i'll take journey. >> next year we're there. upping next.

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take a look at this video. they're clinging to their best friend jeffrey last week. jeffrey's condition causes his muscles to stiffen when he get cold. his family says while most kids would run to the next friend, his two friends would prefer to help him all day long. >> he could barely walken and we helped him and held his hand up. it makes me happy. >> and get this. rhea and kane say they plan to walk with jeffrey through the halls at school this year. their families are confident the sweet bond will without a doubt last a long time. >> i love seeing their arms wrapped around each other. that's what friendship is all about. >> why don't we wrap our arms around each other. >> okay. that does it for us. be sure to tune in to the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell tonight. we'll see you tomorrow right back here o

this is a kpix 5 morning update. >> good morning it is 8:55. jury deliberations continue today in the ghost ship warehouse trial. they are weighing months of testimony to determine if max harris and derek almena are responsible for the fire that killed 36 people in 2016. the search is on for a man accused of stabbing two people at the downtown berkley bart station. police say it happened just before 1:00 yesterday morning. both victims were taken to a hospital and are expected to be okay. >> and police on the peninsula are looking for a man who swiped the laptops at two different starbucks coffee shops in foster city. witnesses say he got away in a black colored nissan versa.

good morning here at 8:57 from your real time traffic center. let's check in on your main travel times this morning. you are no longer in the green with the exception of highway 4. in the red however, slow and go conditions out of the altimonte pass. 101 out of the south bay at the bay bridge where you're backed up to the foot of the maze. you're really starting to slow down too on the east shore freeway this morning. it is not that fast either on the san mateo bridge. it looks like maybe the sun's

trying to peak out. it's not the case at the richmond san rafael bridge. mary will tell you here at the richmond, san rafael bridge. >> because of that on shore flow we're tracking the clouds and the fog and also patchy drizzle this morning . clear skies as we start the day. as we head through the afternoon, we will have clearing but because of that ocean breeze it will be increasing today. temperatures will be cooler. 80 in concord. 76 san jose. 68 oakland and 66 for san francisco. daytime highs seasonal if not a little below average. we'll continue with that cool down as we head into the workweek and the start of the weekend warming back up through the end of next week.

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