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enjoy this beautiful sunrise. >> gorges. left it. >> "cbs this morning" is good morning to you. welcome to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. >> president trump acquitted his plan victory speech today. and what he's saying about the one republican who voted against him. >> massive storm risk. powerful weather front kicks up destructive tornadoes in mississippi and dumps snow on the central u.s. now targeting nearly all of the east coast. car seat concern. the maker of a popular booster seat marketed to parents whose children were too small to be protected in a crash, the result of a year long investigation. smart self-defense. elizabeth smart who survived kidnapping and sexual abuse tells how another attack inspired her new effort to help women and girls protect themselves.
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>> when this that happened to you was there a part you that said why is this happening again? >> i called my husband and i said do i have a big badge on my forehead that says easy prey or victim. i'm sick of it. >> it's thursday, february 6th, 2020. we begin this morning with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. the senate sitting as a court of impeachment stands adjourn. >> president trump is acquitted on both impeachment charges. >> senator mitt romney under attack after he sided with democrats. >> this is war. donald trump will never forgive you for this. >> i know in my heart i'm doing what's right. i understand there will be enormous consequence. >> we are still waiting on the final results of monday's iowa caucuses. >> i assume one of these years that vote count will be completed. >> parts of the southern united
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states hit with severe weather. snow was dumped as far south as texas resulting in drews conditions. -- dangerous conditions. >> two cruise ships are quarantined in asia due to the coronavirus. >> several passengers tested positive. >> long time movie star kirk douglas has passed away. >> douglas was 103 years old. >> once we're on the march we'll free every slave in every town and village. >> an airplane skidded off a runway in turkey, breaking into pieces. the plane caught fire. >> all that. >> the winner for butler. >> and all that matters. >> i'll tell my children and their children i did my duty to the best of my ability. believing that my country expected it of me. >> i'm going to say you proved everyone wrong. the haters said you were as radical as a glass of skim milk. they were wrong. you're whole milk.
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>> we're going to fight for our right to party. kansas city celebrate their super bowl win. >> fourth quarter, down ten. >> that's a good raspberry. could be a preview of the president's press conference later. >> very good. they are the champions. welcome to "cbs this morning" and we begin in washington where president trump and his allies are celebrating the end of his impeachment trial and slamming the one republican who voted to remove him from office. it is a story making headlines across the country today. half the senate rejected both articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of congress.
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>> the vote was again party lines except for a guilty vote from senator mitt romney. during an emotional speech the senator said he was following his conscience. mr. trump called him a fauld presidential candidate. nancy what's next? >> reporter: we hear from the president himself at noon eastern time. his aides say he's pleased but not surprised. here on capitol hill it has been a bruising ordeal and one senator described it as the most difficult decision he has ever had to make. >> it's over, america. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: the white house celebrated wednesday night. president trump declaring it our country's victory. after a nearly five month long process with more than 30 hours of public witness testimony, and 180 questions from senators, the vote as expected fell well short
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of the two-thirds needed for removal. >> that donald j. trump is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles. >> reporter: it was in the end a straight party line vote with one notable exception. >> the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust. >> reporter: utah republican mitt romney said the president did commit a high crime or misdeamnor when he used military aid to pressure ukraine to investigate a political rival and his son. >> there's no question in my mind that were their names not biden the president would never have done what he did. >> he made his decision. i think it's a mistake. >> reporter: senate republicans were forgiving. >> mitt romney had us fooled. >> reporter: the president was less so tweeting out this video, claiming romney is a democrat secret asset. after the vote majority leader mitch mcconnell repeatedly
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refused to say as he has for months whether mr. trump did anything wrong. >> as far as i'm concerned it's in the rear view miror. what i'm here to talk about today is the political impact. >> reporter: president clinton apologized after his acquittal in 1999. >> i want to say again, to the american people how profoundly sorry i am for what i said and did to trigger these events. >> reporter: democrats do not expect the same contrition from mr. trump. >> i would pray to the good lord, you know, i didn't see that lesson learned. >> reporter: the senate is now adjourned until monday when it takes up a judicial nomination, a sign that this body is getting back to business as usual and working on the president's top priorities. anthony? >> nancy, thank you. cbs news will bring you a special report when president trump make his statement on his acquittal. 9: pacific time.
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we're now three days after the iowa caucus and almost all the results have now been reported. the updated democrats delegate count shows pete buttigieg with a razor thin lead over bernie sanders. both have about 26%. they are followed by elizabeth warren, joe biden and amy klobuchar. ed o'keefe is in manchester, new hampshire for us. good morning. you've been covering the primary campaign there with the updated iowa results. are any candidates changing their strategies? >> reporter: a little bit. there's a few days left until tuesday's primary. no time to waste. former vice president joe biden is trying to distinguish himself from pete buttigieg. he discussed something last night he rarely discusses in public. >> looking in the mirror, your get embarrassed because you contort your face. >> reporter: while opening up extensively about his stutter as a child, former vice president
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joe biden made a passionate plea. >> we have to reach out more for people. we don't do it enough. we got to heal this country. >> reporter: earlier he admitted political vulnerability after a poor showing in iowa. >> we took a gut punch in iowa. >> reporter: biden focused his attention on his opponents especially former mayor buttigieg. >> it's a risk. to be just straight up for you, for this party to nominate somebody that never held an office higher than mayor of a town in indiana. >> reporter: he hopes it makes a difference in new hampshire. iowa results show buttigieg found broad support across t state especially in rural counties and age groups. close behind buttigieg is bernie sanders who's polling at the top going into new hampshire. >> we'll end the divisiveness in this country and we're going to bring people together. >> reporter: whoever is the eventual democrat nominee they will reconstruct the obama coalition.
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broad alliance of voters from different backgrounds. >> she's a janitor's daughter who has become one of the country's fiercest advocates for the middle class. >> reporter: that explains why biden is no longer claiming to be the heir of the former president's legacy. >> mayor bloomberg and president obama worked together in the fight for gun safety laws. >> reporter: bloomberg will not be joining fellow contenders on the debate stage in new hampshire tomorrow night. but he might end up on a debate stage in nevada or south carolina later this month now that the dnc has changed its rules and eliminated a requirement candidates have certain donors. the multi-billion bloomberg is paying for his campaign all by himself. >> he's making that very clear. a tornado blamed for one person's death in alabama. part of a system that brought rough snowy conditions to oklahoma and missouri, pelted texas covering it in a sheet of ice is now moving east. oh, no, cbs news meteorologist
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and climate specialist jeff berardelli reports. >> reporter: a powerful and scary tornado caught on camera in mississippi. just one of several twisters ravaging parts of the state on wednesday. leaving a path of destruction for miles. crews are out in force working to repair those downed power lines and to clear roads which are scattered with debris. drone video shows the damage inside of this home right near the city of jackson. a teenager inside the home survived by sheltering in a bathtub. dangerous storms also slamming louisiana where high winds brought down scaffolding in new orleans and that crushed several cars. one person was hurt. in indiana heavy snow blanketed parts of the state with near white out conditions on the roads. snow and ice also causing this crash. it happened on a bridge that crosses over the missouri river. traffic there shut down for hours. and the big story today severe weather again in the southeast. the possibility of tornadoes and the reason why a huge contrast between cold air to the west and
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warm air to the east. it's been very warm so far this winter in the southeast. you can see the wide view. this is where the severe weather is now especially in portions of alabama. look at it in 3-d. some of those tops extending up to 45,000 feet. the higher tops the worse and more dangerous the storms are. as we swirl around a lot of storms are serious. we have a tornado watch in effect for panhandle of florida, parts of georgia and alabama. the worst of the weather approaching the coast, jacksonville, 25 million plus under the threat for tornadoes. northern side of the system, the warm air punches up to the canadian border. that's where the rain is headed on the western side. decent amount of snow in buffalo and pittsburgh. guys, once again it's rain and not snow here in the big cities in the northeast and you have one very depressed weatherman that would like a blizzard. >> jeff berardelli trying to ruin our weekend. the coronavirus outbreak now
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has 12 confirmed cases in the u.s. the latest is a man in wisconsin. the list of cses aboard a cruise ship in japan has climbed 20 including several americans. ramy inocencio is in hong kong where another cruise ship is under lockdown. how is hong kong trying to contain the spread of the virus? >> reporter: sure. good morning. the countdown is definitely on to 14 day quarantine for any traveller crossing the border from mainland china.ruisip, ere are about 4,000 people on it, passengers as well as crew. they are stuck on here, unable to get off because at least three crew members fell ill. the fear there is they had the coronavirus. all at the same time, hundreds of americans evacuated from wuhan are now under observation and looking r any signs ever sickness. an evacuees from wuhan ared now showinerg signs icof sickne.
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they landed in california wednesday and are now in isolation. nearly 350 others are under a public health quarantine. the cdc's first in 50 years. priscilla dicky and her daughter among them. >> they will basically make sure they keep a good eye on us. >> reporter: in yap two u.s. citizens are among 20 evacuated from this cruise ship diagnosed with coronavirus. 3700 passengers are confined to their cabins for two weeks as doctors test each person. eric pagan is worried his medication won't last. >> i'll be good for another two or three days. >> reporter: in wuhan, ground zero for the outbreak authorities sprayed the streets with disinfectant and turned a convention center into a makeshift hospital that's now receiving patients. china's response in wuhan was too slow for xiao huang. he spent days searching for a bed for his grandfather just in this hospital hallway.
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he died shortly after this video. huang is worried his grandmother might be next. if they were admitted earlier things would be better he said. as this crisis deepens rising call for aide. world health organization is now asking for $675 million. >> in last 24 hours we had the most cases in a single day. >> reporter: and with 99% of all coronavirus cases happening across the world just across the border more countries are barring travellers from there. meantime here in hong kong several thousand hospital workers are asking, even demanding the government here to shut that border entirely. >> thank you very much. something we'll follow closely in our 8:00 hour. this morning we're learning new details about a deadly plane crash in istanbul, turkey. video shows the plane landing in wet weather and then disappearing in a ditch. passengers scrambled to safety
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through a gaping crack in the fuselage. roxana sabari has more. >> reporter: the plane snapped in three pieces after skidding off a runway and ended up in the ditch. the impact so strong, the front of the fuselage flipped upside down. still most of the 183 passengers and crew on board managed to survive. some passengers helped one another escape through a crack before several of the injured were taken away on a bus with no first responders in sight. this passenger says he was seated in row 25 and the plane broke apart in row 26. he says even though he was hurt he guided other passengers to safety. security camera footage shows the plane's hard landing in the rain. istanbul's governor says the bad weather caused the aircraft to slide off the runway. this is the thtime aing
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737 flight run by turkey's pegasis airlines has skid off a runway in the past two years. last month at the same istanbul airport and in 2018 a passenger plane came to a stop just feet from the black sea. in those two incidents no one was injured. for "cbs this morning," roxana sabari, london. this morning we're remembering an icon of american cinema. kirk douglas was one of the last c hollywood era that of the emerged after world war ii.sias he was admired for his looks and respected for his intensity. vladimir duthiers is here to show us douglas' remarkable career. vlad, remarkable is just one adjective we can describe kirk douglas. >> legendary, dark. spartacus. he starred in more than 80 films. his son michael douglas wrote to the world he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies. who lived well into his golden years. to me and my brothers he was simply dad.
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but there was only one "spartacus". just one kirk douglas. he was born issur danielovitch to russian parents. he changed his name to kirk douglas after serving in the navy in world war ii and not long after that he secured his first movie role in "the strange of martha ivers." but his breakout performance was as a boxer midge kelly in "champion." >> for the first time in my life people are cheering for me. >> reporter: he went on to star musician, a western gun slinger, a french army commander in world war i, and so much more. re atationars douglas had a s su difficult to work with. in 1992, "60 minutes" correspondent mike wallace asked him why? >> where did that all come from kirk?
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>> shows you what a good actor i am because i really am the sweetest -- >> reporter: douglas won an honorary oscar in 1996 for his years as a force in the film communy.it >> what is old? a dog dies at 14. a tortoise live over 100. another things, mike, the poets say grow old along with me the best is yet to be. >> indeed. kirk douglas was known as a generous philanthropist donating money to hospitals and scholarships. he showed courage offscreen helping to break the hollywood black list by crediting a screen writer. >> he started his own production company in tea 50s and made "spartacus" at a time he said the system was basically slavery. >> what a life. >> thank you very much. we'll see you later. >> right now i
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good thursday morning to to you. it is a chilly start to the date with clear skies. also dealing with some patchy fog, especially along the coast. into the sunshine, mild daytime highs, topping out at 60 in san francisco, 53 oakland. 64 for fremont. later on this afternoon, 66, san jose. very similar conditions friday and saturday. all the much cooler with breezy conditions sunday.
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there are serious safety concerns surrounding a popular car booster seat. there are serious safety concerns surrounding a popular car booster seat. kris van cleave is here with more. an investigation found this type of booster seat was being marketed to parents whose children may be too small to be fully protected in a crash. ahead why very small kids may be safer in a full car seat. why the maker said this video of a crash test ended with a passing grade. test ended with a passing grade. velocity at a point. [sounds] kazoo sound ♪ waand soo we. that's why you'll find real meat, poultry or fish and wholesome veggies in delicious rachael ray nutrish recipes.
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>> announcer: this is a kpix 5 news morning update. it is 7:26. i'm kenny choi. the california highway patrol is investigating a shooting. this happened a little after 10:00 last night at oakland. on the ramps from 23rd avenue to northbound interstate 880. runf bstguseiry e ehicle was ce remember consecutive from the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in china are spending their first morning in travis air force base in fairfield. those 178 people are now quarantine. 14 days in a hotel within the air force base. and federal investigators will start looking into what caused a small plane crash that killed two people in wollemi county.
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according to the federal aviation administration, the single-engine cessna 148 crashed just after the clock yesterday evening near columbia airport. let's see how the roads are looking with gianna. >> they are looking pretty busy this morning, still a slow ride along the 101 and the peninsula. especially right around 92. we got a crash near southbound 101. lookout for some troubles there. and taking a look at 101 get again. northbound, that earlier a crash, cleared out of the lanes. a slow ride as you work your way out of san jose. gianna, it is a chilly start to the day. in the 30s and in the 40s. bundle up as you head out the door. is spectacular view with our salesforce tower camera. and looking north with clear skies. as you head through the afternoon, sunshine and, mild temps, 60 in san francisco. 63 in san jose. cooler, though, on sunday.
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. it's 7:30. here's what's happening on "cbs this morning". house of representatives don't do this again. >> senate republicans find presidmore americans evacuated from china are being tested for coronavirus. >> our goal today, tomorrow and always will continue to be the safety of all americans. >> i brought my words to open doors that have never been opened before. >> in our series a moore perfect union the unique program using theater to empower young girls. >> and kumail nanjiani and emily gordon show their new series about immigrants and the american dream. >> chili cheese burgers. bacon chili cheeseburgers. why?
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wendy's. >> so much to learn. >> is that good? wendy's cheeseburgers are good. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning". i'm dock with gayle king and anthony mason. we'll begin with this. a new investigation raising serious questions about some safety claims made by the maker of a popular car booster seat for children. disturbing video shows a child size dum jdummy being violentli toed around. one manufacturer marketed its booster seats for children who experts worry may be too small to be adequately protected in crashes. kris van cleave has been following all of this. good morning. what do parents need to know? >> there's almost universal agreement kids are safe in a car seat in the back seat. keep your kids in this one until they grow out. this is for kid up to 65 pound.
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move them into a booster seat like the this one. the boasters lift the kids up. this booster seat says it's good for kids 30 pound and up. side impacted test side, we'll show you that crash test is something the seat maker doesn't want to you see. jillian brown was in constant motion and about to start kindergarten in 2016 when her world changed. her parents jay and lindsay. >> first thing i did was look back to see, to check on the girls. >> lindsay was driving her two daughters to daycare when they were hit on the driver's side. >> jillian was hunched over. danielle they took her out first. they had her lay on the trunk. >> jillian was the furthest from the impact. samantha in a different car seat and while they rer from
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their injuries jillian never well. >> how has life changed from that day to today? >> completely. every day. >> the browns are now suing evenflo. the company said her booster performed as designed. her car seat meets or exceeds federal standards and with side impact crash tested but there's no federal standard for that test and videos of evenflo crash test obtained show booster seats passing even though the child size test dummy is tossed about. >> it was horrific. human beings aren't built to survive that amount of movement. >> the videos to dr.
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ben hoffman. will you want a child in a seat that performed like that. >> no. no way i want a child i knew or loved to be put into a scenario like that. >> a car seat with harness fares better in a crash test. in the booster seat the dummy slips out of the shoulder restraint. during depositions, evenflo employees explained the only way to fail the company's crash test is if the dummy fallout of the seat or the seat breks. we side impact our test but we don't say we offer any type of side impact protection. engineer eric dahle acknowledges that the images seen in the crash test could lead to serious injuries. >> when you have a collision with another occupantoccupant. >> paralyzing injuries, death, serious injury >> serious injury.
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>> for years the american of pediatrics recommend kids stay in a car seat for as long as possible and should not switch to a booster seat until at least 40 pounds matching canadian regulations. until 2007 evenflo marketed the big kid booster as safe for kids as young as 1 as long as they weighed 30 pound or more. four years before the 2016 accident dahle recommended evenflo stop selling booster seats under 40 bounds because they would be safer iran seats with harnesses. dahle who still works for evenflo later testified he superbortd the decision to stick with the 30 pound minimum. jillian just weighed under 37 pounds. >> evenflo touted its side impact test as something that was rigorous, and used the side impact testing marketing to sell its big kid booster. the test was anything but rigorous. >> just months before jillian's accident evenflo did change the
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requirements but didn't notify customers like the browns because the company said there was no safety impact with that change. years later the company's old standard is still out there. in january propublica bought a booster sie bought that. you read it and believe it. >> evenflo decline our request for an on camera interview but said in a statement the company is a pioneer in side impact testing and provides safe, effective and affordable products and complies with all federal regulations that allow booster seats to be sold for kids weighing 30 pounds and up. congress has been asking federal regulators to create a standard since 2000. that standard has yet to grow
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into effect. you can read the entire investigation on cbsnews.com. >> evenflo can say they are a pioneer but if there's no standard for the test what does it mean? >> other car seat makers are doing testing. we don't know what those results are. the bottom line experts say keep the kid in that harness as long as possible. >> focus not on -- i think about age when i think about car seats. sounds like weight you have to pay attention to. >> i keep thinking about the video, the little girl doing cartwheels and now she's on a ventilator. >> she turns 9 this month. she's in third grade and goes to school every day. >> a possible break in a case involving two missing children in a series of mysterious deaths. how police are responding to newly revealed of surveillance video of the children's mother taken just after they were last seen alive. much is given.
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♪ new surveillance video may give investigators fresh clues into the disappearance of two kids in idaho. their mother and stepfather are considered persons of interest but have not been new surveillance video may give investigators fresh clues into the disappearance of two tds in idaho. their mother and stepfather are considered persons of interest but have not been arrested or tharged. gee video appears to show their heirer, lori vallow at a storage facility near their home shortly after the boy and girl were last seen in september. jonathan vigliotti is at the facility in idaho with more on this story. what are police saying about this video? >> reporter: gayle, good morning to you. in a search that's produced very
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little. what was found inside this storage facility is being considered a break through of sorts. investigators we're told have combed through it. what they found remains unclear. not unusual for a family to rent a unit of this kind before making a big move like they did before going to hawaii. what remains a mystery this morning why most of the things found inside almost exclusively belong to the two missing children. surveillance video appears to show lori vallow and a man visiting the storage unit on multiple occasions last fall. it was just after the september disappearance of her 7-year-old adopted son j.j. and 17-year-old daughter tylee ryan. at one point a man is seen carrying out a heavy tote bag. inside the unit police found bikes, photos and a backpack with j.j.'s initials. >> it was disturbing to see that it was the childrens belongings in that storage unit. rex robertson is a private investigator working with the grandparents. kay and lori woodcock. >> if they expected the kids to come home soon why would that stuff be in storage?
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on the other hand if they didn't think the kids would never come back why keep it? >> reporter: the woodcocks filed a petition to be taken guardianship of j.j.. >> everybody has to be accountable. if you're not accountable to the law, then you're accountable to god. >> why don't you give us answers. >> vallow and her husband chad daybell were last seen in hawaii. in the past eight months the couple's past spouses and vallow's brother all died under suspicious circumstances. the private investigator says vallow's ex-husband charles whose death is under investigation had a million dollar life insurance policy. >> at this point we think that lori vallow believed she was the beneficiary. >> a legal expert tells us a lack of evidence may be why this couple has not been arrested. they could face a contempt charge for failing to produce
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their children but even that may not be enough to require them to come back here to idaho. meanwhile this couple maintaining their innocence, saying there has been no wrongdoing. such a strange case and we hope they fine those kids. ahead, vladimir duthiers with what to watch but first it's 7:45. time to chec bundle up this morning. it is a chilly start to the day as we head through the afternoon. enjoy the sunshine and mild daytime highs, topping out at 60 degrees in san francisco. 63 in oakland. 64 in fremont. mountain view, 66. 65 for concord. very similar conditions with mild temps friday and saturday. a dry cold front pushing through on sunday. that means cooler temps and breezier conditions. i had a heart problem.
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quality of mental health care and suicide prevention methods are also under care. big problem. >> it was a culmination of years of severe understaffing and neglect. >> we'll stay on pit. vanessa bryant posted an emotional instagram post in honor of her 13-year-old daughter. she shared this photo yesterday from a touching ceremony at her cool. that's where they held an event to honor gianna and retire her basketball jersey. in the caption very necessaria writes, gianna i miss you. i was so lucky to get up and see your amazing face and see your smile. wish it would have been until my last breath. gianna and kobe along with other parents and her teammates recall killed in a helicopter crash. >> that's all anybody is thinking about. vanessa, the families, what this must be like for them.
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so unspeakable. >> and the way she phrased it having to eat up every day. >> beautiful girl. we know how much kobe loved his daughter and what a good player she was. it's heartbreaking. all right. there's this really inspiring story here we can share with you. about astronaut christina koch and her return to earth this morning after nearly a year in space. a whole year in outer space. soyuz capsule touched down in kazakhstan today. she spent a record breaking 328 days on the international space station. that is the world's longest single space flight by a woman. while in orbit she was part of the first all female spacewalk. >> she was up there "so long" she said she actually forgot she was floating. >> 11 days she would have had the all time human record. >> still smiling.
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nn: is is ix morning. weow ride as you work your way long 880. metering lights remain on. look at is back up, still a slow well into the the maze. that includes the eastshore freeway, and west point 580. nothing out of the ordinary. r met'definitely busy commute.le soins pull lanes. northbound, if you are working from 238 to the maze, you will see some brake lights anyway. taking a look at traffic out of the north bay. we had an earlier accident right at 1v1 and 580. that is cleared. still sluggish in that area. and on the dunn-martin bridge, eastbound, on the east side of the span, we do have reports of an accident clearing out of lanes, making things very busy.
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mary? okay, gianna, with temps in the 30s and in the 40s this morning, definitely bundle up as you head out the door and a beautiful view with our salesforce tower camera looking east. blue skies. as we head through the afternoon, enjoyed the sunshine. daytime highs topping out above average for this time of year. mild to warm conditions. 60 in san francisco. 63 in oakland. 64 for san rafael. redwood city at 64. as well as for mountain view, 66 in san jose. looking at 55 in concord. santa rosa, coming in at 68. so this weather pattern will continue for is with chilly mornings and mild afternoons with that sunshine. friday and saturday. and dry cold front pushes in cooler temps and breezy on sunday. ch, while the middle-class continues to struggle. that's what happens when billionaires are able to control the political system. our campaign is funded by the working people of this country, and those are the people that i will represent. no more tax breaks for billionaires. we are going to guarantee health care to all people no moaneate breaks to 20 million goodes.
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♪ it's thursday, february 6th, 2020. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. ahead the white house responds to the senate impeachment vote and the one republican who voted guilty. >> i'm tony dokoupil. elizabeth smart tells us how she is fighting back and helping others if they are sexually assaulted. tlae girls learn the art of speaking out and standing up for themselves in our series a more perfect union. >> first here is today's eye opener at 8:00. president trump is slamming the one republican who voted to remove him from office. >> it has been a bruising ordeal one senator describing it as the most difficult decision he has ever had to make. >> just a few days left until tuesday's primary. no time to waste. joe biden especially is trying to distinguish himself from pete buttigieg. >> again in the southeast. look at it in 3d and some of the tops extending up to 45,000 feet. the high ert tops the worse and more dangerous the storms are.
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>> there are about 4,000 passengers as well as crew. they are stuck on here because at least three crew members fell ill. of course the fear is they have the coronavirus. >> legendary, dashing, amazing. spartacus. he starred in more than 80 films. kirk douglas was also known as generous donating money to hospitals and scholarships. >> this fan took a half koirl shot for $10,000. >> you are going home with $10,000! >> if you thought the shot was great, how about the dive? >> i couldn't think of a better way to celebrate. just slide on ground and grab that big old check and carry it right to the bank and say, show mae the money. >> this morning's eye opener is presented by toyota. let's go places. >> he is going home with $10,000 and a little floor burn as well. >> have you guys ever done a floor dive? >> not like that. >> i cannot recall. been a long time i think.
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>> he did a good job. welcome back to "cbs this morning." we'll start in washington of course. for the first time in months president trump is clear of any threat of impeachment. at this morning's national prayer breakfast mr. trump held up two newspapers with headlines on his acquittal in the senate, with house speaker nancy pelosi sitting just feet away. in about an hour he will address the nation about yesterday's senate decision to clear him of charges from both articles. only one republican senator, mitt romney, voted guilty on article one abuse of power. weijia yang is at the white house with more. how did the president and his team react to mitt romney's vote? >> reporter: good morning. cbs news has learned president trump's team was not expecting that vote and we're told as recently as one day ago senator romney told the president's allies he would vote along with republicans. the utah senator cited his religious faith in making what he called the hardest decision he's ever made. he got he president was guilty of a,
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quote, appalling abuse of public trust. this morning at the national prayer breakfast, mr. trump lashed out at democrats calling them dishonest and corrupt. then without mentioning them by name, he slammed romney and house speaker nancy pelosi, who was sitting just feet from him. >> i don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. nor do i like people who say, i pray for you, when they know that that's not so. >> reporter: pelosi has repeatedly said in the past that she prays for president trump. meanwhile, his supporters celebrated the acquittal at a private party at the trump international hotel last night, not far from the white house. >> weijia, thank you. cbs news will bring a special report this morning when president trump makes his statement on his acquittal. we expect him to speak at 9:00 a.m., pacific time.
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as more results roll in for monday's iowa caucus the margin is getting smaller at the top of the democratic field. pete buttigieg has a razor thin lead in delegates over bernie sanders, with 97% of precincts now reporting. elizabeth warren is holding on to third place. joe biden remains fourth. >> the former vice president admits he is disappointed but said that won't stop him. >> i am not going to sugar coat it. we took a gut punch in iowa. the whole process took a gut punch. i'm going to fight for this nomination. i'm going to fight here in new hampshire, nevada, and south carolina and beyond. >> bernie sanders has a slim lead in the popular vote count from iowa and polls from new hampshire show him in the lead there ahead of tuesday's primary. it is so unusual to not hear politicians sugar coat it. normally they do try to sugar coat it and put a good face on it. he did not do that. kidnapping survivor elizabeth smart tells us she was sexually assaulted again, this time it happened on a plane.
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>> what did you do? >> i was shocked. i mean, the last time someone touched me without my say so was when i was kidnapped. >> only on cbs this morning elizabeth smart reveals how she is taking back the power by helping others. good thursday morning to you. it is a chilly start to the day with chris guys. some patchy fog, especially along the coast. as we head through the afternoon, the sunshine, mild daytime highs, topping out at 60 in san francisco. 63 okay. 64 for fremont. later on this afternoon, 66 and 65 for concord. very similar conditions friday and saturday. although much cooler with breezy conditions sunday.
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othroughout the country for the past twelve years,? mr. michael bloomberg is here. vo: leadership in action. mayor bloomberg and president obama worked together in the fight for gun safety laws, to improve education, and to develop innovative ways to help teens gain the skills needed to find good jobs. obama: at a time when washington is divided in old ideological battles he shows us what can be achieved when we bring people together to seek pragmatic solutions.
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bloomberg: i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. ♪ in ouror in our morning rounds the growing worldwide battle to stop the coronavirus outbreak. scientists say drugs used to treat other vooirs like hiv and the flu may be adaptable to treat coronavirus. more than 400 americans are among the cruise ship passengers quarantined in japan after 20 passengers tested positive for the illness. there is also a new case in wisconsin which brings the number of confirmed patients in the united states to 12. worldwide there are more than 28,000 cases including at least
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565 fatalities. our doctor is here to show how a potential treatment might work. good morning, doctor. >> good morning. >> how might doctors take drugs used for other things and apply them to this scenario? >> coronavirus, actually a family of viruses, gets inside the human cells and uses the machinery to divide. we have molecules that block its ability to do that. they were developed originally for hiv and the flu. while they're clinical trials are ongoing in china there are anecdotes of them being used and people getting better and the virus clearing very quickly. they were used and developed for sars or mers also so there is pretty good data they will benefit people. >> if a treatment is identified how successful is it likely to be? >> that is the problem. as soon as we say this is going to work there is a run on the stores. doctors can write prescriptions for anything and these are inexpensive medicine. all the plants are closed now in
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china so we can't make more. we certainly don't want a run on them but these drugs were fda approved and on the market today so they are available. >> i remember when there were zero cases in the united states and now we just said there are 12. it does seem frightening. how worried should we be and how worried are you? >> i'm not worried in the united states. we have very effective treatments to deal with the symptoms. the problems you have with it and potentially fight it with the antivirals. >> even though there is no vaccine. >> vaccines are preventative. we have good treatments and very good care for coug and breathing issues, diarrhea, and others. we are pretty good at that. you are seeing it happen in the middle of china where there really wasn't much health care and there the death rate is going to be dramatically above what it would be here or elsewhere. there are going to be 40,000 to 60,000 deaths of flu in the united states this year. that will be nowhere approached by the coronavirus. >> to avoid some sort of china-like outbreak here what other steps can be taken? >> i think anybody who has symptoms, you know, needs to be tested. unfortunately, you got to go to a doctor's office to be tested.
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it is a weird phenomena. you're sick. you go to the doctor's office where you can cough on anybody else and they can cough on you. >> think about that in the waiting room. >> you don't want to touch a thing in that office because you know there are bacteria and viruses on it. my hope is in the future the testing can be done at home. right now if you have symptoms, anybody who has been in the far east, you parolee want to robab tested. flu-like symptoms, very similar to the flu. yesterday the cdc released 200 test kits across the country to a hundred labs. now testing can be done in four hours. it used to all be done at the cdc. that's pretty heroic. in two weeks to develop test kits for the country. >> all right. always good to have you at the table in person. >> great to be here. >> you look the same on tv. thank you. we continue the conversation about the coronavirus on the cbs this morning podcast and explore the origins of the epidemic
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along with the global and public policy implications. ahead only on "cbs this morning" the kidnapping survivor elizabeth smart shows us how she is taking back control after she says she was sexually assaulted on an airplane. you're watching "cbs this morning." we thank you for that. we'll be right back. for that. we'll be right back.
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only on "cbs this morning" elizabeth smart who was kidnapped and sexually assaulted when she was 14 backn sexll y assaulted again last summer. this time it happened on an airplane. very harrowing experience encouraged her to launch smart defense. it teaches women and girls the confidence they need to protect themselves. we spoke with elizabeth and why she was shocked to be targeted in mid-air. >> i've always felt safe on an airplane. never felt threatened until now.
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>> kidnapping survivor elizabeth smart was flying back home to utah last summer when she says a man seated next to her started touching her inappropriately. >> i had been asleep and all of a sudden i woke up because i felt someone's hand rubbing in between my legs on my inner thigh. >> what did you do? >> i was shocked. the last time somebody touched me without my say so was when i was kidnapped and i froze. i didn't know what to do. >> you speak to other women about this. >> i speak to other women about this. it's okay to say no and okay to take care of yourself and be safe. >> are you surprised you froze? >> i kept saying to myself you're elizabeth smart you should know what you should do. >> what he was doing? >> like this. >> back and forth. >> i jerked awake. i expected the man to jerk his hand away, to apologize me, to give me some kind of reason why he was touching me. >> what did he say? >> nothing. >> did you tell the airline?
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>> i did. i did tell the airline. >> what i recall was it. >> it was delta. >> you filed a complaint online. >> i filed a complaint online. they called me back and were just so apologetic. it's not delta's fault. it was this man. the manmade the decision. but i wanted delta to know and they were very -- they are appalled. they offered to help as much as they do back me up as far as i wanted to take this. >> they could track him down. >> yes. they had all of his information. i did follow up with the fbi. >> do you want to press charges against him? >> i don't want him to be preying on other girls. >> where does it stand >> it's an ongoing investigation right now. >> when this happened to you was there a part of you that said why is this happening to me again? >> i called up my husband and i said do i have a big badge on my
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forehead that says easy prey, or victim? because i'm sick of it. >> then smart had an eye-opening revelation. when her husband matthew gilmore suggested she work with a family friend trained in self-defense. >> as we were going through this he had my husband holding me in a couple of different holds and i had a really difficult time getting away from my husband. it just hit me and the gut just kind of thinking we're not doing enough. i'm not doing enough. >> so you wanted to create what exactly? >> i wanted to create a self-defense class for women and girls that they could go through. >> and that's how smart defense was born. >> arm strikes, elbow. >> a program smart developed with law enforcement officers and experts in martial arts. >> whatever you want to do. >> do you have a favorite move that you learned in this class? >> right here is one of the
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strongest bones of your body the elbow. it doesn't take a lot of force to do serious damage. >> for smart it's about training to fight back. >> enough to break a nose. >> empowering all women to tap into their own strength. >> that's great. >> now i'm mad. >> standing by her side is a woman who she says helped her fine her own power, her mother. >> lois smart have you ever done anything like this before? >> i never have. >> what does it nene you to see her doing this? >> i think she's remarkable. she's a strong woman who survived hardships. but to look at her now you would never know she went through anything. >> i always marvelled at going through what you went through that you are so poised and so calm. honestly. >> what people see on the cameras is a moment in time. come to my house in the morning. completely different person. >> your happy?
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>> i am, yes. i have a wonderful husband. beautiful kids. >> i think for so many people they think how will elizabeth smart ever be able to enjoy intimacy in her life. >> well i have three children. they are all mine. they look like me and my husband. what a lot of people don't understand is that there's a big difference between rape and andd importantly, intimacy. there's a difference. >> and you know the difference. >> i know the difference. i've experienced both. >> do you think if you had this training that this could have helped you when you were 14 and abducted from your home? >> would it have prevented me from being kidnap? i don't know. probably not. but then i think that wasn't the end. that was the beginning. after that there was over 3
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miles worth of terrain we had to cross before he got me to that hidden camp site and as we've gone through this training there's a part of me that thinks had i had this training beforehand i feel i would have taken that opportunity during those three miles somewhere. i think i would have had the confidence to try. >> you want teenagers to take this class as well. >> absolutely. we need teenagers to take this class. we're not training them to be assassin, we're trying to train them to give themselves an opportunity to get away. >> now smart defense will expand in utah in the coming months. the hope is to launch in other states later this year. we reached out to delta and told us quote delta took the matter seriously and has continued to work with miss smart and the appropriate authorities. delta does not tolerate passenger misconduct towards other customers or delta people. elisabeth stresses she doesn't blame delta. the airline is almost
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irrelevant. >> what are people thinking? >> i know. you do feel safe on a plane. she said if you embrace the mentality this is what her instructors who we met at the program. really bad ass people training you in jujitsu, you embrace a mentality it's not the size it's the attitude. think smart, act smart, fight smart. i learned a couple of thing that day. hope i never have to use them. tony you have something interesting what happened to the kidnapper? he's still in jail. the woman who was also arrested is out and lives in the same town as elisabeth. >> what about the man on the plane? >> delta is handling that. coming up kumail nanjiani and emily v. gordon are in our >> announcer: this is a kpix 5 news morning update.
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good morning. i'm gianna franco. it is 8:25. we had to that commute into san bruno. we have an accident as you work your way on 280, right around westboro. it is over to the right shoulder play. on our centers, it is pretty slow, especially on that southbound side. as you work your way into that san bruno area. 101, not looking good either. 101, both directions, you got brake lights. northbound as well. take a look at 880, across the bay there. northbound 880, crawling along play. 230. we can see by our live shot here, it is just sticking up on the northbound side. that is pretty typical for your drive this time of the money. looking a little bit better on
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that southbound side through this portion. south of here, though, you will find brake lights. as you get across the san mateo bridge, expect a lot of folks doing the same. mary? well, our plenty of sunshine for today. we are starting off the day with temps in the 30s and in the 40s this morning. a live look with our salesforce tower camera, some patchy fog out to there. as we head through the afternoon, we are looking at 60 in san francisco. 64 in fremont. 66 in san jose. 68 for santa rosa. daytime highs, mild and above average for this time of year. we want to keep this weather pattern going. chilly mornings and mild afternoons play. with that sunshine, friday and for saturday. much cooler on sunday with most of us in the 50s. dry cold front pushing through and that means breezy conditions. milder weather monday, tuesday, but cooler x wednesday.
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welcome back to cbs morning. it's time to bring you some of the stories that's the tausk our table this morning. we won't talk about ourselves. >> we want to share with you stories we're interested in and each other. i'm going first. mine is bernie madoff master mine of the largest ponzi scheme in history wants to get out of prison early. yesterday his lawyer filed court papers saying the 81-year-old has terminal kidney failure and he has only 18 months to live. the bureau of prisons has confirmed this. mad yoff is asking for compassi. he was sentenced to 150 years in prison. he served 11 years. his scheme robbed millions of people of billions of dollars. in an interview with "the washington post" he said there hasn't been a day in prison i haven't felt the guilt for the pain i caused. i lost both my sons. my wife isn't well. i made a terrible mistake.
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the head of world come was convicted of $11 billion accounting fraud and was granted compassionate release in december. he died monday. >> be interesting to see what happens in this case. because people are so upset. >> parole is not by popular vote. the prison will decide. >> that's correct. >> your turn, tony. >> a military mom who was deployed to kuwait for seven months with the u.s. air force pulled off a surprise reunion. i love these. at deandrea proctor on the left. sneaking into a photo being taken of her family with the harlem globetrotters. take a look what happened. >> so the boyfriend and the daughter there they were on the court. they are taking a picture. they don't know mom is there.
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they are looking at the picture, oh, wait who is that? there she is. the crowd did a wonderful job keeping the secret because mom snuck on to the court. ate beautiful reunion. i love these. >> i'm with you. they never get old. the crowd is excited too. >> well down harlem globetrotters and crowd in memphis. if you need some inspiration to hit the gym today, here it is. the roy black is 91 years old and works out three times a week in his denim overals. he was named member of the month. he motivates and inspires others with his dedication to fitness. he says he wears the overalls because he doesn't have any hips to keep his pants up. he can only two ten minutes on treadmill and now he does 30. his mother lived to 101. his favorite cheat meal, pecan pie and most inspiring person in his life is his daddy who never
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gave up. i have a butt that can keep my pants up. i love the fact he does that. >> it's really awesome. >> all right. >> any way you go to the gym is a good way. >> "little america" is about immigrants on hopeful journeys to find the american dream. it's inspired by eight true stories of people who immigrated from countries like china, nigeria and syria. it follows their heartbreak and triumphs. "little america" creators are a husband and wife team, kumail nanjiani and emily v. gordon. in this series a student is byed hamburgers. >> bacon cheeseburgers. chili cheeseburgers. bacon chili cheeseburgers.
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why? wendy's. how to order food on your plate if you must. r youha tomato, but why lettuce? why put cheese? then bacon? i'm not kidding, everything on top of everything. it's a sickness. >> the show's executive producers kumail nanjiani and emily v. gordon are here. welcome. >> what got the sickness. i got the burger sickness. i got it. >> you chose to focus on hopeful immigrant stories. >> yes. >> a little bit. we felt like, you know, we're in an era where immigrants have been demonized and marginalized and felt like we needed to hearer to that sort of portrayed a different version of immigrants than the ones. as an improgram i seem to hear all the time. >> you said that hollywood really seems to have always
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portrayed the immigrant person in a single way and, in fact -- >> that was amazing we wanted to do it.mi,irtof struggle, absolutely, but they have humor in them and they can be warm and there's no one immigrant experience. we really wanted people to see these eight stories that there's a variety of experiences. >> not monolithic. >> when people hear immigrants the way we're portrayed in pop culture you get one image in your head. we wanted to show different sides as ymly sa emily said. >> these are not actors you've seen in other projects. that's an intentional choice? >> also big ups to apple. no stars in it. absolutely let's do this. >> they said yes right way? >> they did.
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they were supportive and got the show from the start. we thought if we cast known actors, it would kind of take you out of it one. we wanted to be as close as possible to the actual people whose stories we're important training. and and some can't do a nigerian accent. >> that's exactly right. the matter is if you want to cast people who are authentic to the characters they are playing, the way hollywood has been doing for the last four decades you don't have people from nigeria who are like massive box office superstars. >> what was the process like the two of you working together. it's called "the rock." >> that is basically the story of a man from iran who comes to america and wants to own a piece of american land and build a house on it. the problem that the property he buys has a massive, massive
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boulder on it. i mean mass jennifer. true story. >> no symbolism there. >> we all have a ck. ro might beat the rock. we might have to live with the rock. and so we wrote that episode with lee eisenberg which was a lovely experience. >> again, when you hear immigrant stories i've never heard a story about an iranian immigrant trying to get rid of a boulder so he can build a house. >> can't make that up. >> there's always -- any time we write together there's a little bit. we talked about -- there's a wife character in the episode and there was some discussion she should be like what are you doing? you're always messing up. we've seen that enough. we've seen the nagging wife enough. this wife is incredibly supportive. she believes in her man. she knows he'll make it to the moon at any point in time. that's at that lovely message
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too, if you love someone yeah you're going to support them. >> all i can do, kumail not remove your shirt. >> oh, gayle. come on. >> i have a lot of questions. >> what were you eating? this was for a movie. what was that like for you >> great. >> that's how it is. >> how long did it take you to get to that point? >> a full year. almost a full year. what i ate -- it's what i didn't eat. i didn't eat sugar, carbs. it's a tough thing to do. >> did you enjoy the process? >> i enjoyed the working out eventually. i still do not enjoy the diet. it's very restrictive. >> did you expect to become this meteor event. my son put the phone in front of my face and said did you see this?
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>> there's a thing called beta male. >> friends from middle school, everyone was coming out of the wood work. >> it was in the pakistani newspaper. >> was it really? >> my aunt sent a picture. that picture with the headline. so proud of you. >> she never written before. >> thank you for putting up with him. >> you go back being normal and talk about something else. that hasn't happened yet. it was fun, though. >> it was very cool. >> it was interesting. >> you going to keep it up in >> i have to. if i lose it i won ever get it back. >> you have to take your shirt off. >> there's a sprinkling here. >> you would know. >> little ego. >> thank you. >> bravo to you and apple. ed tl america." streaming now on apple tv plus. ahead dana jacobson sit down with girls getting new
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confidence and finding their voice through theater. >> why is it important that girls be heard? >> i think that it's important that girls are heard because we have such powerful voices. >> yes, we do. our more perfect union shows us the after cool program that's taking girls to a bundle up this morning. it is a chilly start to the day as we head through the afternoon. enjoy the sunshine and mild daytime highs. topping out at 60 degrees in san francisco. 63 in oakland. 64 in fremont. 66 in san jose. 65 for concord. very similar conditions with mild temps friday and saturday. a dry cold front pushing through on sunday. that means cooler temps and breezier conditions to end the weekend. hepast twelve years,
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union aims to show what unites us as americans is far greater than what divides us. this morning we're introducing you to a group teaching young girls and women to use their voices through the arts. dana jacobson has this very inspiring story. dana, good morning. >> reporter: it is called girl be heard. part acting, part activism. the program reaches young women and girls artificial intelligence 11 through 21 through traveling program with a free after school program and weekend programs. it's to encourage the next generation of leaders through the power of performance. >> you are not his trophy, you are not anyone's best issues. >> reporter: alyssa martinez's love for poetry inspires her to create art with a purpose. she created a theater empowering young girls and women the through the arts.
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>> it's pleasure to introduce other things to girls from my community. everyone needs a role model. everyone needs someone they can be vulnerable with. say i'm not sure about this. >> i want my words to open doors that have never been opened before. >> reporter: getting them to be comfortable to doning. >> kim sykes is the program director. >> it's to celebrate the voices of girls. >> we have girls from all walks of life. some come in want to be leaders. some come in they don't have any idea what they want to do. >> the world sees me as weak but i'm a force to be reckoned with. >> it feels like so empowering to be there. >> madison clark, janiyah pompey, and persephone loentr say being in the after cool program has helped them gain more confidence and self-esteem.
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>> the little exercises have a bigger lesson. if you break it down you can one it. >> a safe space to talk about difficult but important topics. >> consent. definition. my permission to have something happen. my agreement. >> why do you think a poem has made you feel comfortable with an issue like consent? >> there's people who don't under it and they cross the line. the poem about consent, you realize what consent is. or like what it can be. but what it isn't. that's like really, it makes more sense when you understand what is it and what it isn't. >> did you ever think performance or art could be that powerful? >> we talked about depression. you have depression. when young girls speak about that oh, i'm not the only person dealing with this. somebody else could be dealing with it too. >> these performances, be it a
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song or a poem or a story are helping you to realize you're not the only one dealing with these issues. >> yes. >> girl be heard message has reached audiences from the u.n. to the white house. >> why is it important that girls be heard? >> i think it's important girls are heard because we have such powerful voices. it's more than just a girl talk. it's someone who is powerful enough to say how they feel and make it stick. as long as i'm comfortable with it and i'm like 1,000% with it nobody can tell me anything and that's what this group makes me feel like. >> i am me. >> i am me. >> and that is more than enough. >> and that is more than enough. >> wow, madison. whoa. >> so amazing. madison had that. what persephone loentr was saying she didn't in the beginning but coming out in her. so important for them to know they are not the only one with
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these feelings, going through these issues and gives them a safe space to discuss and bring into a global world. >> when you write it out it gives you a place to put it and give it power. >> in new york right now but certainly something you want to see go nationwide. >> i love that they are learning this in seventh grade. you're 11, 12, 13, you can be the that confident at that age. >> that's when you're experiencing top of of that. >> issues that were almost afraid to bring to them, sex trafficki trafficking, consent. that's the formative time. dana, thank you. before we go how a math quiz is paying off big time for customers at a convenience store. that's coming up. we'll be right back.
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giving his customers a deal so good it's an online sensation. >> if you get this question right you have five pick up whatever you want. >> 7x 7x 4. >> ahmed alwan randomly test his customer's math. they have five seconds to grab whatever they want for free. lottery tickets, cash. his pop schizophrenia has given him 30 million time. he hopes people learn more math but to give back his dad's store. i hope dad knows he's doing this.
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news morning update. good morning. i'm gianna franco. it is still slow and go for your morning ride , especially through the lens law. you got delays as you work your way in both directions. we also have a traffic alert this morning. i wanted to let you know about westbound from polar bear's road, there is a traffic alert in effect. that lanes blocked. i should say the whole roadway is blocked through that area. you are seeing all that. purple on our map. so use an alternate in the meantime. taking a look, traffic off of the eastshore freeway, no crashes. but still slow. 26 minutes noah from highway 4 to the mays with speed dipping down to about 30 miles per hour. it looked like traffic is still busy along 880 as well. we have a crash clearing. 34 minutes northbound. are busiest pocket right around
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coliseum on 880. okay, gianna, well, a beautiful star to the day with the sunshine into some patchy fog. we are looking at temperatures that are on the rise. no in the 40s. and we will continue to watch our temperatures climb as we head through the day. mild above average. we will keep the weather pattern going, chilly mornings and then sunny and mild afternoons friday and into saturday. changes on sunday with a dry cold front pushing through. breezy conditions and cooler temps for all of us to end out of the weekend. but for today, many of us in the 60s. 60 in san francisco. 63 in oakland. 65 in concord. 66 for san jose. so mild temps, friday, saturday, much cooler, breezier on sunday. a mild date monday and tuesday cooler for next wednesday. obama: he's been a leader
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throughout the country for the past twelve years, mr. michael bloomberg is here. vo: leadership in action. mayor bloomberg and president obama worked together in the fight for gun safety laws, to improve education, and to develop innovative ways to help teens gain the skills needed to find good jobs. obama: at a time when washington is divided in
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