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she lived close bibut on august 6th, the enola gay super fortress bomber dropped its payload on the city nicknamed little boy. the bomb exploded just a third of a mile over this river killing an estimated 80,000 people instantly and leveling about 90% of the city. that was one of the few things left standing, the dome. it now stands alined with tributes to peace. the peace flame and peace memorial city. newly renovated in time for the 75th anniversary. irradiated artifacts tell the story of those who died instantly, photographs of burn victims hang on the walls next to artwork by survivors. through her own artwork she still processes that fateful day
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75 years ago. the united states bombed your city. do you have any criticism for america? >> translator: we were full of rail at first but once we saw the americans, it was clear they were just like us. royalty even years later she left grandson of harry truman who ordered the bombing. >> there will be no more survivors. what do you want the world to remember? >> translator: eliminating nuclear weapons is the path to peace. royalty and she manages one line in english. >> please make friends from other countries. other countries. >> a remarkable woman who ♪upbeat music she's doing it again. no cover-up spray here. it's the irresistibly fresh scent of febreze air effects.
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so can your skin! lather, rinse, refresh with dove men + care body wash that washes away germs and moisturizes skin to refresh you and your skin with every shower care makers in detroit and around the world are in a race to perfect their new driver saeps systems, but a new study by triple-a found that safe and reliable autopilot technology may still be a long way off. here's kris van cleave. >> steve loved his tesla and its autopilot, a driver assistant system that can automatically maintain a vehicle's speed and lane. he says it works pretty bill it's not perfect.
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>> there are times where it doesn't do exactly what you thought it would, because it's thinking on its own terms, its own algorithm. >> the driver of this tesla says autopilot was engaged during this wreck. his car moves over and slows just as the suv changed lanes behind it. here an arizona state trooper was stopped on the side of interstate 10 last month when a tesla slammed into a troop rer. his autopilot was active. new research from aaa found that may be challenging for other advanced driver assistance systems. 66% of the time they hit a simulated disabled vehicle during closed curse testing. greg w >> i think people will wonder if they have in this their cars is this kind of technology save to use on the every-day road?
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>> triple-a beliefs this is safe if the person using it uses it correctly. we've seen some up stances where that's not the case. >> nearly 93% of all new cars have at least one driver available assistance feature. they can maintain your speed, your lane and your dpns from other cars, i'm automatically hit the brakes. during 4,000 miles of real world testing, the five systems evaluated by triple-a experienced an issue on average every eight miles. tesla's autopilot was not tested. most of the issues had to do with maintaining the vehicle's lane, sometimes getting close to guardrails or other vehicles. we experienced that during a 2018 drive when two lanes on a busy freeway merged together, the autopilot and i were nearly steered into another car. >> not quite a perfect system.
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a. >> triple-a found the systems tended to disengage with little notice but triple-a break out how each iuate did. a. tesla didn't respond to our request for comment. they are reviewing the results of this research but they believe technology can avoid crashes and save lives by what it does not do is replace the most important safety feature in a car. that is the driver. >> that was kris van cleave reporting. agriculture officials in washington state are bracing for an invasion of the asian giant hornet. also known as murder hornets. a live one captu earli this w isn tohe neluurba o tl. washington, loves his loves th.
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>> bee keepers love their bees. each colony has its own personality. royalty which is why it was so upsetting to him when he found one of his favorite hives had been slaughtered. >> they killed all the workers, the drones, the queen. they slaughtered every last bee in the entire colony. royalty the likely culprit. something called the asian giant hornet, when you may also have heard called the murder hornet. more on that in a minute. >> they will slaughter the es insideip outth bupa barva it to their own young. royalty i know nature is violent, but that's like horror movie violent. >> yeah, it is total horror
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movie. our western honeybee is hopeless against this predator. royalty scientists think the hornets hitched a ride over on a cargo trip. chris hopes he doesn't get popular. he's an entomologist in charge of exotic pests in washington. >> their jaw can take a chunk of flesh out of a human body. they can take a littttle divot skin out. ey mashing other bugs. royalty with five confirmed hornets-pound in washington state looney and his colleagues are trying to figure out how to spot the hornets' underground nests and eradicate them before they start reproducing in large numbers. >> we're experimenting right now with infrared camera.
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in theificth mornings they should stand out, to some degree. we are in talks right now with researchers at university of washington to see if we might be able to use radio transmitters or radio tags as a way to follow them back to their nests. >> yes, you heard that right. these hornets are so large, up to two and a half inches long, that you can actually attach a radio transmitter to them. to eradicate the hyatts, looney and his colleagues will have to wear special hornet proof suits because the hornets' stingers are so long, they can stipulating through regular bee suits. >> it will protect us from being stung but it's hard to maneuver in this. >> reporter: first they have to find them. they've enlisted citizen scientists. like emlie neely to make traps with orange juice and rice wine and hang them in their
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backyards. then report what they find. washington officials say if you live in the state and you see a giant hornet, you should take a picture of it on your phone and submit it. otherwise, leave the insect alone, lest you end up like one of the people on this japanese reality show. on the subject of japan, the nickname murder hornets appears to have come from a possible mistranslation from japanese, which went viral after it was used in a new york times article. if you talk to chris looney or any other scientists, though, they'll tell you they're not fans of the name. >> it doesn't work for a couple of reasons. number one, it exaggerates the human health risks. we don't want to be stung by one. if you're allergic, that can be dangerous. mull timle stings can lead to being hospitalized and sometimes rarely even death. it turns out it's not that many people that die from this in any
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given year. >> fall brings the giant horns' mating season to the pacific northwest and ted is doing anything he can to protect his honeybees. >> it's in the woods and going to come out and attack them any day. i feel like it's a bit of a race to find their nests and destroy them before they destroy our honeybees. royalty he's experimenting with different kinds of bait. >> this is cat doo. >> it's going to be full of honey in the next few weeks. royalty he's even stashed one of his teacher's tennis racquets in a bag. >> i had a pretty good serve. i vice president played since high school. that's a way that i may decide to fight the hornets this way. royalty desperate times calling for desperate measures in the
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ongoing battle between man and terrifying beast. >> that was luke burbank reporting. when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you.
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>>,ologists in england say they're one step choser to unraveling the 5,000-year-old miffs of stonehenge. ian lee has the latest. >> reporter: a layer of mystery is peeled back at stonehenge. exposing the unknown to the light. a year ago, a seemingly unremarkable rod of rock returned to the historical site >> did it turn out to be the holy grail? >> in some ways yes. it habld some annals that couldn't have been done. royalty but that chunk of rock initially disappered.
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in 1958, the british government commissioned a major restroergs project to make stonehenge safer and help hitches better understand the monument. workers drilled through the largest of the rocks, removing three stone coarse. robert phillips took one home. the rest were discarded. so if so much could be determined from a small sample, you'd be forgiven for asking why another wasn't taken. >> well, stonehenge is completely unique. it's the only len tilled stone cycle in the world. we don't really want to be taking bits of it away. >> you can see clearly -- >> it was a bit of a homecoming when his soings returned the air loom from the united states. >> their look, being returned to us from america, this happens to coincide other geology cal work. >> geologists traced it to
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westwoods, an area 15 miles north of stonehenge. who were buiing stonehenge ple were selecting large stones royalty why not build stone hedge where they mined the stones? >> i can't say other than to say that stone henning collapsing around it. it must have been significant. >> reporter: what could be significant about this corner of britain? >> always going to be slightly grass. i think it will will always be mystery about what exactly happened. >> reporter: keeping the magic of stonehenge alone. ian lee in london. >> and that is the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs this morning and you can wa on line anytime
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