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buzzer. >> what a performance by luka and the mavericks. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." okay. no fans in the stands but it still sounded like a lot of excitement just from the announcers and the music playing. nicely done. the republican national convention begins this morning. we'll have complete coverage on that in just a moment. we begin with what sounds like a james taylor song "i've seen fire and i've seen rain." destruction from wildfires in california and near unprecedented threat to the gulf coast from not one but two major storms. think about that for a second. towering flames are threatening thousands in the west. fires exploded overnight in the areas surrounding san francisco. and they continue to grow fueled by >> meanwhil twopil weatys are headed rd thef t. marco a l cou hit just a feunpartnd wiin 48 hoursher. d tre new indications this morning that laura could be

a major hurricane when it makes landfall. wcbs tv chief weathercaster lonnie quinn is tracking both of these storms for us. lonnie, you got your hands full. >> we're juggling storms. as of right now as you look at the satellite imagery, the storms are about 800 miles apart. laura has 65-mile-per-hour winds. marco has 60-mile-per-hour winds. the big difference, marco is in the process of weakening. it's going to get weaker with each passing hour. here's your center of circulation and the convection is being blown far from that. it's a dying storm. what's going to happen for the coastline from the louisiana coastline into portions of texas, modest winds, storm surge 2 to 4 feet. not anything close to the worst they've seen. however, it's priming the area and priming the ground for the second storm which is laura which will come in with much bigger winds and storm surge. we're looking at possibly landfall, maybe 1 to 2 days later. thursday in the morning with 105-mile-per-hour winds.

but if it tracks just a little further to the west and taps into some of this 90-degree water, that's why tony when you were saying the chances are maybe this could become a major hurricane. hits that water. could blow up. houston, texas, you look like you're on the fringe of the cone. i want you to be prepared for the possibility of a major hurricane in your area because everything seems to be shifting further west with each model run. we'll stay on top of everything. anthony, it's all yours. >> lonnie, thank you. tropical storm laura has already had a deadly impact on its way to the u.s. killing at least 11 people in the dominican republic and in haiti. janet shamlian reports from new orleans where louisiana's governor is warning of a powerful one-two punch from laura and marco. >> reporter: tropical storm laura ripped across the island of hisniola su. rushing water overtaking the streets of haiti. trash everywhere. bodies of victims laid out along the side of a road.

the storm slammed the dominican republic flooding as far as the eye can see. more than a million lost power. homes ruined. more lives lost. hurricane hunters flew through laura for a closer look. >> this is somewhat unprecedented, the scope of the storms. >> reporter: and president trump approved an emergency declaration for louisiana. as it braces for both laura and tropical storm marco. residents of low-lying areas have been ordered to evacuate. the storms looming as this week marks 15 years since new orleans was devastated by hurricane katrina. for some, the anxiety still fresh. >> i just feel afraid i'm going to lose my house, and i don't have anywhere to go right now, especially with the virus. >> reporter: this area is

expected to be slammed by heavy rain, coastal flooding and even the potential for tornadoes. and the louisiana governor now says that the window between the two storms is narrowing. of course, this all comes during a pandemic and added challenge as people are leaving their homes for shelters. >> yeah. and the time to prepare is now. janet, thank you very much. let's go to northern california where firefighters are battling two massive wildfires as wind gusts fan the flames. at least six people have died already and our jonathan vigliotti is near the flames. >> good morning. most of these fires have moved into steep terrain which is complicating efforts this morning to contain them. as you mentioned more than a million acres have burned in just over one week. to give you context, that's more than three times the typical wildfire season and resources are stretched thin. this is what california firefighters are up against. fast-moving flames raging out of

control. the fires are so relentless they wiped out trees in california's oldest state park, home to famous redwoods. some 2500 years old. even highly trained crews have been caught off guard. >> see how close it is, guys? >> reporter: these two firefighters had to be lifted to safety after flames trapped them in heavy brush. >> glad you're okay, man. >> definitely, man. >> reporter: over the weekend, firefighters used a break in the weather to try to gain ground. but forecasts calling for 65-mile-per-hour winds and dry lightning threaten to spark new fires. >> and now another round of dry lightning in the forecast. when you hear that, what goes on in your mind? >> be extra ready to go. i mean, stay up all night. >> reporter: brian washington has been with cal fire, the state's main firefighting

agency, for more than 20 years. >> however long it takes, we're going to be out here and do what we got to do to make everybody safe. put the fires out so everybody can go home and just get back to normal. but this is kind of the new norm. >> president trump has declared the fires a major disaster, freeing upal20 members of the n guard have been activated, and firefighters from ten states have been sent in. >> boy, thank you, jonathan. the video and the situation terrifying there. there's no good scenario. thank you. this morning, another american city is rocked by outrage over the police shooting of a black man. it was all caught on video. angry protests led to an overnight curfew in kenosha, wisconsin, between milwaukee and chicago. the man who was shot, 29-year-old jacob blake, is now in a milwaukee hospital.icti isvio, to thi watch. >> reporter: this graphic video

shows the moment an encounter between jacob blake and kenosha police quickly escalated. screams rang out as police fired at least seven shots sunday evening. blake appears to have been shot in the back as he entered the driver's side of an suv at gunpoint. his children were reedly i it whethic ev saw aweou kids and a girl an all that and i never had a problem with him. i always see him every day parked straight behind me on the street. >> reporter: blake was breaking up a fight between two women when the police were called. that part of the incident was not caught on camera. a large number of protesters confronted officers in kenosha sunday night. in addition to peaceful demonstrations, at least one police officer was reportedly attacked when protests turned ugly elsewhere. a countywide curfew was put in place overnight. wisconsin governor tony evers released a statement saying, we

stand with all those who have and continue to demand justice, equity and accountability for black lives in our country. zach rodriguez, a board supervisor in kenosha county said this incident highlights the need for more widespread use of recording devices by police. >> what happened here tonight highlights that. that we need body cameras for not just our sheriff's deputies but city police department as well. >> reporter: one person who says they are a member of the local black lives matter chapter says the video is just the latest in a long line of events of police brutality against black americans. >> we're tired of it. and right now, this is the wrong generation that this is happening to. the frustration is boiling to the top, and we're sick and tired. >> reporting. very distressing video. >> he's right. we are sick and tired. it's the thing that even if he had a gun, and it's not clear to anyone that he did, he is still

shot in the back as he's getting in the car. you see the woman whong outside, there are children in the car. her children are in the car as we're all watching this. thank goodness for the videotape so that we can continue justice in this story. that's very disturbing to see. >> wish there were body cameras as well on the cops, though. this morning, republican national convention delegates are set to nominate president trump for a second term. he plans to appear every night of the convention . in an interview last night, joe biden told nbc news why the democratic nominees are campaigning from home. >> i understand the restrictions of covid and campaigning in this time. but can you win a presidential election from home? >> we will. we're going to follow the science. what the scientists tell us. we've been able to travel places when we've been able to do it in a way that we don't cause the congregation of large numbers of people. look what happens when -- what's happened with his events. people die. people get together. they don't wear masks.

they end up getting covid. they end up dying. >> when you heard the president say this person is afraid to leave his basement -- >> guess what. i've left my basement. here, the meantime, 500 million people have watched what i've done out of my basement. t rublican convention, the president learned that he is losing one of his top advisers. paula reid has more from the white house. >> reporter: president trump's longtime aide, kellyanne conway to focus on her family. she was a campaign manager before transitioning to the white house where she has been one of the president's staunchest defenders. >> the president has done more in 47 months than joe biden has done in 47 years. >> reporter: her husband george conway said he'll step away from the group, the anti-republican group the lincoln project. their daer spoken out against president trump and forcefully criticized both her parents on social media. she was officially pushing for

emancipation. meanwhile, the president was dealt another blow this weekend. this time from his own family. >> changes stories, lack of preparation, the lying, the holy [ bleep ]. >> according to audio obtained by "the washington post," the president's sister, retired federal judge maryanne trump berry was recorded slamming her famous brother. >> all he wants to do is appeal to his base. he has no principles. none. none. and his base, i mean, my god, if you were a religious person, you want to help people, not do this. >> reporter: the president's chief of staff brushed it aside. >> just another day and another attack that we continue to see. >> reporter: president trump is expected to make an appearance on the first night of the republican national convention this evening. over the week, he'll appear alongside lawmakers and members of his own family. also on the schedule are mark

and patricia mccloskey who went viral after pointing guns at protesters outside their st. louis home. and alice johnson, the former inmate whose life sentence was commuted by president trump at the urging of kim kardashian west. anthony? >> paula, thank you. our primetime coverage of the republican national convention will begin tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern, 9:00 central. >> we'll be tuning in. the president may have gotten a boost last night from the food and drug administration which gave doctors emergency go-ahead to use blood plasma from covid survivors as a coronavirus treatment. again, the head of the fda announced this emergency use authorization at a white house news conference yesterday. as mola lenghi reports, the decision is exactly what the president wanted. >> today's action will dramatically expand access to this treatment. >> reporter: more than 70,000 covid patients have already received convalescent plasma which is taken froms

ha recovered from the virus and whose blood has the virus antibodies. >> historic breakthrough in our fight against the china virus. >> reporter: last week, top doctors at the national institutes of health warmed the fda against approving an emergency use authorization citing concerns the data does not support the decision. on saturday, the president fired back and accused the fda of slowing the process to treat the virus, tweeting, without evidence, obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after november 3rd. speaking sunday, fda commissioner dr. steven hahn explained the agency's decision to go forward with the authorization. >> this is not the same as an approval. but it's an authorization and allows us to expand the access to this. >> was there pressure on you, dr. hahn, to authorize this? >> dr. hahn left the press conference without answering a reporter's question about whether he felt pressured to issue the authorization. in a statement he said, i've never been asked to make any

decision at the fdn politics. cbs news medical contributor dr. david agus. >> so, this is not a dramatic advance, but it's an advance. the current clinical trial with the placebo control is ongoing, and we don't yet know those results. >> treatment is among the major keys to getting the country back to a sense of normalcy. but the lack of accurate testing also remains an issue that needs resolving. yesterday the nfl announced it's investigating a string of false positive covid-19 tests among its players. all coming from one lab in new jersey. at least 11 teams canceled or altered practice this weekend after some of their players tested positive. this comes as the nfl season prepares to kick off in less than three weeks. >> this isn't the perfect situation, but everybody is working through it. if it shuts down practice, you shut it down. you make sure you get it taken care of and ramp it back up. >> that was mola lenghi reporting. we asked the lab for comment about the nfl's false positive

tests but have not heard back. ahead -- huge new demonstrations in belarus to try to force the country's leader to step down. we're there to show you the protests and the president's defi

we have much more ahead. only on "cbs this morning," the president's chief of staff talks about the republican national convention and responds to critics who say mr. president trump should not address the convention from the white house. you're watching "cbs this mornin ♪ ♪

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." what you're looking at now is a live picture of charlotte, north carolina. that is the official host city of this week's gop convention. most of the prime time speeches will, in fact, originate from washington, d.c. that is where we find white house chief of staff mark meadows. he's joining us only on "cbs this morning." mr. meadows, good morning to you. busy day for you to say the least. i'm going to jump right into it. >> it is, sure. >> good morning. i want to jump right into into e thisweek. w that ishe presiccepting y' nomation tun president. that is unprecedented in the tv era. the white house is known as the people's house, is generally reserved for matters of state, not matters of campaigning. why break that norm now? >> i think this is an

unprecedented time. but obviously it's about the president connecting with the american people. and as you know, franklin delano roosevelt addressed the nation, accepted the nomination during another unprecedented time. hopeful what he we'll see is just an unbelievable address to the nation. the president is well prepped. we actually were talking about some of the issues yesterday. so we're encouraged by what we will see and the american people will see on thursday. >> excuse me, mr. meadows. when you say the president chose the white house because it's about connecting with the american people, that seems to underscorehe political natur ofhis speech. does it not concern you that you're mixing the official taxpayer business of this country with the re-election business of the republican party and donald trump? >> well, the president has been all over the country connecting with the american people. and this is about a message on what the president will do and what he can do and has done for the america people. it's

theeople that have been affected. and ultimately, the promises that will be acted upon in the next four years. so i don't see a mixture of it. it's actually coming from the white house lawn, as you know. and so it's not an address from the oval office like franklin delano roosevelt did so many years ago. >> yeah -- >> i think as we look at -- >> that was before -- i was going to say, that was before the tv era. it's a different -- the imagery of the white house as a backdrop is certainly different in the television era. but i hear you saying that it's about convenience -- >> yeah. no, it's not about convenience. i think it's about for most people wanting to understand and hear from the president of the united states on what he's going to do to make sure the next four years continue to build on the last four years. as we look at this, we're going to north carolina. you mentioned that, we're going to north carolina today. but it's not just to the convention center. we're actually going to meet

with farmers. we were in wisconsin and minnesota. so this president is willing to travel everywhere and not just convey things from a basement in delaware. >> his willingness to travel and not travel in this particular case, i think it answers the question. let's talk about the issues, in particular the economy. at this particular moment in time, unemployment is above 10% and rising. 29 million americans report hunger in the past week, and one-third of americans do not have the money to pay their rent or housing bill. that's a pretty dire situation. where is the evision relief? where -- eviction relief? where is thed pl? t both issues this morning? >> i'm glad you asked about both of those because this president is the only one in washington, d.c., to have acted on those issues. as you know, i was on capitol hill over the weekend, but we've been on capitol hill for the last three or four weeks.

our democrats on capitol hill failed to come together on anything that would address unemployment, enhanced unemployment, eviction protection. what does this president do? he took unprecedented executive action to do exactly that, to make sure that unemployment benefits continue. >> excuse me -- >> to make sure that they didn't get evicted. i'm calling on congress to come together. this president is willing to sign it, hopefully we'll get something done. but we know that we have had unbelievable economic pressure because of this china virus, and this president is acting to try r it wha we years prior. >> so mr. meadows, where is the agreement right now? tell me what the bill would look like that the president would sign that would help american workers and american families right now. >> well, i think what we can agree on right now and what democrats, republicans in congress and the president could agree on right now is enhanced unemployment benefits.

we could get there. we could also get there on school aid, on the hundreds of billions of dollars going to schools k-12. we could get there on additional assistance for small businesses, what they call the ppp program. we could actually get there on that. and we could actually get there on plussing up food stamps for some of those that have been hit hard by this along with eviction protection. those four or five items we agree upon. >> all right. all right. we'll see if you come back to the table there with democrats. i want to sneak in auestn here about kellyanne conway. she managed the trump campaign across the finish line victoriously in 2016. we hear she's stepping away for family issues. how big a blow is that to the campaign? >> kellyanne's going to be missed. america loves her. we will miss her here at the white house. but listen, this is all about making a priority for family. that's what this president's about. and that's what kellyanne conway's about.

so it will be a big hole, a big blow to us. but we certainly will be praying for her as she made this decision that some people will decision. a difficult i believe you aelanne the right decision for her family. >> yeah. the cynical reading, mr. meadows, is that she wanted to jump ship now because she saw the ship sinking. >> that is cynical. anyone who knows kellyanne conway knows that she has never shied away from a fight. so to suggest that is just not based on the facts. you -- you know kellyanne, you know that that's not the case. >> all right. mr. meadows, thank you very much. good luck reaching a deal this week on the matters we discussed. thank you very much. good l >> thank you. all right. massive protests in belarus and the uprising to remove the man known as the last dictator of europe. we're going to take you to the front lines as leading opposition activists. a reminder -- our daily

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protesters in belarus show no signs of losing their resolve to unseat the man known as's di. massive demonstrations in the capital city of minsk over the weekend were peaceful. that's despite a violent response earlier this month by longtime president alexander lukashenko. chris livesay with more from minsk. >> reporter: from a savage crackdown to unbridled resistance, protesters in belarus taking to the streets by

the tens of thousands, demanding president alexander lukashenko step down. after t spokeswoor the "ou everything will be fine with me." but then just this morning, unauthorized protests landed her and an opposition colleague in police custody. the last place several dissidents were ever seen or heard from again. president lukashenko had tried to scare all these people into staying home, but it's clearly backfired. despite beating them, bludgeoning them, and even torturing them, today they've given up their fear and traded y stareownice r and for and the presidef wed lukashenko circling the protests in a helicopter saying "they flee

like rats," then descending, wearing a bulletproof vest and toting a rifle. he said he'll consider new elections over his dead body. not enough to frighten away 16-year-old jana. will the protesters win? >> yes, of course. i'm sure that we will win. >> reporter: protesters are chanting "long live belarus," and "lukashenko go away." the president of 36 years has clearly lost legitimacy. the question is does he realize that, and how much longer is he willing to cling to power. "cbs this morning," chris livesay, minsk, bull reduce. ahead, vlad duthiers will look

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seven others were killed in a helicopter crash on january 23st. the sports world will honor him today, 8/24. anthony and tony, those two numbers are the numbers he wore with the lakers. how cool is that? >> that's very cool. >> very cool. we'll never forget kobe bryant. >> he's -- that is absolutely right, gayle. all right, i understood -- well, i'm very happy -- very happy to tip you toward a big panda story. bring it home, buddy. >> so you've been all about this panda. you did it as a "talk of the table" last week. get ready for some cuteness overload. this is what tony dokoupil has been talking about. the national zoo is celebrating a brand-new panda cub. there is giant panda mei xiang cradling and caring for her new, healthy cub. we don't it's boy or girl because we can't see. you can't see the cub now. mei xiang gave birth on friday night. and zookeepers are keeping an eye on the pair through the

zoo's panda cam. they say it will take a few days to get a closer look at the newborn. gayle, this is so wonderful. this is -- these pandas have become sort of a national mascot of washington. it goes back to 1972 when richard nixon's wife, pat nixon, when they were visiting china on the historic trip, remarked that she loved the pandas. that began this decades' long exchange, cultural exchange program with pandas here in the united states. >> i still can't get over how something so teeny tiny comes out of something so big. i just always think the panda b goio be bigger, number one. two, you think you could just flip it over and see -- does he, does he not? but they say they have to wait for testing to do the dna testing to see whether it's a boy or girl. i was wondering. with us, it's very clear. are we boys or girls in most cases. they got to wait -- >> they don't know. >> i can't wait. it's cute whatever it is. yes, tony? >> you're right. the panda cub is right now only

about the size of a stick of butter which when you hear that, you think, huh, mighty convenient for mom, yeah. we've got 100 days before we find out what the name is. >> i can't wait. >> another "what to watch" in our future. >> they're going to ask people to come up with the name. >> gayle is a unisex name, just saying it. vlad, why is a nun racing up her running shoes? i love this story. >> let me tell you why. she's hitting the treadmill for a pandemic-style marathon, raising more than $102,000 for people in need. listen -- [ cheers ] >> you have a great race -- congratulations on a great start. thank you for all your kind words. have a great day. >> that is sister stephanie baliga on her way to running 26.6 miles. you see phones streams. she's run the chicago's annual marathon since 2011 when the city canceled it. she took her virtual race to

raids money for her community and is famous for it. >> neighbors are like, i heard about the nun running -- that's me. no way, i would have been getting on the treadmill and running for no reason. >> and of course, she just broke a guinness world record. >> yes, she did! you've heard of the singing nun. that's the running nun. thanks, vlad. ahead in our "school matters" series, famous americans say thanks to the teachers who inspired them. ade . let philips sonicare give its care a raise. get healthier gums in 2 weeks* guaranteed. next level clean. next level care. there's always a way to make life better. philips sonicare. subscribe now. i'm a delivery operations manager in san diego, lifo a fleet of electric vehicles. we're striving to deliver a package with zero emissions into the air. i feel really proud of the impact

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it's monday. august 24th, 2020. happy monday. welcome back to "cbs this morning." . convention kickoff. the rnc is beginning in north carolina right now. how they're formally renominating president trump. educators areoi above and beyond during the pandemic. some iconic americans tell us about teachers who changed their lives in our school matters series. and marvelous mission an actress on her urgent work with home you how she pr for her w as a comedian. >> first here's today's eye opener at 8:00. historic production from wildfires in california and the

gulf coast with two major storms. >> the storms are about 800 miles apart. laura has 60 miles per hour. marco has 60 miles per hour winds. >> the window between the storms is narrowing. it all comes during a pandemic and added challenge as people are leaving their homes for shelters. most of these fires have moved into steep terrain complicating efforts to contain them. as you mention more than a million acres burned in over one week. to give context, that's more than three times the typical wildfire season. >> president trump is expected to make an appearance on the first night of the republican national convention this evening. over the week he'll appear alongside lawmakers and members of his own family. >> get there. get there. get there. get in the hole. go in the hole. what? >> yep. some golfers wait their entire lives without sinking a hole in

one. this one, however, did it at four years old. >> you just hit a hole -- [ laughter ] >> the welcome back to "cbs this morning." he's four years old. it's hard to see on camera, but you could tell dad was excited about what happened. it's nice to see at four years old you can do something that most people go their whole life and never do. >> way to kick off your golf career. we begin with the republican national convention. officially underway right now, the delegates role call this morning will nominate donald trump and pence. >>ts last , republican conventi look a little bit different than four years ago. huge crowds cheered president trump at the 2016 convention. that was in cleveland. this time it's not just the

visuals that havean some of the key players from that event will not stand with the president this year. >> i humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the united states. >> with those words, donald trump reshaped the republican party and promised to change the country. >> i alone can fix it. >> the balloons capped off a convention taylor made for the reality star turned presidential candidate. complete with drype nd heurne the event into a family affair with four of his children speaking on the main stage. >> when my father says he will make america great again, he will deliver.

>> while ivanka trump, now one of his closest advisers received high praise for her poise, mrs. trump was accused of plagiarizing part of her speech from obama. >> your work is your bond and you do what you say. >> your word is your bond and you do what you say what you're going to do. >> a colorful cast of characters replaced standard bearers. >> donald trump will always have your back. >> president trump's first attorney general turned from friend -- >> it is my distinct honor and great pleasure to nominate donald j. trump. >> jeff sessions was a disaster. a disaster. >> other trump allies later fell

into legal trouble. >> a decisive person with a human side. >> paul manafort was arrested and pled guilty to crimes linked to the russia investigation. president trump's former national security adviser michael flynn was charged and pled guilty too. >> lock her up. that's right. >> an leading lock her up chants about clinton clount on the convention floor. >> if i did a tenth of what she did, i would be in jail today. >> leslie sanchez says that defining unpredictability was in the forecast even back then. >> it told us everything about what was coming. it was going to really be a very unique experience that nobody could amendment. that's what the trump 2016 convention now looking back told us that we did not know then but

we know now. >> what a convention to remember. and this year will likely be unpredictable with promises of big surprises. president trump is expected to make an appearance every night, though we don't know how much he will participate. we do know he's already blasted democrats for pretaping some of the segments and speeches and he has stressed that live performances are way more effective. tony? >> definitely are more fun. the only safe prediction is it will be unpredictability. our prime time coverage begins at 10:00 p.m. eastern. this is our prime time coverage of the republican national convention. 10:00 p.m.eastern, 9:00 p.m. central on cbs. >> joe biden says americans will not allow the president not to accept the results of the november election. in his first tv interview alongside his running mate aired

on abc last night. the latest poll finds last week's virtual democratic convention increased the number of voters excited about supporting biden. ed o'keefe is covering campaign unprecedented democratic national convention joe biden spent the weekend at his delaware beach home. in his first joint television interview with kamala harris, biden defended his mostly virtual campaign schedule saying it's a strategy that will work. >> we've been able to travel places when we've been able to do it in a way that we don't cause the congregation of large numbers of people. look what happened with his events. people die. people get together. they don't wear masks. they end up getting co-vid and end up dying. >> biden was also asked about

controversial comments specifically about race. >> if you have a problem figu figuring out if you're for me or trump when you're not black. >> i shouldn't have said that, but i was trying to make the point that this is a man who spent his entire career denigrating african americans. but there's a fundamental difference between me and trump on race across the board. i'm not going to try to divide people. >> harris who has criticized biden in the past says she knows where his heart is.ame has a deep sense of awareness and knowledge about racial disparities inequities and systematic racism. >> in that interview biden didn't rule out running for a second term. that's notable because if he wins in november, he'll be 77,

the oldest ever to run for president. one other note this morning the biden campaign says 24 former gop lawmakers are endorsing the former vice president's campaign. they include former senator jeff flake of arizona and former senator john warner of virginia. all of this coming the morning the republican convention is set to begin. >> yeah. it's another late night for all of us. you too, ed o'keefe. i'll be watching can't wait. on the gulf coast thousands are preparing fir homes for two major storms. the governor of louisiana told residents to prepare to shelter in place for at least 72 hours. tropical weather systems marco and laura are expected to hit the state later this week. laura has already devastated parts of the dominican republic and haiti over the weekend. at least 11 people have been killed. a weather caster lonnie quinn is tracking this this morning. lonnie, good morning, although

good morning isn't really the right word. >> it's not a great looking situation for t gulf coast. i' ts mu. in tas three gotten markedly weaker. it's down to 50 miles per hour winds with each passing hour now marco is going to get weaker. it's about 85 miles from the mouth of the mississippi river. laura is going to get stronger. it's 65 miles per hour winds. by tomorrow at 2:00 in the afternoon, marco is going to be skirting somewhere along the shoreline of louisiana or texas. laura is in the middle of the gulf of mexico. a category one. by the time you get to wednesday at 2:00 in the afternoon, we're now up to a category 2. it's just offshore of the same area that marco has just gone over. if you can zoom in tight, i want to show you the european model. everybody wants to know where is land fall going to be? well, the model for the european is the bright yellow line right into the galveston bay.

galveston bay, look, that's a bad place for a hurricane. all the that hurricane is pushed into the bay, there's nowhere for it to flow except up and over the banks and flood the area. we have to watch it carefully. that's the latest. i'll update you as i get more information. >> thank you. ahead as protesters demand an end to police brutality we'll compare american police tactics to

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policing in america has been under intense scrutiny since george floyd was killed three months ago tomorrow already. the latest shooting of a black

man by police in kenosha, wisconsin, last n last night lee protests in the streets. concerns about race and policing go far beyond the u.s. holly williams shows how britain trying to deal with this issue.e if you're black, you're five times more likely to be stopped by the police. you're more likely to be charged with a criminal offense. >> reporter: that's thedeng note u.s. and this is michael fuller, the most senior black officer ever to have served in the british police. now retired. people of color are still underrepresented in the british police, and fully told us the racismr ry jer rry -- racism he experienced was unspoken. >> would give death messages where relatives had died, searching dead bodies pulled out of the river. i went for promotion and got through 12 hanks to get to the top of the police service. >> reporter: how difficult is it to tackle racism within an

organization? >> well, it's very difficult. i was uncompromising in tackling cism, people being racist were my bosses. >> reporter: allegations of police racism cut across borders. when you compare the u.s. to the uk and europe, any interaction with the police is much more likely to be deadly in america. the u.s. police shot more than 1,000 people dead last year compared with three in the uk and zero in dnd switzerland. >> if you've got a highly weaponized society, you have the police highly weaponized, it is a disastrous cocktail. >> reporter: british police don't routinely carry guns. under european human rights law police are only allowed to use deadly force if it's absolutely necessary. has all the answers.nobody british police apologized last month to bianca williams, a

hampion track a who was pahartndnecurffned and son. williams claims the incident was racially motivated. police say it was a routine stop and search in a high-crime area. >> no one's going to be hurt. >> reporter: overall, though, there's been a push to make police officers better qualified, michael fuller told us, in some european countries police training ing iing is in academies and takes three years. in contrast, the u.s. has no national standards. and in many states, training lasts just a few months. >> police officers have tremendous power. they have tremendous discretion. what you want is for the police officers to use that discretion wisely. but in a way that demonstrates they're niscrimory. theteducated these su,y make good decisions. >> reporter: for "cbs this

morning," holly williams. >> constable fuller making a lot of valid points there. coming up next, a candid admission by the nfl commissioner on kneeling during the national anthem. hear roger goodell's emergency to colin kaepernick today. you're watching "cbs this morning." we'll be right back.

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." it's 8:30. that means it's time to bring the stories we call "talk of the table." you know how it goes. we each pick you. tony, you are up first in the pole position, as anthony says. >> in the pole position. batting leadoff, i should say. i've got a bit of an advisory to moms and dads out there about what not to throw out that could be in the back of your kids' closet -- baseball cards. they are back in vogue and are selling for a lot of money. a one of a kind card broke a record over the weekend. according to golden auctions, a signed by mike trout sold for more than $3.9 million -- >> wow. >> that is insane. insane. the buyer, we don't know who it

is yet. this beats the previous record that had been held by a very, very super-rare tobacco-era card, honus wagner card. they've been big sellers for decades. baseball cards in general -- when i was a kid, went through a hot period. they were selling for a ton of money. then they declined. but they appear to be back. i remember when i was a kid, there were nightmare stories of people saying, oh, my god, my mom threw baseball cards. >> yeah. >> don't make the mistake again now. mike trout, three time american league mvp, and many other, appear to have cards risinging in value. >> what makes it so va? >> we know wt gor 3.9. insane -- i say, go whoever got it. it only goes up from there. what determines the value -- what determines the value i wonder. >> the rarity usually. >> the value -- the rarity

usually, but i think the value is just it depends on what people out there are willing to pay. right now there's a fever around mike trout. so they'll pay $3.9 million-plus for his baseball rookie card. >> very good for mike trout. here's a sweet video that i think is going to melt your heart. i love the video. watch this 6-month-old baby, crew is his name, meeting his grandfather for the very first time. what i like is when he lays his head on the shoulder of granddad, you'll see it. there it is. that's what i love. it didn't take long for crew to fall in love. his mom, lauren, says crew is normally scared of strangers, but it's almost like he knew that he was meeting family. look at granddad's face, too, the way he's rubbing his back. the meeting happened last month. the grandparents' trip was delayed for months because of this pandemic. but the special moment i think is worth the wait. and this is happening to a lot of grandparents, by the way, i onill hast seen the baby that was born in june. >> yep. >> because mom can't get on a plane. but it's just -- then new

parents have rules and regulations about when you can see the baby. we all understand that. i would go nuts if i had a grandchild and couldn't see it. as kirby pointed out, that's not happening. i guess i'm just projecting. just projecting. i love that video. anthony? >> you're rooting for all the grandparents to see their grandkids. >> yes. my "talk of the table" is about actress rachel brosnahan who recently earned another emmy nomination for her role in the amazon prime video series "the marvelous mrs. maisel." she plays miriam maisel or midge as she's called, a 1950s housewife who decides to pursue a career in standup comedy. take a look. [ applause ] >> nice to know that people haven't forgotten me. you haven't forgotten me. my kids have completely forgotten me. [ laughter ] they've become jaded having a mother in show business. the other day my daughter ponted to her diaper and said, "sweetie, would you get this?"

she lit hear cigarette and signed her agent. now both parents are in the biz. oh, yeah. this is what happens when you leave. remember the first time? >> i love this show. and the cool part is brosnahan brings the same energy to her work off screen. she serves o board of directors for coughnant house, a -- covenant house, a nonprofit that helps homeless youth. each year she participates in the sleep-out where volunteers sleep outside to raise money and awareness for the more than four million homeless kids in america. rachel brosnahan joins us. thank you so much for being here. >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> this is actually your eighth year of participating in the sleep-out. you started doing this when you were on broadway at 23, and you say it -- it changed -- literally changed your life. >> yeah. absolutely. i was profoundly moved by my first sleep-out.

and getting the opportunity to see inside the covenant house and meet the young people who called it home and meet some of the incredible staff who have dedicated their lives to this work. i was moved to make a commitment that night to stay involved. and i'm so proud and honored to be here eight years later. >> what moved you specifically, rachel? >> well, i met a young man who called covenant house home at the time. and he was 23 years old. and so was i. and i was really struck by how with just a few small shifts in circumstance we could be sitting on opposite sides of the table. we were peers. and that is supremely unfair that our situations were so different. >> yeah. the sleep-out has to be different this year. what are you going to do this year? >> so this year, it will be a virtual event. obviously given what's going on in the country and in the world.

but we'll be sleeping out wherever we can find a space, whether that be a backfryard or. i think that's where we're going to sleep out tonight. but the programing will remain largely the same. just -- just in our little computer boxes. >> so the spirit will be the same, as well. >> absolutely. >> yeah. as i mentioned, congrats on another emmy nomination. how did you celebrate, by the way? >> thank you. well, it's a little different right now. i have a little pod that i've been with since march. we wanted to do something exciting and some up with making mash s'mores, otherwise known as apartment s'mores. you light a match, and you hold -- it felt special, . celebrato celebratory. >> you planning to get dressed

up for the emmys even though you'll be at home? >> i'm going to do something special. yeah. i get to bring my dogs to the emm emmys. how often does that happen? it's going to be a fun night. >> i was struck by something you'd said, that you lost parts because you weren't funny enough. that must have made auditioning for "mrs. maisel" who's a standup comedian, pretty intimidating. >> yeah. definitely. still intimidating. we're at three, four years in, and it doesn't get any less intimidating. i think it goes to show that we shouldn't put ourselves in those boxes. you know, for a long time i had turned down auditions because i'd been told for so long that t writing. >> yeah. well, you could say brilliant writing, but rachel, gayle here, you could also say it's brilliant acting. i love the show, i love you in the show. and i want to pick up on what anthony was saying.

that's what i was thinkin. i said, she must have done standup comedy before. so to learn it, you had never done it, because your timey and delivery is so good. i wonder how did you do that and it's fun to watch the evolution of your character. first she was tentative. now she is all in. >> yeah, yeah. i think it's just that. at first she wasn't a tried and try, tested standupment s. she was just a funny woman having a mental breakdown in a public forum. as she's gone on, she's had to learn and refine her craft. and that's been really fun for me in bringing her to life. >> but how did you learn to do it, rachel? did you go to different comedy clubs?d inowit'sacting. i get at. >> how doure? >> not asstandup. but i did drag poor michael zegan who plays joel all over the city to various comedy clubs. mostly just to see how people

were when they started. how they responded to unexpected success or unexpected failure in the moment. and i still try to go whenever i can. it wasn't a world i was very familiar with, bch a lot of stand upnow. >> i bet you do. >> we'll be waiting for season four whenever you come back. >> sorry you've been disrupted. can't wait until you get back to work. thank you so much. the covenant house stage and screen virtual sleep-out is tonight, and "the marvelous mrs. maisel" is streaming now on amazon prime video. >> if you haven't started watching, now's a good time since we're all at home in a collective time-out. as teachers get ready for a challenging school year, we're offering a message of support and appreciation. for famous american icons including microsoft bill gates, musician josh groban, love him, tell us about the educators who changed t

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impact on people's lives, students all over the country. what we did is asked four successful americans, i think you've heard of them, bill gates, chelsea clinton, musician josh groban, and actor levar burton. we wanted them to tell us about the teachers who have inspired them. >> hi, i'm bill gates. >> i'm josh groban. >> i'm chelsea clinton. >> i'm levar burton. ♪ >> one of my most influential teachers has got to be mrs. twig in germany. on certain rainy air force, mrs. twig would put mee m read whi she went to the teacher's lounge to make herself a cup of tea. i was the best reader in my third-grade class. and it was the first time in my life that somebody outside of my family recognized that i was good at something. i had a talent, a gift.

♪ ♪ reading rainbow >> one of my favorite things, the tortoise and the hare. >> great teachers help get students excited about learning. mrs. blanch in seattle was that kind of teacher for me. was a very shy fourth grader with a messy desk and terrible handwriting. i tried to hide the fact that i loved to read because i was worried it would look strange to my classmates. mrs. katler shared her love of books. she pushed me to read challenging ones, and then asked me interesting questions that made me think about what i'd read. she listened to what i had to say. looking back on it now, there's no question that she helped spark my love for learning and helped inspire the gates foundation's work to help every child in america get the benefit of great teachers. >> i want to give a huge thanks

to the late great norman cohen, high theater teacher at the los angeles county high school for the arts, for giving me my first lead role in a play. and my musical theater there, gary sorenson, who gave me my first lead role in a musical. ♪ if i were a rich man having the arts in my life as a student just changed my life. as a shy, introverted kid who had a hard time expressing myself, having the arts as a tool to do that not only opened up a world of possibility for me, but i know it does it for millions of kids around >> i'm so profoundly grateful to dr. sadie mitchell who was my first grade teacher at forest park in arkansas. dr. mitchell set the bar for what an extraordinary teacher should be. she did it every day. she did in helping us work on our penmanship. she did it in helping us learn to count. she did it whenever we had a bad

da by reminding us that determine was a new day. i just hope that i'm able to have even a little bit of the same effect on some of my students today. and i hope that every student is as lucky as i was to have a dr. mitchell in their lives. >> thank you to the great teachers and the arts teachers out there who are bringing a spark of humanity into our classrooms when we need it in this world more than ever. >> can't tell you how important it is to have somebody recognize our potential, to see it and nurture it. thank you, mrs. twig, for seeing me. >> so as teachers get ready to welcome students toir classrooms, either in virtually, i want to say thank you for your dedication. you're changing lives and doing amazing work. >> and good nighuys, if you hav teacher who kind to mind who

inspired you, we want to hear from you. find us on social media, we might feature your story on a future segment. teacher appreciation does not end with this shere. it goes on and on, gayle and th anthony. >> sure does. one great teacher literally can change your life. really can. you see that right there. levar burton, as he said, he felt like he was seen. >> and everybody has at least one you can recall. i love bill gates saying a messy desk and terrible handwriting. bill gates, that gives me hope to know that. and i think that -- it's what you said, anthony, one person can change your life. especially if you don't have it at home. a tea out to chris z, krowzowski, did i say it right? i want to say it right because his family is watching, and caitlyn little, the producers of the piece. it means something to the people that work so here and their family should know they do good

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before we go, here's one thing you can do today to live a happier, healthier, and more productive life. part of our partnership with gretchen rubin and her podcast "hasn't "happi "happier." hre with ways to help studentsb habits. start adjusting the clock for an earlier bedtime. keep masks and sand sanitizers in a convenient location. to boost focus for a variety of work spaces for school work. lastly, set a good example for your kids by also adopting good habits. if you want them to read a book, instead of watching dvd, pick up a book yourself. that's a good idea. >> i want to watch tv, too. good to read a book.

very important to read a book. why are you laugh, tony dokoupil? that will do it for us. see you tomorrow.

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